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ley, Esq. in the parish of East Ham. It stands about a mile N. W. of the church, and is partly ancient, and partly modernized, with an old tower in the garden, 50 feet high. This house is said to have been built by King Henry VIII. for Queen Anne Boleyn, The estate has been in the family of the Nevils, Earls of Westmorland and Lords Latimer, some of whom are interred in the church.

GREENWICH, a town in Kent, 4 miles from London, was the birth-place of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: and here Edward VI. died. A palace erected here, by Humphry Duke of Gloucester, who named it Placentia, was enlarged by Henry VII, and completed by Henry VIII. but being afterward suffered to run to ruin, was pulled down by Charles II. who began a magnificent edifice, and lived to see the first wing finished. He also enlarged the park, walled it round, planted it, and erected a royal observatory on the top of the hill, for the use of the celebrated Flamsteed, whose name the hill retains. He likewise furnished it with mathematical instruments for astronomical observations, and a deep dry well for observing the stars in the day time *. On the site of this ancient palace is the handsome residence of the Ranger of the park. This park is well stocked with deer, and affords as much variety in proportion to its size as any in the kingdom; but the views from the Observatory and the One-tree Hill are beautiful beyond imagination, particularly the former. The projection of these hills is so bold, that you do not look down upon a gradually falling slope or flat inclosures, but at once upon the tops of branching trees, which grow in knots and clumps out of deep hollows and imbrowning dells. The cattle feeding on the lawns, which appear in breaks among them, seem moving in a region of fairy land, A thousand natural openings among the branches of the trees break upon little picturesque views of the swelling surf, which, when illumined by the sun, have an effect, pleasing beyond the power of fancy to exhibit. This is the fore ground of the landscape; a little farther the eye falls on the noble hospital in the midst of an amphitheatre of wood; then the two reaches of the river make that beautiful serpentine which forms the Isle of Dogs, and presents

* See EVANS's Juvenile Tourist-Article, Royal Observatory, Greenwich,

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the floating commerce of the Thames. To the left appears a fine tract of country leading to the capital, which there terminates the prospect.

The church, rebuilt by the Commissioners for erecting the fifty new churches, is dedicated to St. Alphage, Abp. of Canterbury, said to have been slain by the Danes on that spot. A college at the end of the town, fronting the Thames (for the maintenance of 20 decayed old housekeeper's, 12 out of Greenwich, and eight to be alternately chosen from Snottisham and Castle-rising in Norfolk) is called the Duke of Norfolk's College, though it was founded, in 1613, by Henry Earl of Northampton, brother of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, and son of that illus trious warrior and poet, Henry Earl of Surry. In 1560, Mr. Lambard, author of the Perambulation of Kent, built an hospital, called Queen Elizabeth's College, the first erected by an English Protestant subject.

At the summit of Maize Hill are Vanbrugh Fields, in which is a house built by the celebrated Sir John Vanbrugh, in imitation, it is said, of part of the late Bastile at Paris, in which he was certainly confined for some time. It is the residence of William Webber, Esq. Not far from it are some other houses in the same style of building, one of which was the seat of the late Lord Tyrawley, but is now inhabited by Henry Goodwyn, sen. Esq. See Blackheath, Westcomb Park, and Woodland House.

GREENWICH HOSPITAL was founded in 1694 by King William and Queen Mary, for the use of disabled English seamen and their children, and for the widows and children of such as were slain at sea*.

It is erected on the south side of the Thames, on a terrace 860 feet in length, and consists of four distinct piles of building, called King Charles's, Queen Anne's, King William's, and Queen Mary's. The interval between the

* King William appointed Commissioners for the better carrying on his intentions, and desired the assistance of his good subjects, as the necessity of his affairs did not permit him to advance so considerable a sum toward this work as he desired. In conformity to this request, many benefactions were made in that and the succeeding reigns to this noble charity, which, according to the tablets hung up at the entrance of the hall, amount to 58,209. and afterward the forfeited estate of the Earl of Derwentwater, in 1715, amounting to 6,000l. per annum, was given by Parliament to this hospital.

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two most northern buildings, King Charles's and Queen Anne's, forms the grand square, which is 273 feet wide.

In the centre of the grand square is a fine statue of George II. by Rysbrach, sculptured out of a single block of white marble, which weighed 11 tons, and was taken from the French by Sir George Rooke. On each of the four sides is a suitable inscription in Latin.

King Charles's building is on the west side of the great square. He resided in the east part of it, which was erected by Webb, after a design by Inigo Jones: it is of Portland stone, and rusticated. In the middle is a tetrastyle portico of the Corinthian order, crowned with its proper entablature, and a pediment. At each end is a pavilion, formed by four corresponding pilasters of the same order, with their entablature, and surmounted by an Attic order, with a balustrade, pediment, &c. Queen Anne's building, opposite, is in a correspondent style. fa the north front of each of these two buildings, the pediment is supported by two ranges of coupled Corinthian columns, and the same order is continued in pilasters along the building. The projection of the entablatures give an agreeable diversity of light and shade. In the centre of each part, between these ranges of Corinthian columns, is the door of the Doric order, adorned above with a tablet and pediment. Within the height of these lofty columns are two series of windows, enlightening two floors. The undermost, which are the smallest, have rustic cases, crowned with pediments; the upper series, which are large and lofty, are adorned with the orders and with upright pointed pediments. Over these is an attic story: the entablature of the Corinthian columns and pilasters supports a regular Attic course; the pilasters of this order, rising over every column and pilaster of the Corinthian below, between which the windows are regularly disposed; and the top is covered with a balustrade.

To the south of these are the other piles of building, with a colonnade adjoining to each. These colonnades are 115 feet asunder, and are composed of 300 duplicated Doric columns and pilasters of Portland stone, 20 feet high, with an entablature and balustrade. Each of them is 347 feet long, having a return pavilion at the end 70 feet long.

Of the two south buildings, that on the east side is Queen

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