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To Wealthy Connoisseurs.-To be Sold, RARE BOOKS, PRINTS & PICTURES, from the Fifteenth Century. copy, pub. HE "Luxembourg Gallery," Complete Collection of 21 Engravings after Rubens, very fine lished by Bouchard (Rome, 1751), with Portrait, exceedingly fine and rare, £100.-Amour of Cupid and Psyche, by Agostino Veneziano, after Raphael, bound (sixteenth century), £50.Allegorical Figures by Philip Gaile and Goltzius, bound, 30.-Boydell's Shakespeare, very choice, large sheets and brilliant collection, 1oc.-Bartolozzi Collection, A.D. 1756 to 1802, £75. -Original Oil Painting on Panel (St. Jerome), by Pietro Perugino, £500, in fine condition, in old carved frame, with Seal of Emperor Charles V.-A unique Collection of nearly 600 old English Portraits, 350.-Titian's Etching, The Shepherd leading his Flock to the Brook, £500 Raphael's grand Etching, Lo Spasimo de Sicilia, £1,000.-Corregio's Etching, David slaying Goliath, 150-Hogarth's First State Set of Rake's Progress, £20.-Battle of the Sea Gods, Etching by Andrea Mantegna, fifteenth century, very fine, 100.-Giulio Licinio's Etching of the Annunciation, A.D. 1544, after Pordenone, £100.-Johan Busse's Etching of the Lord's Prayer in Compartments, A.D. 1528, very rare, £350.-Original Oil Painting by Guercino, St Anthony, £50.-Nicolo Beatrici's Etchings (large), The Battle of the Dacii, roo, and Michael Angelo's Statue of Moses, £50.-Annibal Caracchi's Mars and Venus, Oil Painting, £500.-Rembrandt's Christ rising from the Tomb, Oil Painting. 300.-Guido Reni's Etching, Lucretia, 100. -Collection of old Dutch Engravings, £700.-Ruben's Landscapes, the full set of 20, engraved by Bolswert, £40.-Dresden Antique Statue, &c., Gallery (Roy de Pologne), A.D. 1733, fine rare Collection of 240, large uncut sheets, £75.-Collection of old Italian Portraits, engraved, £200 (very rare).-Collection of old German Engravings, £150.-Collection of old French Engravings, 230.-Rare Collection of old English Engravings, 300.-Collection of old Dutch Portraits, engraved, £100.-Collection of old Italian Engravings, 500-Collection of old French Portraits; engraved, £200.-Collection of old Swiss Engravings, £40.-Rare Collection of old Greek, Roman, and Egyptian Portraits engraved, from authentic sources, £100.-Collection of old German Portraits, £300.-Rossini's Rome, very fine large thick uncut sheets, £50.-Collection of old engraved Portraits of Celebrated Monarchs and Foreigners who have visited England, Foreign Knights of the Garter, &c., £200, very choice. - Collection of Theatrical Portraits and Playbills from A.D. 1780, £50.-Virgil's L'Eneide, in Italian, printed by Giunti at Venice, A.D. 1581, 450.-Iconologia, by Cavalier Ripa, printed by Pasquardi at Padua, A.D. 1630, with 356 rare old Figure Woodcuts, £75.-Leuckfeldi's Rerum Germanicarum, 2 vols. (Frankfort-on-theMain, A D. 1707), Illustrated, £100.

To be seen at the Offices of Mr. JOHN PARNELL, Fine-Art Auctioneer and Valuer, Chichester House, Rockley Road, West Kensington Park, London, W.

The

he Old Inns and Taverns of Ipswich: Their Memories and Associations. (Many interesting details of a bye-gone period).

Crown 4to. pp 40. Antique paper, price 2s. 6d. Post free, 25. 8d. Ipswich Great Domesday Bock. Liber Sextus.

With Introduc

tion, Notes and a Commentary. Contains Taxes paid by every parish in Suffolk,

(temp. Henry VI.) Knights' Fees, Poem by Lydgate, &c., &c.

