this was Corner. DEVONSHIRE HOUSE GATES afterwards removed 39 removed to Hyde Park The name of Piccadilly seem to have been derived from the ruffs or "piccadils" which were worn by the gallants of the time of James I. and Charles I. Nightingale says, "Piccadillo House was a sort of repository for Ruffs." Hone, however, gives a different sense of the word "piccadil." He says it means "the round hem or the piece set about the edge or skirt of a garment, whether at top or bottom," and, further, that "the celebrated ordinary near St James's, called Piccadilly, might derive its name from the circumstance of its being the outmost or skirt house situate at the hem of the town." Those are beautiful gates which stand in the wall outside Devonshire House. Their history is interesting. They were originally at More House, in Chelsea. When Sir Hans Sloane demolished the famous old house in 1740, he gave the gates (erected by Inigo Jones for the Earl of Middlesex) to the Earl of Burlington, who reerected them in his garden at Chiswick. A few years ago they were again removed and brought by the Duke of Devonshire to Devonshire House. It was of this gate that Pope wrote: |