The embellishments of this construction, were, that the portico was adorned with a stately Gothic frontispiece, enriched with the arms of England, under a cornice, pediment, and vase, between two cartouches and the city supporters, on acroters, and these between two other vases, under which were niches. In the middle of this front, were depenciled in gold these words: REPARATOR ET ORNATOR THOMA RAWLINSON, MILIT MAJORE, AN. DOм. MDCCVI.

Beneath, the aperture was embellished with the arms of twenty-four companies, and the city arms; the sides of the gateway were also graced with the statues of Moses and Aaron, and the four Cardinal Virtues. The four latter, when this front was taken down a few years since, were requested of the court of common council by the late Mr. Alderman Boydell, for the purpose of giving them to Mr. Banks, the sculptor; that gentleman thought them such eminent specimens of art, that he was at the pains of adding joints to the mutilated limbs, and considered them vahuable additions to his excellent collection of statuary treasure. They were sold by auction after his death, at a very considerable price.

Stow, in relation to the images which were demolished in his time, states that William Elderton, an attorney in the sheriffs' court, made the following doggrel verses, concern. ing the statues in front of Guildhall:

Though most the Images be pulled down,
And none be thought remain in town,
I'm sure there be in London yet

Seven Images, such, and in such a place
As few or none I think will hit ;
Yet every Day they shew their face,
And thousands see them every Year,
But few, I think, can tell me where;
Where Jesu Christ aloft doth stand,
Law and Learning on either Hand,
Discipline in the Devil's Neck

And hard by her are three direct;

There Justice, Fortitude and Temperance stand,
Where find
ye the like in all this Land?

The

The present façade was erected in the year 1789, after a design and under the direction of Mr. George Dance, architect to the corporation. The centre contains a pointed door, with pillars and mouldings. On each side are pilasters, with oblong and pointed pannels, whence to the escalloped battlements, they are fluted; above are the sword and mace, the whole terminated by enriched mouldings and peculiar pinnacles. The space between the pilasters contains six lancet windows, in two stories, the lowest being long; the parapet supports the armorial bearings of the city, with their supporters. The pilasters at each end are similar to those in the centre, except that the Auted part is continued to the base, and that they are not so high; the wings of the building, have twenty-four lancet windows of unequal lengths; the whole front formed into thirty windows between slender piers. This front partakes of no determinate stile of architecture, and seems to have been formed from the inventive faculty of the builder.

The roof of the inside is flat, divided into pannels, the walls on the north and south sides adorned with four demy pillars of the Gothic order, painted white and veined with blue, and the capitals gilt with gold, and these arms finely depicted in their proper colours; at the east end, the arms of St. Edward the Confessor, and of England, and the shield and cross of St. George. At the west end the arms of the Confessor, those of England and France quarterly, and the arms of England. On the fourteen demy pillars (above the capital) are, the arms of England on the north end, and the arms of London the south end pillar, and westward from them are the arms of the twelve companies. At the east end are the portraits of William III. and Mary II. by Vander Vaert; Queen Anne, George L. George II. and Queen Caroline; George III. and Queen Charlotte, both by Ramsey. Round the hall are the fulllength portraits of those great characters, the Judges, who, for their signal services rendered to the City, by deciding disputes between landlord and tenant, without recourse to

judicial litigation, were placed here, as a mark of the gratitude of the distressed city they had so essentially benefited, Their names were

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, knt. and bart. of the Inner Temple, and in the time of Charles I. attorney to the Court of Wards.

He was called to the degree of serjeant at law May 31, 1660; appointed lord chief baron of the Exchequer June 1, and created a baronet the day following. He sat as first judge upon the trial of the regicides in October 1660, and was, the twenty-second of that month, advanced to be lord chief justice of the Common Pleas.

When the great seal was taken from Lord Clarendon, August 30, 1667, it was delivered to Sir Orlando Bridgeman under the title of Lord Keeper, which post he continued till November 5, 1672. He died June 25, 1674, and was buried at Teddington in Middlesex. There was published under his name a folio book of Conveyances, being select precedents of deeds and instruments concerning the most considerable estates in England.

The earl of Clarendon speaks highly of this gentleman, in his History of the Rebellion.

