thumberland (27). He died at Sion House, June 6th, 1786, aged seventy-four; and was succeeded by his eldest son and name-sake Hugh, late Duke of Northumberland.

OF REYNARDSON'S HOUSE.

An Account of Sir Abraham Reynardson.

THIS house, which stood on the north side of Tottenham Green, built in 1590 (28), was the property and residence of Sir Abraham Reynardson, and occupied by the family of the Forster's as a boarding school from 1752 to 1810, when it was taken down, and two houses built on the site. The mansion was of brick, large and spacious, in form of a half H, having three staircases, two of them very wide and of easy ascent. The ball room, being one of the largest rooms, was in the wing, and occupied as a school room; it was in dimension thirty feet by twenty, floored with fir planks of one length, about three inches thick, and eighteen inches wide. Here were evident remains of antient grandeur, though at that time much defaced: the chimney-piece, which reached to the cieling, was composed of a mixture of lime and hair to resemble stone, was of a very durable substance, and adorned with fleurs de lis and roses alternately in lozenges. Over the mantle-piece in two arched recesses separated by terms, were paintings on the plaster; one represented a salutation

(27) Collins's Peerage, II, 477, &c. ed. 1779.
(28) As appeared by date found on the leaden pipes.

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between two persons, the other a landscape with fishermen; but both were so much defaced as to be scarcely discernible. On the cornice, the ornaments of which had been gilt, were the following letters R 1647, and on the mantle-piece was a shield bearing a coat of arms, which resembled those on the almshouses, except in the colouring, which was counterchanged the drapery and ornaments of this chimneypiece were extremely well moulded, and some of the gilding remained; the room was hung with exceeding fine crimson damask with gold fringe.

Sir Abraham Reynardson (29), alderman, and lord mayor of London, was son of Thomas Reynardson of Plymouth, by Julian his wife, daughter of Brace of the Isle of Wight. He was born 1590 at Plymouth, and was an eminent Turkey merchant and lord mayor of London 1649; but was by the parliament discharged from his mayoralty, and disabled from bearing the office of mayor and alderman of London, fined £2000, and committed to prison, for refusing to proclaim the act abolishing kingly power in England; which fine was levied by sale of his goods. He married first Abigail, daughter and co-heiress of Nicholas Crispe, Esq. of London : secondly Eleanor, daughter of Richard Winnie of Shrewsbury, Esq. and had issue by both. He died at his house at Tottenham, October 4, 1661, and his corpse was carried to Merchant Taylors' Hall, where it lay in state; and was from thence removed to St. Martin Outwich Church, and buried October 17,

(29) He was father of Nicholas Reynardson, the founder of the almshouses, called "Reynardson's Almshouses.". See Appendix, No. I, p. 35.

in great funeral pomp: the lord mayor and alder. men, the governors, deputies, and assistants of the Turkey and East India Companies, the livery of the company of Merchant Taylors', and the governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Lancaster, Chester, and Somerset heralds, and a great number of his relations, friends, and acquaintance, attending. It does not appear that any monument was erected to his memory.

A sermon was preached at his funeral by George Smallwood, M. A. rector of St. Margaret, New Fish Street, and printed under the title of Egyor Yevdeç xai Miolos Aλnderas ; or, the Wicked Man's sad Disappointment and the Righteous Man's sure Recompence; being a sermon preached on the 17th day of October, 1661, at the solemn funeral of the right worshipful Sir Abraham Reynardson, Knight, late alderman of London. This sermon (the only one the author ever printed) is dedicated to Lady Reynardson, and bestows great praise on Sir Abraham as a husband, father, and friend: celebrates his liberality to the poor in his life, particularly in apprenticing poor children, and his charitable bequests to the several hospitals of London, and some other places; and mentions some particulars during his mayoralty, which may have escaped the notice of general his、 torians.

When the treaty of 1648 between the king and parliament was agreed on, the engagement was subscribed by most of the common council and principal citizens for carrying on that treaty; which afterwards proving ineffectual, and the parliament being dissolved by the violence of the army and their abettors,

a strict enquiry was made after the names of those, who had subscribed the personal treaty.

The original book containing two reams of paper, in which the names of those who voted against the treaty, as well as those who voted for it, were written, being privately brought to this gentleman, he burnt the whole, and thereby saved the fortunes at least, if not the lives, of thousands. When a petition to the then new moulded parliament was moved for in common council to bring his majesty and others to trial, Sir Abraham honourably opposed it, and would neither suffer it to be read nor voted, notwithstanding the violence of the adverse party, who even raised a tumultuous party without doors to intimidate him; yet he remained immoveable, accompanied by only two of his brethren, from eight in the morning till eight at night, when he resolutely took up the city sword and departed at the hazard of his life. All these proceedings he caused to be entered in the city records in testimony of his own integrity and inno. cence, and that of the city over which he presided, as to the fact of taking away the life of the king; and he had afterwards the thanks of the city for so doing. When the act for abolishing the kingly office and the house of lords (30) was sent to him to be proclaimed in London, he delayed it for eight days; and being summoned before the parliament for the neg lect, he told them plainly that the oaths he had taken forbade his doing it; and in the presence of the whole assembly persevered in refusing to permit the

(30) Intituled "An act for the exheredation of the royal line, the abolishment of monarchy in the kingdom, and the setting up of a common-wealth."

proclamation to be read, for which he was voted out of office, fined £2000 (31), and committed prisoner to the Tower for two months (32). His goods, household stuff, and wearing apparel were sequestered and sold, and the whole fine extorted from him in money and goods. Three of the aldermen, Thomas Adams, John Langham, and James Bunce, who were com mitted with him, when they were brought to the bar of the then governing lords, April 25, bravely and stoutly as good citizens and true Englishmen refused their authority, and signified to Colonel Tichburne, lieutenant of the Tower, that they would not obey his order to bring them before the bar of that house, declaring their resolutions to stand for the defence of the established laws of the land, and their protestations against the lords jurisdiction over them or any other commoners in criminal cases, with an appeal from the said lords to their proper and competent judges, a jury of their equals sworn to proceed according to the known laws of England. These letters and petitions may be seen in Strype's edition of Stowe's Survey of London, Book 1, p. 300. Whitelock, who, after the Journals of the House of Commons, miscalls the lord mayor Reynoldson, says, he and the four aldermen (33) prisoners were disabled April 7, 1649, from being aldermen, and the common council directed to elect new aldermen in their places, as they had before elected alderman Atkyns mayor for the remainder of the year; the eldest who had

(31) £500 to the poor of London; £500 to Westminster; £500 to Southwark; and £500 to the poor of the Tower Hamlets.

(32) The votes of the House of Commons say one month.

(33) The three before-mentioned, and Sir John Gayer, Knt.