[117] _Point-device_, a term explained by Mr. Douce. He thinks that it is borrowed from the labours of the needle, as we have _point-lace_, so _point-device_, i.e., _point_, a stitch, and _devise_, devised or invented; applied to describe anything uncommonly exact, or worked with the nicety and precision of _stitches made or devised by the needle_.--_Illustrations of Shakspeare_, i. 93. But Mr. Gifford has since observed that the origin of the expression is, perhaps, yet to be sought for: he derives it from a mathematical phrase, _a point devise_, or _a given point_, and hence exact, correct, &c.--_Ben Jonson_, vol. iv. 170. See, for various examples, Mr. Nares's Glossary, art. _Point-devise_. [118] Lyson's "Environs," v. 58 [119] Burnet says, "Others called it _Holland House_, because he was believed to be no friend to the war: so it was given out that he had money from the Dutch." [120] At the gateway of the Three Kings Inn, near Dover-street, in Piccadilly, are two pilasters with Corinthian capitals, which belonged to Clarendon House, and are perhaps the only remains of that edifice. [121] An old term for _contractors_. Evelyn tells us they were "certain rich bankers and mechanics, who gave for it, and the ground about it, 35,000_l_." They built streets and houses on the site to their great profit, the ground comprising twenty-four acres of land. "TAXATION NO TYRANNY!" Such was the title of a famous political tract, which was issued at a moment when a people, in a state of insurrection, put forth a declaration that taxation was tyranny! It was not against an insignificant tax they protested, but against taxation itself! and in the temper of the moment this abstract proposition appeared an insolent paradox. It was instantly run down by that everlasting party which, so far back as in the laws of our Henry the First, are designated by the odd descriptive term of _acephali, a people without heads!_[122] the strange equality of levellers!