Sir, 1643.. The experience I have had of your worth, and the happineffe I have enjoyed in your friendship, are wounding confiderations to me, when I look upon this prefent distance between us certainly, Sir, my affections to you are fo unchangeable, that hoftilitie itself cannot violate my friendship to your person; but I must be true to the cause wherein I ferve. The old limitation of ufque ad aras holdeth ftill; and where my confcience is interested, all other obligations are swallowed up. I should wait upon you according to your defire, but that Į look on you as engaged in that partie beyond the poffibilitie of retreat, and confequentlie incapable of being wrought upon by anie persuafion; and I know the conference could never be fo close betwixt us, but that it would take wind, and receive a conftruction to my difhonour. That great God, who is the fearcher of all hearts, knows, with what a fad fear I go upon this service, and with what a perfect hate I deteft a war without an enemie; but I look upon it as opus Domini, which is enough to filence all paffion in me. The God of peace fend us, in his good time, the bleffing of peace, and in the mean time fit us to receive it. We are both on the stage, and must act those parts that are affigned us in this Tragedy; but let us do it in the way of honour, and without B 6

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perfonal animofitie: whatsoever the iffue of it be, I fhall never refign that dear title of

Your moft affectionate friend,

and faithful fervant,

William Waller.

A Marine, by Mr. Cowden; a very fmall Landscape, by Morland: both of them prefents from the former.

A Landscape with cattle, by Rogman.

Other end of the room, a ruined Bridge, with figures, by Crabetje. Under it the four following pictures: Chrift driving the moneychangers out of the Temple, by Baffan, from the collection of Dr. Peters.

A beautiful Landfcape with figures, and a very fmall one with horfes, both by Morland, .and prefents from Mr. Cowden.

Over one door, Simon, only fon of Simon, firft Vifcount Harcourt, by Kneller.

Over the other, Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Evelyn, Efq. of Wooton in Surry, by Dahl.

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THE CORRIDOR..

Upper row, beginning from the left. Van dermyn, painter to the Prince of Orange.

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- Upon the stretching frame is the following infcription: "The face was done by her Royal Highness Anne Princefs of Orange, foon after her marriage, while the painter was attending at St. James's, to take the pictures of the faid Prince and Princefs, on that happy occafion. He parted with it just before his death, which happened in February 1741, to Mrs. Clare, of Soho Square, London. All but the face was done by himfelf. The Princefs was a good painter, and did it in great grace and condefcenfion."

Lambert, the Parliament General, by Wal

ker.

Richard Wefton, Earl of Portland, Lord Treasurer in the reign of Charles I. an old copy after Vandyk.

The Duke of Schomberg, by Kneller.

Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, by old Stone after Vandyk.

A head of one of the Harcourt family.

Mr. Harley, (afterwards Earl of Oxford,) when Speaker of the House of Commons, after Kneller.

Lower row, beginning on the left. Anne of -Denmark, Queen of King James I.

Portrait of a lady, by Cornelius Jansen. Ditto of a gentleman, by the fame. Maurice Prince of Orange, by Mirevelt. Over one door, Jacob Hall, the celebrated rope-dancer. (See les Mémoires de Grammont.)

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Over the other, Kent, the father of landscape gardening; by himself.

THE LIBRARY.

32 (including the recefs) by 19, and 14 feet high.

Mr. Rowe, by Kneller: it belonged to Jacob Tonfon, the bookfeller.

On the left fide, beginning from the chimney, Mr. Mafon, by Doughty, a difciple of Reynolds: a prefent from the first named. Mr. Prior, by Dahl.

Mr. Pope, by Kneller; the best portrait of him, and one of the best works of that master : at the back of the picture is transcribed the following letter to Simon, first Viscount Harcourt, dated August 22, 1723, and first printed for this defcription of Nuneham.

My Lord,

It is a fatisfaction to me to tell your Lordship, that I shall not be any way disappointed of the honour you intend me, of filling a place in your library with my picture. I came to town yesterday, and got admiffion to Sir Godfrey Kneller, who affured me the original was done for your Lordship, and that you, and no man but you, fhould have it. I faw the picture there afterwards, and was told then by his man, that you had fent, and put a feal upon

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it. Give me leave, my Lord, with great fincerity to thank you for fo obliging a thought, as thus to make me a fharer in the memory, as I was in the love of a perfon, who was juftly the dearest object to you in the world: and thus to be authorized by you to be called his friend, after both of us fhall be duft. I am ever, with all good wishes to your Lordship and your family, (in which too I must do my mother the juftice to join her,)

My Lord,

Your moft obliged,

and most faithful fervant,

A. Pope.

Mr. Gray, by Vandergucht, after Wilson. Mrs. Pritchard, the celebrated Actress, in Hermione in the Winter's Tale, by Pine.

Mr. Whitehead, Poet Laureat, by Wilson. Mr. Congreve, when young, from the mi-niature in oil, at Strawberry Hill.

Shakspear in crayons, by old Vandergucht, after the original in the late Duke of Chandos's poffeffion: the only authentic one.

Mr. Evelyn, an old copy from Kneller; a prefent from Sir Frederick Evelyn, Bart.

Lord Bacon.

Spenfer.

Under the arch, a caft in plaister, of J. J.

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