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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Walk from London to Fulham, by Thomas
+Crofton Croker, Edited by T. F. Dillon Croker, Illustrated by F. W.
+Fairholt
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+Title: A Walk from London to Fulham
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+Author: Thomas Crofton Croker
+
+Editor: T. F. Dillon Croker
+
+Release Date: July 29, 2009  [eBook #29541]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WALK FROM LONDON TO FULHAM***
+
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+This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.
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+
+                                  A WALK
+                          From London to Fulham
+
+
+                               BY THE LATE
+                 THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, F.S.A., M.R.I.A.
+
+                      REVISED AND EDITED BY HIS SON,
+                  T. F. DILLON CROKER, F.S.A., F.R.G.S.
+
+                    WITH ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS, BY
+                          F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.
+
+                         [Picture: Illustration]
+
+                          LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG.
+                                  1860.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+Note by T. F. Dillon Croker.                                    v
+Dedication to Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.                 vii
+Memoir of the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A., M.R.I.A.,     ix
+     Etc.
+Text of ‘A Walk from London to Fulham.’                         22
+Index of Places.                                                250
+Index of Names of Persons.                                      253
+Footnotes.
+
+NOTE.
+
+
+A series of papers which originally appeared in ‘Fraser’ are now, for the
+first time, published in a collected form with the consent of the
+proprietors of that Magazine.  It should, however, be stated, that this
+is not a mere reprint, but that other matter has been inserted, and
+several illustrations, which did not appear originally, are now added, by
+which the work is very materially increased: the whole having undergone a
+necessary revision.
+
+Since the late Mr. Crofton Croker contributed to ‘Fraser’ the ‘Walk from
+London to Fulham,’ there have been many important changes on the road:
+time has continued to efface interesting associations; more old houses
+have been pulled down, new ones built up, and great alterations and
+improvements have taken place not contemplated a few years ago.  It would
+be impossible, for example, that any one who has not visited the locality
+during the last few years could recognize the narrow lanes of yesterday
+in the fine roads now diverging beyond the South Kensington Museum, which
+building has so recently been erected at the commencement of Old
+Brompton; but modern improvements are seemingly endless, and have of late
+become frequent.  It is in the belief that the following pages will be an
+interesting and acceptable record of many places no longer in existence,
+that they are submitted to the public in their present shape by
+
+                                                      T. F. DILLON CROKER.
+
+                                    TO
+                    THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A.
+
+MY DEAR MR. WRIGHT,
+
+As a mark of sincere regard to an old and esteemed friend of my late
+Father, I offer these pages to you.
+
+                                                    Yours most faithfully,
+
+                                                      T. F. DILLON CROKER.
+
+19 _Pelham Place_,
+      _Brompton_, 1860.
+
+
+
+
+MEMOIR
+OF THE LATE
+THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, F.S.A., M.R.I.A., ETC.
+
+
+The late eminent genealogist, Sir W. Betham of Dublin, Ulster
+King-at-Arms, well known as the author of numerous works on the
+Antiquities of Ireland, and Mr. Richard Sainthill, an equally zealous
+antiquary still living in Cork, were two of the most intimate friends and
+correspondents of the late Mr. Crofton Croker.
+
+The first-named gentleman drew up an elaborate table tracing the Croker
+pedigree as far back as the battle of Agincourt.  The Croker crest—“Deus
+alit eos”—was granted to Sir John Croker, who accompanied Edward IV. on
+his expedition to France in 1475, as cup and standard-bearer; but without
+going back to the original generation, or tracing the Limerick or any
+other branch of the family, it will be sufficient to say here that the
+Crokers, if they did not “come over with William the Conqueror” came
+originally from Devonshire, and settled in Ireland in the reign of
+Elizabeth.  Thomas Crofton Croker was the only son of Thomas Croker, who,
+after twenty-five years of arduous and faithful military service in North
+America, Holland, and Ireland, and after having purchased every step in
+the army, was gazetted brevet-major on the 11th May, 1802, in the same
+regiment which he had at first joined (the 38th, or 1st Staffordshire
+Foot), and in which he had uninterruptedly served.  Indeed, he was so
+much attached to his regiment, that, in his case at least, the
+Staffordshire knot became perfectly symbolic.  The closer the knot was
+drawn the firmer the tie became.  He commenced, continued, and ended an
+honourable life of activity in the service of his country from mere
+boyhood, until ill-health and a broken constitution forced him to sell
+his commission.  Thomas Croker was the eldest son of Richard Croker, of
+Mount Long in the county of Tipperary, who died on the 1st January, 1771;
+and his mother was Anne, the daughter of James Long of Dublin, by the
+Honourable Mary Butler, daughter of Theobald the seventh Earl of Cahir.
+Thomas Croker was born on the 29th March, 1761.  In 1796 he married
+Maria, eldest daughter and co-heir of Croker Dillon of Baltidaniel in the
+county of Cork, and on the 15th January, 1798, Thomas Crofton Croker was
+born at the house of his maternal grandmother in Buckingham Square, Cork,
+receiving his first Christian name after his father, and his second after
+his godfather, the Honourable Sir E. Crofton, Bart.
+
+While very young, during the years 1812 and 1815, Crofton Croker made
+several excursions in the south of Ireland, studying the character and
+traditions of the country, on which occasions he was frequently
+accompanied by Mr. Joseph Humphreys, a Quaker, afterwards master of the
+Deaf and Dumb Institution at Claremont near Dublin.  In 1813 he was
+placed with the mercantile firm of Messrs. Lecky and Mark, and in 1817 he
+appeared as an exhibitor in the second exhibition of the Cork Society,
+for he had already displayed considerable talent as an artist.  In 1818
+he contributed to an ephemeral production called ‘The Literary and
+Political Examiner:’ on the 22nd March of that year his father died, and
+he left Ireland, not to revisit it until he made a short excursion there
+in 1821 with Alfred Nicholson and Miss Nicholson (who afterwards became
+Mrs. Croker), children of the late Mr. Francis Nicholson, one of the
+founders of the English water-colour school, and who died in 1844 at the
+patriarchal age of ninety-one years.
+
+Crofton Croker’s first visit to England was paid to Thomas Moore in
+Wiltshire; and soon after his establishing in London he received from the
+late Right Hon. John Wilson Croker an appointment at the Admiralty, of
+which office his namesake (but no relation) was secretary, and from which
+he (Crofton) retired in 1850 as senior clerk of the first class, having
+served upwards of thirty years, thirteen of which were passed in the
+highest class.  This retirement, although he stood first for promotion to
+the office of chief clerk, was compulsory upon a reduction of office, and
+was not a matter of private convenience.  In 1830 Crofton Croker married
+Miss Marianne Nicholson, and the result of their union was an only child,
+Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, born 26th August, 1831, the writer of the
+present memoir.
+
+The literary labours of Crofton Croker were attended with more gratifying
+results than his long and unwearied official services.  The ‘Researches
+in the South of Ireland’ (1824), an arrangement of notes made during
+several excursions between the years 1812 and 1822, was his first
+important work.  It was published by John Murray, the father of the
+present publisher of the ‘Quarterly Review,’ and contained illustrations
+by Mr. Alfred and Miss Nicholson: with the ‘Fairy Legends,’ however, the
+name of Crofton Croker became more especially associated, the first
+edition of which appeared anonymously in 1825, and produced a
+complimentary letter from Sir Walter Scott, which has been published in
+all subsequent editions.  The success of the first edition of the legends
+was such as immediately to justify a second, which appeared the next
+year, illustrated with etchings after sketches by Maclise, and which was
+followed by a second series (Parts 2 and 3) in 1827.  The third part,
+although it appeared under the same title, namely ‘Fairy Legends and
+Traditions of the South of Ireland,’ may be considered as forming almost
+a separate work, inasmuch as it comprised the fairy superstitions of
+Wales and other countries, in addition to those current in Ireland.  A
+translation of the legends by the Brothers Grimm appeared in Germany in
+1825, and another in Paris in 1828 (‘Les Contes Irlandais, précédés d’une
+introduction par M. P. A. Dufau’), but it was not until 1834 that Murray
+published them in a condensed form in his ‘Family Library,’ the copyright
+of which edition, as revised by the author, was purchased of Murray by
+the late Mr. Tegg, and is now published by his son.  In October, 1826,
+Croker was introduced to Sir Walter Scott at Lockhart’s in Pall Mall.
+Sir Walter recorded the interview thus:—“At breakfast Crofton Croker,
+author of the Irish fairy tales—little as a dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk,
+and of easy, prepossessing manners, something like Tom Moore.  Here were
+also Terry, Allan Cunningham, Newton, and others.”  At this meeting, Sir
+Walter Scott suggested the adventures of Daniel O’Rourke as the subject
+for the Adelphi pantomime, and, at the request of Messrs. Terry and
+Yates, Croker wrote a pantomime founded upon the legend, which was
+produced at the Adelphi the same year.  It succeeded, and underwent two
+editions: the second was published in 1828, uniform with the legends, and
+entitled ‘Daniel O’Rourke; or, Rhymes of a Pantomime, founded on that
+Story.’  Croker wrote to his sister (Mrs. Eyre Coote, alive at the
+present time) the following account of the breakfast party at Lockhart’s,
+which, though already published in ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’ (November,
+1854), is sufficiently interesting to be repeated.  He first mentions
+“the writing and preparing for the Adelphi Theatre a Christmas pantomime
+from the renowned adventures of Daniel O’Rourke, two or three meetings
+with Sir Walter Scott, some anxious experiments in lithography under the
+directions of Mr. Coindet, one of the partners of Englemann’s house of
+Paris, who has lately opened an establishment here, which will be of the
+utmost importance to the advancement of the art in this country, and of
+which I hope soon to send you specimens.”  Then he adds: “To tell half
+the kindness and attention which I received from Sir Walter Scott would
+be impossible.  The breakfast party at Lockhart’s consisted of Allan
+Cunningham, Terry (the actor), Newton (the artist), a Dr. Yates of
+Brighton, Captain, Mr., and Mrs. Lockhart, Miss Scott, Mr. Hogg, and your
+humble servant.  We had all assembled when Sir Walter entered the room.
+Maclise’s sketch does not give his expression, although there is
+certainly a strong likeness—a likeness in it which cannot be mistaken;
+but I have a very rough profile sketch in pen and ink by Newton, which is
+admirable, and which some time or other I will copy and send you.  When I
+was introduced to the ‘Great Unknown’ I really had not the power of
+speaking; it was a strange feeling of embarrassment, which I do not
+remember having felt before in so strong a manner; and of course to his
+‘I am glad to see you, Mr. Croker, you and I are not unknown to each
+other,’ I could say nothing.  He contrived to say something neat to every
+one in the kindest manner—a well-turned compliment, without, however, the
+slightest appearance of flattery—something at which every one felt
+gratified.  After speaking for a few moments to Mr. Terry and Allan
+Cunningham, he returned to where I stood fixed and ‘mute as the monument
+on Fish Street Hill;’ but I soon recovered the use of my tongue from the
+easy manner in which he addressed me, and no longer seemed to feel myself
+in the presence of some mighty and mysterious personage.  He spoke
+slowly, with a Scotch accent, and in rather a low tone of voice, so much
+so, indeed, that I found it difficult to catch every word.  He mentioned
+my ‘Fairy Legends,’ and hoped he should soon have the very great
+enjoyment of reading the second volume.  ‘You are our—I speak of the
+Celtic nations’ (said Sir Walter)—‘great authority now on fairy
+superstition, and have made Fairy Land your kingdom; most sincerely do I
+hope it may prove a golden inheritance to you.  To me,’ (continued Sir
+Walter) ‘it is the land of promise of much future entertainment.  I have
+been reading the German translation of your tales and the Grimms’ very
+elaborate introduction.’  Mr. Terry mentioned having received from me
+Daniel O’Rourke in the shape of a Christmas pantomime.  ‘It is an
+admirable subject,’ said Sir Walter, ‘and if Mr. Croker has only
+dramatized it with half the skill of tricking up old wives’ tales which
+he has shown himself to possess, it must be, and I prophesy, although I
+have not seen it, it will be as great a golden egg in your nest, Terry,
+as Mother Goose was to one of the greater theatres some years ago.’  He
+then repeated by heart part of the conversation between Dan and the
+Eagle, with great zest.  I must confess it was most sweet from such a
+man.  But really I blush, or ought to blush, at writing all this
+flattery.”  Here the origin of Maclise’s illustrations to the legends is
+thus given by the editor of the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine.’  “The artist, who
+had not then quitted his native city of Cork, was a frequent visitor to
+Mr. Sainthill (the author of ‘Olla Podrida’), at the time that the first
+edition of the work appeared.  Mr. Sainthill read the tales aloud from
+time to time in the evening, and Maclise would frequently, on the next
+morning, produce a drawing of what he had heard.  These were not seen by
+Mr. Croker until his next visit to Cork: but when he did see them he was
+so much pleased with them that he prevailed upon Mr. Sainthill to allow
+them to be copied for his forthcoming edition: and this was done by
+Maclise, and the drawings were engraved by W. H. Brooke, and Maclise’s
+name was not attached to them, but merely mentioned by Mr. Croker in his
+preface.”
+
+Scott made favourable mention of the ‘Fairy Legends’ in the collected
+edition of the ‘Waverley Novels’ published in 1830.  In a note on Fairy
+Superstitions to Chapter XI. of ‘Rob Roy,’ speaking of the elfin
+traditions peculiar to the wild scenery where Avon Dhu or the River Forth
+has its birth, he observes: “The opinions entertained about these beings
+are much the same with those of the Irish, so exquisitely well narrated
+by Mr. Crofton Croker.”  Again, in his ‘Letters on Demonology and
+Witchcraft,’ Scott says: “We know from the lively and entertaining
+legends published by Mr. Crofton Croker, which, though in most cases,
+told with the wit of the editor and the humour of his country, contain
+points of curious antiquarian information” as to what the opinions of the
+Irish are.  And again, speaking of the Banshee: “The subject has been so
+lately and beautifully investigated and illustrated by Mr. Crofton Croker
+and others, that I may dispense with being very particular regarding it.”
+This was indeed gratifying from such an authority.  The late Thomas
+Haynes Bayley dedicated to Crofton Croker a volume entitled ‘Songs from
+Fairy Land.’
+
+Having dwelt at considerable length upon the legends, the required limits
+of this notice will not permit more than a reference to the literary
+works of Mr. Croker which succeeded them; and as there is but occasion
+for their enumeration, they shall be here given in the order of their
+appearance, merely premising that the tales of ‘Barney Mahoney’ and ‘My
+Village _versus_ Our Village,’ were not by Mr. Croker, although they bore
+his name: they were, in reality, written by Mrs. Croker.  The list stands
+thus:—
+
+1828–9.  ‘The Christmas-Box, an Annual Present for Children, a collection
+of Tales edited by Mr. Croker, and published by Harrison Ainsworth’ (Sir
+Walter Scott, Lockhart, Ainsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Miss Mitford were
+among the contributors).
+
+1829.  ‘Legends of the Lakes; or, Sayings and Doings at Killarney,
+collected chiefly from the Manuscripts of R. Adolphus Lynch, Esq., H. P.
+King’s German Legion, with illustrations by Maclise (Ebers).’  A second
+edition, compressed into one volume as a guide to the Lakes, appeared in
+1831.  (Fisher.)
+
+From this time Croker became contributor to the ‘Gentleman’s’ and
+‘Fraser’s’ Magazines.  In 1832 he was a steward at the famous literary
+dinner given to Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd.
+
+1835.  ‘Landscape Illustrations to Moore’s Irish Melodies, with Comments
+for the Curious.’  (Only one number appeared.)  (Power.)
+
+1837.  ‘A Memoir of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798.
+From Holt’s Autobiographical MS. in the possession of Sir W. Betham.’
+(Colburn.)
+
+‘The Journal of a Tour through Ireland in 1644, translated from the
+French of M. de la Boullaye le Gouz, assisted by J. Roche, Father Prout,
+and Thomas Wright.’  (Boone.)  Dedicated to the elder Disraeli, “in
+remembrance of much attention and kindness received from him many years
+ago;” which dedication was cordially responded to by that author.
+
+1839.  ‘The Popular Songs of Ireland.’  (Colburn.)
+
+1843.  A Description of Rosamond’s Bower, Fulham {18} (the residence of
+Mr. Croker for eight years), with an inventory of the pictures,
+furniture, curiosities, etc., etc.  (Privately printed.)
+
+It was here that Moore, Rogers, Maria Edgeworth, Lucy Aikin, “Father
+Prout” (Mahony), Barham (Ingoldsby), Sydney Smith, Jerdan, Theodore Hook,
+Lover, Planché, Lords Braybrooke, Strangford, and Northampton, Sir G.
+Back, John Barrow, Sir Emerson Tennent, Wyon, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, T.
+Wright, and many others were the guests of Mr. Croker.  One room in the
+house was fitted up as a Museum, where such visitors delighted to
+assemble.
+
+During subsequent years Mr. Croker produced several minor works on
+antiquarian and popular subjects, some of them printed for private
+circulation among his friends, and others as contributions to the
+different societies of which he was a member.  He died at his residence,
+3, Gloucester Road, Old Brompton, on the 8th of August, 1854, aged 57,
+and was buried in the private grave of his father-in-law, Mr. Francis
+Nicholson, in the Brompton Cemetery, a sketch of which, by Mr. Fairholt,
+appears in these pages.  It should not be forgotten that Mr. Crofton
+Croker was a contributor to the ‘Amulet,’ ‘Literary Souvenir,’ and
+‘Friendship’s Offering,’ as well as (more extensively) to the ‘Literary
+Gazette,’ when that journal possessed considerable influence under the
+editorship of W. Jerdan.  Mr. Croker also edited for the Camden and Percy
+Societies (in the formation of which he took an active part) many works
+of antiquarian interest.  He was connected, also, with the British
+Archæological Association as one of the secretaries (1844–9) under the
+presidency of Lord Albert Conyngham (the late Lord Londesborough).  That
+recently-deceased nobleman was one of Mr. Croker’s most attached friends,
+and opposite his Lordship’s pew in Grimston church, Yorkshire, a neat
+marble tablet was erected bearing the following inscription: “In memory
+of Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq., the amiable and accomplished author of
+the ‘Fairy Legends of Ireland,’ and other works, Literary and
+Antiquarian.  This tablet is erected by his friend Lord Londesborough,
+1855.”
+
+To enumerate all the societies and institutions of which Crofton Croker
+was a member, honorary or otherwise, would in these pages be superfluous;
+but one society shall be here especially mentioned as originating with
+Mr. Croker and a few members of the Society of Antiquaries.  In 1828 a
+club was established, composed of a select few F.S.A.’s, in consequence
+of an excursion during the summer to the site, which, in the time of the
+Romans, had been occupied by the city of Noviomagus.  In a field at
+Keston, near Bromley Common in Kent, Mr. Croker had learned that the
+remains of a Roman building were apparent above the grass, and it was to
+ascertain this fact that the excursion was undertaken.  An excavation was
+made, and a few fragments of Roman pottery and a stone coffin were
+discovered.  From this circumstance the club was called the Noviomagian
+Society.  Mr. Croker was elected its president, and although most of the
+original members had died off, he continued in that office until within a
+very few months of his death.  There are amongst them at the present time
+many highly-valued friends of their late president, who succeed in
+keeping up their meetings in the true Noviomagian spirit.  Long may they
+be spared to assemble together, occasionally introducing fresh life to
+the little society, that its pleasant gatherings may not be allowed to
+die out!  A portrait of Mr. Croker was painted a few years before his
+death by Mr. Stephen Pearce (the artist of the ‘Arctic Council’).  It is
+a characteristic and an admirable likeness.  The next best is that in
+Maclise’s well-known picture of ‘All Hallow Eve’ (exhibited in the Royal
+Academy in 1833), on which Lover, in describing the engraving, has
+remarked: “And who is that standing behind them?—he seems ‘far more
+genteel’ than the rest of the company.  Why, ’tis Crofton Croker, or, as
+he is familiarly called amongst his friends, ‘The honourable member for
+fairy-land.’  There you are, Crofty, my boy! with your note-book in your
+hand; and maybe you won’t pick up a trifle in such good company.”  It may
+be added, that Mr. Croker was for many years one of the registrars of the
+Royal Literary Fund.  And now, in drawing this slight sketch of Mr.
+Croker’s life to a close, the writer hopes that it may not be an
+uninteresting addition to the present volume.
+
+                                                               T. F. D. C.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+KNIGHTSBRIDGE TO THE BELL AND HORNS, BROMPTON.
+
+[Picture: Anyone] Obliged by circumstances to lead the life of a
+pendulum, vibrating between a certain spot distant four miles from
+London, and a certain spot just out of the smoke of the metropolis,—going
+into town daily in the morning and returning in the evening,—may be
+supposed, after the novelty has worn off, from the different ways by
+which he can shape his course, to find little interest in his monotonous
+movement.  Indeed, I have heard many who live a short distance from town
+complain of this swinging backwards and forwards, or, rather, going
+forwards and backwards over the same ground every day, as dull and
+wearisome; but I cannot sympathise with them.  On the contrary, I find
+that the more constantly any particular line of road is adhered to, the
+more intimate an acquaintance with it is formed, and the more interesting
+it becomes.
+
+In some measure, this may be accounted for by studious habits; a
+tolerable memory, apt to indulge in recollections of the past, and to
+cherish rather than despise, when not impertinent, local gossip, which
+re-peoples the district with its former inhabitants,—
+
+   “Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale
+   Oft up the tide of time I turn my sail,
+   To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours
+   Blest with far greener shades—far fresher flowers.”
+
+“We have all by heart,” observes the author of the _Curiosities of
+Literature_, “the true and delightful reflection of Johnson on local
+associations, where the scene we tread suggests to us the men or the
+deeds which have left their celebrity to the spot.  ‘We are in the
+presence of their fame, and feel its influence.’”  How often have I
+fancied, if the walls by which thousands now daily pass without a glance
+of recognition or regard, if those walls could speak, and name some of
+their former inmates, how great would be the regret of many at having
+overlooked houses which they would perhaps have made a pilgrimage of
+miles to behold, as associated with the memory of persons whose names
+history, literature, or art has embalmed for posterity, or as the scene
+of circumstances treasured up in recollection!
+
+If the feelings could be recalled, and faithfully recorded, which the
+dull brick walls that I cannot help regarding with interest must have
+witnessed, what a romantic chapter in the history of the human mind would
+be preserved for study and reflection!—
+
+   “Ay, beautiful the dreaming brought
+      By valleys and green fields;
+   But deeper feeling, higher thought,
+      Is what the City yields.”
+
+The difficulty, however, is incredible of procuring accurate information
+as to any thing which has not been chronicled at the moment.  None but
+those who have had occasion to search after a date, or examine into a
+particular fact, can properly estimate their value, or the many inquiries
+that have to be made to ascertain what at first view would appear to be
+without embarrassment,—so deceptive is the memory, and so easy a thing is
+it to forget, especially numbers and localities, the aspect and even
+names of which change with a wonderful degree of rapidity in the progress
+of London out of town.  Thus many places become daily more and more
+confused, and at last completely lose their identity, to the regret of
+the contemplative mind, which loves to associate objects with the
+recollection of those who “have left their celebrity to the spot.”
+
+These considerations have induced the writer to arrange his notes, and
+illustrate them by such sketches as will aid the recognition of the
+points mentioned, the appearance of which must be familiar to all who
+have journeyed between London and Fulham,—a district containing, beside
+the ancient village of that name, and remarkable as adjacent to the
+country seat of the Bishop of London, two smaller villages, called Walham
+Green and Parson’s Green.  The former of which stands on the main London
+road, the latter on the King’s Road,—which roads form nearly parallel
+lines between Fulham and the metropolis.  For all information respecting
+the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge the reader may be referred to a
+recently published work “The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge,
+with notices of its immediate neighbourhood,” by the late Henry George
+Davis, edited by Charles Davis (Russell Smith).
+
+From Knightsbridge, formerly a suburb, and now part of London, the main
+roads to Fulham and Hammersmith branch off at the north end of Sloane
+Street (about a quarter of a mile west of Hyde Park Corner), thus:—
+
+                              [Picture: Map]
+
+And at the south termination of Sloane Street, which is 3,299 feet in
+length, the King’s Road commences from Sloane Square.
+
+THE MAIN FULHAM ROAD passes for about a mile through a district called by
+the general name of Brompton, which is a hamlet in the parish of
+Kensington.  The house, No. 14 Queen’s Buildings, Knightsbridge, on the
+left-hand or south side of the road, [Picture: Hooper’s Court] at the
+corner of Hooper’s Court, occupied, when sketched in 1844, as two shops,
+by John Hutchins, dyer, and Moses Bayliss, tailor, and now (1860) by
+Hutchins alone, was, from 1792 to 1797 inclusive, the residence of Mr. J.
+C. Nattes, an artist, who deserves notice as one of the sixteen by whose
+association, in 1805, the first exhibition of water-colour paintings was
+formed.
+
+From 1792 to 1797 this house was described as No. 14 Queen’s Buildings,
+Knightsbridge; but in the latter year the address was changed to No. 14
+Knightsbridge Green. {25a}  In 1800 it was known as No. 14 Knightsbridge,
+and in 1803 as No. 14 Queen’s Row, Knightsbridge. {25b}  In 1810 as
+Gloucester Buildings, Brompton. {25c}  In 1811 as Queen’s Buildings.
+{25d}  In 1828 as Gloucester Row. {25e}  In 1831 as Gloucester Buildings;
+{25f} and it has now reverted to its original name of Queen’s Buildings,
+_Knightsbridge_, in opposition to Queen’s Buildings, _Brompton_, the
+division being Hooper’s Court, if, indeed, the original name was not
+Queen’s _Row_, Knightsbridge, as this in 1772 was the address of William
+Wynne Ryland (the engraver who was hanged for forgery in 1783).  When
+houses began to be built on the same side of the way, beyond Queen’s
+_Row_, the term “_Buildings_” appears to have been assumed as a
+distinction from the row west of Hooper’s Court; which row would
+naturally have been considered as a continuation, although, in 1786, the
+Royal Academy Catalogue records Mr. J. G. Huck, an exhibitor, as residing
+at No. 11 Gloster Row, Knightsbridge.
+
+These six alterations of name within half a century, to say nothing of
+the previous changes, illustrate the extreme difficulty which attends
+precise local identification in London, and are merely offered at the
+very starting point as evidence at least of the desire to be accurate.
+
+About the year 1800, the late residence of Mr. Nattes became the lodgings
+of Arthur Murphy, too well known as a literary character of the last
+century to require here more than the mere mention of his name, even to
+those who are accustomed to associate every thing with its pecuniary
+value; as Murphy’s portrait, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds for Mr.
+Thrale, sold at Christie’s in the sale of Mr. Watson Taylor’s pictures
+(June, 1823), for £94 10s.  Murphy had prepared his translation of
+Tacitus {26} for the press, at his house on Hammersmith Terrace (the last
+at the west end); but declining health and circumstances induced his
+removal into lodgings near London, at “14 Knightsbridge.”  From these
+apartments “he soon removed to others in Brompton Row, where he did not
+remain long, not liking the mistress of the house, but returned to his
+former residence (No. 14), where he resided till the time of his death.”
+In 1803, the late Lord Sidmouth (then Mr. Addington), conferred a pension
+of £200 a-year on Murphy, “to mark the sense” his majesty entertained “of
+literary merit, particularly when accompanied with sound principles and
+unquestionable character;” which gracious mark of royal favour Murphy
+acknowledged on the 2nd of March, from “14 Queen’s Row, Knightsbridge.”
+Here he wrote his life of Garrick, {27a} a work which, notwithstanding
+Mr. Foot’s ingenious defence of it, shews that Garrick’s life remains to
+be written, and that Murphy’s intellectual powers were, at the time when
+he composed it, in a state of decay.
+
+Murphy, according to his biographer, “possessed the first and second
+floors of a very pleasant, neat house, where there was a long gravel walk
+in the garden; {27b} and though his library had been much diminished,
+yet, in the remaining part, he took care to reserve the Elzevir editions
+of the classics.  Mrs. Mangeon (the mistress of the house) was a neat and
+intelligent woman, and Mr. Murphy secured her friendship by giving her
+son a presentation to Christ’s Hospital.  Anne Dunn, his own
+servant-maid, was an excellent servant, honest, faithful, and attentive;
+so that, what with the services he had rendered to the mistress of the
+house, and what with the intrinsic fidelity of his female domestic, he
+could put the whole family into a state of requisition, and command an
+elegant table, as well as ready attention, upon any particular occasion.
+Such was the situation of a man of genius, and an author, in the decline
+of a long life, and in a country at the highest pitch of grandeur and
+wealth.  But it must be remembered, that the comforts he possessed were
+not derived from the profits of literature.”
+
+During the last year of Arthur Murphy’s life he possessed a certain
+income of £500, and added to this was £150 for the copyright of his
+Tacitus, which, however, was less than half the sum he had been
+frequently offered for it.  The translation of Sallust, which Murphy left
+unfinished, was completed by Thomas Moore, and published in 1807.
+
+Murphy appears to have perfectly reconciled his mind to the stroke of
+death.  He made his will thirteen days previous to it, and dictated and
+signed plain and accurate orders respecting his funeral.  He directed his
+library of books and all his pictures to be sold by auction, and the
+money arising therefrom, together with what money he might have at his
+bankers or in his strong box, he bequeathed to his executor, Mr. Jesse
+Foot, of Dean Street, Soho.  To Mrs. Mangeon (his landlady) he gave “all
+his prints in the room one pair of stairs and whatever articles of
+furniture” he had in her house, “the bookcase excepted.”  And to his
+servant, Anne Dunn, “twenty guineas, with all his linen and wearing
+apparel.”  After the completion of this will, Murphy observed, “I have
+been preparing for my journey to another region, and now do not care how
+soon I take my departure.”  And on the day of his death (18th June, 1805)
+he frequently repeated the lines of Pope:—
+
+   “Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay,
+   To welcome death and calmly pass away.”
+
+All that we can further glean respecting the interior of Murphy’s
+apartment is, that in it “there was a portrait of Dunning (Lord
+Ashburton), a very striking likeness, painted in crayons by Ozias
+Humphrey.”
+
+Humphrey, who was portrait-painter in crayons to George III., and in 1790
+was elected member of the Royal Academy, resided, in 1792 and 1793, at
+No. 19 Queen’s Buildings, _Knightsbridge_; but whether this was the fifth
+house beyond Nattes’, or the No. 19 Queen’s Buildings, now called
+_Brompton Road_ (Mitchell’s, a linen-draper’s shop), I am unable, after
+many inquiries, to determine.  It will be remembered that Dr. Walcott
+(Peter Pindar) introduced Opie to the patronage of Humphrey, and there
+are many allusions to “honest Ozias,” as he was called in the
+contemporary literature.
+
+   “But Humphrey, by whom shall your labours be told,
+   How your colours enliven the young and the old?”
+
+is the comment of Owen Cambridge; and Hayley says,
+
+   “Thy graces, Humphrey, and thy colours clear,
+   From miniatures’ small circle disappear;
+   May their distinguished merit still prevail,
+   And shine with lustre on the larger scale.”
+
+A portrait of Ozias Humphrey, painted by Romney in 1772, is preserved at
+Knowle, a memorial of the visit of those artists to the Duke of Dorset.
+It has been twice engraved, and the private plate from it, executed by
+Caroline Watson in 1784, is a work of very high merit.  In 1799 Humphrey
+resided at No. 13 High Row, Knightsbridge, nearly opposite to the house
+in which Murphy lodged, and there, with the exception of the last few
+months, he passed the remainder of his life.
+
+At No. 21 Queen’s Buildings (the second house beyond that occupied by
+Ozias Humphrey), Mr. Thomas Trotter, an ingenious engraver and
+draughtsman, resided in 1801.  He engraved several portraits, of which
+the most esteemed are a head of the Rev. Stephen Whiston and a head of
+Lord Morpeth.  Nearly the last work of his burin was a portrait of
+Shakspeare, patronized by George Steevens.  Trotter died on the 14th
+February, 1803, having been prevented from following his profession in
+consequence of a blow on one of his eyes, accidentally received by the
+fall of a flower-pot from a window.  He, however, obtained employment in
+making drawings of churches and monuments for the late Sir Richard Hoare,
+and other gentlemen interested in topographical illustration.
+
+Queen’s Buildings, Brompton, are divided, rather than terminated, at No.
+28 (Green’s, an earthenware-shop) by New Street, leading into Hans
+Place—“snug Hans Place,” which possesses one house, at least, that all
+literary pilgrims would desire to turn out of their direct road to visit.
+Miss Landon, alluding to “the fascinations of Hans Place,” playfully
+observes, “vivid must be the imagination that could discover them—
+
+   ‘Never hermit in his cell,
+   Where repose and silence dwell,
+   Human shape and human word
+   Never seen and never heard,’
+
+had a life of duller calm than the indwellers of our square.”  Hans Place
+may also be approached from Sloane Street, and No. 22 Hans Place, is the
+south-east corner.  [Picture: No. 22 Hans Place] Among its inmates have
+been Lady Caroline Lamb, {31} Miss Mitford, Lady Bulwer, Miss Landon,
+Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Miss Roberts.  How much of the “romance and reality”
+of life is in a moment conjured up in the mind by the mention of the
+names here grouped in local association!
+
+The editor of the memoirs of L. E. L. records two or three circumstances
+which give a general interest to Hans Place.  Here it was that Miss
+Landon was born on the 14th August, 1802, in the house now No. 25; and
+“it is remarkable that the greater portion of L. E. L.’s existence was
+passed on the spot where she was born.  From Hans Place and its
+neighbourhood she was seldom absent, and then not for any great length of
+time; until within a year or two of her death, she had there found her
+home, not indeed in the house of her birth, but close by.  Taken
+occasionally during the earlier years of childhood into the country, it
+was to Hans Place she returned.  Here some of her school time was passed.
+When her parents removed she yet clung to the old spot, and, as her own
+mistress, chose the same scene for her residence.  When one series of
+inmates quitted it, she still resided there with their successors,
+returning continually after every wandering, ‘like a blackbird to his
+nest.’”
+
+The partiality of Miss Landon for London was extraordinary.  In a letter,
+written in 1834, and addressed to a reverend gentleman, she ominously
+says, “When I have the good luck or ill luck (I rather lean to the latter
+opinion) of being married, I shall certainly insist on the wedding
+excursion not extending much beyond Hyde Park Corner.”
+
+When in her sixth year (1808), Miss Landon was sent to school at No. 22
+Hans Place.  This school was then kept by Miss Bowden, who in 1801 had
+published ‘A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany,’ {32a} and in
+1810 a poem entitled ‘The Pleasures of Friendship.’ {32b}  Miss Bowden
+became the Countess St. Quentin, and died some years ago in the
+neighbourhood of Paris.  In this house, where she had been educated, Miss
+Landon afterwards resided for many years as a boarder with the Misses
+Lance, who conducted a ladies’ school.  “It seems,” observes the
+biographer of L. E. L., “to have been appropriated to such purposes from
+the time it was built, nor was L. E. L. the first who drank at the ‘well
+of English’ within its walls.  Miss Mitford, we believe, was educated
+there, and Lady Caroline Lamb was an inmate for a time.”
+
+It is the remark of Miss Landon herself, that “a history of the how and
+where works of imagination have been produced would often be more
+extraordinary than the works themselves.”  “Her own case,” observes a
+female friend, “is, in some degree, an illustration of perfect
+independence of mind over all external circumstances.  Perhaps to the L.
+E. L., of whom so many nonsensical things have been said, as that she
+should write with a crystal pen, dipped in dew, upon silver paper, and
+use for pounce the dust of a butterfly’s wing, a dilettante of literature
+would assign for the scene of her authorship a fairy-like boudoir, with
+rose-coloured and silver hangings, fitted with all the luxuries of a
+fastidious taste.  How did the reality agree with this fancy sketch?
+[Picture: Attic, No. 22 Hans Place] Miss Landon’s drawing-room, {33}
+indeed, was prettily furnished, but it was her invariable habit to write
+in her bed-room.  I see it now, that homely-looking, almost uncomfortable
+room, fronting the street, and barely furnished with a simple white bed,
+at the foot of which was a small, old, oblong-shaped, sort of
+dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped
+with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for
+aught besides the desk; a little high-backed cane chair, which gave you
+any idea rather than that of comfort.  A few books scattered about
+completed the author’s paraphernalia.”
+
+In this attic did the muse of L. E. L. dream of and describe music,
+moonlight, and roses, and “apostrophise loves, memories, hopes, and
+fears,” with how much ultimate appetite for invention or sympathy may be
+judged from her declaration that, “there is one conclusion at which I
+have arrived, that a horse in a mill has an easier life than an author.
+I am fairly fagged out of my life.”
+
+Miss Roberts, who had resided in the same house with Miss Landon,
+prefixed a brief memoir to a collection of poems by that lamented lady,
+which appeared shortly after her death, her own mournful lines—
+
+   “_Alas_! _hope is not prophecy_—_we dream_,
+   _But rarely does the glad fulfilment come_;
+   _We leave our land_, _and we return no more_.”
+
+And within less than twenty months from the selection of these lines they
+became applicable to her who had quoted them.
+
+Emma Roberts accompanied her sister, Mrs. M’Naughten, to India, where she
+resided for some time.  On her sister’s death Miss Roberts returned to
+England, and employed her pen assiduously and advantageously in
+illustrating the condition of our eastern dominions.  She returned to
+India, and died at Poonah, on the 17th September, 1840.  Though
+considerably the elder, she was one of the early friends of Miss Landon,
+having for several years previous to her first visit to India boarded
+with the Misses Lance in Hans Place.
+
+    “These were happy days, and little boded the premature and melancholy
+    fate which awaited them in foreign climes.  We believe,” says the
+    editor of the ‘Literary Gazette,’ “that it was the example of the
+    literary pursuits of Miss Landon which stimulated Miss Roberts to try
+    her powers as an author, and we remember having the gratification to
+    assist her in launching her first essay—an historical production,
+    {35} which reflected high credit on her talents, and at once
+    established her in a fair position in the ranks of literature.  Since
+    then she has been one of the most prolific of our female writers, and
+    given to the public a number of works of interest and value.  The
+    expedition to India, on which she unfortunately perished, was
+    undertaken with comprehensive views towards the further illustration
+    of the East, and portions of her descriptions have appeared as she
+    journeyed to her destination in periodicals devoted to Asiatic
+    pursuits.”
+
+The influence of Miss Landon’s literary popularity upon the mind of Miss
+Roberts very probably caused that lady to desire similar celebrity.
+Indeed, so imitative are the impulses of the human mind, that it may
+fairly be questioned if Miss Landon would ever have attuned her lyre had
+she mot been in the presence of Miss Mitford’s and Miss Rowden’s “fame,
+and felt its influence.”  Miss Mitford has chronicled so minutely all the
+sayings and doings of her school-days in Hans Place (H. P., as she
+mysteriously writes it), that she admits us at once behind the scenes.
+She describes herself as sent there (we will not supply the date, but
+presume it to be somewhere about 1800) “a petted child of ten years old,
+born and bred in the country, and as shy as a hare.”  The schoolmistress,
+a Mrs. S---, “seldom came near us.  Her post was to sit all day, nicely
+dressed, in a nicely-furnished drawing-room, busy with some piece of
+delicate needlework, receiving mammas, aunts, and godmammas, answering
+questions, and administering as much praise as she conscientiously
+could—perhaps a little more.  In the school-room she ruled, like other
+rulers, by ministers and delegates, of whom the French teacher was the
+principal.”  This French teacher, the daughter of an _émigré_ of
+distinction, left, upon the short peace of Amiens, to join her parents in
+an attempt to recover their property, in which they succeeded.  Her
+successor is admirably sketched by Miss Mitford; and the mutual antipathy
+which existed between the French and English teacher, in whom we at once
+recognise Miss Rowden:—
+
+    “Never were two better haters.  Their relative situations had
+    probably something to do with it, and yet it was wonderful that two
+    such excellent persons should so thoroughly detest each other.  Miss
+    R.’s aversion was of the cold, phlegmatic, contemptuous, provoking
+    sort; she kept aloof, and said nothing.  Madame’s was acute, fiery,
+    and loquacious; she not only hated Miss R., but hated for her sake
+    knowledge, and literature, and wit, and, above all, poetry, which she
+    denounced as _something fatal and contagious_, _like the plague_.”
+
+Miss Mitford’s literary and dramatic tastes seem to have been acquired
+from Miss Rowden, whom she describes as “one of the most charming women
+that she had ever known:”—
+
+    “The pretty word _graziosa_, by which Napoleon loved to describe
+    Josephine, seemed made for her.  She was full of a delicate grace of
+    mind and person.  Her little elegant figure and her fair mild face,
+    lighted up so brilliantly by her large hazel eyes, corresponded
+    exactly with the soft, gentle manners which were so often awakened
+    into a delightful playfulness, or an enthusiasm more charming still,
+    by the impulse of her quick and ardent spirit.  To be sure she had a
+    slight touch of distraction about her (distraction French, not
+    distraction English), an interesting absence of mind.  She united in
+    her own person all the sins of forgetfulness of all the young ladies;
+    mislaid her handkerchief, her shawl, her gloves, her work, her music,
+    her drawing, her scissors, her keys; would ask for a book when she
+    held it in her hand, and set a whole class hunting for her thimble,
+    whilst the said thimble was quietly perched upon her finger.  Oh!
+    with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used
+    to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain!  But she was a
+    poetess, as Madame said, and what could you expect better!”
+
+Such was Miss Landon’s schoolmistress; and under this lady’s especial
+instruction did Miss Mitford pass the years 1802, 3, and 4; together they
+read “chiefly poetry;” and “besides the readings,” says Miss Mitford,
+“Miss R. compensated in another way for my unwilling application.  She
+took me often to the theatre; whether as an extra branch of education, or
+because she was herself in the height of a dramatic fever, it would be
+invidious to inquire.  The effect may be easily foreseen; my enthusiasm
+soon equalled her own; we began to read Shakspeare, and read nothing
+else.”
+
+In 1810 Miss Mitford first appeared as an authoress, by publishing a
+volume of poems, which, in the course of the following year, passed into
+a second edition.
+
+At No. 21 Hans Place, the talented artistes, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan,
+resided some time.
+
+Returning from Hans Place to the Fulham Road through NEW STREET, No. 7
+may he pointed out as the house formerly occupied by Chalon, “animal
+painter to the royal family;” and No. 6 as the residence of the Right
+Hon. David R. Pigot, the late Solicitor-General for Ireland, while (in
+1824–25) studying in the chambers of the late Lord Chief-Justice Tindal,
+for the profession of which his pupil rapidly became an eminent member.
+
+BROMPTON was formerly an airy outlet to which the citizen, with his
+spouse, were wont to resort for an afternoon of rustic enjoyment.  It had
+also the reputation of being a locality favourable to intrigue.  Steele,
+shrewdly writing on the 27th July, 1713, says:—
+
+    “Dear Wife,—If you please to call at Button’s, we will go together to
+    Brompton.
+
+                                                              “Yours ever,
+                                                   “RICHARD STEELE.” {38a}
+
+Now is Brompton all built or being built over, which makes the precise
+locality of crescents and rows puzzling to old gentlemen.  Its heath is
+gone, and its grove represented by a few dead trunks and some
+unhealthy-looking trees which stand by the road-side, their branches
+lopped and their growth restrained by order of the district surveyor; and
+Brompton National School, nearly opposite to New Street, a building in
+the Tudor style, was, in 1841, wedged in there “for the education of 400
+children, after the design of Mr. George Godwin, jun.;” so at least the
+newspapers of the day informed the public.
+
+BROMPTON ROW on the north, or right-hand side of the main Fulham Road,
+now consists of fifty-five respectable-looking houses, uniform, or nearly
+so, in appearance; and, according to the statements in the ‘Gentleman’s
+Magazine’ {38b} and Mr. Faulkner’s ‘History of Kensington’ {38c} here
+died Arthur Murphy.  But although this was not the case, in Brompton Row
+have lived and died authors, and actors, and artists, whose performances
+deserve full as much consideration from posterity.
+
+No. 14 BROMPTON ROW was the abode for more than ten years (1820 to 1831)
+of John Vendramini, a distinguished engraver.  [Picture: No. 14 Brompton
+Row] He was born at Roncade, near Bassano, in Italy, and died 8th
+February, 1839, aged seventy.  Vendramini was a pupil of Bartolozzi,
+under whom he worked for many years, and of the effect he produced upon
+British art much remains to be said.  In 1805 Vendramini visited Russia,
+and on his return to England engraved ‘The Vision of St. Catherine,’
+after Paul Veronese; the ‘St. Sebastian,’ after Spagnoletti; ‘Leda,’
+after Leonardo da Vinci; and the ‘Raising of Lazarus,’ from the Sebastian
+del Piombo in the National Gallery.
+
+No. 14 Brompton Row, in 1842, was the residence of the late Mr. George
+Herbert Rodwell, a favourite musical and dramatic composer, who died
+January 22nd, 1852.
+
+At No. 23 Brompton Row resided Mr. Walter Hamilton, who, in 1819,
+published, in two volumes 4to, ‘A Geographical, Statistical, and
+Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Country;’ according
+to Lowndes’ ‘Bibliographer’s Manual,’ “an inestimable compilation,
+containing a more full, detailed, and faithful picture of the whole of
+India than any former work on the subject.”  [Picture: Embellishment] Mr.
+Hamilton subsequently lived for a short period at No. 8 Rawstorne Street,
+which street divides No. 27 (a confectioner’s shop), and No. 28 (the
+Crown and Sceptre) Brompton Row, opposite to the Red Lion (a public-house
+of which the peculiar and characteristic style of embellishment could
+scarcely have escaped notice at the time when the annexed sketch was
+made, 1844, but which decoration was removed in 1849.)  Soon after his
+return to his house in Brompton Row, Mr. Hamilton died there in July or
+August, 1828.
+
+Rawstorne Street leads to Montpellier Square (built about 1837).  In this
+square, No. 11, resides Mr. F. W. Fairholt, the distinguished artist and
+antiquary, to whose pencil and for much valuable information the editor
+of these pages is greatly indebted; and No. 38 may be mentioned as the
+residence of Mr. Walter Lacy the favourite actor.
+
+Mrs. Liston, the widow of the comedian, resided at No. 35 Brompton Row,
+and No. 45 was the residence of the ingenious Count Rumford, the early
+patron of Sir Humphry Davy.  The Count occupied it between the years 1799
+and 1802, when he finally left England for France, where he married the
+widow of the famous chemist, Lavoisier, and died in 1814.  Count
+Rumford’s name was Benjamin Thompson, or Thomson.  He was a native of the
+small town of Rumford (now Concord, in New England), and obtained the
+rank of major in the Local Militia.  In the war with America he rendered
+important services to the officers commanding the British army, and
+coming to England was employed by Lord George Germaine, and rewarded with
+the rank of a provincial lieutenant-colonel, which entitled him to
+half-pay.  [Picture: No. 45 Brompton Row] In 1784 he was knighted, and
+officiated for a short time as one of the under-secretaries of state.  He
+afterwards entered the service of the King of Bavaria, in which he
+introduced various useful reforms in the civil and military departments,
+and for which he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and
+created a count.  At Munich, Count Rumford began those experiments for
+the improvements of fire-places and the plans for the better feeding and
+regulation of the poor, which have rendered his name familiar to every
+one,
+
+    “As his own household hearth.”
+
+No. 45 was distinguished some years ago by peculiar projecting windows,
+now removed, outside of the ordinary windows—an experimental contrivance
+by Count Rumford, it is said, for raising the temperature of his rooms.
+
+The same house, in 1810, was inhabited by the Rev. William Beloe, the
+translator of Herodotus, and the author of various works between the
+years 1783 and 1812.  In his last publication, ‘The Anecdotes of
+Literature,’ Mr. Beloe says, “He who has written and published not less
+than forty volumes, which is my case, may well congratulate himself,
+first, that Providence has graciously spared him for so long a period;
+secondly, that sufficient health and opportunity have been afforded; and,
+lastly, that he has passed through a career so extended and so perilous
+without being seriously implicated in personal or literary hostilities.”
+It is strange that a man who could feel thus should immediately have
+entered upon the composition of a work which appeared as a posthumous
+publication in 1817, under the title of ‘The Sexagenarian; or, the
+Recollections of a Literary Life;’ and which contains the following
+note:—
+
+    “Dr. Parr branded Beloe as an ingrate and a slanderer.  He says, ‘The
+    worthy and enlightened Archdeacon Nares disdained to have any concern
+    in this infamous work.’  The Rev. Mr. Rennell, of Kensington, could
+    know but little of Beloe; but, having read his slanderous book, Mr.
+    R., who is a sound scholar, an orthodox clergyman, and a most
+    animated writer, would have done well not to have written a sort of
+    postscript.  From motives of regard and respect for Beloe’s amiable
+    widow, Dr. Parr abstained from refuting B.’s wicked falsehoods; but
+    Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury, repelled them very ably in the ‘Monthly
+    Review.’”
+
+At No. 46 Brompton Row, Mr. John Reeve, an exceedingly popular low
+comedian, died, on the 24th of January, 1838, at the early age of forty.
+Social habits led to habits of intemperance, and poor John was the
+_Bottle Imp_ of every theatre he ever played in.  “The last time I saw
+him,” says Mr. Bunn, in his ‘Journal of the Stage,’ “he was posting at a
+rapid rate to a city dinner, and, on his drawing up to chat, I said,
+‘Well, Reeve, how do you find yourself to-day?’ and he returned for
+answer, ‘The lord-mayor _finds_ me to-day!’”
+
+BROMPTON GROVE commences on the south, or left-hand side of the main
+Fulham Road, immediately beyond the Red Lion (before mentioned as
+opposite to 28 Brompton Row), and continues to the Bunch of Grapes
+public-house, which was pulled down in August, and rebuilt in September,
+1844, opposite to No. 54 Brompton Row, and in the wall of which
+public-house was placed a stone, with “YEOMAN’S ROW, 1767,” engraved upon
+it—the name of a street leading to the “Grange,” and, in 1794, the
+address of Michael Novosielski, the architect of the Italian Opera House.
+In that year he exhibited, in the Royal Academy, three architectural
+designs, viz:—
+
+“558.  Elevation of the Opera House, Haymarket;
+
+“661.  Section of the New Concert Room at the Haymarket; and
+
+“663.  Ceiling of the New Concert Room at the Opera House.”
+
+But of Novosielski and the Grange more hereafter.
+
+Brompton Grove now consists of two rows of houses, standing a little way
+back from the main road, between which rows there was a green space
+(1811), now occupied by shops, which range close to the footway, and have
+a street, called Grove Place, in the centre.
+
+_Upper Brompton Grove_, or that division of the Grove nearest London,
+consists of seven houses, of which No. 4 was the abode of Major Shadwell
+Clerke, who has reflected literary lustre upon the ‘United Service,’ by
+the able and judicious manner in which he conducted for so many years the
+periodical journal distinguished by that name.  Major Clerke died 19th
+April, 1849.
+
+_Lower Brompton Grove_ consisted of three houses only in 1844, numbered
+8, 9, and 10; the 11 of former days being of superior size, and once
+known as “Grove House.”  The 12, which stood a considerable way behind
+it, as the “Hermitage,” and the 13, as the “House next to the Bunch of
+Grapes,” all of which, except No. 8, claim a passing remark.
+
+In No. 9, where he had long resided, died, on the 12th of August, 1842,
+Mr. John Sidney Hawkins, at the age of eighty-five.  He was the eldest
+son of Sir John Hawkins, the well-known author of the ‘History of Music,’
+and one of the biographers of Dr. Johnson.  Mr. Hawkins was brother of
+Letitia Matilda Hawkins, the popular authoress, and a lady of whom the
+elder Disraeli once remarked, that she was “the redeeming genius of her
+family.”  Mr. Hawkins, however, was an antiquary of considerable
+learning, research, and industry; but his temper was sour and jealous,
+and, throughout his whole and long literary career, from 1782 to 1814, he
+appears to have been embroiled in trifling disputes and immaterial
+vindications of his father or himself.
+
+No. 10 Brompton Grove, now occupied by the “Sisters of Compassion,” was
+the residence of James Petit Andrews, Esq., younger brother of Sir Joseph
+Andrews, Bart., and one of the magistrates of Queen Square Police Office;
+a gentleman remarkable for his humane feelings as well as for his
+literary taste.  His exertions, following up those of Jonas Hanway, were
+the occasion of procuring an Act of Parliament in favour of chimney-sweep
+apprentices.  Mr. Andrews was the author of a volume of ancient and
+modern anecdotes in 1789, to which a supplemental volume appeared the
+following year.  He also published a ‘History of Great Britain, connected
+with the Chronology of Europe;’ {45a} and a continuation of Henry’s
+‘History of Great Britain:’ {45b} soon after the appearance of which he
+died, on the 6th of August, 1797.
+
+Grove House (called in 1809 and 1810, as already mentioned, No. 11
+Brompton Grove), was, for many years, the residence of Sir John
+Macpherson, Bart.; and here he died, at an advanced age, on the 12th of
+January, 1821.
+
+[Picture: Grove House]
+
+In 1781 he was appointed Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and
+when proceeding to the East Indies, in the ‘Valentine,’ Indiaman,
+distinguished himself in an action with the French fleet in Praya Bay.
+Sir John, who was a very large man, to encourage the sailors to stand to
+their guns, promised and paid them from his own pocket five guineas a
+man, which, coupled with his bravery during the action, so pleased the
+seamen, that one of them swore “his soul must be as big as his body,” and
+the jokes occasioned by this burst of feeling terminated only with Sir
+John Macpherson’s life.  “Fine soles!—soles, a match for Macpherson’s!”
+was a Brompton fishmonger’s greeting to Sir John, etc.  In the
+neighbourhood of Brompton he was known by the _sobriquet_ of “the Gentle
+Giant,” from his usually riding a very small pony, flourishing in the
+most determined manner a huge oak stick over the little animal’s head,
+but, of course, never touching it with his club.
+
+Upon the after-dinner conversation at Grove House of Mr. Hugh Boyd rests
+chiefly that gentleman’s claim to be considered as one of the many
+authors of ‘Junius.’  His host, having temporarily retired from table,
+Boyd’s words were, “that Sir John Macpherson little knew he was
+entertaining in his mansion a political writer, whose sentiments were
+once the occasion of a chivalrous appeal from Sir John to
+arms,”—immediately adding, “_I am the author of ‘Junius_.’”  The will of
+Sir John Macpherson is a remarkable document, and contains the following
+tribute to the character of George IV.:—
+
+    “I conclude this, my last will and testament, in expressing my early
+    and unalterable admiration of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
+    the truly glorious reigning prince of the British empire; and I
+    request my executors to wait upon his royal highness immediately
+    after my decease, and to state to him, as I do now, that I have
+    bequeathed to his royal highness my celebrated antique statue of
+    Minerva, which he often admired, with any one of my antique rings
+    that would please his royal highness.  I likewise request you to
+    assure his royal highness that I will leave him certain papers, which
+    prove to a demonstration that the glorious system which he has
+    realised for his country and the world, in his difficult reign of
+    eight years, was the early system of his heart and his ambition.”
+
+The large room on the east side of Grove House, shown in the annexed
+sketch, was used as the drawing-room, and measured thirty-two feet by
+eighteen.  It was built by Sir John Macpherson for the purpose of
+entertaining the Prince Regent.
+
+[Picture: Grove House from the East (1844)]
+
+Grove House was afterwards occupied by Mr. Wilberforce, who, in his diary
+of the 2nd of July, 1823, notes, “Took possession of our new house at
+Brompton.”
+
+Mr. Wilberforce remained there about a year, and his successor in the
+tenancy was Mr. Jerdan, the agreeable and well-known editor of the
+‘Literary Gazette’ (1817–50).  This house, pulled down in 1846, stood
+upon the ground which now forms the road entrance to Ovington Square.
+
+A narrow lane, which ran down by the west side of Grove House, led to the
+Hermitage, a retreat of the much admired Madame Catalani during her
+sojourn this country, and subsequently converted into an asylum for
+insane persons.  This building was pulled down in 1844, and Grove Place
+has been erected on its site.
+
+[Picture: The Hermitage (1844)]
+
+In the house (No. 13 Brompton Grove) which stood a little way back from
+the road, between Grove House and the Grapes public-house, and which was
+taken down in December, 1844, and in the previous June, when sketched,
+occupied by a stone-mason, Mr. Banim lodged from May, 1822, to October,
+1824.  [Picture: No. 13 Brompton Grove (1844)] While residing here, he
+was engaged in contributing to and editing a short-lived weekly paper,
+entitled the ‘Literary Register,’ the first number of which appeared on
+the 6th of July, 1822, and which publication terminated with the
+forty-fourth, on the 3rd of May, 1823, when Banim devoted his attention
+to preparing the ‘Tales of the O’Hara Family’ for the press.  It is a
+remarkable local coincidence, that Gerald Griffin, who
+
+    “To his own mind had lived a mystery,”
+
+the contemporary rival of Banim, as an Irish novelist and dramatist,
+should have immediately succeeded him in the tenancy of “13 Brompton
+Grove,” as this house was sometimes called.
+
+    “About this period (1825) he [Griffin] took quiet, retired lodgings,
+    at a house at Brompton, now a stonemason’s, close by Hermitage Lane,
+    which separated it from the then residence of the editor of the
+    ‘Literary Gazette,’ and a literary intercourse rather than a personal
+    intimacy, though of a most agreeable nature, grew up between them.”
+    {48}
+
+On the 10th of November, 1824, Griffin, writing to his brother, commences
+a letter full of literary gossip with,—
+
+    “Since my last I have visited Mr. J--- several times.  The last time,
+    he wished me to dine with him, which I happened not to be able to do;
+    and was very sorry for it, for his acquaintance is to me a matter of
+    great importance, not only from the engine he wields—and a formidable
+    one it is, being the most widely-circulated journal in Europe—but,
+    also, because he is acquainted with all the principal literary
+    characters of the day, and a very pleasant kind of man.”
+
+To the honest support of the ‘Literary Gazette’ at this critical period
+in Griffin’s life may be ascribed the struggle which he made for fame and
+fortune through the blind path of literary distinction.  He came a raw
+Irish lad to the metropolis, with indistinct visions of celebrity
+floating through his poetical mind; or, as he candidly confesses
+himself,—
+
+    “A young gentleman, totally unknown, even to a single family in
+    London, with a few pounds in one pocket and a brace of tragedies in
+    the other, supposing that the one will set him up before the others
+    are exhausted,” which, he admits, “is not a very novel, but a very
+    laughable, delusion.”
+
+Banim’s kindness—his sympathy, indeed, for Griffin, deserves notice.
+
+    “I cannot tell you here,” writes the latter, “the many, many
+    instances in which Banim has shown his friendship since I wrote last;
+    let it suffice to say, that he is the sincerest, heartiest, most
+    disinterested being that breathes.  His fireside is the only one
+    where I enjoy anything like social life or home.  I go out (to
+    Brompton Grove) occasionally in an evening, and talk or read for some
+    hours, or have a bed, and leave next day.”
+
+Again, in a letter dated 31st of March, 1824, Griffin says:—
+
+    “What would I have done if I had not found Banim?  I should have
+    instantly despaired on ****’s treatment of me.  I should never be
+    tired of talking about and thinking of Banim.  Mark me! he is a man,
+    the only one I have met since I left Ireland, almost.  We walked over
+    Hyde Park together on St. Patrick’s Day, and renewed our home
+    recollections by gathering shamrocks, and placing them in our hats,
+    even under the eye of John Bull.”
+
+MICHAEL’S PLACE, on the same side of the way with the Bunch of Grapes, is
+railed off from the main Fulham Road, although a public footpath admits
+the passenger as far as No. 14.  It consists of forty-four houses, and
+was a building speculation of Michael Novosielski, already mentioned,
+whose Christian name it retains, having been commenced by him in 1786.
+But the shells of his houses for many years remained unfinished, and in
+1811, the two last houses (Nos. 43 and 44) of Michael’s Place were not
+built.  Novosielski died at Ramsgate, in 1795; and his widow, for some
+years after his death, occupied No. 13.
+
+[Picture: No. 8 Michael’s Place] No. 8 Michael’s Place, to be recognized
+by its bay-windows, was, for several years, the residence of the Rev. Dr.
+Croly, now rector of St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, distinguished in the pulpit
+by his eloquence, admired as a writer in almost every walk of English
+literature, and respected and beloved by those who know him.  Croly’s
+fame must live and die with our language, which he has grasped with an
+unrivalled command.
+
+BROMPTON SQUARE is opposite to the commencement of Michael’s Place, to
+which it will be necessary to return, after a visit to the square.
+
+At No. 6 has lived Mr. John Baldwin Buckstone, the actor-author, or
+author-actor, so well known and esteemed by the public.  And at No. 14
+has resided Mr. Edward Fitzwilliam, the musical composer, who died on the
+19th of January, 1857, at the early age of 33.
+
+No. 21 was, between the years 1829 and 1833, the residence of
+Spagnoletti, the leader of the Opera band.  He was succeeded in the
+tenancy by Mrs. Chatterly, a lively and accomplished actress, who
+continued to occupy the same house after her marriage with Mr. Francis
+Place.
+
+[Picture: Nos. 22, 23, 24, Brompton Square] At No. 22 (which now belongs
+to the well-known and much respected actor Mr. James Vining, and is at
+present tenanted by Mr. Shirley Brooks) George Colman the younger died on
+the 26th of October, 1836, at the age of 74, having removed to this house
+from No. 5 Melina Place, Kent Road.  “He ceased to exist on the 17th of
+October, 1836,” says his medical attendant, in a letter published in the
+memoirs of the Colman family.  But this is an error, as on the 19th of
+October he appears to have written to Mr. Bunn.  The last earthly
+struggle of George Colman has been thus described:—
+
+    “It has never fallen to my lot to witness in the hour of death so
+    much serenity of mind, such perfect philosophy, or resignation more
+    complete.  Up to within an hour of his decease he was perfectly
+    sensible of his danger, and bore excruciating pain with the utmost
+    fortitude.
+
+    “At one period of his life a more popular man was not in existence,”
+    observes Mr. Bunn; “for the festive board of the prince or the peer
+    was incomplete without Mr. Colman.  He has left behind him a
+    perpetuity of fame in his dramatic works; and much is it to be
+    lamented that no chronicle has been preserved of his various and most
+    extraordinary _jeux-d’esprit_.  He has, moreover, left behind quite
+    enough of renown, could he lay claim to none other, to be found in
+    the following tribute from the pen of Lord Byron:—‘I have met George
+    Colman occasionally, and thought him extremely pleasant and
+    convivial.  Sheridan’s humour, or rather wit, was always saturnine,
+    and sometimes savage; he never laughed (at least that I saw and I
+    have watched him), but Colman did.  If I had to _choose_, and could
+    not have both at a time, I should say, let me begin the evening with
+    Sheridan, and finish it with Colman.  Sheridan for dinner, Colman for
+    supper.  Sheridan for claret or port, but Colman for everything, from
+    the madeira and champagne at dinner, the claret with a layer of port
+    between the glasses, up to the punch of the night, and down to the
+    grog or gin-and-water of daybreak.  Sheridan was a grenadier company
+    of life-guards, but Colman a whole regiment—of light infantry, to be
+    sure, but still a regiment.’”
+
+The sale of Colman’s effects took place on the 29th of November, 1837;
+among the pictures sold was the well-known portrait of George Colman the
+elder, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which has been engraved; another by
+Gainsborough, also engraved; a third in crayons, by Rosalba; and a fourth
+by Zoffani, which formerly belonged to Garrick, a highly-finished
+miniature of Shakspeare, by Ozias Humphrey, executed in 1784 (a copy of
+which, made for the Duchess of Chandos, sold at her sale for £40); some
+watercolour drawings, by Emery, Mrs. Terry, and others; some engravings;
+more than 1,000 volumes of French and English books; and a collection of
+miscellanies, including the MSS. of the elder Colman’s most admired
+productions, and several by George Colman the younger,—amounting in all
+to twenty-six pieces.  John Reeve bought largely of the books; but before
+two months had elapsed Reeve himself was no more.
+
+No. 23 Brompton Square is occupied by Mr. William Farren, who was for a
+long period the unrivalled representative of old men upon the stage, {53}
+and who took his farewell at the Haymarket Theatre in 1855; and No. 24,
+between the years 1840 and 1843, was the residence of Mr. Payne Collier,
+who has given to the public several editions of Shakspeare, and who has
+been long distinguished by his profound knowledge of dramatic literature
+and history, and his extensive acquaintance with the early poetry of
+England.
+
+Mr. Collier’s house, in Brompton Square, stood between that which Mr.
+William Farren occupies, and one (No. 25) of which Mr. Farren was
+proprietor, and has now been sold.  At No. 28 resides Mr. William Frogatt
+Robson, Solicitor and Comptroller of Droits of Admiralty.  Mr. William
+Farren has resided at No. 30, next door to Mr. Henry Luttrell (No. 31),
+“the great London wit,” as Sir Walter Scott terms him, well known in the
+circles of literature as the author of many epigrams, and of a volume of
+graceful poetry, entitled ‘Advice to Julia,’ and who died on 19th
+December, 1851, aged 86.
+
+In addition to these literary and dramatic associations of Brompton
+Square, Liston resided for some time at No. 40, Mr. Yates and Mr. John
+Reeve at 57 and 58; and that pair of comic theatrical gems, Mr. and Mrs.
+Keeley, have been inhabitants of No. 19.
+
+[Picture: First grave] BROMPTON NEW CHURCH, a little beyond the Square,
+is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.  The architect was Mr. Donaldson, and
+the first stone was laid in October, 1826.  On the 6th of June, 1829, the
+Bishop of London consecrated this church and its burial-ground, which had
+been a flower-garden.  When the first grave was made in the month
+following, many of the flowers still appeared among the grass; and, after
+viewing it, Miss Landon wrote the following verses.  The “first grave” is
+in the extreme south-west of the corner churchyard, close to the narrow
+pathway that skirts the wall, leaving only space for a grave between.
+The inscription on the stone which originally marked the “first grave,”
+was,—
+
+                                    SACRED
+                               TO THE MEMORY OF
+                                MR. IOHN CORPE
+                                OF THIS PARISH
+                        OF ST. GEORGE’S HANOVER SQUARE
+                            WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
+                              18TH OF JULY 1829
+                                AGED 51 YEARS.
+
+   “A single grave! the only one
+      In this unbroken ground,
+   Where yet the garden leaf and flower
+      Are lingering around.
+   A single grave!—my heart has felt
+      How utterly alone
+   In crowded halls, where breathed for me
+      Not one familiar tone.
+
+   “The shade where forest-trees shut out
+      All but the distant sky,—
+   I’ve felt the loneliness of night,
+      When the dark winds pass’d by.
+   My pulse has quicken’d with its awe,
+      My lip has gasp’d for breath;
+   But what were they to such as this—
+      The solitude of death?
+
+   “A single grave!—we half forget
+      How sunder human ties,
+   When round the silent place of rest
+      A gather’d kindred lies.
+   We stand beneath the haunted yew,
+      And watch each quiet tomb,
+   And in the ancient churchyard feel
+      Solemnity, not gloom!
+
+   “The place is purified with hope—
+      The hope, that is, of prayer;
+   And human love, and heavenward thought,
+      And pious faith, are there!
+   The wild flowers spring amid the grass,
+      And many a stone appears
+   Carved by affection’s memory,
+      Wet with affection’s tears.
+
+   “The golden chord which binds us all
+      Is loosed, not rent in twain;
+   And love, and hope, and fear, unite
+      To bring the past again.
+   But _this_ grave is so desolate,
+      With no remembering stone,
+   No fellow-graves for sympathy,—
+      ’Tis utterly alone!
+
+   “I do not know who sleeps beneath,
+      His history or name,
+   Whether, if lonely in his life,
+      He is in death the same,—
+   Whether he died unloved, unmourn’d,
+      The last leaf on the bough,
+   Or if some desolated hearth
+      Is weeping for him now?
+
+   “Perhaps this is too fanciful,
+      Though single be his sod,
+   Yet not the less it has around
+      The presence of his God!
+   It may be weakness of the heart,
+      But yet its kindliest, best;
+   Better if in our selfish world
+      It could be less repress’d.
+
+   “Those gentler charities which draw
+      Man closer with his kind,
+   Those sweet humilities which make
+      The music which they find:
+   How many a bitter word ’t would hush,
+      How many a pang ’t would save,
+   If life more precious held those ties
+      Which sanctify the grave.”
+
+Now (1860) the grave-stone has received two additional inscriptions, and
+the character of the upright stone has been altered.
+
+[Picture: Reeve’s Grave] Corpe was a ladies’ shoemaker, and his son
+carried on that business at No. 126 Mount Street, Berkeley Square, after
+the father’s death.  While sketching the grave, the sexton came up, and
+observed, “No one has ever noticed that grave, sir, before, so much as to
+draw it out for a pattern, as I suppose you are doing.”
+
+John Reeve’s grave (“alas, poor Yorick!”) is in the first avenue at the
+back of the church, to the left hand, and immediately at the edge of the
+path that runs parallel with the north side of the building.  The stone,
+which is similar to others in the same vicinity, is inscribed:—
+
+                                  IN MEMORY
+                                      OF
+                               IOHN REEVE ESQ.
+                                 LATE OF THE
+                            THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
+                          OBIIT JANUARY. 24TH. 1838.
+
+                                   ALSO OF
+                               IOHN REEVE ESQ.
+                              UNCLE OF THE ABOVE
+                       OBIIT JANY. 22ND. 1831 AGED 71.
+
+In the central path, leading from the Church Tower, is the grave of
+Harriet Elizabeth Farren, who died 16th of June, 1857, aged 68.  She made
+her first appearance in London in 1813, as Desdemona.