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Crown 4to. Antique paper, price 2s. Post free, 25. id.

n Index to the Visitation of Norfolk, 1664, from the Visitation Books in the College of Arms. With Preface and Introduction, by CHARLES H. ATHILL, Esq., Bluemantle.

Ipswich: PAWSEY & HAYES, Ancient House. London: GEORGE REDWAY, York Street, Covent Garden,

Walford's Antiquarian.

The Chronicles of Greenwich.

HERE are, perhaps, few places in England, of equal extent, whose Chronicles are of greater interest-from an antiquarian and historical point of view-than those of Greenwich, which three centuries ago was the Court Suburb of London, when as yet Kensington was almost unknown. In the work before us,* Mr. L'Estrange has strung together in a pleasant, chatty, and narrative form, probably all that there is to be said, in the space at his command, respecting the "bygones" of that place. Tracing its history back to those far-off days when Greenwich was a peaceful little "fishing-station," our author opens his narrative with an account of the incursion of the Danes in the time of King Ethelred, and of the murder of Archbishop Alphege. The parish church of Greenwich, dedicated to St. Alphege, is said to stand on the spot where the martyrdom occurred. It is, however, more with Greenwich as a royal residence that we would deal in these pages. Of this portion of its history Mr. L'Estrange has much to tell us, as may be inferred from the title of his work, "The Palace and the Hospital." According to Lysons, there appears to have been a royal residence here as early as the reign of Edward I.; but by whom the palace was first erected is not known. Some of the land, at all events, had always remained royal property, and in the middle of the fifteenth century, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of Henry VI., had a grant of it from the King, and was so well pleased with its situation that he built or rebuilt here his "manor-house," and obtained permission to "make a tower and

"The Palace and the Hospital; or, Chronicles of Greenwich." By the Rev. A. G. L'Estrange. (2 vols.) Hurst and Blackett, 1885.

park." This, with its various courts and gardens, extended from the river to the foot of the hill on which the Observatory now stands, on the spot now occupied by the west wing of the Royal Hospital, or, more properly speaking, the Royal Naval College.

The house which the Duke built was called "Placentia," and he made it in every sense a waterside "palace of pleasure." He also built a castle on the height now occupied by the Observatory, which, as our author tells us, was "generally identified with Mirefleur or Miraflores, to which, in the romance, the love-sick Oriana, the daughter of the English King, retired when ambassadors were pressing upon her the Emperor's suit in opposition to that of Amadis (or Armadis). But," adds Mr. L'Estrange, "if this were the place meant, some building must have existed here before the time of Humphrey, the story of Armadis de Gaul having been written in the fourteenth century."

Edward IV. enlarged the park, stocked it with deer, and then bestowed the palace as a residence upon his queen, Elizabeth Woodville. In this reign a royal joust or tournament was performed at Greenwich, on the occasion of the marriage of Richard, Duke of York, with Anne Mowbray. A further enlargement of the palace was effected by Henry VII., who also in his piety founded, close by the palace, a Convent for the Order of Grey Friars, which his son was destined, in his piety, to abolish and spoil.

Henry VIII. was born at Greenwich, and accordingly, from the time that he came to the throne, he spared no expense to render the palace magnificent, and he made it his chief residence. Many of the most sumptuous banquets, revels, and solemn jousts for which his reign was celebrated, were held at his "Manor of Pleasaunce." On the 3rd of June, 1509, Henry's marriage with Catherine of Arragon was solemnised here, and here both of the daughters of Henry VIII., Mary and Elizabeth, first saw the light.

Of the many splendid receptions and sumptuous entertainments of foreign princes and ministers in the days of the Tudors, that which was given here in 1527 to the French ambassadors would appear to have been particularly striking; so much so, in fact, that honest John Stow is obliged to confess that he "lacked head of fine wit, and also cunming in his bowels," to describe it with sufficient eloquence.

Anne Boleyn, while her sovereign lord's pleasure beamed upon her, spent much of her time at Greenwich; and it was here, on May Day, 1536, after a tournament, that she was arrested by order of the King, who, it is affirmed, saw her throw down her handkerchief to a