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was on the site of Drummond's Bank:

"Come, at a crown ahead ourselves we'll treat:
Champagne our liquor, and ragouts our meat;

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With evening wheels we'll drive about the Park,
Finish at Locket's, and reel home i' the dark."

Vague rumour assigns an earlier house to Cromwell on the same spot. The
bank was established about 1712 by Mr. Andrew Drummond, a goldsmith.
George III. transferred his account from Coutts' to Drummond's when he
was displeased with the former firm, and he desired Messrs. Drummond to
make no advances to Frederick, Prince of Wales, who also had an account
here. This order was obeyed, with the consequences that in the
succeeding reign the royal account was transferred again to Messrs.
Coutts. The County Council offices are at present a very noticeable
feature in Spring Gardens, and the aspect of the place is no longer
rural.

The part of Whitehall included in St. Martin's parish is not very
large, yet it is of some importance. On the west side is Old Scotland
Yard, for long associated with the headquarters of the Metropolitan
Police, now removed to New Scotland Yard. Stow says:

"On the left hand from Charing Cross are also divers tenements lately
built till ye come to a large plot of ground inclosed with brick, and is
called Scotland, where great buildings have been for receipt of the
Kings of Scotland and other estates of that country, for Margaret Queen
of Scots and sister to King Henry VIII. had her abiding here when she
came to England after the death of her husband, as the Kings of Scotland
had in former times when they came to the Parliament of England."

Here for some time was the official residence of the Surveyor of Works
to the Crown, and Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren were both
occupants. Sir J. Vanbrugh also resided at Scotland Yard, and as
Secretary to the Council Milton had an official residence here before he
went to Petty France, as described in the book on Westminster in the
same series.

Craig's or Cragg's Court, in which is the Royal Almonry office, is shown
in old maps. Strype speaks of it as a "very handsome large Court, with
new buildings fit for gentry of Repute." It was built in 1702, and is
supposed to have been called after the father of Secretary Craggs, who
was a friend of Pope and Addison. Woodfall, the publisher, had a West
End office in the court, and Romney the painter lived there. There is