Prince, in his Worthies of Devon, observes, "his moderation and equity were such, that he seemed to carry a chancery in his breast." Though desirous of an union with Scotland, and a comprehension with the Dissenters, he was against the toleration of Popery; and for refusing to affix the seal to the declaration for liberty of conscience by Charles II. he was removed from his office.

Sir Edward Atkyns, Knt. was of Lincoln's Inn, of which society he was reader 8th of Charles I. and was called to the degree of serjeant at law, May 19, 1640:

Such was his attachment to the royal cause, that (during the civil war) he refused several advantages and honours which were offered him by the chiefs of the opposite party.

On Feb. 8, 1660, he was appointed a commissioner for settling and recovering the arrears of excise due to the king, was made second baron of the Exchequer June 23, VOL. III. No. 60.

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and received the honour of knighthood the second of July following. In October he sat upon the commission for the trial of the regicides: he died in 1669, aged eighty-two.

Sir Thomas Twisden, Knt. and Bart. was of the Inner Temple, and member of parliament for Maidstone, 1640. During the Usurpation he was sent to the Tower for defending the rights of the city of London, for which he was counsel. He was called to the degree of serjeant at law June 21, 1660; made one of the justices of the King's Bench June 27th; and in October following he sat upon the commission for the trial of the regicides., He was created a baronet June 18, 1666; and when through age and infirmities he had obtained leave to resign his office, (having sat upon the bench twenty years) his Majesty was pleased to continue his salary to him for life. He died 1682, aged eighty-one.

Sir Christopher Turnor, Knt. was of the Middle Temple, called to the degree of serjeant at law, July 4, 1660; made third baron of the Exchequer on the 7th, and received the honour of knighthood on the 16th of the same month.

In 1660, he was appointed a commissioner for settling and recovering the arrears of excise due to the king, and in October that year, he sat upon the commission for the trial of the regicides. In the memorable case of the Perry's, he was the judge who at Gloucester Lent assizes, 1661, refused to try them upon an indictment for murder, because the body of the person supposed to be murdered was not found; yet, in a circuit afterwards, a less cautious judge did try them, and, upon being found guilty, ordered execution, when, some years after, the person supposed to be murdered appeared alive! This unhappy circumstance has occasioned a more scrupulous attention to the sufficiency of evidence in cases where the body of a person supposed to be murdered is not found.

He died May 19, 1675, aged sixty-eight, and was bu ried at Milton-Erness, in Bedfordshire, where there is a handsome monument for him.

* See State Trials, vol. X. App. p. 30, and Harl. Miscellany, vol. III. p. 519.

Sir Thomas Tyrrell, Knt. was of the Inner Temple, called to the degree of serjeant at law July 4, 1660, received the honour of knighthood July 16, and was appointed one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas, the 27th of the same month. He sat upon the trial of the regicides, October 9, 1660, and was returned member for Buckinghamshire in the parliament called that year.

Sir Samuel Brown, Knt. was of Lincoln's-Inn, of which society he was reader 18 Charles I. and represented the borough of Dartmouth in the parliament called 1640, and there he exerted himself much against archbishop Laud, being the person who carried up the attainder against that prelate to the House of Lords in 1644.

October 12, 1648, he was made serjeant at law, one of the justices of the Common Pleas, and a commissioner of the great Seal. After the Restoration he was again called to the degree of serjeant, June 21, 1660, and was chosen member for the county of Bedford in the parliament called that year. He sat upon the commiffion for the trial of the regicides in October, was appointed one of the juftices of the court of Common Pleas, November 3, 1660, and received the honour of knighthood December 4 following. He died in the year 1668.

Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. was of Lincoln's-Inn. In 1663he was appointed one of the juftices of the Common Pleas, and in the parliaments called 1654 and 1660, was returned member for Gloucestershire.

He was called to the degree of serjeant at law June 21, appointed one of the commissioners for the trial of the regicides in October, and constituted lord chief baron of the Exchequer November 7, 1660; he was likewise in that year a commissioner for settling and recovering the arrears of excise due to the king.

He was advanced to be lord chief justice of the King's Bench May 18, 1671, which place he resigned February 20, 1675-6. He died on Christmas day following, and was buried at Alderley in Gloucestershire.

"This excellent person, whose learning in the law was