After the Great Fire of London, Mr. Howard lent the Royal Society rooms in his house. In 1678 the palace was taken down, and the present Arundel, Surrey, Howard, and Norfolk streets were erected in its stead. The few marbles that remained were removed to Tart Hall, Westminster, and to Cuper’s Gardens across the river.[75] Tart Hall was the residence of the Countess of Arundel: Cuper’s Gardens belonged to a gardener of the Earl of Arundel. The Duke of Norfolk originally intended to build a more magnificent house on the old site, and even obtained an act of Parliament for the purpose; but fashion was already setting westward, and the design was abandoned.[76] In Arundel Street lived Rymer, the historical antiquary, who died here in 1715; John Anstis, the Garter king-at-arms, resided here in 1715-16;[77] also Mrs. Porter, the actress, “over against the Blue Ball.” Gay, in his delightful _Trivia_ sketches the “long Strand,” and pauses to mourn over the glories of Arundel House. His walk is from “the Temple’s silent walls,” and he stays to look down at the site of the earl’s mansion-- ----“That narrow street, which steep descends, Whose building to the shining shore extends; Here Arundel’s famed structure rear’d its frame-- The street alone retains an empty name; Where Titian’s glowing paint the canvas warm’d, And Raphael’s fair design with judgment charm’d, Now hangs the bellman’s song, and pasted here The coloured prints of Overton appear; Where statues breathed, the work of Phidias’ hands, A wooden pump or lonely watch-house stands; There Essex’ stately pile adorned the shore; There Cecil’s, Bedford’s, Villiers’--now no more.” In the Strand, between Arundel and Norfolk Streets, in the year 1698, lived Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Speaker of the House of Commons, and father of Pope’s friend, and the author of the _History of Henry the Second_, a ponderous and pompous work. Next door to him lived the father of Bishop Burnet--a remarkable person, for he was a poor but honest lawyer, born at Edinburgh in 1643. A bookseller of the same name--a collateral descendant of the bishop whom Swift hated so cordially--afterwards occupied the house.