+
+[Picture: Bell and Horns sign] Close to Brompton New Church, at a
+public-house called the Bell and Horns, {58} the road branches off again;
+that branch which goes straight forward leading to Old Brompton, Earl’s
+Court, Kensington, and North End, Fulham.  The turn to the left, or bend
+to the south, being the main Fulham Road.  Here, till within the last few
+years, was standing the stump of an old tree, shown in the accompanying
+sketch.  [Picture: Stump] A cluster of trees at the commencement of the
+Old Brompton Road have also been removed, and the road has been
+considerably widened.  On the right-hand side, adjoining Brompton New
+Church, is the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, a Roman Catholic Establishment
+of considerable extent, which stands on the ground once occupied by Mr.
+Pollard’s school.  It was opened on 22nd March, 1851, and was originally
+located in King William Street, Strand.  It is bounded on the east by the
+avenue of lime trees leading up to Holy Trinity Church, on the north by
+its cemetery, on the west by the South Kensington Museum, and on the
+south by the road, which has been widened by the commissioners to eighty
+feet.  The superior in London is the Rev. F. W. Faber, and at Birmingham,
+the Rev. J. H. Newman, D.D.  The building, which does not show its size
+to advantage from the road, is erected in the shape of the letter T.
+Some idea of the scale on which the building is executed may be gathered
+from the following dimensions.  The oratory 72 feet long, 30 wide, 29
+high.  The library 72 feet long, 30 wide, 23 high.  The refectory 50 feet
+long, 30 wide, 28 high.  The corridors of the house 164 feet long, 9
+wide, 14 high.  The architect is Mr. Scoles.  Next to the oratory is the
+South Kensington Museum, which was built upon the Kensington Gore estate,
+[Picture: Oratory and Museum] purchased by the Royal Commissioners with
+the surplus funds derived from the Exhibition of 1851.  It was opened on
+the 24th June, 1857, and is a result of the School of Design, founded at
+Somerset House in 1838.  It is the head-quarters of the Government
+Department of Science and Art, previously deposited in Marlborough House,
+which is under the management of Mr. Henry Cole.  The collections are
+temporarily placed in a range of boiler-roofed buildings, hence the term
+“Brompton boilers” has been applied to them.  There are specimens here of
+ornamental art, an architectural, trade, and economical museum; a court
+of modern sculpture, and the gallery of British Art, founded on the
+munificent gift of Mr. John Sheepshanks.  Mr. Sheepshanks having bestowed
+on the nation a collection of 234 oil paintings, mostly by modern British
+artists, and some drawings, etc., the whole formed by himself, including
+some of the most popular works of Wilkie, Mulready, Sir Edwin Landseer,
+Leslie, and other eminent artists of the English school.  To these have
+been since added, in several large rooms, the Turner Collection, and the
+pictures from the Vernon Gallery; also the collection bequeathed to the
+nation by the late Mr. Jacob Bell, and the pictures by British artists
+removed from the National Gallery; all which are well lighted from the
+roof.  The objects of ornamental art consist of medieval furniture and
+decoration, painted glass, plaster casts, electrotype copies,
+photographs, engravings, and drawings, etc., the whole designed with the
+view of aiding general education, and of diffusing among all classes
+those principles of science and art which are calculated to advance the
+individual interests of the country, and to elevate the character of the
+people: facilities are afforded for taking copies of objects upon
+application at the Art Library.  The Educational collections formed by
+the Government, which are in the central portion of the building,
+comprise specimens of scientific instruments, objects of natural history,
+models, casts, and a library; refreshment and waiting rooms are provided;
+and there are lectures delivered in a building devoted to that purpose.
+The admission, which is from ten till four, five or six, according to the
+season, is free on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, also on Monday and
+Tuesday evening, from seven till ten, when the galleries are lighted; on
+Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, being students’ days, the admission is
+6d.
+
+In form the building is rectangular, the centre or nave is 42 feet wide,
+and is open from the floor to the roof.  Along the aisles galleries run,
+access to which is obtained by two large central staircases at the ends
+of the building, which is for the most part lighted from the roofs.
+There is ample ventilation, and by means of hot water pipes, the building
+is heated when required.  The exhibition space in floor and galleries is
+nearly one acre and a half, exclusive of the wall space in the galleries
+and aisles.  The arrangement, it may be seen from this description, is
+much the same as that adopted in the Great Exhibition of 1851.  There are
+separate catalogues for each department to be had, which give the visitor
+all necessary information.  The building was constructed from designs and
+drawings prepared by Messrs. Charles D. Young and Co. of Great George
+Street, Westminster.  Opposite the Museum is Thurloe Place.  No. 1 may be
+mentioned as the residence of Mr. Henry Holl, well known some years ago
+as the light comedian of the Haymarket Theatre.  That gentleman has now
+retired from the profession, but in addition to some dramatic productions
+written many years since, he is the author of two or three successful
+pieces recently produced.  It is not the intention of the writer to
+follow the course of the Old Brompton Road, but he will at once return to
+the main road after alluding to the newly-formed magnificent approaches
+from this point to Kensington, by Exhibition Road and Prince Albert’s
+Road, on the site of Brompton Park, now broken up. {62}  A winter garden
+is in course of formation here, and the Horticultural Society intend to
+appropriate part of the ground for their annual fêtes.  The total amount
+expended on the purchase and laying out of the Kensington Gore Estate
+from 1851 to 1856 inclusive, was £277,309.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+
+FROM THE BELL AND HORNS, BROMPTON, TO LITTLE CHELSEA.
+
+To return to the continuation of MICHAEL’S PLACE.  It is divided between
+Nos. 11 and 12 by MICHAEL’S GROVE, which led to Brompton Grange, for some
+years the seat of the favourite veteran vocalist, Braham, who made his
+appearance as a public singer at the age of ten years, and so far back as
+1787.  The Grange was taken down in October 1843, and, in the course of
+twelve months, its spacious grounds were covered by a decided crescent
+and other buildings.  Brompton Grange, which was constructed by
+Novosielski for his own residence, was, previous to Mr. Braham’s tenancy,
+occupied by a gentleman of large fortune and weak nerves, which were most
+painfully affected by the tone of a bell.  After considerable research,
+this spot was selected for his London residence, in the belief that there
+he would be secure from annoyance.  But the folly of human anticipation
+was speedily illustrated by the building of Brompton Church on the north
+side of his abode, and of Chelsea New Church on the west; so that,
+whatever way the wind blew,
+
+    “The sound of the church-going bell”
+
+was certain of being wafted to the Grange, which was got rid of in
+consequence.
+
+From Michael’s Grove, BROMPTON CRESCENT is nearly a straight row of
+twenty-five houses, and forms an angle to the line of the main Fulham
+Road, uniting with Michael’s Place at “Crescent House,” where the
+carriage communication was formerly interrupted by a bar, in place of
+which a post supporting two lamps is now substituted.
+
+No. 9 was for some time in the occupation of Dr. Oswald Wood, the
+translator (1835) of Von Hammer’s ‘History of the Assassins,’ and who
+died at the early age of thirty-eight, on the 5th of November, 1842, in
+the West Indies, where he held the appointment of Provost-Marshal of
+Antigua.
+
+At No. 13 Brompton Crescent resided Charles Incledon, the rival of his
+neighbour Braham, whose singing he was wont to designate as “Italianised
+humbug;” declaring that no one but himself, Charles Incledon, knew how to
+sing a British ballad: and it must be admitted, that “The Storm” and
+“Black-eyed Susan,” as sung by Incledon, produced a deep impression on
+the public mind.  He was a native of Cornwall, and the son of a medical
+gentleman.  As a chorister, under the tuition of Jackson, in Exeter
+Cathedral, Incledon acquired his knowledge of music; for when he was
+fifteen he entered the Royal Navy, in which he served in the West Indies
+from 1779 to 1783, when he abandoned the naval profession, and joined a
+theatrical company at Southampton.  After a popular professional career
+of upwards of forty years as a public singer, Incledon died at Worcester,
+on the 11th of February, 1826.
+
+Of Incledon many amusing anecdotes are told, chiefly caused by his
+inordinate vanity, and his mental singleness of purpose.  He thought of
+no one but himself; he saw nothing beyond the one and immediate object at
+which he grasped; and yet these faults were caused rather by natural
+weakness of intellect than by an unkind or selfish disposition.  In fact,
+Incledon lived and died a petted servant of the public; which
+administered intoxicating draughts of applause to his self-esteem.
+
+Mr. G. Rodwell, already mentioned as having been an inhabitant of No. 14
+Brompton Row, resided at No. 15 Brompton Crescent, in 1830.
+
+No. 20 Brompton Crescent was, between the years 1822 and 1844, occupied
+by Mr. Planché, well known as, perhaps, the most prolific and skilful
+dramatic writer of the day, and as a gentleman of high literary and
+antiquarian attainments.  His connexion with the last musical efforts of
+the German composer Weber, in his opera of ‘Oberon,’ which was produced
+at Covent Garden on the 12th of May, 1826, {65} cannot be forgotten; and
+to Planché’s knowledge of costume and taste for pictorial effects the
+English stage is deeply indebted.  In the drawing-room of this house have
+some of our most agreeable acting dramas been composed, and nothing could
+have been, in its style and appointments, more typical of Planché’s
+dialogue than was the apartment—smart and neat, fit for all occasions,
+and suited in a moment to the present purpose, whatever that might be.
+It was polished and elegant; but there was nothing superfluous, beyond a
+bit of exquisite china on the mantel-piece, or a picture, excellent in
+its way, on the wall; something which pleased the eye, and which the mind
+received and relished like a nicely-pointed joke.  A well-painted
+portrait of Planché himself, by Briggs, the Royal Academician, which has
+been engraved, hung opposite to the fireplace; and, as if to carry out
+the similitude between Planché’s writings and the place where they were
+written, folding-doors revealed a back drawing-room, which, like his
+memory, was richly stored with the works of heralds and antiquaries, and
+of our elder dramatists and poets, so judiciously arranged, that in a
+moment he was certain of producing the precise passage or the effect
+which he desired.  At the same time so completely was this little battery
+of knowledge masked under quaint bindings and tasteful covers, that no
+one suspected what a mine of learning lay beneath; nor, like his own
+mental resources, was a volume displayed without cause, or unclasped
+without its effect.
+
+Speaking earnestly to Planché respecting the pains and pleasures of
+authorship, L. E. L. once said, “I would give this moment all the fame of
+what I have written, or ever shall write, for one roar of applause from a
+crowded house, such as you must have heard a thousand times.”
+
+Mr. Planché afterwards removed to a new and detached house, built on the
+site of Brompton Grange.  He has now quitted the neighbourhood.
+
+Mr. C. J. Richardson, an architect, whose publications illustrative of
+Tudor architecture and domestic English antiquities have materially
+tended to diffuse a feeling of respect for the works of our ancestors,
+and to forward the growing desire to preserve and restore edifices which
+time and circumstances have spared to the country, has resided at No. 22
+Brompton Crescent.  At No. 28 in this crescent, Mrs. Liston died in 1854.
+
+The continuation of MICHAEL’S PLACE, which we left on our right to visit
+Michael’s Grove and Brompton Crescent, is the corner house, now Dr.
+Cahill’s and Mr. Hewett’s.  At No. 12, Lewis Schiavonetti, a
+distinguished engraver, died on the 7th of June, 1810, at the age of
+fifty-five.  He was a native of Bassano, in the Venetian territory, and
+the eldest son of a stationer, whose large family and moderate
+circumstances made him gladly accept the offer of Julius Golini, a
+painter of some repute, to receive his son, at the age of thirteen, for
+instruction in the arts.  [Picture: No. 12 Michael’s Place] In three
+years after, Golini expired in the arms of his youthful pupil.  Upon the
+death of his master he determined to seek the patronage of Count
+Remaudini, who had given employment to Bartolozzi and Volpato, and began
+to study the mechanical process of engraving, under a poor man named
+Lorio, who, unable to support himself by his profession, officiated as
+sacristan to a church, and could offer him no better accommodation for
+study than the sacristy.  The circumstances of Schiavonetti not
+permitting him to seek for higher instruction, he remained with this
+master about twelve months, when, finding that he had learned all that
+poor Lorio was able to teach, and feeling an aversion to work
+occasionally among dead bodies, he determined to alter his situation.  A
+copy of a ‘Holy Family,’ from Bartolozzi, after Carlo Maratta, gained
+Schiavonetti immediate employment from Count Remaudini, and attracted the
+notice of Suntach, an engraver and printseller in opposition to
+Remaudini.
+
+About this time there came to Bassano a Mr. Testolini, of Vicenza, a
+wretched engraver of architecture, but a man of consummate craft and
+address.  He became acquainted with Schiavonetti at Suntach’s, and,
+finding in his genius and tractable disposition, a tool which he could
+use to great advantage, he engaged him to work at his house.
+Bartolozzi’s engravings in the chalk manner were then in great repute at
+Bassano, and Testolini made several abortive attempts to discover the
+process.  His young friend succeeded better, and imitated several of
+Bartolozzi’s prints to perfection; and Testolini took some of
+Schiavonetti’s productions to the son of Bartolozzi at Venice, and passed
+them off as his own.  They gained him an introduction to that artist, and
+an invitation to London, where he was then in full occupation, and his
+works highly appreciated.  The change of climate seems to have
+deteriorated the talents of Testolini; but such was his adroitness that
+he gained a complete ascendancy over the easy temper of Bartolozzi, and
+lived in his house at North End, Fulham, about three years.  During that
+time, finding that yet more important advantages might be derived from
+the aid of his former friend, he made several propositions to
+Schiavonetti to come to London.  These were for a time declined: the
+rising fame of the young artist caused his talents to be better
+appreciated, and some Venetian noblemen offered him a pension and
+constant employment if he would abandon his proposed emigration.
+Testolini, to frustrate this, induced Bartolozzi to write a letter of
+persuasion, partly dictated by himself; and, confident of its effect, he
+set out for Italy to bring Schiavonetti over.  During his absence
+Bartolozzi gained an insight into his real character and interested
+views, and, on his return with his _protégé_, told him that his house was
+no longer open to him, but that Schiavonetti was welcome to consider it
+his home.  Testolini, however, having found a house in Sloane Square,
+soon persuaded Schiavonetti that it would be better for him to follow his
+fortune than to remain with Bartolozzi, to which Schiavonetti consented.
+This circumstance terminated the connexion between Bartolozzi and
+Schiavonetti; and shortly after the reputation of the latter as an
+engraver became established in London, where he conducted every
+transaction he was engaged in with an uprightness and integrity that
+cause his memory to be equally respected as a gentleman and as an artist.
+The ‘Madre Dolorosa,’ after Vandyke; the portrait of that master in the
+character of Paris; Michael Angelo’s cartoon of the ‘Surprise of the
+Soldiers on the banks of the Arno;’ a series of etchings from designs by
+Blake, illustrative of Blair’s ‘Grave,’ with a portrait of Blake after
+Phillips; the ‘Landing of the British troops in Egypt,’ from De
+Loutherbourg; and the etching of the ‘Canterbury Pilgrims,’ from
+Stothard’s admired picture, are some of the most esteemed works of Lewis
+Schiavonetti.  His funeral, which took place on the 14th June 1810, from
+Michael’s Place, was attended by West, the president, Phillips, Tresham,
+and other members of the Royal Academy, by his countryman Vendramini, and
+almost all the distinguished engravers of the day, with other artists and
+friends to art.
+
+The greater portion of No. 13, Michael’s Place, is shown in the sketch of
+No. 12, and the former may be mentioned as the residence of the widow of
+the builder, Madame Novosielski, who died here on the 30th November,
+1820.  This was the address of Miss Helen Faucit, immediately previous to
+her successful appearance in the English drama before a French audience,
+and is at present in the occupation of Mr. Weigall, an artist whose works
+are highly prized.
+
+Mrs. Billington, the well-known singer and actress, has resided at No.
+15.
+
+Miss Pope, an actress of considerable reputation, died at No. 17,
+Michael’s Place, on the 30th July, 1818, aged seventy-five.  Her talents
+had been cultivated by the celebrated Mrs. Clive, and she was
+distinguished by the notice of Garrick.  As a representative of old
+women, Miss Pope is said to have been unrivalled; and, for more than half
+a century, she remained constant to the boards of Drury Lane Theatre,
+never having performed at any other with the exception of a season at
+Dublin and another at Liverpool.
+
+Mr. John Heneage Jesse, in 1842, while engaged in the publication of
+‘Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution of 1688 to the
+Death of George II.,’ 3 vols. 8vo, a continuation of his ‘History of the
+Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts,’ lodged at No. 18.
+
+Mr. Yates, the manager of the Adelphi Theatre, and an actor of
+considerable and varied powers, resided at No. 21, Michael’s Place,
+immediately previous to his accepting a short engagement in Ireland,
+where he ruptured a blood-vessel, and returned to England in so weak a
+state that he died on the 21st June, 1842, a few days after his arrival
+at the Euston Hotel, Euston Square, from whence it was considered, when
+he reached London, imprudent to remove him to Brompton.  He was in the
+forty-fifth year of his age, and made his first appearance in London at
+Covent Garden on the 7th November, 1818.  On the 30th November, 1823, Mr.
+Yates married Miss Brunton, an exemplary woman and an accomplished
+actress, who had retired from the profession for some years previous to
+her death, aged 61, on 30th August, 1860.  Before Mr. Yates’ tenancy, No.
+21 was the residence of Mr. Liston, whose comic humour will long be
+remembered on the stage.
+
+Mrs. Davenport, a clever actress and an admirable representative of old
+women, died at No. 22, on 8th May, 1843, aged eighty-four.  On the 25th
+of May, 1830, she retired from the stage, after an uninterrupted service
+of thirty-six years at Covent Garden Theatre, where she took her “first,
+last, and only benefit,” performing the Nurse in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
+
+No. 25, Michael’s Place, may be pointed out as the house in which Miss
+Pope, “the other delicious old woman,” dwelt previous to her removal to
+No. 17; and No. 26, as the lodgings of Mrs. Mathews, when occupied in the
+composition of the ‘Memoirs’ of her husband, {72} the eminent comedian,—
+
+   “A man so various, that he seemed to be,
+   Not one, but all mankind’s epitome.”
+
+At No. 33 died Madame Delille, in 1857, at an advanced age.  This lady
+was the mother of the late Mr. C. J. Delille, professor of the French
+language in Christ’s Hospital and in the City of London School, and
+French examiner in the University of London.  Mr. Delille’s French
+Grammar is universally adopted by schools, in addition to his ‘Répertoire
+Littéraire,’ and his ‘Leçons et Modèles de Poésie Française.’
+
+The ground upon which Michael’s Place and Brompton Crescent are built was
+known by the name of “Flounder Field,” from its usual moist and muddy
+state.  This field contained fourteen acres, and is said to have been
+part of the estate of Alderman Henry Smith, which in this neighbourhood
+was upwards of eighty-four acres.  He was a native of Wandsworth, where
+he is buried.  It has been asserted that, from very humble circumstances,
+he rose to be an alderman of London—from circumstances so humble, indeed,
+that Salmon, in his ‘Antiquities of Surrey,’ mentions that he had been in
+early life whipped out of Mitcham parish for begging there.  Being a
+widower, and without children, he made over all his estates in 1620 to
+trustees for charitable purposes, reserving out of the produce £500
+a-year for himself.  He died in 1627–8, and the intent of his will
+appears to have been to divide his estate equally between the poorest of
+his kindred, and in case of any surplus it was to be applied to the
+relief and ransom of poor captives.  Mr. Smith is said, but we know
+little of the history of this benevolent and extraordinary man, to have
+himself suffered a long captivity in Algiers.  No application having been
+made for many years to redeem captives, in 1772 an act of parliament was
+passed “to enable the trustees of Henry Smith, Esq., deceased, to apply
+certain sums of money to the relief of his poor kindred, and to enable
+the said trustees to grant building leases of an estate in the parishes
+of Kensington, Chelsea, and St. Margaret’s, Westminster.”
+
+No. 1, North Terrace, leading into Alexander Square, was for some time
+the residence of the celebrated “O.” Smith, who, though a great ruffian
+upon the stage, was in private life remarkable for his quiet manners and
+his varied attainments.  At the end of this terrace is the Western
+Grammar School.
+
+ALEXANDER SQUARE, on the north or right-hand side of the main Fulham
+Road, between the Bell and Horns public-house and Pelham Crescent,
+consists of twenty-four houses built in the years 1827 and 1830, and
+divided by Alfred Place: before each portion there is a respectable
+enclosure, and behind numerous new streets, squares, and houses have been
+built, extending to the Old Brompton Road.
+
+No. 19, Alexander Square, was the residence of Captain Glascock, who
+commanded H.M.S. Tyne, and whose pen has enriched the nautical novel
+literature of England {73} with the same racy humour which has
+distinguished his professional career.  When commanding in the Douro,
+some communications which Glascock had occasion to make to the Governor
+of Oporto not having received that attention which the English captain
+considered was due to them, and the governor having apologised for his
+deafness, Glascock replied that in future he would write to his
+excellency.  He did so, but the proceeding did not produce the required
+reply.  Glascock was then told that the governor’s memory was defective;
+so he wrote again, and two letters remained unanswered.  In this state of
+things it was intimated to Captain Glascock by a distinguished
+diplomatist, that, as his letters might not have been delivered, he ought
+to write another.  “Certainly,” replied that officer; “my letters to his
+excellency, as you say, might not have been delivered, for I have had no
+report absolutely made to me that they had ever reached his hands: but I
+will take care this time there shall be no mistake in the delivery, for
+you shall see me attach my communication to a cannonball, the report of
+which I can testify to my government; and, as my gunner is a sure shot,
+his excellency _will_ (Glascock was an Irishman) have my epistle
+delivered into his hand.”  This intimation produced at once the desired
+effect of a satisfactory reply and apology.
+
+Captain Glascock was one of the inspectors under the Poor Relief Act in
+Ireland.  He died in 1847.
+
+No. 24 Alexander Square is the residence of Mr. George Godwin, the editor
+of the ‘Builder,’ and one of the honorary secretaries of the Art
+Union,—an association which has exercised an important influence upon the
+progress of the fine arts in England.  Mr. Godwin is likewise favourably
+known to the public as the author of several essays which evince
+considerable professional knowledge, antiquarian research, and a fertile
+fancy.
+
+The bend of the Fulham Road terminates at
+
+                            THE ADMIRAL KEPPEL
+
+[Picture: The old Admiral Keppel] public-house, from whence the road
+proceeds in a straight line to Little Chelsea; Marlborough Road and
+Keppel Street, leading to Chelsea, branching off at each side of the
+tavern.  Since this sketch was taken, the old building has been pulled
+down (1856), and a large hotel erected on the same spot, by B. Watts,
+where, in addition to the usual comforts of an inn, hot and cold baths
+may be had.
+
+In 1818 the Admiral Keppel courted the custom of passing travellers by a
+poetical appeal to the feelings of both man and beast:—
+
+   “Stop, brave boys, and quench your thirst;
+   If you won’t drink, your horses murst.”
+
+There was something rural in this: the distich was painted in very rude
+white letters on a small black board; and when Keppel’s portrait, which
+swung in air, like England’s flag, braving
+
+    “The battle and the breeze,”
+
+was unhinged and placed against the front of the house, this board was
+appended as its motto.  Both, however, were displaced by the march of
+public-house improvement; the weather-beaten sign of the gallant
+admiral’s head was transferred to a wall of the back premises, where its
+“faded form” might, until recently, have been recognised; but, though the
+legible record has perished, _opus vatum durat_.
+
+AMELIA PLACE is a row of nine houses immediately beyond the Admiral
+Keppel.  Within the walls of the last low house in the row, and the
+second with a verandah, the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran died on the
+14th of October, 1817.  It had then a pleasant look-out upon green fields
+and a nursery-garden, now occupied by Pelham Crescent.  Here it was, with
+the exception of a short excursion to Ireland, that Curran had resided
+during the twelve months previous to his death.  [Picture: No. 7 Amelia
+Place] Curran’s public life may be said to have terminated in 1806, when
+he accepted the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland, an appointment
+of £5000 a year.  This situation he retained until 1815, when his health
+required a cessation from its laborious attendance.  Upon his retirement
+from office, he “passed through the watering-places with the season,” and
+then fixed himself at No. 7, Amelia Place, Brompton, which house has now
+Kettle’s boot and shoe warehouse built out in front.  To no other
+contemporary pen than that of the Rev. George Croly can be ascribed the
+following glowing sketch of Curran:—
+
+    “From the period in which Curran emerged from the first struggles of
+    an unfriended man, labouring up a jealous profession, his history
+    makes a part of the annals of his country: once upon the surface, his
+    light was always before the eye, it never sank and was never
+    outshone.  With great powers to lift himself beyond the reach of that
+    tumultuous and stormy agitation that must involve the movers of the
+    public mind in a country such as Ireland then was, he loved to cling
+    to the heavings of the wave; he, at least, never rose to that
+    tranquil elevation to which his early contemporaries had one by one
+    climbed; and never left the struggle till the storm had gone down, it
+    is to be hoped for ever.  This was his destiny, but it might have
+    been his choice, and he was not without the reward, which, to an
+    ambitious mind conscious of its eminent powers, might be more than
+    equivalent to the reluctant patronage of the throne.  To his habits
+    legal distinction would have been only a bounty upon his silence; his
+    limbs would have been fettered by the ermine; but he had the
+    compensation of boundless popular honour, much respect from the
+    higher ranks of party, much admiration and much fear from the lower
+    partizans.  In Parliament he was the assailant most dreaded; in the
+    law-courts he was the advocate deemed the most essential; in both he
+    was an object of all the more powerful passions of man but rivalry,—
+
+                      ‘He stood alone and shone alone.’”
+
+During Curran’s residence in Amelia Place he suffered two slight
+apoplectic attacks; but he, nevertheless, “occasionally indulged in
+society, and was to his last sparkle the most interesting, singular, and
+delightful of all table companions.”  The forenoon he generally passed in
+a solitary ramble through the neighbouring fields and gardens (which have
+now disappeared), and in the evening he enjoyed the conversation of a few
+friends; but, though the brilliancy of his wit shone to the last, he
+seemed like one who had outlived everything in life that was worth
+enjoying.  This is exemplified in Curran’s melancholy repartee to his
+medical attendant a few days before his decease.  The doctor remarked
+that his patient’s cough was not improved.  “That is odd,” remarked
+Curran, “for I have been practising all night!”
+
+On Thursday, the 9th of October, Curran dined abroad for the last time
+with Mr. Richard (“Gentleman”) Jones, {78} of No. 14 Chapel Street,
+Grosvenor Place, for the purpose of being introduced to George Colman
+“the Younger.”  The party, besides the host and hostess, consisted of Mr.
+Harris and Sir William Chatterton.  Colman that evening was unusually
+brilliant, anticipating, by apt quotation and pointed remark, almost
+everything that Curran would have said.  One comment of Curran’s,
+however, made a deep impression on all present.  Speaking of Lord Byron’s
+‘Fare thee well, and if for ever,’ he observed that “his lordship first
+weeps over his wife, and then wipes his eyes with the newspapers.”  He
+left the dinner-table early, and, on going upstairs to coffee, either
+affected not to know or did not remember George Colman’s celebrity as a
+wit, and inquired of Mrs. Jones who that Mr. Colman was?  Mr. Harris
+joined them at this moment, and apologised for his friend Colman
+engrossing so much of the conversation to himself, adding, that he was
+the spoiled child of society, and that even the Prince Regent listened
+with attention when George Colman talked.  “Ay,” said Curran, with a
+melancholy smile, “I now know who Colman is; we must both sleep in the
+same bed.”
+
+The next morning Curran was seized with apoplexy, and continued
+speechless, though in possession of his senses, till the early part of
+Tuesday the 14th, when he sunk into lethargy, and towards evening died
+without a struggle; so tranquil, indeed, were the last moments of Curran,
+that those in the room were unable to mark the precise time when his
+bright spirit passed away from this earth.  His age has been variously
+stated at sixty-seven, sixty-eight, and seventy.
+
+The first lodging which John Banim, the Irish novelist, temporarily
+occupied in England (April, 1822) was in the house where his illustrious
+countryman had breathed his last, and from whence Banim removed to 13,
+Brompton Grove, as already noticed.  Banim’s first wish, when he found
+himself in England, was to visit the scene of Curran’s death; led to the
+spot by a strong feeling of patriotic admiration, and finding, by a bill
+in the window, that lodgings were to be let there, he immediately took
+them, “that he might dream of his country,” as he energetically told the
+writer, “with the halo of Curran’s memory around him.”
+
+[Picture: Dropped Capitals for In] PELHAM CRESCENT, which consists of
+twenty-seven houses, and is divided in the centre, between Nos. 14 and
+15, by Pelham Place, both Crescent and Place built upon part of the
+nursery-grounds over which Curran had wandered, dwell at No. 10 Mr. and
+Mrs. Keeley.  At No. 20 resides Mr. John Cooper the well-known veteran
+actor.  M. Guizot, the celebrated French statesman, after the overthrow
+of the government of Louis Philippe, resided for some time at No. 21,
+where Madame Guizot, his mother, died in March, 1848, at the advanced age
+of eighty-three; and the same house was, by a singular coincidence,
+afterwards occupied by Ledru Rollin.  Pelham Place, at the back of the
+Crescent, is notable for having, at No. 2, Mr. Lazarus, the celebrated
+clarionet player, and at No. 8 resides Mr. A. Harris, the present lessee
+of the Princess’s Theatre.
+
+Nearly opposite to Pelham Crescent is POND PLACE, where Mr. Curtis, the
+eminent botanist, of whom more hereafter, died on the 7th July, 1799; and
+a little further on, on the same side of the way, appears Chelsea New
+Church, dedicated to St. Luke.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+[Picture: Dropped Capital T] he first stone of this church was laid on
+the 12th October, 1820, and the New Church was consecrated on the 18th
+October, 1824.  The architect was Mr. Savage of Walbrook. {80}  The
+burial-ground in which it stands had been consecrated on the 21st
+November, 1812; and an Act of Parliament, 59 George III., cap. 35, 1819,
+authorised the appropriation of part of that ground for the site of
+building a church.  In the burial-ground repose the remains of Dr. John
+M’Leod, the companion and friend of the gallant Sir Murray Maxwell, and
+the author of ‘A Narrative of a Voyage in H.M.S. Alceste to the Yellow
+Sea, and of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar,’ published in 1817.
+On his return to England, the services of Dr. M’Leod were rewarded by his
+appointment to the Royal Sovereign yacht, which he did not long enjoy, as
+he died in lodgings in the King’s Road, Chelsea, on the 9th November,
+1820, at the age of thirty-eight.
+
+Signor Carlo Rovedino, a bass singer of some reputation, also lies buried
+in this churchyard.  He was a native of Milan, and died on the 6th of
+October, 1822, aged seventy-one.  The remains of Blanchard and Egerton,
+two actors of established character, repose here side by side.  William
+Blanchard was what is termed “a useful comedian;” whatever part was
+assigned to him, he made the most of it.  At the age of seventeen, he
+joined a provincial theatrical company at York, his native city, and in
+1800, after fourteen years of laborious country practice, appeared at
+Covent Garden as Bob Acres in ‘The Rivals,’ and Crack in ‘The Turnpike
+Gate.’  At the time of his death, 9th May, 1835, he resided at No. 1,
+Camera Square, Chelsea.  Blanchard had dined with a friend at
+Hammersmith, and left him to return home about six in the evening of
+Tuesday.  On the following morning, at three o’clock, poor Blanchard was
+found lying in a ditch by the roadside, having been, as is supposed,
+seized by a fit; in the course of the evening he was visited by another
+attack, which was succeeded by one more violent on the Thursday, and on
+the following day he expired.
+
+Daniel Egerton—“oh! kingly Egerton”—personified for many years on the
+stage of Covent Garden all the royal personages about whom there was
+great state and talk, but who had little to say for themselves.  He was
+respected as being, and without doubt was, an industrious and an honest
+man.  Having saved some hardly-earned money, Egerton entered into a
+theatrical speculation with a brother actor, Mr. Abbott, and became
+manager of one of the minor houses, by which he was ruined, and died in
+1835, under the pressure of his misfortunes.  His widow, whose
+representations of the wild women of Scott’s novels, Madge Wildfire and
+Meg Merrilies, have distinguished her, died on the 10th August, 1847, at
+Brompton, aged sixty-six, having supported herself nobly amidst the
+troubles of her latter days.  Mrs. Egerton was the daughter of the Rev.
+Peter Fisher, rector of Torrington, in Devonshire.  She appeared at the
+Bath theatre soon after the death of her father in 1803, and in 1811 made
+her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre as Juliet.
+
+On the right-hand side, a little off the main road, is Onslow Square,
+which was built upon the site of the extensive house and grounds once
+occupied as a lunatic asylum.  The row of large trees now in the centre
+of the square was formerly the avenue from the main road to this house.
+Mr. Henry Cole, C.B. lives at No. 17, Onslow Square; he is well known to
+the public as a member of the Executive Committee of the Crystal Palace,
+a promoter of art manufactures, and the author of numerous works
+published under the _nom de plume_ of “Felix Summerly.”  No. 31 is the
+residence of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Martin (better known as Miss Helen
+Faucit).  At No. 34 resides Baron Marochetti, the celebrated sculptor,
+who settled in England after the French revolution of February, 1848, and
+has obtained high patronage here.  At the back of the house is the
+studio, with an entrance from the main road, where the avenue of trees
+continues.  W. M. Thackeray, the popular writer, lives at No. 36, and
+Rear-Admiral Fitzroy, the distinguished geographer and navigator, is at
+No. 38.
+
+A few yards beyond Sydney Place (leading into Onslow Square), on the
+opposite side of the road, is Sydney Street, leading direct to St. Luke’s
+Church, the late incumbent of which, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, who died
+on 29th February, 1860, aged 78, was the father of the well-known popular
+writer, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, of Eversley Rectory, Hants.  Sydney
+Street was originally called Upper Robert Street, as being the
+continuation of Robert Street, Chelsea; but, under some notion of raising
+its respectability, the inhabitants agreed to change the name.  It
+happened, however, that the corner house adjoining the Fulham Road, on
+the western side, was occupied by a surgeon, who imagined that the change
+in name might be injurious to his practice, and he took advantage of his
+position to retain the old name on his house.  Thus for some time the
+street was known by both names, but that of Upper Robert Street is now
+entirely abandoned.  The opposite corner house, No. 2, Sydney Street, was
+for some years occupied by the Rev. Dr. Biber, author of the ‘Life of
+Pestalozzi,’ and editor and proprietor of the ‘John Bull’ newspaper.  On
+his selling the ‘John Bull,’ it became incorporated with the ‘Britannia.’
+
+No. 24 was for some time the residence of Mr. Thomas Wright, the
+well-known antiquary and historical writer, who now lives at No. 14.
+
+ROBERT STREET, which connects the main Fulham Road with the King’s Road,
+passes directly before the west side of the spacious burial-ground, and
+immediately opposite to the tower of St. Luke’s Church; at No. 17
+formerly resided Mr. Henry Warren, the President of the New Society of
+Water-Colour Painters.
+
+Returning to the main Fulham Road, and passing the Cancer Hospital, now
+in course of erection, we come to YORK PLACE, a row of twenty-two
+well-built and respectable houses on the south, or, according to our
+course, left-hand side of the road.
+
+No. 15, York Place, was, between the years 1813 and 1821, the retirement
+of Francis Hargrave, a laborious literary barrister, and the editor of ‘A
+Collection of State Trials,’ {84} and many other esteemed legal works.
+Here he died on the 16th of August, 1821, at the age of eighty-one.
+
+In 1813, when obliged to abandon his arduous profession, in consequence
+of over-mental excitement, the sum of £8,000 was voted by Parliament,
+upon the motion of Mr. Whitbread, for the purchase of Mr. Hargrave’s law
+books, which were enriched with valuable notes, and for 300 MSS., to be
+deposited in the library of Lincoln’s Inn, for public use.  As documents
+of national historical importance may be particularised, Mr. Hargrave’s
+first publication, in 1772, entitled ‘_The Case of James Somerset_, _a
+Negro_, _lately determined by the Court of King’s Bench_, _wherein it is
+attempted to demonstrate the present unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in
+England_;’ his ‘_Three Arguments in the two causes in Chancery on the
+last Will of Peter Thellusson_, _Esq._, _with Mr. Morgan’s __Calculation
+of the Accumulation under the Trusts of the Will_, _1799_;’ and his
+‘_Opinion in the Case of the Duke of Athol in respect to the Isle of
+Man_.’
+
+Opposite to York Place was a fine, open, airy piece of ground to which
+Mr. Curtis, the eminent naturalist, removed his botanical garden from
+Lambeth Marsh, as a more desirable locality.  Upon the south-east portion
+of this nursery-ground the first stone was laid by H.R.H. Prince Albert,
+on the 11th July, 1844, of an hospital for consumption and diseases of
+the chest, and which was speedily surrounded by houses on all sides;
+probably a circumstance not contemplated at the time the ground was
+secured.
+
+The botanical garden of Mr. Curtis, as a public resort for study, was
+continued at Brompton until 1808, when the lease of the land being nearly
+expired, Mr. Salisbury, who in 1792 became his pupil, and in 1798 his
+partner in this horticultural speculation, removed the establishment to
+the vacant space of ground now inclosed between Sloane Street and Cadogan
+Place, where Mr. Salisbury’s undertaking failed.  A plan of the gardens
+there, as arranged by him, was published in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’
+for August, 1810. {85}
+
+Mr. Curtis, whose death has been already mentioned, was the son of a
+tanner, and was born at Alton, in Hampshire, in 1746.  He was bound
+apprentice to his grandfather, a quaker apothecary of that town, whose
+house was contiguous to the Crown Inn, where the botanical knowledge of
+John Lagg, the hostler, seems to have excited rivalry in the breast of
+young Curtis.  In the course of events he became assistant to Mr. Thomas
+Talwin, an apothecary in Gracechurch Street, of the same religious
+persuasion as his grandfather, and succeeded Mr. Talwin in his business.
+Mr. Curtis’s love of botanical science, however, increased with his
+knowledge.  He connected with it the study of entomology, by printing, in
+1771, ‘Instructions for Collecting and Preserving Insects,’ and in the
+following year a translation of the ‘Fundamenta Entomologiæ’ of Linnæus.
+At this time he rented a very small garden for the cultivation of British
+plants, “near the Grange Road, at the bottom of Bermondsey Street,” and
+here it was that he conceived the design of publishing his great work,
+‘The Flora Londinensis.’
+
+    “The Grange Road Garden was soon found too small for his extensive
+    ideas.  He, therefore, took a larger piece of ground in Lambeth
+    Marsh, where he soon assembled the largest collection of British
+    plants ever brought together into one place.  But there was something
+    uncongenial in the air of this place, which made it extremely
+    difficult to preserve sea plants and many of the rare annuals which
+    are adapted to an elevated situation,—_an evil rendered worse every
+    year by the increased number of buildings around_.  This led his
+    active mind, ever anxious for improvement, to inquire for a more
+    favourable soil and purer air.  This, at length, he found at
+    Brompton.  Here he procured a spacious territory, in which he had the
+    pleasure of seeing his wishes gratified to the utmost extent of
+    reasonable expectation.  Here he continued to his death;”
+
+having, I may add, for many years previously, devoted himself entirely to
+botanical pursuits.
+
+To support the slow sale of ‘The Flora Londinensis,’ Mr. Curtis, about
+1787, started ‘The Botanical Magazine,’ which became one of the popular
+periodicals of the day, and Dr. Smith’s and Mr. Sowerby’s ‘English
+Botany’ was modelled after it.
+
+What Mr. Curtis, as an individual, commenced, the Horticultural Society
+are endeavouring, as a body, to effect.
+
+Immediately past the Hospital for Consumption is Fowlis Terrace, a row of
+newly-built houses, running from the road.
+
+At the corner of Church Street (on the opposite side of the road) is an
+enclosure used as the burial-ground of the Westminster Congregation of
+the Jews.  There is an inscription in Hebrew characters over the
+entrance, above which is an English inscription with the date of the
+erection of the building according to the Jewish computation A.M. 5576,
+or 1816 A.D.  Beside it is the milestone denoting that it is 1½ mile from
+London.
+
+The QUEEN’S ELM TURNPIKE, pulled down in 1848, was situated here, and
+took its name from the tradition that Queen Elizabeth, when walking out,
+attended by Lord Burleigh, {87a} being overtaken by a heavy shower of
+rain, found shelter here under an elm-tree.  After the rain was over, the
+queen said, “Let this henceforward be called The Queen’s Tree.”  The
+tradition is strongly supported by the parish records of Chelsea, as
+mention is made in 1586 (the 28th of Elizabeth, and probably the year of
+the occurrence), of a tree situated about this spot, “at the end of the
+Duke’s Walk,” {87b} as “The Queen’s Tree,” around which an arbour was
+built, or, in other words, nine young elm-trees were planted, by one
+Bostocke, at the charge of the parish.  The first mention of “The Queen’s
+_Elm_,” occurs in 1687, ninety-nine years after her Majesty had sheltered
+beneath the tree around which “an arbour was built,” when the surveyors
+of the highway were amerced in the sum of five pounds, “for not
+sufficiently mending the highway from the Queen Elm to the bridge, and
+from the Elm to Church Lane.”  In a plan of Chelsea, from a survey made
+in 1664 by James Hamilton, and continued to 1717, a tree occupying the
+spot assigned to “The Queen’s Elm,” is called “The Cross Tree,” and in
+the vestry minutes it is designated as “The High Elm,” which latter name
+is used by Sir Hans Sloane in 1727.  Bostocke’s arbour, however, had the
+effect of giving to the cross-road the name of “The Nine Elms.”  Steele,
+on the 22nd June, 1711, writing to his wife, says, “Pray, on the receipt
+of this, go to the Nine Elms, and I will follow you within an hour.” {88}
+And so late as 1805, “The Nine Elms, Chelsea,” appeared as a local
+address in newspaper advertisements.
+
+Again let me crave indulgence for minute attention to the changes of
+name; but much topographical difficulty often arises from this cause.
+
+The stump of the royal tree, with, as is asserted, its root remaining in
+the ground undisturbed, a few years ago existed squared down to the
+dimensions of an ordinary post, about six feet in height and whitewashed.
+But the identity appears questionable, although a post, not improbably
+fashioned out of one of the nine elms which grew around it, stood till
+within the last few years in front of a public-house named from the
+circumstance the Queen’s Elm, which house has been a little altered since
+the annexed sketch was made, by the introduction of a clock between the
+second floor windows, and the house adjoining has been rebuilt,
+overtopping it.
+
+[Picture: Queen’s Elm Public House]
+
+On the opposite or north side of the Fulham Road, some small houses are
+called SELWOOD PLACE, from being built on part of the ground of “Mr.
+Selwood’s nursery,” which is mentioned in 1712 by Mr. Narcissus Luttrell,
+of whom more hereafter, as one of the sources from which he derived a
+variety of pear, cultivated by him in his garden at Little Chelsea.
+
+CHELSEA PARK, on the same side of the way with the Queen’s Elm
+public-house, and distant about a furlong from it, as seen from the road,
+appears a noble structure with a magnificent portico.  [Picture: Chelsea
+Park Portico] The ground now called Chelsea Park belonged, with an
+extensive tract of which it formed the northern part, to the famous Sir
+Thomas More, and in his time was unenclosed, and termed “the Sand Hills.”
+It received the present name in 1625, when the Lord-Treasurer Cranfield
+(Earl of Middlesex) surrounded with a brick wall about thirty-two acres,
+which he had purchased in 1620 from Mr. Blake.  In 1717 Chelsea Park,
+which extended from the Fulham to the King’s Road, was estimated at forty
+acres, and belonged to the Marquis of Wharton, with whom, when appointed
+in 1709 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Addison went over as Secretary.  It
+subsequently became the scene of a joint-stock company speculation under
+a patent granted in 1718 to John Appletree, Esq., for producing raw silk
+of the growth of England, and for raising a fund for carrying on the
+same.  This undertaking was divided into shares of £5 each, of which £1
+was paid down.  Proposals were published, a subscription-book opened, in
+which several hundred names were soon entered; a deed of trust executed
+and enrolled in Chancery; directors were chosen by the subscribers for
+managing the affairs of the Company; and, Chelsea Park being thought a
+proper soil for the purpose and in a convenient situation, a lease was
+taken of it for 122 years.  Here upwards of 2000 mulberry-trees were soon
+planted, and extensive edifices erected for carrying on the work: this
+number of trees was, however, but a small part of what the company
+intended to plant if they were successful.  In the following year Mr.
+Henry Barham, F.R.S., who was probably a member of the company, published
+‘An Essay on the Silk Worm,’ in which he thinks “all objections and
+difficulties against this glorious undertaking are shown to be mere
+phantoms and trifles.”  The event, however, proved that the company met
+with difficulties of a real and formidable nature; for though the
+expectation of this gentleman, who questioned not that in the ensuing
+year they should produce a considerable quantity of raw silk, may have
+been partly answered, the undertaking soon began to decline, and, in the
+course of a few years, came to nothing.  It must, however, be admitted
+that the violent stock-jobbing speculations of the year 1720, which
+involved the shares of all projects of this nature, might have produced
+many changes among the proprietors, and contributed to derange the
+original design.  However, from that period to the present time, no
+effort has been made to cultivate the silkworm in this country as a
+mercantile speculation, although individuals have continued to rear it
+with success as an object of curiosity.
+
+Walpole, in his ‘Catalogue of Engravers,’ tells us that James Christopher
+Le Blon, a Fleming by birth, and a mezzotint-engraver by profession, some
+time subsequent to 1732, “set up a project for copying the cartoons in
+tapestry, and made some very fine drawings for that purpose.  Houses were
+built and looms erected in the Mulberry Ground at Chelsea; but either the
+expense was precipitated too fast, or contributions did not arrive fast
+enough.  The bubble burst, several suffered, and Le Blon was heard of no
+more.”  Walpole adds, “It is said he died in an hospital at Paris in
+1740:” and observes that Le Blon was “very far from young when he knew
+him, but of surprising vivacity and volubility, and with a head admirably
+mechanic, but an universal projector, and with at least one of the
+qualities that attend that vocation, either a dupe or a cheat; I think,”
+he continues, “the former, though, as most of his projects ended in air,
+the sufferers believed the latter.  As he was much an enthusiast, perhaps
+like most enthusiasts he was both one and t’ other.”
+
+The present mansion was built upon a portion of Chelsea Park by Mr.
+William Broomfield, an eminent surgeon, who resided in it for several
+years.  The late possessor was Sir Henry Wright Wilson, Bart., to whose
+wife, Lady Frances Wilson (daughter of the Earl of Aylesbury), was left a
+valuable estate in Hampshire, {92} said to be worth about £3,000 a year,
+under the following very singular circumstances.  Her ladyship was
+informed one morning in February, 1814, while at breakfast, that an
+eccentric person named Wright, who had died a few days previously at an
+obscure lodging in Pimlico, had appointed her and Mr. Charles Abbott his
+executors, and after some legacies had bequeathed to Lady Frances the
+residue of his property by a will dated so far back as August, 1800.  As
+Lady Frances declared herself to be unacquainted even with the name of
+the testator, she at first concluded that there was some mistake in the
+matter.  After further explanation, the person of Mr. Wright was
+described to her, and Lady Frances at last recollected that the
+description answered that of a gentleman she had remembered as a constant
+frequenter of the Opera some years previously and considered to be a
+foreigner, and who had annoyed her extremely there by constantly staring
+at her box.  To satisfy herself of the identity, she went to the lodgings
+of the late Mr. Wright, and saw him in his coffin, when she recognized
+the features perfectly as those of the person whose eyes had so often
+persecuted her when she was Lady Frances Bruce, but who had never spoken
+to her, and of whom she had no other knowledge whatever.
+
+Mr. Wright left legacies of £4,000 to the Countess of Rosslyn, £4,000 to
+the Speaker of the House of Commons, £1,000 to the lord-chancellor, and
+the same sum to Archdeacon Pott, the rector of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
+which church Mr. Wright had been in the habit of frequenting, having as
+little acquaintance with any of these parties as he had with Lady Frances
+Wilson.  It may be supposed from these facts that Lady Frances Wilson was
+exceedingly beautiful, and that an admiration of her charms might have
+influenced Mr. Wright to make this extraordinary bequest in her favour;
+but those who knew Lady Frances well assert that such could not possibly
+have been the case, as she was far from beautiful at any period of her
+life; and the oddity of the story is, and it seemed to be the general
+opinion, that Mr. Wright’s legacy was intended for a lady who usually
+occupied a box next to that in which Lady Frances sat, and who, at the
+period, was regarded as the _belle_ of the Opera.
+
+THISTLE GROVE, on the opposite side of the road from Chelsea Park, leads,
+by what had been a garden pathway, to the Old Brompton Road.  At each
+side of “the Grove,” now occupying the sites of trees, are detached
+villas, houses, lodges, and cottages, named, or not named, after the
+taste of their respective proprietors; one of which, on the left hand,
+some fourteen houses distant from the main Fulham Road, was for many
+years the residence of Mr. John Burke, whose laborious heraldic and
+genealogical inquiries induced him to arrange and publish various
+important collections relative to the peerage and family history of the
+United Kingdom, in which may be found, condensed for immediate reference,
+an immense mass of important information.
+
+In Thistle Grove Mr. J. P. Warde, the well-known actor, died in 1840.
+
+Immediately beyond Chelsea Park the village of LITTLE CHELSEA commences,
+about the centre of which, and on the same side of the way, at the corner
+of the road leading to Battersea Bridge, stands the Goat in Boots
+public-house.  [Picture: Goat in Boots] In 1663, there was a “house
+called the Goat at Little Chelsea,” which, between that year and 1713,
+enjoyed the right of commonage for two cows and one heifer upon Chelsea
+Heath.
+
+How the Goat became equipped in boots, and the designation of the house
+changed, has been the subject of various conjectures; the most probable
+of which is, that it originates in a corruption of the latter part of the
+Dutch legend,—
+
+    “MERCURIUS IS DER GODEN BOODE,”
+    (Mercury is the messenger of the gods,)
+
+which being divided between each side of a sign bearing the figure of
+Mercury—a sign commonly used in the early part of the last century to
+denote that post-horses were to be obtained—“der goden boode” became
+freely translated into English, “the goat in boots.”  To Le Blon is
+attributed the execution of this sign and its motto; but, whoever the
+original artist may have been, and the intermediate retouchers or
+repainters of the god, certain it is that the pencil of Morland, in
+accordance with the desire of the landlord, either transformed the
+petasus of Mercury into the horned head of a goat, his talaria into spurs
+upon boots of huge dimensions, and his caduceus into a cutlass, or thus
+decorated the original sign, thereby liquidating a score which he had run
+up here, without any other means of payment than what his pencil
+afforded.  The sign, however, has been painted over, with considerable
+additional embellishments from gold leaf, so that not the least trace of
+Morland’s work remains, except, perhaps, in the outline.
+
+Park Walk (the road turning off at the Goat in Boots) proceeds to the
+King’s Road, and, although not in a direct line, to Battersea Bridge.
+Opposite the Goat in Boots is Gilston Road, leading to Boltons and St.
+Mary’s Place.  At No. 6, St. Mary’s Place, resides J. O. Halliwell,
+F.R.S., F.S.A., the well-known Shaksperian scholar, whose varied
+contributions to literature have been crowned by the production of his
+folio edition of Shakspere—a work still in progress.  At No. 8, Mr.
+Edward Wright, the popular actor, resided for a short time.
+
+A few paces further on the main Fulham Road, at the north or opposite
+side, stood “Manor House,” now termed Manor Hall, and occupied by St.
+Philip’s Orphanage, a large, old-fashioned building, with the intervening
+space between it and the road screened in by boards,—which were attached
+to the antique iron gate and railings about twenty years ago, when it
+became appropriated to a charitable asylum.  Previously, Manor House had
+been a ladies’ boarding-school; and here Miss Bartolozzi, afterwards
+Madame Vestris, was educated.
+
+SEYMOUR PLACE, which leads to Seymour Terrace, is a cul-de-sac on the
+same side of the main Fulham Road, between Manor Hall and the Somerset
+Arms public-house, which last forms the west corner of Seymour Place.
+
+At No. 1, Seymour Terrace expired, on the 19th of June, 1824, in her
+twenty-fifth year, Madame Riego, the widow of the unfortunate patriot
+General Riego, “the restorer and martyr of Spanish freedom.”  Her short
+and eventful history possesses more than ordinary melancholy.  While yet
+a child she had to endure all the hardships and privations consequent
+upon a state of warfare, and under the protection of her maternal
+grandfather, had to seek refuge from place to place on the mountains of
+Asturias from the French army.  At the close of 1821 she was married to
+General Riego, to whom she had been known and attached almost from
+infancy, and, in the spring of the following year, became, with her
+distinguished husband, a resident in Madrid.  But the political confusion
+and continued alarm of the period having appeared to affect her health,
+the general proceeded with her in the autumn to Granada, where he parted
+from his young and beloved wife, never again to meet her in this world,
+the convocation of the extraordinary Cortes for October 1822 obliging him
+to return to the capital.
+
+Accompanied by the canon Riego, brother to her husband, and her attached
+sister, Donna Lucie, she removed in March to Malaga, from whence the
+advance of the French army into the south of Spain obliged them to seek
+protection at Gibraltar, which, under the advice of General Riego, they
+left for England on the 4th of July, but, owing to an unfavourable
+passage, did not reach London until the 17th of August.  Here the
+visitation which impended over her was still more calamitous than all
+that had preceded it.  Within little more than two months after her
+arrival in London, the account arrived of General Riego’s execution. {97}
+
+Gerald Griffin, the Irish novelist, in a letter dated 22nd of November,
+1823, says,—
+
+    “I have been lately negotiating with my host (of 76 Regent Street)
+    for lodgings for the widow and brother of poor General Riego.  They
+    are splendid apartments, but the affair has been broken off by the
+    account of his death.  It has been concealed from her.  She is a
+    young woman, and is following him fast, being far advanced in a
+    consumption.  His brother is in deep grief.  He says he will go and
+    bury himself for the remainder of his days in the woods of America.”
+
+The house,
+
+                          No. 1, SEYMOUR PLACE,
+
+[Picture: No. 1 Seymour Place] as it was then, Seymour Terrace, Little
+Chelsea, as it is now called, became, about this period, the residence of
+the unhappy fugitives.  Griffin, who appears to have made their
+acquaintance through a Spanish gentleman, named Valentine Llanos, writes,
+in February, 1824,—
+
+    “I was introduced the other day to poor Madame Riego, the relict of
+    the unfortunate general.  I was surprised to see her look much better
+    than I was prepared to expect, as she is in a confirmed consumption.”
+
+Mental grief, which death only could terminate, had at that moment
+“marked” Madame Riego “for his own;” yet her look, like that of all
+high-minded Spaniards, to a stranger was calm—“much better than he was
+prepared to expect.”
+
+On the 18th of May, exactly one month and a day before the termination of
+her sufferings, Griffin says,—
+
+    “The canon Riego, brother to the poor martyr, sent me, the other day,
+    a Spanish poem of many cantos, having for its subject the career of
+    the unhappy general, and expressed a wish that I might find material
+    for an English one in it, if I felt disposed to make anything of the
+    subject.  _Apropos_, Madame Riego is almost dead.  The fire is in her
+    eye, and the flush on her cheek, which are, I believe, no beacons of
+    hope to the consumptive.  She is an interesting woman, and I pity her
+    from my soul.  This Mr. Mathews, who was confined with her husband,
+    and arrived lately in London, and who, moreover, is a countryman of
+    mine, brought her from her dying husband a little favourite dog and a
+    parrot, which were his companions in his dungeon.  He very
+    indiscreetly came before her with the remembrances without any
+    preparation, and she received a shock from it, from which she has not
+    yet, nor ever will recover.  What affecting little circumstances
+    these are, and how interesting to one who has the least mingling of
+    enthusiasm in his character!”
+
+Madame Riego died in the arms of her attached sister, attended by the
+estimable canon.  In her will she directed her executor, the canon, to
+assure the British people of the gratitude she felt towards them for the
+sympathy and support which they extended to her in the hours of her
+adversity.  But what makes the will peculiarly affecting is her solemn
+attestation to the purity and sincerity of the political life of General
+Riego.  She states that she esteems it to be the last act of justice and
+duty to the memory of her beloved husband, solemnly to declare, in the
+awful presence of her God, before whose judgment-seat she feels she must
+soon appear, that all his private feelings and dispositions respecting
+his country corresponded with his public acts and professions in defence
+of its liberties.
+
+A few yards beyond the turn down to Seymour Place, on the opposite side
+of the road, stood, until pulled down in 1856, to make room for the new
+one, the additional workhouse to St. George’s, Hanover Square, for which
+purpose Shaftesbury House was purchased by that parish in 1787; and an
+Act of Parliament passed in that year declares it to be in “St. George’s
+parish so long as it shall continue to be appropriated to its present
+use.”  [Picture: Shaftesbury House] [Picture: Back of Shaftesbury House]
+The parochial adjuncts to Lord Shaftesbury’s mansion, which remained,
+until the period of its demolition, in nearly the same state as when
+disposed of, have been considerable; but the building, as his lordship
+left it, could be at once recognised through the iron gate by which you
+entered, and which was surmounted by a lion rampant, probably the crest
+of one of the subsequent possessors.  It is surprising, indeed, that so
+little alteration, externally as well as internally should have taken
+place.  The appearance of the back of Shaftesbury House, as represented
+in an old print, was unchanged, with the exception of the flight of steps
+which led to the garden being transferred to the west (or shaded side) of
+the wing—an addition made by Lord Shaftesbury to the original house.
+This was purchased by him in 1699 from the Bovey family, as heirs to the
+widow of Sir James Smith, by whom there is reason to believe it was built
+in 1635, as [Picture: Stone] was engraved on a stone which formed part of
+the pavement in front of one of the summer-houses in the garden.
+
+The Right Honourable Sir James Smith was buried at Chelsea 18th of
+November, 1681.  He was probably the junior sheriff of London in 1672.
+
+[Picture: Summer-house]
+
+    “It does not appear,” says Lysons, “that Lord Shaftesbury pulled down
+    Sir James Smith’s house, but altered it and made considerable
+    additions by a building fifty feet in length, which projected into
+    the garden.  It was secured with an iron door, the window-shutters
+    were of the same metal, and there were iron plates between it and the
+    house to prevent all communication by fire, of which this learned and
+    noble peer seems to have entertained great apprehensions.  The whole
+    of the new building, though divided into a gallery and two small
+    rooms (one of which was his lordship’s bedchamber), was fitted up as
+    a library.  The earl was very fond of the culture of fruit-trees, and
+    his gardens were planted with the choicest sorts, particularly every
+    kind of vine which would bear the open air of this climate.  It
+    appears by Lord Shaftesbury’s letters to Sir John Cropley that he
+    dreaded the smoke of London as so prejudicial to his health, that
+    whenever the wind was easterly he quitted Little Chelsea,” where he
+    generally resided during the sitting of Parliament.
+
+In 1710 the noble author of ‘Characteristics,’ then about to proceed to
+Italy, sold his residence at Little Chelsea to Narcissus Luttrell, Esq.,
+who, as a book-collector, is described by Dr. Dibdin as “ever ardent in
+his love of past learning, and not less voracious in his bibliomaniacal
+appetites” than the Duke of Marlborough.  Sir Walter Scott acknowledges
+in his preface to the works of Dryden the obligations he is under to the
+“valuable” and “curious collection of fugitive pieces of the reigns of
+Charles II., James II., William III., and Queen Anne,” “made by Narcissus
+Luttrell, Esq., under whose name the editor quotes it.  This industrious
+collector,” continues Sir Walter, “seems to have bought every poetical
+tract, of whatever merit, which was hawked through the streets in his
+time, marking carefully the price and the date of the purchase.  His
+collection contains the earliest editions of many of our most excellent
+poems, bound up, according to the order of time, with the lowest trash of
+Grub Street.  It was dispersed on Mr. Luttrell’s death,” adds Sir Walter
+Scott, and he then mentions Mr. James Bindley and Mr. Richard Heber as
+having “obtained a great share of the Luttrell collection, and liberally
+furnished him with the loan of some of them in order to the more perfect
+editing of Dryden’s works.”
+
+This is not exactly correct, as Mr. Luttrell’s library descended with
+Shaftesbury House to Mr. Sergeant Wynne, and from him to his eldest son,
+after whose death it was sold by auction in 1786.  On the title-page of
+the sale-catalogue the collection is described as “the valuable library
+of Edward Wynne, Esq., lately deceased, brought from his house at Little
+Chelsea.  Great part of it was formed by an eminent and curious collector
+in the last century.”  At the sale of Mr. Wynne’s library, Bindley
+purchased lot ’209, Collection of Poems, various, Latin and English, 5
+vols. 1626, &c.,’ for seven guineas; and ’211, Collection of Political
+Poems, Dialogues, Funeral Elegies, Lampoons, &c., with various Political
+Prints and Portraits, 3 vols. 1641, &c.,’ for sixteen pounds; and it is
+probable that these are the collections to which Sir Walter Scott refers.
+
+Dr. Dibdin, in his enthusiastic mode of treating matters of bibliography,
+endeavours to establish a pedigree for those who
+
+    “Love a ballad in print a’ life,”
+
+from Pepys, placing Mr. Luttrell the Second in descent.
+
+    “The opening of the eighteenth century,” he observes, “was
+    distinguished by the death of a bibliomaniac of the very first order
+    and celebrity; of one who had no doubt frequently discoursed largely
+    and eloquently with Luttrell upon the variety and value of certain
+    editions of old ballad poetry, and between whom presents of curious
+    old black-letter volumes were in all probability passing, I allude to
+    the famous Samuel Pepys, secretary to the Admiralty.”
+
+Of Narcissus Luttrell he then says:—
+
+    “Nothing would seem to have escaped his lynx-like vigilance.  Let the
+    object be what it may (especially if it related to poetry), let the
+    volume be great or small, or contain good, bad, or indifferent
+    warblings of the Muse, his insatiable craving had ‘stomach for all.’
+    We may consider his collection the fountain-head of these copious
+    streams, which, after fructifying in the libraries of many
+    bibliomaniacs in the first half of the eighteenth century, settled
+    for awhile more determinedly in the curious book-reservoir of a Mr.
+    Wynne, and hence breaking up and taking a different direction towards
+    the collections of Farmer, Steevens, and others, they have almost
+    lost their identity in the innumerable rivulets which now inundate
+    the book-world.”
+
+It is to the literary taste of Mr. Edward Wynne, as asserted by Dr.
+Dibdin, that modern book-collectors are indebted for the preservation of
+most of the choicest relics of the Bibliotheca Luttrelliana.
+
+    “Mr. Wynne,” he continues, “lived at Little Chelsea, and built his
+    library in a room which had the reputation of having been Locke’s
+    study.  Here he used to sit surrounded by innumerable books, a great
+    part being formed by ‘an eminent and curious collector in the last
+    century.’”
+
+What Dr. Dibdin says respecting Mr. Wynne’s building a library and
+Locke’s study is inaccurate, as there can be no reasonable doubt that the
+room or rooms his library occupied were those built by Lord Shaftesbury,
+which had (and correctly) the reputation of having been his lordship’s
+library, and the study, not of Locke, although of Locke’s pupil and
+friend.  It is not even probable that Lord Shaftesbury was ever visited
+by our great philosopher at Little Chelsea, as from 1700 that illustrious
+man resided altogether at Oates, in Essex, where he died on the 28th of
+October, 1704.
+
+Whether to Lord Shaftesbury or to Mr. Luttrell the embellishments of the
+garden of their residence are to be attributed can now be only matter for
+conjecture, unless some curious autograph-collector’s portfolio may by
+chance contain an old letter or other document to establish the claim.
+Their tastes, however, were very similar.  They both loved their books,
+and their fruits and flowers, and enjoyed the study of them.  [Picture:
+Summer-house] An account drawn up by Mr. Luttrell of several pears which
+he cultivated at Little Chelsea, with outlines of their longitudinal
+sections, was communicated to the Horticultural Society by Dr. Luttrell
+Wynne, one hundred years after the notes had been made, and may be found
+printed in the second volume of the Transactions of that Society.  In
+this account twenty-five varieties of pears are mentioned, which had been
+obtained between the years 1712 and 1717 from Mr. Duncan’s, Lord
+Cheneys’s, Mr. Palmer’s, and Mr. Selwood’s nursery.
+
+Until recently it was astounding to find, amid the rage for alteration
+and improvement, the formal old-fashioned shape of a trim garden of Queen
+Anne’s time carefully preserved, its antique summer-houses respected, and
+the little infant leaden Hercules, which spouted water to cool the air
+from a serpent’s throat, still asserting its aquatic supremacy, under the
+shade of a fine old medlar-tree; and all this too in the garden of a
+London parish workhouse!  [Picture: Hercules fountain] Not less
+surprising was the aspect of the interior.  The grotesque workshop of the
+pauper artisans, said to have been [Picture: Workshop] Lord Shaftesbury’s
+dairy, and over which was his fire-proof library, was then an apartment
+appropriated to a girls’ school.
+
+On the basement story of the original house the embellished mouldings of
+a doorway, carried the mind back to [Picture: Doorway] the days of
+Charles I., and, standing within which, imagination depicted the figure
+of a jolly Cavalier retainer, with his pipe and tankard; or of a
+Puritanical, formal servant, the expression of whose countenance was
+sufficient to turn the best-brewed October into vinegar.  The old carved
+door leading into this apartment is shown in the annexed sketch.
+
+Nor should the apartment then occupied by the intelligent master of the
+workhouse be overlooked.  The panelling of the room, its chimney-piece,
+and the painting and [Picture: Fireplace with painting above] framework
+above it, placed us completely in a chamber of the time of William III.
+And we only required a slight alteration in the furniture, and Lord
+Shaftesbury to enter, to feel that we were in the presence of the author
+of ‘Characteristics.’
+
+The staircase, too, with its spiral balusters, as seen through the
+doorway, retained its ancient air.
+
+                [Picture: Staircase seen through doorway]
+
+Narcissus Luttrell died here on the 26th of June, 1732, and was buried at
+Chelsea on the 6th of July following; where Francis Luttrell (presumed to
+be his son) was also buried on the 3rd of September, 1740.  Shaftesbury
+House then passed into the occupation of Mr. Sergeant Wynne, who died on
+the 17th of May, 1765; and from him it descended to his eldest son, Mr.
+Edward Wynne, the author of ‘Eunomus: a Dialogue concerning the Law and
+Constitution of England, with an Essay on Dialogue,’ 4 vols. 8vo; and
+other works, chiefly of a legal nature.  He died a bachelor, at Little
+Chelsea, on the 27th of December, 1784; and his brother, the Rev.
+Luttrell Wynne, of All Souls, Oxford, inherited Shaftesbury House, and
+the valuable library which Mr. Luttrell, his father, and brother, had
+accumulated.  The house he alienated to William Virtue, from whom, as
+before mentioned, it was purchased by the parish of St. George’s, Hanover
+Square, in 1787; and the library formed a twelve-days’ sale, by Messrs.
+Leigh and Sotheby, commencing on the 6th of March, 1786.  The
+auction-catalogue contained 2788 lots; and some idea of the value may be
+formed from the circumstance, that nine of the first seventeen lots sold
+for no less a sum than £32 7s., and that four lots of old newspapers,
+Nos. 25, 26, 27, and 28, were knocked down at £18 5s.  No. ‘376, a
+collection of old plays, by Gascoigne, White, Windet, Decker, &c., 21
+vols,’ brought £38 17s.; and No. 644, Milton’s ‘Eiconoclastes,’ with MS.
+notes, supposed to be written by Milton, was bought by Waldron for 2s.,
+who afterwards gave it to Dr. Farmer.  Dr. Dibdin declares, that “never
+was a precious collection of English history and poetry so wretchedly
+detailed to the public in an auction-catalogue” as that of Mr. Wynne’s
+library; and yet it will be seen that it must have realised a
+considerable sum of money.  He mentions, that “a great number of the
+poetical tracts were disposed of, previous to the sale, to Dr. Farmer,
+who gave not more than forty guineas for them.”
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+FROM LITTLE CHELSEA TO WALHAM GREEN.
+
+After what has been said respecting Shaftesbury House, it may be supposed
+that its associations with the memory of remarkable individuals are
+exhausted.  This is very far from being the case; and a long period in
+its history, from 1635 to 1699, remains to be filled up, which, however,
+must be done by conjecture: although so many circumstances are upon
+record, that it is not impossible others can be produced to complete a
+chain of evidence that may establish among those who have been inmates of
+the ADDITIONAL WORKHOUSE OF ST. GEORGE’S, HANOVER SQUARE—startling as the
+assertion may appear—two of the most illustrious individuals in the
+annals of this country; of one of whom Bishop Burnet observed, {110} that
+his “loss is lamented by all learned men;” the other, a man whose “great
+and distinguishing knowledge was the knowledge of human nature or the
+powers and operations of the mind, in which he went further, and spoke
+clearer, than all other writers who preceded him, and whose ‘Essay on the
+Human Understanding’ is the best book of logic in the world.”  After
+this, I need scarcely add that BOYLE and LOCKE are the illustrious
+individuals referred to.
