kard; or of a
Puritanical, formal servant, the expression of whose countenance was
sufficient to turn the best-brewed October into vinegar. The old carved
door leading into this apartment is shown in the annexed sketch.

Nor should the apartment then occupied by the intelligent master of the
workhouse be overlooked. The panelling of the room, its chimney-piece,
and the painting and [Picture: Fireplace with painting above] framework
above it, placed us completely in a chamber of the time of William III.
And we only required a slight alteration in the furniture, and Lord
Shaftesbury to enter, to feel that we were in the presence of the author
of 'Characteristics.'

The staircase, too, with its spiral balusters, as seen through the
doorway, retained its ancient air.

[Picture: Staircase seen through doorway]

Narcissus Luttrell died here on the 26th of June, 1732, and was buried at
Chelsea on the 6th of July following; where Francis Luttrell (presumed to
be his son) was also buried on the 3rd of September, 1740. Shaftesbury
House then passed into the occupation of Mr. Sergeant Wynne, who died on
the 17th of May, 1765; and from him it descended to his eldest son, Mr.
Edward Wynne, the author of 'Eunomus: a Dialogue concerning the Law and
Constitution of England, with an Essay on Dialogue,' 4 vols. 8vo; and
other works, chiefly of a legal nature. He died a bachelor, at Little
Chelsea, on the 27th of December, 1784; and his brother, the Rev.
Luttrell Wynne, of All Souls, Oxford, inherited Shaftesbury House, and
the valuable library which Mr. Luttrell, his father, and brother, had
accumulated. The house he alienated to William Virtue, from whom, as
before mentioned, it was purchased by the parish of St. George's, Hanover
Square, in 1787; and the library formed a twelve-days' sale, by Messrs.
Leigh and Sotheby, commencing on the 6th of March, 1786. The
auction-catalogue contained 2788 lots; and some idea of the value may be
formed from the circumstance, that nine of the first seventeen lots sold
for no less a sum than 32 pounds 7s., and that four lots of old
newspapers, Nos. 25, 26, 27, and 28, were knocked down at 18 pounds 5s.
No. '376, a collection of old plays, by Gascoigne, White, Windet, Decker,
&c., 21 vols,' brought 38 pounds 17s.; and No. 644, Milton's
'Eiconoclastes,' with MS. notes, supposed to be written by Milton, was
bought by Waldron for 2s., who afterwards gave it to Dr. Farmer. Dr.
Di