there is very little here to suggest this might be in any way an exhibit – in fact the same goes for the whole of Burghley House. Despite its size, the ornate carvings and the barrel-vaulted staircases, there is a lived-in, welcoming and homely vibe about the entire place that turns ...
People started coming to London expressly to meet the man who had defeated Salmasius, and some, according to seventeenth-century biographers, walked "out of pure devotion" down Bread Street "to see the house and chamber where he was born" ( Darbishire 7, 48 ). A brief examination of the...