+
+The amiable John Evelyn, in his ‘Diary,’ mentions his visiting Mr. Boyle
+at Chelsea, on the 9th March, 1661, in company “with that excellent
+person and philosopher, Sir Robert Murray,” where they “saw divers
+effects of the eolipile for weighing air.”  And in the same year M. de
+Monconys, a French traveller in England, says, “L’après diné je fus avec
+M. Oldenburg, {111} et mon fils, à deux milles de Londres en carosse pour
+cinq chelins à un village nommé _le petit Chelsey_, voir M. Boyle.”  Now
+at this period there probably was no other house at Little Chelsea of
+sufficient importance to be the residence of the Hon. Robert Boyle, where
+he could receive strangers in his laboratory and show them his great
+telescope; and, moreover, notwithstanding what has been said to prove the
+impossibility of Locke having visited Lord Shaftesbury on this spot,
+local tradition continues to assert that Locke’s work on the ‘Human
+Understanding’ was commenced in the retirement of one of the
+summer-houses of Lord Shaftesbury’s residence.  This certainly may have
+been the case if we regard Locke as a visitor to his brother philosopher,
+Boyle, and admit his tenancy of the mansion previous to that of Lord
+Shaftesbury, to whom Locke, it is very probable, communicated the
+circumstance, and which might have indirectly led to his lordship’s
+purchase of the premises.  Be that as it may, it is an interesting
+association, with something more than mere fancy for its support, to
+contemplate a communion between two of the master-minds of the age, and
+the influence which their conversation possibly had upon that of the
+other.
+
+Boyle’s sister, the puritanical Countess of Warwick, under date 27th
+November, 1666, makes the following note: “In the morning, as soon as
+dressed, I prayed, then went with my lord to my house at Chelsea, which
+he had hired, where I was all that day taken up with business about my
+house.” {112}  Whether this refers to _Little Chelsea_ or not is more
+than I can affirm, although there are reasons for thinking that
+Shaftesbury House, or, if not, one which will be subsequently pointed
+out, is the house alluded to.
+
+Charles, the fourth Earl of Orrery, and grand-nephew to Boyle the
+philosopher, was born at Dr. Whittaker’s house at Little Chelsea on the
+21st July, 1674.  It was his grandfather’s marriage with Lady Margaret
+Howard, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk, that induced the witty Sir John
+Suckling to write his well-known ‘Ballad upon a Wedding,’ in which he so
+lusciously describes the bride:—
+
+    “Her cheeks so rare a white was on,
+    No daisie makes comparison;
+       Who sees them is undone;
+    For streaks of red were mingled there,
+    Such as are on the Cath’rine pear—
+       The side that’s next the sun.
+
+    “Her lips were red; and one was thin,
+    Compared to that was next her chin—
+       Some bee had stung it newly;
+    But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face,
+    I durst no more upon her gaze,
+       Than on the sun in July.”
+
+The second Earl of Orrery, this lady’s son, having married Lady Mary
+Sackville, daughter of the Earl of Dorset, is stated to have led a
+secluded life at Little Chelsea, and to have died in 1682.  His eldest
+son, the third earl, died in 1703, and his brother, mentioned above as
+born at Little Chelsea, became the fourth earl, and distinguished himself
+in the military, scientific, and literary proceedings of his times.  In
+compliment to this Lord Orrery’s patronage, Graham, an ingenious
+watchmaker, named after his lordship a piece of mechanism which exhibits
+the movements of the heavenly bodies.  With his brother’s death, however,
+in 1703, at Earl’s Court, Kensington, the connection of the Boyle family
+with this neighbourhood appears to terminate.
+
+Doctor Baldwin Hamey, an eminent medical practitioner during the time of
+the Commonwealth, and a considerable benefactor to the College of
+Physicians, died at Little Chelsea on the 14th of May, 1676, after an
+honourable retirement from his professional duties of more than ten
+years.
+
+Mr. Faulkner’s ‘History of Kensington,’ published in 1820, and in which
+parish the portion of Little Chelsea on the north side of the Fulham Road
+stands, mentions the residence of Sir Bartholomew Shower, an eminent
+lawyer, in 1693; Sir Edward Ward, lord chief baron of the Exchequer, in
+1697; Edward Fowler, lord bishop of Gloucester, in 1709, who died at his
+house here on the 26th August, 1714; and Sir William Dawes, lord bishop
+of Chester, in 1709, who, I may add, died Archbishop of York in 1724.
+But in Mr. Faulkner’s ‘History of Chelsea,’ published in 1829, nothing
+more is to be found respecting Sir Bartholomew Shower than that he was
+engaged in some parochial law proceedings in 1691.  Sir Edward Ward’s
+residence is unnoticed.  The Bishop of Gloucester, who is said to have
+been a devout believer in fairies and witchcraft, is enumerated among the
+inhabitants of Paradise Row, Chelsea (near the hospital, and full a mile
+distant from _le petit Chelsey_); and Sir William Dawes, we find from
+various entries, an inhabitant of the parish between the years 1696 and
+1712, but without “a local habitation” being assigned to him.  All this
+is very unsatisfactory to any one whose appetite craves after map-like
+accuracy in parish affairs.
+
+Bowack, in 1705, mentions that
+
+    “At Little Chelsea stands a regular handsome house, with a noble
+    courtyard and good gardens, built by Mr. Mart, now inhabited by Sir
+    John Cope, Bart., a gentleman of an ancient and honourable family,
+    who formerly was eminent in the service of his country abroad, and
+    for many years of late in Parliament, till he voluntarily retired
+    here to end his days in peace.”
+
+And here Sir John Cope died in 1721.  Can he have been the father of the
+
+   “Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking yet,
+   Or are ye sleeping, I would wit?
+   O haste ye, get up, for the drums do beat;
+   O fye, Cope! rise up in the morning!”
+
+—of the Sir John Cope who was forced to retreat from Preston Pans in “the
+’45,” and against whom all the shafts of Jacobite ribaldry have been
+levelled?
+
+Faulkner says that this house, which was “subsequently occupied by the
+late Mr. Duffield as a private madhouse, has been pulled down, and its
+site is now called Odell’s Place, a little eastward of Lord
+Shaftesbury’s;” that is to say, opposite to Manor Hall, and Sir John
+Cope’s house was not improbably the residence of two distinguished naval
+officers, Sir James Wishart and Sir John Balchen.  The former was made an
+admiral, and knighted by Queen Anne in 1703, and appointed one of the
+lords of the Admiralty, but was dismissed from the naval service by
+George I. for favouring the interests of the Pretender, and died at
+Little Chelsea on the 30th of May, 1723.  In the ‘Daily Courant,’ Monday,
+July 15, 1723, the following advertisement appears:—
+
+    “To be sold by auction, the household goods, plate, china ware,
+    linen, &c., of Sir James Wishart, deceased, on Thursday the 18th
+    instant, at his late dwelling-house at Little Chelsea.  The goods to
+    be seen this day, to-morrow, and Wednesday, before the sale, from 9
+    to 12 in the morning, and from 3 to 7 in the evening.  Catalogues to
+    be had at the sale.
+
+    “N.B.  A coach and chariot to be sold, and the house to be let.”
+
+Admiral Sir John Balchen resided at Little Chelsea soon after Sir James
+Wishart’s death.  In 1744, Admiral Balchen perished in the Victory, of
+120 guns, which had the reputation of being the most beautiful ship in
+the world, but foundered, with eleven hundred souls on board, in the Bay
+of Biscay.
+
+On the 31st of March, 1723, Edward Hyde, the third Earl of Clarendon,
+died “at his house, Little Chelsea;” but where the earl’s house stood I
+am unable to state.
+
+Mrs. Robinson, the fascinating “Perdita,” tells us, in her autobiography,
+that, at the age of ten (1768), she was “placed for education in a school
+at Chelsea.”  And she then commences a most distressing narrative, in
+which the last tragic scene she was witness to occurred at Little
+Chelsea.
+
+    “The mistress of this seminary,” Mrs. Robinson describes as “perhaps
+    one of the most extraordinary women that ever graced, or disgraced,
+    society.  Her name was Meribah Lorrington.  She was the most
+    extensively accomplished female that I ever remember to have met
+    with; her mental powers were no less capable of cultivation than
+    superiorly cultivated.  Her father, whose name was Hull, had from her
+    infancy been master of an academy at Earl’s Court, near Fulham; and
+    early after his marriage, losing his wife, he resolved on giving this
+    daughter a masculine education.  Meribah was early instructed in all
+    the modern accomplishments, as well as in classical knowledge.  She
+    was mistress of the Latin, French, and Italian languages; she was
+    said to be a perfect arithmetician and astronomer, and possessed the
+    art of painting on silk to a degree of exquisite perfection.  But,
+    alas! with all these advantages, she was addicted to one vice, which
+    at times so completely absorbed her faculties as to deprive her of
+    every power, either mental or corporeal.  Thus, daily and hourly, her
+    superior acquirements, her enlightened understanding, yielded to the
+    intemperance of her ruling infatuation, and every power of reflection
+    seemed absorbed in the unfeminine propensity.
+
+    “All that I ever learned,” adds Mrs. Robinson, “I acquired from this
+    extraordinary woman.  In those hours when her senses were not
+    intoxicated, she would delight in the task of instructing me.  She
+    had only five or six pupils, and it was my lot to be her particular
+    favourite.  She always, out of school, called me her little friend,
+    and made no scruple of conversing with me (sometimes half the night,
+    for I slept in her chamber) on domestic and confidential affairs.  I
+    felt for her very sincere affection, and I listened with peculiar
+    attention to all the lessons she inculcated.  Once I recollect her
+    mentioning the particular failing which disgraced so intelligent a
+    being.  She pleaded, in excuse of it, the unmitigable regret of a
+    widowed heart, and with compunction declared that she flew to
+    intoxication as the only refuge from the pang of prevailing sorrow.”
+
+Mrs. Robinson remained more than twelve months under the care of Mrs.
+Lorrington,
+
+    “When pecuniary derangements obliged her to give up her school.  Her
+    father’s manners were singularly disgusting, as was his appearance,
+    for he wore a silvery beard, which reached to his breast, and a kind
+    of Persian robe, which gave him the external appearance of a
+    necromancer.  He was of the Anabaptist persuasion, and so stern in
+    his conversation, that the young pupils were exposed to perpetual
+    terror; added to these circumstances, the failing of his daughter
+    became so evident, that even during school-hours she was frequently
+    in a state of confirmed intoxication.”
+
+In 1772, three years afterwards, when Mrs. Robinson was fourteen, her
+mother, Mrs. Darby, was obliged, as a means of support, to undertake the
+task of tuition.
+
+    “For this purpose, a convenient house was hired at Little Chelsea,
+    and furnished for a ladies’ boarding-school.  Assistants of every
+    kind were engaged, and I,” says Mrs. Robinson, “was deemed worthy of
+    an occupation that flattered my self-love, and impressed my mind with
+    a sort of domestic consequence.  The English language was my
+    department in the seminary, and I was permitted to select passages
+    both in prose and verse for the studies of my infant pupils; it was
+    also my occupation to superintend their wardrobes, to see them
+    dressed and undressed by the servants, or half-boarders, and to read
+    sacred and moral lessons on saints’ days and Sunday evenings.
+
+    “Shortly after my mother had established herself at Chelsea, on a
+    summer’s evening, as I was sitting at the window, I heard a deep
+    sigh, or rather groan of anguish, which suddenly attracted my
+    attention.  The night was approaching rapidly, and I looked towards
+    the gate before the house, where I observed a woman, evidently
+    labouring under excessive affliction.  I instantly descended and
+    approached her.  She, bursting into tears, asked whether I did not
+    know her.  Her dress was torn and filthy; she was almost naked, and
+    an old bonnet, which nearly hid her face, so completely disfigured
+    her features, that I had not the smallest idea of the person who was
+    then almost sinking before me.  I gave her a small sum of money, and
+    inquired the cause of her apparent agony.  She took my hand, and
+    pressed it to her lips.  ‘Sweet girl,’ said she, ‘you are still the
+    angel I ever knew you!’  I was astonished.  She raised her bonnet;
+    her fine dark eyes met mine.  It was Mrs. Lorrington.  I led her into
+    the house; my mother was not at home.  I took her to my chamber, and,
+    with the assistance of a lady, who was our French teacher, I clothed
+    and comforted her.  She refused to say how she came to be in so
+    deplorable a situation, and took her leave.  It was in vain that I
+    entreated—that I conjured her to let me know where I might send to
+    her.  She refused to give me her address, but promised that in a few
+    days she would call on me again.  It is impossible to describe the
+    wretched appearance of this accomplished woman.  The failing to which
+    she had now yielded, as to a monster that would destroy her, was
+    evident, even at the moment when she was speaking to me.  I saw no
+    more of her; but, to my infinite regret, I was informed, some years
+    after, that she had died, the martyr of a premature decay, brought on
+    by the indulgence of her propensity to intoxication—in the workhouse
+    of Chelsea!”
+
+Mrs. Robinson adds, that—
+
+    “The number of my mother’s pupils in a few months amounted to ten or
+    twelve; and, just at a period when an honourable independence
+    promised to cheer the days of an unexampled parent, my father
+    unexpectedly returned from America.  The pride of his soul was deeply
+    wounded by the step which my mother had taken; he was offended even
+    beyond the bounds of reason.
+
+                                  * * * * *
+
+    “At the expiration of eight months, my mother, by my father’s
+    positive commands, broke up her establishment, and returned to
+    London.”
+
+Nearly opposite to the workhouse is the West Brompton Brewery, formerly
+called “Holly Wood Brewery,” and immediately beyond it an irregular row
+of six houses, which stand a little way back from the road, with small
+gardens before them.  The first house is now divided into two, occupied,
+when the sketch was made in 1844, by Miss Read’s academy (Tavistock
+House) and Mrs. Corder’s Preparatory School; the latter (Bolton House) to
+be distinguished by two ornamented stone-balls on the piers of the
+gateway, was a celebrated military academy, at which many distinguished
+soldiers have been educated.  [Picture: Bolton House gateway] The academy
+was established about the year 1770, by Mr. Lewis Lochee, who died on the
+5th of April, 1787, and who, in 1778, published an ‘Essay on
+Castrametation.’  “The premises,” says Mr. Faulkner, “which were laid out
+as a regular fortification, and were open to view, excited much attention
+at the time.”  When balloons were novelties, and it was supposed might be
+advantageously used in the operations of warfare, they attracted
+considerable notice; and, on the 16th of October, 1784, Mr. Blanchard
+ascended from the grounds of the Military Academy, near Chelsea.  The
+anxiety to witness this exhibition is thus described in a contemporary
+account:—
+
+    “The fields for a considerable way round Little Chelsea were crowded
+    with horse and foot; in consequence of which a general devastation
+    took place in the gardens, the produce being either trampled down or
+    torn up.  The turnip grounds were totally despoiled by the multitude.
+    All the windows and houses round the academy were filled with people
+    of the first fashion.  Every roof within view was covered, and each
+    tree filled with spectators.”
+
+Mr. Blanchard, upon this occasion, ascended with some difficulty,
+accompanied by a Mr. Sheldon, a surgeon, whom he landed at Sunbury, from
+whence Blanchard proceeded in his balloon to Romsey, in Hampshire, where
+he came down in safety, after having been between three and four hours in
+the air.
+
+After Mr. Lochee’s death, his son, Mr. Lewis Lochee, continued the
+establishment which his father had formed, but, unfortunately for
+himself, engaged in the revolutionary movements which agitated Flanders
+in 1790; where, “being taken prisoner by the Austrians, he was condemned
+to be hanged.  He, however, obtained permission to come to England to
+settle his affairs, upon condition of leaving his only son as a hostage;
+and, upon his return to the Continent, he suffered the punishment of
+death.” {120}
+
+“His son, a schoolfellow of mine,” adds Mr. Faulkner, “afterwards married
+a daughter of the late Mr. King, an eminent book auctioneer of King
+Street, Covent Garden, and, lamentable to relate, fell by his own hands,”
+8th of December, 1815.
+
+The residence beyond Mr. Lochee’s Military Academy is named WARWICK
+HOUSE—why, unless, possibly, the name has some reference to Boyle’s
+brother-in-law, the Earl of Warwick, I am at a loss to determine.  The
+next house is Amyot House.  Then comes MULBERRY HOUSE, formerly the
+residence of Mr. Denham, a brother of the lamented African traveller,
+Colonel Denham.  The fifth house is called HECKFIELD LODGE, an arbitrary
+name bestowed by its late occupant, Mr. Milton, the author of two clever
+novels, ‘Rivalry,’ and ‘Lady Cecilia Farrencourt,’ recently published,
+and brother to the popular authoress, Mrs. Trollope.  And the sixth and
+last house in the row, on the west side of which is Walnut-tree Walk,
+leading to Earl’s Court and Kensington, is distinguished by the name of
+Burleigh House, which, some one humorously observed, {121} might possibly
+be a contraction of “hurley burley,” the house being a ladies’ school,
+and the unceasing work of education, on the main Fulham Road, appearing
+here for the first time to terminate.  [Picture: Burleigh House (1844)]
+The following entry, however, in the parish register of Kensington,
+respecting the birth of the fourth Earl of Exeter, on the 21st of May,
+1674, may suggest a more probable derivation:—“15 May.  Honble. John
+Cecill, son and heir apparent of the Rt. Honble. John Lord Burleigh and
+the Lady Anne his wife born at Mr. Sheffield’s.”
+
+William Boscawen, the amiable and accomplished translator of Horace,
+resided at Burleigh House; and here he died, on the 6th of May, 1811, at
+the age of fifty-nine.  He had been called to the bar, but gave up that
+profession in 1786, on being appointed a commissioner for victualling the
+navy.  An excellent classical scholar, and warmly attached to literary
+pursuits, Mr. Boscawen published, in 1793, the first volume of a new
+translation of Horace, containing the ‘Odes,’ ‘Epodes,’ and ‘Carmen
+Sæculare.’  This, being well received, was followed up by Mr. Boscawen,
+in 1798, by his translation of the ‘Satires, Epistles, and Art of
+Poetry,’—completing a work considered to be in many respects superior to
+Francis’s translation.  As an early patron and zealous friend of the
+Literary Fund, Mr. Boscawen’s memory will be regarded with respect.
+Within five days of his death, he wrote a copy of verses for the
+anniversary meeting, which he contemplated attending:—
+
+   “Relieved from toils, behold the aged steed
+   Contented crop the rich enamell’d mead,
+   Bask in the solar ray, or court the shade,
+   As vernal suns invite, or summer heats invade!
+   But should the horn or clarion from afar
+   Call to the chase, or summon to the war,
+   Roused to new vigour by the well-known sound,
+   He spurns the earth, o’erleaps the opposing mound,
+   Feels youthful ardour in each swelling vein,
+   Darts through the rapid flood, and scours the plain!
+
+   “Thus a lorn Muse, who, worn by cares and woes,
+   Long sought retirement’s calm, secure repose,
+   With glad, though feeble, voice resumes her lay,
+   Waked by the call of this auspicious day.”
+
+Alas! the hand which on May morning had penned this introduction to an
+appeal in the cause of literary benevolence,—that hand was cold; and the
+lips by which, on the following day, the words that had flowed warmly
+from the heart were to have been uttered,—those lips were mute in death
+within a week.
+
+On the 16th of April, 1765, Mr. James House Knight, of Walham Green,
+returning home from London, was robbed and murdered on the highroad in
+the vicinity of Little Chelsea; the record of his burial in the parish
+register of Kensington is, “Shot in Fulham Road, near Brompton.”  For the
+discovery of the murderers a reward of fifty pounds was offered; and, on
+the 7th of July following, two Chelsea pensioners were committed to
+prison, charged with this murder, on the testimony of their accomplice,
+another Chelsea pensioner, whom they had threatened to kill upon some
+quarrel taking place between them.  The accused were tried, found guilty,
+hanged, and gibbeted; one nearly opposite Walnut-tree Walk, close by the
+two-mile stone, the other at Bull Lane, a passage about a quarter of a
+mile farther on, which connects the main Fulham Road with the King’s
+Road, by the side of the Kensington Canal.  In these positions, for some
+years, the bodies of the murderers hung in chains, to the terror of
+benighted travellers and of market-gardeners, who
+
+   “Wended their way,
+   In morning’s grey,”
+
+towards Covent Garden, until a drunken frolic caused the removal of a
+painful and useless exhibition.  A very interesting paper upon London
+life in the last century occurs in the second volume of Knight’s
+‘London;’ in which it is observed that “a gibbet’s tassel” was one of the
+first sights which met the eye of a stranger approaching London from the
+sea.
+
+    “About the middle of the last century, similar objects met the gaze
+    of the traveller by whatever route he entered the metropolis.  ‘_All_
+    the gibbets in the Edgware Road,’ says an extract from the newspapers
+    of the day in the ‘Annual Register’ for 1763, ‘on which _many_
+    malefactors were being hung in chains, were cut down by persons
+    unknown.’  The _all_ and the _many_ of this cool matter-of-fact
+    announcement conjure up the image of a long avenue planted with
+    ‘gallows-trees,’ instead of elms and poplars,—an assemblage of
+    pendent criminals, not exactly ‘thick as leaves that strew the brook
+    in Valombrosa,’ but frequent as those whose feet tickling Sancho’s
+    nose, when he essayed to sleep in the cork forest, drove him from
+    tree to tree in search of an empty bough.
+
+    “Frequent mention is made in the books, magazines, and newspapers of
+    that period, of the bodies of malefactors conveyed after execution to
+    Blackheath, Finchley, and Kennington Commons, or Hounslow Heath, for
+    the purpose of being there permanently suspended.  In those days the
+    approach to London on all sides seems to have lain through serried
+    files of gibbets, growing closer and more thronged as the distance
+    from the city diminished, till they and their occupants arranged
+    themselves in rows of ghastly and grinning sentinels along both sides
+    of the principal avenues.”
+
+This picture is not over-coloured; and it is to the following occurrence
+in the main Fulham Road that the removal of these offensive exhibitions
+is to be attributed.  Two or three fashionable parsons, who had
+sacrificed superabundantly to the jolly god at Fulham, returning to
+London, where they desired to arrive quickly, had intellect enough to
+discover that the driver of their post-chaise did not make his horses
+proceed at a pace equal to their wishes, and, after in vain urging him to
+more speed, one of them declared that, if he did not use his whip with
+better effect, he should be made an example of for the public benefit,
+and hanged up at the first gibbet.  The correctness of the old saying,
+that “when the head is hot the hand is ready,” was soon verified by the
+postboy being desired to stop at the gibbet opposite Walnut-tree Walk,
+which order, unluckily for himself, he obeyed, instead of proceeding at a
+quicker pace.  Out sprung the inmates of his chaise; they seized him,
+bound him hand and foot, and throwing a rope, which they had fastened
+round his body, over the gibbet, he soon found himself, in spite of his
+cries and entreaties, elevated in air beside the tarred remains of the
+Chelsea pensioner.
+
+The reverend perpetrators of the deed drove off, leaving the luckless
+postboy to protest, loudly and vainly, to “the dull, cold ear of death,”
+against the loathsome companionship.  When the first market-gardener’s
+cart passed by, most lustily did he call for help; but every effort to
+get free only tended to prolong his suspense.  What could the carters and
+other early travellers imagine upon hearing shouts proceeding from the
+gibbet, but that the identical murderer of Mr. Knight had by some miracle
+come to life, and now called out, “Stop! stop!” with the intention of
+robbing and murdering them also?  And they, feeling that supernatural
+odds were against them, ran forwards or backwards, not daring to look
+behind, as fast as their feet could carry alarmed and bewildered heads,
+leaving the fate of their carts to the sagacity of the horses.  Finding
+that the louder he called for help the more alarm he excited, the
+suspended postboy determined philosophically to endure the misery of his
+situation in dignified silence.  But there he was suffered to hang
+unnoticed; or, if remarked, it was only concluded that another criminal
+had been added to the gibbet, as its second tassel.  The circumstance,
+however, of a second body having been placed there speedily came to the
+knowledge of a magistrate in the neighbourhood, who had taken an active
+part in the apprehension of Mr. Knight’s murderers; and he proceeded,
+without delay, to the spot, that he might satisfy himself as to the
+correctness of the report.  Judge, however, his astonishment on hearing
+himself addressed by name from the gibbet, and implored, in the most
+piteous manner, to deliver from bondage a poor postboy, whose only
+offence was that he would not goad on two overworked horses to humour a
+pair of drunken gentlemen.  These “drunken gentlemen” are said to have
+been men of rank and influence: their names have never transpired, but
+the outrage with which they were charged led to the immediate removal
+from the Fulham Road of the last pair of gibbets which disgraced it.
+
+Upon the ground which was occupied by the gibbet where the kind-hearted
+postboy was strung up, a solitary cottage stood some years ago; and
+tradition asserted, that both the murderer and his gibbet were buried
+beneath it.  [Picture: Solitary cottage] This cottage is now pulled down;
+Lansdowne Villas and Hollywood Place have been erected on the spot, and
+villas and groves continue to the ‘Gunter Arms,’ a public-house that
+takes its name from Richard Gunter, the well-known confectioner, by the
+side of which is Gunter Grove.  This is now the starting-point of the
+Brompton omnibuses, which formerly did not go beyond Queen’s Elm.  Edith
+Grove, a turning between Lansdowne Villas and Gunter Grove, is in a
+direct line with Cremorne Gardens.
+
+Proceeding on our road towards Fulham, the next point which claims
+attention is the extensive inclosure of the West of London and
+Westminster Cemetery Company,—a company incorporated by act of parliament
+1st of Victoria, cap. 180.  The burial-ground was consecrated on the 12th
+of June, 1840, and extends from the Fulham Road to what is called,
+generally, “Sir John Scott Lillie’s Road,” and sometimes “Brompton Lane
+Road,” which, in fact, is a continuation, to North End, Fulham, of the
+line of the Old Brompton Road,—the point, as the reader may recollect,
+that we turned off from at the Bell and Horns, in order to follow the
+main Fulham Road to Little Chelsea.  The public way on the east of the
+burial-ground is called Honey Lane, and on the west the boundary is the
+pathway by the side of the Kensington Canal.  The architect of the chapel
+and catacombs is Mr. Benjamin Baud.  The cemetery is open for public
+inspection, free of charge, from seven in the morning till sunset, except
+on Sundays, when it is closed till half-past one o’clock.  The first
+interment took place on the 18th of June, 1840, from which time, to the
+22nd of November, there were thirty-four burials, the average number
+being then four per week.  It is scarcely necessary to add, that a
+considerable average increase has taken place; but the first step in
+statistics is always curious.
+
+One of the most interesting instances of longevity which the annals of
+the West of London and Westminster Cemetery Company present occurs on a
+stone in the north-east corner of the burial-ground, where the age
+recorded of Louis Pouchée is 108; but this does not agree with the burial
+entry made by the Rev. Stephen Reid Cattley—“Louis Pouchée, of St.
+Martin’s in the Fields, viz., 40 Castle Street, Leicester Square, buried
+Feb. 21, 1843, aged 107.”
+
+This musical patriarch, however, according to a statement in the ‘Medical
+Times,’ {128} was admitted as a patient to St. George’s Hospital November
+24, 1842.  January 4, went out, and died, about three months afterwards,
+of diarrhoea and dysentery.
+
+Another instance of longevity, though not so extraordinary, is one which
+cannot be contemplated without feeling how much influence the
+consciousness of honest industry in the human mind has upon the health
+and happiness of the body.  A gravestone near a public path on the
+south-east side of the burial-ground marks the last resting place of
+Francis Nicholson, landscape-painter, who died the 6th March, 1844, aged
+91 years.
+
+Mr. Nicholson originally practised as a portrait-painter, but the
+simplicity and uprightness of his heart did not permit him to tolerate or
+pander to the vanities of man (and woman) kind.  To flatter was with him
+an utter impossibility; and, as he could not invariably consider the
+“human face divine,” he was incapable of assuming the courtly manners so
+essential in that branch of the profession.  He never, indeed, quite
+forgave himself for an approach to duplicity committed at this time upon
+an unfortunate gentleman, who sat to him for his portrait, and who
+squinted so desperately, that in order to gain a likeness it was
+necessary to copy moderately the defect.  The poor man, it seemed,
+perfectly unconscious of the same, on being invited to inspect the
+performance, looked in silence upon it a few moments, and, with rather a
+disappointed air, said—
+
+“I don’t know—it seems to me—does it squint?”
+
+“Squint!” replied Nicholson, “no more than you do.”
+
+“Really! well, you know best of course; but I declare I fancied there was
+a _queer look_ about it!”
+
+The opening of the Water-Colour Exhibition, in 1805, may be dated as the
+commencement of Mr. Nicholson’s fame and success in London.  In
+conjunction with Glover, Varley, Prout, and others, an advance in the art
+of watercolour painting was made, such as to astonish and call forth the
+admiration of the public.
+
+In a manuscript autobiography which Mr. Nicholson left behind him, and
+which is full of curious anecdotes, he gives the following account of the
+formation of that exhibition.
+
+    “Messrs. Hills and Pyne asked me to join in the attempt to establish
+    such a society, which I readily agreed to.  It was a long time before
+    a number of members sufficient to produce so many works as would be
+    required to cover the walls of the exhibition room in Brook Street
+    could be brought to join it.  Artists were afraid they might suffer
+    loss by renting and fitting up the room, the expense being certain
+    and the success very doubtful.  After a great while the society was
+    formed, and, in the first and second exhibition, the sale of drawings
+    was so considerable, and the visitors so numerous, that crowds of
+    those who had refused to join were eager to be admitted into the
+    society.”
+
+[Picture: Nicholson’s Grave] Since the annexed sketch of Mr. Nicholson’s
+grave was taken, the stone bears the two additional melancholy
+inscriptions of Thomas Crofton Croker, son-in-law of Francis Nicholson,
+who died 8th August, 1854, and Marianne, widow of Thomas Crofton Croker,
+who died 6th October, 1854; and an iron railing has been erected on
+either side of the grave.
+
+[Picture: St. Mark’s Chapel] Opposite to the Cemetery gates is Veitch’s
+Royal Exotic Nursery.
+
+St. Mark’s Chapel, within the grounds of the college, stands opposite to
+St. Mark’s Terrace, a row of modern houses immediately beyond the
+cemetery.  The grounds extend to the King’s Road, and contain about
+eleven acres, surrounded by a brick wall; and the entrance to the
+National Society’s training college is from that road.  Stanley House, or
+Stanley Grove House, which was purchased in 1840 for upwards of £9000 by
+the society, stood upon the site of a house which Sir Arthur Gorges, the
+friend of Spenser, allegorically named by him Alcyon, {131} built for his
+own residence; and upon the death of whose first wife, a daughter of
+Viscount Bindon, in 1590, the poet wrote a beautiful elegy, entitled
+‘Daphnaida.’  In the Sydney papers mention is made, under date 15th
+November, 1599, that, “as the queen passed by the faire new building, Sir
+Arthur Gorges presented her with a faire jewell.”  He died in 1625; and
+by his widow, the daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, the house and adjacent
+land, then called the “Brickhills,” was sold, in 1637, to their only
+daughter, Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Robert Stanley; which sale was
+confirmed by her mother’s will, dated 18th July, 1643.  The Stanley
+family continued to reside here until 1691, when by the death of William
+Stanley, Esq., that branch of this family became extinct in the male
+line.
+
+The present house, a square mansion, was built soon afterwards; and the
+old wall, propped by several buttresses, inclosing the west side of the
+grounds, existed on the bank of the Kensington Canal until it was washed
+down by a very high tide.  This new or square mansion remained unfinished
+and unoccupied for several years.  In 1724 it belonged to Henry Arundel,
+Esq. and on the 24th May, 1743, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a
+distinguished naval officer, died here, and was buried in Westminster
+Abbey.  After passing through several hands, Stanley Grove became the
+property of Miss Southwell, afterwards the wife of Sir James Eyre, Lord
+Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who sold it in 1777 to the Countess of
+Strathmore.
+
+Here her ladyship indulged her love for botany by building extensive
+hot-houses and conservatories, and collecting and introducing into
+England rare exotics.
+
+    “She had purchased,” says her biographer, “a fine old mansion, with
+    extensive grounds well walled in, and there she had brought exotics
+    from the Cape, and was in a way of raising continually an increase to
+    her collection, when, by her fatal marriage, the cruel spoiler came
+    and threw them, like loathsome weeds, away.”
+
+Mr. Lochee, before mentioned, purchased Stanley Grove from the Countess
+of Strathmore and her husband, Mr. Bowes.  It was afterwards occupied by
+Dr. Richard Warren, the eminent physician, who died in 1797, and who is
+said to have acquired by the honourable practice of his profession no
+less a sum than £150,000.  In January 1808, Mr. Leonard Morse, of the War
+Office, died at his residence, Stanley House, and about 1815 it was
+purchased by the late Mr. William Richard Hamilton, who ranks as one of
+the first scholars and antiquaries of his day.  Between that year and
+1840 Mr. Hamilton resided here at various periods, having occasionally
+let it.  He made a considerable addition to the house by building a
+spacious room as a wing on the east side, in the walls of which casts
+from the frieze and metopes of the Elgin marbles were let in.
+
+When Mr. Hamilton proceeded as envoy to the court of Naples in 1821,
+Stanley Grove House became the residence of Mrs. Gregor, and is thus
+described by Miss Burney, who was an inmate at this time, in the
+following playful letter {133} to a friend, dated 24th September, 1821:—
+
+    “Whilst you have been traversing sea and land, scrambling up rocks
+    and shuddering beside precipices, I have been stationary, with no
+    other variety than such as turning to the right instead of the left
+    when walking in the garden, or sometimes driving into town through
+    Westminster, and, at other times, through Piccadilly.  Poor Miss
+    Gregor continues to be a complete invalid, and, for her sake, we give
+    up all society at home and all engagements abroad.  Luckily, the
+    house, rented by Mrs. Gregor from William Hamilton, Esq. (who
+    accompanied Lord Elgin into Greece) abounds with interesting
+    specimens in almost every branch of the fine arts.  Here are statues,
+    casts from the frieze of the Parthenon, pictures, prints, books, and
+    minerals; _four_ pianofortes of different sizes, and an excellent
+    harp.  All this to study does Desdemona (that’s me) seriously
+    incline; and the more I study the more I want to know and to see.  In
+    short, I am crazy to travel in Greece!  The danger is that some
+    good-for-nothing bashaw should seize upon me to poke me into his
+    harem, there to bury my charms for life, and condemn me for ever to
+    blush unseen.  However, I could easily strangle or stab him, set fire
+    to his castle, and run away by the light of it, accompanied by some
+    handsome pirate, with whom I might henceforward live at my ease in a
+    cavern on the sea-shore, dressing his dinners one moment, and my own
+    sweet person the next in pearls and rubies, stolen by him, during
+    some of his plundering expeditions, from the fair throat and arms of
+    a shrieking Circassian beauty, whose lord he had knocked on the head.
+    Till these genteel adventures of mine begin, I beg you to believe me,
+    dear Miss ---,
+
+                                                        “Yours most truly,
+                                                           “S. H. BURNEY.”
+
+Theodore Hook notes, in one of his manuscript journals, “5th July, 1826.
+W. Hamilton’s party.  Stanley Grove.”
+
+About 1828, Stanley Grove was occupied by the Marquess of Queensberry;
+and, in 1830–31, by Colonel Grant, at the rent, it was said, of £1000 per
+annum.
+
+On the west side of the house the National Society added a quadrangle,
+built in the Italian style after the design of Mr. Blore; and, in the
+grounds near the chapel, an octagonal building as a Practising School,
+for teaching the poor children of the neighbourhood.
+
+                       [Picture: Practising School]
+
+Crossing the Kensington Canal over Sandford Bridge, [Picture: Sandford
+Bridge] sometimes written “Stanford” and “Stamford,” we enter the parish
+of Fulham.  The road turning off on the west side of the canal is called
+“Bull Lane;” and a little further on a footway existed not long since,
+known as Bull Alley; both of which passages led into the King’s Road, and
+took their names from the Bull public-house, which stood between them in
+that road.  [Picture: Bull Alley] Bull Alley is now converted into a
+good-sized street, called Stamford Road, which has a public-house (the
+Rising Sun) on one side, and a bookseller’s shop on the other.  Here, for
+a few years, was a turnpike, which has been recently removed and placed
+lower down the road, adjoining the Swan Tavern and Brewery, Walham Green,
+established 1765.  [Picture: No. 4, No. 3 Stamford Villas] Houses are
+being built in all directions opposite several “single and married
+houses,” with small gardens in front and the rear, known as STAMFORD
+VILLAS, where, at No. 2, resided, in 1836 and 1837, Mr. H. K. Browne,
+better known, perhaps, by his _sobriquet_ of “Phiz,” as an illustrator of
+popular periodical works.
+
+No. 3 and No. 4 are shown in the annexed cut, and No. 3 may be noticed as
+having been the residence of Mr. Kempe, the author of ‘A History of St.
+Martin-le-Grand,’ the editor of the ‘Losely Papers,’ and a constant
+contributor, under the signature of A. J. K., to the antiquarian lore of
+the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine.’  Mr. Kempe died here on 21st August, 1846.
+The three last houses of the Stamford Villas are not “wedded to each
+other,” and in the garden of the one nearest London, Mr. Hampton, who
+made an ascent in a balloon from Cremorne, on the 13th June, 1839, with
+every reasonable prospect of breaking his neck for the amusement of the
+public, came down by a parachute descent, without injury to himself,
+although he carried away a brick or two from the chimney of the house,
+much to the annoyance of the person in charge, who rushed out upon the
+aeronaut, and told him that he had no business to come in contact with
+the chimney.  His reply exhibited an extraordinary coolness, for he
+assured the man it was quite unintentional upon his part.
+
+The milestone is opposite the entrance to No. 20 Stamford Villas, which
+informs the pedestrian that it is one mile to Fulham; and passing Salem
+Chapel, which is on the right hand side of the main road, we reach the
+village of Walham Green.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+WALHAM GREEN TO FULHAM.
+
+The village of Walham Green, which is distant from Hyde Park Corner
+between two and a half and three miles, appears to have been first so
+called soon after the revolution of 1688.  Before this, it was known as
+Wansdon Green, written also Wandon and Wandham; all of which names,
+according to Lysons, originated from the manor of Wendon, so was the
+local name written in 1449, which in 1565 was spelled Wandowne.  As the
+name of a low and marshy piece of land on the opposite side of the Thames
+to Wandsworth, through which _wandered_ the drainage from the higher
+grounds, or through which the traveller had to _Wendon_ (pendan) his way
+to Fulham; it would not be difficult to enter into speculations as to the
+Anglo-Saxon origin of the word, but I refrain from placing before the
+reader my antiquarian ruminations while passing Wansdown House, for few
+things are more fascinating and deceptive than verbal associations.
+Indeed, if indulged in to any extent, they might lead an enthusiast to
+connect in thought the piers of Fulham (bridge) with the _Piers_ of
+Fulham, who, in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, “compyled many praty
+conceytis in love under covert terms of ffyssyng and ffowlyng;” and which
+curious poem may be found printed in a collection of _Ancient Metrical
+Tales_, edited by the Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne. {138}
+
+Two of “some ancient houses, erected in 1595, as appeared by a date on
+the truss in the front of one of them,” were pulled down at Walham Green
+in 1812; after which the important proceedings in the progress of this
+village in suburban advancement consisted in the establishment of
+numerous public-houses; the filling up of a filthy pond, upon the ground
+gained by which act a chapel-of-ease to Fulham, dedicated to St. John,
+has been built, after the design of Mr. Taylor, at the estimated expense
+of £9683 17s. 9d.  The first stone was laid on the 1st of January, 1827;
+and it was consecrated by the Bishop of London on the 14th of August,
+1828.  This was followed by the building of a charity-school upon an
+angular patch of green, or common land, where donkeys had been wont to
+graze, and the village children to play at cricket.  Then the parish
+pound was removed from a corner of the high road, near a basket-maker’s,
+to a back lane, thereby destroying the travelling joke of “Did you ever
+see the baskets sold by the pound?”  And, finally, Walham Green has
+assumed a new aspect, from the construction of the Butchers’ Almshouses,
+the first stone of which was laid by the late Lord Ravensworth, on the
+1st of July, 1840.  Since that time, fancy-fairs and bazaars, with
+horticultural exhibitions, have been fashionably patronised at Walham
+Green by omnibus companies, for the support and enlargement of this
+institution.
+
+   “Hail, happy isle! and happier Walham Green!
+   Where all that’s fair and beautiful are seen!
+   Where wanton zephyrs court the ambient air,
+   And sweets ambrosial banish every care;
+   Where thought nor trouble social joy molest,
+   Nor vain solicitude can banish rest.
+   Peaceful and happy here I reign serene,
+   Perplexity defy, and smile at spleen;
+   Belles, beaux, and statesmen, all around me shine;
+   All own me their supreme, me constitute divine;
+   All wait my pleasure, own my awful nod,
+   And change the humble gardener to the god.”
+
+Thus, in the ‘London Magazine’ for June 1749, did Mr. Bartholomew Rocque
+prophetically apostrophise Walham Green,—the “belles, beaux, and
+statesmen,” by which he was surrounded being new varieties of flowers,
+dignified by distinguished names.  In 1755, he printed a ‘Treatise on the
+Cultivation of the Hyacinth, translated from the Dutch;’ and in 1761 an
+‘Essay on Lucerne Grass,’, of which an enlarged edition was published in
+1764.  Mr. Rocque {139} resided in the house occupied by the late Mr.
+King, opposite to the Red Lion, where Mr. Oliver Pitts now carries on
+business as builder and carpenter.
+
+Immediately after leaving Walham Green, on the south, or left-hand side,
+of the main Fulham road, behind a pair of carriage gates, connected by a
+brick wall, stands the mansion of Lord Ravensworth; in outward appearance
+small and unostentatious, without the slightest attempt at architectural
+decoration, but sufficiently spacious and attractive to have received the
+highest honour that can be conferred on the residence of a subject, by
+her Majesty and Prince Albert having visited the late lord here on the
+26th of June, 1840.  The grounds at the back of the house, though not
+extensive, were planted with peculiar skill, care, and taste, by the late
+Mr. Ord; and on that occasion recalled to memory the words of our old
+poet, the author of ‘Britannia’s Pastorals,’ William Browne:—
+
+   “There stood the elme, whose shade so mildely dym
+   Doth nourish all that groweth under him:
+   Cipresse that like piramides runne topping,
+   And hurt the least of any by the dropping;
+   The alder, whose fat shadow nourisheth
+   Each plant set neere to him long flourisheth;
+   The heavie-headed plane-tree, by whose shade
+   The grasse grows thickest, men are fresher made;
+   The oak that best endures the thunder-shocks,
+   The everlasting, ebene, cedar, boxe.
+   The olive, that in wainscot never cleaves,
+   The amourous vine which in the elme still weaves;
+   The lotus, juniper, where wormes ne’er enter;
+   The pyne, with whom men through the ocean venture;
+   The warlike yewgh, by which (more than the lance)
+   The strong-arm’d English spirits conquer’d France;
+   Amongst the rest, the tamarisks there stood,
+   For housewives’ besomes only knowne most good;
+   The cold-place-loving birch, and servis-tree;
+   The Walnut-loving vales and mulberry;
+   The maple, ashe, that doe delight in fountains,
+   Which have their currents by the side of mountains;
+   The laurell, mirtle, ivy, date, which hold
+   Their leaves all winter, be it ne’er so cold;
+   The firre, that oftentimes doth rosin drop;
+   The beech, that scales the welkin with his top:
+   _All these and thousand more within this grove_,
+   _By all the industry of nature strove_
+   _To frame an arbour that might keepe within it_
+   _The best of beauties that the world hath in it_.”
+
+Since the royal visit, Lord Ravensworth’s residence has been called
+_Percy Cross_, but no reason has been assigned for the alteration of name
+from Purser’s Cross, which is mentioned as a point “on the Fulham road
+between Parson’s Green and Walham Green,” so far back as 1602, and at
+which we shall presently arrive.  [Picture: View of Percy Cross] No
+connection whatever that I am aware of exists between the locality and
+the Percy family, and it only affords another, very recent local example
+of what has been as happily as quaintly termed “the curiosity of change.”
+The most favourable aspect of the house is, perhaps, the view gained of
+it from a neighbouring garden across a piece of water called Eel Brook,
+which ornaments an adjacent meadow.
+
+John Ord, Esq., the creator of Lord Ravensworth’s London residence, is
+better known as “Master Ord.”  He was the only son of Robert Ord, Chief
+Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.  In 1746 Mr. Ord entered
+Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1762, vacated a lay fellowship by
+marriage with Eleanor, the second daughter of John Simpson, Esq., of
+Bradley, in the county of Durham.  After being called to the bar, Mr. Ord
+practised in the Court of Chancery; and, in 1774, was returned to
+parliament as member for Midhurst.  In 1778 he was appointed Master of
+Chancery; and the next session, when returned member for Hastings, was
+chosen chairman of “Ways and Means,” in which situation his conduct gave
+much satisfaction.  Mr. Ord retired from parliament in 1790, and in 1809
+resigned his office of Master in Chancery, and that of Attorney-General
+for Lancaster the following year, when “he retired to a small place at
+Purser’s Cross, in the parish of Fulham, where he had early in life
+amused himself in horticultural pursuits, and where there are several
+foreign trees of his own raising remarkable both for their beauty and
+size.”
+
+Lysons, in 1795, says—
+
+    “While I am speaking upon this subject” (the trees planted by Bishop
+    Compton in the gardens of Fulham Palace), “it would he unpardonable
+    to omit the mention of a very curious garden near Walham Green in
+    this parish, planted, since the year 1756, by its present proprietor,
+    John Ord, Esq., Master in Chancery.  It is not a little extraordinary
+    that this garden should, within the space of forty years (such have
+    been the effects of good management and a fertile soil), have
+    produced trees which are now the finest of their respective kinds in
+    the kingdom.  As a proof of this may be mentioned the _sophora
+    Japonica_, planted anno 1756, then about two feet high, now eight
+    feet in girth, and about forty in height; a standard _Ginko_ tree,
+    planted about the year 1767, two feet three inches in girth; and an
+    Illinois walnut, two feet two inches in girth, growing where it was
+    sown about the year 1760.  Among other trees, very remarkable also
+    for their growth, though not to be spoken of as the largest of their
+    kind, are a black walnut-tree (sown anno 1757), about forty feet
+    high, and five feet four inches in girth; a cedar of Libanus (planted
+    in 1756), eight feet eight inches in girth; a willow-leaved oak (sown
+    anno 1757), four feet in girth; the Rhus Vernix, or varnish sumach,
+    four feet in girth; and a stone pine of very singular growth.  Its
+    girth at one foot from the ground is six feet four inches; at that
+    height it immediately begins to branch out, and spreads, at least,
+    twenty-one feet on each side, forming a large bush of about fourteen
+    yards in diameter.”
+
+The second edition of Lysons’ ‘Environs of London’ appeared in 1810, when
+the measurement of these trees, in June 1808 and December 1809, was
+placed in apposition.  Faulkner’s ‘History of Fulham,’ published in 1813,
+carries on the history of their growth for three years more; but as, from
+the marginal pencil note signed J. M., and dated January 1835 in Lysons’,
+I am led to conclude that some of these interesting trees exist no
+longer, the following tabular view compiled from these sources may not be
+unacceptable to the naturalist, who is well aware that
+
+   “Not small the praise the skilful planter claims,
+   From his befriended country.”
+
+About the time of Mr. Ord’s death, 6th June, 1814, his garden contained
+much that is remarkable in horticulture:—
+
+    “There was,” we are told, “a good collection of American plants;
+    amongst others, a fine _Andromeda Arborea_, planted about eight
+    inches high in March 1804; and now (1812) eleven feet eight inches
+    high.
+
+    “The _Glastonbury Thorn_ flowered here on Christmas day, 1793.
+
+    “In the kitchen garden is (1812) a moss-rose, which has been much
+    admired.  Many years ago Mr. Ord ordered his gardener to lay a
+    moss-rose, which, when done, he thought looked so well, he would not
+    allow the layers to be taken off, but laid them down year after year,
+    till it covered the ground it does at present, viz. a diameter of
+    forty-seven feet; want of room has confined it to its present size
+    for several years.”
+
+                  Girth at 3 feet   Girth in June     Girth in          Girth in 1812     Girth in Jan
+                  from the ground   1808              December 1809     (Faulkner)        1835 J.M.
+                  in 1793
+
+                  f.   i.           f.  i.            f.  i.            f.  i.            f.  i.
+
+_Sophora
+japonica_,
+{144a} in 1809,   8    0            9   4             9   7½            10  1             0   0
+about 50 feet
+in height; it
+flowered for
+the first time
+in August 1807,
+and has
+continued to
+flower the two
+succeeding
+years.
+
+_Ginko-tree_
+(_Ginko
+biloba_,          2    3            3   6             3   9             3   10            0   0
+standard) about
+37 feet high.
+
+A tree from an
+Illinois-nut,
+given by Mr.      2    2            2  10             2  11             3    0            0   0
+Aiton to Mr.
+Ord, about 40
+feet high.
+{144b}
+
+A black
+walnut-tree,
+(_juglans         5    4            6  11 {144c}      7   3             10   0
+niger_), sown
+where it stands
+in 1757, about
+64 feet high in
+1809.
+
+A cedar of
+Lebanon, when
+planted being     8    8            9  11 {144d}      9   9             10   0
+two years old,
+in 1809 being
+about 55 feet
+high.
+
+A willow-leaved
+oak, sown in
+1757.             4    0            5   5 {144e}      5   7             5    10
+
+The _rhus
+vernix_, or
+varnish sumach.   4    0            4   10            4   10            5     1
+
+_Fraxinus
+ornus_, which
+is covered with                                                         3    10
+flowers every
+year.
+
+_Gleditsia
+triacanthus_,
+sown in 1759,                                                           4     8
+produced pods 2
+feet long in
+1780, but the
+seeds
+imperfect.
+
+_Acacia
+common_, sown
+in 1757,                                                                7     7
+planted where
+it stands in
+1758.
+
+_Ilex_                                                                  6     9
+
+_Tulip-tree_,
+sown where it
+stands in 1758,                                                         5     6
+first flowered
+in 1782.
+
+_Cyprus                                                                 5     6
+deciduus_, sown
+in 1760
+
+_Corylus
+colurna_
+(Constantinople                                                         3     2
+hazel), between
+30 and 40 feet
+high, bears
+fruit, but
+imperfect.
+
+_Virginian
+cedar_, (red)
+sown in 1758                                                            4     0
+
+_Guilandina                                                             2     1
+dioica_, or
+_bonduc_
+
+_Juglans alba_,
+or white
+hickory.                                                                3     1
+
+_Lombardy_, or
+_Po poplar_, a
+cutting in 1766                                                         10    0
+near 100 feet
+high.
+
+_Poplar_,                                                               8     6
+planted in 1772
+
+    Another column headed 1845, carrying out this view, would be an
+    important addition to statistical observation.
+
+Two agaves, or American aloes, flowered in Mr. Ord’s greenhouse in the
+summer of 1812, one of which was a beautiful striped variety.  The plants
+had been there since the year 1756.  Amid all these delightful
+associations, there is one melancholy event connected with the place.  On
+the night of the 9th September, 1807, a fire broke out in the
+garden-house of Mr. Ord’s residence (a cottage upon the site of the
+present stables): the flame raged so furiously as to burn the principal
+gardener, an old and valued servant, almost to ashes before any help
+could be afforded to him.  Upon the following Sunday (13th), the Rev.
+John Owen, the then curate of Fulham, preached so effective a sermon upon
+the uncertainty of the morrow, {145} that having printed a large
+impression “without any loss to himself,” a second edition appeared on
+the 3rd of the following month.
+
+In the second volume of the ‘Transactions of the Horticultural Society,’
+a beautifully-coloured representation of ‘Ord’s apple’ may be found,
+illustrative of Mr. Salisbury’s communication respecting it, which was
+read to the Society on the 17th of January, 1817.  After acknowledging
+his obligations to Mrs. Anne Simpson, the sister of Mrs. Ord, and who Mr.
+Salisbury represents as “being as fond of gardening as her late
+brother-in-law, Mr. Ord,” it is stated that,—
+
+    “About forty years ago, the late John Ord, Esq. raised, in his garden
+    at _Purser’s Cross_, near Fulham, an apple-tree from the seed of the
+    New-town pippin, imported from North America.  When this tree began
+    to bear, its fruit, though without any external beauty, proved
+    remarkably good, and had a peculiar quality, namely, a melting
+    softness in eating, so that it might be said almost to dissolve in
+    the mouth.  The late Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, often had grafts of
+    this tree, and he sold the plant so raised first with the name of
+    Ord’s apple, and subsequently with the name of New-town pippin. . . .
+    .
+
+    “This seedling tree,” continues Mr. Salisbury, “is now (1817) of
+    large dimensions, its trunk being four feet four inches round at a
+    yard above the ground; but it has of late years been very unhealthy,
+    and scarcely borne any fruit worth gathering, its roots having, no
+    doubt, penetrated into a stratum of unfavourable soil.”
+
+Mrs. Anne Simpson sowed some pippins from this remarkable tree,—
+
+    “And two of the healthiest seedlings of this second generation were
+    planted out to remain in the kitchen-garden, which are now (1817)
+    about twenty years old.  One of these trees began to bear fruit very
+    soon, which is not unlike that of its parent in shape, with a thin
+    skin; and, being a very good apple, grafts of it have been
+    distributed about the metropolis with the name of _Simpson’s pippin_.
+    The other seedling of the second generation was several years longer
+    in bearing fruit; and, when it did, the apples were quite of a
+    different shape, being long, with a thick skin and poor flavour, and
+    so numerous as to be all very small.  Of late years, however, they
+    have gradually improved so much in flavour, as to become a remarkably
+    spirited, juicy apple, attaining a good size, which has probably been
+    promoted by thinning them, though a full crop has always been left
+    upon the tree; and they are now greatly esteemed by all who taste
+    them.”
+
+This apple is in perfection for eating from Christmas to the middle of
+March.  The skin is thick, and always of a green colour while on the
+tree, but tinged with copper-coloured red, and several darker spots on
+the sunny side; after the fruit has been gathered some time, the green
+colour changes to a yellowish cast.  It may be mentioned that, before the
+death of the late Lord Ravensworth, the house was inhabited by those
+celebrated artistes, Madame Grisi and Signor Mario.
+
+On the opposite side of the road to Lord Ravensworth’s, and a few yards
+beyond it, on the way to Fulham, is Walham Lodge, formerly Park Cottage,
+a modern well-built house, which stands within extensive grounds,
+surrounded by a brick wall.  This was for some years the residence of Mr.
+Brand, the eminent chemist, who particularly distinguished himself by the
+course of lectures which he delivered on geology, at the Royal
+Institution, in 1816; and which may be dated as the popular starting
+point of that branch of scientific inquiry in this country.
+
+A house, now divided into two, and called Dungannon House and Albany
+Lodge, abuts upon the western boundary wall of the grounds of Walham
+Lodge.  [Picture: Dungannon House—Albany Lodge] Tradition stoutly asserts
+that this united cottage and villa were, previous to their division,
+known by the name of _Bolingbroke Lodge_, and that here Pope did, more
+than once,
+
+    “Awake my St. John,”
+
+by an early morning visit.
+
+At Albany Lodge, the farthest part of the old house in our view (then
+Heckfield Villa), resided Mr. Milton, before-mentioned as having lived at
+Heckfield Lodge, Little Chelsea; both of which names were introduced on
+the Fulham Road, from that gentleman’s attachment to the name of his
+reverend father’s living, near Basingstoke.
+
+Dungannon House formerly went by the name of Acacia Cottage, and was so
+called from a tree in the garden.  It was for many years the country
+residence of Mr. Joseph Johnson, of St. Paul’s Churchyard, a publisher
+worthy of literary regard; and here he died on the 20th of December,
+1809.  He was born at Liverpool, in 1738; and, after serving an
+apprenticeship in London, commenced business as a medical bookseller,
+upon Fish Street Hill; “a situation he chose as being in the track of the
+medical students resorting to the hospitals in the Borough, and which
+probably was the foundation of his connexions with many eminent members
+of that profession.”
+
+Having entered into partnership, he removed to Paternoster Row, where his
+house and stock were destroyed by fire, in 1770: after which, feeling the
+advantage of a peculiar locality, he carried on business alone, until the
+time of his death, at the house which all juvenile readers who recollect
+the caterers for their amusement and instruction will remember as that of
+“Harris and Co., corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard.”  This step was
+considered at the time, by “the trade,” as a bold and inconsiderate
+measure; but it was successfully imitated by the late Mr. Murray, in his
+removal from Fleet Street to Albemarle Street; and, indeed, John Murray,
+as a publisher, seems only to have been a fearless copyist, in many
+matters, of Joseph Johnson.  Whether, as a tradesman, he was judicious or
+not in so doing, is a question upon which there may be two opinions; but
+there can be no hesitation about the perfect application of Dr. Aikin’s
+words to both parties:—
+
+    “The character Mr. Johnson established by his integrity, good sense,
+    and honourable principles of dealing, soon raised him to eminence as
+    a publisher; and many of the most distinguished names in science and
+    literature during the last half century appear in works which he
+    ushered to the world.”
+
+The imprint of Johnson is to be found upon the title-pages which first
+introduced Cowper and Darwin to notice:—
+
+    “The former of these, with the diffidence, and perhaps the
+    despondency, of his character, had actually, by means of a friend,
+    made over to him (Johnson) his two volumes of poems, on no other
+    condition than that of securing him from expense; but when the
+    public, which neglected the first volume, had discovered the rich
+    mine opened in the _Task_, and assigned the author his merited place
+    among the first-rate English poets, Mr. Johnson would not avail
+    himself of his advantage, but displayed a liberality which has been
+    warmly acknowledged by that admirable, though unfortunate, person.”
+
+A score of equally generous anecdotes might be told of Murray.  In one
+particular, however, there was, as publishers, a decided difference
+between the views of Johnson and Murray.  Those of Johnson are at present
+in the ascendancy; but they may produce a revolution in favour of the
+opinion of John Murray against cheap literature.  Johnson was the
+opponent of typographical luxury.  Murray, on the contrary, supported the
+aristocracy of the press, until obliged, “by the pressure from without,”
+in some degree to compromise his views by the publication of the ‘Family
+Library.’
+
+In the wing (comparatively speaking a modern addition) attached to this
+house, and in the room where Mr. Johnson died, is a remarkable
+chimney-piece, of a monumental character; but I can learn nothing
+respecting it.
+
+The history of Dungannon House when Acacia Cottage, could we procure a
+correct record of all the ideas which [Picture: Chimney-piece] have
+passed through the human mind within its walls, respecting literature and
+art, would form a chronicle of singular interest.  The late Mr.
+Hullmandel, well known as one of the most experienced and successful
+practitioners of lithography in England, resided here in 1839 and 1840,
+when he discovered a new process in his favourite art, by simple mental
+reasoning, upon the application of the process of copperplate aquatint to
+lithographic purposes.  For this discovery—and it is one of considerable
+importance—he subsequently took out a patent, under the name of
+lithotint.  Ever since the infancy of lithography, hundreds of persons
+connected with the art, beginning with its inventor himself, Senefelder,
+had endeavoured to produce impressions from stone of subjects executed
+with the brush, in the same manner as drawings are made with sepia, or
+Indian ink.  And it was natural enough that artists should have made
+every effort to supersede the tedious and elaborate process by which
+alone a liquid could be rendered available for the purpose of drawing on
+stone.  The mode of drawing technically called “the ink style,” consists
+merely of a series of lines, some finer, some thicker, executed on the
+white surface of the stone, with ink dissolved in water, by means of a
+fine sable or a steel pen, in imitation of an etching on copper.  All
+attempts, however, at producing variety of tints, by using the ink
+thicker or thinner, failed,—the fainter lines either disappearing
+altogether, or printing as dark as thick ones.  In every attempt made to
+use this ink as a wash, the result was still more disastrous, producing
+only one dirty mass of indistinctness, amid which the original drawing
+was scarcely to be traced.  For twenty years did Mr. Hullmandel labour to
+attain some mode of printing drawings, made by a series of washes, with a
+brush, on stone, feeling this to be the great desideratum in the art.
+Lithographers in Germany, in France, and in this country, had pronounced
+it to be “utterly impossible;” when the idea suddenly flashed upon him,
+that, if he could effect a minute granulation of the ink, by treating it
+as a copperplate engraver would the ground of an aquatint plate, the
+relative strength of the different washes might be preserved.  He
+hastened from Acacia Cottage to his printing-office in London, to put his
+theory into practice, and was rewarded by the most satisfactory results.
+
+Since that period, several prints, by this process of lithotint, were
+produced by Mr. Hullmandel, from drawings made by Harding, Nash, Haghe,
+Walton, and other clever artists, in which all the raciness, the
+smartness, and the beauty of touch, are apparent, which hitherto could
+only be found in the original drawing.  [Picture: Arundel House—front]
+[Picture: Arundel House—back] In fact, lithotint was not a translation,
+but a multiplication of the original; and its discovery, or, rather, the
+proper application of knowledge, became an eventful era in the history of
+the fine arts.
+
+Arundel House, a few yards beyond Dungannon House, stands on the same
+side of the road, opposite to Parson’s Green Lane, which leads to the
+King’s Road.  It is a house of considerable antiquity, judging from the
+stone mullions brought to light by some repairs,—probably as old as the
+time of Henry VIII.; although the brick front, as shown above, appears to
+be the work of the latter part of the seventeenth century.
+
+The back of Arundel House is quite different in character, and retains an
+old porch leading into the garden.  At the farther end of the garden a
+venerable yew-tree arbour exists; and not [Picture: Arundel House porch
+and Yew Tree Arbour] far from it used to stand a picturesque old pump,
+with the date 1758 close to the spout; which pump is now removed, and a
+new one put in its place.  Upon a leaden cistern at the back of Arundel
+House, the following monogram occurs beneath an earl’s coronet, with the
+date 1703:—[Picture: Old Pump and monogram] Notwithstanding that this is
+obviously compounded of the letters L. I. C., or C. I. L., and at the
+first glance with the connexion of an earl’s coronet and a date would
+appear to present no difficulty respecting the correct appropriation, I
+must confess my inability to state to whom the monogram belonged.  For
+the name of Arundel I am equally unable to account.  No mention whatever
+is made of this house by Mr. Faulkner; nor does the name of Arundel occur
+in the parish records of Fulham, although in 1724, as before mentioned,
+Stanley Grove House appears to have been in the possession of Henry
+Arundel.  In the midst of this obscurity, the residence of the late Mr.
+Hallam, the historian, who occupied Arundel House in 1819, invests it
+with a literary association of interest.
+
+On the opposite side of the road is the carriage entrance to Park House,
+which stands in Parson’s Green Lane.  A stone tablet has been let into
+one of the piers of the gateway, inscribed
+
+                               PURSER’S CROSS,
+                                 7TH AUGUST,
+                                    1738.
+
+This date has reference to an occurrence which the monthly chronologer in
+the ‘London Magazine’ thus relates:—
+
+    “An highwayman having committed several robberies on Finchley Common,
+    was pursued to London, when he thought himself safe, but was, in a
+    little time, discovered at a public-house in Burlington Gardens,
+    refreshing himself and his horse; however, he had time to remount,
+    and rode through Hyde Park, in which there were several gentlemen’s
+    servants airing their horses, who, taking the alarm, pursued him
+    closely as far as Fulham Fields, where, finding no probability of
+    escaping, he threw money among some country people who were at work
+    in the field, and told them they would soon see the end of an
+    unfortunate man.  He had no sooner spoke these words but he pulled
+    out a pistol, clapped it to his ear, and shot himself directly,
+    before his pursuers could prevent him.  The coroner’s inquest brought
+    in their verdict, and he was buried in a cross road, with a stake
+    drove through him; but ’twas not known who he was.” {155a}
+
+In the ‘Beauties of England and Wales,’ “Purser’s Cross” is said to have
+been corrupted from “Parson’s Cross,” and the vicinity of Parson’s Green
+is mentioned in support of the conjecture.  However, that Purser, and not
+Percy Cross, has been for many years the usual mode of writing the name
+of this locality is established by the ‘Annual Register’ for 1781, where
+the following remarkable coincidence is mentioned:—
+
+    “Died, 30th December, 1780, at Purser’s Cross, Fulham, Mrs. Elizabeth
+    and Mrs. Frances Turberville, in the seventy-seventh year of their
+    ages, of ancient and respectable west country family; they were twin
+    sisters, and both died unmarried.  What adds to the singularity of
+    this circumstance, they were both born the same day, never were known
+    to live separate, died within a few days of each other, and were
+    interred on the same day.”
+
+Park House presents a fac-simile of an old mansion which stood precisely
+on the same site, and was known as Quibus Hall, a name, as is
+conjectured, bestowed upon it in consequence of some dispute respecting
+possession between the coheirs of Sir Michael Wharton, who died about
+1725. {155b}  When rebuilt by Mr. Holland for the late Mr. Powell, it was
+called High Elms House, and was for some time occupied as a school,
+conducted by the Rev. Thomas Bowen, who published in 1798 ‘Thoughts on
+the Necessity of Moral Discipline in Prisons.’  After Mr. Bowen’s death
+in the following year, his widow, with the assistance of the Rev. Joshua
+Ruddock, carried on the establishment until 1825, since which time Park
+House became the occasional residence of Mr. Powell, of Quex, in the Isle
+of Thanet, until his death in 1849.  A cottage opposite (formerly
+“Brunswick Cottage”) was called “Rosamond’s Bower,” during the time the
+late Mr. Crofton Croker lived in it (1837–46).
+
+In a privately printed description of this cottage, when the residence of
+Mr. Croker, of which but a very few copies were distributed to his
+friends, Mr. Croker himself writes:—
+
+    “In what, it may be asked, originates the romantic name of
+    ‘Rosamond’s Bower?’  A question I shall endeavour to answer.  The
+    curious reader will find from Lysons’ ‘Environs of London’ (II. 359),
+    that the manor of Rosamonds is an estate near Parson’s Green, in the
+    [Picture: Old Rosamond’s Bower and Park House, from a Sketch made
+    about 1750] parish of Fulham.  Lysons adds, ‘the site of the mansion
+    belonging to this estate, now (1795) rented by a gardener, is said,
+    by tradition, to have been a palace of Fair Rosamond.’  There seems
+    to be, however, no foundation beyond the name for this tradition, and
+    it is unnoticed by Faulkner in his ‘History of Fulham,’ published in
+    1813.  He merely mentions, adjoining High Elms, or Park House, an old
+    dwelling, which ‘ancient house,’ continues Faulkner, ‘appears to be
+    of the age of Elizabeth, and is commonly called Rosamond’s Bower.’
+    This ‘ancient house’ was taken down by Mr. Powell, in the year 1826,
+    and the present stables of Park House are built upon the site.  But I
+    have recently learned that the name of ‘Rosamond’s Dairy’ is still
+    attached to an old house probably built between two and three hundred
+    years, which stands a little way back from the high-road at the
+    north-west corner of Parson’s Green.
+
+    “I have always felt with Dr. Johnson that relics are venerable
+    things, and are only _not_ to be worshipped.  When, therefore, I took
+    my cottage, in 1837, and was told that the oak staircase in it had
+    belonged to the veritable ‘Rosamond’s Bower,’ and was the only relic
+    of it that existed; and when I found that the name had no longer a
+    precise ‘local habitation’ in Fulham, I ventured, purely from motives
+    of respect for the memory of the past, and not from any affectation
+    of romance, to revive an ancient parochial name which had been
+    suffered to die out, ‘like the snuff of a candle.’  In changing its
+    precise situation, in transferring it from one side of Parson’s Green
+    Lane to the other, a distance, however, not fifty yards from the
+    original site, I trust when called upon to show cause for the
+    transfer, to be reasonably supported by the history of the old oak
+    staircase.  Indeed I may here venture to assert that the change of
+    name from ‘Brunswick Cottage,’—so was ‘Rosamond’s Bower’ called when
+    I took it,—and the assumption of that name, if contrasted with the
+    name changing and name travelling fashion of the district, is a
+    proceeding in which I am fully borne out by numerous precedents.
+
+    “Miss Edgeworth, in her reply, dated 31st January, 1840, to the
+    letter of a juvenile correspondent (then nine years of age) inquires,
+    ‘Is Rosamond’s Bower a real name?’  And I well remember the gestures
+    and even some of the jests which the omnibus passengers made when
+    ‘Rosamond’s Bower’ was first painted upon the stone caps of the gate
+    piers, such as Father Prout’s ‘_Rosy_-man’s Bower near the _White_
+    Sheaf’ (Wheatsheaf).  But the novelty wore off in a week or two, and
+    the name has long since ceased to be an object of speculation to any
+    but the inquisitive.  For their information I may state, that in the
+    time of Elizabeth all the gardeners’ cottages in this neighbourhood
+    were called bowers.  It was the Saxon term for a room, and,
+    therefore, applied to the dwelling occupied by the labouring class.
+    And Rosamond, or Rosaman, is said to have been the name of a family
+    of gardeners bestowed upon the district which they had long
+    cultivated—possibly a sobriquet derived from the fame of their roses
+    in times when that flower was a badge of party distinction. . . .  It
+    only remains for me to add, that ‘Rosamond’s Bower’ stands 22 feet
+    back from the high road, and has a small garden or court before it,
+    measuring, exclusive of the stable-yard, 63 feet.  The garden behind
+    the house is of that form called a gore, gradually narrowing from 63
+    to 22 feet, in a distance of 550 feet or 183 yards—five turns up and
+    down which ‘long walk’ may be reckoned, by exercise meters, ‘a full
+    mile,’ it being 73 yards over and above the distance, an ample
+    allowance for ten short turnings.  Of the old ‘Rosamond’s Bower’
+    three representations have been preserved; two of these are
+    pen-and-ink sketches by Mr. Doherty, made about the middle of the
+    last century, one of which is an authority for the name of Pershouse
+    Cross.  The third view appears in a well-executed aquatint plate of
+    ‘Fulham Park School taken from the Play Ground.’
