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Two inventories of the contents of York House were drawn up by 1635, and are a valuable source for the insight into one of the handful of great art collections of the period. There were 330 paintings enumerated, many of which were sold at
Antwerp in 1649 for the young Duke; among them were seventeen
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presented before their majesties in May 1627, in which
Buckingham appeared followed by "Envy, with divers open-mouthed dogs' heads representing the people's barking, while next came Fame and Truth", just before his departure for his unsuccessful second foray against France.
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In the 'Great
Chamber' twenty-two paintings were displayed with fifty-nine pieces of Roman sculpture, many of which were heads. In the 'Gallery' were a further thirty-one heads and statues. Apparently the only modern sculpture at York House was
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The inventory includes the mount in the garden where there was a marble statue of Cain and Abel and a vaulted room beneath decorated with plaster heads of Roman emperors and a marble table.
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which assembled there in
February 1626 ended unsatisfactorily with the final rupture between Puritan members of Parliament and Buckingham. York House was the setting for a
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tree that was a sapling at the time of the construction of the
Watergate in 1626 and tells of the stories that such a tree may have witnessed in the years since.
345:, diplomat and sometime painter. Although the Duchess tried to expel the latter after the Duke's assassination in 1628, it was in Gerbier's lodgings that
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canvases by Rubens. There were tapestries, marble sculptures, plate and rich furnishings. These represent the taste formed in the circle of
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in about 1626 as a ceremonial landing stage on the river, is now marooned 150 yards (137 m) from the river, within the
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The mansions facing in the Strand were built there partly because they had direct access from their rear gardens to the
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and for about seventy years from 1558 the house was leased to various secular holders of that high office, including
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in 1556, and it retained that name for the rest of its existence. Its neighbour to the west was
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and heir apparent. Foundations were begun to designs by
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