London and Its Environs Described, vol. 5 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 5 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
The above officer has under him two clerks in ordinary, one who has
150_l._ and another who has 70_l._ _per annum_, and also four clerks
extraordinary who have each 40_l._ a year.
The Treasurer and Paymaster receives and pays all monies, both salaries
and debentures in and belonging to this office. His salary is 500_l._ a
year.
The above officer is assisted in his double employment of receiving and
paying by three clerks in ordinary, one of whom has 150_l._ another
60_l._ and another 50_l._ _per annum_, and by three clerks
extraordinary, each of whom has 40_l._ a year.
In this office there are likewise two Proof Masters, who have 20_l._ a
year each; a Clerk of the works, who has 120_l._ a year; a Purveyor for
the land, who has 100_l._ a year; a Purveyor for the sea, who has 40_l._
a year; an Architect, who has 120_l._ a year; an Astronomical
Observator, who has 100_l._ a year, and some other officers.
In the other part of this office termed the _Military Branch of the
Ordnance_, is a Chief Engineer, who has 501_l._ 17_s._ 4_d._ a year; a
Director, who has 365_l._ _per annum_; eight engineers in ordinary, who
have 10_s._ a day; eight engineers extraordinary at 6_s._ a day; eleven
sub-engineers, at 73_l._ a year each; and sixteen pract. engineers, at
3_s._ a day.——See an account of the arms belonging to this office under
the article TOWER.
ORMOND’S _mews_, 1. Duke street, Piccadilly. 2. Great Ormond street, Red
Lion street, Holborn.
ORMOND _street_, Red Lion street, Holborn.
A catalogue of the pictures of Charles Jennens, Esq; in Ormond street.
The nativity, after Pietro di Cortona.
The Magi offering, Carlo Maratti.
A holy family, after Raphael.
A holy family, by Fr. Mazzuoli Parmegiano.
A piece of fruit, &c. by De Heem.
A landscape, by Cl. Lorraine, allowed capital.
A landscape, with St. Jerom and the lion, by Nic. Poussin.
Cattle and fowls, by Bened. Castiglione.
The finding of Moses, by Lucatelli.
A land storm, by Gasp. Poussin.
A bagpiper, by Spagnolet.
A landscape, by Nic. Poussin.
A view of the Rhine, by Sachtleven.
Ruins, by Harvey, with Christ and the woman of Canaan, by J. Vanderbank,
sky and trees by Wotton.
A man with a straw hat eating porridge, by Annibal Caracci.
A view of the castle of St. Angelo, by Marco Ricci.
A miracle, by Seb. Concha.
A boy’s or girl’s head, by Guido.
The crucifixion, by Vandyke.
St. John the Baptist baptizing Christ, by Rottenhammer.
Three boys, viz. Christ, John the Baptist, and an angel, of the school of
Rubens or Vandyke.
A holy family.
St. Paul and King Agrippa, after Le Sueur.
A philosopher mending a pen, A. le Pape.
St. Cecilia in a circle of flowers, by Philippo Laura, in the manner of
Domenichino, the flowers by Mario di Fiori.
A landscape, by Both.
Butler the poet, by Zoust.
A holy family (small) by Seb. Bourdon.
A storm, by Vandervelde.
A oval of flowers, with the wise men offering, by father Seegers.
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