+
+    “The foundation of the present ‘Rosamond’s Bower,’ judging from the
+    brickwork on the south side, and the thickness of the walls, is
+    probably as old as the time of Elizabeth—I mean the original building
+    which consisted of two rooms, one above the other, 12 feet square,
+    and 7 feet in height.  On the north side of this primitive dwelling
+    was a deep draw-well.  Subsequently two similar rooms were attached,
+    one of which (the present hall) was built over the well, and two
+    attics were raised upon this very simple structure, thus increasing
+    the number of rooms from two to six.  Then a kitchen was built (the
+    present dining-room), and another room over it (the present
+    drawing-room), at the back of the original building, which thus from
+    a labourer’s hut assumed the air of an eight-roomed cottage.  It was
+    then discovered that the rooms were of very small dimensions, and it
+    was considered necessary to enlarge four of them by the additional
+    space to be gained from bay windows in the dining-room, drawing-room,
+    blue bedchamber, and dressing-room.  But the spirit of improvement
+    seldom rests content, and when it was found that the kitchen, which
+    looked upon the garden, was a more agreeable sitting-room, both as to
+    aspect and quiet, than the more ancient and smaller room which looked
+    upon the road, it was determined to create another attachment on the
+    north side, by building a kitchen of still larger dimensions, with a
+    scullery and storeroom behind, to replace the old scullery and
+    out-offices by a spacious staircase, and over this new kitchen to
+    place a room of corresponding size, or equal to that of the two
+    bedrooms upon the same line of building.  Thus in 1826 did
+    ‘Rosamond’s Bower’ become a cottage of ten rooms; and as it was soon
+    afterwards presumed from the march of luxury that no one could live
+    in a decade cottage without requiring a coachhouse and stable, an
+    excellent one was built not far from the north side, making the
+    third, though not the last, addition in that direction.
+
+    “Parva domus! nemorosa quies,
+    Sis tu quoque nostris hospitium laribus
+    Subsidium diu: postes tuas Flora ornet
+    Pomonaque mensas.”
+
+                                 THE GARDEN.
+
+    “It is much more difficult to describe the garden of Rosamond’s Bower
+    than its shape.  I may, however, mention that by means of a sunk
+    fence {159} and a wen-like excrescence upon the original gore, made
+    in the Spring of 1842, the extensive meadow of Park House, with the
+    piece of water which adorns it, appear to belong to my residence so
+    completely, that so far as the eye questions the matter, ‘I am
+    monarch of all I survey.’  [Picture: Distant View of ‘Rosamond’s
+    Bower’ from the adjoining Meadow] The first lawn of the garden
+    rejoices in two very remarkable trees, one a standard Ayrshire rose,
+    rising ten feet in height from a stem ten inches in circumference,
+    and from which, during sunny June, ‘every breeze, of red rose leaves
+    brings down a crimson rain.’ {160}  The other a weeping ash of
+    singularly beautiful proportions.  It has been trained, or rather
+    restrained, to the measurement of fifty-six feet in circumference,
+    the stem being two feet round, and the branches shooting out at the
+    height of five feet with incredible luxuriance.  Under its branches I
+    had the pleasure of seeing no less than thirty-eight friends sit down
+    to breakfast on the 22nd June, 1842; and Gunter, who laid covers for
+    forty-four, assured me, that another arrangement with circular
+    tables, made for the purpose, would have comfortably accommodated
+    sixty.  A miniature shrubbery, not in height, but in breadth,
+    intervenes between the first lawn and the flower garden, where, in
+    the centre of beds, stands the ‘Baylis Vase’—a memorial, I sincerely
+    trust, of a more enduring friendship.  Miss Aikin’s question—but a
+    very long acquaintance with that lady’s fame warrants me here writing
+    ‘Lucy Aikin’s question—to me, one evening while walking down the
+    garden, whether that urn had been placed over the remains of any
+    favourite, was the occasion of the following lines being painted on
+    it:—
+
+    Think not that here was placed this urn
+    To mark a spot o’er which to mourn.
+    Should tender thoughts awake a tear
+    For fading flowers or waning year,
+    Remember that another spring,
+    Fresh flowers and brighter hopes will bring.
+
+    Two elevated strawberry beds, facetiously termed ‘twin strawberry
+    hills,’ rear themselves between the vase and the back lawn, the
+    further corners of which are respectively protected from wheelbarrow
+    intrusion by an Irish Quern and a Capsular Stone, venerated in Irish
+    tradition—the former a remarkably perfect, the latter an exceedingly
+    compact specimen, having on one side a double, and on the other a
+    single hollow. . . .  The remaining points of interest in my garden
+    may be noticed in a very few words.  It gradually decreases in
+    breadth, and is fenced off on one side from the garden of a very kind
+    neighbour (which contains two of the finest walnut trees in the
+    parish) by an oak paling partially covered with broad, or Irish, and
+    embellished by the picturesque narrow-leaved ivy.
+
+    “On the other side a trim hedge, kept breast high, which runs beside
+    ‘the long walk,’ separates it from the extensive meadow of Park
+    House, and at the termination the following inscription from one of
+    Herrick’s poems has been placed—
+
+          Thine own dear grounds,
+    Not envying others larger bounds,
+    For well thou knowest ’tis not the extent
+    Of land makes life, but sweet content.
+
+    “The garden produces plenty of strawberries, an abundance of
+    raspberries, and generally a good crop of apples and pears, but few
+    vegetables; the cultivation, except of asparagus (of which there are
+    two excellent beds), having been abandoned, as the bird monopoly of
+    peas, caused every shilling’s worth that came to table to cost five,
+    and the ingenuity of the slugs and snails having completely baffled
+    all amateur gardening schemes of defence against their slimy
+    invasions.  [Picture: Rustic bench] Among many experiments I may
+    mention one.  Some vegetables were protected by a circumvallum of
+    salt; but, notwithstanding, the slugs and snails contrived to pass
+    this supposed deadly line of demarcation by fixing themselves on dry
+    leaves which they could easily lift, and thus they wriggled safely
+    over it.  My greatest enjoyment in the garden has been derived from a
+    rustic bench at the north side of the shrubbery, through the back and
+    arms of which a honeysuckle has luxuriantly interlaced itself; there,
+    particularly when recovering from illness, I have sat, and have
+    found, or fancied, that pain was soothed, and depressed spirits
+    greatly elevated, by the monotonous tone of the bees around me.”
+
+The pamphlet from which the above has been taken then enters into a
+minute description of the curiosities, pictures, &c., collected by Mr.
+Croker at ‘Rosamond’s Bower,’ which it is unnecessary further to refer
+to; indeed, although intended for private circulation only, it was not
+completed, as Mr. Croker was led to believe it might appear but an
+egotistical description of an unimportant house.
+
+The following particulars, connected with Thomas Moore’s visit to
+‘Rosamond’s Bower,’ may prove interesting:—
+
+On the 6th October, 1838, Moore wrote to Mr. Crofton Croker as follows:—
+
+    “Many thanks for your wish to have me at Rosamond’s Bower, even
+    though I was unlucky enough not to profit by that wish—some other
+    time, however, you must, for _my_ sake, try again; and I shall then
+    be most ready for a rummage of your Irish treasures.  Already,
+    indeed, I have been drawing a little upon your ‘Researches in the
+    South of Ireland;’ and should be very glad to have more books of
+    yours to pilfer.
+
+                                               “Yours, my dear Mr. Croker,
+                                                              “Very truly,
+                                                           “THOMAS MOORE.”
+
+On the 18th November, 1841, Major-General (then Colonel) Sir Charles
+O’Donnell lunched at Rosamond’s Bower; before luncheon Mr. Croker
+happened to point out to him the passage in the preface of the fourth
+volume of Moore’s Works, p. xxxv, in which the poet says—
+
+    “With the melody entitled, ‘Love, Valour, and Wit,’ an incident is
+    connected, which awakened feelings in me of proud, but sad pleasure,
+    to think that my songs had reached the hearts of some of the
+    descendants of those great Irish families, who found themselves
+    forced, in the dark days of persecution, to seek in other lands a
+    refuge from the shame and ruin of their own;—those whose story I have
+    associated with one of their country’s most characteristic airs:—
+
+    ‘Ye Blakes and O’Donnells, whose fathers resign’d
+    The green hills of their youth, among strangers to find
+    That repose which at home they had sigh’d for in vain.’
+
+    “From a foreign lady, of this ancient extraction,—whose names, could
+    I venture to mention them, would lend to the incident an additional
+    Irish charm,—I received about two years since, through the hands of a
+    gentleman to whom it had been intrusted, a large portfolio, adorned
+    inside with a beautiful drawing representing Love, Wit, and Valour,
+    as described in the song.  In the border that surrounds the drawing
+    are introduced the favourite emblems of Erin, the harp, the shamrock,
+    the mitred head of St. Patrick, together with scrolls containing
+    each, inscribed in letters of gold, the name of some favourite melody
+    of the fair artist.
+
+    “This present was accompanied by the following letter from the lady
+    herself—”
+
+It is unnecessary to quote this letter, but the gentleman alluded to was
+Sir Charles O’Donnell, who had brought the parcel from the Continent, and
+being about to proceed to Canada, and personally unacquainted with Moore,
+requested Mr. Croker to get it safely delivered; who took the present
+opportunity of pointing out to Sir Charles this public acknowledgment
+that his commission had been executed.
+
+They had not been at luncheon many minutes when Mr. Moore was announced,
+and appeared to be no less pleased at meeting Sir Charles O’Donnell, than
+the latter was at being introduced to Moore.
+
+A few days afterwards, Mr. Croker received the following note from Mr.
+Moore:—
+
+    “_November_ 24, 1841.
+
+    “DEAR CROKER,
+
+    “I was obliged to leave London much sooner than I originally
+    intended, and thus lost the opportunity of paying you another visit.
+    . . .  My next visit to London will, I hope, be sufficiently free
+    from other avocations to allow me to devote a good deal of time to
+    the examination of your various treasures.  Pray give my kind
+    remembrances to Mrs. Croker.—I constantly think of my great good luck
+    in lighting by chance on so agreeable a dinner-party that day.  The
+    only drawback was, that it spoiled me—both mentally and physically
+    speaking—for the dinner that followed.
+
+                                                        “Yours very truly,
+                                                           “THOMAS MOORE.”
+
+The name of MOORE was subsequently cut by Mr. Croker on the back of a
+chair which the poet occupied during this visit.  It produced the
+following epigram by the Rev. Francis Mahony (Father Prout):—
+
+   “This is to tell o’ days
+      When on this Cathedra,
+   He of the Melodies
+      Solemnly sat, agrah!”
+
+Mr. Thomas James Bell, the next tenant of ‘Rosamond’s Bower,’ altered the
+name to ‘Audley Cottage,’ which it now bears, and the agreeable
+associations connected with the former title are in the recollection of
+many who may be unaware of the change, and may regret the substitution of
+a name, for which there appears to have been very little reason.
+
+Parson’s Green Lane continues from Rosamond’s Bower to Parson’s Green.
+It is for the most part composed of small cottages.  On the left-hand
+corner of the Green is the ‘White Horse’ public-house, the sign of which
+was, some few years ago supported by the quaint piece of iron-work shown
+in the annexed cut.  It is now altered.
+
+          [Picture: Iron-work sign and White Horse Public-House]
+
+East End House, on the east side of the Green, next the pond, was
+originally built by Sir Francis Child, who was Lord Mayor of London, in
+1699.  It was afterwards the residence of Admiral Sir Charles Wager; and
+Dr. Ekins, Dean of Carlisle, died here 20th November, 1791.  The house
+was subsequently modernized by the late John Powell, and became the
+residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert, who erected the porch in front of the
+house as a shelter for carriages.  Here the Prince of Wales (afterwards
+George IV.) was a frequent visitor.  Piccolomini lived here for a short
+time lately.
+
+The celebrated Sir Thomas Bodley lived at Parson’s Green from 1605 to
+1609.  The old mansion at the west side of the Green was formerly the
+Rectory House, and is traditionally reported to have been the residence
+of Adoniram Byfield, the noted Presbyterian Chaplain to Colonel
+Cholmondeley’s regiment in the Earl of Essex’s army, who took so
+prominent a part in Cromwellian politics, that he became immortalized in
+Hudibras.  [Picture: The Rectory House] An old stone building is noticed
+by Bowack in 1705, as adjoining this house, and presumed by him to be of
+three or four hundred years’ standing, and in all probability a chapel
+for the rectors and their domestics.  This building was pulled down,
+according to Lysons, about the year 1742, and the house is now divided
+into two, that at the corner being occupied by Dr. Lauman’s Academy.  At
+the south-west side of the Green is the old entrance to Peterborough
+House, a residence with the recollections of which the names of Locke,
+Swift, Pope, Gay, Prior, and a crowd of others are associated.
+
+The present Peterborough House, which is a little beyond the old brick
+gateway, was built by Mr. J. Meyrick, who died there in 1801.  Ho was the
+father of Sir Samuel Meyrick the well-known antiquary.  Ho purchased the
+house, in 1794, of R. Heavyside, Esq., and pulled down the old mansion
+that stood close to the site of the ancient maze, which became converted
+into a lawn at the rear of the modern house.  The place was originally
+[Picture: Old Gate of Peterborough House] termed Brightwells, or
+Rightwells, and here, in 1569, died John Tarnworth, Esq., one of
+Elizabeth’s privy counsellors, who lies buried at Fulham.
+
+Brightwells afterwards belonged to Sir Thomas Knolles, who, in 1603, sold
+it to Sir Thomas Smith, who had been secretary to the unfortunate Earl of
+Essex, and became, under James I., Clerk of the Council, Latin Secretary,
+and Master of the Requests; and here he died in 1609, and was buried in
+the chancel of Fulham Church, where a handsome monument is erected to his
+memory.  After Sir Thomas Smith’s death, his widow married the first Earl
+of Exeter, and continued to reside at Brightwells until her death, in
+1633.  Sir Thomas Smith’s only daughter having married the Honourable
+Thomas Carey, the Earl of Monmouth’s second son, he became possessed of
+the estate in right of his wife, and after him the place was called Villa
+Carey, which has led to the belief that old Peterborough House was built
+by him.  It stood facing the pond on Parson’s Green, and at about the
+same distance from the road as the present house.  Francis Cleyne, who
+came over to England in the reign of Charles I., was certainly employed
+to decorate the rooms.  Mr. Carey died about 1635; and his widow, about
+five years afterwards, married Sir Edward Herbert, Attorney-General to
+King Charles.  Sir Edward was a firm loyalist, and resided at Parson’s
+Green till the death of his royal master, when he accompanied Charles II.
+in his exile, who created him Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and he died
+abroad in 1657.  His estate was ordered to be sold with the estates of
+other loyalists in 1653, but the sale does not appear to have taken
+place, as Villa Carey, in 1660, was in the possession of Lord Mordaunt,
+who had married the daughter and heiress of Mr. Carey.  Lord Clarendon
+bears honourable testimony to the daring spirit and devoted zeal in the
+royal cause evinced by this “young gentleman,” and to the no less
+chivalric conduct of his charming bride.
+
+    “He was,” says the historian, “of great vigour of mind, and newly
+    married to a young and beautiful lady of a very loyal spirit and
+    notable vivacity of wit and humour, who concurred with him in all
+    honourable dedications of himself.”
+
+When her husband was arrested and brought to trial in 1658, as a partizan
+of Charles II., by her contrivance one of the principal witnesses against
+him was kept out of the way, and his judges, being divided in their
+opinion of his guilt, he was acquitted only by the casting vote of the
+President, the notorious John Lisle, who had sat upon the trial of
+Charles I., by whom he was addressed in the following remarkable strain:—
+
+    “And I have now to speak to you Mr. Mordaunt: God hath appeared in
+    justice, and God doth appear in mercy, as the Lord is just to them,
+    so the Lord is exceeding merciful to you, and I may say to you that
+    God appears to you at this time, as he speaks to sinners in Jesus
+    Christ, for Sir, he doth clear sinners in Christ Jesus even when they
+    are guilty, and so God cleareth you.  I will not say you are guilty,
+    but ask your own conscience whether you are or no.  Sir, bless God as
+    long as you live, and bless my Lord Protector, by whose authority you
+    are cleared.  Sir, I speak no more, but I beseech you to speak to
+    God.”
+
+The very active part which Lord Mordaunt had taken in effecting the
+restoration of Charles II., in which service, according to his epitaph,
+he “encountered a thousand dangers, provoking and also defeating the rage
+of Cromwell,” was not rewarded by any extraordinary marks of distinction
+or favour, and he seems after that event to have quietly resided on his
+estate at Parson’s Green, where he died in the forty-eighth year of his
+age, on the 5th June, 1675, and was buried in Fulham Church.  The son of
+Lord Mordaunt, who afterwards received the title of Earl of Peterborough,
+married first, Carey, daughter to Sir Alexander Fraser, of Dover.  His
+second wife was the accomplished singer Anastasia Robinson, who survived
+him.  The earl was visited at Peterborough House by all the wits and
+literati of his time.  Bowack, in 1706, describes the gardens of
+Peterborough House, as containing twenty acres of ground, and mentions a
+tulip-tree seventy-six feet in height, and five feet nine inches in
+girth.  Swift, in one of his letters, speaks of Lord Peterborough’s
+gardens as the finest he had ever seen about London.
+
+On the same side of the Green as Peterborough House, stood the residence
+of Samuel Richardson, who removed to Parson’s Green from North End in
+1755, and in this house his second wife, who survived him, died in
+November, 1773, aged seventy-seven.  Formerly the same house belonged to
+Sir Edward Saunders, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1682.  A
+sketch of the house will be found in Chambers’ Cyclopædia of English
+Literature.  Drury Lodge, situated on the King’s Road adjoining Parson’s
+Green, and immediately opposite the Malt House, formerly known as Ivy
+Cottage, was built by Walsh Porter in the Gothic style, and is now the
+residence of Mr. E. T. Smith, who has called the house after his theatre.
+The name of the lane which runs down by the side of Drury Lodge has,
+however, not been altered to _Drury_ Lane, but still retains its old
+title of Broom Lane.
+
+It is said that on the site of what is now called Drury Lodge, was
+formerly a house, the residence of Oliver Cromwell, which was called the
+_Old Red Ivy House_.  Part of the old walls of that building form the
+west side of the present cottage.
+
+Proceeding forward from Purser’s Cross on the main Fulham Road, where St.
+Peter’s Villa may be noticed as the residence of Madame Garcia in 1842,
+about a quarter of a mile brings us to Munster House, which is supposed
+to owe its name to Melesina Schulenberg, created by George II., in 1716,
+Duchess of Munster.  [Picture: Munster house (1844)] According to
+Faulkner, it was also called _Mustow_ House—this was not improbably the
+duchess’s pronunciation; and he adds that tradition makes it a
+hunting-seat of Charles II., and asserts that an extensive park was
+attached to it; but Faulkner also tells us that Munster House “was during
+the greater part of the seventeenth century, the _residence_ and property
+of Sir William Powell, Bart., who founded the almshouses.”  How, after
+this statement, Mr. Faulkner could have admitted the tradition, requires
+some explanation, as he seems to have followed, without acknowledgment,
+the particulars supplied to Lysons from authentic documents by Mr. Deere,
+of the Auditor’s Office, who appears merely to have informed that
+gentleman, that among the title-deeds of this property there is one of
+Sir Edward Powell’s, dated 1640, and that Sir William Powell’s will bears
+date 1680.  According to the same unquestionable records, Munster House
+came from the Powells into the possession of Sir John Williams, Bart., of
+Pengethly, Monmouthshire.
+
+In 1795, Lysons says that Munster House was “occupied as a school.”
+Faulkner, in 1813, states that it was “in the occupation of M. Sampayo, a
+Portuguese merchant.”  And his successor in the tenancy was John Wilson
+Croker, Esq., M.P., then secretary of the Admiralty, and afterwards the
+Right Hon. Mr. Croker, {171} a gentleman who brilliantly retired into
+private life, but whose character is so well known, and has been so often
+discussed in political and literary circles, that I shall only venture to
+remark the local coincidence of three indefatigable secretaries of the
+Admiralty, during the most critical periods of England’s history—namely,
+Sir Philip Stevens, Sir Evan Nepean, and Mr. Croker—having selected the
+quietude of Fulham as the most convenient and attractive position in the
+neighbourhood of London, where they might momentarily relax from the
+arduous strain of official duties.
+
+[Picture: Marble bust]
+
+About 1820, Mr. Croker resigned Munster House as a residence, after
+having externally decorated it with various Cockney embattlements of
+brick, and collected there many curious works of art, possibly with a
+view of reconstruction.  In the garden were two marble busts, one of
+which is figured on previous page.  The other a female head, not unlike
+that of Queen Anne.
+
+There was also a fragment of a group, representing a woman with a child
+at her side, obviously the decoration of a fountain, and a rustic stone
+seat, conjectured to have been the bed of a formidable piece of ordnance.
+
+               [Picture: Woman and child—Rustic stone seat]
+
+A recent tenant of Munster House, the Rev. Stephen Reid Cattley, who is
+known to the reading public as the editor of an issue of Fox’s ‘Book of
+Martyrs,’ was unacquainted with the history of the relics in the garden,
+and can only remember the removal of two composition lions from the
+gate-piers of Munster House,—not placed there, it must be observed, by
+Mr. Croker, but which had the popular effect, for some time, of changing
+the name to _Monster House_.  It is now a Lunatic Asylum.  Opposite
+Munster House is Dancer’s extensive garden for the supply of the London
+market, by the side of which a road runs leading by a turning on the left
+direct back to Parson’s Green, or if the straight road is kept, the
+King’s Road is reached opposite Osborn’s Nursery; adjoining which nursery
+is Churchfield House, the residence of Dr. Burchell the African
+traveller.
+
+[Picture: Fulham Lodge] Fulham Lodge stood on the opposite, or south
+side, of the road from Munster House, on the ground immediately beyond
+Munster Terrace, which was built a short time prior to its demolition.
+This cottage, for it was no more, was a favourite retirement of the late
+Duke of York.  An affecting story is told by George Colman the younger,
+connected with his own feelings while on a visit here.  He had lost sight
+of an old college friend, the Rev. Robert Lowth, son of the Bishop of
+London, from the year 1781 to 1822 (one and forty years!), when Colman
+was surprised and pleased by the receipt of the following letter, written
+and left upon his table by a gentleman who had called when he was not at
+home:—
+
+                                                       “_August_ 16, 1822.
+
+    “DEAR COLMAN,—It may be some five-and-thirty years since we met, and
+    I believe as near forty years as may be since I was promoted from my
+    garret, No. 3 Peckwater, into your _ci-devant_ rooms in the old Quad,
+    on which occasion I bought your things.  Of all your household
+    furniture I possess but one article, which I removed with myself to
+    my first house and castle in Essex, as a very befitting parsonage
+    sideboard, viz., a mahogany table, with two side drawers, and which
+    still ‘does the state some service,’ though not of plate.  But I have
+    an article of yours on a smaller scale, a certain little flat
+    mahogany box, furnished partially, I should say, with cakes of paint,
+    which probably you over-looked, or undervalued as a _vade-mecum_, and
+    left.  And, as an exemplification of the great vanity of over-anxious
+    care, and the safe preservation _per contra_, in which an article may
+    possibly be found without any care at all, that paint-box is still
+    _in statu quo_, at this present writing, having run the gauntlet, not
+    merely of my bachelor days, but of the practical cruelties of my
+    thirteen children, all alive and merry, thank God! albeit as unused
+    and as little disposed to preserve their own playthings or chattels
+    from damage as children usually are, yet it survives!  ‘The reason
+    why I cannot tell,’ unless I kept it ‘for the dangers it had passed.’
+
+    “Though I have been well acquainted with you publicly nearly ever
+    since our Christ Church days, our habits, pursuits, and callings,
+    having cast us into different countries and tracts, we have not, I
+    think met since the date I speak of.  I have a house at Chiswick,
+    where I rather think this nine-lived box is, and, whether it is or
+    no, I shall be very glad if you will give me a call to dine, and take
+    a bed, if convenient to you; and if I cannot introduce you to your
+    old acquaintance and recollections, I shall have great pleasure in
+    substituting new ones,—Mrs. Lowth and eleven of our baker’s dozen of
+    olive-branches, our present complement in the house department, my
+    eldest boy being in the West Indies, and my third having returned to
+    the military college last Saturday, his vacation furlough having
+    expired.  As the summer begins to borrow now and then an autumn
+    evening, the sooner you will favour me with your company the surer
+    you will be of finding me at Grove House, the expiration of other
+    holidays being the usual signal for weighing anchor and shifting our
+    moorings to parsonage point.  I remember you, or David Curson, had
+    among your phrases, _quondam_, one of anything being ‘d---d
+    summerly;’ I trust, however, having since tasted the delights of the
+    sweet shady side of Pall Mall, that you have worn out that prejudice,
+    and will catch the season before it flies us, or give me a line,
+    naming no distant day, that I may not be elsewhere when you call, and
+    you will much oblige, yours sincerely,
+
+                                                           “ROBERT LOWTH.”
+
+    “P.S.—In your address to me you must not name _Chiswick_, but Grove
+    House, Turnham Green, as otherwise it goes into another postman’s
+    walk, who walks it back again to the office, and it does not reach
+    me, per Turnham Green, peripatetic, till the next day, which is
+    _toute autre chose_.”
+
+Colman seems to have been sincerely delighted at the receipt of this
+letter; he answered it immediately, expressing to his old friend how much
+he had gratified him, and how readily he accepted the invitation.
+
+    “After refreshing my friend’s memory,” says Colman, “by touching on
+    some particulars which have already been mentioned, I informed him
+    that I was of late years in the habit of suburban rustication, and
+    that I had passed a considerable part of my summers in a house where
+    I was intimate at Fulham, whither I desired him to direct to me, as
+    much nearer Chiswick than my own abode, being within a few hundred
+    yards of his old family residence, where we last parted.  Whenever I
+    was at this place, I told him the avenue and bishop’s walk by the
+    river side, the public precincts of the moated episcopal domain, had
+    become my favourite morning and evening lounge.  I told him, indeed,
+    merely the fact, omitting all commentary attached to it, for often
+    had I then, and oftener have I since, in a solitary stroll down the
+    avenue, thought of him, regretting the wide chasm in our intercourse,
+    and musing upon human events.”
+
+There is a regret expressed by Colman that he kept no copy of his answer,
+“which,” he adds, “was written in the ‘flow of soul,’ and at the impulse
+of the moment?”  Mr. Lowth wrote in reply to Colman, detailing in a most
+amusing manner his having, in the pursuit of two Cockneys, who had made
+an attack upon a grove of Orleans plum-trees in his grounds, taken cold,
+which confined him to his room.
+
+    “But for this _inter poculum et labra_,” continued Mr. Lowth, “it was
+    my intention to have made you my first _post restante_, with,
+    perhaps, a walk down the old avenue, in my way to town, that
+    identical day; and, still hoping to accomplish three miles and back,
+    I have hoped from day to day, but I cannot get in travelling
+    condition, even for so short a journey.  Therefore I hope you will
+    send me word by my new Yorkshire groom lad, that you will take
+    pot-luck with me on Sunday as the most likely day for you to
+    suburbise.”
+
+Colman accepted the invitation, believing from the length of Mr. Lowth’s
+letter (three pages), and the playfulness of his old friend’s
+communication, that nothing more than an ordinary cold was the matter
+with him.  A note, however, which followed from one of Mr. Lowth’s
+daughters, stated that the meeting proposed by her father must be
+postponed, that he “had become extremely unwell, that bleeding and
+cupping had been prescribed,” and the most perfect quiet enjoined.
+
+On the day after the receipt of this note, Colman sent over to Grove
+House, Chiswick, to make inquiries as to Mr. Lowth’s health, when the
+reply given by an elderly female at the gate, after considerable delay,
+was that “her master was no more.”
+
+A letter from Dr. Badeley to Colman, dated 22d August, 1822, confirmed
+the melancholy intelligence, which he had at first hesitated to believe.
+It stated that “the decease of Mr. Lowth took place on Sunday evening,”
+the very evening appointed by him for their anticipated happy reunion;
+and that his remains were to be interred in the family vault at Fulham on
+Monday morning at ten o’clock.
+
+    “I continued,” said Colman, “at Fulham Lodge, which is nearer in a
+    direct line to the church than to the Bishop’s Palace and the ‘old
+    avenue.’  On Monday the adjacent steeple gave early notice of the
+    approaching funeral; religion and sorrow mingled within me while the
+    slow and mournful tolling of the bell smote upon my heart.  Selfish
+    feelings, too, though secondary, might now and then obtrude, for they
+    are implanted in our nature.  My departed friend was about my own
+    age: we had entered the field nearly at the same time; we had fought,
+    indeed, our chief battles asunder, but in our younger days he had
+    been my comrade, close to me in the ranks: he had fallen, and my own
+    turn might speedily follow.”
+
+These are the ideas which George Colman the younger records as having
+passed through his mind while an inmate of Fulham Lodge:—
+
+    “My walk next morning,” he says, “was to the sepulchre of the Lowths,
+    to indulge in the mournful satisfaction of viewing the depository of
+    my poor friend’s remains.  It stands in the churchyard, a few paces
+    from the eastern end of the ancient church at Fulham.  The
+    surrounding earth, trampled by recent footsteps, and a slab of marble
+    which had been evidently taken out and replaced in the side of the
+    tomb, too plainly presented traces of those rites, which had been
+    performed on the previous day.  For several mornings I repeated my
+    walk thither, and no summer has since glided away, except the last,
+    when my sojournment at Fulham was suspended, without my visiting the
+    spot and heaving a sigh to the memory of Robert Lowth.”
+
+Theodore Hook’s manuscript Diary contains the following entries with
+reference to visits made by him at Fulham Lodge:—
+
+    “2nd January, 1826.—Called.  Mrs. Carey’s luncheon.
+
+    “Thursday, 5th January.—Drove over to Fulham.  Mrs. Carey’s din.
+    Colman, Harris, Mrs. G.  Good hits.  Mrs. Coutts, ‘Julius Cæsar,’ &c.
+    Stayed very late, and walked home.”
+
+Fulham Park Road is now where Fulham Lodge stood, and the ground is
+partly built on, the rest is to be let for building.
+
+This walk is exactly three miles and a half from Hyde Park Corner; and
+what an Irishman would call the iron mile-stone stood exactly opposite to
+Ivy Lodge, until placed against the brick wall immediately beyond the
+railings.
+
+Ivy Lodge was for some years the residence of Rudolph Ackermann, a name,
+as a printseller, known (it is not using too broad a word to say)
+throughout the world, and whose representatives still carry on this
+business in Regent Street.
+
+Ackermann was a remarkable man.  He was born in 1764, at Stollberg, near
+Schneeberg, in Saxony; and, having been bred a coach-builder, upon
+visiting England shortly before the French Revolution, found employment
+as a carriage-draughtsman, which led to his forming the acquaintance of
+artists, and becoming a print-publisher in London.  The French refugees,
+whose necessities obliged them to exercise their acquirements and talents
+as a means of support, found in Mr. Ackermann’s shop a repository for the
+exhibition and sale of decorative articles, which elevated this branch of
+business to an importance that it had never before assumed in England.
+Ackermann’s name stands prominently forward in the early history of gas
+and lithography in England, and he must be remembered as the introducer
+of a species of illustrated periodicals, by the publication of the
+‘Forget-Me-Not;’ to which, or to similar works, nearly every honoured
+contemporary name in the whole circle of British literature have
+contributed, and which have produced a certain, but advantageously a
+questionable, influence upon the Fine Arts.
+
+After the battle of Leipzig, Mr. Ackermann publicly advocated the cause
+of the starving population of many districts of Germany, in consequence
+of the calamities of war, with so much zeal and success, that a
+parliamentary grant of £100,000 was more than doubled by a public
+subscription.  In the spring of 1830, when residing at Ivy Lodge, he
+experienced a sudden attack of paralysis; and a change of air was
+recommended by his medical attendants.  This led to Mr. Ackermann’s
+removal to Finchley, where he died on the 30th of March, 1834.
+
+Having now arrived at Fulham, we will in the next chapter accompany the
+reader in a walk through that ancient village.
+
+                 [Picture: The Entrance to Fulham (1844)]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+
+FULHAM.
+
+In Faulkner’s ‘History of Fulham’ we learn that the earliest mention of
+that village occurs in a grant of the manor by Tyrhtilus Bishop of
+Hereford, to Erkenwald Bishop of London, and his successors, about the
+year 691; in which grant it is called _Fulanham_.  Camden in his
+‘Britannia’ calls it _Fulham_, and derives its name from the Saxon word
+_Fulanham_, _Volucrum Domus_, the habitation of birds or place of fowls.
+Norden agrees with Camden, and adds, “It may also be taken for _Volucrum
+Amnis_, or the river of fowl; for _Ham_ also in many places signifies
+_Amnis_, a river, but it is most probable it should be of land fowl,
+which usually haunt groves and clusters of trees, whereof in this place
+it seemeth hath been plenty.”  In Somner’s and Lye’s Saxon dictionaries
+it is called Fulanham, or Foulham, supposed from the dirtiness of the
+place.  The earliest historical event relating to Fulham, is the arrival
+of the Danes there in the year 879.  On the right hand side as we enter
+the village stands Holcrofts’ _Hall_ (formerly Holcrofts’) built about
+1708, which is worthy of mention as belonging to John Laurie, Esq., and
+as having been the residence of Sir John Burgoyne, where he gave some
+clever dramatic performances, distinguished not only for the considerable
+talent displayed by the actors, but remarkable for the scenery and
+machinery, considering the limited space, the whole of which was
+superintended by the Honourable Mr. Wrottesley, son of Lord Wrottesley,
+who afterwards married Miss Burgoyne, an admirable amateur actress: here
+it was that the celebrated Madame Vestris died, on the 8th August, 1856,
+in her 59th year.  During the time she lived there it was called Gore
+Lodge.  The house has been since tenanted for a short time by Mr. Charles
+Mathews and his present wife.  Holcroft’s Priory, which is opposite, was
+built upon the site of Claybrooke House, mentioned by Faulkner.  In the
+back lane (Burlington Road) Fulham Almshouses are situated, opposite to
+Burlington House, formerly Roy’s well-known academy, on the ground
+attached to which is now a Reformatory School, built about four years
+ago.  This lane leads to the termination of the King’s Road by the Ship
+Tavern.  The Almshouses were originally built and endowed by Sir W.
+Powell, Bart., and were rebuilt in 1793.  The old workhouse (built 1774)
+still stands on the left-hand side of the High Street.  It has been in a
+dilapidated condition for many years, and is about to be pulled down.
+The Fulham and Hammersmith Union is now in Fulham Fields.  Cipriani lived
+in a house adjoining the workhouse.  Further on in Fulham High Street is
+the Golden Lion Inn.  There is a tradition that Bishop Bonner resided in
+the Old Golden Lion, and that it had a subterranean communication with
+the palace.  The late Mr. Crofton Croker read the following paper at the
+meeting of the British Archæological Association at Warwick in 1847:—
+
+      ON THE PROBABILITY OF THE GOLDEN LION INN, AT FULHAM, HAVING BEEN
+           FREQUENTED BY SHAKESPEARE ABOUT THE YEARS 1595 AND 1596.
+
+    It is certainly extraordinary that of the personal history of a man
+    whose writings are of so high an order of genius that they may almost
+    be considered as works of inspiration, we should know so little, and
+    that conjecture should have to supply so much, as in the biography of
+    William Shakespeare.
+
+    Pilgrims as are we at this moment to the birth-place and the tomb of
+    the highest name in the literature of this country, we all feel that
+    we now tread the classic ground of England—ground too rich in
+    unquestionable memories of Shakespeare, to admit of any feeling of
+    jealousy in an attempt to connect his fame by circumstantial evidence
+    with any other locality.  I therefore venture to call attention to
+    the two following entries in the parish records of Fulham, a village
+    in the county of Middlesex, on the Thames, about four miles west of
+    London, and where the Bishop of London has a seat.
+
+    In an assessment made on the 12th October, 1625, for the relief of
+    the poor of Fulham side, John Florio, Esq., was rated at six
+    shillings, for his house in Fulham Street.
+
+    And in the same assessment upon the “Northend” of the parish, the
+    name of Robert Burbage occurs.
+
+    Meagre as this appears to be, and wide of the date at which I aim by
+    thirty years, it is all that I can produce in the shape of novel
+    documentary evidence for an attempt to connect the name of
+    Shakespeare with Fulham; the other points which I have to offer in
+    evidence being admitted facts, although no result has been deduced
+    from them.
+
+    In the High Street of Fulham stands a cleanly-looking brick house,
+    square in form and newly built, called the Golden Lion, where any
+    suburban traveller requiring refreshment may be supplied with a mug
+    of excellent ale and bread and cheese, in a parlour having a sanded
+    floor, the room, it must be confessed, smelling rather strongly of
+    tobacco smoke:—
+
+    “You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will—
+    But the scent of the roses will hang round it still;”—
+
+    And so it is, to my mind, with the tobacco smoke of the Golden Lion,
+    which stands upon the site of an old hostelry, or inn, of the Tudor
+    age, which was pulled down in April, 1836, and was described soon
+    afterwards in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine.’  While the work of
+    destruction [Picture: Ancient tobacco pipe] was going on, a tobacco
+    pipe of ancient and foreign fashion was found behind the old
+    wainscot.  The stem was a crooked shoot of bamboo, through which a
+    hole had been bored, and a brass ornamental termination (of an
+    Elizabethan pattern) formed the head of the pipe.—Why may not this
+    have been the pipe of that Bishop of London who had risen into
+    Elizabeth’s favour by attending Mary on the scaffold at Fotheringay,
+    and who, having fallen into disgrace in consequence of a second
+    marriage at an advanced period of his life, sought, we are told, in
+    the retirement of his house at Fulham, “to lose his sorrow in a mist
+    of smoke,”—and actually died there suddenly on the 15th June, 1596,
+    “while sitting in his chair and smoking tobacco?”
+
+    Could this have been the tobacco pipe produced at “Crowner’s ’quest”
+    assembled at the Golden Lion to inquire into the cause of his
+    lordship’s sudden death?  It is not even impossible that it may have
+    been produced there by his son, John Fletcher, whose name is
+    associated with that of Francis Beaumont in our literature.
+
+    Mr. Charles Knight has set the example of an imaginary biography of
+    Shakespeare, and has brought many probable and some improbable things
+    together on the subject.—Why, then, has he overlooked the Golden Lion
+    in Fulham?  The name of John Fletcher naturally leads to this
+    question.  At the time of his father’s death, he was in his twentieth
+    year; and who will doubt that, at that period of his life, his
+    father’s (the Bishop’s) house was his home.  That he may have
+    resorted to the Golden Lion, and there have met with Shakespeare, is,
+    therefore, quite as probable as that our great dramatist associated
+    with Fletcher at the Falcon or the Mermaid, if good cause can only be
+    shown for Shakespeare’s having had as much reason to frequent Fulham
+    as the Bank-side—or Borough of London.
+
+    I have already stated that Florio’s house was assessed for the
+    poor-rate in Fulham Street, on the 12th October, 1625, the year of
+    Florio’s death; and be it remembered that Florio was the translator
+    of Montaigne’s Essays, of which a copy of the original edition,
+    bearing Shakespeare’s very rare autograph, was not very long since
+    purchased by the British Museum, at what was considered to be a very
+    large price.  When the genuineness of that autograph was keenly
+    discussed among antiquaries, and the probable date at which the
+    ‘Tempest’ was written, became a question, no one presumed to deny
+    that the coincidences between the passage in the 2nd Act of the
+    ‘Tempest’ where Gonzalo says—
+
+    “I’ the commonwealth I would by contraries
+    Execute all things; for _no kind of traffic_
+    Would I admit; _no name of magistrate_;
+    Letters should not be known: _riches_, _poverty_,
+    _And use of service_, none: contract, _succession_;
+    Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
+    No use of metal, corn or wine or oil;
+    No occupation; all men idle, all;
+    And women too; but innocent and pure:
+    No Sovereignty:”—
+
+    is but an echo of the following in Florio’s translation of
+    Montaigne:—
+
+    —“It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath _no kind of
+    traffic_, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, _no
+    name of magistrate_, nor of politic superiority; no _use of service_,
+    of _riches_, or of _poverty_; no _contracts_, no _successions_; no
+    occupation, but idle, no respect of kindred but common; no apparel,
+    but natural; no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corn, or metal,”
+    etc.
+
+                                  * * * * *
+
+    There are other coincidences also, free from the very great
+    difficulty of reconciling satisfactorily printed dates with an
+    imaginary career—which coincidences are too remarkable to have
+    escaped the host of ingenious commentators upon the supposed sources
+    of Shakespeare’s information—of his observation what shall I say?
+
+    The coincidence between passages in Daniel’s “Civil Warres,”
+    published in 1595, and passages in Shakespeare’s Richard II., induce
+    Mr. Charles Knight to observe that “We”—thereby meaning himself—“have
+    looked at this poem with some care, and we cannot avoid coming to the
+    conclusion that, with reference to parts of the conduct of the story,
+    and in a few modes of expression, each of which differs from the
+    general narrative and the particular language of the chroniclers,
+    there are similarities betwixt Shakespeare and Daniel which would
+    lead to the conclusion either that the poem of Daniel was known to
+    Shakespeare, or the play of Shakespeare was known to Daniel.”
+
+    This position is, indeed, established by Mr. Knight, who arrives
+    satisfactorily enough for his own conclusion, that of fixing the date
+    of the composition of Shakespeare’s play to 1597; adding, candidly
+    enough, that “the exact date is really of very little importance; and
+    we should not have dwelt upon it had it not been pleasant to trace
+    resemblances between contemporary poets, who were themselves personal
+    friends.”
+
+    Now, with regard to dates, and the disputed dates of the composition
+    of the ‘Tempest,’ it is important to ascertain who John Florio and
+    Samuel Daniel were.
+
+    We know that Florio was the Italian scholar of his day, and the Court
+    favourite.  We know that Daniel, whose name is now scarcely popularly
+    remembered, was helped into the office of poet-laureat by his
+    connection with Florio as his brother-in-law, by Florio’s
+    recommendations to be the successor of “that poor poet, Edmund
+    Spenser.”  Here, at once, by admitting Shakespeare’s personal
+    intimacy with Florio and Daniel, with his knowledge of their
+    writings, there can be no question; and supposing that he had seen
+    Florio’s translation of Montaigne in MS., much difficulty about dates
+    is got rid of, and we can account for Shakespeare’s acquaintance with
+    Italian literature.
+
+    And allow me to add to this the fact noticed by Mr. Collier, in his
+    memoirs of the principal actors in the plays of Shakespeare, printed
+    for the Shakespeare Society, that Shakespeare’s fellow-player, Henry
+    Condell, did some time sojourn at Fulham; for a tract printed in
+    1625, entitled ‘The Runaway’s Answer to a book “A Rod for Runaways,”’
+    in reply to a pamphlet published by Decker, is inscribed “to our much
+    respected and very worthy friend, Mr. H. Condell, at his country
+    house at Fulham.”  Again, couple with the name of Condell that of
+    Burbadge, in 1625, at Fulham; is not the association most
+    extraordinary, although there is no further agreement in the
+    Christian name than the first letter, Robert being that in the Fulham
+    assessment of poor-rates, Richard that of Shakespeare’s fellow-actor.
+    The family name of Burbadge, however, belongs not to Middlesex, but
+    to Warwickshire.  Alas! for the credit sake of ‘Robert Burbadge, of
+    Northend, Fulham,’ in the place in the poor-rate assessment of 1625,
+    where the sum should have been inserted, there is a blank; although
+    twenty-two of his neighbours at North End are contributors of sums
+    varying from 6s. 8d. to 1s.
+
+    Joshua Sylvester, who was born in 1563 or 1564, and died in 1618,
+    thus describes the village of North End, Fulham, where his uncle
+    Plumbe resided, and he (Sylvester) formed the attachment which is the
+    subject of his poem:—
+
+    I was wont (for my disport)
+    Often in the summer season,
+    To a Village to resort
+    Famous for the rathe ripe peason,
+    Where beneath a _Plumb_-tree shade
+    Many pleasant walks I made.
+
+    And Norden, whom we consider as the father of English topography,
+    dates the address “to all courteous gentlemen,” prefixed to his
+    account of Middlesex and Hertfordshire, from his “poore home, near
+    Fulham, 4th November, 1596.”
+
+    Here, then, we have a mass of facts, which render it impossible for
+    us to doubt that the Golden Lion, Fulham, must have been, according
+    to the custom of the times, frequented by Florio and his
+    brother-in-law Daniel; by Fletcher; by Henry Condell, Shakespeare’s
+    fellow-player; by some one of the name of Burbadge; by Joshua
+    Sylvester, and John Norden, about the years 1595 and 1596.  Is there
+    not, then, every reasonable presumption that our immortal Shakespeare
+    was also a member of this clique?
+
+               [Picture: Fireplaces in the old Golden Lion]
+
+On the pulling down of the Old Inn by Mr. Powell, the panelling was
+purchased by Mr. Street, of Brewer Street, and was afterwards sold to
+Lord Ellenborough, for the fitting up of his Lordship’s residence,
+Southam House, Cheltenham.
+
+Fulham High Street, which extends from the London Road to Church Row,
+appears to have been denominated Bear Street, and is called in the more
+ancient parish books Fulham Street.  The direct approach to Fulham Church
+is by Church Row, which branches off to the right of the High Street.  On
+the left of the churchyard entrance is the Vicarage.  The present vicar
+is the Rev. R. G. Baker.  Opposite the vicarage is a piece of ground,
+which was consecrated in 1843 by Bishop Blomfield, who is buried there.
+Upon this recent addition to the burial-ground formerly stood Miss
+Batsford’s seminary for young gentlemen.  There are several curious old
+monuments in the church, which have been described and engraved by
+Faulkner, to whose work the curious reader may be referred.  In the
+churchyard are the tombs and monuments of several of the old bishops of
+London—Compton, Robinson, Hayter, Gibson, Terrick, Lowth, Sherlock, and
+Randolph.
+
+The grave of that distinguished author and brilliant wit, Theodore Hook,
+is immediately opposite the chancel window.  The stone bears the plain
+inscription “Theodore Edward Hook, died 24th August, 1841, in the
+fifty-third year of his age.”
+
+           [Picture: Old entrance to Pryor’s Bank, 1844] {188b}
+
+Leaving the church by the other entrance, we are in Church Lane.  The
+first house opposite the gate of the churchyard is Pryor’s Bank, to which
+a separate chapter of our little volume is devoted, so that we can pass
+on immediately to the next house, Thames Bank, the present residence of
+Mr. Baylis, whose well-known taste will no doubt soon change its present
+aspect.  Granville Sharp’s {188a} House stood opposite.  It was pulled
+down about twenty-five years ago.  John’s Place (erected 1844) is on the
+site.
+
+Next to Thames Bank, formerly stood Egmont Villa, the residence of
+Theodore Hook, and the house in which he died, now pulled down, the back
+of which, is shown in the annexed sketch.  This house, though of the
+smallest dimensions, was fitted up with much good taste.  [Picture: Back
+of Egmont Villa] There was a small boudoir on the side of the
+drawing-room, which was very rich in articles of virtù, more especially
+in some remarkably fine carvings, attributed to Cellini, Brustolini, and
+others.  These were left to Hook by his brother, the late Dean of
+Worcester.  As an improvisatore, Hook was unapproachable.  In regard to
+his literary merits, let the following suffice, taken from the late Mr.
+Barham’s life of Hook, published in 1848:—
+
+    “There can be no need,” says the Editor, “at this day to enter upon
+    any lengthened criticism of Theodore Hook’s merits as a novelist;
+    they have been discussed over and over again, with little variety of
+    opinion, by every reviewer of the kingdom.  Indeed, both his faults
+    and his excellencies lie on the surface, and are obvious and patent
+    to the most superficial reader; his fables, for the most part ill
+    knit and insufficient, disappoint as they are unfolded; repetitions
+    and omissions are frequent: in short, a general want of care and
+    finish is observable throughout, which must be attributed to the
+    hurry in which he was compelled to write, arising from the
+    multiplicity and distracting nature of his engagements.  His tendency
+    to caricature was innate; but even this would probably have been in a
+    great measure repressed, had he allowed himself sufficient time for
+    correction: while, on the contrary, in detached scenes, which sprang
+    up as pictures in his mind, replete with comic circumstance, in
+    brilliant dialogue and portraiture of character, not to mention those
+    flashes of sound wisdom with which ever and anon his pages are
+    lighted up, his wit and genius had fair play, revelling and rioting
+    in fun, and achieving on the spur of the moment those lasting
+    triumphs which cast into the shade the minor and mechanical blemishes
+    to which we have adverted.”
+
+Hook was a successful dramatist, and an extensive journalist.  Of his
+novels, ‘Gilbert Gurney’ may be considered to be the most remarkable.
+
+Hook’s furniture was sold by George Robins, in September, 1841.  In 1855
+the aqueduct was erected by the Chelsea Water Works Company, for
+conveying the water from Kingston-upon-Thames to the metropolis, and it
+was necessary that the contractor, Mr. Brotherhood, should get possession
+of Egmont Villa, to enable them to erect the tower on the Fulham side.
+Here the piles and timbers of the old Bishop’s Ferry, used for the
+conveyance of passengers across the river from Putney to Fulham, before
+the old bridge was built, were discovered.  It was subsequently
+considered desirable to pull the villa down; and there now remains no
+trace of the house in which Hook lived and died, and which stood within a
+few paces of his grave.  Bowack mentions that Robert Limpany, Esq.,
+“whose estate was so considerable in the parish that he was commonly
+called the Lord of Fulham,” resided in a neat house in Church Lane.  He
+died at the age of ninety-four.  Beyond the Pryor’s Bank on the right, is
+the Bishop’s Walk, which runs along the side of the Thames for some
+little distance, and from hence a view of the Bishop’s Palace is
+obtained.  This palace has been from a very early period the summer
+residence of the Bishops of London.  The land consists of about 37 acres,
+and the whole is surrounded by a moat, over which are two bridges.
+
+Following the course of the Bishop’s Walk, we come to the road leading to
+Craven Cottage, originally built by the Margravine of Anspach, when
+Countess of Craven, and since altered and improved by Walsh Porter, who
+occasionally resided in it till his death in 1809.  Craven Cottage was
+considered the prettiest specimen of cottage architecture then existing.
+The three principal reception-rooms were equally remarkable for their
+structure, as well as their furniture.  The centre, or principal saloon,
+supported by large palm-trees of considerable size, exceedingly well
+executed, with their drooping foliage at the top, supporting the cornice
+and architraves of the room.  The other decorations were in corresponding
+taste.  The furniture comprised a lion’s skin for a hearth-rug, for a
+sofa the back of a tiger, the supports of the tables in most instances
+were four twisted serpents or hydras: in fact, the whole of the
+decorations of the room were of a character perfectly unique and uniform
+in their style.  This room led to a large Gothic dining-room of very
+considerable dimensions, and on the front of the former apartment was a
+very large oval rustic balcony, opposed to which was a large,
+half-circular library, that became more celebrated afterwards as the room
+in which the highly-gifted and talented author of ‘Pelham’ wrote some of
+his most celebrated works.
+
+Craven Cottage was the residence of the Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton,
+from whom it passed to Mr. Baylis, now of Thames Bank, who parted with it
+to Sir Ralph Howard, its present occupant, who removed the door shown in
+the annexed cut, through which the library is seen.
+
+            [Picture: Door of Egyptian Hall at Craven Cottage]
+
+Returning to Church Lane, we come out at the bridge, built in 1729, and
+close to which is Willow Bank, the late residence of Mr. Delafield and
+General Conyers.  The Ferry belonged to the See of London, and it was
+necessary that the consent of the Bishops should be had, for the erection
+of the bridge and consequent destruction of their Ferry; it was,
+therefore, stipulated for the right of themselves, their families, and
+all their dependents, that they should pass over the bridge toll free,
+which right exists at the present time; and passengers are often very
+much astonished at hearing the exclamation of “Bishop!” shouted out by
+the stentorian lungs of bricklayers, carpenters, or others, who may be
+going to the palace, that being the pass-word for the privilege of going
+over.  The architect of the bridge was the eminent surgeon, W. Cheselden,
+who died in 1752, and is buried in the graveyard attached to Chelsea
+Hospital.  His tomb is close to the railings of the new road, leading
+from Sloane Street to the Suspension Bridge at Chelsea.  Cheselden was
+for many years, surgeon of Chelsea Hospital.
+
+                        [Picture: The Swan Tavern]
+
+Standing by the Ferry is the Swan Tavern, a characteristic old house,
+with a garden attached, looking on to the river, and scarcely altered in
+any of its features since Chatelaine published his views of “The most
+agreeable Prospects near London,” about 1740.  It is a good specimen of a
+waterside inn, and appears to have been erected about the time of William
+III.
+
+At the foot of the bridge is ‘The Eight Bells’ public-house, where the
+Fulham omnibuses leave for London.
+
+                   [Picture: Approach to Putney Bridge]
+
+Bridge Street brings us to the point at which we turned off at the
+termination of the High Street, and on the right-hand side as we look
+towards London is Church Street (formerly Windsor Street, according to
+Faulkner), leading up to the Ship Tavern, and thence into the King’s
+Road.
+
+The Charity School is in Church Street.  This building was erected in
+1811.
+
+Retracing our steps towards London, we come to the George at Walham
+Green, which turns off to the left.  The church stands on the right hand
+side.  Opposite Walham House, near the church, is North End Lodge, the
+residence of the late Mr. Albert Smith, and where he died on the 23rd
+May, 1860.  As novelist, dramatist, and lecturer, he had achieved
+considerable reputation; and his unexpected death, at the early age of
+forty-four, brought to a sudden close the most popular monologue
+entertainment of this, or of any, time.  Mr. Smith was an amusing writer
+and a most genial companion, and was ever ready to assist a professional
+brother in the hour of need.  Against the brick wall, close to the gate
+of North End Lodge, is a slab with the inscription “From Hyde Park
+Corner, 3 miles 17 yards.”  We are now in North End, where there are many
+houses of interest which deserve attention; we will therefore go out of
+the direct road and return to London by way of North End.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+
+    NORTH END.
+
+NORTH END may be described as a series of residences on each side the
+lane, more than a mile in length, which runs from the church at Walham
+Green to the main road from Kensington to Hammersmith.  There were but
+few houses in it when Faulkner published his map in 1813.  Market gardens
+were on both sides the road, and the gardeners cottagers were very old.
+[Picture: Panelled Door] The panelled door, here represented, was fitted
+to one of them, and evidently was fashioned in the seventeenth century.
+The celebrated bookseller, Jacob Tonson, lived for some time at North
+End.  At York Cottage, which is on the right hand side of the road, about
+a quarter of a mile from the church, resided for many years Mr. J. B.
+Pyne, the landscape painter.  At a short distance beyond, the road from
+Old Brompton crosses into Fulham Fields.  Here, at one corner, is a house
+(Hermitage Lodge) which was originally constructed as stables to the
+residence of Foote, the dramatist and comedian, {196} which still stands
+on the opposite side of the road leading to Brompton, and where he lived
+for many years, expending large sums upon its improvement.  It is now
+called “The Hermitage,” and is completely surrounded by a large garden
+enclosed by high walls.
+
+           [Picture: Hermitage Lodge (1844) and The Hermitage]
+
+Exactly opposite to this house, in the angle of the road, stands an old
+house in a moderate-sized garden (Cambridge Lodge).  Francis Bartolozzi,
+the celebrated engraver, who arrived in England in 1764, came to reside
+here in 1777.  He was born at Florence in 1730, and died at Lisbon in
+1813.  His son, Gaetano Bartolozzi, father to the late Madame Vestris,
+was born in 1757, and died August 25th, 1813.  Passing up the road,
+beside market gardens, is the old garden wall of Normand House, with some
+curious brick gates (now closed in): the house is very old; the date,
+1661, is in the centre arch, over the principal gateway, and it is said
+to have been used as a hospital for persons recovering from the Great
+Plague in 1665.  [Picture: Bartolozzi’s House] Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has
+resided here.  In 1813 “it was appropriated for the reception of insane
+ladies” (Faulkner), and it is now a lunatic asylum for ladies, with the
+name of “Talfourd” on a brass plate.  A little further on the road, out
+of which we have turned, is a cottage to the right named Wentworth
+Cottage.  Here Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall once resided.  The willow in front
+of the cottage was planted by them from a slip of that over the grave of
+Napoleon at St. Helena.  The land opposite this cottage is now to be let
+on building lease.  This district, now known as “Fulham Fields,” was
+formerly called “No Man’s Land,” and according to Faulkner, the local
+historian, contained, in 1813, “about six houses.”  One of these was “an
+ancient house, once the residence of the family of Plumbe,” which was
+pulled down about twenty-three years ago, and replaced by a cluster of
+dwellings for the labourers in the surrounding market gardens, which
+extend from Walham Green nearly to the Thames in a north-west direction;
+“the North End Road,” as it is called, forming the eastern boundary of
+“Fulham Fields.”  To establish the connection of Sylvester’s lines,
+quoted in the late Mr. Crofton Croker’s Paper on the “Golden Lion,” with
+this locality, the antiquary who pointed it out observed that—
+
+    “Our poet had an uncle named William Plumbe, who resided at North
+    End, Fulham, having married the widow of John Gresham, the second son
+    of Sir John Gresham, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1547, and which
+    lady was the only daughter and heir of Edward Dormer of Fulham.  Here
+    it was, while visiting his uncle, that Sylvester formed the
+    attachment which is the subject of his poem (see the folio edition of
+    his works, 1621).  Uncle Plumbe had been a widower; and from
+    monuments which exist, or existed, in the parish church of Fulham,
+    appears to have departed this life on the 9th February, 1593–4, aged
+    sixty.  In the previous May, his widow had lost her son Edmund (or
+    Edward) Gresham, at the age of sixteen; and seriously touched by the
+    rapid proofs of mortality within her house, from which the hand of
+    death had within twelve months removed both a husband and a child,
+    made preparations for her own demise by recording her intention to
+    repose beside their remains: and to her husband’s memory she raised,
+    in Fulham Church, a monument ‘of alabaster, inlaid and ornamented
+    with various-coloured marble,’ leaving a space after her name for the
+    insertion of the date of her death and age, which appear never to
+    have been supplied.”
+
+The arms of “Dormer, impaled with Gresham,” we are told remain, “those of
+Plumbe are gone.”  Sylvester’s “Triumph of Faith” is consecrated “to the
+grateful memory of the first kind fosterer of our tender Muses, by my
+never sufficiently honoured dear uncle, W. Plumb, Esq.”  It is not our
+intention to linger over the recollections connected with the age of
+Elizabeth in Fulham Fields or at North End, although there can be no
+doubt that a little research might bring some curious local particulars
+to light connected with the history of the literature, the drama, and the
+fine arts of that period,
+
+The gardens here provide the London markets with a large supply of
+vegetables.  A very primitive form of draw-well was common here,
+consisting of a pole, balanced horizontally on an upright, the bucket
+being affixed to a rope at one end.  [Picture: Draw-well] The pole is
+pulled downward for the bucket to descend the well, and when filled, is
+raised by the weight of wood attached to the opposite end of the pole.
+This mode of raising water is still in use in the East, and Wilkinson, in
+his ‘Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,’ Series I. vol. ii. p.
+4, has engraved representations of this machine, from paintings on the
+walls of Thebes, of the time of the Pharaohs.  [Picture: Cottage in
+Fulham Fields] In “Fulham Fields” are still standing many old cottages,
+inhabited by market-gardeners.  A sketch, taken in 1844, of one of the
+best examples then existing, is here given as a specimen.
+
+A little beyond “Wentworth Cottage,” the road branches off, the turning
+to the right going to Hammersmith, and that to the left leading to
+Fulham.  Hammersmith was a part of Fulham until 1834, when it was formed
+into a separate parish by Act of Parliament.
+
+[Picture: Elm House] Returning to the lane at North End, immediately
+beyond Bartolozzi’s house, is an old wall, apparently of the time of
+Charles II., enclosing a tall peculiar-looking house, now called Elm
+House, once the residence of Cheeseman the engraver, of whom little is
+known, except that he was a pupil of Bartolozzi, and lived in Newman
+Street about thirty years ago.  He is said to have been very fond of
+music, and having a small independence and less ambition, he was content
+to engrave but little, and with his violoncello and musical friends,
+passed a very happy life.
+
+A little further on the opposite side of the road stood Walnut-Tree
+Cottage (pulled down in 1846), once the residence of Edmund Kean, and
+also of Copley the artist, which took its name from the tree in the
+fore-court.  [Picture: Walnut-Tree Cottage] We then come to the North End
+Sunday and Day Schools, erected in 1857.  The road here curves round by
+the wall of Kensington Hall, a large mansion on the right, built by
+Slater, the well-known butcher of Kensington, and it has been called in
+consequence Slater’s Mansion.  It is at present a school, kept by Mr. and
+Mrs. Johnson, but it is to be let or sold.
+
+A little further to the left is Deadman’s Lane.  Here, in the midst of
+garden grounds, stands a venerable and isolated fabric, which would
+appear to have been built in the reign of James I.  This lane leads to
+Hammersmith, but a more agreeable way has been made opposite Edith
+Villas, called Edith Road.  The land is to be let on building lease; and
+here once stood the house of Cipriani, the painter.  [Picture: Cipriani’s
+House] Cipriani was born at Florence, in 1727, and died in London in
+1785.  He came to England in 1755; and he was one of the members of the
+Royal Academy at its foundation in 1769, when he was employed to make the
+design for the diploma given to Academicians and Associates on their
+admission, which was engraved by Bartolozzi.  The character and works of
+this artist are thus described by Fuseli: “The fertility of his
+invention, the graces of his composition, and the seductive elegance of
+his forms, were only surpassed by the probity of his character, the
+simplicity of his manners, and the benevolence of his heart.”  A few
+plates were engraved by himself after his own designs.
+
+Another curve of the road brings us to the site of Dr. Crotch’s house,
+where a row of houses, called Grove Cottages, have been built.  [Picture:
+Dr. Crotch’s House] Dr. Crotch was, in 1797, at the early age of
+twenty-two, appointed Professor of Music in the University of Oxford,
+where he received the degree of Doctor of Music.  In 1822 he was
+appointed Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.  He performed for the
+last time in public in 1834 in Westminster Abbey, during the royal
+festival, and died 20th December, 1847, while sitting at dinner.  Dr.
+Crotch has composed numerous pieces for the organ and pianoforte, and
+published, in 1812, ‘Elements of Musical Composition and Thorough Bass,’
+and subsequently specimens of various styles of music of all ages.  W.
+Wynne Ryland, the engraver, lived in this house before Dr. Crotch
+inhabited it.
+
+Opposite where Dr. Crotch’s house formerly stood, facing a turning which
+is called on one side Lawn Terrace, on the other Ashton Terrace, is a
+large brick mansion inhabited by Richardson the novelist before his
+removal to Parson’s Green.  It is of the period of William III., the
+appearance of which may be recognized from the annexed sketch.  In the
+garden was a summer-house, in which the novelist wrote before the family
+were up, and he afterwards, at the breakfast table, communicated the
+progress of his story.  [Picture: House of Richardson] How little the
+exterior has been altered in the last fifty years, a comparison of this
+sketch, made in 1844, with the print prefixed to the 4th volume of
+Richardson’s ‘Correspondence,’ will show at a glance.  Sir Richard
+Phillips’s print was published by him May 26, 1804.  Then, as now, this
+mansion was divided into two houses, and the half nearest to the eye was
+that occupied by the novelist, the other half was the residence of a Mr.
+Vanderplank, a name which frequently occurs in ‘Richardson’s
+Correspondence.’  Richardson’s house has been subsequently inhabited by
+the late Sir William and Lady Boothby, the latter, better known to the
+public as that charming actress Mrs. Nisbett.  A few extracts from
+‘Richardson’s Correspondence’ may here prove interesting.
+
+One of the most romantic incidents in the business-like and hospitable
+life of Richardson, was his correspondence with, and introduction to Lady
+Bradshaigh, the wife of a Lancashire Baronet, whom he tried to prevail
+upon to visit him at North End.  After the appearance of the fourth
+volume of Clarissa Harlowe, a lady, who signed herself Belfour, wrote to
+Richardson, stating a report that prevailed, that the history of Clarissa
+was to terminate in a most tragical manner, and requesting that her
+entreaties may avert so dreadful a catastrophe.
+
+This correspondence with Mrs. Belfour commenced in October, 1748; and she
+thus concludes her letter to the novelist, her ladyship taking care to
+mystify her identity by giving her address, Post-office, Exeter, although
+resident at Haigh in Lancashire.  “If you disappoint me,” she writes,
+“attend to my curse.”
+
+    “May the hatred of all the young, beautiful, and virtuous for ever be
+    your portion, and may your eyes never behold anything but age and
+    deformity!  May you meet with applause only from envious old maids,
+    surly bachelors, and tyrannical parents; may you be doomed to the
+    company of such! and after death may their ugly souls haunt you!
+
+    “Now make Lovelace and Clarissa unhappy if you dare!
+
+    “Perhaps you may think all this proceeds from a giddy girl of
+    sixteen; but know I am past my romantic time of life, though young
+    enough to wish two lovers happy in a married state.  As I myself am
+    in that class, it makes me still more anxious for the lovely pair.  I
+    have a common understanding, and middling judgment, for one of my
+    sex, which I tell you for fear you should not find it out.”
+
+The correspondence thus commenced goes on, until the vanity of Richardson
+induces him to describe to his unknown correspondent his private
+circumstances: and to a hint given in the January following by Lady
+Bradshaigh, of her intention to visit London before she is a year older,
+when she “shall long to see” Mr. Richardson, and “perhaps may contrive
+_that_, though unknown to him,” he replies,—
+
+    “But do not, my dear correspondent (still let me call you so) say,
+    that you will see me, _unknown to myself_, when you come to town.
+    Permit me to hope, that you will not be personally a stranger to me
+    then.”
+
+This is followed by an acknowledgment from Madame Belfour, that she is
+not his “Devonshire lady,” having but very little knowledge of the place,
+though she has a friend there; observing archly, “_Lancashire_, if you
+please;” adding an invitation, if he is inclined to take a journey of two
+hundred miles, with the promise of “a most friendly reception from two
+persons, who have great reason to esteem” him “a very valuable
+acquaintance.”
+
+Richardson responded to this invitation by another—
+
+    “But I will readily come into any proposal you shall make, to answer
+    the purpose of your question; and if you will be so cruel as to keep
+    yourself still incognito, will acquiesce.  I wish you would accept of
+    our invitation on your coming to town.  _But three little miles from
+    Hyde Park Corner_.  I keep no vehicle.”
+
+(This was before the age of omnibuses.)
+
+    —“but one should be at yours, and at your dear man’s command, as long
+    as you should both honour us with your presence.  You shall be only
+    the sister, the cousin, the niece—the what you please of my
+    incognito, and I will never address you as other than what you choose
+    to pass for.  If you knew, Madam, you would not question that I am in
+    earnest on this occasion; the less question it, as that at my little
+    habitation near Hammersmith, I have common conveniences, though not
+    splendid ones, to make my offer good.”
+
+Richardson, in the letter from which this passage has been extracted, is
+again led away by his vanity into a description of his person, and very
+plainly hints at a meeting in the Park, through which he goes “once or
+twice a week to” his “little retirement.”  He describes himself as
+
+    “Short, rather plump than emaciated, about five foot five inches;
+    fair wig; lightish cloth coat, all black besides; one hand generally
+    in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the
+    skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a
+    support, when attacked by sudden tremors or startings and dizziness.”
+    . . . “Of a light-brown complexion; teeth not yet failing him;
+    smoothish faced and ruddy cheeked; at some times looking to be about
+    sixty-five, at other times much younger; a regular even pace,
+    stealing away ground, rather than seeming to get rid of it; a grey
+    eye, too often overclouded by mistiness from the head; by chance
+    lively—very lively it will be if he have hope of seeing a lady whom
+    he loves and honours; his eye always on the ladies”—and so on.
+
+In return to this description, Lady Bradshaigh on the 16th December,
+1749, half promises a meeting in an appointed place, for she tells the
+elderly gentleman with “a grey eye, too often overclouded by mistiness
+from the head,” but “by chance lively,” “that she will attend the Park
+every fine warm day, between the hours of one and two.  I do not,” adds
+this perfect specimen of a literary coquette,
+
+    “Say this to put you in the least out of your way, or make you stay a
+    moment longer than your business requires; for a walk in the Park is
+    an excuse she uses for her health; and as she designs staying some
+    months in town, if she misses you one day she may have luck another.”
+
+And Lady Bradshaigh proceeds to present, as if in ridicule of
+Richardson’s portrait as drawn by himself, her own.
+
+    “In surprise or eagerness she is apt to think aloud; and since you
+    have a mind to see _her_, who has seen the King, I give you the
+    advantage of knowing she is middle aged, middle sized, a degree above
+    plump, brown as an oak wainscot, a good deal of country red in her
+    cheeks: altogether a plain woman, but nothing remarkably forbidding.”
+
+Any one might think that a meeting would immediately have followed these
+communications, and that the novel-writer and the novel-reader would have
+presented themselves to each other’s gaze for admiration, at the time and
+place appointed, and thus the affair which their letters have left upon
+record might have been satisfactorily wound up in one volume.  But this
+did not accord with the sentimental typographical taste of the times,
+which required the dilution of an idea into seven or eight volumes to
+make it palatable.  For we are told that a young Cantab, who, when asked
+if he had read Clarissa, replied, “D---n it, I would not read it through
+to save my life,” was set down as an incurable dunce.  And that a lady
+reading to her maid, whilst she curled her hair, the seventh volume of
+Clarissa, the poor girl let fall such a shower of tears that they wetted
+her mistress’s head so much, she had to send her out of the room to
+compose herself.  Upon the maid being asked the cause of her grief, she
+said, “Oh, madam, to see such goodness and innocence in such distress,”
+and her lady rewarded her with a crown for the answer.
