peaks of it because of its
tortuous course, as "one of the oddest built streets in London." Wilkes
and Addison, and Mrs. Delaney, at whose house Miss Burney stayed, have
been among the residents. Samuel Rogers lived for fifty years at No. 22,
which looked out over the park.

Cleveland Square is an open space before the Duke of Bridgewater's
House. The house was restored, as an inscription over the doorway tells
us, or in other words rebuilt, in 1849. This house has a history. It was
originally Berkshire House, and belonged to the Howards, Earls of
Berkshire. Charles II. bought it in 1670, and gave it to that "beautiful
fury," Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland. She pulled down the house and sold
part of the site before rebuilding. In 1730 the first Duke of
Bridgewater bought it, and it was alternately known by the names of
Cleveland and Bridgewater. The third Duke died unmarried in 1803, when
the title became extinct. He left the house and the magnificent
collection of pictures to his nephew, the Marquis of Stafford,
afterwards Duke of Sutherland, with reversion to the Marquis's second
son. This son was created Earl of Ellesmere in 1846. He rebuilt the
house, still retaining the old name. The famous collection of pictures
within, includes works of Raphael, Titian, Vandervelde, Turner,
Rembrandt, Cuyp, and others, and is one of the finest private
collections in England.

The house opposite was the home of Grenville, First Lord of the
Admiralty in 1806, and here he collected the magnificent library which
is now at the British Museum. Admiral Rodney lived in Cleveland Row in
1772.

On Pall Mall the game of the same name was originally played. On both
sides of the open space were rows of elm-trees. But being such an
obvious route from the palace to Charing Cross it was soon used as a
thoroughfare, and after the warrant for "building of the new street of
St. James" Charles II. laid out the new mall in the park. The street,
when built, was at first called Catherine, in honour of the Queen, but
the older name soon returned into favour.

It early became fashionable. Nell Gwynne was one of the first residents.
She had a house numbered 79, near the War Office, afterwards, by the
irony of fate, occupied by the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel, and since rebuilt. Evelyn records an occasion on which he
attended King Charles II. in the park, when he heard "a familiar
discourse between the King and Mrs. Nellie as they call an