+
+January the 9th (1749–50) has arrived—the tantalizing Lady Bradshaigh,
+the unknown Mrs. Belfour has been in London six weeks, and the novelist
+begins “not to know what to think” of his fair correspondent’s wish to
+see him.  “May be so,” he writes,
+
+    “But with such a desire to be in town three weeks; on the 16th
+    December to be in sight of my dwelling, and three weeks more to
+    elapse, yet I neither to see or hear of the lady; it cannot be that
+    she has so strong a desire.”
+
+Let any one imagine the ridiculousness of the situation of “dear, good,
+excellent Mr. Richardson” at this time.  He had, he confesses,
+
+    “Such a desire to see one who had seen the King, that” (he speaking
+    of himself, says) “though prevented by indisposition from going to my
+    little retirement on the Saturday, that I had the pleasure of your
+    letter, I went into the Park on Sunday (it being a very fine day) in
+    hopes of seeing such a lady as you describe, contenting myself with
+    dining as I walked, on a sea biscuit which I had put in my pocket, my
+    family at home, all the time, knowing not what was become of me.—A
+    Quixotte!
+
+    “Last Saturday, being a fine warm day, in my way to North End, I
+    walked backwards and forwards in the Mall, till past your friend’s
+    time of being there (she preparing, possibly, for the Court, being
+    Twelfth Night!) and I again was disappointed.”
+
+On the 28th January, nineteen days after this was written, Lady
+Bradshaigh, in a letter full of satirical banter, which, however, it may
+be questionable if Richardson did not receive as replete with the highest
+compliments to his genius, says,
+
+    “Indeed, Sir, I resolved, if ever I came to town, to find out your
+    haunts, if possible, and I have not ‘said anything that is not,’ nor
+    am at all naughty in this respect, for I give you my word, endeavours
+    have not been wanting.  You never go to public places.  I knew not
+    where to look for you (without making myself known) except in the
+    Park, which place I have frequented most warm days.  Once I fancied I
+    met you; I gave a sort of a fluttering start, and surprised my
+    company; but presently recollected you would not deceive me by
+    appearing in a grey, instead of a whitish coat; besides the cane was
+    wanting, otherwise I might have supposed you in mourning.”
+
+Could anything exceed this touch about “a grey, instead of a whitish
+coat,” except the finishing one of the “mole upon your left cheek?”
+
+    “To be sure on the Saturday you mention, I was dressing for court, as
+    you supposed, and have never been in the Park upon a Sunday; but you
+    cannot be sure that I have not seen you.  How came I to know that you
+    have a mole upon your left cheek?  But not to make myself appear more
+    knowing than I am, I’ll tell you, Sir, that I have only seen you in
+    effigy, in company with your Clarissa at Mr. Highmore’s, where I
+    design making you another visit shortly.”
+
+All this and much more is followed by a most tantalizing and puzzling
+P.S. to poor Richardson.  His fair, or rather “brown as an oak-wainscot,
+with a good deal-of-country-red in her cheeks” correspondent, requests
+him “to direct only to C. L., and enclose it to Miss J., to be left at
+Mrs. G.’s” etc. etc., previously observing that, “whenever there happens
+to be a fine Saturday I shall look for you in the Park, that being the
+day on which I suppose you are called that way.”
+
+Roused into desperation, Richardson on the 2nd February writes to Mrs.
+Belfour as follows:—
+
+    “What pains does my unkind correspondent take to conceal herself!
+    Loveless thought himself at liberty to change names without Act of
+    Parliament.  I wish, madam, that Lovelace—‘A sad dog,’ said a certain
+    lady once, ‘why was he made so wicked, yet so agreeable?’
+
+    “Disappointed and chagrined as I was on Friday night with the return
+    of my letter, directed to Miss J---, rejected and refused to be taken
+    in at Mrs. G---’s, and with my servant’s bringing me word that the
+    little book I sent on Thursday night, with a note in it, was also
+    rejected; and the porter (whom I have never since seen or heard of,
+    nor of the book) dismissed with an assurance that he must be wrong;
+    my servant being sent from one Mrs. G--- to another Mrs. G--- at
+    Millbank; yet I resolved to try my fortune on Saturday in the Park in
+    my way to North End.  The day indeed, thought I, is not promising;
+    but where so great an earnestness is professed, and the lady possibly
+    by this time made acquainted with the disappointment she has given
+    me, who knows but she will be carried in a chair to the Park, to make
+    me amends, and there reveal herself?  Three different chairs at
+    different views saw I.  My hope, therefore, not so very much out of
+    the way; but in none of them the lady I wished to see.  Up the Mall
+    walked I, down the Mall, and up again, in my way to North End.  O
+    this dear Will-o’-wisp, thought I! when nearest, furthest off!  Why
+    should I, at this time of life?  No bad story, the consecrated rose,
+    say what she will: and all the spiteful things I could think of I
+    muttered to myself.  And how, Madam, can I banish them from my
+    memory, when I see you so very careful to conceal yourself; when I
+    see you so very apprehensive of my curiosity, and so very little
+    confiding in my generosity?  O Madam! you know me not! you will not
+    know me!
+
+    “Yesterday, at North End, your billet, apologizing for the
+    disappointment was given me.  Lud! lud! what a giddy appearance!
+    thought I.  O that I had half the life, the spirit! of anything worth
+    remembering I could make memorandums.
+
+    “Shall I say all I thought?  I will not.  But if these at last reach
+    your hands, take them as written, as they were, by Friday night, and
+    believe me to be,
+
+                                                                   “Madam,
+                                         “Your admirer and humble Servant,
+                                                          “S. RICHARDSON.”
+
+Sir Walter Scott says, that “the power of Richardson’s painting of his
+deeper scenes of tragedy has never been, and probably never will be,
+excelled;” and in Mrs. Inchbald’s ‘Life of Richardson,’ we read, that “as
+a writer he possessed original genius, and an unlimited command over the
+tender passions.”  He carried on a foreign literary correspondence, and
+was on terms of intimacy with many eminent and literary persons of his
+time, particularly Dr. Young, Dr. Johnson, Aaron Hill, and Arthur Onslow,
+Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons.
+
+A short distance further on, we enter the Hammersmith Road, opposite a
+tavern called “The Bell and Anchor,” which stands beside the turnpike,
+and passing about twenty shops on the left towards Hammersmith, we notice
+in the fore-court of a house called “The Cedars,” two noble cedar trees
+of immense girth, one of which is represented in the accompanying cut.
+This was formerly the residence of Sir James Branscomb, who, according to
+Faulkner, “in his early days had been a servant to the Earl of
+Gainsborough, and afterwards, for upwards of forty years, carried on a
+lottery office in Holborn.  He was a common-councilman of the Ward of
+Farringdon Without, and received the honour of knighthood during his
+shrievalty.”  The house has been a ladies’ boarding-school for many
+years.  From the Kensington Road we can return direct to London, having
+in this chapter departed from our even course on the Fulham Road for the
+purpose of visiting the North End district.
+
+            [Picture: Tree in the fore-court of “The Cedars”]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+
+THE PRYOR’S BANK, FULHAM.
+
+Nestling in trees beneath the old tower of Fulham Church, which has been
+judiciously restored by Mr. George Godwin, there may be seen from Putney
+Bridge a remarkable group of houses, the most conspicuous of which will
+be conjectured from a passing glance to belong to the Gothic tribe.  This
+house, which has been a pet kind of place of the Strawberry Hill class,
+is called the Pryor’s Bank, and its history can be told in much less than
+one hundredth part of the space that a mere catalogue of the objects of
+interest which it has contained would occupy.  In fact, the whole
+edifice, from the kitchen to the bedrooms, was a few years since a
+museum, arranged with a view to pictorial effect; and if it had been
+called “The Museum of British Antiquities” it would have been found
+worthy of the name.
+
+In a print, published about forty years since, by J. Edington, 64
+Gracechurch Street, of Fulham Church, as seen from the river, the ancient
+aspect of the modern Pryor’s Bank is preserved.  [Picture: Fulham Church]
+The situation of this humble residence having attracted the fancy of Mr.
+Walsh Porter, he purchased it, raised the building by an additional
+story, replaced its latticed casements by windows of coloured glass, and
+fitted the interior with grotesque embellishments and theatrical
+decorations.  The entrance hall was called the robber’s cave, for it was
+constructed of material made to look like large projecting rocks, with a
+winding staircase, and mysterious in-and-out passages.  [Picture: Vine
+Cottage] One of the bed-rooms was called, not inaptly, the lion’s den.
+The dining-room represented, on a small scale, the ruins of Tintern
+Abbey; and here Mr. Porter had frequently the honour of receiving and
+entertaining George IV., when Prince of Wales.  It was then called Vine
+Cottage, {213} and having been disposed of by Mr. Porter, became, in
+1813, the residence of Lady Hawarden; and, subsequently, of William
+Holmes, Esq., M.P., who sold it to Mr. Baylis and Mr. Lechmere Whitmore
+about 1834.
+
+By them a luxurious vine which covered the exterior was cut down, and the
+cottage, named after it, replaced by a modern antique house.  Mr. Baylis
+being a zealous antiquary, his good taste induced him to respect
+neglected things, when remarkable as works of art, and inspired him and
+his friend Mr. Whitmore with the wish to collect and preserve some of the
+many fine specimens of ancient manufacture that had found their way into
+this country from the Continent, as well as to rescue from destruction
+relics of Old England.  In the monuments and carvings which had been
+removed from dilapidated churches, and in the furniture which had been
+turned out of the noble mansions of England—the “Halls” and “old
+Places”—Mr. Baylis saw the tangible records of the history of his
+country; and, desirous of upholding such memorials, he gleaned a rich
+harvest from the lumber of brokers’ shops, and saved from oblivion
+articles illustrative of various tastes and periods, that were daily in
+the course of macadamisation or of being consumed for firewood.
+
+The materials thus acquired were freely used by him in the construction
+of a new building upon the site of Vine Cottage, and adapted with
+considerable skill; but when neither the vine nor the cottage were in
+existence, it appeared to Mr. Baylis ridiculous to allow a misnomer to
+attach itself to the spot.  After due deliberation, therefore, respecting
+the situation upon a delightful bank of gravel, and the association which
+an assemblage of ecclesiastic carvings and objects connected with
+“monkish memories,” there collected, were likely to produce upon the
+mind, the new house was styled the “Pryor’s Bank.”
+
+As Horace Walpole’s villa was celebrated by the Earl of Bath, so the
+charms of the Pryor’s Bank have been sung in “the last new ballad on the
+Fulham regatta”—a _jeu d’esprit_ circulated at an entertainment given by
+the hospitable owners in 1843:—
+
+   “Strawberry Hill has pass’d away,
+   Every house must have its day;
+   So in antiquarian rank
+   Up sprung here the Pryor’s Bank,
+   Full of glorious tapestry,—
+   Full as well as house can be:
+   And of carvings old and quaint,
+   Relics of some mitr’d saint,
+   ’Tis—I hate to be perfidious—
+   ’Tis a house most sacrilegious.
+
+   “Glorious, glowing painted glass,
+   What its beauty can surpass?
+   Shrines bedeck’d with gems we see,
+   Overhung by canopy
+   Of embroider’d curtains rare—
+   Wondrous works of time and care!
+   Up stairs, down stairs, in the hall,
+   There is something great or small
+   To attract the curious eye
+   Into it to rudely pry.
+
+   “Here some niche or cabinet
+   Full of rarities is set;
+   Here some picture—‘precious bit’—
+   There’s no time to dwell on it;
+   Bronzes, china—all present
+   Each their own sweet blandishment.
+   But what makes our pleasure here,
+   Is our welcome and our cheer;
+   So I’ll not say one bit more,—
+   Long live Baylis and Whitmore!”
+
+I would endeavour to convey some idea of the Pryor’s Bank and its now
+dispersed treasures as they were in 1840, in which year we will suppose
+the reader to accompany us through the house and grounds; but before
+entering the house, I would call attention to a quiet walk along the
+garden-terrace, laved to its verdant slope by the brimming Thames.
+[Picture: Terrace at Pryor’s Bank] Suppose, then, we leave those
+beautiful climbing plants—they are Chilian creepers that so profusely
+wanton on the sunny wall—and turning sharply round an angle of the river
+front, cut at once, by the most direct walk, the parties who in luxurious
+idleness have assembled about the garden fountain; and, lest such folk
+should attempt to interrupt us in our sober purpose, let us not stop to
+see or admire anything, until we reach the bay-window summer-house at the
+end of the terrace.  “How magnificent are those chestnut-trees!” I hear
+you exclaim; “and this old bay-window!”
+
+Ay, this summer-house which shelters us, and those noble balusters which
+protect the northern termination of the terrace, how many thoughts do
+they conjure up in the mind!  [Picture: Fountain at Pryor’s Bank] These
+balusters belonged to the main staircase of Winchester House.  Do you
+remember Winchester House in Broad Street, in the good city of London,
+the residence of “the loyal Paulets?”  Perhaps not.  There is, however, a
+print of its last appearance in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ for April,
+1839, and by which you will at once identify this summer-house as the
+bay-window of the principal apartment.  Indeed the editor tells you that
+“the greater part of the remaining ornamental wood-work has been
+purchased by Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., who is fitting up with it the
+kitchen and some of the new rooms of his house, Pryor’s Bank, Fulham.”
+
+It is stated in the same magazine, that in 1828 the motto of the Paulets,
+AYMES LOYAULTE, was to be seen in the windows of the principal apartment
+on the first floor, in yellow letters, disposed in diagonal stripes;
+which motto, it is added, “was probably put there by the loyal Marquis of
+Winchester, in the time of Charles I., by whom the same sentence was
+inscribed in every window of his residence at Basing House, in Hants,
+which he so gallantly defended against the Parliamentarians.” {218}
+
+Now, is it not more probable that the recollection of this motto in the
+windows of his paternal mansion, conveyed through the medium of coloured
+glass, indelibly stamped by sunshine (or daguerreotyped, as we might term
+it) upon the youthful mind of the gallant marquis those feelings of
+devoted loyalty which influenced his after conduct, and led him to
+inscribe with the point of his diamond ring the same motto upon the
+windows of Basing House?  [Picture: Turn Buckle] Be this as it may, it is
+gratifying to know that many of the panes of glass which bore that
+glorious yellow letter motto in Winchester House, at the period when it
+was doomed to be taken down, are preserved, having been with good taste
+presented to the present Marquis of Winchester; and two or three which
+were overlooked have come into the possession of Lord Adolphus
+Fitzclarence.  But much of the diamond-shaped glass in this bay-window,
+as it stood upon the terrace of the Pryor’s Bank, was ancient, and very
+curious.  You could not fail to remark the quaint window-latch, termed “a
+Turn Buckle.”
+
+Had we time to linger here, how amusing it might be to attempt to
+decipher the monograms, and names, and verses inscribed upon the various
+lozenge-shaped panes of glass, which practically exemplified the phrase
+of “diamond cut diamond.”
+
+The fragments of the old Royal Exchange, with a Burmese cross-legged idol
+perched thereon—the urn to the memory of “POOR BANQUO;” the green-house,
+with its billiard-table, and even an alcove, the most charming spot in
+“the wide world” to talk sentiment in, must not detain us from returning
+to another angle of the river front, after [Picture: Alcove: and Angle of
+the River Front] glancing at which, we enter the outer hall or passage,
+wainscoted with oak and lined above with arras, separated from the inner
+hall by an oak screen, which was usually guarded upon gala nights by most
+respectable “Beef-eaters,” who required the production of invitation
+[Picture: Inner Hall with oak screen] cards from all visitors.  They
+permit us to pass without question; and that is a very proper example for
+you to follow, and a good reason why you should not question me too
+closely:—
+
+         “Do you think that I
+   Came here to be the Pryor’s Bank directory?”
+
+You must use your own eyes, and judge for yourself.  I will tell you,
+however, all that I know as briefly as possible, and point out whatever
+occurs to me in our scamper, for a scamper it can only be termed: just
+such a kind of run as a person makes through London who has come up by
+railroad to see all its wonders in a week.  But I cannot allow you to
+examine so closely that curiously carved oak chimney-piece in the inner
+hall, although I admit that it may be as early as Henry VIII.’s time, and
+those interesting old portraits.  Where shall we begin?  You wish to
+inspect everything.  Suppose, then, we commence with the kitchen, and
+steam it up-stairs to the dormitories, going at the rate of a
+high-pressure engine.
+
+You are already aware that the kitchen was panelled with oak from the
+drawing-room of Winchester House, and now you see the whole style of
+fitting-up accords with that of “bygone days.”  Look, for instance,
+towards the kitchen window, and you will find that the various cupboards,
+presses and dressers—even the cooking utensils—correspond; but, although
+modern improvements have not been lost sight of, antique forms have been
+retained.  Let one example suffice, that of an ancient gridiron, of
+beautiful and elaborate workmanship.
+
+             [Picture: Kitchen Window: and Ancient Gridiron]
+
+The history of the plates and dishes displayed in this kitchen would
+afford an opportunity for a dissertation on the rise and progress of the
+fine arts in this country, as they present most curious and important
+specimens of early drawing, painting, and poetry.  The old English plate
+was a square piece of wood, which indeed is not quite obsolete at the
+present hour.  The improvement upon this primitive plate was a circular
+platter, with a raised edge; but there were also thin, circular, flat
+plates of beech-wood in use for the dessert or confection, and they were
+gilt and painted upon one side, and inscribed with pious, or instructive,
+or amorous mottoes, suited to the taste of the society in which they were
+produced.  Such circular plates are now well known to antiquaries under
+the name of “roundels,” and were at one time generally supposed by them
+to have been used as cards for fortune-telling, or playing with at
+questions and answers.  More sober research into their origin and use
+shows that they were painted and decorated with conventional patterns by
+nuns, who left blank spaces for the mottoes, to be supplied by the more
+learned monks; and a set of these roundels generally consisted of twelve.
+As specimens of the style of these mottoes about the time of Henry VII.
+or VIII. the following may be taken:—
+
+   “Wheresoever thou traveleste,
+      Este, Weste, Northe, or Southe,
+   Learne never to looke
+      A geven horsse in the mouthe.”
+
+   “In friends ther ys flattery,
+      In men lyttell trust,
+   Thoughe fayre they proffer
+      They be offten unjuste.”
+
+There are many sets of verses for roundels extant in manuscript, and a
+few have been printed; indeed, it appears likely that to the love for
+this species of composition we owe Tusser’s “Five Hundred Points of Good
+Husbandry,” and most of his other admonitory verses.
+
+After the Reformation, coloured prints superseded the painted and
+manuscript “poesies” of the nuns and monks, and the elder De Passe, and
+other artists of the period of James I. and Charles I., produced a
+variety of oval and circular engravings, which were pasted upon roundels
+and varnished over.  The subjects generally selected were those which
+naturally arranged themselves into a set of twelve, as the months.  By
+the Puritans the beechen roundels thus decorated were regarded with
+especial dislike, and they returned to the use of the unadorned trencher
+and “godly platter.”  When the “Merry Monarch” was restored he brought
+over with him from Holland plates and dishes manufactured at Delft, where
+the porcelain known as Faenza, Faience, Majolica, and Fynlina ware, made
+during the fifteenth century in the North of Italy, and upon the
+embellishments of which, according to Lamartinière, the pencils of
+Raffaelle, Giulio Romano, and the Caracci, were employed, had been
+successfully, although coarsely imitated.  And it must be confessed that
+many of the old Dutch plates, dishes, and bowls, upon the kitchen-shelves
+of the Pryor’s Bank, deserved to be admired for boldness of design,
+effective combinations of colour, and the manual dexterity displayed in
+the execution of the patterns.  The superior delicacy of the porcelain of
+China, which about this time began to be imported freely into England
+from the East caused it to be preferred to the “Dutch ware,” and the
+consequence of international commerce was, that the Chinese imitated
+European devices and patterns upon their porcelain, probably with the
+view of rendering the article more acceptable in the Dutch and English
+markets.  But while the Chinese were imitating us, we were copying their
+style of art in the potteries of Staffordshire, with the commercial
+manufacturing advantage given by the power of transferring a print to the
+clay over the production of the same effect by means of the pencil, an
+idea no doubt suggested by our roundels of Charles I.’s time, and which
+process became of the same relative importance as printing to manuscript.
+This was the origin of our common blue-and-white plate, or what is known
+as “the willow pattern,” where
+
+   “Walking through their groves of trees,
+      Blue bridges and blue rivers,
+   Little think those three Chinese
+      They’ll soon be smash’d to shivers.”
+
+The popularity of this porcelain pattern must not be ascribed to superior
+beauty or cheapness, for to the eye of taste surely a pure plain white
+plate is infinitely superior to an unfeeling copy of a Chinese pagoda,
+bridge, and willow-tree “in blue print.”  The fact is that the bugbear of
+a vulgar mind—“fashion”—long rendered it imperative upon every good
+housewife and substantial householder to keep up a certain dinner-set of
+earthenware, consisting of two soup-tureens and a relative proportion of
+dishes and vegetable-dishes, with covers, soup-plates, dinner-plates, and
+dessert-plates, which were all to correspond; and should any accidental
+breakage of crockery take place, it was a manufacturing trick to make it
+a matter of extra-proportionate expense and difficulty readily to replace
+the same unless it happened to be of “the blue willow pattern.”  The
+practice, however, of using for the dessert-service plates of Worcester
+china painted by hand, and the execution of many of which as works of art
+call for our admiration as much as any enamel, created a taste for
+forming what are called harlequin sets, among which, if a few plates
+happen to be
+
+    “Smash’d to shivers,”
+
+the value of the whole set is only proportionately depreciated, and what
+has been broken may perhaps be advantageously replaced.
+
+                         [Picture: Earl of Essex]
+
+If you like, we will return to the inner hall, where is a portrait of the
+celebrated Earl of Essex, an undoubted original picture, dated 1598,
+three years previous to his being beheaded (Zucchero), and from it at
+once enter the library, or breakfast-room.  Here there is a superbly
+carved Elizabethan chimney-piece.
+
+                   [Picture: Elizabethan chimney-piece]
+
+What are you about?  You should not have touched so thoughtlessly that
+“brass inkstand,” as you call it.  It is actually a pix, or holy box,
+{227} which once contained the host, and was considered “so sacred, that
+upon the march of armies it was especially prohibited from theft.”  We
+are told that Henry V. delayed his army for a whole day to discover the
+thief who had stolen one.  You may admire the pictures as much as you
+please; they are odd and hard-looking portraits to my eye; but they are
+historically curious, and clever, too, for their age.  [Picture: Pix, or
+Holy Box] Could you only patiently listen to a discussion upon the
+characters of the originals of the portraits that have hung upon these
+walls, or the volumes that have filled these shelves; you might gain a
+deeper insight into the workings of the human heart than, perhaps, you
+would care to be instructed by.  There were in the next room—the
+dining-room—into which we may proceed when you please, for only by a
+sliding door between the library and dining-room are they separated—such
+pictures!  [Picture: Sliding door into dining-room] An unquestionable
+‘Henry VIII.,’ by Holbein; a ‘Queen Mary,’ by Lucas de Heere, from the
+collection of the late Mr. Dent; and a glorious ‘Elizabeth,’ that had
+belonged to Nathaniel Rich of Eltham, who we know from the particulars of
+sale that were in the Augmentation Office, was the purchaser of Eltham
+Palace, when disposed of by the Parliament after the death of Charles I.;
+and we also know from Strype’s _Annals of the Reformation_, that
+Elizabeth visited Eltham and passed some days there in 1559, and that she
+made her favourite Sir Christopher Hatton keeper of the royal palace
+there.
+
+You should not disturb those books; you will look in vain for the
+publication of George III.’s ‘Illustration of Shakspeare,’ and corrected
+in the autograph of the king for a second edition.  How remarkable are
+the opinions entertained by His Majesty respecting Doctors Johnson and
+Franklin, and how curious are some of the notes!  This book is the true
+history of his reign, and would be worth to us fifty black-letter
+Caxtons.  Mr. Thorpe of Piccadilly can tell you all about it.  [Picture:
+Monastic chair and damask curtains] Oh, never mind that manuscript in its
+old French binding, and those exquisitely-wrought silver clasps, and dear
+old Horace Walpole’s books.  We must enter the dining-room.  Here sit
+down in this monastic chair, and look around you for five minutes.  This
+chair Mr. Baylis picked up in Lincoln; and the curtains beside it, they
+came from Strawberry Hill, and are of genuine Spitalfields damask.  There
+is no such damask to be had now.  Eighty years ago were these curtains
+manufactured, and yet they are in most excellent condition.  The greater
+portion of the Gothic oak panelling around us originally formed the back
+of the stalls in the beautiful chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford.
+During the late repairs this panelling was removed and sold.  Much of it
+was purchased by the Marquess of Salisbury for Hatfield House, and the
+remainder Mr. Baylis bought.  More of the oak panelling in the room,
+especially the elaborately-wrought specimens and the rich tracery work,
+have been obtained from Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster, St. Mary’s
+Coventry, and other churches.
+
+                     [Picture: Ornate chimney-piece]
+
+The chimney-piece is a rich composition of ancient carving; the canopy
+came from St. Michael’s Church, Coventry, and in the niches are some fine
+figures of the kings and queens of England.  [Picture: Knight’s armour]
+The fire-back is an interesting relic, as it is the original one placed
+in the great dining-hall of Burghley House, by Elizabeth’s minister,
+whose arms are upon it, with the date 1575.  The sideboard, with its
+canopy of oak, assimilates with the fitting of the room, and had upon its
+shelves a glittering display of ancient glass and early plate.  Salvers
+and cups of singular forms and beautiful shapes arose proudly up, one
+above the other, with dishes of Raffaelle ware beneath them.  But I
+cannot help seeing that the steel-clad knight, who keeps guard in a
+recess by the sideboard, attracts more of your attention.  [Picture:
+Leathern black jack and iron jug] The effigy is an excellent suit of
+fluted armour of Henry VIIth’s time; and in the opposite recess, those
+huge drinking-vessels are only an honest old English leathern black jack
+and an iron jug; the former from St. Cross, Winchester, the latter from
+the castle of some German baron, and full of feudal character.
+
+As for the other relics in the dining-room, I will only particularise two
+or three more; and they are a pair of round and solid well-carved
+pendents from the chancel of the church of Stratford-on-Avon, which have
+been removed from their original station immediately over the tomb of
+Shakspeare; and are now, as you see, inverted and used here as
+footstools.
+
+    “Think of that, Master Brooke!”
+
+The other relic is that matchless piece of sculptured oak [Picture:
+Effigy in oak of Emperor Rudolph II.] which represents the Emperor
+Rudolph II., the size of life (five feet six inches in height), and which
+was brought from Aix-la-Chapelle by the late Sir Herbert Taylor.  What
+may have been its former history I cannot tell you, but it resembles in
+execution the exquisite Gothic figures in the chimney-piece of the
+town-hall at Bruges, and is of about the same height and size.
+
+Are you willing to forsake the thoughtful soberness of antique
+oak-panelling for the tinsel of Venetian gold and the richness of Genoa
+velvet, Florentine tapestry, and Persian arras?  If so, we will ascend to
+the drawing-rooms and gallery.  But stay a moment and permit this lady
+and oddly-dressed gentleman to pass us on their exit from the gallery,
+where they have been rehearsing some charming entertainment for the
+evening, or getting up some piece of fanciful mummery to amuse the idle
+guests who have congregated around the garden fountain.  [Picture: Couple
+exiting from gallery] The light is not favourable for seeing all the
+pictures that deserve inspection on the staircase—you had better ascend;
+and now, having reached the head of the semi-staircase, our course is
+along this lobby to the opposite door-way, which is that of the
+drawing-room.
+
+Let us enter at once, and in our tour of the Pryor’s Bank regard the
+ante-drawing-room as a kind of middle or passage-room, belonging either
+to the gallery or the drawing-room.  I admit that the arrangement of the
+house, which, however, is very simple, appears puzzling at first: the
+reason of this is, that the senses are often deceived, from mirrors here
+and there being so judiciously arranged, that they reflect at happy
+angles objects which would otherwise escape observation.  It is
+impossible to convey an idea of the whole effect of the Pryor’s Bank,
+made up as it has been of carvings of unrivalled richness, grace, and
+variety, solemn and grotesque.  Statues are there, some of the highest
+class of art, others which belong to an early Gothic period, and yet an
+harmonious effect has been produced.  Where will you take up your
+position for a general view?  At the other end? or in the oriel window
+looking on the Bishop’s Walk?
+
+                 [Picture: Oriel Window.  Venetian Table]
+
+Now if it were not for that richly gilt Venetian table, the companion to
+which is in the possession of the Earl of Harrington, we might have an
+excellent view of that magnificently embellished recess, upon the merits
+of which Mr. Baylis is commenting to another oddly equipped gentleman.
+There certainly is something going forward in the fancy-dress way.  On
+this Venetian table stands a French astronomical clock; upon it are
+silver medallions of Louis XIII. and XIV., and among its ornaments the
+monograms of these monarchs appear.
+
+Here is a group, in ivory, of bacchanals, with attendant boys; a genuine
+piece of Fiamingo’s work, cut from solid ivory, and formerly in the
+collection of the Vatican.  Here, [Picture: Group in Ivory: Tapestried
+Recess] come this way, we may as well pick up something of the history of
+this tapestried recess, the canopy and seats of which, and the three
+other recesses in the drawing-room, are fashioned out of the remains of a
+large throne or dais brought from Florence, and which had belonged to the
+Medici family.  The materials are of the richest possible kind, being
+flowers of floss silk upon a ground-work of gold thread, interspersed
+with silver.  The effect produced by this combination is gorgeous in the
+extreme.  “And those figures?”  That nearest the eye is a statue of the
+Emperor Rudolph of Hapsburgh, admirably carved in oak, the armour is of
+silver damasked with gold.  The other figure, and a corresponding one on
+the opposite side of the room, represent Gothic queens, whose robes have
+been restored in the illuminated style of decoration.  “And the tapestry
+in the recess?”  Listen to what Mr. Baylis is saying.  “Thinking over
+it,” remarked Sir Bulwer Lytton to me, “I have very little doubt but that
+my guess was right—that the fisherman is meant for Antony and the lady
+for Cleopatra; it was a favourite story in the middle ages, how Antony,
+wishing to surprise Cleopatra with his success in angling, employed a
+diver to fix fishes on his hook.  Cleopatra found him out, and, in turn,
+employed a diver of her own to put waggishly a salt (_sea_) fish on his
+hook.”  The story is in Plutarch, and the popularity of the anecdote may
+be seen by the use Shakspeare makes of it.  Charmian says,—
+
+         “’Twas merry when
+   You wagered on your angling; when your diver
+   Did _hang a salt fish on his hook_, which he
+   _With fervency_, _drew up_.” {235}
+
+It is no doubt correctly conjectured by Sir Bulwer Lytton, that many
+subjects in tapestry (not Scriptural) have their explanation in Plutarch,
+the fashionable classic source of tale and legend for our fathers of the
+middle ages.  Shakspeare, it need scarcely be observed, depends on him
+for all his classic plots; and he was no less a favourite on the
+Continent than with us.  If you observe the attitude and expression of
+Cleopatra, for so we will consider her, you will perceive that there is
+something impressive, as well as smiling, about her which would suit the
+words she is supposed to have uttered, when she had laughed sufficiently
+at the trick she played him, and which, to the best of my recollection,
+ran thus, “Leave fishing to us smaller potentates; your angling should be
+for cities and kingdoms.”
+
+Every article of the furniture merits your attention.  Here is a Venetian
+chair; {236} it is one of a set of twenty-six, with a sofa, brought from
+the Gradenigo Palace, and is carved and gilt all over,—the back, and
+seat, and cushions for the arms, being Genoa red velvet.  [Picture:
+Venetian chair] Fourteen of these chairs, with the sofa, are in this
+room; the other twelve were purchased by the Earl of Lonsdale.
+
+Vases of Dresden china, marqueterie tables, and a shrine (see page 237)
+of gilt carved work at one end of the room, reflected in mirrors of
+gigantic dimensions, dazzle the senses; and its ceiling studded with blue
+and gold pendants, and its walls all painted over with quaint devices
+like the pages of a missal.  Also a magnificent Gothic chimney-piece (see
+page 238) of Carrara marble, fitted with brass-work of ormolu and
+chimney-glass.  The chimney was removed from the grand Gothic-room at
+Carlton House, and cost George IV. many hundred pounds.  Indeed the
+drawing-room of the Pryor’s Bank seems to be more like some scene in an
+enchanted palace, than in an every-day residence upon the bank of the
+river Thames.
+
+                            [Picture: Shrine]
+
+The ante-room is not less splendidly furnished.  Its ceiling is even more
+elaborately embellished than that of the drawing-room, for the heads of
+mitred abbots, jolly monks, and demure nuns look down upon us from each
+intersection of the groining.
+
+A Florentine cabinet (see page 239), of mosaic work in lapis lazuli,
+pietra dura, topaz, agates, etc., one of the finest specimens of the kind
+ever seen,—it eventually came into the possession of Mr. Hurst, who asked
+fifteen hundred [Picture: Gothic Chimney-piece] guineas for it—a
+magnificent carved oak chimney-piece (see page 240); chairs which
+belonged to Queen Elizabeth; and among other pictures, an undoubted one
+by Janssen, of “Charles II. dancing at the Hague,” must not detain us,
+although it be a duplicate of the celebrated picture in the possession of
+Her Majesty, with which the history of this is completely identical, both
+having been purchased from the same individual at the same period.
+
+                     [Picture: A Florentine Cabinet]
+
+“And that portrait of Elizabeth?”  It was given by Charles II. to Judge
+Twysden.  “And that other portrait?”  Yes, it is Lord Monteagle; not of
+Exchequer documentary fame, but of Gunpowder Plot notoriety.  And there
+are portraits of Katharine of Aragon and Prince Arthur from Strawberry
+Hill.  I positively cannot allow you to dwell on that chimney-piece of
+Raffaelle design, carved in oak and coloured in ultra-marine and gold.
+
+I entirely agree with you in thinking it a pity that the [Picture: Carved
+Oak chimney-piece] vast labours of our ancestors—things upon which they
+bestowed so much time and thought—should be blown into oblivion by the
+mere breath of fashion.  How much nobler is the fashion to respect,
+cherish, and admire them!
+
+And now we are again within the gallery, and look upon the ante-room
+through the private entrance, and in another second we might be within
+the bay-window of the gallery; for, place these sketches together at a
+right angle, side by side, and the part of the sofa which appears in one,
+is only the continuation of the same seat in the other.  But this must
+not make you think that the Pryor’s Bank is but a miniature affair, or
+give you a contemptible idea of the size.  You should rather take your
+general notion of the proportions of the gallery from a glance at that
+lady who is studying with so much attention the part she has undertaken
+to enact, and look up as to the comparative height of the window at the
+top compartments made up of ancient [Picture: Bay-Window:  Private
+Entrance] painted glass, charged with the arms of some of the medieval
+kings of England, among which you cannot fail to notice those of Richard
+III.  Those two elaborately-wrought lanterns which depend from the
+groined ceiling, formerly hung in the Gothic conservatory of Carlton
+House, and the recesses of the walls are adorned with eleven full-length
+portraits of kings and queens of Spain painted upon leather.
+
+Look at those ebony and ivory couches, and this ebony chair, from which
+justice was formerly meted out by the Dutch and English rules to the
+Cingalese; and see here this great chair, so profusely carved and
+cushioned with rich black velvet worked with gold.  [Picture: Black
+velvet chair] It is said to have been the Electoral coronation chair of
+Saxony; and the date assigned to it in the ‘Builder’ is 1620.  The
+armorial bearings embroidered upon the back would probably settle the
+question; but I know little of foreign heraldry beyond the fact that
+sufficient attention is not paid to it in this country.
+
+Attached to the gallery at the opposite end of the lobby from which we
+entered the drawing-room, there is a boudoir, or robing-room—a perfect
+gem in its way.  [Picture: Nell Gwynne’s mirror] You have only to touch
+this spring, and that picture starts from the wall and affords us free
+egress.  Just take one peep into this fairy boudoir.
+
+There hangs against the wall Nell Gwynne’s mirror, in its curious frame
+of needlework.  Oh!  You wish to take a peep at yourself in Nelly’s
+looking-glass?  Odds, fish! mind you do not overset that basset table of
+Japan manufacture—another Strawberry Hill relic.  Now, are you satisfied?
+Those beautiful enamels, and that charming Bermudian brain-stone, the
+wonderful network of which infinitely exceeds the finest lace?  Well, I
+must admit that some philosophy is required to feel satisfied when
+revelling among the ornaments of palaces, the treasures of monasteries,
+and the decorations of some of the proudest mansions of antiquity; and
+did we not turn our eyes and regard the infinitely superior works of
+Nature, alike bountifully spread before the poor and the rich man, the
+heart might feel an inward sickening at the question.  In the state
+carved-oak bed-room is a finely carved walnut-wood German cabinet of the
+true Elizabethan period.
+
+              [Picture: German cabinet (Eizabethan period)]
+
+Though within the walls of the Pryor’s Bank, or any other human
+habitation, all that is rich in art may be assembled, yet, without the
+wish to turn these objects to a beneficial purpose, they become only a
+load of care; but when used to exalt and refine the national taste, they
+confer an immortality upon the possessor, and render him a benefactor to
+his species; when used, also, as accessories to the cultivation of kindly
+sympathies and the promotion of social enjoyment, they are objects of
+public utility.  The revival of old-fashioned English cordiality,
+especially at Christmas, had been always a favourite idea with the owners
+of the Pryor’s Bank, and in 1839 they gave an entertainment which, like
+
+   “O’Rourke’s noble feast, will ne’er be forgot
+   By those who were there or those who were not.”
+
+They were fortunate in securing the aid of Theodore Hook, of pleasant,
+and, alas! of painful memory, who was their neighbour, with that of some
+other friends and acquaintances, who thoroughly entered into the whim of
+recalling olden times by the enactment of masques and other mummeries.
+
+Hook, in his manuscript journal of Thursday, the 26th of December, 1839,
+notes that he was engaged to dine with Lady Quentin at Kew:—
+
+    “Weather dreadful, so resolved to write her an excuse and came home
+    in coach early, so up to Baylis’s, where I was asked to dine.  They
+    came here, and we walked up together; so to rehearsal, and then back
+    again to bed.”
+
+Hook’s letter, in a feigned hand, to Mr. Baylis upon this occasion ran
+thus:—
+
+    “Sir,—Circumstancis hoeing too the Fox hand wether in Lunnun as
+    indered me of goen two Q.  wherefor hif yew plese i ham reddy to cum
+    to re-ersal two nite, in ten minnits hif yew wil lett the kal-boy hof
+    yewer theeter bring me wud—if you kant reed mi riten ax Mister
+    Kroften Kroker wich his a Hanty queerun like yewerself honly hee as
+    bin longer hatit           yewers two kommand,
+
+                                                            “TEE HEE OOK.”
+
+          “_Master Bailies hesquire_,
+             _Manger hof thee_,
+    _T.R.P.B. and halso Proper rioter thereof_.”
+
+On Saturday, Hook records in his ‘Diary’ his having refused his “firmest
+friend’s command” that he should dine with him—“because,” writes Hook, “I
+cannot on account of the things to be done at Pryor’s Bank.”
+
+Of the memorable Monday, the 30th of December, Hook notes:—
+
+    “To-day, not to town, up and to Baylis’s; saw preparations.  So,
+    back, wrote a little, then to dinner, afterwards to dress; so to
+    Pryor’s Bank, there much people,—Sir George and Lady Whitmore, Mrs.
+    Stopford, Mrs. Nugent, the Bully’s, and various others, to the amount
+    of 150.  I acted the ‘Great Frost’ with considerable effect.  Jerdan,
+    Planché, Nichols, Holmes and wife, Lane, Crofton Croker, Giffard,
+    Barrow.  The Whitmore family sang beautifully; all went off well.”
+
+The part of the Great Frost to which Hook alludes was in a masque,
+written for the occasion, and printed and sold in the rooms, for the
+benefit of the Royal Literary Fund; and among the record of miscellaneous
+benefactions to this most admirable charity are registered—“Christmas
+masquers and mummers at the Pryor’s Bank, Fulham, the seat of Thomas
+Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., and William Lechmere Whitmore, F.S.A. (1840), £3
+12s. 6d.”  Thus carrying out in deed as well as act the benevolent
+feelings of the season.
+
+What little plot there was in this production had reference to the
+season, the house in which it was performed, and temporary events.
+Egomet, an imp, most piquantly personified by Mr. John Barrow, opened the
+affair in a moralising strain prophetically applicable to the moment.
+
+After stating who and what he was, he starts:—
+
+         “But I’m all over wonder.
+   Surely the kitchen must be somewhere under?
+   But where’s _the_ room?—the matchless little chamber,
+   With its dark ceiling, and its light of amber—
+   That fairy den, by Price’s pencil drawn,
+   Enchantment’s dwelling-place?  ’Tis gone—’Tis gone!
+   The times are changed, I said, and men grown frantic,
+   Some cross in steamboats o’er the vast Atlantic;
+   Some whirl on railroads, and some fools there are
+   Who book their places in the pendant car
+   Of the great Nassau—monstrous, big balloon!
+   Poor lunatics! they think they’ll reach the moon!
+   All onward rush in one perpetual ferment,
+   No rest for mortals till they find interment;
+   Old England is not what it once has been,
+   Dogs have their days, and we’ve had ours, I ween.
+   The country’s gone! cut up by cruel railroads,
+   They’ll prove to many nothing short of jail-roads.
+   The spirit vile of restless innovation
+   At Fulham e’en has taken up his station.
+   I landed here, on Father Thames’s banks,
+   To seek repose, and rest my wearied shanks;
+   Here, on the grass, where once I could recline,
+   Like a huge mushroom springs this mansion fine.
+   Astounding work! but yesterday ’twas building;
+   And now what armour, carving, painting, gilding!
+   Vexed as I am, yet loth to be uncivil,
+   I only wish the owner at the ---!”
+
+Father Thames (Mr. Giffard), who had been slumbering between two painted
+boards, respectively inscribed “MIDDLESEX COUNTY BANK” and “SURREY BANK,”
+and surrounded by flower-pots filled with bulrushes and sedge, roused by
+the intended imprecation upon their host, here interrupted Egomet, and
+entered into a long dialogue with him, in which he detailed all his
+grievances so far as gas and steam were concerned.  At length he feels
+the influence of Hook as “the Great Frost,” who turns
+
+   “The old blackguard to solid ice.”
+
+Upon which Egomet’s remark was, that—
+
+   “The scene to Oxford shifted in a trice is,
+   This river-god—no longer Thames, but Isis.”
+
+Father Christmas (Mr. Crofton Croker) then appeared with a long speech
+about eating, drinking, and making merry, and the wondrous power that a
+good fire and a cheerful glass have upon the heart.  Beholding “poor
+Thames a-cold”—“an icy, heartless river”—the question follows, what
+
+         “Do I the matter see?
+   I’ll thaw you soon—begone to Battersea,
+   There let thy icebergs float in Chelsea Reach.”
+
+The Great Frost, too, after much buffoonery, turns himself into
+
+    “A pleasant fall of fleecy snow,”
+
+which he effected by the vigorous use of the kitchen dredging-box, and an
+ample supply of flour, therewith bepowdering Jolly Christmas, Father
+Thames, and Egomet, so plentifully as to leave no doubt upon the minds of
+the audience respecting the transformation.
+
+Another Christmas revel followed, and then came “a Grand Tournament,” in
+which a contest between “the Blue Knight” (Mr. Lechmere Whitmore), and
+“the Yellow Knight” (Mr. Baylis), each mounted upon hobby-horses, was
+most fiercely executed.  Nor was the Giant Cormoran (fourteen feet in
+height), nor the Queen of Beauty, nor the Dragon Queen wanted to complete
+the chivalry of this burlesque upon the memorable meeting at Eglinton.
+
+The fun which now became
+
+    “fast and furious,”
+
+and to which an impudent but most amusing jester (Mr. Jerdan) mainly
+contributed, was checked only by the announcement of supper; and as the
+guests descended the stairs from the gallery, or assembled on the lobby,
+they beheld their cheer borne in procession from the kitchen, headed by a
+military band and a herald-at-arms.  A cook, with his cap and apron of
+snowy whiteness, placed a boar’s head
+
+    “Bedeck’d with bays and rosemary,”
+
+upon the table; then came two ancient halberdiers, followed by a
+serving-man in olden livery, carrying the wassail-bowl; then another
+herald in his tabard, and servitors with Christmas-pie, and brawn, and
+soup, and turkey, and sirloin of beef, and collared brawn, whereof was an
+abundant supply, and of the most magnificent dimensions.  Father
+Christmas, carving-knife in hand, and belted with mincepies, and his
+attendant Egomet, with followers bearing holly, ivy, and mistletoe,
+brought up the rear.  Then was sung “beautifully,” as Hook notes, by four
+voices, the Oxford chant of
+
+    “The boar’s head in hand bear I.”
+
+And here we must drop the curtain, but not without stating that several
+of the guests felt the enjoyment of the evening so warmly, that it was in
+long debate among them what suitable acknowledgment in recollection of it
+should be made to Mr. Baylis and Mr. Whitmore; and, that the actors in
+the masque presented these gentlemen with an ancient charter horn, which
+had belonged to the Pickard family, and which they were fortunate enough
+to secure.  The height of this horn, which is supposed to be that of the
+Highland buffalo—an animal said to be extinct nearly three hundred
+years—is one foot two inches, its length is one foot six inches, its
+width at the top five and a half inches; and it is capable of containing
+one gallon.
+
+Upon this most gratifying memorial to the owners of the Pryor’s Bank, of
+the esteem created by their hospitality, suitable inscriptions were
+placed by the donors, with the motto:—
+
+   “While Thames doth flow, or wine is drank,
+   par-hæl to all at Pryor’s Bank.
+         ++unc-hæl.”
+
+The remembrance of the pleasant hours passed within the walls of the
+Pryor’s Bank will not easily be forgotten, though the character of the
+interior is changed since this was written.  The first sale took place on
+the 3rd May, 1841, and five following days: and there was a subsequent
+sale on the 25th May, 1854, and four following days.  Both these sales
+took place on the premises, and the Auctioneer, on both occasions, was
+Mr. Deacon.
+
+Pryor’s Bank is now let to Mr. E. T. Smith, of Her Majesty’s and Drury
+Lane Theatres.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF PLACES.
+
+
+ACACIA Cottage, 148.
+“Admiral Keppel,” 75.
+Albany Lodge, 147.
+Alexander Square, 73–4.
+Alfred Place, 73.
+Amelia Place, 76.
+Amyot House, 120.
+Arundel House, 152–4.
+Ashton Terrace, 202.
+Audley Cottage, 164.
+
+BATTERSEA Bridge, 94.
+Bear Street, Fulham, 187.
+“Bell and Anchor,” 210.
+“Bell and Horns,” 58.
+Bishop’s Walk, 190.
+Bolingbroke Lodge, 147.
+Bolton House, 118.
+Boltons, 96.
+Bostocke’s Arbour, 88.
+“Brickhills,” 131.
+Bridge Street, 193.
+Brightwells, 166.
+Brompton, 24.
+— Crescent, 64–7.
+— Grange, 63.
+— Grove, 43, 48.
+— — Lower, 44.
+— — Upper, 43.
+— Hall, 87.
+— National School, 38.
+— New Church (Holy Trinity), 54.
+— Park, 62.
+— Road, 29.
+— Row, 26, 38, 42.
+— Square, 51–4.
+Broom Lane, 169.
+Brunswick Cottage, 156.
+Bull Alley, 135.
+Bull Lane, 135.
+— Public House, 135.
+“Bunch of Grapes,” 43.
+Burleigh House, 121.
+Burlington House, 181.
+— Road, Fulham, 181.
+Butchers’ Almshouses, Walham Green, 138.
+
+CAMBRIDGE Lodge, 196.
+Cancer Hospital, 84,
+Carey Villa, 167.
+“Cedars, The,” 210.
+Cemetery, West London and Westminster, 127.
+Chelsea New Church, 80, 81.
+— Park, 89, 90, 93.Church Lane, 187.
+— Row, Fulham, 187.
+— Street, Brompton, 87.
+— — Fulham, 193.
+Churchfield House, 173.
+Claybrooke House, 181.
+Consumption Hospital, 85.
+Corder’s, Mrs., Preparatory School, 118.
+Craven Cottage, 190–1.
+Cremorne Gardens, 127.
+Crescent House, 64.
+“Crown and Sceptre,” 40.
+
+DANCER’S Nursery, 172.
+Deadman’s Lane, 201.
+Door, Old, Fulham Fields, 195.
+Draw Well in Fulham Fields, 199.
+Drury Lodge, 169.
+Dungannon House, 147.
+
+EARL’S Court, 58.
+East End House, Parson’s Green, 164.
+Edith Grove, 127.
+— Road, 201.
+— Villas, 201.
+Eel Brook, 141.
+Egmont Villa, 188.
+“Eight Bells,” 193.
+Elm House, 200.
+Exhibition Road, 62.
+
+“FLOUNDER Field,” 72.
+Foote’s House (North End), 196.
+— Stables (North End), 196.
+Fowlis Terrace, 87.
+Fulham, 180.
+— Almshouses, 181.
+— Aqueduct, 189.
+— Bridge, 192.
+— Charity School, 193.
+— Church, 187.
+— Ferry, 192.
+— Fields, 195, 197–9.
+— High Street, 181, 187.
+— Lodge, 173–7.
+— Palace, 190.
+— Park Road, 177.
+— Street, 187.
+— Vicarage, 187.
+— Workhouse, 181.
+
+GARDENER’S House, Old, Fulham Fields, 199.
+“George, The,” 193.
+Gilston Road, 96.
+Gloucester Buildings, Brompton, 25.
+— Row, Brompton, 25.
+— — Knightsbridge, 26.
+“Goat in Boots,” 94–5.
+“Golden Lion,” Fulham, 181–6.
+Gore Lodge, Fulham, 181.
+— — Old Brompton, 62.
+Grove House, 44–7.
+— Place, 43, 47.
+“Gunter Arms,” 126.
+— Grove, 127.
+
+HANS Place, 30, 37.
+— — Attic at, 83.
+Heckfield Lodge, 120.
+— Villa, 147.
+Hermitage, Brompton, 44, 47.
+— North End, 196.
+— Lodge, North End, 195–6.
+High Elms House, 155.
+Holcroft’s Hall, 180.
+— Priory, 181.
+Hollywood Brewery, 118.
+— Place, 126.
+Honey Lane, 127.
+Hooper’s Court, 25.
+Hospital for Consumption, 85.
+
+IVY Cottage, 169.
+— House, Old Red, 170.
+— Lodge, 177.
+
+JEWS’ Burial-ground, 87.
+John’s Place, 188.
+
+KENSINGTON Canal, 127, 134.
+— Gore Estate, 59.
+— Hall, 200.
+— Road, 211.
+“Keppel, Admiral,” 75.
+— Street, 75.
+King’s Road, 24.
+Knightsbridge, 24.
+— Green, 25.
+— High Row, 30.
+
+LANSDOWNE Villas, 126.
+Lauman’s Academy, 166.
+Lawn Terrace, 202.
+Little Chelsea, 94.
+
+MACHINE for Raising Water (Fulham Fields), 199.
+Main Fulham Road, 24.
+Manor Hall, 96.
+— House, 96.
+Marlborough Road, 75.
+Michael’s Grove, 63.
+— Place, 50, 67, 70–2.
+Military Academy, Chelsea, 119.
+Montpellier Square, 40.
+Mulberry House, 120.
+Munster House, 170–2.
+— Terrace, 173.
+Mustow House, 170.
+
+NATIONAL School, Brompton, 38.
+— Society, Practising School of, 134.
+New Street, 30, 37.
+“No Man’s Land,” 197.
+Normal School Chapel, 130.
+Normand House, 196.
+North End, 195–211.
+— — Lodge, 193.
+— — Road, 197.
+— Terrace, 73.
+
+ODELL’S Place, 115.
+Old Brompton Road, 58.
+Onslow Square, 82.
+Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 58.
+Osborn’s Nursery, 172.
+Ovington Square, 47.
+
+PARADISE Row, 114.
+Park Cottage, 147.
+— House, 154–5.
+— Walk, 95.
+Parson’s Green, 164–9.
+— — Lane, 164.
+Pelham Crescent, 76, 79.
+— Place, 79–80.
+Percy Cross, 141, 155.
+Peterborough House, 166–9.
+Pollard’s School, 58.
+Pond Place, 80.
+Porch, Old, of Arundel House, 153.
+Prince Albert’s Road, 62.
+Pryor’s Bank, 187, 212–249.
+Pump, Old, in Arundel House, 153.
+Purser’s Cross, 141, 154–5.
+
+QUEEN’S Buildings, Brompton, 25, 30.
+— — Knightsbridge, 25, 29, 30.
+— Elm, 88–9.
+— Turnpike, 87.
+— Row, Knightsbridge, 25.
+Quibus Hall, 155.
+
+RAWSTORNE Street, 40.
+Read’s, Miss, Academy, 118.
+Rectory House, Parson’s Green, 165.
+“Red Lion,” 40.
+Reformatory School, Fulham, 181.
+Rightwells, 166.
+“Rising Sun,” 135.
+Robert Street, 83–4.
+— — Upper, 83.
+Rosamond’s Bower, 156–164.
+Rosamond’s Bower, Old, 156.
+— Dairy, 157.
+
+ST. LUKE’S Church, Chelsea, 80, 83.
+St. Mark’s Chapel, 130.
+— College, 130.
+— Terrace, 130.
+St. Mary’s Place, 96.
+St. Peter’s Villa, 170.
+St. Philip’s Orphanage, 96.
+Salem Chapel, 136.
+“Sand Hills,” The, 90.
+Sandford Bridge, 134.
+School, Practising, at St. Mark’s College, 134.
+Selwood’s Nursery, 89.
+Selwood Place, 89.
+Seymour Place, 96, 98.
+— Terrace, 96, 98.
+Shaftesbury House, 100–12.
+— — Garden of, 104–5.
+Sign, Old (“White Horse” at Parson’s Green), 164.
+Sir John Scott Lillie’s Road, 127.
+“Sisters of Compassion,” 44.
+Sloane Square, 24.
+— Street, 24.
+“Somerset Arms,” 96.
+South Kensington Museum, 59–61.
+Stamford Road, 135.
+— Villas, 135.
+Stanley Grove, 132–3.
+— — House, 131–2.
+— House, 131.
+Swan Tavern, Fulham, 192.
+— — and Brewery, Walham Green, 135.
+Sydney Place, 83.
+— Street, 83.
+
+TAVISTOCK House, 118.
+Thames Bank, 187.
+Thistle Grove, 93–4.
+Thurloe Place, 61.
+
+VEITCH’S Royal Exotic Nursery, 130.
+Vine Cottage, 213–14.
+
+WALHAM Green, 136–7.
+— House, 193.
+— Lodge, 147.
+Walnut Tree Cottage, 200.
+— — Walk, 121.
+Wansdon Green, 137.
+— House, 137.
+Warwick House, 120.
+Wentworth Cottage, 197.
+West Brompton Brewery, 118.
+Western Grammar School, 73.
+“White Horse,” old sign of, 164.
+Willow Bank, 192.
+Windsor Street, 193.
+Winter Garden, Old Brompton, 62.
+Workhouse, additional, to St. George’s, Hanover Square, 100.
+
+YEOMAN’S Row, 43.
+York Cottage, 195.
+— Place, 84.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS.
+
+
+ACKERMANN, Rudolph, 177–9.
+Aikin, Lucy, 160.
+Albert, Prince, 85.
+Andrews, J. Petit, 44.
+Anspach, Margravine of, 190.
+Appletree, John, 90.
+Arundel, Henry, 131, 154.
+
+BAKER, Rev. R. G., 187.
+Balchen, Sir John, 115.
+Banim, 48–9, 79.
+Barham, H., 90, 189.
+Barrow, John, 246.
+Bartolozzi, F., 68–9, 196.
+Batsford, Miss, 187.
+Baud, Benjamin, 127.
+Baylis, Thomas, 187, 191, 214.
+Bayliss, Moses, 25.
+Bell, T. J., 164.
+Beloe, Rev. W., 42.
+Biber, Rev. Dr., 83.
+Billington, Mrs., 70.
+Blake, Mr., 90.
+Blanchard, Mr., 119.
+—, William, 81.
+Blomfield, Bishop, 187.
+Blore, Mr., 134.
+Bodley, Sir Thomas, 165.
+Bonnor, Bishop, 181.
+Boothby, Sir W., 203.
+Boscawen, William, 121.
+Bovey Family, the, 101.
+Bowen, Rev. Thomas, 156.
+Bowes, Mr., 132.
+Boyd, Hugh, 46.
+Boyle, Hon. Robert, 111.
+— Family, the, 113.
+Bradshaigh, Lady, 203–210.
+Braham, John, 63.
+Brand, Mr., 147.
+Branscomb, Sir James, 210.
+Brooks, Shirley, 51.
+Broomfield, W., 92.
+Brotherhood, Mr., 189.
+Browne, H. K. (“Phiz”), 135.
+Brunton, Miss, 71.
+Buckstone, J. B., 51.
+Bulwer, Lady, 31.
+Burbage, Robert, 182.
+Burchell, Dr., 173.
+Burgoyne, Sir John, 181.
+—, Miss, 181.
+Burke, John, 94.
+Burleigh, Lord, 121.
+Burney, Miss, 133.
+Byfield, Adoniram, 165.
+
+CAHILL, Dr., 67.
+Carey, Hon. Thomas, 167.
+Catalani, Madame, 47.
+Cattley, Rev. Stephen Reid, 128, 172.
+Cecill, Hon. John, 121.
+Chalon, Mr., 37.
+Chatterley, Mrs., 51.
+Cheeseman, 200.
+Cheselden, W., 192.
+Child, Sir Francis, 165.
+Cipriani, 181, 201.
+Clerke, Major Shadwell, 44.
+Cleyne, Francis, 167.
+Cole, Henry, 60, 82.
+Collier, Payne, 53.
+Colman, George, the Younger, 51–2, 173–7.
+Conyers, General, 192.
+Cooper, John, 79.
+Cope, Sir John, 114.
+Copley, 200.
+Corpe, John, 55.
+Cranfield, Lord Treasurer, 90.
+Craven, Countess of, 190.
+Cribb, R., 94.
+Croker, Rt. Hon. John Wilson, 171.
+—, Thomas Crofton, 130, 156, 162–3, 181, 198, 247.
+—, Mrs. Crofton, 130.
+Croly, Rev. Dr., 50, 77.
+Cromwell, Oliver, 170.
+Crotch, Dr., 202.
+Curran, John Philpot, 76–9.
+Curtis, Mr., 80, 85–7.
+
+DARBY, Mrs., 117.
+Davenport, Mrs., 71.
+Davis, the late Henry George, 24.
+—, Charles, 24.
+Dawes, Sir W., 113–114.
+Deacon, Mr., 250.
+Delafield, Mr., 192.
+Delille, C. J., 72.
+—, Madame, 72.
+Denham, Mr., 120.
+—, Colonel, 120.
+Doharty, Mr. 158.
+Donaldson, Mr., 54.
+Dormer, Edward, 198.
+Duffield, Mr., 115.
+Dunn, Anne, 27–8.
+
+EDINGTON, J., 212.
+Egerton, Daniel, 81.
+—, Mrs., 82.
+Ekins, Dr., 165.
+Elizabeth, Queen, 87.
+Ellenborough, Lord, 187.
+Evelyn, John, 111.
+Eyre, Sir James, 132.
+
+FABER, Rev. F. W., 59.
+Fairholt, F. W., 40.
+Farren, W., 53.
+—, Harriet Elizabeth, 57.
+Faucit, Helen, 70, 82.
+Fitzherbert, Mrs., 165.
+Fitzroy, Rear Admiral, 83.
+Fitzwilliam, Edward, 51.
+Florio, 182, 184–5.
+Foot, Jesse, 27, 28.
+Foote, Samuel, 196.
+Fowler, Edward, 113.
+
+GARCIA, Madame, 170.
+George IV., 165, 213.
+Giffard, Mr., 247.
+Glascock, Captain, 73–4.
+Godwin, George, jun., 38, 74.
+Golini, Julius, 67.
+Gorges, Sir Arthur, 131.
+Grant, Colonel, 134.
+Green, 30.
+Gregor, Mrs., 133.
+Gresham, John, 198.
+Griffin, Gerald, 48, 49, 97–8.
+Grisi, Madame, 146.
+Guizot, 79.
+—, Madame, 80.
+Gunter, R., 127.
+
+HALL, S. C., 197.
+—, Mrs. S. C., 31, 197.
+Hallam, H., 154.
+Halliwell, J. O., 96.
+Hamey, Dr. Baldwin, 113.
+Hamilton, Walter, 39–40.
+—, William Richard, 132.
+Hampton, Mr., 136.
+Hargrave, Francis, 84.
+Harris, A., 80.
+—, H., 78.
+Hartshorne, Rev. C. H., 138.
+Hawarden, Lady, 214.
+Hawkins, John Sidney, 44.
+Heavyside, R., 166.
+Herbert, Sir E., 167.
+Hewett, Mr., 67.
+Holl, Henry, 61.
+Holland, Mr., 155.
+Holmes, W., M. P., 214.
+Hook, Theodore, 133, 177, 187–90, 245–6.
+Howard, Sir Ralph, 191.
+Huck, J. G., 26.
+Hullmandel, Mr., 150–1.
+Humphrey, Ozias, 29.
+Hutchins, John, 25.
+Hyde, Edward, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, 115.
+
+INCLEDON, Charles, 64.
+
+JERDAN, W., 47, 248.
+Jesse, J. H., 70.
+Johnson, Mr. Joseph, 148–9.
+Jones, Richard, 78.
+
+KEAN, Edmund, 200.
+Keeley, Mr., 54, 79.
+—, Mrs., 54, 79.
+Kempe, A. J., 135.
+King, Mr., 139.
+Kingsley, Rev. Charles, 83.
+Knight, James House, 123.
+Knolles, Sir Thomas, 166.
+
+LACY, Walter, 40.
+Lamb, Lady Caroline, 31.
+Lance, the Misses, 32.
+Landon, Miss (“L. E. L.”), 30–7, 54.
+Laurie, John, 180.
+Lazarus, H., 80.
+Le Blon, James Christopher, 91.
+Lillie, Sir John Scott, 127.
+Limpany, Robert, 190.
+Liston, Mr., 54, 71.
+Liston, Mrs., 40, 67.
+Lochee, Lewis, 119–20, 132.
+Locke, 104, 111.
+London, Bishop of, 54.
+Lorrington, Meribah, 116.
+Lowth, Rev. Robert, 173–6.
+Luttrell, Francis, 108.
+—, Henry, 54.
+—, Narcissus, 89, 102–3, 108.
+Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, 191, 197, 236.
+
+M’LEOD, Dr. John, 80.
+M’Naughten, Mrs., 34.
+Macpherson, Sir John, 45–6.
+Mahony, Rev. F., 164.
+Mangeon, Mrs., 27–8.
+Mario, Signor, 146.
+Marochetti, Baron, 82.
+Mart, Mr., 114.
+Martin, Theodore, 82.
+Mathews, Charles, 62, 181.
+—, Mrs., sen., 71.
+Meyrick, Mr. J., 166.
+Milton, Mr., 121, 147.
+Mitford, Miss, 31.
+Moore, Thomas, 162–3.
+Mordaunt, Lord, 167–8.
+More, Sir Thomas, 89.
+Morland, 95.
+Morse, Leonard. 132.
+Murphy, Arthur, 26–8, 38.
+Murray, John, 148–9.
+—, Sir Robert, 111.
+
+NATTES, J. C., 25.
+Newman, Rev. J. H., 59.
+Nicholson, F., 128–30.
+Nisbett, Mrs., 203.
+Novosielski, Madame, 70.
+—, Michael, 43, 50, 63.
+
+O’DONNELL, Major-General Sir Chas., 162–3.
+Ord, John, 140–5.
+Orrery, 2nd Earl of, 113.
+—, Charles, 4th Earl of, 112.
+Owen, Rev. John, 145.
+
+PARR, Dr., 42.
+Piccolomini, 165.
+Pigot, the Right Hon. D. R., 37.
+Pitts, Mr. Oliver, 139.
+Place, Francis, 51.
+Planché, J. R., 65–6.
+Plumbe, W., 198.
+Pope, 147.
+—, Miss, 70–1.
+Porter, Walsh, 169, 190, 213.
+Pouchée, Louis, 128.
+Powell, Mr., 156, 186.
+—, Sir W., Bart., 170, 181.
+Pyne, J. B., 195.
+
+QUEENSBERRY, Marquis of, 134.
+
+RAVENSWORTH, Lord, 138, 140.
+Reeve, John, 42, 53–4, 57.
+Remaudini, Count, 67.
+Rennell, Rev. Mr., 42.
+Richardson, C. J., 66.
+—, Samuel, 169, 202–210.
+Riego, General, 96–9.
+—, Madame, 96–9.
+Roberts, Emma, 31, 34.
+Robins, George, 189.
+Robinson, Anastasia, (“Perdita,”) 115–18, 169.
+Robson, W. Frogatt, 53.
+Rocque, Bartholomew, 139.
+Rodwell, G. H., 39, 65.
+Rollin, Ledru, 80.
+Romney, 29.
+Rovedino, Signor Carlo, 81.
+Rowden, Miss, 32, 36.
+Roy, 181.
+Ruddock, Rev. Joshua, 156.
+Rumford, Count, 40.
+Ryland, William Wynne, 26, 202.
+
+ST. JOHN, 147.
+St. Quentin, Countess, 32.
+Salisbury, Mr., 85, 145.
+Sampayo, M., 171.
+Saunders, Sir Edward, 169.
+Savage, Mr., 80.
+Scoles, Mr., 59.
+Schiavonetti, Lewis, 67–69.
+Schulenberg, Melesina, 170.
+Shaftesbury, Lord, 101, 104.
+Shakespeare, 182–6.
+Sharp, Granville, 188.
+Sheepshanks, John, 60.
+Shower, Sir Bartholomew, 113.
+Simpson, Mrs. Anne, 145–6.
+Slater, Mr., 200.
+Smith, Albert, 194.
+—, E. T., 169, 249.
+—, Alderman H., 72.
+—, Sir James, 101.
+—, “O.,” 73.
+—, Sir Thomas, 167.
+Southwell, Miss, 132.
+Spagnoletti, 51.
+Stanley Family, 131.
+Stanley, W., 131.
+Steele, R., 38, 88.
+Strathmore, Countess of, 132.
+Street, Mr., 186.
+Suckland, Sir John, 112.
+Sylvester, Joshua, 185.
+
+TALFOURD, 197.
+Tarnworth, John, 166.
+Taylor, Mr., 138.
+Testolini, 68.
+Thackeray, W. M., 83.
+Tindal, Lord Chief Justice, 37.
+Tonson, Jacob, 195.
+Trotter, Thomas, 30.
+Turberville, Mrs. Elizabeth, 155.
+—, Mrs. Frances, 155.
+Tyrhtilus, 180.
+
+VENDRAMINI, John, 39.
+Vestris, Madame, 62, 96, 181.
+Vining, James, 51.
+Virtue, William, 109.
+
+WAGER, Admiral Sir Charles, 131, 165.
+Ward, Sir Edward, 113–14.
+Warde, J. P., 94.
+Warren, H, 84.
+—, Dr. Richard, 132.
+Warwick, Countess of, 112.
+Watts, B., 75.
+Webster, Mr., 62.
+Weigall, Mr., 70.
+Wharton, Marquis of, 90.
+—, Sir Michael, 155.
+Whitmore, Lechmere, 214.
+Whittaker, Dr., 112.
+Wigan, Alfred, 37.
+—, Mrs. Alfred, 37.
+Wilberforce, Mr., 47.
+Williams, Sir John, Bart., 171.
+Wilson, Lady Frances, 92.
+—, Sir Henry, 92.
+Winchester, Marquis of, 218.
+Wishart, Sir James, 115.
+Wood, Dr. Oswald, 64.
+Wright, —, 92–3.
+—, Edward, 96.
+—, Thomas, 83.
+Wrottesley, the Hon. Mr., 181.
+Wynne, Edward, 103–4.
+Wynne, Rev. Luttrell, 108.
+—, Serjeant, 102, 108.
+
+YATES, Mr., 54, 71.
+—, Mrs., 71.
+York, Duke of, 173.
+Young, C. D. and Co., 61.
+
+
+
+
+FOOTNOTES.
+
+
+{18}  See pages 156–164.
+
+{25a}  Catalogues of Royal Academy.
+
+{25b}  Foot’s Life of Arthur Murphy.
+
+{25c}  Lockie’s _Topography of London_.
+
+{25d}  Mr. J. Salway’s MS. plan, executed for the Kensington trustees.
+
+{25e}  Cruchley’s Map of London.
+
+{25f}  Elmes’ _Topography of London_.
+
+{26}  4 vols. 4to, published in 1793.
+
+{27a}  2 vols. 8vo, 1801.
+
+{27b}  The extent of this garden may still be estimated by walking round
+through Hooper’s Court into Sloane Street.
+
+{31}  Born 13th November, 1785, and married to the Honourable William
+Lamb (afterwards Viscount Melbourne) in 1805.  Lady Caroline published
+three novels, viz., _Glenarvon_, in 1816; _Graham Hamilton_; and _Ada
+Reis_, 1823.  Her ladyship died in 1828.
+
+{32a}  8vo, 2nd ed. 1812.
+
+{32b}  Ibid.
+
+{33}  It was the wing attached to the house between it and “the
+Pavilion.”  From the back a flight of steps descended into a small
+garden.
+
+{35}  Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster, Historical and
+Biographical.  1827.  2 vols. 8vo.
+
+{38a}  Correspondence, vol. i. p. 293.
+
+{38b}  Vol. lxxv.  Part I. p. 590.
+
+{38c}  Ed. 1820, p. 616.
+
+{45a}  2 vols. 4to, 1795.
+
+{45b}  1 vol. 4to, and 2 vols. 8vo, 1796,
+
+{48}  ‘Literary Gazette,’ November 25, 1843.
+
+{53}  It is no slight testimony to the genius of Mr. Farren, that since
+his retirement no actor in London has attempted to represent “Grandfather
+Whitehead.”
+
+{58}  Rebuilt, and the sign here engraved removed.
+
+{62}  Brompton Park was the retreat of one or two favourite actors.  Mr.
+Webster, the talented and versatile performer, lessee of the Ade1phi
+Theatre, resided there for many years.  Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews
+(Madame Vestris) lived at Gore Lodge—now pulled down—a name they
+afterwards gave to their residence at Fulham.
+
+{65}  Weber died on the 7th of June following, at No. 91, Great Portland
+Street, in his fortieth year.
+
+{72}  4 vols. 8vo; I. and II. 1838; III. and IV. 1839.
+
+{73}  The ‘Naval Sketch-book,’ 1828; ‘Sailors and Saints,’ 1829; ‘Tales
+of a Tar,’ 1830; ‘Land Sharks and Sea Gulls,’ 1838.
+
+{78}  Died 30th August, 1851.
+
+{80}  Died 7th May, 1852, aged 74.
+
+{84}  II vols. folio, 1781.
+
+{85}  Vol. lxxx.  Part II.
+
+{87a}  Brompton Hall, said to have been the residence of Lord Burleigh,
+stands on the Old Brompton Road, which, as pointed out in the previous
+chapter, branches from the main Fulham Road at the Bell and Horns.
+
+{87b}  The Duke of Buckingham.
+
+{88}  Correspondence, vol. i. p. 219.
+
+{92}  Sir Henry Wilson, who was in Parliament when this estate came into
+his wife’s possession, ordered iron gates for it; in one of which were
+wrought his initials, H. W., and to correspond, M.P, was placed in the
+other.  Before the gates were put up he had to contest his seat, and lost
+it.
+
+{97}  Riego was executed, on the 7th of October, 1823, at Madrid, with
+every mark of ignominy.
+
+{110}  Funeral Sermon preached at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 7th January
+1691.
+
+{111}  See Birch’s ‘Life of Boyle,’ p. 114.
+
+{112}  MS. Diary.
+
+{120}  The obituary of the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ for June 1791,
+records:—“At Lisle, in Flanders, Lewis Lochee, Esq., late lieutenant
+colonel of the Belgic Legion, and formerly keeper of the Royal Military
+Academy at Chelsea.”
+
+{121}  The gates here represented have now given place to a light iron
+railing, and the posts have been surmounted by balls.
+
+{128}  No. 276, vol. xi. p. 301.
+
+{131}  Todd’s ‘Spenser,’ viii. 23.
+
+{133}  MS.
+
+{138}  Pickering, 1829.
+
+{139}  Mr. Rocque, the florist, was brother to the surveyor of that name,
+who published a plan of London, Westminster, and Southwark, on
+twenty-four sheets, in 1747; and a map of London and the country ten
+miles round, in sixteen sheets, the following year.  He also published a
+road-book of Great Britain and Ireland in 1763.
+
+{144a}  “This tree was first introduced into England in 1753, by Mr.
+James Gordon.”—_Lysons_.
+
+{144b}  “The foliage more resembles that of the _juglans nigra_ than of
+the Illinois-nut in Kew Gardens.”—_Ibid_.
+
+{144c}  “At two feet from the ground it was seven feet two inches, and
+now (1810) seven feet five inches.”—_Ibid_.
+
+{144d}  “The girth of this tree was taken in 1808 at two feet and a half
+from the ground.”—_Ibid_.
+
+{144e}  “At two feet and a half from the ground.”—_Ibid_.
+
+{145}  James iv. 14.
+
+{155a}  On the same page of the ‘London Magazine’ which chronicles this
+occurrence, may be found the announcement of the death of “Mr. Joseph
+Miller, a celebrated comedian.”
+
+{155b}  Lysons, on the authority of the parish books, states that a Sir
+Michael Wharton was living at Parson’s Green, anno 1654.
+
+{159}  The ground has been recently levelled.
+
+{160}  L. E. L.
+
+{171}  Died, 1858.
+
+{188a}  He died there in 1813.
+
+{188b}  Since this sketch was made, the gateway, with the coat of arms
+over it, has been removed, and a battlemented and Gothic entrance, more
+in accordance, perhaps, with the architecture of both church and mansion,
+has been erected in its stead.
+
+{196}  Died 20th October, 1777, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
+
+{213}  Copied from a picture in oil in the possession of George Bunnett,
+Esq., of Fulham.
+
+{218}  John, the fifth Marquis of Winchester, sustained a siege in his
+seat at Basing from August, 1643 to 16th October, 1645, when the place
+was taken by storm and burned to the ground, “money, jewels, and
+household stuff” being found therein to the value of £200,000, among
+which was a rich bed worth £14,000.
+
+{227}  Now in the South Kensington Museum.
+
+{235}  Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. 5.
+
+{236}  Now in the possession of the Duke of Hamilton.
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Walk from London to Fulham, by Thomas
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+Title: A Walk from London to Fulham
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WALK FROM LONDON TO FULHAM***
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+<p>This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.</p>
+<h1>A WALK<br />
+From London to Fulham</h1>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by the
+late</span><br />
+THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, F.S.A., M.R.I.A.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">revised and
+edited by his son</span>,<br />
+T. F. DILLON CROKER, F.S.A., F.R.G.S.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">with additional
+illustrations</span>, <span class="smcap">by</span><br />
+F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p3.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Illustration"
+title=
+"Illustration"
+src="images/p3.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p style="text-align: center">LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG.<br />
+1860.</p>
+<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td><p>Note by T. F. Dillon Croker.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p><span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#pagev">v</a></span></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>Dedication to Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p><span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#pagevii">vii</a></span></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>Memoir of the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A.,
+M.R.I.A., Etc.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p><span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#pageix">ix</a></span></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>Text of &lsquo;A Walk from London to Fulham.&rsquo;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p><span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page22">22</a></span></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>Index of Places.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p><span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page250">250</a></span></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>Index of Names of Persons.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p><span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page253">253</a></span></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2"><p>Footnotes.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<h2><!-- page v--><a name="pagev"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+v</span>NOTE.</h2>
+<p>A series of papers which originally appeared in
+&lsquo;Fraser&rsquo; are now, for the first time, published in a
+collected form with the consent of the proprietors of that
+Magazine.&nbsp; It should, however, be stated, that this is not a
+mere reprint, but that other matter has been inserted, and
+several illustrations, which did not appear originally, are now
+added, by which the work is very materially increased: the whole
+having undergone a necessary revision.</p>
+<p>Since the late Mr. Crofton Croker contributed to
+&lsquo;Fraser&rsquo; the &lsquo;Walk from London to
+Fulham,&rsquo; there have been many important changes on the
+road: time has continued to efface interesting associations; more
+old houses have been pulled down, new ones built up, and great
+alterations and improvements have taken place not contemplated a
+few years ago.&nbsp; It would be impossible, for example, that
+any one who has not visited the locality during the last few
+years could recognize the narrow lanes <!-- page vi--><a
+name="pagevi"></a><span class="pagenum">p. vi</span>of yesterday
+in the fine roads now diverging beyond the South Kensington
+Museum, which building has so recently been erected at the
+commencement of Old Brompton; but modern improvements are
+seemingly endless, and have of late become frequent.&nbsp; It is
+in the belief that the following pages will be an interesting and
+acceptable record of many places no longer in existence, that
+they are submitted to the public in their present shape by</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">T. F. DILLON CROKER.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page vii--><a
+name="pagevii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. vii</span><span
+class="smcap">to</span><br />
+THOMAS WRIGHT, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, M.A., F.S.A.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">My dear Mr. Wright</span>,</p>
+<p>As a mark of sincere regard to an old and esteemed friend of
+my late Father, I offer these pages to you.</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">Yours most faithfully,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">T. F. DILLON CROKER.</p>
+<p>19 <i>Pelham Place</i>,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Brompton</i>, 1860.</p>
+<h2><!-- page ix--><a name="pageix"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+ix</span>MEMOIR<br />
+<span class="smcap">of the late</span><br />
+THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, F.S.A., M.R.I.A., <span
+class="smcap">etc.</span></h2>
+<p>The late eminent genealogist, Sir W. Betham of Dublin, Ulster
+King-at-Arms, well known as the author of numerous works on the
+Antiquities of Ireland, and Mr. Richard Sainthill, an equally
+zealous antiquary still living in Cork, were two of the most
+intimate friends and correspondents of the late Mr. Crofton
+Croker.</p>
+<p>The first-named gentleman drew up an elaborate table tracing
+the Croker pedigree as far back as the battle of Agincourt.&nbsp;
+The Croker crest&mdash;&ldquo;Deus alit eos&rdquo;&mdash;was
+granted to Sir John Croker, who accompanied Edward IV. on his
+expedition to France in 1475, as cup and standard-bearer; but
+without going back to the original generation, or tracing the
+Limerick or any other branch of the family, it will be sufficient
+to say here that the Crokers, if they did not &ldquo;come over
+with William the Conqueror&rdquo; came originally from
+Devonshire, and settled in Ireland in the reign of
+Elizabeth.&nbsp; Thomas Crofton Croker was the only son of Thomas
+Croker, who, after twenty-five years of arduous and <!-- page
+x--><a name="pagex"></a><span class="pagenum">p. x</span>faithful
+military service in North America, Holland, and Ireland, and
+after having purchased every step in the army, was gazetted
+brevet-major on the 11th May, 1802, in the same regiment which he
+had at first joined (the 38th, or 1st Staffordshire Foot), and in
+which he had uninterruptedly served.&nbsp; Indeed, he was so much
+attached to his regiment, that, in his case at least, the
+Staffordshire knot became perfectly symbolic.&nbsp; The closer
+the knot was drawn the firmer the tie became.&nbsp; He commenced,
+continued, and ended an honourable life of activity in the
+service of his country from mere boyhood, until ill-health and a
+broken constitution forced him to sell his commission.&nbsp;
+Thomas Croker was the eldest son of Richard Croker, of Mount Long
+in the county of Tipperary, who died on the 1st January, 1771;
+and his mother was Anne, the daughter of James Long of Dublin, by
+the Honourable Mary Butler, daughter of Theobald the seventh Earl
+of Cahir.&nbsp; Thomas Croker was born on the 29th March,
+1761.&nbsp; In 1796 he married Maria, eldest daughter and co-heir
+of Croker Dillon of Baltidaniel in the county of Cork, and on the
+15th January, 1798, Thomas Crofton Croker was born at the house
+of his maternal grandmother in Buckingham Square, Cork, receiving
+his first Christian name after his father, and his second after
+his godfather, the Honourable Sir E. Crofton, Bart.</p>
+<p>While very young, during the years 1812 and 1815, Crofton
+Croker made several excursions in the south of Ireland, studying
+the character and traditions of the country, on which occasions
+he was frequently accompanied by Mr. Joseph Humphreys, a Quaker,
+afterwards master of the <!-- page xi--><a
+name="pagexi"></a><span class="pagenum">p. xi</span>Deaf and Dumb
+Institution at Claremont near Dublin.&nbsp; In 1813 he was placed
+with the mercantile firm of Messrs. Lecky and Mark, and in 1817
+he appeared as an exhibitor in the second exhibition of the Cork
+Society, for he had already displayed considerable talent as an
+artist.&nbsp; In 1818 he contributed to an ephemeral production
+called &lsquo;The Literary and Political Examiner:&rsquo; on the
+22nd March of that year his father died, and he left Ireland, not
+to revisit it until he made a short excursion there in 1821 with
+Alfred Nicholson and Miss Nicholson (who afterwards became Mrs.
+Croker), children of the late Mr. Francis Nicholson, one of the
+founders of the English water-colour school, and who died in 1844
+at the patriarchal age of ninety-one years.</p>
+<p>Crofton Croker&rsquo;s first visit to England was paid to
+Thomas Moore in Wiltshire; and soon after his establishing in
+London he received from the late Right Hon. John Wilson Croker an
+appointment at the Admiralty, of which office his namesake (but
+no relation) was secretary, and from which he (Crofton) retired
+in 1850 as senior clerk of the first class, having served upwards
+of thirty years, thirteen of which were passed in the highest
+class.&nbsp; This retirement, although he stood first for
+promotion to the office of chief clerk, was compulsory upon a
+reduction of office, and was not a matter of private
+convenience.&nbsp; In 1830 Crofton Croker married Miss Marianne
+Nicholson, and the result of their union was an only child,
+Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, born 26th August, 1831, the writer
+of the present memoir.</p>
+<p>The literary labours of Crofton Croker were attended <!-- page
+xii--><a name="pagexii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+xii</span>with more gratifying results than his long and
+unwearied official services.&nbsp; The &lsquo;Researches in the
+South of Ireland&rsquo; (1824), an arrangement of notes made
+during several excursions between the years 1812 and 1822, was
+his first important work.&nbsp; It was published by John Murray,
+the father of the present publisher of the &lsquo;Quarterly
+Review,&rsquo; and contained illustrations by Mr. Alfred and Miss
+Nicholson: with the &lsquo;Fairy Legends,&rsquo; however, the
+name of Crofton Croker became more especially associated, the
+first edition of which appeared anonymously in 1825, and produced
+a complimentary letter from Sir Walter Scott, which has been
+published in all subsequent editions.&nbsp; The success of the
+first edition of the legends was such as immediately to justify a
+second, which appeared the next year, illustrated with etchings
+after sketches by Maclise, and which was followed by a second
+series (Parts 2 and 3) in 1827.&nbsp; The third part, although it
+appeared under the same title, namely &lsquo;Fairy Legends and
+Traditions of the South of Ireland,&rsquo; may be considered as
+forming almost a separate work, inasmuch as it comprised the
+fairy superstitions of Wales and other countries, in addition to
+those current in Ireland.&nbsp; A translation of the legends by
+the Brothers Grimm appeared in Germany in 1825, and another in
+Paris in 1828 (&lsquo;Les Contes Irlandais,
+pr&eacute;c&eacute;d&eacute;s d&rsquo;une introduction par M. P.
+A. Dufau&rsquo;), but it was not until 1834 that Murray published
+them in a condensed form in his &lsquo;Family Library,&rsquo; the
+copyright of which edition, as revised by the author, was
+purchased of Murray by the late Mr. Tegg, and is now published by
+his son.&nbsp; In October, 1826, Croker was introduced to Sir
+<!-- page xiii--><a name="pagexiii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+xiii</span>Walter Scott at Lockhart&rsquo;s in Pall Mall.&nbsp;
+Sir Walter recorded the interview thus:&mdash;&ldquo;At breakfast
+Crofton Croker, author of the Irish fairy tales&mdash;little as a
+dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk, and of easy, prepossessing manners,
+something like Tom Moore.&nbsp; Here were also Terry, Allan
+Cunningham, Newton, and others.&rdquo;&nbsp; At this meeting, Sir
+Walter Scott suggested the adventures of Daniel O&rsquo;Rourke as
+the subject for the Adelphi pantomime, and, at the request of
+Messrs. Terry and Yates, Croker wrote a pantomime founded upon
+the legend, which was produced at the Adelphi the same
+year.&nbsp; It succeeded, and underwent two editions: the second
+was published in 1828, uniform with the legends, and entitled
+&lsquo;Daniel O&rsquo;Rourke; or, Rhymes of a Pantomime, founded
+on that Story.&rsquo;&nbsp; Croker wrote to his sister (Mrs. Eyre
+Coote, alive at the present time) the following account of the
+breakfast party at Lockhart&rsquo;s, which, though already
+published in &lsquo;The Gentleman&rsquo;s Magazine&rsquo;
+(November, 1854), is sufficiently interesting to be
+repeated.&nbsp; He first mentions &ldquo;the writing and
+preparing for the Adelphi Theatre a Christmas pantomime from the
+renowned adventures of Daniel O&rsquo;Rourke, two or three
+meetings with Sir Walter Scott, some anxious experiments in
+lithography under the directions of Mr. Coindet, one of the
+partners of Englemann&rsquo;s house of Paris, who has lately
+opened an establishment here, which will be of the utmost
+importance to the advancement of the art in this country, and of
+which I hope soon to send you specimens.&rdquo;&nbsp; Then he
+adds: &ldquo;To tell half the kindness and attention which I
+received from Sir Walter Scott would be impossible.&nbsp; The
+breakfast party at Lockhart&rsquo;s consisted of <!-- page
+xiv--><a name="pagexiv"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+xiv</span>Allan Cunningham, Terry (the actor), Newton (the
+artist), a Dr. Yates of Brighton, Captain, Mr., and Mrs.
+Lockhart, Miss Scott, Mr. Hogg, and your humble servant.&nbsp; We
+had all assembled when Sir Walter entered the room.&nbsp;
+Maclise&rsquo;s sketch does not give his expression, although
+there is certainly a strong likeness&mdash;a likeness in it which
+cannot be mistaken; but I have a very rough profile sketch in pen
+and ink by Newton, which is admirable, and which some time or
+other I will copy and send you.&nbsp; When I was introduced to
+the &lsquo;Great Unknown&rsquo; I really had not the power of
+speaking; it was a strange feeling of embarrassment, which I do
+not remember having felt before in so strong a manner; and of
+course to his &lsquo;I am glad to see you, Mr. Croker, you and I
+are not unknown to each other,&rsquo; I could say nothing.&nbsp;
+He contrived to say something neat to every one in the kindest
+manner&mdash;a well-turned compliment, without, however, the
+slightest appearance of flattery&mdash;something at which every
+one felt gratified.&nbsp; After speaking for a few moments to Mr.
+Terry and Allan Cunningham, he returned to where I stood fixed
+and &lsquo;mute as the monument on Fish Street Hill;&rsquo; but I
+soon recovered the use of my tongue from the easy manner in which
+he addressed me, and no longer seemed to feel myself in the
+presence of some mighty and mysterious personage.&nbsp; He spoke
+slowly, with a Scotch accent, and in rather a low tone of voice,
+so much so, indeed, that I found it difficult to catch every
+word.&nbsp; He mentioned my &lsquo;Fairy Legends,&rsquo; and
+hoped he should soon have the very great enjoyment of reading the
+second volume.&nbsp; &lsquo;You are our&mdash;I speak of the
+Celtic nations&rsquo; (said Sir Walter)&mdash;&lsquo;great
+authority now on fairy <!-- page xv--><a name="pagexv"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. xv</span>superstition, and have made Fairy
+Land your kingdom; most sincerely do I hope it may prove a golden
+inheritance to you.&nbsp; To me,&rsquo; (continued Sir Walter)
+&lsquo;it is the land of promise of much future
+entertainment.&nbsp; I have been reading the German translation
+of your tales and the Grimms&rsquo; very elaborate
+introduction.&rsquo;&nbsp; Mr. Terry mentioned having received
+from me Daniel O&rsquo;Rourke in the shape of a Christmas
+pantomime.&nbsp; &lsquo;It is an admirable subject,&rsquo; said
+Sir Walter, &lsquo;and if Mr. Croker has only dramatized it with
+half the skill of tricking up old wives&rsquo; tales which he has
+shown himself to possess, it must be, and I prophesy, although I
+have not seen it, it will be as great a golden egg in your nest,
+Terry, as Mother Goose was to one of the greater theatres some
+years ago.&rsquo;&nbsp; He then repeated by heart part of the
+conversation between Dan and the Eagle, with great zest.&nbsp; I
+must confess it was most sweet from such a man.&nbsp; But really
+I blush, or ought to blush, at writing all this
+flattery.&rdquo;&nbsp; Here the origin of Maclise&rsquo;s
+illustrations to the legends is thus given by the editor of the
+&lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s Magazine.&rsquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;The
+artist, who had not then quitted his native city of Cork, was a
+frequent visitor to Mr. Sainthill (the author of &lsquo;Olla
+Podrida&rsquo;), at the time that the first edition of the work
+appeared.&nbsp; Mr. Sainthill read the tales aloud from time to
+time in the evening, and Maclise would frequently, on the next
+morning, produce a drawing of what he had heard.&nbsp; These were
+not seen by Mr. Croker until his next visit to Cork: but when he
+did see them he was so much pleased with them that he prevailed
+upon Mr. Sainthill to allow them to be copied for his forthcoming
+edition: and this was done by Maclise, and <!-- page xvi--><a
+name="pagexvi"></a><span class="pagenum">p. xvi</span>the
+drawings were engraved by W. H. Brooke, and Maclise&rsquo;s name
+was not attached to them, but merely mentioned by Mr. Croker in
+his preface.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Scott made favourable mention of the &lsquo;Fairy
+Legends&rsquo; in the collected edition of the &lsquo;Waverley
+Novels&rsquo; published in 1830.&nbsp; In a note on Fairy
+Superstitions to Chapter XI. of &lsquo;Rob Roy,&rsquo; speaking
+of the elfin traditions peculiar to the wild scenery where Avon
+Dhu or the River Forth has its birth, he observes: &ldquo;The
+opinions entertained about these beings are much the same with
+those of the Irish, so exquisitely well narrated by Mr. Crofton
+Croker.&rdquo;&nbsp; Again, in his &lsquo;Letters on Demonology
+and Witchcraft,&rsquo; Scott says: &ldquo;We know from the lively
+and entertaining legends published by Mr. Crofton Croker, which,
+though in most cases, told with the wit of the editor and the
+humour of his country, contain points of curious antiquarian
+information&rdquo; as to what the opinions of the Irish
+are.&nbsp; And again, speaking of the Banshee: &ldquo;The subject
+has been so lately and beautifully investigated and illustrated
+by Mr. Crofton Croker and others, that I may dispense with being
+very particular regarding it.&rdquo;&nbsp; This was indeed
+gratifying from such an authority.&nbsp; The late Thomas Haynes
+Bayley dedicated to Crofton Croker a volume entitled &lsquo;Songs
+from Fairy Land.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>Having dwelt at considerable length upon the legends, the
+required limits of this notice will not permit more than a
+reference to the literary works of Mr. Croker which succeeded
+them; and as there is but occasion for their enumeration, they
+shall be here given in the order of their appearance, merely
+premising that the tales of <!-- page xvii--><a
+name="pagexvii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+xvii</span>&lsquo;Barney Mahoney&rsquo; and &lsquo;My Village
+<i>versus</i> Our Village,&rsquo; were not by Mr. Croker,
+although they bore his name: they were, in reality, written by
+Mrs. Croker.&nbsp; The list stands thus:&mdash;</p>
+<p>1828&ndash;9.&nbsp; &lsquo;The Christmas-Box, an Annual
+Present for Children, a collection of Tales edited by Mr. Croker,
+and published by Harrison Ainsworth&rsquo; (Sir Walter Scott,
+Lockhart, Ainsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Miss Mitford were among
+the contributors).</p>
+<p>1829.&nbsp; &lsquo;Legends of the Lakes; or, Sayings and
+Doings at Killarney, collected chiefly from the Manuscripts of R.
+Adolphus Lynch, Esq., H. P. King&rsquo;s German Legion, with
+illustrations by Maclise (Ebers).&rsquo;&nbsp; A second edition,
+compressed into one volume as a guide to the Lakes, appeared in
+1831.&nbsp; (Fisher.)</p>
+<p>From this time Croker became contributor to the
+&lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s&rsquo; and &lsquo;Fraser&rsquo;s&rsquo;
+Magazines.&nbsp; In 1832 he was a steward at the famous literary
+dinner given to Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd.</p>
+<p>1835.&nbsp; &lsquo;Landscape Illustrations to Moore&rsquo;s
+Irish Melodies, with Comments for the Curious.&rsquo;&nbsp; (Only
+one number appeared.)&nbsp; (Power.)</p>
+<p>1837.&nbsp; &lsquo;A Memoir of Joseph Holt, General of the
+Irish Rebels in 1798.&nbsp; From Holt&rsquo;s Autobiographical
+MS. in the possession of Sir W. Betham.&rsquo;&nbsp;
+(Colburn.)</p>
+<p>&lsquo;The Journal of a Tour through Ireland in 1644,
+translated from the French of M. de la Boullaye le Gouz, assisted
+by J. Roche, Father Prout, and Thomas Wright.&rsquo;&nbsp;
+(Boone.)&nbsp; Dedicated to the elder Disraeli, &ldquo;in
+remembrance of much attention and kindness received from him <!--
+page xviii--><a name="pagexviii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+xviii</span>many years ago;&rdquo; which dedication was cordially
+responded to by that author.</p>
+<p>1839.&nbsp; &lsquo;The Popular Songs of Ireland.&rsquo;&nbsp;
+(Colburn.)</p>
+<p>1843.&nbsp; A Description of Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower, Fulham <a
+name="citation18"></a><a href="#footnote18"
+class="citation">[18]</a> (the residence of Mr. Croker for eight
+years), with an inventory of the pictures, furniture,
+curiosities, etc., etc.&nbsp; (Privately printed.)</p>
+<p>It was here that Moore, Rogers, Maria Edgeworth, Lucy Aikin,
+&ldquo;Father Prout&rdquo; (Mahony), Barham (Ingoldsby), Sydney
+Smith, Jerdan, Theodore Hook, Lover, Planch&eacute;, Lords
+Braybrooke, Strangford, and Northampton, Sir G. Back, John
+Barrow, Sir Emerson Tennent, Wyon, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, T.
+Wright, and many others were the guests of Mr. Croker.&nbsp; One
+room in the house was fitted up as a Museum, where such visitors
+delighted to assemble.</p>
+<p>During subsequent years Mr. Croker produced several minor
+works on antiquarian and popular subjects, some of them printed
+for private circulation among his friends, and others as
+contributions to the different societies of which he was a
+member.&nbsp; He died at his residence, 3, Gloucester Road, Old
+Brompton, on the 8th of August, 1854, aged 57, and was buried in
+the private grave of his father-in-law, Mr. Francis Nicholson, in
+the Brompton Cemetery, a sketch of which, by Mr. Fairholt,
+appears in these pages.&nbsp; It should not be forgotten that Mr.
+Crofton Croker was a contributor to the &lsquo;Amulet,&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Literary Souvenir,&rsquo; and &lsquo;Friendship&rsquo;s
+Offering,&rsquo; as well as (more extensively) to <!-- page
+xix--><a name="pagexix"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+xix</span>the &lsquo;Literary Gazette,&rsquo; when that journal
+possessed considerable influence under the editorship of W.
+Jerdan.&nbsp; Mr. Croker also edited for the Camden and Percy
+Societies (in the formation of which he took an active part) many
+works of antiquarian interest.&nbsp; He was connected, also, with
+the British Arch&aelig;ological Association as one of the
+secretaries (1844&ndash;9) under the presidency of Lord Albert
+Conyngham (the late Lord Londesborough).&nbsp; That
+recently-deceased nobleman was one of Mr. Croker&rsquo;s most
+attached friends, and opposite his Lordship&rsquo;s pew in
+Grimston church, Yorkshire, a neat marble tablet was erected
+bearing the following inscription: &ldquo;In memory of Thomas
+Crofton Croker, Esq., the amiable and accomplished author of the
+&lsquo;Fairy Legends of Ireland,&rsquo; and other works, Literary
+and Antiquarian.&nbsp; This tablet is erected by his friend Lord
+Londesborough, 1855.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>To enumerate all the societies and institutions of which
+Crofton Croker was a member, honorary or otherwise, would in
+these pages be superfluous; but one society shall be here
+especially mentioned as originating with Mr. Croker and a few
+members of the Society of Antiquaries.&nbsp; In 1828 a club was
+established, composed of a select few F.S.A.&rsquo;s, in
+consequence of an excursion during the summer to the site, which,
+in the time of the Romans, had been occupied by the city of
+Noviomagus.&nbsp; In a field at Keston, near Bromley Common in
+Kent, Mr. Croker had learned that the remains of a Roman building
+were apparent above the grass, and it was to ascertain this fact
+that the excursion was undertaken.&nbsp; An excavation was made,
+and a few fragments of Roman pottery and a stone coffin were
+discovered.&nbsp; From <!-- page xx--><a name="pagexx"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. xx</span>this circumstance the club was called
+the Noviomagian Society.&nbsp; Mr. Croker was elected its
+president, and although most of the original members had died
+off, he continued in that office until within a very few months
+of his death.&nbsp; There are amongst them at the present time
+many highly-valued friends of their late president, who succeed
+in keeping up their meetings in the true Noviomagian
+spirit.&nbsp; Long may they be spared to assemble together,
+occasionally introducing fresh life to the little society, that
+its pleasant gatherings may not be allowed to die out!&nbsp; A
+portrait of Mr. Croker was painted a few years before his death
+by Mr. Stephen Pearce (the artist of the &lsquo;Arctic
+Council&rsquo;).&nbsp; It is a characteristic and an admirable
+likeness.&nbsp; The next best is that in Maclise&rsquo;s
+well-known picture of &lsquo;All Hallow Eve&rsquo; (exhibited in
+the Royal Academy in 1833), on which Lover, in describing the
+engraving, has remarked: &ldquo;And who is that standing behind
+them?&mdash;he seems &lsquo;far more genteel&rsquo; than the rest
+of the company.&nbsp; Why, &rsquo;tis Crofton Croker, or, as he
+is familiarly called amongst his friends, &lsquo;The honourable
+member for fairy-land.&rsquo;&nbsp; There you are, Crofty, my
+boy! with your note-book in your hand; and maybe you won&rsquo;t
+pick up a trifle in such good company.&rdquo;&nbsp; It may be
+added, that Mr. Croker was for many years one of the registrars
+of the Royal Literary Fund.&nbsp; And now, in drawing this slight
+sketch of Mr. Croker&rsquo;s life to a close, the writer hopes
+that it may not be an uninteresting addition to the present
+volume.</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">T. F. D. C.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+21</span>CHAPTER I.</h2>
+<p class="gutsumm"><span class="smcap">knightsbridge to the bell
+and horns</span>, <span class="smcap">brompton</span>.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p21.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Anyone"
+title=
+"Anyone"
+src="images/p21.jpg" />
+</a>Obliged by circumstances to lead the life of a pendulum,
+vibrating between a certain spot distant four miles from London,
+and a certain spot just out of the smoke of the
+metropolis,&mdash;going into town daily in the morning and
+returning in the evening,&mdash;may be supposed, after the
+novelty has worn off, from the different ways by which he can
+shape his course, to find little interest in his monotonous
+movement.&nbsp; Indeed, I have heard many who live a short
+distance from town complain of this swinging backwards and
+forwards, or, rather, going forwards and backwards over the same
+ground every day, as dull and wearisome; but I cannot sympathise
+with them.&nbsp; On the contrary, I find that the <!-- page
+22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 22</span>more
+constantly any particular line of road is adhered to, the more
+intimate an acquaintance with it is formed, and the more
+interesting it becomes.</p>
+<p>In some measure, this may be accounted for by studious habits;
+a tolerable memory, apt to indulge in recollections of the past,
+and to cherish rather than despise, when not impertinent, local
+gossip, which re-peoples the district with its former
+inhabitants,&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle
+gale<br />
+Oft up the tide of time I turn my sail,<br />
+To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours<br />
+Blest with far greener shades&mdash;far fresher
+flowers.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;We have all by heart,&rdquo; observes the author of the
+<i>Curiosities of Literature</i>, &ldquo;the true and delightful
+reflection of Johnson on local associations, where the scene we
+tread suggests to us the men or the deeds which have left their
+celebrity to the spot.&nbsp; &lsquo;We are in the presence of
+their fame, and feel its influence.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp; How often
+have I fancied, if the walls by which thousands now daily pass
+without a glance of recognition or regard, if those walls could
+speak, and name some of their former inmates, how great would be
+the regret of many at having overlooked houses which they would
+perhaps have made a pilgrimage of miles to behold, as associated
+with the memory of persons whose names history, literature, or
+art has embalmed for posterity, or as the scene of circumstances
+treasured up in recollection!</p>
+<p>If the feelings could be recalled, and faithfully recorded,
+which the dull brick walls that I cannot help regarding with
+interest must have witnessed, what a romantic chapter <!-- page
+23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 23</span>in
+the history of the human mind would be preserved for study and
+reflection!&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Ay, beautiful the dreaming brought<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; By valleys and green fields;<br />
+But deeper feeling, higher thought,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Is what the City yields.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The difficulty, however, is incredible of procuring accurate
+information as to any thing which has not been chronicled at the
+moment.&nbsp; None but those who have had occasion to search
+after a date, or examine into a particular fact, can properly
+estimate their value, or the many inquiries that have to be made
+to ascertain what at first view would appear to be without
+embarrassment,&mdash;so deceptive is the memory, and so easy a
+thing is it to forget, especially numbers and localities, the
+aspect and even names of which change with a wonderful degree of
+rapidity in the progress of London out of town.&nbsp; Thus many
+places become daily more and more confused, and at last
+completely lose their identity, to the regret of the
+contemplative mind, which loves to associate objects with the
+recollection of those who &ldquo;have left their celebrity to the
+spot.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>These considerations have induced the writer to arrange his
+notes, and illustrate them by such sketches as will aid the
+recognition of the points mentioned, the appearance of which must
+be familiar to all who have journeyed between London and
+Fulham,&mdash;a district containing, beside the ancient village
+of that name, and remarkable as adjacent to the country seat of
+the Bishop of London, two smaller villages, called Walham Green
+and Parson&rsquo;s Green.&nbsp; The <!-- page 24--><a
+name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 24</span>former of
+which stands on the main London road, the latter on the
+King&rsquo;s Road,&mdash;which roads form nearly parallel lines
+between Fulham and the metropolis.&nbsp; For all information
+respecting the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge the reader may be
+referred to a recently published work &ldquo;The Memorials of the
+Hamlet of Knightsbridge, with notices of its immediate
+neighbourhood,&rdquo; by the late Henry George Davis, edited by
+Charles Davis (Russell Smith).</p>
+<p>From Knightsbridge, formerly a suburb, and now part of London,
+the main roads to Fulham and Hammersmith branch off at the north
+end of Sloane Street (about a quarter of a mile west of Hyde Park
+Corner), thus:&mdash;</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p24.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Map"
+title=
+"Map"
+src="images/p24.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>And at the south termination of Sloane Street, which is 3,299
+feet in length, the King&rsquo;s Road commences from Sloane
+Square.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">The Main Fulham Road</span> passes for
+about a mile through a district called by the general name of
+Brompton, which <!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 25</span>is a hamlet in the parish of
+Kensington.&nbsp; The house, No. 14 Queen&rsquo;s Buildings,
+Knightsbridge, on the left-hand or south side of the road, 
+<a href="images/p25.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Hooper&rsquo;s Court"
+title=
+"Hooper&rsquo;s Court"
+src="images/p25.jpg" />
+</a>at the corner of Hooper&rsquo;s Court, occupied, when
+sketched in 1844, as two shops, by John Hutchins, dyer, and Moses
+Bayliss, tailor, and now (1860) by Hutchins alone, was, from 1792
+to 1797 inclusive, the residence of Mr. J. C. Nattes, an artist,
+who deserves notice as one of the sixteen by whose association,
+in 1805, the first exhibition of water-colour paintings was
+formed.</p>
+<p>From 1792 to 1797 this house was described as No. 14
+Queen&rsquo;s Buildings, Knightsbridge; but in the latter year
+the address was changed to No. 14 Knightsbridge Green. <a
+name="citation25a"></a><a href="#footnote25a"
+class="citation">[25a]</a>&nbsp; In 1800 it was known as No. 14
+Knightsbridge, and in 1803 as No. 14 Queen&rsquo;s Row,
+Knightsbridge. <a name="citation25b"></a><a href="#footnote25b"
+class="citation">[25b]</a>&nbsp; In 1810 as Gloucester Buildings,
+Brompton. <a name="citation25c"></a><a href="#footnote25c"
+class="citation">[25c]</a>&nbsp; In 1811 as Queen&rsquo;s
+Buildings. <a name="citation25d"></a><a href="#footnote25d"
+class="citation">[25d]</a>&nbsp; In 1828 as Gloucester Row. <a
+name="citation25e"></a><a href="#footnote25e"
+class="citation">[25e]</a>&nbsp; In 1831 as Gloucester Buildings;
+<a name="citation25f"></a><a href="#footnote25f"
+class="citation">[25f]</a> and it has now reverted to its
+original name of Queen&rsquo;s Buildings, <i>Knightsbridge</i>,
+in opposition to Queen&rsquo;s Buildings, <i>Brompton</i>, the
+division being Hooper&rsquo;s Court, if, indeed, the original
+name was not <!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 26</span>Queen&rsquo;s <i>Row</i>,
+Knightsbridge, as this in 1772 was the address of William Wynne
+Ryland (the engraver who was hanged for forgery in 1783).&nbsp;
+When houses began to be built on the same side of the way, beyond
+Queen&rsquo;s <i>Row</i>, the term &ldquo;<i>Buildings</i>&rdquo;
+appears to have been assumed as a distinction from the row west
+of Hooper&rsquo;s Court; which row would naturally have been
+considered as a continuation, although, in 1786, the Royal
+Academy Catalogue records Mr. J. G. Huck, an exhibitor, as
+residing at No. 11 Gloster Row, Knightsbridge.</p>
+<p>These six alterations of name within half a century, to say
+nothing of the previous changes, illustrate the extreme
+difficulty which attends precise local identification in London,
+and are merely offered at the very starting point as evidence at
+least of the desire to be accurate.</p>
+<p>About the year 1800, the late residence of Mr. Nattes became
+the lodgings of Arthur Murphy, too well known as a literary
+character of the last century to require here more than the mere
+mention of his name, even to those who are accustomed to
+associate every thing with its pecuniary value; as Murphy&rsquo;s
+portrait, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds for Mr. Thrale, sold at
+Christie&rsquo;s in the sale of Mr. Watson Taylor&rsquo;s
+pictures (June, 1823), for &pound;94 10s.&nbsp; Murphy had
+prepared his translation of Tacitus <a name="citation26"></a><a
+href="#footnote26" class="citation">[26]</a> for the press, at
+his house on Hammersmith Terrace (the last at the west end); but
+declining health and circumstances induced his removal into
+lodgings near London, at &ldquo;14 Knightsbridge.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+From these apartments &ldquo;he soon removed to others in
+Brompton Row, where he did not <!-- page 27--><a
+name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 27</span>remain long,
+not liking the mistress of the house, but returned to his former
+residence (No. 14), where he resided till the time of his
+death.&rdquo;&nbsp; In 1803, the late Lord Sidmouth (then Mr.
+Addington), conferred a pension of &pound;200 a-year on Murphy,
+&ldquo;to mark the sense&rdquo; his majesty entertained &ldquo;of
+literary merit, particularly when accompanied with sound
+principles and unquestionable character;&rdquo; which gracious
+mark of royal favour Murphy acknowledged on the 2nd of March,
+from &ldquo;14 Queen&rsquo;s Row, Knightsbridge.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+Here he wrote his life of Garrick, <a name="citation27a"></a><a
+href="#footnote27a" class="citation">[27a]</a> a work which,
+notwithstanding Mr. Foot&rsquo;s ingenious defence of it, shews
+that Garrick&rsquo;s life remains to be written, and that
+Murphy&rsquo;s intellectual powers were, at the time when he
+composed it, in a state of decay.</p>
+<p>Murphy, according to his biographer, &ldquo;possessed the
+first and second floors of a very pleasant, neat house, where
+there was a long gravel walk in the garden; <a
+name="citation27b"></a><a href="#footnote27b"
+class="citation">[27b]</a> and though his library had been much
+diminished, yet, in the remaining part, he took care to reserve
+the Elzevir editions of the classics.&nbsp; Mrs. Mangeon (the
+mistress of the house) was a neat and intelligent woman, and Mr.
+Murphy secured her friendship by giving her son a presentation to
+Christ&rsquo;s Hospital.&nbsp; Anne Dunn, his own servant-maid,
+was an excellent servant, honest, faithful, and attentive; so
+that, what with the services he had rendered to the mistress of
+the house, and what with the intrinsic fidelity of his female
+domestic, he could put the whole family into <!-- page 28--><a
+name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span>a state of
+requisition, and command an elegant table, as well as ready
+attention, upon any particular occasion.&nbsp; Such was the
+situation of a man of genius, and an author, in the decline of a
+long life, and in a country at the highest pitch of grandeur and
+wealth.&nbsp; But it must be remembered, that the comforts he
+possessed were not derived from the profits of
+literature.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>During the last year of Arthur Murphy&rsquo;s life he
+possessed a certain income of &pound;500, and added to this was
+&pound;150 for the copyright of his Tacitus, which, however, was
+less than half the sum he had been frequently offered for
+it.&nbsp; The translation of Sallust, which Murphy left
+unfinished, was completed by Thomas Moore, and published in
+1807.</p>
+<p>Murphy appears to have perfectly reconciled his mind to the
+stroke of death.&nbsp; He made his will thirteen days previous to
+it, and dictated and signed plain and accurate orders respecting
+his funeral.&nbsp; He directed his library of books and all his
+pictures to be sold by auction, and the money arising therefrom,
+together with what money he might have at his bankers or in his
+strong box, he bequeathed to his executor, Mr. Jesse Foot, of
+Dean Street, Soho.&nbsp; To Mrs. Mangeon (his landlady) he gave
+&ldquo;all his prints in the room one pair of stairs and whatever
+articles of furniture&rdquo; he had in her house, &ldquo;the
+bookcase excepted.&rdquo;&nbsp; And to his servant, Anne Dunn,
+&ldquo;twenty guineas, with all his linen and wearing
+apparel.&rdquo;&nbsp; After the completion of this will, Murphy
+observed, &ldquo;I have been preparing for my journey to another
+region, and now do not care how soon I take my
+departure.&rdquo;&nbsp; And on the <!-- page 29--><a
+name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>day of his
+death (18th June, 1805) he frequently repeated the lines of
+Pope:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Taught, half by reason, half by mere
+decay,<br />
+To welcome death and calmly pass away.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>All that we can further glean respecting the interior of
+Murphy&rsquo;s apartment is, that in it &ldquo;there was a
+portrait of Dunning (Lord Ashburton), a very striking likeness,
+painted in crayons by Ozias Humphrey.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Humphrey, who was portrait-painter in crayons to George III.,
+and in 1790 was elected member of the Royal Academy, resided, in
+1792 and 1793, at No. 19 Queen&rsquo;s Buildings,
+<i>Knightsbridge</i>; but whether this was the fifth house beyond
+Nattes&rsquo;, or the No. 19 Queen&rsquo;s Buildings, now called
+<i>Brompton Road</i> (Mitchell&rsquo;s, a linen-draper&rsquo;s
+shop), I am unable, after many inquiries, to determine.&nbsp; It
+will be remembered that Dr. Walcott (Peter Pindar) introduced
+Opie to the patronage of Humphrey, and there are many allusions
+to &ldquo;honest Ozias,&rdquo; as he was called in the
+contemporary literature.</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;But Humphrey, by whom shall your labours
+be told,<br />
+How your colours enliven the young and the old?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>is the comment of Owen Cambridge; and Hayley says,</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Thy graces, Humphrey, and thy colours
+clear,<br />
+From miniatures&rsquo; small circle disappear;<br />
+May their distinguished merit still prevail,<br />
+And shine with lustre on the larger scale.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>A portrait of Ozias Humphrey, painted by Romney in 1772, is
+preserved at Knowle, a memorial of the visit of those artists to
+the Duke of Dorset.&nbsp; It has been twice engraved, and the
+private plate from it, executed by <!-- page 30--><a
+name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 30</span>Caroline
+Watson in 1784, is a work of very high merit.&nbsp; In 1799
+Humphrey resided at No. 13 High Row, Knightsbridge, nearly
+opposite to the house in which Murphy lodged, and there, with the
+exception of the last few months, he passed the remainder of his
+life.</p>
+<p>At No. 21 Queen&rsquo;s Buildings (the second house beyond
+that occupied by Ozias Humphrey), Mr. Thomas Trotter, an
+ingenious engraver and draughtsman, resided in 1801.&nbsp; He
+engraved several portraits, of which the most esteemed are a head
+of the Rev. Stephen Whiston and a head of Lord Morpeth.&nbsp;
+Nearly the last work of his burin was a portrait of Shakspeare,
+patronized by George Steevens.&nbsp; Trotter died on the 14th
+February, 1803, having been prevented from following his
+profession in consequence of a blow on one of his eyes,
+accidentally received by the fall of a flower-pot from a
+window.&nbsp; He, however, obtained employment in making drawings
+of churches and monuments for the late Sir Richard Hoare, and
+other gentlemen interested in topographical illustration.</p>
+<p>Queen&rsquo;s Buildings, Brompton, are divided, rather than
+terminated, at No. 28 (Green&rsquo;s, an earthenware-shop) by New
+Street, leading into Hans Place&mdash;&ldquo;snug Hans
+Place,&rdquo; which possesses one house, at least, that all
+literary pilgrims would desire to turn out of their direct road
+to visit.&nbsp; Miss Landon, alluding to &ldquo;the fascinations
+of Hans Place,&rdquo; playfully observes, &ldquo;vivid must be
+the imagination that could discover them&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&lsquo;Never hermit in his cell,<br />
+Where repose and silence dwell,<br />
+Human shape and human word<br />
+Never seen and never heard,&rsquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+31</span>had a life of duller calm than the indwellers of our
+square.&rdquo;&nbsp; Hans Place may also be approached from
+Sloane Street, and No. 22 Hans Place, is the south-east
+corner.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p31.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"No. 22 Hans Place"
+title=
+"No. 22 Hans Place"
+src="images/p31.jpg" />
+</a>Among its inmates have been Lady Caroline Lamb, <a
+name="citation31"></a><a href="#footnote31"
+class="citation">[31]</a> Miss Mitford, Lady Bulwer, Miss Landon,
+Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Miss Roberts.&nbsp; How much of the
+&ldquo;romance and reality&rdquo; of life is in a moment conjured
+up in the mind by the mention of the names here grouped in local
+association!</p>
+<p>The editor of the memoirs of L. E. L. records two or three
+circumstances which give a general interest to Hans Place.&nbsp;
+Here it was that Miss Landon was born on the 14th August, 1802,
+in the house now No. 25; and &ldquo;it is remarkable that the
+greater portion of L. E. L.&rsquo;s existence was passed on the
+spot where she was born.&nbsp; From Hans Place and its
+neighbourhood she was seldom absent, and then not for any great
+length of time; until within a year or two of her death, she had
+there found her home, not indeed in the house of her birth, but
+close by.&nbsp; Taken occasionally during the earlier years of
+childhood into the <!-- page 32--><a name="page32"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 32</span>country, it was to Hans Place she
+returned.&nbsp; Here some of her school time was passed.&nbsp;
+When her parents removed she yet clung to the old spot, and, as
+her own mistress, chose the same scene for her residence.&nbsp;
+When one series of inmates quitted it, she still resided there
+with their successors, returning continually after every
+wandering, &lsquo;like a blackbird to his nest.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The partiality of Miss Landon for London was
+extraordinary.&nbsp; In a letter, written in 1834, and addressed
+to a reverend gentleman, she ominously says, &ldquo;When I have
+the good luck or ill luck (I rather lean to the latter opinion)
+of being married, I shall certainly insist on the wedding
+excursion not extending much beyond Hyde Park Corner.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>When in her sixth year (1808), Miss Landon was sent to school
+at No. 22 Hans Place.&nbsp; This school was then kept by Miss
+Bowden, who in 1801 had published &lsquo;A Poetical Introduction
+to the Study of Botany,&rsquo; <a name="citation32a"></a><a
+href="#footnote32a" class="citation">[32a]</a> and in 1810 a poem
+entitled &lsquo;The Pleasures of Friendship.&rsquo; <a
+name="citation32b"></a><a href="#footnote32b"
+class="citation">[32b]</a>&nbsp; Miss Bowden became the Countess
+St. Quentin, and died some years ago in the neighbourhood of
+Paris.&nbsp; In this house, where she had been educated, Miss
+Landon afterwards resided for many years as a boarder with the
+Misses Lance, who conducted a ladies&rsquo; school.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;It seems,&rdquo; observes the biographer of L. E. L.,
+&ldquo;to have been appropriated to such purposes from the time
+it was built, nor was L. E. L. the first who drank at the
+&lsquo;well of English&rsquo; within its walls.&nbsp; Miss
+Mitford, we believe, was educated there, and Lady Caroline Lamb
+was an inmate for a time.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>It is the remark of Miss Landon herself, that &ldquo;a history
+<!-- page 33--><a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+33</span>of the how and where works of imagination have been
+produced would often be more extraordinary than the works
+themselves.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;Her own case,&rdquo; observes a
+female friend, &ldquo;is, in some degree, an illustration of
+perfect independence of mind over all external
+circumstances.&nbsp; Perhaps to the L. E. L., of whom so many
+nonsensical things have been said, as that she should write with
+a crystal pen, dipped in dew, upon silver paper, and use for
+pounce the dust of a butterfly&rsquo;s wing, a dilettante of
+literature would assign for the scene of her authorship a
+fairy-like boudoir, with rose-coloured and silver hangings,
+fitted with all the luxuries of a fastidious taste.&nbsp; How did
+the reality agree with this fancy sketch?&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p33.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Attic, No. 22 Hans Place"
+title=
+"Attic, No. 22 Hans Place"
+src="images/p33.jpg" />
+</a>Miss Landon&rsquo;s drawing-room, <a name="citation33"></a><a
+href="#footnote33" class="citation">[33]</a> indeed, was prettily
+furnished, but it was her invariable habit to write in her
+bed-room.&nbsp; I see it now, that homely-looking, almost
+uncomfortable room, fronting the street, and barely furnished
+with a simple white bed, at the foot of which was a small, old,
+oblong-shaped, sort of dressing-table, quite covered with a
+common worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed
+the ground, the table being too small for aught besides the desk;
+a little high-backed cane chair, which gave you any idea rather
+than that of comfort.&nbsp; A few books scattered about completed
+the author&rsquo;s paraphernalia.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 34--><a name="page34"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+34</span>In this attic did the muse of L. E. L. dream of and
+describe music, moonlight, and roses, and &ldquo;apostrophise
+loves, memories, hopes, and fears,&rdquo; with how much ultimate
+appetite for invention or sympathy may be judged from her
+declaration that, &ldquo;there is one conclusion at which I have
+arrived, that a horse in a mill has an easier life than an
+author.&nbsp; I am fairly fagged out of my life.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Miss Roberts, who had resided in the same house with Miss
+Landon, prefixed a brief memoir to a collection of poems by that
+lamented lady, which appeared shortly after her death, her own
+mournful lines&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;<i>Alas</i>! <i>hope is not
+prophecy</i>&mdash;<i>we dream</i>,<br />
+<i>But rarely does the glad fulfilment come</i>;<br />
+<i>We leave our land</i>, <i>and we return no
+more</i>.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>And within less than twenty months from the selection of these
+lines they became applicable to her who had quoted them.</p>
+<p>Emma Roberts accompanied her sister, Mrs. M&rsquo;Naughten, to
+India, where she resided for some time.&nbsp; On her
+sister&rsquo;s death Miss Roberts returned to England, and
+employed her pen assiduously and advantageously in illustrating
+the condition of our eastern dominions.&nbsp; She returned to
+India, and died at Poonah, on the 17th September, 1840.&nbsp;
+Though considerably the elder, she was one of the early friends
+of Miss Landon, having for several years previous to her first
+visit to India boarded with the Misses Lance in Hans Place.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;These were happy days, and little boded the
+premature and melancholy fate which awaited them in foreign
+climes.&nbsp; We believe,&rdquo; says the editor of the
+&lsquo;Literary Gazette,&rsquo; &ldquo;that it was the example of
+<!-- page 35--><a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+35</span>the literary pursuits of Miss Landon which stimulated
+Miss Roberts to try her powers as an author, and we remember
+having the gratification to assist her in launching her first
+essay&mdash;an historical production, <a name="citation35"></a><a
+href="#footnote35" class="citation">[35]</a> which reflected high
+credit on her talents, and at once established her in a fair
+position in the ranks of literature.&nbsp; Since then she has
+been one of the most prolific of our female writers, and given to
+the public a number of works of interest and value.&nbsp; The
+expedition to India, on which she unfortunately perished, was
+undertaken with comprehensive views towards the further
+illustration of the East, and portions of her descriptions have
+appeared as she journeyed to her destination in periodicals
+devoted to Asiatic pursuits.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The influence of Miss Landon&rsquo;s literary popularity upon
+the mind of Miss Roberts very probably caused that lady to desire
+similar celebrity.&nbsp; Indeed, so imitative are the impulses of
+the human mind, that it may fairly be questioned if Miss Landon
+would ever have attuned her lyre had she mot been in the presence
+of Miss Mitford&rsquo;s and Miss Rowden&rsquo;s &ldquo;fame, and
+felt its influence.&rdquo;&nbsp; Miss Mitford has chronicled so
+minutely all the sayings and doings of her school-days in Hans
+Place (H. P., as she mysteriously writes it), that she admits us
+at once behind the scenes.&nbsp; She describes herself as sent
+there (we will not supply the date, but presume it to be
+somewhere about 1800) &ldquo;a petted child of ten years old,
+born and bred in the country, and as shy as a hare.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+The schoolmistress, a Mrs. S---, &ldquo;seldom came near
+us.&nbsp; Her post was to sit all day, nicely dressed, in a
+nicely-furnished drawing-room, busy with some piece of delicate
+needlework, receiving mammas, aunts, and godmammas, answering
+questions, and administering as much praise as she
+conscientiously could&mdash;<!-- page 36--><a
+name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 36</span>perhaps a
+little more.&nbsp; In the school-room she ruled, like other
+rulers, by ministers and delegates, of whom the French teacher
+was the principal.&rdquo;&nbsp; This French teacher, the daughter
+of an <i>&eacute;migr&eacute;</i> of distinction, left, upon the
+short peace of Amiens, to join her parents in an attempt to
+recover their property, in which they succeeded.&nbsp; Her
+successor is admirably sketched by Miss Mitford; and the mutual
+antipathy which existed between the French and English teacher,
+in whom we at once recognise Miss Rowden:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Never were two better haters.&nbsp; Their
+relative situations had probably something to do with it, and yet
+it was wonderful that two such excellent persons should so
+thoroughly detest each other.&nbsp; Miss R.&rsquo;s aversion was
+of the cold, phlegmatic, contemptuous, provoking sort; she kept
+aloof, and said nothing.&nbsp; Madame&rsquo;s was acute, fiery,
+and loquacious; she not only hated Miss R., but hated for her
+sake knowledge, and literature, and wit, and, above all, poetry,
+which she denounced as <i>something fatal and contagious</i>,
+<i>like the plague</i>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Miss Mitford&rsquo;s literary and dramatic tastes seem to have
+been acquired from Miss Rowden, whom she describes as &ldquo;one
+of the most charming women that she had ever
+known:&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The pretty word <i>graziosa</i>, by which
+Napoleon loved to describe Josephine, seemed made for her.&nbsp;
+She was full of a delicate grace of mind and person.&nbsp; Her
+little elegant figure and her fair mild face, lighted up so
+brilliantly by her large hazel eyes, corresponded exactly with
+the soft, gentle manners which were so often awakened into a
+delightful playfulness, or an enthusiasm more charming still, by
+the impulse of her quick and ardent spirit.&nbsp; To be sure she
+had a slight touch of distraction about her (distraction French,
+not distraction English), an interesting absence of mind.&nbsp;
+She united in her own person all the sins of forgetfulness of all
+the young ladies; mislaid her handkerchief, her shawl, her
+gloves, her work, her music, her <!-- page 37--><a
+name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 37</span>drawing, her
+scissors, her keys; would ask for a book when she held it in her
+hand, and set a whole class hunting for her thimble, whilst the
+said thimble was quietly perched upon her finger.&nbsp; Oh! with
+what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used
+to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain!&nbsp; But she
+was a poetess, as Madame said, and what could you expect
+better!&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Such was Miss Landon&rsquo;s schoolmistress; and under this
+lady&rsquo;s especial instruction did Miss Mitford pass the years
+1802, 3, and 4; together they read &ldquo;chiefly poetry;&rdquo;
+and &ldquo;besides the readings,&rdquo; says Miss Mitford,
+&ldquo;Miss R. compensated in another way for my unwilling
+application.&nbsp; She took me often to the theatre; whether as
+an extra branch of education, or because she was herself in the
+height of a dramatic fever, it would be invidious to
+inquire.&nbsp; The effect may be easily foreseen; my enthusiasm
+soon equalled her own; we began to read Shakspeare, and read
+nothing else.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>In 1810 Miss Mitford first appeared as an authoress, by
+publishing a volume of poems, which, in the course of the
+following year, passed into a second edition.</p>
+<p>At No. 21 Hans Place, the talented artistes, Mr. and Mrs.
+Alfred Wigan, resided some time.</p>
+<p>Returning from Hans Place to the Fulham Road through <span
+class="smcap">New Street</span>, No. 7 may he pointed out as the
+house formerly occupied by Chalon, &ldquo;animal painter to the
+royal family;&rdquo; and No. 6 as the residence of the Right Hon.
+David R. Pigot, the late Solicitor-General for Ireland, while (in
+1824&ndash;25) studying in the chambers of the late Lord
+Chief-Justice Tindal, for the profession of which his pupil
+rapidly became an eminent member.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Brompton</span> was formerly an airy
+outlet to which the <!-- page 38--><a name="page38"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 38</span>citizen, with his spouse, were wont
+to resort for an afternoon of rustic enjoyment.&nbsp; It had also
+the reputation of being a locality favourable to intrigue.&nbsp;
+Steele, shrewdly writing on the 27th July, 1713, says:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Dear Wife,&mdash;If you please to call at
+Button&rsquo;s, we will go together to Brompton.</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;Yours ever,<br />
+&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Richard Steele</span>.&rdquo; <a
+name="citation38a"></a><a href="#footnote38a"
+class="citation">[38a]</a></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Now is Brompton all built or being built over, which makes the
+precise locality of crescents and rows puzzling to old
+gentlemen.&nbsp; Its heath is gone, and its grove represented by
+a few dead trunks and some unhealthy-looking trees which stand by
+the road-side, their branches lopped and their growth restrained
+by order of the district surveyor; and Brompton National School,
+nearly opposite to New Street, a building in the Tudor style,
+was, in 1841, wedged in there &ldquo;for the education of 400
+children, after the design of Mr. George Godwin, jun.;&rdquo; so
+at least the newspapers of the day informed the public.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Brompton Row</span> on the north, or
+right-hand side of the main Fulham Road, now consists of
+fifty-five respectable-looking houses, uniform, or nearly so, in
+appearance; and, according to the statements in the
+&lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s Magazine&rsquo; <a
+name="citation38b"></a><a href="#footnote38b"
+class="citation">[38b]</a> and Mr. Faulkner&rsquo;s
+&lsquo;History of Kensington&rsquo; <a name="citation38c"></a><a
+href="#footnote38c" class="citation">[38c]</a> here died Arthur
+Murphy.&nbsp; But although this was not the case, in Brompton Row
+have lived and died authors, and actors, and artists, whose
+performances deserve full as much consideration from
+posterity.</p>
+<p><!-- page 39--><a name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+39</span>No. 14 <span class="smcap">Brompton Row</span> was the
+abode for more than ten years (1820 to 1831) of John Vendramini,
+a distinguished engraver.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p39.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"No. 14 Brompton Row"
+title=
+"No. 14 Brompton Row"
+src="images/p39.jpg" />
+</a>He was born at Roncade, near Bassano, in Italy, and died 8th
+February, 1839, aged seventy.&nbsp; Vendramini was a pupil of
+Bartolozzi, under whom he worked for many years, and of the
+effect he produced upon British art much remains to be
+said.&nbsp; In 1805 Vendramini visited Russia, and on his return
+to England engraved &lsquo;The Vision of St. Catherine,&rsquo;
+after Paul Veronese; the &lsquo;St. Sebastian,&rsquo; after
+Spagnoletti; &lsquo;Leda,&rsquo; after Leonardo da Vinci; and the
+&lsquo;Raising of Lazarus,&rsquo; from the Sebastian del Piombo
+in the National Gallery.</p>
+<p>No. 14 Brompton Row, in 1842, was the residence of the late
+Mr. George Herbert Rodwell, a favourite musical and dramatic
+composer, who died January 22nd, 1852.</p>
+<p>At No. 23 Brompton Row resided Mr. Walter Hamilton, who, in
+1819, published, in two volumes 4to, &lsquo;A Geographical,
+Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the
+Adjacent Country;&rsquo; according to Lowndes&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Bibliographer&rsquo;s Manual,&rsquo; &ldquo;an inestimable
+compilation, containing a more full, detailed, and faithful
+picture of the whole of India than any former work on the
+subject.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p40.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Embellishment"
+title=
+"Embellishment"
+src="images/p40.jpg" />
+</a><!-- page 40--><a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+40</span>Mr. Hamilton subsequently lived for a short period at
+No. 8 Rawstorne Street, which street divides No. 27 (a
+confectioner&rsquo;s shop), and No. 28 (the Crown and Sceptre)
+Brompton Row, opposite to the Red Lion (a public-house of which
+the peculiar and characteristic style of embellishment could
+scarcely have escaped notice at the time when the annexed sketch
+was made, 1844, but which decoration was removed in 1849.)&nbsp;
+Soon after his return to his house in Brompton Row, Mr. Hamilton
+died there in July or August, 1828.</p>
+<p>Rawstorne Street leads to Montpellier Square (built about
+1837).&nbsp; In this square, No. 11, resides Mr. F. W. Fairholt,
+the distinguished artist and antiquary, to whose pencil and for
+much valuable information the editor of these pages is greatly
+indebted; and No. 38 may be mentioned as the residence of Mr.
+Walter Lacy the favourite actor.</p>
+<p>Mrs. Liston, the widow of the comedian, resided at No. 35
+Brompton Row, and No. 45 was the residence of the ingenious Count
+Rumford, the early patron of Sir Humphry Davy.&nbsp; The Count
+occupied it between the years 1799 and 1802, when he finally left
+England for France, where he married the widow of the famous
+chemist, Lavoisier, and died in 1814.&nbsp; Count Rumford&rsquo;s
+name was Benjamin Thompson, or Thomson.&nbsp; He was a native of
+the small town of Rumford (now Concord, in New England), and
+obtained the rank of major in the Local Militia.&nbsp; In the war
+with America he rendered important services to <!-- page 41--><a
+name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>the officers
+commanding the British army, and coming to England was employed
+by Lord George Germaine, and rewarded with the rank of a
+provincial lieutenant-colonel, which entitled him to
+half-pay.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p41.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"No. 45 Brompton Row"
+title=
+"No. 45 Brompton Row"
+src="images/p41.jpg" />
+</a>In 1784 he was knighted, and officiated for a short time as
+one of the under-secretaries of state.&nbsp; He afterwards
+entered the service of the King of Bavaria, in which he
+introduced various useful reforms in the civil and military
+departments, and for which he was promoted to the rank of
+lieutenant-general, and created a count.&nbsp; At Munich, Count
+Rumford began those experiments for the improvements of
+fire-places and the plans for the better feeding and regulation
+of the poor, which have rendered his name familiar to every
+one,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;As his own household hearth.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>No. 45 was distinguished some years ago by peculiar projecting
+windows, now removed, outside of the ordinary windows&mdash;an
+experimental contrivance by Count Rumford, it is said, for
+raising the temperature of his rooms.</p>
+<p>The same house, in 1810, was inhabited by the Rev. <!-- page
+42--><a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+42</span>William Beloe, the translator of Herodotus, and the
+author of various works between the years 1783 and 1812.&nbsp; In
+his last publication, &lsquo;The Anecdotes of Literature,&rsquo;
+Mr. Beloe says, &ldquo;He who has written and published not less
+than forty volumes, which is my case, may well congratulate
+himself, first, that Providence has graciously spared him for so
+long a period; secondly, that sufficient health and opportunity
+have been afforded; and, lastly, that he has passed through a
+career so extended and so perilous without being seriously
+implicated in personal or literary hostilities.&rdquo;&nbsp; It
+is strange that a man who could feel thus should immediately have
+entered upon the composition of a work which appeared as a
+posthumous publication in 1817, under the title of &lsquo;The
+Sexagenarian; or, the Recollections of a Literary Life;&rsquo;
+and which contains the following note:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Dr. Parr branded Beloe as an ingrate and a
+slanderer.&nbsp; He says, &lsquo;The worthy and enlightened
+Archdeacon Nares disdained to have any concern in this infamous
+work.&rsquo;&nbsp; The Rev. Mr. Rennell, of Kensington, could
+know but little of Beloe; but, having read his slanderous book,
+Mr. R., who is a sound scholar, an orthodox clergyman, and a most
+animated writer, would have done well not to have written a sort
+of postscript.&nbsp; From motives of regard and respect for
+Beloe&rsquo;s amiable widow, Dr. Parr abstained from refuting
+B.&rsquo;s wicked falsehoods; but Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury,
+repelled them very ably in the &lsquo;Monthly
+Review.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>At No. 46 Brompton Row, Mr. John Reeve, an exceedingly popular
+low comedian, died, on the 24th of January, 1838, at the early
+age of forty.&nbsp; Social habits led to habits of intemperance,
+and poor John was the <i>Bottle Imp</i> of every theatre he ever
+played in.&nbsp; &ldquo;The last time I saw him,&rdquo; <!-- page
+43--><a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 43</span>says
+Mr. Bunn, in his &lsquo;Journal of the Stage,&rsquo; &ldquo;he
+was posting at a rapid rate to a city dinner, and, on his drawing
+up to chat, I said, &lsquo;Well, Reeve, how do you find yourself
+to-day?&rsquo; and he returned for answer, &lsquo;The lord-mayor
+<i>finds</i> me to-day!&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Brompton Grove</span> commences on the
+south, or left-hand side of the main Fulham Road, immediately
+beyond the Red Lion (before mentioned as opposite to 28 Brompton
+Row), and continues to the Bunch of Grapes public-house, which
+was pulled down in August, and rebuilt in September, 1844,
+opposite to No. 54 Brompton Row, and in the wall of which
+public-house was placed a stone, with &ldquo;<span
+class="smcap">Yeoman&rsquo;s Row</span>, 1767,&rdquo; engraved
+upon it&mdash;the name of a street leading to the
+&ldquo;Grange,&rdquo; and, in 1794, the address of Michael
+Novosielski, the architect of the Italian Opera House.&nbsp; In
+that year he exhibited, in the Royal Academy, three architectural
+designs, viz:&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;558.&nbsp; Elevation of the Opera House, Haymarket;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;661.&nbsp; Section of the New Concert Room at the
+Haymarket; and</p>
+<p>&ldquo;663.&nbsp; Ceiling of the New Concert Room at the Opera
+House.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>But of Novosielski and the Grange more hereafter.</p>
+<p>Brompton Grove now consists of two rows of houses, standing a
+little way back from the main road, between which rows there was
+a green space (1811), now occupied by shops, which range close to
+the footway, and have a street, called Grove Place, in the
+centre.</p>
+<p><i>Upper Brompton Grove</i>, or that division of the Grove
+nearest London, consists of seven houses, of which No. 4 <!--
+page 44--><a name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+44</span>was the abode of Major Shadwell Clerke, who has
+reflected literary lustre upon the &lsquo;United Service,&rsquo;
+by the able and judicious manner in which he conducted for so
+many years the periodical journal distinguished by that
+name.&nbsp; Major Clerke died 19th April, 1849.</p>
+<p><i>Lower Brompton Grove</i> consisted of three houses only in
+1844, numbered 8, 9, and 10; the 11 of former days being of
+superior size, and once known as &ldquo;Grove House.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+The 12, which stood a considerable way behind it, as the
+&ldquo;Hermitage,&rdquo; and the 13, as the &ldquo;House next to
+the Bunch of Grapes,&rdquo; all of which, except No. 8, claim a
+passing remark.</p>
+<p>In No. 9, where he had long resided, died, on the 12th of
+August, 1842, Mr. John Sidney Hawkins, at the age of
+eighty-five.&nbsp; He was the eldest son of Sir John Hawkins, the
+well-known author of the &lsquo;History of Music,&rsquo; and one
+of the biographers of Dr. Johnson.&nbsp; Mr. Hawkins was brother
+of Letitia Matilda Hawkins, the popular authoress, and a lady of
+whom the elder Disraeli once remarked, that she was &ldquo;the
+redeeming genius of her family.&rdquo;&nbsp; Mr. Hawkins,
+however, was an antiquary of considerable learning, research, and
+industry; but his temper was sour and jealous, and, throughout
+his whole and long literary career, from 1782 to 1814, he appears
+to have been embroiled in trifling disputes and immaterial
+vindications of his father or himself.</p>
+<p>No. 10 Brompton Grove, now occupied by the &ldquo;Sisters of
+Compassion,&rdquo; was the residence of James Petit Andrews,
+Esq., younger brother of Sir Joseph Andrews, Bart., and one of
+the magistrates of Queen Square Police Office; a <!-- page
+45--><a name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+45</span>gentleman remarkable for his humane feelings as well as
+for his literary taste.&nbsp; His exertions, following up those
+of Jonas Hanway, were the occasion of procuring an Act of
+Parliament in favour of chimney-sweep apprentices.&nbsp; Mr.
+Andrews was the author of a volume of ancient and modern
+anecdotes in 1789, to which a supplemental volume appeared the
+following year.&nbsp; He also published a &lsquo;History of Great
+Britain, connected with the Chronology of Europe;&rsquo; <a
+name="citation45a"></a><a href="#footnote45a"
+class="citation">[45a]</a> and a continuation of Henry&rsquo;s
+&lsquo;History of Great Britain:&rsquo; <a
+name="citation45b"></a><a href="#footnote45b"
+class="citation">[45b]</a> soon after the appearance of which he
+died, on the 6th of August, 1797.</p>
+<p>Grove House (called in 1809 and 1810, as already mentioned,
+No. 11 Brompton Grove), was, for many years, the residence of Sir
+John Macpherson, Bart.; and here he died, at an advanced age, on
+the 12th of January, 1821.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p45.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Grove House"
+title=
+"Grove House"
+src="images/p45.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>In 1781 he was appointed Member of the Supreme Council of
+Bengal, and when proceeding to the East Indies, in the
+&lsquo;Valentine,&rsquo; Indiaman, distinguished himself in an
+action with the French fleet in Praya Bay.&nbsp; Sir John, who
+was a very large man, to encourage the sailors to stand to their
+guns, promised and paid them from his own pocket five guineas a
+man, which, coupled with his bravery during the action, so
+pleased the seamen, that one of <!-- page 46--><a
+name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 46</span>them swore
+&ldquo;his soul must be as big as his body,&rdquo; and the jokes
+occasioned by this burst of feeling terminated only with Sir John
+Macpherson&rsquo;s life.&nbsp; &ldquo;Fine soles!&mdash;soles, a
+match for Macpherson&rsquo;s!&rdquo; was a Brompton
+fishmonger&rsquo;s greeting to Sir John, etc.&nbsp; In the
+neighbourhood of Brompton he was known by the <i>sobriquet</i> of
+&ldquo;the Gentle Giant,&rdquo; from his usually riding a very
+small pony, flourishing in the most determined manner a huge oak
+stick over the little animal&rsquo;s head, but, of course, never
+touching it with his club.</p>
+<p>Upon the after-dinner conversation at Grove House of Mr. Hugh
+Boyd rests chiefly that gentleman&rsquo;s claim to be considered
+as one of the many authors of &lsquo;Junius.&rsquo;&nbsp; His
+host, having temporarily retired from table, Boyd&rsquo;s words
+were, &ldquo;that Sir John Macpherson little knew he was
+entertaining in his mansion a political writer, whose sentiments
+were once the occasion of a chivalrous appeal from Sir John to
+arms,&rdquo;&mdash;immediately adding, &ldquo;<i>I am the author
+of &lsquo;Junius</i>.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp; The will of Sir John
+Macpherson is a remarkable document, and contains the following
+tribute to the character of George IV.:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;I conclude this, my last will and
+testament, in expressing my early and unalterable admiration of
+his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the truly glorious
+reigning prince of the British empire; and I request my executors
+to wait upon his royal highness immediately after my decease, and
+to state to him, as I do now, that I have bequeathed to his royal
+highness my celebrated antique statue of Minerva, which he often
+admired, with any one of my antique rings that would please his
+royal highness.&nbsp; I likewise request you to assure his royal
+highness that I will leave him certain papers, which prove to a
+demonstration that the glorious system which he has realised for
+his country and the world, in his difficult reign of eight years,
+was the early system of his heart and his ambition.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 47--><a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+47</span>The large room on the east side of Grove House, shown in
+the annexed sketch, was used as the drawing-room, and measured
+thirty-two feet by eighteen.&nbsp; It was built by Sir John
+Macpherson for the purpose of entertaining the Prince Regent.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p47a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Grove House from the East (1844)"
+title=
+"Grove House from the East (1844)"
+src="images/p47a.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Grove House was afterwards occupied by Mr. Wilberforce, who,
+in his diary of the 2nd of July, 1823, notes, &ldquo;Took
+possession of our new house at Brompton.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Mr. Wilberforce remained there about a year, and his successor
+in the tenancy was Mr. Jerdan, the agreeable and well-known
+editor of the &lsquo;Literary Gazette&rsquo;
+(1817&ndash;50).&nbsp; This house, pulled down in 1846, stood
+upon the ground which now forms the road entrance to Ovington
+Square.</p>
+<p>A narrow lane, which ran down by the west side of Grove House,
+led to the Hermitage, a retreat of the much admired Madame
+Catalani during her sojourn this country, and subsequently
+converted into an asylum for insane persons.&nbsp; This building
+was pulled down in 1844, and Grove Place has been erected on its
+site.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p47b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"The Hermitage (1844)"
+title=
+"The Hermitage (1844)"
+src="images/p47b.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p><!-- page 48--><a name="page48"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+48</span>In the house (No. 13 Brompton Grove) which stood a
+little way back from the road, between Grove House and the Grapes
+public-house, and which was taken down in December, 1844, and in
+the previous June, when sketched, occupied by a stone-mason, Mr.
+Banim lodged from May, 1822, to October, 1824.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p48.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"No. 13 Brompton Grove (1844)"
+title=
+"No. 13 Brompton Grove (1844)"
+src="images/p48.jpg" />
+</a>While residing here, he was engaged in contributing to and
+editing a short-lived weekly paper, entitled the &lsquo;Literary
+Register,&rsquo; the first number of which appeared on the 6th of
+July, 1822, and which publication terminated with the
+forty-fourth, on the 3rd of May, 1823, when Banim devoted his
+attention to preparing the &lsquo;Tales of the O&rsquo;Hara
+Family&rsquo; for the press.&nbsp; It is a remarkable local
+coincidence, that Gerald Griffin, who</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;To his own mind had lived a
+mystery,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>the contemporary rival of Banim, as an Irish novelist and
+dramatist, should have immediately succeeded him in the tenancy
+of &ldquo;13 Brompton Grove,&rdquo; as this house was sometimes
+called.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;About this period (1825) he [Griffin] took
+quiet, retired lodgings, at a house at Brompton, now a
+stonemason&rsquo;s, close by Hermitage Lane, which separated it
+from the then residence of the editor of the &lsquo;Literary
+Gazette,&rsquo; and a literary intercourse rather than a personal
+intimacy, though of a most agreeable nature, grew up between
+them.&rdquo; <a name="citation48"></a><a href="#footnote48"
+class="citation">[48]</a></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 49--><a name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+49</span>On the 10th of November, 1824, Griffin, writing to his
+brother, commences a letter full of literary gossip
+with,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Since my last I have visited Mr. J---
+several times.&nbsp; The last time, he wished me to dine with
+him, which I happened not to be able to do; and was very sorry
+for it, for his acquaintance is to me a matter of great
+importance, not only from the engine he wields&mdash;and a
+formidable one it is, being the most widely-circulated journal in
+Europe&mdash;but, also, because he is acquainted with all the
+principal literary characters of the day, and a very pleasant
+kind of man.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>To the honest support of the &lsquo;Literary Gazette&rsquo; at
+this critical period in Griffin&rsquo;s life may be ascribed the
+struggle which he made for fame and fortune through the blind
+path of literary distinction.&nbsp; He came a raw Irish lad to
+the metropolis, with indistinct visions of celebrity floating
+through his poetical mind; or, as he candidly confesses
+himself,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;A young gentleman, totally unknown, even to
+a single family in London, with a few pounds in one pocket and a
+brace of tragedies in the other, supposing that the one will set
+him up before the others are exhausted,&rdquo; which, he admits,
+&ldquo;is not a very novel, but a very laughable,
+delusion.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Banim&rsquo;s kindness&mdash;his sympathy, indeed, for
+Griffin, deserves notice.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;I cannot tell you here,&rdquo; writes the
+latter, &ldquo;the many, many instances in which Banim has shown
+his friendship since I wrote last; let it suffice to say, that he
+is the sincerest, heartiest, most disinterested being that
+breathes.&nbsp; His fireside is the only one where I enjoy
+anything like social life or home.&nbsp; I go out (to Brompton
+Grove) occasionally in an evening, and talk or read for some
+hours, or have a bed, and leave next day.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Again, in a letter dated 31st of March, 1824, Griffin
+says:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p><!-- page 50--><a name="page50"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 50</span>&ldquo;What would I have done if I
+had not found Banim?&nbsp; I should have instantly despaired on
+****&rsquo;s treatment of me.&nbsp; I should never be tired of
+talking about and thinking of Banim.&nbsp; Mark me! he is a man,
+the only one I have met since I left Ireland, almost.&nbsp; We
+walked over Hyde Park together on St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day, and
+renewed our home recollections by gathering shamrocks, and
+placing them in our hats, even under the eye of John
+Bull.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><span class="smcap">Michael&rsquo;s Place</span>, on the same
+side of the way with the Bunch of Grapes, is railed off from the
+main Fulham Road, although a public footpath admits the passenger
+as far as No. 14.&nbsp; It consists of forty-four houses, and was
+a building speculation of Michael Novosielski, already mentioned,
+whose Christian name it retains, having been commenced by him in
+1786.&nbsp; But the shells of his houses for many years remained
+unfinished, and in 1811, the two last houses (Nos. 43 and 44) of
+Michael&rsquo;s Place were not built.&nbsp; Novosielski died at
+Ramsgate, in 1795; and his widow, for some years after his death,
+occupied No. 13.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p50.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"No. 8 Michael&rsquo;s Place"
+title=
+"No. 8 Michael&rsquo;s Place"
+src="images/p50.jpg" />
+</a>No. 8 Michael&rsquo;s Place, to be recognized by its
+bay-windows, was, for several years, the residence of the Rev.
+Dr. Croly, now rector of St. Stephen&rsquo;s, Walbrook,
+distinguished in the pulpit by his eloquence, admired as a writer
+in almost every walk of English literature, and respected and
+beloved by those who know him.&nbsp; Croly&rsquo;s fame must live
+and die with our <!-- page 51--><a name="page51"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 51</span>language, which he has grasped with
+an unrivalled command.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Brompton Square</span> is opposite to the
+commencement of Michael&rsquo;s Place, to which it will be
+necessary to return, after a visit to the square.</p>
+<p>At No. 6 has lived Mr. John Baldwin Buckstone, the
+actor-author, or author-actor, so well known and esteemed by the
+public.&nbsp; And at No. 14 has resided Mr. Edward Fitzwilliam,
+the musical composer, who died on the 19th of January, 1857, at
+the early age of 33.</p>
+<p>No. 21 was, between the years 1829 and 1833, the residence of
+Spagnoletti, the leader of the Opera band.&nbsp; He was succeeded
+in the tenancy by Mrs. Chatterly, a lively and accomplished
+actress, who continued to occupy the same house after her
+marriage with Mr. Francis Place.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p51.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Nos. 22, 23, 24, Brompton Square"
+title=
+"Nos. 22, 23, 24, Brompton Square"
+src="images/p51.jpg" />
+</a>At No. 22 (which now belongs to the well-known and much
+respected actor Mr. James Vining, and is at present tenanted by
+Mr. Shirley Brooks) George Colman the younger died on the 26th of
+October, 1836, at the age of 74, having removed to this house
+from No. 5 Melina Place, Kent Road.&nbsp; &ldquo;He ceased to
+exist on the 17th of October, <!-- page 52--><a
+name="page52"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 52</span>1836,&rdquo;
+says his medical attendant, in a letter published in the memoirs
+of the Colman family.&nbsp; But this is an error, as on the 19th
+of October he appears to have written to Mr. Bunn.&nbsp; The last
+earthly struggle of George Colman has been thus
+described:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;It has never fallen to my lot to witness in
+the hour of death so much serenity of mind, such perfect
+philosophy, or resignation more complete.&nbsp; Up to within an
+hour of his decease he was perfectly sensible of his danger, and
+bore excruciating pain with the utmost fortitude.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;At one period of his life a more popular man was not in
+existence,&rdquo; observes Mr. Bunn; &ldquo;for the festive board
+of the prince or the peer was incomplete without Mr.
+Colman.&nbsp; He has left behind him a perpetuity of fame in his
+dramatic works; and much is it to be lamented that no chronicle
+has been preserved of his various and most extraordinary
+<i>jeux-d&rsquo;esprit</i>.&nbsp; He has, moreover, left behind
+quite enough of renown, could he lay claim to none other, to be
+found in the following tribute from the pen of Lord
+Byron:&mdash;&lsquo;I have met George Colman occasionally, and
+thought him extremely pleasant and convivial.&nbsp;
+Sheridan&rsquo;s humour, or rather wit, was always saturnine, and
+sometimes savage; he never laughed (at least that I saw and I
+have watched him), but Colman did.&nbsp; If I had to
+<i>choose</i>, and could not have both at a time, I should say,
+let me begin the evening with Sheridan, and finish it with
+Colman.&nbsp; Sheridan for dinner, Colman for supper.&nbsp;
+Sheridan for claret or port, but Colman for everything, from the
+madeira and champagne at dinner, the claret with a layer of port
+between the glasses, up to the punch of the night, and down to
+the grog or gin-and-water of daybreak.&nbsp; Sheridan was a
+grenadier company of life-guards, but Colman a whole
+regiment&mdash;of light infantry, to be sure, but still a
+regiment.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The sale of Colman&rsquo;s effects took place on the 29th of
+November, 1837; among the pictures sold was the well-known
+portrait of George Colman the elder, by Sir Joshua Reynolds,
+which has been engraved; another by Gainsborough, also engraved;
+a third in crayons, by Rosalba; <!-- page 53--><a
+name="page53"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 53</span>and a fourth
+by Zoffani, which formerly belonged to Garrick, a highly-finished
+miniature of Shakspeare, by Ozias Humphrey, executed in 1784 (a
+copy of which, made for the Duchess of Chandos, sold at her sale
+for &pound;40); some watercolour drawings, by Emery, Mrs. Terry,
+and others; some engravings; more than 1,000 volumes of French
+and English books; and a collection of miscellanies, including
+the MSS. of the elder Colman&rsquo;s most admired productions,
+and several by George Colman the younger,&mdash;amounting in all
+to twenty-six pieces.&nbsp; John Reeve bought largely of the
+books; but before two months had elapsed Reeve himself was no
+more.</p>
+<p>No. 23 Brompton Square is occupied by Mr. William Farren, who
+was for a long period the unrivalled representative of old men
+upon the stage, <a name="citation53"></a><a href="#footnote53"
+class="citation">[53]</a> and who took his farewell at the
+Haymarket Theatre in 1855; and No. 24, between the years 1840 and
+1843, was the residence of Mr. Payne Collier, who has given to
+the public several editions of Shakspeare, and who has been long
+distinguished by his profound knowledge of dramatic literature
+and history, and his extensive acquaintance with the early poetry
+of England.</p>
+<p>Mr. Collier&rsquo;s house, in Brompton Square, stood between
+that which Mr. William Farren occupies, and one (No. 25) of which
+Mr. Farren was proprietor, and has now been sold.&nbsp; At No. 28
+resides Mr. William Frogatt Robson, Solicitor and Comptroller of
+Droits of Admiralty.&nbsp; Mr. William <!-- page 54--><a
+name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 54</span>Farren has
+resided at No. 30, next door to Mr. Henry Luttrell (No. 31),
+&ldquo;the great London wit,&rdquo; as Sir Walter Scott terms
+him, well known in the circles of literature as the author of
+many epigrams, and of a volume of graceful poetry, entitled
+&lsquo;Advice to Julia,&rsquo; and who died on 19th December,
+1851, aged 86.</p>
+<p>In addition to these literary and dramatic associations of
+Brompton Square, Liston resided for some time at No. 40, Mr.
+Yates and Mr. John Reeve at 57 and 58; and that pair of comic
+theatrical gems, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, have been inhabitants of
+No. 19.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p54.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"First grave"
+title=
+"First grave"
+src="images/p54.jpg" />
+</a><span class="smcap">Brompton New Church</span>, a little
+beyond the Square, is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.&nbsp; The
+architect was Mr. Donaldson, and the first stone was laid in
+October, 1826.&nbsp; On the 6th of June, 1829, the Bishop of
+London consecrated this church and its burial-ground, which had
+been a flower-garden.&nbsp; When the first grave was made in the
+month following, many of the flowers still appeared among the
+grass; and, after viewing it, Miss Landon wrote the following
+verses.&nbsp; The &ldquo;first grave&rdquo; is in the extreme
+south-west of the corner churchyard, close to the narrow pathway
+that skirts the wall, leaving only space for a grave
+between.&nbsp; The inscription <!-- page 55--><a
+name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 55</span>on the stone
+which originally marked the &ldquo;first grave,&rdquo;
+was,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span
+class="smcap">sacred</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">to the memory of</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">mr. iohn corpe</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">of this parish</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">of st. george&rsquo;s hanover
+square</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">who departed this life</span><br />
+18<span class="smcap">th of july</span> 1829<br />
+<span class="smcap">aged</span> 51 <span
+class="smcap">years</span>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;A single grave! the only one<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; In this unbroken ground,<br />
+Where yet the garden leaf and flower<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Are lingering around.<br />
+A single grave!&mdash;my heart has felt<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; How utterly alone<br />
+In crowded halls, where breathed for me<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Not one familiar tone.</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;The shade where forest-trees shut out<br
+/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp; All but the distant sky,&mdash;<br />
+I&rsquo;ve felt the loneliness of night,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; When the dark winds pass&rsquo;d by.<br />
+My pulse has quicken&rsquo;d with its awe,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; My lip has gasp&rsquo;d for breath;<br />
+But what were they to such as this&mdash;<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; The solitude of death?</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;A single grave!&mdash;we half forget<br
+/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp; How sunder human ties,<br />
+When round the silent place of rest<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; A gather&rsquo;d kindred lies.<br />
+We stand beneath the haunted yew,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; And watch each quiet tomb,<br />
+And in the ancient churchyard feel<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Solemnity, not gloom!</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;The place is purified with
+hope&mdash;<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; The hope, that is, of prayer;<br />
+And human love, and heavenward thought,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; And pious faith, are there!<br />
+<!-- page 56--><a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+56</span>The wild flowers spring amid the grass,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; And many a stone appears<br />
+Carved by affection&rsquo;s memory,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Wet with affection&rsquo;s tears.</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;The golden chord which binds us all<br
+/>
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Is loosed, not rent in twain;<br />
+And love, and hope, and fear, unite<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; To bring the past again.<br />
+But <i>this</i> grave is so desolate,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; With no remembering stone,<br />
+No fellow-graves for sympathy,&mdash;<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; &rsquo;Tis utterly alone!</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;I do not know who sleeps beneath,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; His history or name,<br />
+Whether, if lonely in his life,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; He is in death the same,&mdash;<br />
+Whether he died unloved, unmourn&rsquo;d,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; The last leaf on the bough,<br />
+Or if some desolated hearth<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Is weeping for him now?</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Perhaps this is too fanciful,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Though single be his sod,<br />
+Yet not the less it has around<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; The presence of his God!<br />
+It may be weakness of the heart,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; But yet its kindliest, best;<br />
+Better if in our selfish world<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; It could be less repress&rsquo;d.</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Those gentler charities which draw<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Man closer with his kind,<br />
+Those sweet humilities which make<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; The music which they find:<br />
+How many a bitter word &rsquo;t would hush,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; How many a pang &rsquo;t would save,<br />
+If life more precious held those ties<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Which sanctify the grave.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 57--><a name="page57"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+57</span>Now (1860) the grave-stone has received two additional
+inscriptions, and the character of the upright stone has been
+altered.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p57.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Reeve&rsquo;s Grave"
+title=
+"Reeve&rsquo;s Grave"
+src="images/p57.jpg" />
+</a>Corpe was a ladies&rsquo; shoemaker, and his son carried on
+that business at No. 126 Mount Street, Berkeley Square, after the
+father&rsquo;s death.&nbsp; While sketching the grave, the sexton
+came up, and observed, &ldquo;No one has ever noticed that grave,
+sir, before, so much as to draw it out for a pattern, as I
+suppose you are doing.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>John Reeve&rsquo;s grave (&ldquo;alas, poor Yorick!&rdquo;) is
+in the first avenue at the back of the church, to the left hand,
+and immediately at the edge of the path that runs parallel with
+the north side of the building.&nbsp; The stone, which is similar
+to others in the same vicinity, is inscribed:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">in
+memory</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">of</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">iohn reeve esq.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">late of the</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">theatre royal adelphi</span>.<br />
+<span class="smcap">obiit january</span>. 24<span
+class="smcap">th</span>. 1838.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">also
+of</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">iohn reeve esq.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">uncle of the above</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">obiit jany.</span> 22<span
+class="smcap">nd</span>. 1831 <span class="smcap">aged</span>
+71.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>In the central path, leading from the Church Tower, is the
+grave of Harriet Elizabeth Farren, who died 16th of <!-- page
+58--><a name="page58"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 58</span>June,
+1857, aged 68.&nbsp; She made her first appearance in London in
+1813, as Desdemona.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p58a.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Bell and Horns sign"
+title=
+"Bell and Horns sign"
+src="images/p58a.jpg" />
+</a>Close to Brompton New Church, at a public-house called the
+Bell and Horns, <a name="citation58"></a><a href="#footnote58"
+class="citation">[58]</a> the road branches off again; that
+branch which goes straight forward leading to Old Brompton,
+Earl&rsquo;s Court, Kensington, and North End, Fulham.&nbsp; The
+turn to the left, or bend to the south, being the main Fulham
+Road.&nbsp; Here, till within the last few years, was standing
+the stump of an old tree, shown in the accompanying sketch.&nbsp;
+
+<a href="images/p58b.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Stump"
+title=
+"Stump"
+src="images/p58b.jpg" />
+</a>A cluster of trees at the commencement of the Old Brompton
+Road have also been removed, and the road has been considerably
+widened.&nbsp; On the right-hand side, adjoining Brompton New
+Church, is the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, a Roman Catholic
+Establishment of considerable extent, which stands on the ground
+once occupied by Mr. Pollard&rsquo;s school.&nbsp; It was opened
+on 22nd March, 1851, and was originally located in King William
+Street, Strand.&nbsp; It is bounded on the east by the avenue of
+lime trees leading up to Holy Trinity Church, on the north by its
+cemetery, on the west by the South Kensington Museum, and on the
+south by the road, which has been widened by the commissioners to
+eighty feet.&nbsp; The superior in <!-- page 59--><a
+name="page59"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 59</span>London is the
+Rev. F. W. Faber, and at Birmingham, the Rev. J. H. Newman,
+D.D.&nbsp; The building, which does not show its size to
+advantage from the road, is erected in the shape of the letter
+T.&nbsp; Some idea of the scale on which the building is executed
+may be gathered from the following dimensions.&nbsp; The oratory
+72 feet long, 30 wide, 29 high.&nbsp; The library 72 feet long,
+30 wide, 23 high.&nbsp; The refectory 50 feet long, 30 wide, 28
+high.&nbsp; The corridors of the house 164 feet long, 9 wide, 14
+high.&nbsp; The architect is Mr. Scoles.&nbsp; Next to the
+oratory is the South Kensington Museum, which was built upon the
+Kensington Gore estate, 
+<a href="images/p59.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Oratory and Museum"
+title=
+"Oratory and Museum"
+src="images/p59.jpg" />
+</a>purchased by the Royal Commissioners with the surplus funds
+derived from the Exhibition of 1851.&nbsp; It was opened on the
+24th June, 1857, and is a result of the School of Design, founded
+at Somerset House in 1838.&nbsp; It is the head-quarters of the
+Government Department of Science and Art, previously deposited in
+Marlborough House, which is under the management <!-- page
+60--><a name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 60</span>of
+Mr. Henry Cole.&nbsp; The collections are temporarily placed in a
+range of boiler-roofed buildings, hence the term &ldquo;Brompton
+boilers&rdquo; has been applied to them.&nbsp; There are
+specimens here of ornamental art, an architectural, trade, and
+economical museum; a court of modern sculpture, and the gallery
+of British Art, founded on the munificent gift of Mr. John
+Sheepshanks.&nbsp; Mr. Sheepshanks having bestowed on the nation
+a collection of 234 oil paintings, mostly by modern British
+artists, and some drawings, etc., the whole formed by himself,
+including some of the most popular works of Wilkie, Mulready, Sir
+Edwin Landseer, Leslie, and other eminent artists of the English
+school.&nbsp; To these have been since added, in several large
+rooms, the Turner Collection, and the pictures from the Vernon
+Gallery; also the collection bequeathed to the nation by the late
+Mr. Jacob Bell, and the pictures by British artists removed from
+the National Gallery; all which are well lighted from the
+roof.&nbsp; The objects of ornamental art consist of medieval
+furniture and decoration, painted glass, plaster casts,
+electrotype copies, photographs, engravings, and drawings, etc.,
+the whole designed with the view of aiding general education, and
+of diffusing among all classes those principles of science and
+art which are calculated to advance the individual interests of
+the country, and to elevate the character of the people:
+facilities are afforded for taking copies of objects upon
+application at the Art Library.&nbsp; The Educational collections
+formed by the Government, which are in the central portion of the
+building, comprise specimens of scientific instruments, objects
+of natural history, models, casts, and a <!-- page 61--><a
+name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 61</span>library;
+refreshment and waiting rooms are provided; and there are
+lectures delivered in a building devoted to that purpose.&nbsp;
+The admission, which is from ten till four, five or six,
+according to the season, is free on Monday, Tuesday, and
+Saturday, also on Monday and Tuesday evening, from seven till
+ten, when the galleries are lighted; on Wednesday, Thursday, and
+Friday, being students&rsquo; days, the admission is 6d.</p>
+<p>In form the building is rectangular, the centre or nave is 42
+feet wide, and is open from the floor to the roof.&nbsp; Along
+the aisles galleries run, access to which is obtained by two
+large central staircases at the ends of the building, which is
+for the most part lighted from the roofs.&nbsp; There is ample
+ventilation, and by means of hot water pipes, the building is
+heated when required.&nbsp; The exhibition space in floor and
+galleries is nearly one acre and a half, exclusive of the wall
+space in the galleries and aisles.&nbsp; The arrangement, it may
+be seen from this description, is much the same as that adopted
+in the Great Exhibition of 1851.&nbsp; There are separate
+catalogues for each department to be had, which give the visitor
+all necessary information.&nbsp; The building was constructed
+from designs and drawings prepared by Messrs. Charles D. Young
+and Co. of Great George Street, Westminster.&nbsp; Opposite the
+Museum is Thurloe Place.&nbsp; No. 1 may be mentioned as the
+residence of Mr. Henry Holl, well known some years ago as the
+light comedian of the Haymarket Theatre.&nbsp; That gentleman has
+now retired from the profession, but in addition to some dramatic
+productions written many years since, he is the author of two or
+three successful pieces recently produced.&nbsp; It is not the
+intention <!-- page 62--><a name="page62"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 62</span>of the writer to follow the course of
+the Old Brompton Road, but he will at once return to the main
+road after alluding to the newly-formed magnificent approaches
+from this point to Kensington, by Exhibition Road and Prince
+Albert&rsquo;s Road, on the site of Brompton Park, now broken up.
+<a name="citation62"></a><a href="#footnote62"
+class="citation">[62]</a>&nbsp; A winter garden is in course of
+formation here, and the Horticultural Society intend to
+appropriate part of the ground for their annual
+f&ecirc;tes.&nbsp; The total amount expended on the purchase and
+laying out of the Kensington Gore Estate from 1851 to 1856
+inclusive, was &pound;277,309.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 63--><a name="page63"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+63</span>CHAPTER II.</h2>
+<p class="gutsumm"><span class="smcap">from the bell and
+horns</span>, <span class="smcap">brompton</span>, <span
+class="smcap">to little chelsea</span>.</p>
+<p>To return to the continuation of <span
+class="smcap">Michael&rsquo;s Place</span>.&nbsp; It is divided
+between Nos. 11 and 12 by <span class="smcap">Michael&rsquo;s
+Grove</span>, which led to Brompton Grange, for some years the
+seat of the favourite veteran vocalist, Braham, who made his
+appearance as a public singer at the age of ten years, and so far
+back as 1787.&nbsp; The Grange was taken down in October 1843,
+and, in the course of twelve months, its spacious grounds were
+covered by a decided crescent and other buildings.&nbsp; Brompton
+Grange, which was constructed by Novosielski for his own
+residence, was, previous to Mr. Braham&rsquo;s tenancy, occupied
+by a gentleman of large fortune and weak nerves, which were most
+painfully affected by the tone of a bell.&nbsp; After
+considerable research, this spot was selected for his London
+residence, in the belief that there he would be secure from
+annoyance.&nbsp; But the folly of human anticipation was speedily
+illustrated by the building of Brompton Church on the north side
+of his abode, and of Chelsea New Church on the west; so that,
+whatever way the wind blew,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The sound of the church-going
+bell&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 64--><a name="page64"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+64</span>was certain of being wafted to the Grange, which was got
+rid of in consequence.</p>
+<p>From Michael&rsquo;s Grove, <span class="smcap">Brompton
+Crescent</span> is nearly a straight row of twenty-five houses,
+and forms an angle to the line of the main Fulham Road, uniting
+with Michael&rsquo;s Place at &ldquo;Crescent House,&rdquo; where
+the carriage communication was formerly interrupted by a bar, in
+place of which a post supporting two lamps is now
+substituted.</p>
+<p>No. 9 was for some time in the occupation of Dr. Oswald Wood,
+the translator (1835) of Von Hammer&rsquo;s &lsquo;History of the
+Assassins,&rsquo; and who died at the early age of thirty-eight,
+on the 5th of November, 1842, in the West Indies, where he held
+the appointment of Provost-Marshal of Antigua.</p>
+<p>At No. 13 Brompton Crescent resided Charles Incledon, the
+rival of his neighbour Braham, whose singing he was wont to
+designate as &ldquo;Italianised humbug;&rdquo; declaring that no
+one but himself, Charles Incledon, knew how to sing a British
+ballad: and it must be admitted, that &ldquo;The Storm&rdquo; and
+&ldquo;Black-eyed Susan,&rdquo; as sung by Incledon, produced a
+deep impression on the public mind.&nbsp; He was a native of
+Cornwall, and the son of a medical gentleman.&nbsp; As a
+chorister, under the tuition of Jackson, in Exeter Cathedral,
+Incledon acquired his knowledge of music; for when he was fifteen
+he entered the Royal Navy, in which he served in the West Indies
+from 1779 to 1783, when he abandoned the naval profession, and
+joined a theatrical company at Southampton.&nbsp; After a popular
+professional career of upwards of forty years as a public singer,
+Incledon died at Worcester, on the 11th of February, 1826.</p>
+<p>Of Incledon many amusing anecdotes are told, chiefly <!-- page
+65--><a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+65</span>caused by his inordinate vanity, and his mental
+singleness of purpose.&nbsp; He thought of no one but himself; he
+saw nothing beyond the one and immediate object at which he
+grasped; and yet these faults were caused rather by natural
+weakness of intellect than by an unkind or selfish
+disposition.&nbsp; In fact, Incledon lived and died a petted
+servant of the public; which administered intoxicating draughts
+of applause to his self-esteem.</p>
+<p>Mr. G. Rodwell, already mentioned as having been an inhabitant
+of No. 14 Brompton Row, resided at No. 15 Brompton Crescent, in
+1830.</p>
+<p>No. 20 Brompton Crescent was, between the years 1822 and 1844,
+occupied by Mr. Planch&eacute;, well known as, perhaps, the most
+prolific and skilful dramatic writer of the day, and as a
+gentleman of high literary and antiquarian attainments.&nbsp; His
+connexion with the last musical efforts of the German composer
+Weber, in his opera of &lsquo;Oberon,&rsquo; which was produced
+at Covent Garden on the 12th of May, 1826, <a
+name="citation65"></a><a href="#footnote65"
+class="citation">[65]</a> cannot be forgotten; and to
+Planch&eacute;&rsquo;s knowledge of costume and taste for
+pictorial effects the English stage is deeply indebted.&nbsp; In
+the drawing-room of this house have some of our most agreeable
+acting dramas been composed, and nothing could have been, in its
+style and appointments, more typical of Planch&eacute;&rsquo;s
+dialogue than was the apartment&mdash;smart and neat, fit for all
+occasions, and suited in a moment to the present purpose,
+whatever that might be.&nbsp; It was polished and elegant; but
+there was nothing superfluous, beyond a bit of exquisite china on
+the <!-- page 66--><a name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+66</span>mantel-piece, or a picture, excellent in its way, on the
+wall; something which pleased the eye, and which the mind
+received and relished like a nicely-pointed joke.&nbsp; A
+well-painted portrait of Planch&eacute; himself, by Briggs, the
+Royal Academician, which has been engraved, hung opposite to the
+fireplace; and, as if to carry out the similitude between
+Planch&eacute;&rsquo;s writings and the place where they were
+written, folding-doors revealed a back drawing-room, which, like
+his memory, was richly stored with the works of heralds and
+antiquaries, and of our elder dramatists and poets, so
+judiciously arranged, that in a moment he was certain of
+producing the precise passage or the effect which he
+desired.&nbsp; At the same time so completely was this little
+battery of knowledge masked under quaint bindings and tasteful
+covers, that no one suspected what a mine of learning lay
+beneath; nor, like his own mental resources, was a volume
+displayed without cause, or unclasped without its effect.</p>
+<p>Speaking earnestly to Planch&eacute; respecting the pains and
+pleasures of authorship, L. E. L. once said, &ldquo;I would give
+this moment all the fame of what I have written, or ever shall
+write, for one roar of applause from a crowded house, such as you
+must have heard a thousand times.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Mr. Planch&eacute; afterwards removed to a new and detached
+house, built on the site of Brompton Grange.&nbsp; He has now
+quitted the neighbourhood.</p>
+<p>Mr. C. J. Richardson, an architect, whose publications
+illustrative of Tudor architecture and domestic English
+antiquities have materially tended to diffuse a feeling of
+respect for the works of our ancestors, and to forward the
+growing desire to preserve and restore edifices which time <!--
+page 67--><a name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+67</span>and circumstances have spared to the country, has
+resided at No. 22 Brompton Crescent.&nbsp; At No. 28 in this
+crescent, Mrs. Liston died in 1854.</p>
+<p>The continuation of <span class="smcap">Michael&rsquo;s
+Place</span>, which we left on our right to visit Michael&rsquo;s
+Grove and Brompton Crescent, is the corner house, now Dr.
+Cahill&rsquo;s and Mr. Hewett&rsquo;s.&nbsp; At No. 12, Lewis
+Schiavonetti, a distinguished engraver, died on the 7th of June,
+1810, at the age of fifty-five.&nbsp; He was a native of Bassano,
+in the Venetian territory, and the eldest son of a stationer,
+whose large family and moderate circumstances made him gladly
+accept the offer of Julius Golini, a painter of some repute, to
+receive his son, at the age of thirteen, for instruction in the
+arts.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p67.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"No. 12 Michael&rsquo;s Place"
+title=
+"No. 12 Michael&rsquo;s Place"
+src="images/p67.jpg" />
+</a>In three years after, Golini expired in the arms of his
+youthful pupil.&nbsp; Upon the death of his master he determined
+to seek the patronage of Count Remaudini, who had given
+employment to Bartolozzi and Volpato, and began to study the
+mechanical process of engraving, under a poor man named Lorio,
+who, unable to support himself by his profession, officiated as
+sacristan to a church, and could offer him no better
+accommodation for study than the sacristy.&nbsp; The
+circumstances of Schiavonetti not permitting him to seek for
+higher instruction, he <!-- page 68--><a name="page68"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 68</span>remained with this master about
+twelve months, when, finding that he had learned all that poor
+Lorio was able to teach, and feeling an aversion to work
+occasionally among dead bodies, he determined to alter his
+situation.&nbsp; A copy of a &lsquo;Holy Family,&rsquo; from
+Bartolozzi, after Carlo Maratta, gained Schiavonetti immediate
+employment from Count Remaudini, and attracted the notice of
+Suntach, an engraver and printseller in opposition to
+Remaudini.</p>
+<p>About this time there came to Bassano a Mr. Testolini, of
+Vicenza, a wretched engraver of architecture, but a man of
+consummate craft and address.&nbsp; He became acquainted with
+Schiavonetti at Suntach&rsquo;s, and, finding in his genius and
+tractable disposition, a tool which he could use to great
+advantage, he engaged him to work at his house.&nbsp;
+Bartolozzi&rsquo;s engravings in the chalk manner were then in
+great repute at Bassano, and Testolini made several abortive
+attempts to discover the process.&nbsp; His young friend
+succeeded better, and imitated several of Bartolozzi&rsquo;s
+prints to perfection; and Testolini took some of
+Schiavonetti&rsquo;s productions to the son of Bartolozzi at
+Venice, and passed them off as his own.&nbsp; They gained him an
+introduction to that artist, and an invitation to London, where
+he was then in full occupation, and his works highly
+appreciated.&nbsp; The change of climate seems to have
+deteriorated the talents of Testolini; but such was his
+adroitness that he gained a complete ascendancy over the easy
+temper of Bartolozzi, and lived in his house at North End,
+Fulham, about three years.&nbsp; During that time, finding that
+yet more important advantages might be derived from the aid of
+his former friend, he made several propositions to Schiavonetti
+to come <!-- page 69--><a name="page69"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 69</span>to London.&nbsp; These were for a
+time declined: the rising fame of the young artist caused his
+talents to be better appreciated, and some Venetian noblemen
+offered him a pension and constant employment if he would abandon
+his proposed emigration.&nbsp; Testolini, to frustrate this,
+induced Bartolozzi to write a letter of persuasion, partly
+dictated by himself; and, confident of its effect, he set out for
+Italy to bring Schiavonetti over.&nbsp; During his absence
+Bartolozzi gained an insight into his real character and
+interested views, and, on his return with his
+<i>prot&eacute;g&eacute;</i>, told him that his house was no
+longer open to him, but that Schiavonetti was welcome to consider
+it his home.&nbsp; Testolini, however, having found a house in
+Sloane Square, soon persuaded Schiavonetti that it would be
+better for him to follow his fortune than to remain with
+Bartolozzi, to which Schiavonetti consented.&nbsp; This
+circumstance terminated the connexion between Bartolozzi and
+Schiavonetti; and shortly after the reputation of the latter as
+an engraver became established in London, where he conducted
+every transaction he was engaged in with an uprightness and
+integrity that cause his memory to be equally respected as a
+gentleman and as an artist.&nbsp; The &lsquo;Madre
+Dolorosa,&rsquo; after Vandyke; the portrait of that master in
+the character of Paris; Michael Angelo&rsquo;s cartoon of the
+&lsquo;Surprise of the Soldiers on the banks of the Arno;&rsquo;
+a series of etchings from designs by Blake, illustrative of
+Blair&rsquo;s &lsquo;Grave,&rsquo; with a portrait of Blake after
+Phillips; the &lsquo;Landing of the British troops in
+Egypt,&rsquo; from De Loutherbourg; and the etching of the
+&lsquo;Canterbury Pilgrims,&rsquo; from Stothard&rsquo;s admired
+picture, are some of the most esteemed works of Lewis
+Schiavonetti.&nbsp; <!-- page 70--><a name="page70"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 70</span>His funeral, which took place on the
+14th June 1810, from Michael&rsquo;s Place, was attended by West,
+the president, Phillips, Tresham, and other members of the Royal
+Academy, by his countryman Vendramini, and almost all the
+distinguished engravers of the day, with other artists and
+friends to art.</p>
+<p>The greater portion of No. 13, Michael&rsquo;s Place, is shown
+in the sketch of No. 12, and the former may be mentioned as the
+residence of the widow of the builder, Madame Novosielski, who
+died here on the 30th November, 1820.&nbsp; This was the address
+of Miss Helen Faucit, immediately previous to her successful
+appearance in the English drama before a French audience, and is
+at present in the occupation of Mr. Weigall, an artist whose
+works are highly prized.</p>
+<p>Mrs. Billington, the well-known singer and actress, has
+resided at No. 15.</p>
+<p>Miss Pope, an actress of considerable reputation, died at No.
+17, Michael&rsquo;s Place, on the 30th July, 1818, aged
+seventy-five.&nbsp; Her talents had been cultivated by the
+celebrated Mrs. Clive, and she was distinguished by the notice of
+Garrick.&nbsp; As a representative of old women, Miss Pope is
+said to have been unrivalled; and, for more than half a century,
+she remained constant to the boards of Drury Lane Theatre, never
+having performed at any other with the exception of a season at
+Dublin and another at Liverpool.</p>
+<p>Mr. John Heneage Jesse, in 1842, while engaged in the
+publication of &lsquo;Memoirs of the Court of England, from the
+Revolution of 1688 to the Death of George II.,&rsquo; 3 vols.
+8vo, a continuation of his &lsquo;History of the Court <!-- page
+71--><a name="page71"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 71</span>of
+England during the Reign of the Stuarts,&rsquo; lodged at No.
+18.</p>
+<p>Mr. Yates, the manager of the Adelphi Theatre, and an actor of
+considerable and varied powers, resided at No. 21,
+Michael&rsquo;s Place, immediately previous to his accepting a
+short engagement in Ireland, where he ruptured a blood-vessel,
+and returned to England in so weak a state that he died on the
+21st June, 1842, a few days after his arrival at the Euston
+Hotel, Euston Square, from whence it was considered, when he
+reached London, imprudent to remove him to Brompton.&nbsp; He was
+in the forty-fifth year of his age, and made his first appearance
+in London at Covent Garden on the 7th November, 1818.&nbsp; On
+the 30th November, 1823, Mr. Yates married Miss Brunton, an
+exemplary woman and an accomplished actress, who had retired from
+the profession for some years previous to her death, aged 61, on
+30th August, 1860.&nbsp; Before Mr. Yates&rsquo; tenancy, No. 21
+was the residence of Mr. Liston, whose comic humour will long be
+remembered on the stage.</p>
+<p>Mrs. Davenport, a clever actress and an admirable
+representative of old women, died at No. 22, on 8th May, 1843,
+aged eighty-four.&nbsp; On the 25th of May, 1830, she retired
+from the stage, after an uninterrupted service of thirty-six
+years at Covent Garden Theatre, where she took her &ldquo;first,
+last, and only benefit,&rdquo; performing the Nurse in
+&lsquo;Romeo and Juliet.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>No. 25, Michael&rsquo;s Place, may be pointed out as the house
+in which Miss Pope, &ldquo;the other delicious old woman,&rdquo;
+dwelt previous to her removal to No. 17; and No. 26, as the
+lodgings of Mrs. Mathews, when occupied in the <!-- page 72--><a
+name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 72</span>composition
+of the &lsquo;Memoirs&rsquo; of her husband, <a
+name="citation72"></a><a href="#footnote72"
+class="citation">[72]</a> the eminent comedian,&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;A man so various, that he seemed to
+be,<br />
+Not one, but all mankind&rsquo;s epitome.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>At No. 33 died Madame Delille, in 1857, at an advanced
+age.&nbsp; This lady was the mother of the late Mr. C. J.
+Delille, professor of the French language in Christ&rsquo;s
+Hospital and in the City of London School, and French examiner in
+the University of London.&nbsp; Mr. Delille&rsquo;s French
+Grammar is universally adopted by schools, in addition to his
+&lsquo;R&eacute;pertoire Litt&eacute;raire,&rsquo; and his
+&lsquo;Le&ccedil;ons et Mod&egrave;les de Po&eacute;sie
+Fran&ccedil;aise.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>The ground upon which Michael&rsquo;s Place and Brompton
+Crescent are built was known by the name of &ldquo;Flounder
+Field,&rdquo; from its usual moist and muddy state.&nbsp; This
+field contained fourteen acres, and is said to have been part of
+the estate of Alderman Henry Smith, which in this neighbourhood
+was upwards of eighty-four acres.&nbsp; He was a native of
+Wandsworth, where he is buried.&nbsp; It has been asserted that,
+from very humble circumstances, he rose to be an alderman of
+London&mdash;from circumstances so humble, indeed, that Salmon,
+in his &lsquo;Antiquities of Surrey,&rsquo; mentions that he had
+been in early life whipped out of Mitcham parish for begging
+there.&nbsp; Being a widower, and without children, he made over
+all his estates in 1620 to trustees for charitable purposes,
+reserving out of the produce &pound;500 a-year for himself.&nbsp;
+He died in 1627&ndash;8, and the intent of his will appears to
+have been to divide his estate equally between the poorest of his
+kindred, and in case <!-- page 73--><a name="page73"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 73</span>of any surplus it was to be applied
+to the relief and ransom of poor captives.&nbsp; Mr. Smith is
+said, but we know little of the history of this benevolent and
+extraordinary man, to have himself suffered a long captivity in
+Algiers.&nbsp; No application having been made for many years to
+redeem captives, in 1772 an act of parliament was passed
+&ldquo;to enable the trustees of Henry Smith, Esq., deceased, to
+apply certain sums of money to the relief of his poor kindred,
+and to enable the said trustees to grant building leases of an
+estate in the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, and St.
+Margaret&rsquo;s, Westminster.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>No. 1, North Terrace, leading into Alexander Square, was for
+some time the residence of the celebrated &ldquo;O.&rdquo; Smith,
+who, though a great ruffian upon the stage, was in private life
+remarkable for his quiet manners and his varied
+attainments.&nbsp; At the end of this terrace is the Western
+Grammar School.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Alexander Square</span>, on the north or
+right-hand side of the main Fulham Road, between the Bell and
+Horns public-house and Pelham Crescent, consists of twenty-four
+houses built in the years 1827 and 1830, and divided by Alfred
+Place: before each portion there is a respectable enclosure, and
+behind numerous new streets, squares, and houses have been built,
+extending to the Old Brompton Road.</p>
+<p>No. 19, Alexander Square, was the residence of Captain
+Glascock, who commanded H.M.S. Tyne, and whose pen has enriched
+the nautical novel literature of England <a
+name="citation73"></a><a href="#footnote73"
+class="citation">[73]</a> with the same racy humour which has
+distinguished his <!-- page 74--><a name="page74"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 74</span>professional career.&nbsp; When
+commanding in the Douro, some communications which Glascock had
+occasion to make to the Governor of Oporto not having received
+that attention which the English captain considered was due to
+them, and the governor having apologised for his deafness,
+Glascock replied that in future he would write to his
+excellency.&nbsp; He did so, but the proceeding did not produce
+the required reply.&nbsp; Glascock was then told that the
+governor&rsquo;s memory was defective; so he wrote again, and two
+letters remained unanswered.&nbsp; In this state of things it was
+intimated to Captain Glascock by a distinguished diplomatist,
+that, as his letters might not have been delivered, he ought to
+write another.&nbsp; &ldquo;Certainly,&rdquo; replied that
+officer; &ldquo;my letters to his excellency, as you say, might
+not have been delivered, for I have had no report absolutely made
+to me that they had ever reached his hands: but I will take care
+this time there shall be no mistake in the delivery, for you
+shall see me attach my communication to a cannonball, the report
+of which I can testify to my government; and, as my gunner is a
+sure shot, his excellency <i>will</i> (Glascock was an Irishman)
+have my epistle delivered into his hand.&rdquo;&nbsp; This
+intimation produced at once the desired effect of a satisfactory
+reply and apology.</p>
+<p>Captain Glascock was one of the inspectors under the Poor
+Relief Act in Ireland.&nbsp; He died in 1847.</p>
+<p>No. 24 Alexander Square is the residence of Mr. George Godwin,
+the editor of the &lsquo;Builder,&rsquo; and one of the honorary
+secretaries of the Art Union,&mdash;an association which has
+exercised an important influence upon the progress of the fine
+arts in England.&nbsp; Mr. Godwin is likewise <!-- page 75--><a
+name="page75"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 75</span>favourably
+known to the public as the author of several essays which evince
+considerable professional knowledge, antiquarian research, and a
+fertile fancy.</p>
+<p>The bend of the Fulham Road terminates at</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">The Admiral
+Keppel</span></p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p75.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"The old Admiral Keppel"
+title=
+"The old Admiral Keppel"
+src="images/p75.jpg" />
+</a>public-house, from whence the road proceeds in a straight
+line to Little Chelsea; Marlborough Road and Keppel Street,
+leading to Chelsea, branching off at each side of the
+tavern.&nbsp; Since this sketch was taken, the old building has
+been pulled down (1856), and a large hotel erected on the same
+spot, by B. Watts, where, in addition to the usual comforts of an
+inn, hot and cold baths may be had.</p>
+<p>In 1818 the Admiral Keppel courted the custom of passing
+travellers by a poetical appeal to the feelings of both man and
+beast:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Stop, brave boys, and quench your
+thirst;<br />
+If you won&rsquo;t drink, your horses murst.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>There was something rural in this: the distich was painted in
+very rude white letters on a small black board; and when
+Keppel&rsquo;s portrait, which swung in air, like England&rsquo;s
+flag, braving</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The battle and the breeze,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 76--><a name="page76"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+76</span>was unhinged and placed against the front of the house,
+this board was appended as its motto.&nbsp; Both, however, were
+displaced by the march of public-house improvement; the
+weather-beaten sign of the gallant admiral&rsquo;s head was
+transferred to a wall of the back premises, where its
+&ldquo;faded form&rdquo; might, until recently, have been
+recognised; but, though the legible record has perished, <i>opus
+vatum durat</i>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Amelia Place</span> is a row of nine
+houses immediately beyond the Admiral Keppel.&nbsp; Within the
+walls of the last low house in the row, and the second with a
+verandah, the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran died on the 14th of
+October, 1817.&nbsp; It had then a pleasant look-out upon green
+fields and a nursery-garden, now occupied by Pelham
+Crescent.&nbsp; Here it was, with the exception of a short
+excursion to Ireland, that Curran had resided during the twelve
+months previous to his death.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p76.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"No. 7 Amelia Place"
+title=
+"No. 7 Amelia Place"
+src="images/p76.jpg" />
+</a>Curran&rsquo;s public life may be said to have terminated in
+1806, when he accepted the office of Master of the Rolls in
+Ireland, an appointment of &pound;5000 a year.&nbsp; This
+situation he retained until 1815, when his health required a
+cessation from its laborious attendance.&nbsp; Upon his
+retirement from office, he &ldquo;passed through the
+watering-places with the <!-- page 77--><a
+name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+77</span>season,&rdquo; and then fixed himself at No. 7, Amelia
+Place, Brompton, which house has now Kettle&rsquo;s boot and shoe
+warehouse built out in front.&nbsp; To no other contemporary pen
+than that of the Rev. George Croly can be ascribed the following
+glowing sketch of Curran:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;From the period in which Curran emerged
+from the first struggles of an unfriended man, labouring up a
+jealous profession, his history makes a part of the annals of his
+country: once upon the surface, his light was always before the
+eye, it never sank and was never outshone.&nbsp; With great
+powers to lift himself beyond the reach of that tumultuous and
+stormy agitation that must involve the movers of the public mind
+in a country such as Ireland then was, he loved to cling to the
+heavings of the wave; he, at least, never rose to that tranquil
+elevation to which his early contemporaries had one by one
+climbed; and never left the struggle till the storm had gone
+down, it is to be hoped for ever.&nbsp; This was his destiny, but
+it might have been his choice, and he was not without the reward,
+which, to an ambitious mind conscious of its eminent powers,
+might be more than equivalent to the reluctant patronage of the
+throne.&nbsp; To his habits legal distinction would have been
+only a bounty upon his silence; his limbs would have been
+fettered by the ermine; but he had the compensation of boundless
+popular honour, much respect from the higher ranks of party, much
+admiration and much fear from the lower partizans.&nbsp; In
+Parliament he was the assailant most dreaded; in the law-courts
+he was the advocate deemed the most essential; in both he was an
+object of all the more powerful passions of man but
+rivalry,&mdash;</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">&lsquo;He stood alone and shone
+alone.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>During Curran&rsquo;s residence in Amelia Place he suffered
+two slight apoplectic attacks; but he, nevertheless,
+&ldquo;occasionally indulged in society, and was to his last
+sparkle the most interesting, singular, and delightful of all
+table companions.&rdquo;&nbsp; The forenoon he generally passed
+in a solitary ramble through the neighbouring fields and gardens
+(which have now disappeared), and in the evening he enjoyed the
+<!-- page 78--><a name="page78"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+78</span>conversation of a few friends; but, though the
+brilliancy of his wit shone to the last, he seemed like one who
+had outlived everything in life that was worth enjoying.&nbsp;
+This is exemplified in Curran&rsquo;s melancholy repartee to his
+medical attendant a few days before his decease.&nbsp; The doctor
+remarked that his patient&rsquo;s cough was not improved.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;That is odd,&rdquo; remarked Curran, &ldquo;for I have
+been practising all night!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>On Thursday, the 9th of October, Curran dined abroad for the
+last time with Mr. Richard (&ldquo;Gentleman&rdquo;) Jones, <a
+name="citation78"></a><a href="#footnote78"
+class="citation">[78]</a> of No. 14 Chapel Street, Grosvenor
+Place, for the purpose of being introduced to George Colman
+&ldquo;the Younger.&rdquo;&nbsp; The party, besides the host and
+hostess, consisted of Mr. Harris and Sir William
+Chatterton.&nbsp; Colman that evening was unusually brilliant,
+anticipating, by apt quotation and pointed remark, almost
+everything that Curran would have said.&nbsp; One comment of
+Curran&rsquo;s, however, made a deep impression on all
+present.&nbsp; Speaking of Lord Byron&rsquo;s &lsquo;Fare thee
+well, and if for ever,&rsquo; he observed that &ldquo;his
+lordship first weeps over his wife, and then wipes his eyes with
+the newspapers.&rdquo;&nbsp; He left the dinner-table early, and,
+on going upstairs to coffee, either affected not to know or did
+not remember George Colman&rsquo;s celebrity as a wit, and
+inquired of Mrs. Jones who that Mr. Colman was?&nbsp; Mr. Harris
+joined them at this moment, and apologised for his friend Colman
+engrossing so much of the conversation to himself, adding, that
+he was the spoiled child of society, and that even the Prince
+Regent listened with attention when George Colman talked.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;Ay,&rdquo; said Curran, with a <!-- page 79--><a
+name="page79"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 79</span>melancholy
+smile, &ldquo;I now know who Colman is; we must both sleep in the
+same bed.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The next morning Curran was seized with apoplexy, and
+continued speechless, though in possession of his senses, till
+the early part of Tuesday the 14th, when he sunk into lethargy,
+and towards evening died without a struggle; so tranquil, indeed,
+were the last moments of Curran, that those in the room were
+unable to mark the precise time when his bright spirit passed
+away from this earth.&nbsp; His age has been variously stated at
+sixty-seven, sixty-eight, and seventy.</p>
+<p>The first lodging which John Banim, the Irish novelist,
+temporarily occupied in England (April, 1822) was in the house
+where his illustrious countryman had breathed his last, and from
+whence Banim removed to 13, Brompton Grove, as already
+noticed.&nbsp; Banim&rsquo;s first wish, when he found himself in
+England, was to visit the scene of Curran&rsquo;s death; led to
+the spot by a strong feeling of patriotic admiration, and
+finding, by a bill in the window, that lodgings were to be let
+there, he immediately took them, &ldquo;that he might dream of
+his country,&rdquo; as he energetically told the writer,
+&ldquo;with the halo of Curran&rsquo;s memory around
+him.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p79.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Dropped Capitals for In"
+title=
+"Dropped Capitals for In"
+src="images/p79.jpg" />
+</a><span class="smcap">Pelham Crescent</span>, which consists of
+twenty-seven houses, and is divided in the centre, between Nos.
+14 and 15, by Pelham Place, both Crescent and Place built upon
+part of the nursery-grounds over which Curran had wandered, dwell
+at No. 10 Mr. and Mrs. Keeley.&nbsp; At No. 20 resides Mr. John
+Cooper the well-known veteran actor.&nbsp; M. Guizot, the
+celebrated French <!-- page 80--><a name="page80"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 80</span>statesman, after the overthrow of the
+government of Louis Philippe, resided for some time at No. 21,
+where Madame Guizot, his mother, died in March, 1848, at the
+advanced age of eighty-three; and the same house was, by a
+singular coincidence, afterwards occupied by Ledru Rollin.&nbsp;
+Pelham Place, at the back of the Crescent, is notable for having,
+at No. 2, Mr. Lazarus, the celebrated clarionet player, and at
+No. 8 resides Mr. A. Harris, the present lessee of the
+Princess&rsquo;s Theatre.</p>
+<p>Nearly opposite to Pelham Crescent is <span class="smcap">Pond
+Place</span>, where Mr. Curtis, the eminent botanist, of whom
+more hereafter, died on the 7th July, 1799; and a little further
+on, on the same side of the way, appears Chelsea New Church,
+dedicated to St. Luke.</p>
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p80.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Dropped Capital T"
+title=
+"Dropped Capital T"
+src="images/p80.jpg" />
+</a>he first stone of this church was laid on the 12th October,
+1820, and the New Church was consecrated on the 18th October,
+1824.&nbsp; The architect was Mr. Savage of Walbrook. <a
+name="citation80"></a><a href="#footnote80"
+class="citation">[80]</a>&nbsp; The burial-ground in which it
+stands had been consecrated on the 21st November, 1812; and an
+Act of Parliament, 59 George III., cap. 35, 1819, authorised the
+appropriation of part of that ground for the site of building a
+church.&nbsp; In the burial-ground repose the remains of Dr. John
+M&rsquo;Leod, the companion and friend of the gallant Sir Murray
+Maxwell, and the author of &lsquo;A Narrative of a Voyage in
+H.M.S. Alceste to the Yellow Sea, and of her Shipwreck in the
+Straits of Gaspar,&rsquo; published in 1817.&nbsp; <!-- page
+81--><a name="page81"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 81</span>On
+his return to England, the services of Dr. M&rsquo;Leod were
+rewarded by his appointment to the Royal Sovereign yacht, which
+he did not long enjoy, as he died in lodgings in the King&rsquo;s
+Road, Chelsea, on the 9th November, 1820, at the age of
+thirty-eight.</p>
+<p>Signor Carlo Rovedino, a bass singer of some reputation, also
+lies buried in this churchyard.&nbsp; He was a native of Milan,
+and died on the 6th of October, 1822, aged seventy-one.&nbsp; The
+remains of Blanchard and Egerton, two actors of established
+character, repose here side by side.&nbsp; William Blanchard was
+what is termed &ldquo;a useful comedian;&rdquo; whatever part was
+assigned to him, he made the most of it.&nbsp; At the age of
+seventeen, he joined a provincial theatrical company at York, his
+native city, and in 1800, after fourteen years of laborious
+country practice, appeared at Covent Garden as Bob Acres in
+&lsquo;The Rivals,&rsquo; and Crack in &lsquo;The Turnpike
+Gate.&rsquo;&nbsp; At the time of his death, 9th May, 1835, he
+resided at No. 1, Camera Square, Chelsea.&nbsp; Blanchard had
+dined with a friend at Hammersmith, and left him to return home
+about six in the evening of Tuesday.&nbsp; On the following
+morning, at three o&rsquo;clock, poor Blanchard was found lying
+in a ditch by the roadside, having been, as is supposed, seized
+by a fit; in the course of the evening he was visited by another
+attack, which was succeeded by one more violent on the Thursday,
+and on the following day he expired.</p>
+<p>Daniel Egerton&mdash;&ldquo;oh! kingly
+Egerton&rdquo;&mdash;personified for many years on the stage of
+Covent Garden all the royal personages about whom there was great
+state and talk, but who had little to say for themselves.&nbsp;
+He was respected <!-- page 82--><a name="page82"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 82</span>as being, and without doubt was, an
+industrious and an honest man.&nbsp; Having saved some
+hardly-earned money, Egerton entered into a theatrical
+speculation with a brother actor, Mr. Abbott, and became manager
+of one of the minor houses, by which he was ruined, and died in
+1835, under the pressure of his misfortunes.&nbsp; His widow,
+whose representations of the wild women of Scott&rsquo;s novels,
+Madge Wildfire and Meg Merrilies, have distinguished her, died on
+the 10th August, 1847, at Brompton, aged sixty-six, having
+supported herself nobly amidst the troubles of her latter
+days.&nbsp; Mrs. Egerton was the daughter of the Rev. Peter
+Fisher, rector of Torrington, in Devonshire.&nbsp; She appeared
+at the Bath theatre soon after the death of her father in 1803,
+and in 1811 made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre as
+Juliet.</p>
+<p>On the right-hand side, a little off the main road, is Onslow
+Square, which was built upon the site of the extensive house and
+grounds once occupied as a lunatic asylum.&nbsp; The row of large
+trees now in the centre of the square was formerly the avenue
+from the main road to this house.&nbsp; Mr. Henry Cole, C.B.
+lives at No. 17, Onslow Square; he is well known to the public as
+a member of the Executive Committee of the Crystal Palace, a
+promoter of art manufactures, and the author of numerous works
+published under the <i>nom de plume</i> of &ldquo;Felix
+Summerly.&rdquo;&nbsp; No. 31 is the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
+Theodore Martin (better known as Miss Helen Faucit).&nbsp; At No.
+34 resides Baron Marochetti, the celebrated sculptor, who settled
+in England after the French revolution of February, 1848, and has
+obtained high patronage here.&nbsp; At the back of the house is
+<!-- page 83--><a name="page83"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+83</span>the studio, with an entrance from the main road, where
+the avenue of trees continues.&nbsp; W. M. Thackeray, the popular
+writer, lives at No. 36, and Rear-Admiral Fitzroy, the
+distinguished geographer and navigator, is at No. 38.</p>
+<p>A few yards beyond Sydney Place (leading into Onslow Square),
+on the opposite side of the road, is Sydney Street, leading
+direct to St. Luke&rsquo;s Church, the late incumbent of which,
+the Rev. Charles Kingsley, who died on 29th February, 1860, aged
+78, was the father of the well-known popular writer, the Rev.
+Charles Kingsley, of Eversley Rectory, Hants.&nbsp; Sydney Street
+was originally called Upper Robert Street, as being the
+continuation of Robert Street, Chelsea; but, under some notion of
+raising its respectability, the inhabitants agreed to change the
+name.&nbsp; It happened, however, that the corner house adjoining
+the Fulham Road, on the western side, was occupied by a surgeon,
+who imagined that the change in name might be injurious to his
+practice, and he took advantage of his position to retain the old
+name on his house.&nbsp; Thus for some time the street was known
+by both names, but that of Upper Robert Street is now entirely
+abandoned.&nbsp; The opposite corner house, No. 2, Sydney Street,
+was for some years occupied by the Rev. Dr. Biber, author of the
+&lsquo;Life of Pestalozzi,&rsquo; and editor and proprietor of
+the &lsquo;John Bull&rsquo; newspaper.&nbsp; On his selling the
+&lsquo;John Bull,&rsquo; it became incorporated with the
+&lsquo;Britannia.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>No. 24 was for some time the residence of Mr. Thomas Wright,
+the well-known antiquary and historical writer, who now lives at
+No. 14.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Robert Street</span>, which connects the
+main Fulham Road <!-- page 84--><a name="page84"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 84</span>with the King&rsquo;s Road, passes
+directly before the west side of the spacious burial-ground, and
+immediately opposite to the tower of St. Luke&rsquo;s Church; at
+No. 17 formerly resided Mr. Henry Warren, the President of the
+New Society of Water-Colour Painters.</p>
+<p>Returning to the main Fulham Road, and passing the Cancer
+Hospital, now in course of erection, we come to <span
+class="smcap">York Place</span>, a row of twenty-two well-built
+and respectable houses on the south, or, according to our course,
+left-hand side of the road.</p>
+<p>No. 15, York Place, was, between the years 1813 and 1821, the
+retirement of Francis Hargrave, a laborious literary barrister,
+and the editor of &lsquo;A Collection of State Trials,&rsquo; <a
+name="citation84"></a><a href="#footnote84"
+class="citation">[84]</a> and many other esteemed legal
+works.&nbsp; Here he died on the 16th of August, 1821, at the age
+of eighty-one.</p>
+<p>In 1813, when obliged to abandon his arduous profession, in
+consequence of over-mental excitement, the sum of &pound;8,000
+was voted by Parliament, upon the motion of Mr. Whitbread, for
+the purchase of Mr. Hargrave&rsquo;s law books, which were
+enriched with valuable notes, and for 300 MSS., to be deposited
+in the library of Lincoln&rsquo;s Inn, for public use.&nbsp; As
+documents of national historical importance may be
+particularised, Mr. Hargrave&rsquo;s first publication, in 1772,
+entitled &lsquo;<i>The Case of James Somerset</i>, <i>a
+Negro</i>, <i>lately determined by the Court of King&rsquo;s
+Bench</i>, <i>wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present
+unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in England</i>;&rsquo; his
+&lsquo;<i>Three Arguments in the two causes in Chancery on the
+last Will of Peter Thellusson</i>, <i>Esq.</i>, <i>with Mr.
+Morgan&rsquo;s </i><!-- page 85--><a name="page85"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 85</span><i>Calculation of the Accumulation
+under the Trusts of the Will</i>, <i>1799</i>;&rsquo; and his
+&lsquo;<i>Opinion in the Case of the Duke of Athol in respect to
+the Isle of Man</i>.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>Opposite to York Place was a fine, open, airy piece of ground
+to which Mr. Curtis, the eminent naturalist, removed his
+botanical garden from Lambeth Marsh, as a more desirable
+locality.&nbsp; Upon the south-east portion of this
+nursery-ground the first stone was laid by H.R.H. Prince Albert,
+on the 11th July, 1844, of an hospital for consumption and
+diseases of the chest, and which was speedily surrounded by
+houses on all sides; probably a circumstance not contemplated at
+the time the ground was secured.</p>
+<p>The botanical garden of Mr. Curtis, as a public resort for
+study, was continued at Brompton until 1808, when the lease of
+the land being nearly expired, Mr. Salisbury, who in 1792 became
+his pupil, and in 1798 his partner in this horticultural
+speculation, removed the establishment to the vacant space of
+ground now inclosed between Sloane Street and Cadogan Place,
+where Mr. Salisbury&rsquo;s undertaking failed.&nbsp; A plan of
+the gardens there, as arranged by him, was published in the
+&lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s Magazine&rsquo; for August, 1810. <a
+name="citation85"></a><a href="#footnote85"
+class="citation">[85]</a></p>
+<p>Mr. Curtis, whose death has been already mentioned, was the
+son of a tanner, and was born at Alton, in Hampshire, in
+1746.&nbsp; He was bound apprentice to his grandfather, a quaker
+apothecary of that town, whose house was contiguous to the Crown
+Inn, where the botanical knowledge of John Lagg, the hostler,
+seems to have excited rivalry in the breast of young
+Curtis.&nbsp; In the course of events he <!-- page 86--><a
+name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 86</span>became
+assistant to Mr. Thomas Talwin, an apothecary in Gracechurch
+Street, of the same religious persuasion as his grandfather, and
+succeeded Mr. Talwin in his business.&nbsp; Mr. Curtis&rsquo;s
+love of botanical science, however, increased with his
+knowledge.&nbsp; He connected with it the study of entomology, by
+printing, in 1771, &lsquo;Instructions for Collecting and
+Preserving Insects,&rsquo; and in the following year a
+translation of the &lsquo;Fundamenta Entomologi&aelig;&rsquo; of
+Linn&aelig;us.&nbsp; At this time he rented a very small garden
+for the cultivation of British plants, &ldquo;near the Grange
+Road, at the bottom of Bermondsey Street,&rdquo; and here it was
+that he conceived the design of publishing his great work,
+&lsquo;The Flora Londinensis.&rsquo;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The Grange Road Garden was soon found too
+small for his extensive ideas.&nbsp; He, therefore, took a larger
+piece of ground in Lambeth Marsh, where he soon assembled the
+largest collection of British plants ever brought together into
+one place.&nbsp; But there was something uncongenial in the air
+of this place, which made it extremely difficult to preserve sea
+plants and many of the rare annuals which are adapted to an
+elevated situation,&mdash;<i>an evil rendered worse every year by
+the increased number of buildings around</i>.&nbsp; This led his
+active mind, ever anxious for improvement, to inquire for a more
+favourable soil and purer air.&nbsp; This, at length, he found at
+Brompton.&nbsp; Here he procured a spacious territory, in which
+he had the pleasure of seeing his wishes gratified to the utmost
+extent of reasonable expectation.&nbsp; Here he continued to his
+death;&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>having, I may add, for many years previously, devoted himself
+entirely to botanical pursuits.</p>
+<p>To support the slow sale of &lsquo;The Flora
+Londinensis,&rsquo; Mr. Curtis, about 1787, started &lsquo;The
+Botanical Magazine,&rsquo; which became one of the popular
+periodicals of the day, and Dr. Smith&rsquo;s and Mr.
+Sowerby&rsquo;s &lsquo;English Botany&rsquo; was modelled after
+it.</p>
+<p><!-- page 87--><a name="page87"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+87</span>What Mr. Curtis, as an individual, commenced, the
+Horticultural Society are endeavouring, as a body, to effect.</p>
+<p>Immediately past the Hospital for Consumption is Fowlis
+Terrace, a row of newly-built houses, running from the road.</p>
+<p>At the corner of Church Street (on the opposite side of the
+road) is an enclosure used as the burial-ground of the
+Westminster Congregation of the Jews.&nbsp; There is an
+inscription in Hebrew characters over the entrance, above which
+is an English inscription with the date of the erection of the
+building according to the Jewish computation <span
+class="smcap">a.m.</span> 5576, or 1816 <span
+class="smcap">a.d.</span>&nbsp; Beside it is the milestone
+denoting that it is 1&frac12; mile from London.</p>
+<p>The <span class="smcap">Queen&rsquo;s Elm Turnpike</span>,
+pulled down in 1848, was situated here, and took its name from
+the tradition that Queen Elizabeth, when walking out, attended by
+Lord Burleigh, <a name="citation87a"></a><a href="#footnote87a"
+class="citation">[87a]</a> being overtaken by a heavy shower of
+rain, found shelter here under an elm-tree.&nbsp; After the rain
+was over, the queen said, &ldquo;Let this henceforward be called
+The Queen&rsquo;s Tree.&rdquo;&nbsp; The tradition is strongly
+supported by the parish records of Chelsea, as mention is made in
+1586 (the 28th of Elizabeth, and probably the year of the
+occurrence), of a tree situated about this spot, &ldquo;at the
+end of the Duke&rsquo;s Walk,&rdquo; <a name="citation87b"></a><a
+href="#footnote87b" class="citation">[87b]</a> as &ldquo;The
+Queen&rsquo;s Tree,&rdquo; around which an arbour was built, or,
+in other words, nine young <!-- page 88--><a
+name="page88"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 88</span>elm-trees
+were planted, by one Bostocke, at the charge of the parish.&nbsp;
+The first mention of &ldquo;The Queen&rsquo;s <i>Elm</i>,&rdquo;
+occurs in 1687, ninety-nine years after her Majesty had sheltered
+beneath the tree around which &ldquo;an arbour was built,&rdquo;
+when the surveyors of the highway were amerced in the sum of five
+pounds, &ldquo;for not sufficiently mending the highway from the
+Queen Elm to the bridge, and from the Elm to Church
+Lane.&rdquo;&nbsp; In a plan of Chelsea, from a survey made in
+1664 by James Hamilton, and continued to 1717, a tree occupying
+the spot assigned to &ldquo;The Queen&rsquo;s Elm,&rdquo; is
+called &ldquo;The Cross Tree,&rdquo; and in the vestry minutes it
+is designated as &ldquo;The High Elm,&rdquo; which latter name is
+used by Sir Hans Sloane in 1727.&nbsp; Bostocke&rsquo;s arbour,
+however, had the effect of giving to the cross-road the name of
+&ldquo;The Nine Elms.&rdquo;&nbsp; Steele, on the 22nd June,
+1711, writing to his wife, says, &ldquo;Pray, on the receipt of
+this, go to the Nine Elms, and I will follow you within an
+hour.&rdquo; <a name="citation88"></a><a href="#footnote88"
+class="citation">[88]</a>&nbsp; And so late as 1805, &ldquo;The
+Nine Elms, Chelsea,&rdquo; appeared as a local address in
+newspaper advertisements.</p>
+<p>Again let me crave indulgence for minute attention to the
+changes of name; but much topographical difficulty often arises
+from this cause.</p>
+<p>The stump of the royal tree, with, as is asserted, its root
+remaining in the ground undisturbed, a few years ago existed
+squared down to the dimensions of an ordinary post, about six
+feet in height and whitewashed.&nbsp; But the identity appears
+questionable, although a post, not improbably fashioned out of
+one of the nine elms which grew around it, stood till within the
+last few years in front of a <!-- page 89--><a
+name="page89"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 89</span>public-house
+named from the circumstance the Queen&rsquo;s Elm, which house
+has been a little altered since the annexed sketch was made, by
+the introduction of a clock between the second floor windows, and
+the house adjoining has been rebuilt, overtopping it.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p89a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Queen&rsquo;s Elm Public House"
+title=
+"Queen&rsquo;s Elm Public House"
+src="images/p89a.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>On the opposite or north side of the Fulham Road, some small
+houses are called <span class="smcap">Selwood Place</span>, from
+being built on part of the ground of &ldquo;Mr. Selwood&rsquo;s
+nursery,&rdquo; which is mentioned in 1712 by Mr. Narcissus
+Luttrell, of whom more hereafter, as one of the sources from
+which he derived a variety of pear, cultivated by him in his
+garden at Little Chelsea.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Chelsea Park</span>, on the same side of
+the way with the Queen&rsquo;s Elm public-house, and distant
+about a furlong from it, as seen from the road, appears a noble
+structure with a magnificent portico.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p89b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Chelsea Park Portico"
+title=
+"Chelsea Park Portico"
+src="images/p89b.jpg" />
+</a>The ground now called Chelsea Park belonged, with an
+extensive tract of which it formed the northern part, to the
+famous Sir Thomas More, and in his time <!-- page 90--><a
+name="page90"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 90</span>was
+unenclosed, and termed &ldquo;the Sand Hills.&rdquo;&nbsp; It
+received the present name in 1625, when the Lord-Treasurer
+Cranfield (Earl of Middlesex) surrounded with a brick wall about
+thirty-two acres, which he had purchased in 1620 from Mr.
+Blake.&nbsp; In 1717 Chelsea Park, which extended from the Fulham
+to the King&rsquo;s Road, was estimated at forty acres, and
+belonged to the Marquis of Wharton, with whom, when appointed in
+1709 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Addison went over as
+Secretary.&nbsp; It subsequently became the scene of a
+joint-stock company speculation under a patent granted in 1718 to
+John Appletree, Esq., for producing raw silk of the growth of
+England, and for raising a fund for carrying on the same.&nbsp;
+This undertaking was divided into shares of &pound;5 each, of
+which &pound;1 was paid down.&nbsp; Proposals were published, a
+subscription-book opened, in which several hundred names were
+soon entered; a deed of trust executed and enrolled in Chancery;
+directors were chosen by the subscribers for managing the affairs
+of the Company; and, Chelsea Park being thought a proper soil for
+the purpose and in a convenient situation, a lease was taken of
+it for 122 years.&nbsp; Here upwards of 2000 mulberry-trees were
+soon planted, and extensive edifices erected for carrying on the
+work: this number of trees was, however, but a small part of what
+the company intended to plant if they were successful.&nbsp; In
+the following year Mr. Henry Barham, F.R.S., who was probably a
+member of the company, published &lsquo;An Essay on the Silk
+Worm,&rsquo; in which he thinks &ldquo;all objections and
+difficulties against this glorious undertaking are shown to be
+mere phantoms and trifles.&rdquo;&nbsp; The event, however, <!--
+page 91--><a name="page91"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+91</span>proved that the company met with difficulties of a real
+and formidable nature; for though the expectation of this
+gentleman, who questioned not that in the ensuing year they
+should produce a considerable quantity of raw silk, may have been
+partly answered, the undertaking soon began to decline, and, in
+the course of a few years, came to nothing.&nbsp; It must,
+however, be admitted that the violent stock-jobbing speculations
+of the year 1720, which involved the shares of all projects of
+this nature, might have produced many changes among the
+proprietors, and contributed to derange the original
+design.&nbsp; However, from that period to the present time, no
+effort has been made to cultivate the silkworm in this country as
+a mercantile speculation, although individuals have continued to
+rear it with success as an object of curiosity.</p>
+<p>Walpole, in his &lsquo;Catalogue of Engravers,&rsquo; tells us
+that James Christopher Le Blon, a Fleming by birth, and a
+mezzotint-engraver by profession, some time subsequent to 1732,
+&ldquo;set up a project for copying the cartoons in tapestry, and
+made some very fine drawings for that purpose.&nbsp; Houses were
+built and looms erected in the Mulberry Ground at Chelsea; but
+either the expense was precipitated too fast, or contributions
+did not arrive fast enough.&nbsp; The bubble burst, several
+suffered, and Le Blon was heard of no more.&rdquo;&nbsp; Walpole
+adds, &ldquo;It is said he died in an hospital at Paris in
+1740:&rdquo; and observes that Le Blon was &ldquo;very far from
+young when he knew him, but of surprising vivacity and
+volubility, and with a head admirably mechanic, but an universal
+projector, and with at least one of the qualities that attend
+that vocation, either a dupe or a <!-- page 92--><a
+name="page92"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 92</span>cheat; I
+think,&rdquo; he continues, &ldquo;the former, though, as most of
+his projects ended in air, the sufferers believed the
+latter.&nbsp; As he was much an enthusiast, perhaps like most
+enthusiasts he was both one and t&rsquo; other.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The present mansion was built upon a portion of Chelsea Park
+by Mr. William Broomfield, an eminent surgeon, who resided in it
+for several years.&nbsp; The late possessor was Sir Henry Wright
+Wilson, Bart., to whose wife, Lady Frances Wilson (daughter of
+the Earl of Aylesbury), was left a valuable estate in Hampshire,
+<a name="citation92"></a><a href="#footnote92"
+class="citation">[92]</a> said to be worth about &pound;3,000 a
+year, under the following very singular circumstances.&nbsp; Her
+ladyship was informed one morning in February, 1814, while at
+breakfast, that an eccentric person named Wright, who had died a
+few days previously at an obscure lodging in Pimlico, had
+appointed her and Mr. Charles Abbott his executors, and after
+some legacies had bequeathed to Lady Frances the residue of his
+property by a will dated so far back as August, 1800.&nbsp; As
+Lady Frances declared herself to be unacquainted even with the
+name of the testator, she at first concluded that there was some
+mistake in the matter.&nbsp; After further explanation, the
+person of Mr. Wright was described to her, and Lady Frances at
+last recollected that the description answered that of a
+gentleman she had remembered as a constant frequenter of the
+Opera some years previously and considered <!-- page 93--><a
+name="page93"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 93</span>to be a
+foreigner, and who had annoyed her extremely there by constantly
+staring at her box.&nbsp; To satisfy herself of the identity, she
+went to the lodgings of the late Mr. Wright, and saw him in his
+coffin, when she recognized the features perfectly as those of
+the person whose eyes had so often persecuted her when she was
+Lady Frances Bruce, but who had never spoken to her, and of whom
+she had no other knowledge whatever.</p>
+<p>Mr. Wright left legacies of &pound;4,000 to the Countess of
+Rosslyn, &pound;4,000 to the Speaker of the House of Commons,
+&pound;1,000 to the lord-chancellor, and the same sum to
+Archdeacon Pott, the rector of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, which
+church Mr. Wright had been in the habit of frequenting, having as
+little acquaintance with any of these parties as he had with Lady
+Frances Wilson.&nbsp; It may be supposed from these facts that
+Lady Frances Wilson was exceedingly beautiful, and that an
+admiration of her charms might have influenced Mr. Wright to make
+this extraordinary bequest in her favour; but those who knew Lady
+Frances well assert that such could not possibly have been the
+case, as she was far from beautiful at any period of her life;
+and the oddity of the story is, and it seemed to be the general
+opinion, that Mr. Wright&rsquo;s legacy was intended for a lady
+who usually occupied a box next to that in which Lady Frances
+sat, and who, at the period, was regarded as the <i>belle</i> of
+the Opera.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Thistle Grove</span>, on the opposite side
+of the road from Chelsea Park, leads, by what had been a garden
+pathway, to the Old Brompton Road.&nbsp; At each side of
+&ldquo;the Grove,&rdquo; now occupying the sites of trees, are
+detached villas, <!-- page 94--><a name="page94"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 94</span>houses, lodges, and cottages, named,
+or not named, after the taste of their respective proprietors;
+one of which, on the left hand, some fourteen houses distant from
+the main Fulham Road, was for many years the residence of Mr.
+John Burke, whose laborious heraldic and genealogical inquiries
+induced him to arrange and publish various important collections
+relative to the peerage and family history of the United Kingdom,
+in which may be found, condensed for immediate reference, an
+immense mass of important information.</p>
+<p>In Thistle Grove Mr. J. P. Warde, the well-known actor, died
+in 1840.</p>
+<p>Immediately beyond Chelsea Park the village of <span
+class="smcap">Little Chelsea</span> commences, about the centre
+of which, and on the same side of the way, at the corner of the
+road leading to Battersea Bridge, stands the Goat in Boots
+public-house.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p94.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Goat in Boots"
+title=
+"Goat in Boots"
+src="images/p94.jpg" />
+</a>In 1663, there was a &ldquo;house called the Goat at Little
+Chelsea,&rdquo; which, between that year and 1713, enjoyed the
+<!-- page 95--><a name="page95"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+95</span>right of commonage for two cows and one heifer upon
+Chelsea Heath.</p>
+<p>How the Goat became equipped in boots, and the designation of
+the house changed, has been the subject of various conjectures;
+the most probable of which is, that it originates in a corruption
+of the latter part of the Dutch legend,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;<span class="smcap">mercurius is der goden
+boode</span>,&rdquo;<br />
+(Mercury is the messenger of the gods,)</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>which being divided between each side of a sign bearing the
+figure of Mercury&mdash;a sign commonly used in the early part of
+the last century to denote that post-horses were to be
+obtained&mdash;&ldquo;der goden boode&rdquo; became freely
+translated into English, &ldquo;the goat in boots.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+To Le Blon is attributed the execution of this sign and its
+motto; but, whoever the original artist may have been, and the
+intermediate retouchers or repainters of the god, certain it is
+that the pencil of Morland, in accordance with the desire of the
+landlord, either transformed the petasus of Mercury into the
+horned head of a goat, his talaria into spurs upon boots of huge
+dimensions, and his caduceus into a cutlass, or thus decorated
+the original sign, thereby liquidating a score which he had run
+up here, without any other means of payment than what his pencil
+afforded.&nbsp; The sign, however, has been painted over, with
+considerable additional embellishments from gold leaf, so that
+not the least trace of Morland&rsquo;s work remains, except,
+perhaps, in the outline.</p>
+<p>Park Walk (the road turning off at the Goat in Boots) proceeds
+to the King&rsquo;s Road, and, although not in a direct line, to
+Battersea Bridge.&nbsp; Opposite the Goat in Boots is <!-- page
+96--><a name="page96"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+96</span>Gilston Road, leading to Boltons and St. Mary&rsquo;s
+Place.&nbsp; At No. 6, St. Mary&rsquo;s Place, resides J. O.
+Halliwell, F.R.S., F.S.A., the well-known Shaksperian scholar,
+whose varied contributions to literature have been crowned by the
+production of his folio edition of Shakspere&mdash;a work still
+in progress.&nbsp; At No. 8, Mr. Edward Wright, the popular
+actor, resided for a short time.</p>
+<p>A few paces further on the main Fulham Road, at the north or
+opposite side, stood &ldquo;Manor House,&rdquo; now termed Manor
+Hall, and occupied by St. Philip&rsquo;s Orphanage, a large,
+old-fashioned building, with the intervening space between it and
+the road screened in by boards,&mdash;which were attached to the
+antique iron gate and railings about twenty years ago, when it
+became appropriated to a charitable asylum.&nbsp; Previously,
+Manor House had been a ladies&rsquo; boarding-school; and here
+Miss Bartolozzi, afterwards Madame Vestris, was educated.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Seymour Place</span>, which leads to
+Seymour Terrace, is a cul-de-sac on the same side of the main
+Fulham Road, between Manor Hall and the Somerset Arms
+public-house, which last forms the west corner of Seymour
+Place.</p>
+<p>At No. 1, Seymour Terrace expired, on the 19th of June, 1824,
+in her twenty-fifth year, Madame Riego, the widow of the
+unfortunate patriot General Riego, &ldquo;the restorer and martyr
+of Spanish freedom.&rdquo;&nbsp; Her short and eventful history
+possesses more than ordinary melancholy.&nbsp; While yet a child
+she had to endure all the hardships and privations consequent
+upon a state of warfare, and under the protection of her maternal
+grandfather, had to seek refuge from place to place on the
+mountains of Asturias from the <!-- page 97--><a
+name="page97"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 97</span>French
+army.&nbsp; At the close of 1821 she was married to General
+Riego, to whom she had been known and attached almost from
+infancy, and, in the spring of the following year, became, with
+her distinguished husband, a resident in Madrid.&nbsp; But the
+political confusion and continued alarm of the period having
+appeared to affect her health, the general proceeded with her in
+the autumn to Granada, where he parted from his young and beloved
+wife, never again to meet her in this world, the convocation of
+the extraordinary Cortes for October 1822 obliging him to return
+to the capital.</p>
+<p>Accompanied by the canon Riego, brother to her husband, and
+her attached sister, Donna Lucie, she removed in March to Malaga,
+from whence the advance of the French army into the south of
+Spain obliged them to seek protection at Gibraltar, which, under
+the advice of General Riego, they left for England on the 4th of
+July, but, owing to an unfavourable passage, did not reach London
+until the 17th of August.&nbsp; Here the visitation which
+impended over her was still more calamitous than all that had
+preceded it.&nbsp; Within little more than two months after her
+arrival in London, the account arrived of General Riego&rsquo;s
+execution. <a name="citation97"></a><a href="#footnote97"
+class="citation">[97]</a></p>
+<p>Gerald Griffin, the Irish novelist, in a letter dated 22nd of
+November, 1823, says,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;I have been lately negotiating with my host
+(of 76 Regent Street) for lodgings for the widow and brother of
+poor General Riego.&nbsp; They <!-- page 98--><a
+name="page98"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 98</span>are splendid
+apartments, but the affair has been broken off by the account of
+his death.&nbsp; It has been concealed from her.&nbsp; She is a
+young woman, and is following him fast, being far advanced in a
+consumption.&nbsp; His brother is in deep grief.&nbsp; He says he
+will go and bury himself for the remainder of his days in the
+woods of America.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The house,</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">No. 1, <span class="smcap">Seymour
+Place</span>,</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p98.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"No. 1 Seymour Place"
+title=
+"No. 1 Seymour Place"
+src="images/p98.jpg" />
+</a> as it was then, Seymour Terrace, Little Chelsea, as it is
+now called, became, about this period, the residence of the
+unhappy fugitives.&nbsp; Griffin, who appears to have made their
+acquaintance through a Spanish gentleman, named Valentine Llanos,
+writes, in February, 1824,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;I was introduced the other day to poor
+Madame Riego, the relict of the unfortunate general.&nbsp; I was
+surprised to see her look much better than I was prepared to
+expect, as she is in a confirmed consumption.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Mental grief, which death only could terminate, had at that
+moment &ldquo;marked&rdquo; Madame Riego &ldquo;for his
+own;&rdquo; yet her look, like that of all high-minded Spaniards,
+to a stranger was calm&mdash;&ldquo;much better than he was
+prepared to expect.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>On the 18th of May, exactly one month and a day before the
+termination of her sufferings, Griffin says,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The canon Riego, brother to the poor
+martyr, sent me, the other day, a Spanish poem of many cantos,
+having for its subject the career <!-- page 99--><a
+name="page99"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 99</span>of the
+unhappy general, and expressed a wish that I might find material
+for an English one in it, if I felt disposed to make anything of
+the subject.&nbsp; <i>Apropos</i>, Madame Riego is almost
+dead.&nbsp; The fire is in her eye, and the flush on her cheek,
+which are, I believe, no beacons of hope to the
+consumptive.&nbsp; She is an interesting woman, and I pity her
+from my soul.&nbsp; This Mr. Mathews, who was confined with her
+husband, and arrived lately in London, and who, moreover, is a
+countryman of mine, brought her from her dying husband a little
+favourite dog and a parrot, which were his companions in his
+dungeon.&nbsp; He very indiscreetly came before her with the
+remembrances without any preparation, and she received a shock
+from it, from which she has not yet, nor ever will recover.&nbsp;
+What affecting little circumstances these are, and how
+interesting to one who has the least mingling of enthusiasm in
+his character!&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Madame Riego died in the arms of her attached sister, attended
+by the estimable canon.&nbsp; In her will she directed her
+executor, the canon, to assure the British people of the
+gratitude she felt towards them for the sympathy and support
+which they extended to her in the hours of her adversity.&nbsp;
+But what makes the will peculiarly affecting is her solemn
+attestation to the purity and sincerity of the political life of
+General Riego.&nbsp; She states that she esteems it to be the
+last act of justice and duty to the memory of her beloved
+husband, solemnly to declare, in the awful presence of her God,
+before whose judgment-seat she feels she must soon appear, that
+all his private feelings and dispositions respecting his country
+corresponded with his public acts and professions in defence of
+its liberties.</p>
+<p>A few yards beyond the turn down to Seymour Place, on the
+opposite side of the road, stood, until pulled down in 1856, to
+make room for the new one, the additional <!-- page 100--><a
+name="page100"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 100</span>workhouse
+to St. George&rsquo;s, Hanover Square, for which purpose
+Shaftesbury House was purchased by that parish in 1787; and an
+Act of Parliament passed in that year declares it to be in
+&ldquo;St. George&rsquo;s parish so long as it shall continue to
+be appropriated to its present use.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p100a.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Shaftesbury House"
+title=
+"Shaftesbury House"
+src="images/p100a.jpg" />
+</a>
+<a href="images/p100b.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Back of Shaftesbury House"
+title=
+"Back of Shaftesbury House"
+src="images/p100b.jpg" />
+</a>The parochial adjuncts to Lord Shaftesbury&rsquo;s mansion,
+which remained, until the period of its demolition, in nearly the
+same state as when disposed of, have been considerable; but the
+building, as his lordship left it, could be at once recognised
+through the iron gate by which you entered, and which was
+surmounted by a lion rampant, probably the crest of one of the
+subsequent possessors.&nbsp; It is surprising, indeed, that so
+little alteration, externally as well as internally should have
+taken place.&nbsp; The appearance of the back of Shaftesbury
+House, as represented in an old print, was unchanged, with the
+exception of the flight of steps which led to the garden being
+transferred to the west (or shaded side) of the wing&mdash;an
+<!-- page 101--><a name="page101"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+101</span>addition made by Lord Shaftesbury to the original
+house.&nbsp; This was purchased by him in 1699 from the Bovey
+family, as heirs to the widow of Sir James Smith, by whom there
+is reason to believe it was built in 1635, as 
+<a href="images/p101a.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Stone"
+title=
+"Stone"
+src="images/p101a.jpg" />
+</a>was engraved on a stone which formed part of the pavement in
+front of one of the summer-houses in the garden.</p>
+<p>The Right Honourable Sir James Smith was buried at Chelsea
+18th of November, 1681.&nbsp; He was probably the junior sheriff
+of London in 1672.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p101b.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Summer-house"
+title=
+"Summer-house"
+src="images/p101b.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;It does not appear,&rdquo; says Lysons,
+&ldquo;that Lord Shaftesbury pulled down Sir James Smith&rsquo;s
+house, but altered it and made considerable additions by a
+building fifty feet in length, which projected into the
+garden.&nbsp; It was secured with an iron door, the
+window-shutters were of the same metal, and there were iron
+plates between it and the house to prevent all communication by
+fire, of which this learned and noble peer seems to have
+entertained great apprehensions.&nbsp; The whole of the new
+building, though divided into a gallery and two small rooms (one
+of which was his lordship&rsquo;s bedchamber), was fitted up as a
+library.&nbsp; The earl was very fond of the culture of
+fruit-trees, and his gardens were planted with the choicest
+sorts, particularly every kind of vine which would bear the open
+air of this climate.&nbsp; It appears by Lord Shaftesbury&rsquo;s
+letters to Sir John Cropley that he dreaded the smoke of London
+as so prejudicial to his health, that whenever <!-- page 102--><a
+name="page102"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 102</span>the wind
+was easterly he quitted Little Chelsea,&rdquo; where he generally
+resided during the sitting of Parliament.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>In 1710 the noble author of &lsquo;Characteristics,&rsquo;
+then about to proceed to Italy, sold his residence at Little
+Chelsea to Narcissus Luttrell, Esq., who, as a book-collector, is
+described by Dr. Dibdin as &ldquo;ever ardent in his love of past
+learning, and not less voracious in his bibliomaniacal
+appetites&rdquo; than the Duke of Marlborough.&nbsp; Sir Walter
+Scott acknowledges in his preface to the works of Dryden the
+obligations he is under to the &ldquo;valuable&rdquo; and
+&ldquo;curious collection of fugitive pieces of the reigns of
+Charles II., James II., William III., and Queen Anne,&rdquo;
+&ldquo;made by Narcissus Luttrell, Esq., under whose name the
+editor quotes it.&nbsp; This industrious collector,&rdquo;
+continues Sir Walter, &ldquo;seems to have bought every poetical
+tract, of whatever merit, which was hawked through the streets in
+his time, marking carefully the price and the date of the
+purchase.&nbsp; His collection contains the earliest editions of
+many of our most excellent poems, bound up, according to the
+order of time, with the lowest trash of Grub Street.&nbsp; It was
+dispersed on Mr. Luttrell&rsquo;s death,&rdquo; adds Sir Walter
+Scott, and he then mentions Mr. James Bindley and Mr. Richard
+Heber as having &ldquo;obtained a great share of the Luttrell
+collection, and liberally furnished him with the loan of some of
+them in order to the more perfect editing of Dryden&rsquo;s
+works.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>This is not exactly correct, as Mr. Luttrell&rsquo;s library
+descended with Shaftesbury House to Mr. Sergeant Wynne, and from
+him to his eldest son, after whose death it was sold by auction
+in 1786.&nbsp; On the title-page of the <!-- page 103--><a
+name="page103"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+103</span>sale-catalogue the collection is described as
+&ldquo;the valuable library of Edward Wynne, Esq., lately
+deceased, brought from his house at Little Chelsea.&nbsp; Great
+part of it was formed by an eminent and curious collector in the
+last century.&rdquo;&nbsp; At the sale of Mr. Wynne&rsquo;s
+library, Bindley purchased lot &rsquo;209, Collection of Poems,
+various, Latin and English, 5 vols. 1626, &amp;c.,&rsquo; for
+seven guineas; and &rsquo;211, Collection of Political Poems,
+Dialogues, Funeral Elegies, Lampoons, &amp;c., with various
+Political Prints and Portraits, 3 vols. 1641, &amp;c.,&rsquo; for
+sixteen pounds; and it is probable that these are the collections
+to which Sir Walter Scott refers.</p>
+<p>Dr. Dibdin, in his enthusiastic mode of treating matters of
+bibliography, endeavours to establish a pedigree for those
+who</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Love a ballad in print a&rsquo;
+life,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>from Pepys, placing Mr. Luttrell the Second in descent.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The opening of the eighteenth
+century,&rdquo; he observes, &ldquo;was distinguished by the
+death of a bibliomaniac of the very first order and celebrity; of
+one who had no doubt frequently discoursed largely and eloquently
+with Luttrell upon the variety and value of certain editions of
+old ballad poetry, and between whom presents of curious old
+black-letter volumes were in all probability passing, I allude to
+the famous Samuel Pepys, secretary to the Admiralty.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Of Narcissus Luttrell he then says:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Nothing would seem to have escaped his
+lynx-like vigilance.&nbsp; Let the object be what it may
+(especially if it related to poetry), let the volume be great or
+small, or contain good, bad, or indifferent warblings of the
+Muse, his insatiable craving had &lsquo;stomach for
+all.&rsquo;&nbsp; We may consider his collection the
+fountain-head of these copious streams, which, after fructifying
+in the libraries of many bibliomaniacs in the first half of the
+eighteenth century, settled for awhile more determinedly in the
+curious book-reservoir of a Mr. Wynne, and hence breaking up and
+taking a different direction towards the collections of <!-- page
+104--><a name="page104"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+104</span>Farmer, Steevens, and others, they have almost lost
+their identity in the innumerable rivulets which now inundate the
+book-world.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>It is to the literary taste of Mr. Edward Wynne, as asserted
+by Dr. Dibdin, that modern book-collectors are indebted for the
+preservation of most of the choicest relics of the Bibliotheca
+Luttrelliana.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Mr. Wynne,&rdquo; he continues,
+&ldquo;lived at Little Chelsea, and built his library in a room
+which had the reputation of having been Locke&rsquo;s
+study.&nbsp; Here he used to sit surrounded by innumerable books,
+a great part being formed by &lsquo;an eminent and curious
+collector in the last century.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>What Dr. Dibdin says respecting Mr. Wynne&rsquo;s building a
+library and Locke&rsquo;s study is inaccurate, as there can be no
+reasonable doubt that the room or rooms his library occupied were
+those built by Lord Shaftesbury, which had (and correctly) the
+reputation of having been his lordship&rsquo;s library, and the
+study, not of Locke, although of Locke&rsquo;s pupil and
+friend.&nbsp; It is not even probable that Lord Shaftesbury was
+ever visited by our great philosopher at Little Chelsea, as from
+1700 that illustrious man resided altogether at Oates, in Essex,
+where he died on the 28th of October, 1704.</p>
+<p>Whether to Lord Shaftesbury or to Mr. Luttrell the
+embellishments of the garden of their residence are to be
+attributed can now be only matter for conjecture, unless some
+curious autograph-collector&rsquo;s portfolio may by chance
+contain an old letter or other document to establish the
+claim.&nbsp; Their tastes, however, were very similar.&nbsp; They
+both loved their books, and their fruits and flowers, and enjoyed
+the study of them.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p105a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Summer-house"
+title=
+"Summer-house"
+src="images/p105a.jpg" />
+</a>An account drawn up by Mr. Luttrell of several pears which he
+cultivated at Little <!-- page 105--><a name="page105"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 105</span>Chelsea, with outlines of their
+longitudinal sections, was communicated to the Horticultural
+Society by Dr. Luttrell Wynne, one hundred years after the notes
+had been made, and may be found printed in the second volume of
+the Transactions of that Society.&nbsp; In this account
+twenty-five varieties of pears are mentioned, which had been
+obtained between the years 1712 and 1717 from Mr. Duncan&rsquo;s,
+Lord Cheneys&rsquo;s, Mr. Palmer&rsquo;s, and Mr. Selwood&rsquo;s
+nursery.</p>
+<p>Until recently it was astounding to find, amid the rage for
+alteration and improvement, the formal old-fashioned shape of a
+trim garden of Queen Anne&rsquo;s time carefully preserved, its
+antique summer-houses respected, and the little infant leaden
+Hercules, which spouted water to cool the air from a
+serpent&rsquo;s throat, still asserting its aquatic supremacy,
+under the shade of a fine old medlar-tree; and all this too in
+the garden of a London parish workhouse!&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p105b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Hercules fountain"
+title=
+"Hercules fountain"
+src="images/p105b.jpg" />
+</a>Not <!-- page 106--><a name="page106"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 106</span>less surprising was the aspect of
+the interior.&nbsp; The grotesque workshop of the pauper
+artisans, said to have been 
+<a href="images/p106a.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Workshop"
+title=
+"Workshop"
+src="images/p106a.jpg" />
+</a> Lord Shaftesbury&rsquo;s dairy, and over which was his
+fire-proof library, was then an apartment appropriated to a
+girls&rsquo; school.</p>
+<p>On the basement story of the original house the embellished
+mouldings of a doorway, carried the mind back to 
+<a href="images/p106b.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Doorway"
+title=
+"Doorway"
+src="images/p106b.jpg" />
+</a> the days of Charles I., and, standing within which, <!--
+page 107--><a name="page107"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+107</span>imagination depicted the figure of a jolly Cavalier
+retainer, with his pipe and tankard; or of a Puritanical, formal
+servant, the expression of whose countenance was sufficient to
+turn the best-brewed October into vinegar.&nbsp; The old carved
+door leading into this apartment is shown in the annexed
+sketch.</p>
+<p>Nor should the apartment then occupied by the intelligent
+master of the workhouse be overlooked.&nbsp; The panelling of the
+room, its chimney-piece, and the painting and 
+<a href="images/p107.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Fireplace with painting above"
+title=
+"Fireplace with painting above"
+src="images/p107.jpg" />
+</a>framework above it, placed us completely in a chamber of the
+time of William III.&nbsp; And we only required a slight
+alteration in the furniture, and Lord Shaftesbury to enter, to
+feel that we were in the presence of the author of
+&lsquo;Characteristics.&rsquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 108--><a name="page108"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+108</span>The staircase, too, with its spiral balusters, as seen
+through the doorway, retained its ancient air.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p108.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Staircase seen through doorway"
+title=
+"Staircase seen through doorway"
+src="images/p108.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Narcissus Luttrell died here on the 26th of June, 1732, and
+was buried at Chelsea on the 6th of July following; where Francis
+Luttrell (presumed to be his son) was also buried on the 3rd of
+September, 1740.&nbsp; Shaftesbury House then passed into the
+occupation of Mr. Sergeant Wynne, who died on the 17th of May,
+1765; and from him it descended to his eldest son, Mr. Edward
+Wynne, the author of &lsquo;Eunomus: a Dialogue concerning the
+Law and Constitution of England, with an Essay on
+Dialogue,&rsquo; 4 vols. 8vo; and other works, chiefly of a legal
+nature.&nbsp; He died a bachelor, at Little Chelsea, on the 27th
+of December, 1784; and his brother, the Rev. Luttrell Wynne, of
+All Souls, Oxford, inherited Shaftesbury House, <!-- page
+109--><a name="page109"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+109</span>and the valuable library which Mr. Luttrell, his
+father, and brother, had accumulated.&nbsp; The house he
+alienated to William Virtue, from whom, as before mentioned, it
+was purchased by the parish of St. George&rsquo;s, Hanover
+Square, in 1787; and the library formed a twelve-days&rsquo;
+sale, by Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby, commencing on the 6th of
+March, 1786.&nbsp; The auction-catalogue contained 2788 lots; and
+some idea of the value may be formed from the circumstance, that
+nine of the first seventeen lots sold for no less a sum than
+&pound;32 7s., and that four lots of old newspapers, Nos. 25, 26,
+27, and 28, were knocked down at &pound;18 5s.&nbsp; No.
+&lsquo;376, a collection of old plays, by Gascoigne, White,
+Windet, Decker, &amp;c., 21 vols,&rsquo; brought &pound;38 17s.;
+and No. 644, Milton&rsquo;s &lsquo;Eiconoclastes,&rsquo; with MS.
+notes, supposed to be written by Milton, was bought by Waldron
+for 2s., who afterwards gave it to Dr. Farmer.&nbsp; Dr. Dibdin
+declares, that &ldquo;never was a precious collection of English
+history and poetry so wretchedly detailed to the public in an
+auction-catalogue&rdquo; as that of Mr. Wynne&rsquo;s library;
+and yet it will be seen that it must have realised a considerable
+sum of money.&nbsp; He mentions, that &ldquo;a great number of
+the poetical tracts were disposed of, previous to the sale, to
+Dr. Farmer, who gave not more than forty guineas for
+them.&rdquo;</p>
+<h2><!-- page 110--><a name="page110"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 110</span>CHAPTER III.</h2>
+<p class="gutsumm"><span class="smcap">from little chelsea to
+walham green</span>.</p>
+<p>After what has been said respecting Shaftesbury House, it may
+be supposed that its associations with the memory of remarkable
+individuals are exhausted.&nbsp; This is very far from being the
+case; and a long period in its history, from 1635 to 1699,
+remains to be filled up, which, however, must be done by
+conjecture: although so many circumstances are upon record, that
+it is not impossible others can be produced to complete a chain
+of evidence that may establish among those who have been inmates
+of the <span class="smcap">additional Workhouse of St.
+George&rsquo;s</span>, <span class="smcap">Hanover
+Square</span>&mdash;startling as the assertion may
+appear&mdash;two of the most illustrious individuals in the
+annals of this country; of one of whom Bishop Burnet observed, <a
+name="citation110"></a><a href="#footnote110"
+class="citation">[110]</a> that his &ldquo;loss is lamented by
+all learned men;&rdquo; the other, a man whose &ldquo;great and
+distinguishing knowledge was the knowledge of human nature or the
+powers and operations of the mind, in which he went further, and
+spoke clearer, than all other writers who preceded him, and whose
+&lsquo;Essay on the <!-- page 111--><a name="page111"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 111</span>Human Understanding&rsquo; is the
+best book of logic in the world.&rdquo;&nbsp; After this, I need
+scarcely add that <span class="smcap">Boyle</span> and <span
+class="smcap">Locke</span> are the illustrious individuals
+referred to.</p>
+<p>The amiable John Evelyn, in his &lsquo;Diary,&rsquo; mentions
+his visiting Mr. Boyle at Chelsea, on the 9th March, 1661, in
+company &ldquo;with that excellent person and philosopher, Sir
+Robert Murray,&rdquo; where they &ldquo;saw divers effects of the
+eolipile for weighing air.&rdquo;&nbsp; And in the same year M.
+de Monconys, a French traveller in England, says,
+&ldquo;L&rsquo;apr&egrave;s din&eacute; je fus avec M. Oldenburg,
+<a name="citation111"></a><a href="#footnote111"
+class="citation">[111]</a> et mon fils, &agrave; deux milles de
+Londres en carosse pour cinq chelins &agrave; un village
+nomm&eacute; <i>le petit Chelsey</i>, voir M. Boyle.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+Now at this period there probably was no other house at Little
+Chelsea of sufficient importance to be the residence of the Hon.
+Robert Boyle, where he could receive strangers in his laboratory
+and show them his great telescope; and, moreover, notwithstanding
+what has been said to prove the impossibility of Locke having
+visited Lord Shaftesbury on this spot, local tradition continues
+to assert that Locke&rsquo;s work on the &lsquo;Human
+Understanding&rsquo; was commenced in the retirement of one of
+the summer-houses of Lord Shaftesbury&rsquo;s residence.&nbsp;
+This certainly may have been the case if we regard Locke as a
+visitor to his brother philosopher, Boyle, and admit his tenancy
+of the mansion previous to that of Lord Shaftesbury, to whom
+Locke, it is very probable, communicated the circumstance, and
+which might have indirectly led to his lordship&rsquo;s purchase
+of the premises.&nbsp; Be that as it may, it is an interesting
+association, with something more than mere fancy for its <!--
+page 112--><a name="page112"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+112</span>support, to contemplate a communion between two of the
+master-minds of the age, and the influence which their
+conversation possibly had upon that of the other.</p>
+<p>Boyle&rsquo;s sister, the puritanical Countess of Warwick,
+under date 27th November, 1666, makes the following note:
+&ldquo;In the morning, as soon as dressed, I prayed, then went
+with my lord to my house at Chelsea, which he had hired, where I
+was all that day taken up with business about my house.&rdquo; <a
+name="citation112"></a><a href="#footnote112"
+class="citation">[112]</a>&nbsp; Whether this refers to <i>Little
+Chelsea</i> or not is more than I can affirm, although there are
+reasons for thinking that Shaftesbury House, or, if not, one
+which will be subsequently pointed out, is the house alluded
+to.</p>
+<p>Charles, the fourth Earl of Orrery, and grand-nephew to Boyle
+the philosopher, was born at Dr. Whittaker&rsquo;s house at
+Little Chelsea on the 21st July, 1674.&nbsp; It was his
+grandfather&rsquo;s marriage with Lady Margaret Howard, daughter
+of the Earl of Suffolk, that induced the witty Sir John Suckling
+to write his well-known &lsquo;Ballad upon a Wedding,&rsquo; in
+which he so lusciously describes the bride:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Her cheeks so rare a white was on,<br />
+No daisie makes comparison;<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Who sees them is undone;<br />
+For streaks of red were mingled there,<br />
+Such as are on the Cath&rsquo;rine pear&mdash;<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; The side that&rsquo;s next the sun.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Her lips were red; and one was thin,<br />
+Compared to that was next her chin&mdash;<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Some bee had stung it newly;<br />
+But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face,<br />
+I durst no more upon her gaze,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Than on the sun in July.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 113--><a name="page113"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+113</span>The second Earl of Orrery, this lady&rsquo;s son,
+having married Lady Mary Sackville, daughter of the Earl of
+Dorset, is stated to have led a secluded life at Little Chelsea,
+and to have died in 1682.&nbsp; His eldest son, the third earl,
+died in 1703, and his brother, mentioned above as born at Little
+Chelsea, became the fourth earl, and distinguished himself in the
+military, scientific, and literary proceedings of his
+times.&nbsp; In compliment to this Lord Orrery&rsquo;s patronage,
+Graham, an ingenious watchmaker, named after his lordship a piece
+of mechanism which exhibits the movements of the heavenly
+bodies.&nbsp; With his brother&rsquo;s death, however, in 1703,
+at Earl&rsquo;s Court, Kensington, the connection of the Boyle
+family with this neighbourhood appears to terminate.</p>
+<p>Doctor Baldwin Hamey, an eminent medical practitioner during
+the time of the Commonwealth, and a considerable benefactor to
+the College of Physicians, died at Little Chelsea on the 14th of
+May, 1676, after an honourable retirement from his professional
+duties of more than ten years.</p>
+<p>Mr. Faulkner&rsquo;s &lsquo;History of Kensington,&rsquo;
+published in 1820, and in which parish the portion of Little
+Chelsea on the north side of the Fulham Road stands, mentions the
+residence of Sir Bartholomew Shower, an eminent lawyer, in 1693;
+Sir Edward Ward, lord chief baron of the Exchequer, in 1697;
+Edward Fowler, lord bishop of Gloucester, in 1709, who died at
+his house here on the 26th August, 1714; and Sir William Dawes,
+lord bishop of Chester, in 1709, who, I may add, died Archbishop
+of York in 1724.&nbsp; But in Mr. Faulkner&rsquo;s &lsquo;History
+of <!-- page 114--><a name="page114"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+114</span>Chelsea,&rsquo; published in 1829, nothing more is to
+be found respecting Sir Bartholomew Shower than that he was
+engaged in some parochial law proceedings in 1691.&nbsp; Sir
+Edward Ward&rsquo;s residence is unnoticed.&nbsp; The Bishop of
+Gloucester, who is said to have been a devout believer in fairies
+and witchcraft, is enumerated among the inhabitants of Paradise
+Row, Chelsea (near the hospital, and full a mile distant from
+<i>le petit Chelsey</i>); and Sir William Dawes, we find from
+various entries, an inhabitant of the parish between the years
+1696 and 1712, but without &ldquo;a local habitation&rdquo; being
+assigned to him.&nbsp; All this is very unsatisfactory to any one
+whose appetite craves after map-like accuracy in parish
+affairs.</p>
+<p>Bowack, in 1705, mentions that</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;At Little Chelsea stands a regular handsome
+house, with a noble courtyard and good gardens, built by Mr.
+Mart, now inhabited by Sir John Cope, Bart., a gentleman of an
+ancient and honourable family, who formerly was eminent in the
+service of his country abroad, and for many years of late in
+Parliament, till he voluntarily retired here to end his days in
+peace.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>And here Sir John Cope died in 1721.&nbsp; Can he have been
+the father of the</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking
+yet,<br />
+Or are ye sleeping, I would wit?<br />
+O haste ye, get up, for the drums do beat;<br />
+O fye, Cope! rise up in the morning!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&mdash;of the Sir John Cope who was forced to retreat from
+Preston Pans in &ldquo;the &rsquo;45,&rdquo; and against whom all
+the shafts of Jacobite ribaldry have been levelled?</p>
+<p><!-- page 115--><a name="page115"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+115</span>Faulkner says that this house, which was
+&ldquo;subsequently occupied by the late Mr. Duffield as a
+private madhouse, has been pulled down, and its site is now
+called Odell&rsquo;s Place, a little eastward of Lord
+Shaftesbury&rsquo;s;&rdquo; that is to say, opposite to Manor
+Hall, and Sir John Cope&rsquo;s house was not improbably the
+residence of two distinguished naval officers, Sir James Wishart
+and Sir John Balchen.&nbsp; The former was made an admiral, and
+knighted by Queen Anne in 1703, and appointed one of the lords of
+the Admiralty, but was dismissed from the naval service by George
+I. for favouring the interests of the Pretender, and died at
+Little Chelsea on the 30th of May, 1723.&nbsp; In the
+&lsquo;Daily Courant,&rsquo; Monday, July 15, 1723, the following
+advertisement appears:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;To be sold by auction, the household goods,
+plate, china ware, linen, &amp;c., of Sir James Wishart,
+deceased, on Thursday the 18th instant, at his late
+dwelling-house at Little Chelsea.&nbsp; The goods to be seen this
+day, to-morrow, and Wednesday, before the sale, from 9 to 12 in
+the morning, and from 3 to 7 in the evening.&nbsp; Catalogues to
+be had at the sale.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;N.B.&nbsp; A coach and chariot to be sold, and the
+house to be let.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Admiral Sir John Balchen resided at Little Chelsea soon after
+Sir James Wishart&rsquo;s death.&nbsp; In 1744, Admiral Balchen
+perished in the Victory, of 120 guns, which had the reputation of
+being the most beautiful ship in the world, but foundered, with
+eleven hundred souls on board, in the Bay of Biscay.</p>
+<p>On the 31st of March, 1723, Edward Hyde, the third Earl of
+Clarendon, died &ldquo;at his house, Little Chelsea;&rdquo; but
+where the earl&rsquo;s house stood I am unable to state.</p>
+<p>Mrs. Robinson, the fascinating &ldquo;Perdita,&rdquo; tells
+us, in her <!-- page 116--><a name="page116"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 116</span>autobiography, that, at the age of
+ten (1768), she was &ldquo;placed for education in a school at
+Chelsea.&rdquo;&nbsp; And she then commences a most distressing
+narrative, in which the last tragic scene she was witness to
+occurred at Little Chelsea.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The mistress of this seminary,&rdquo; Mrs.
+Robinson describes as &ldquo;perhaps one of the most
+extraordinary women that ever graced, or disgraced,
+society.&nbsp; Her name was Meribah Lorrington.&nbsp; She was the
+most extensively accomplished female that I ever remember to have
+met with; her mental powers were no less capable of cultivation
+than superiorly cultivated.&nbsp; Her father, whose name was
+Hull, had from her infancy been master of an academy at
+Earl&rsquo;s Court, near Fulham; and early after his marriage,
+losing his wife, he resolved on giving this daughter a masculine
+education.&nbsp; Meribah was early instructed in all the modern
+accomplishments, as well as in classical knowledge.&nbsp; She was
+mistress of the Latin, French, and Italian languages; she was
+said to be a perfect arithmetician and astronomer, and possessed
+the art of painting on silk to a degree of exquisite
+perfection.&nbsp; But, alas! with all these advantages, she was
+addicted to one vice, which at times so completely absorbed her
+faculties as to deprive her of every power, either mental or
+corporeal.&nbsp; Thus, daily and hourly, her superior
+acquirements, her enlightened understanding, yielded to the
+intemperance of her ruling infatuation, and every power of
+reflection seemed absorbed in the unfeminine propensity.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;All that I ever learned,&rdquo; adds Mrs. Robinson,
+&ldquo;I acquired from this extraordinary woman.&nbsp; In those
+hours when her senses were not intoxicated, she would delight in
+the task of instructing me.&nbsp; She had only five or six
+pupils, and it was my lot to be her particular favourite.&nbsp;
+She always, out of school, called me her little friend, and made
+no scruple of conversing with me (sometimes half the night, for I
+slept in her chamber) on domestic and confidential affairs.&nbsp;
+I felt for her very sincere affection, and I listened with
+peculiar attention to all the lessons she inculcated.&nbsp; Once
+I recollect her mentioning the particular failing which disgraced
+so intelligent a being.&nbsp; She pleaded, in excuse of it, the
+unmitigable regret of a widowed heart, and with compunction
+declared that she flew to intoxication as the only refuge from
+the pang of prevailing sorrow.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 117--><a name="page117"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+117</span>Mrs. Robinson remained more than twelve months under
+the care of Mrs. Lorrington,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;When pecuniary derangements obliged her to
+give up her school.&nbsp; Her father&rsquo;s manners were
+singularly disgusting, as was his appearance, for he wore a
+silvery beard, which reached to his breast, and a kind of Persian
+robe, which gave him the external appearance of a
+necromancer.&nbsp; He was of the Anabaptist persuasion, and so
+stern in his conversation, that the young pupils were exposed to
+perpetual terror; added to these circumstances, the failing of
+his daughter became so evident, that even during school-hours she
+was frequently in a state of confirmed intoxication.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>In 1772, three years afterwards, when Mrs. Robinson was
+fourteen, her mother, Mrs. Darby, was obliged, as a means of
+support, to undertake the task of tuition.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;For this purpose, a convenient house was
+hired at Little Chelsea, and furnished for a ladies&rsquo;
+boarding-school.&nbsp; Assistants of every kind were engaged, and
+I,&rdquo; says Mrs. Robinson, &ldquo;was deemed worthy of an
+occupation that flattered my self-love, and impressed my mind
+with a sort of domestic consequence.&nbsp; The English language
+was my department in the seminary, and I was permitted to select
+passages both in prose and verse for the studies of my infant
+pupils; it was also my occupation to superintend their wardrobes,
+to see them dressed and undressed by the servants, or
+half-boarders, and to read sacred and moral lessons on
+saints&rsquo; days and Sunday evenings.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Shortly after my mother had established herself at
+Chelsea, on a summer&rsquo;s evening, as I was sitting at the
+window, I heard a deep sigh, or rather groan of anguish, which
+suddenly attracted my attention.&nbsp; The night was approaching
+rapidly, and I looked towards the gate before the house, where I
+observed a woman, evidently labouring under excessive
+affliction.&nbsp; I instantly descended and approached her.&nbsp;
+She, bursting into tears, asked whether I did not know her.&nbsp;
+Her dress was torn and filthy; she was almost naked, and an old
+bonnet, which nearly hid her face, so completely disfigured her
+features, that I had not the smallest idea of the person who was
+then almost sinking before me.&nbsp; I gave her a small sum of
+money, and inquired the cause of her apparent agony.&nbsp; She
+took my hand, and pressed it to her lips.&nbsp; <!-- page
+118--><a name="page118"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+118</span>&lsquo;Sweet girl,&rsquo; said she, &lsquo;you are
+still the angel I ever knew you!&rsquo;&nbsp; I was
+astonished.&nbsp; She raised her bonnet; her fine dark eyes met
+mine.&nbsp; It was Mrs. Lorrington.&nbsp; I led her into the
+house; my mother was not at home.&nbsp; I took her to my chamber,
+and, with the assistance of a lady, who was our French teacher, I
+clothed and comforted her.&nbsp; She refused to say how she came
+to be in so deplorable a situation, and took her leave.&nbsp; It
+was in vain that I entreated&mdash;that I conjured her to let me
+know where I might send to her.&nbsp; She refused to give me her
+address, but promised that in a few days she would call on me
+again.&nbsp; It is impossible to describe the wretched appearance
+of this accomplished woman.&nbsp; The failing to which she had
+now yielded, as to a monster that would destroy her, was evident,
+even at the moment when she was speaking to me.&nbsp; I saw no
+more of her; but, to my infinite regret, I was informed, some
+years after, that she had died, the martyr of a premature decay,
+brought on by the indulgence of her propensity to
+intoxication&mdash;in the workhouse of Chelsea!&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Mrs. Robinson adds, that&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The number of my mother&rsquo;s pupils in a
+few months amounted to ten or twelve; and, just at a period when
+an honourable independence promised to cheer the days of an
+unexampled parent, my father unexpectedly returned from
+America.&nbsp; The pride of his soul was deeply wounded by the
+step which my mother had taken; he was offended even beyond the
+bounds of reason.</p>
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p>&ldquo;At the expiration of eight months, my mother, by my
+father&rsquo;s positive commands, broke up her establishment, and
+returned to London.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Nearly opposite to the workhouse is the West Brompton Brewery,
+formerly called &ldquo;Holly Wood Brewery,&rdquo; and immediately
+beyond it an irregular row of six houses, which stand a little
+way back from the road, with small gardens before them.&nbsp; The
+first house is now divided into two, occupied, when the sketch
+was made in 1844, by Miss Read&rsquo;s academy (Tavistock House)
+and Mrs. Corder&rsquo;s Preparatory School; the latter (Bolton
+House) to be <!-- page 119--><a name="page119"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 119</span>distinguished by two ornamented
+stone-balls on the piers of the gateway, was a celebrated
+military academy, at which many distinguished soldiers have been
+educated.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p119.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Bolton House gateway"
+title=
+"Bolton House gateway"
+src="images/p119.jpg" />
+</a>The academy was established about the year 1770, by Mr. Lewis
+Lochee, who died on the 5th of April, 1787, and who, in 1778,
+published an &lsquo;Essay on Castrametation.&rsquo;&nbsp;
+&ldquo;The premises,&rdquo; says Mr. Faulkner, &ldquo;which were
+laid out as a regular fortification, and were open to view,
+excited much attention at the time.&rdquo;&nbsp; When balloons
+were novelties, and it was supposed might be advantageously used
+in the operations of warfare, they attracted considerable notice;
+and, on the 16th of October, 1784, Mr. Blanchard ascended from
+the grounds of the Military Academy, near Chelsea.&nbsp; The
+anxiety to witness this exhibition is thus described in a
+contemporary account:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The fields for a considerable way round
+Little Chelsea were crowded with horse and foot; in consequence
+of which a general devastation took place in the gardens, the
+produce being either trampled down or torn up.&nbsp; The turnip
+grounds were totally despoiled by the multitude.&nbsp; All the
+windows and houses round the academy were filled with people of
+the first fashion.&nbsp; Every roof within view was covered, and
+each tree filled with spectators.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Mr. Blanchard, upon this occasion, ascended with some
+difficulty, accompanied by a Mr. Sheldon, a surgeon, whom <!--
+page 120--><a name="page120"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+120</span>he landed at Sunbury, from whence Blanchard proceeded
+in his balloon to Romsey, in Hampshire, where he came down in
+safety, after having been between three and four hours in the
+air.</p>
+<p>After Mr. Lochee&rsquo;s death, his son, Mr. Lewis Lochee,
+continued the establishment which his father had formed, but,
+unfortunately for himself, engaged in the revolutionary movements
+which agitated Flanders in 1790; where, &ldquo;being taken
+prisoner by the Austrians, he was condemned to be hanged.&nbsp;
+He, however, obtained permission to come to England to settle his
+affairs, upon condition of leaving his only son as a hostage;
+and, upon his return to the Continent, he suffered the punishment
+of death.&rdquo; <a name="citation120"></a><a href="#footnote120"
+class="citation">[120]</a></p>
+<p>&ldquo;His son, a schoolfellow of mine,&rdquo; adds Mr.
+Faulkner, &ldquo;afterwards married a daughter of the late Mr.
+King, an eminent book auctioneer of King Street, Covent Garden,
+and, lamentable to relate, fell by his own hands,&rdquo; 8th of
+December, 1815.</p>
+<p>The residence beyond Mr. Lochee&rsquo;s Military Academy is
+named <span class="smcap">Warwick House</span>&mdash;why, unless,
+possibly, the name has some reference to Boyle&rsquo;s
+brother-in-law, the Earl of Warwick, I am at a loss to
+determine.&nbsp; The next house is Amyot House.&nbsp; Then comes
+<span class="smcap">Mulberry House</span>, formerly the residence
+of Mr. Denham, a brother of the lamented African traveller,
+Colonel Denham.&nbsp; The fifth house is called <span
+class="smcap">Heckfield Lodge</span>, an arbitrary name <!-- page
+121--><a name="page121"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+121</span>bestowed by its late occupant, Mr. Milton, the author
+of two clever novels, &lsquo;Rivalry,&rsquo; and &lsquo;Lady
+Cecilia Farrencourt,&rsquo; recently published, and brother to
+the popular authoress, Mrs. Trollope.&nbsp; And the sixth and
+last house in the row, on the west side of which is Walnut-tree
+Walk, leading to Earl&rsquo;s Court and Kensington, is
+distinguished by the name of Burleigh House, which, some one
+humorously observed, <a name="citation121"></a><a
+href="#footnote121" class="citation">[121]</a> might possibly be
+a contraction of &ldquo;hurley burley,&rdquo; the house being a
+ladies&rsquo; school, and the unceasing work of education, on the
+main Fulham Road, appearing here for the first time to
+terminate.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p121.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Burleigh House (1844)"
+title=
+"Burleigh House (1844)"
+src="images/p121.jpg" />
+</a>The following entry, however, in the parish register of
+Kensington, respecting the birth of the fourth Earl of Exeter, on
+the 21st of May, 1674, may suggest a more probable
+derivation:&mdash;&ldquo;15 May.&nbsp; Honble. John Cecill, son
+and heir apparent of the Rt. Honble. John Lord Burleigh and the
+Lady Anne his wife born at Mr. Sheffield&rsquo;s.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>William Boscawen, the amiable and accomplished translator of
+Horace, resided at Burleigh House; and here he died, on the 6th
+of May, 1811, at the age of fifty-nine.&nbsp; He had been called
+to the bar, but gave up that profession in 1786, on being
+appointed a commissioner for victualling <!-- page 122--><a
+name="page122"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 122</span>the
+navy.&nbsp; An excellent classical scholar, and warmly attached
+to literary pursuits, Mr. Boscawen published, in 1793, the first
+volume of a new translation of Horace, containing the
+&lsquo;Odes,&rsquo; &lsquo;Epodes,&rsquo; and &lsquo;Carmen
+S&aelig;culare.&rsquo;&nbsp; This, being well received, was
+followed up by Mr. Boscawen, in 1798, by his translation of the
+&lsquo;Satires, Epistles, and Art of
+Poetry,&rsquo;&mdash;completing a work considered to be in many
+respects superior to Francis&rsquo;s translation.&nbsp; As an
+early patron and zealous friend of the Literary Fund, Mr.
+Boscawen&rsquo;s memory will be regarded with respect.&nbsp;
+Within five days of his death, he wrote a copy of verses for the
+anniversary meeting, which he contemplated attending:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Relieved from toils, behold the aged
+steed<br />
+Contented crop the rich enamell&rsquo;d mead,<br />
+Bask in the solar ray, or court the shade,<br />
+As vernal suns invite, or summer heats invade!<br />
+But should the horn or clarion from afar<br />
+Call to the chase, or summon to the war,<br />
+Roused to new vigour by the well-known sound,<br />
+He spurns the earth, o&rsquo;erleaps the opposing mound,<br />
+Feels youthful ardour in each swelling vein,<br />
+Darts through the rapid flood, and scours the plain!</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Thus a lorn Muse, who, worn by cares and
+woes,<br />
+Long sought retirement&rsquo;s calm, secure repose,<br />
+With glad, though feeble, voice resumes her lay,<br />
+Waked by the call of this auspicious day.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Alas! the hand which on May morning had penned this
+introduction to an appeal in the cause of literary
+benevolence,&mdash;that hand was cold; and the lips by which, on
+the following day, the words that had flowed warmly from the <!--
+page 123--><a name="page123"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+123</span>heart were to have been uttered,&mdash;those lips were
+mute in death within a week.</p>
+<p>On the 16th of April, 1765, Mr. James House Knight, of Walham
+Green, returning home from London, was robbed and murdered on the
+highroad in the vicinity of Little Chelsea; the record of his
+burial in the parish register of Kensington is, &ldquo;Shot in
+Fulham Road, near Brompton.&rdquo;&nbsp; For the discovery of the
+murderers a reward of fifty pounds was offered; and, on the 7th
+of July following, two Chelsea pensioners were committed to
+prison, charged with this murder, on the testimony of their
+accomplice, another Chelsea pensioner, whom they had threatened
+to kill upon some quarrel taking place between them.&nbsp; The
+accused were tried, found guilty, hanged, and gibbeted; one
+nearly opposite Walnut-tree Walk, close by the two-mile stone,
+the other at Bull Lane, a passage about a quarter of a mile
+farther on, which connects the main Fulham Road with the
+King&rsquo;s Road, by the side of the Kensington Canal.&nbsp; In
+these positions, for some years, the bodies of the murderers hung
+in chains, to the terror of benighted travellers and of
+market-gardeners, who</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Wended their way,<br />
+In morning&rsquo;s grey,&rdquo;</p>
+<p>towards Covent Garden, until a drunken frolic caused the
+removal of a painful and useless exhibition.&nbsp; A very
+interesting paper upon London life in the last century occurs in
+the second volume of Knight&rsquo;s &lsquo;London;&rsquo; in
+which it is observed that &ldquo;a gibbet&rsquo;s tassel&rdquo;
+was one of the first sights which met the eye of a stranger
+approaching London from the sea.</p>
+<blockquote><p><!-- page 124--><a name="page124"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 124</span>&ldquo;About the middle of the last
+century, similar objects met the gaze of the traveller by
+whatever route he entered the metropolis.&nbsp; &lsquo;<i>All</i>
+the gibbets in the Edgware Road,&rsquo; says an extract from the
+newspapers of the day in the &lsquo;Annual Register&rsquo; for
+1763, &lsquo;on which <i>many</i> malefactors were being hung in
+chains, were cut down by persons unknown.&rsquo;&nbsp; The
+<i>all</i> and the <i>many</i> of this cool matter-of-fact
+announcement conjure up the image of a long avenue planted with
+&lsquo;gallows-trees,&rsquo; instead of elms and
+poplars,&mdash;an assemblage of pendent criminals, not exactly
+&lsquo;thick as leaves that strew the brook in Valombrosa,&rsquo;
+but frequent as those whose feet tickling Sancho&rsquo;s nose,
+when he essayed to sleep in the cork forest, drove him from tree
+to tree in search of an empty bough.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Frequent mention is made in the books, magazines, and
+newspapers of that period, of the bodies of malefactors conveyed
+after execution to Blackheath, Finchley, and Kennington Commons,
+or Hounslow Heath, for the purpose of being there permanently
+suspended.&nbsp; In those days the approach to London on all
+sides seems to have lain through serried files of gibbets,
+growing closer and more thronged as the distance from the city
+diminished, till they and their occupants arranged themselves in
+rows of ghastly and grinning sentinels along both sides of the
+principal avenues.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This picture is not over-coloured; and it is to the following
+occurrence in the main Fulham Road that the removal of these
+offensive exhibitions is to be attributed.&nbsp; Two or three
+fashionable parsons, who had sacrificed superabundantly to the
+jolly god at Fulham, returning to London, where they desired to
+arrive quickly, had intellect enough to discover that the driver
+of their post-chaise did not make his horses proceed at a pace
+equal to their wishes, and, after in vain urging him to more
+speed, one of them declared that, if he did not use his whip with
+better effect, he should be made an example of for the public
+benefit, and hanged up at the first gibbet.&nbsp; The correctness
+of the old saying, that &ldquo;when the head is hot the <!-- page
+125--><a name="page125"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+125</span>hand is ready,&rdquo; was soon verified by the postboy
+being desired to stop at the gibbet opposite Walnut-tree Walk,
+which order, unluckily for himself, he obeyed, instead of
+proceeding at a quicker pace.&nbsp; Out sprung the inmates of his
+chaise; they seized him, bound him hand and foot, and throwing a
+rope, which they had fastened round his body, over the gibbet, he
+soon found himself, in spite of his cries and entreaties,
+elevated in air beside the tarred remains of the Chelsea
+pensioner.</p>
+<p>The reverend perpetrators of the deed drove off, leaving the
+luckless postboy to protest, loudly and vainly, to &ldquo;the
+dull, cold ear of death,&rdquo; against the loathsome
+companionship.&nbsp; When the first market-gardener&rsquo;s cart
+passed by, most lustily did he call for help; but every effort to
+get free only tended to prolong his suspense.&nbsp; What could
+the carters and other early travellers imagine upon hearing
+shouts proceeding from the gibbet, but that the identical
+murderer of Mr. Knight had by some miracle come to life, and now
+called out, &ldquo;Stop! stop!&rdquo; with the intention of
+robbing and murdering them also?&nbsp; And they, feeling that
+supernatural odds were against them, ran forwards or backwards,
+not daring to look behind, as fast as their feet could carry
+alarmed and bewildered heads, leaving the fate of their carts to
+the sagacity of the horses.&nbsp; Finding that the louder he
+called for help the more alarm he excited, the suspended postboy
+determined philosophically to endure the misery of his situation
+in dignified silence.&nbsp; But there he was suffered to hang
+unnoticed; or, if remarked, it was only concluded that another
+criminal had been added to the gibbet, as its second
+tassel.&nbsp; The <!-- page 126--><a name="page126"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 126</span>circumstance, however, of a second
+body having been placed there speedily came to the knowledge of a
+magistrate in the neighbourhood, who had taken an active part in
+the apprehension of Mr. Knight&rsquo;s murderers; and he
+proceeded, without delay, to the spot, that he might satisfy
+himself as to the correctness of the report.&nbsp; Judge,
+however, his astonishment on hearing himself addressed by name
+from the gibbet, and implored, in the most piteous manner, to
+deliver from bondage a poor postboy, whose only offence was that
+he would not goad on two overworked horses to humour a pair of
+drunken gentlemen.&nbsp; These &ldquo;drunken gentlemen&rdquo;
+are said to have been men of rank and influence: their names have
+never transpired, but the outrage with which they were charged
+led to the immediate removal from the Fulham Road of the last
+pair of gibbets which disgraced it.</p>
+<p>Upon the ground which was occupied by the gibbet where the
+kind-hearted postboy was strung up, a solitary cottage stood some
+years ago; and tradition asserted, that both the murderer and his
+gibbet were buried beneath it.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p126.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Solitary cottage"
+title=
+"Solitary cottage"
+src="images/p126.jpg" />
+</a>This cottage is now pulled down; Lansdowne Villas and
+Hollywood Place have been erected on the spot, and villas and
+groves continue to the &lsquo;Gunter Arms,&rsquo; a public-house
+that <!-- page 127--><a name="page127"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 127</span>takes its name from Richard Gunter,
+the well-known confectioner, by the side of which is Gunter
+Grove.&nbsp; This is now the starting-point of the Brompton
+omnibuses, which formerly did not go beyond Queen&rsquo;s
+Elm.&nbsp; Edith Grove, a turning between Lansdowne Villas and
+Gunter Grove, is in a direct line with Cremorne Gardens.</p>
+<p>Proceeding on our road towards Fulham, the next point which
+claims attention is the extensive inclosure of the West of London
+and Westminster Cemetery Company,&mdash;a company incorporated by
+act of parliament 1st of Victoria, cap. 180.&nbsp; The
+burial-ground was consecrated on the 12th of June, 1840, and
+extends from the Fulham Road to what is called, generally,
+&ldquo;Sir John Scott Lillie&rsquo;s Road,&rdquo; and sometimes
+&ldquo;Brompton Lane Road,&rdquo; which, in fact, is a
+continuation, to North End, Fulham, of the line of the Old
+Brompton Road,&mdash;the point, as the reader may recollect, that
+we turned off from at the Bell and Horns, in order to follow the
+main Fulham Road to Little Chelsea.&nbsp; The public way on the
+east of the burial-ground is called Honey Lane, and on the west
+the boundary is the pathway by the side of the Kensington
+Canal.&nbsp; The architect of the chapel and catacombs is Mr.
+Benjamin Baud.&nbsp; The cemetery is open for public inspection,
+free of charge, from seven in the morning till sunset, except on
+Sundays, when it is closed till half-past one
+o&rsquo;clock.&nbsp; The first interment took place on the 18th
+of June, 1840, from which time, to the 22nd of November, there
+were thirty-four burials, the average number being then four per
+week.&nbsp; It is scarcely necessary to add, that a considerable
+average increase has taken place; but the first step in
+statistics is always curious.</p>
+<p><!-- page 128--><a name="page128"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+128</span>One of the most interesting instances of longevity
+which the annals of the West of London and Westminster Cemetery
+Company present occurs on a stone in the north-east corner of the
+burial-ground, where the age recorded of Louis Pouch&eacute;e is
+108; but this does not agree with the burial entry made by the
+Rev. Stephen Reid Cattley&mdash;&ldquo;Louis Pouch&eacute;e, of
+St. Martin&rsquo;s in the Fields, viz., 40 Castle Street,
+Leicester Square, buried Feb. 21, 1843, aged 107.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>This musical patriarch, however, according to a statement in
+the &lsquo;Medical Times,&rsquo; <a name="citation128"></a><a
+href="#footnote128" class="citation">[128]</a> was admitted as a
+patient to St. George&rsquo;s Hospital November 24, 1842.&nbsp;
+January 4, went out, and died, about three months afterwards, of
+diarrhoea and dysentery.</p>
+<p>Another instance of longevity, though not so extraordinary, is
+one which cannot be contemplated without feeling how much
+influence the consciousness of honest industry in the human mind
+has upon the health and happiness of the body.&nbsp; A gravestone
+near a public path on the south-east side of the burial-ground
+marks the last resting place of Francis Nicholson,
+landscape-painter, who died the 6th March, 1844, aged 91
+years.</p>
+<p>Mr. Nicholson originally practised as a portrait-painter, but
+the simplicity and uprightness of his heart did not permit him to
+tolerate or pander to the vanities of man (and woman) kind.&nbsp;
+To flatter was with him an utter impossibility; and, as he could
+not invariably consider the &ldquo;human face divine,&rdquo; he
+was incapable of assuming the courtly manners so essential in
+that branch of the <!-- page 129--><a name="page129"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 129</span>profession.&nbsp; He never, indeed,
+quite forgave himself for an approach to duplicity committed at
+this time upon an unfortunate gentleman, who sat to him for his
+portrait, and who squinted so desperately, that in order to gain
+a likeness it was necessary to copy moderately the defect.&nbsp;
+The poor man, it seemed, perfectly unconscious of the same, on
+being invited to inspect the performance, looked in silence upon
+it a few moments, and, with rather a disappointed air,
+said&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know&mdash;it seems to me&mdash;does it
+squint?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Squint!&rdquo; replied Nicholson, &ldquo;no more than
+you do.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Really! well, you know best of course; but I declare I
+fancied there was a <i>queer look</i> about it!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The opening of the Water-Colour Exhibition, in 1805, may be
+dated as the commencement of Mr. Nicholson&rsquo;s fame and
+success in London.&nbsp; In conjunction with Glover, Varley,
+Prout, and others, an advance in the art of watercolour painting
+was made, such as to astonish and call forth the admiration of
+the public.</p>
+<p>In a manuscript autobiography which Mr. Nicholson left behind
+him, and which is full of curious anecdotes, he gives the
+following account of the formation of that exhibition.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Messrs. Hills and Pyne asked me to join in
+the attempt to establish such a society, which I readily agreed
+to.&nbsp; It was a long time before a number of members
+sufficient to produce so many works as would be required to cover
+the walls of the exhibition room in Brook Street could be brought
+to join it.&nbsp; Artists were afraid they might suffer loss by
+renting and fitting up the room, the expense being certain and
+the success very doubtful.&nbsp; After a great while the society
+was formed, and, in the first and second exhibition, the sale of
+drawings was so <!-- page 130--><a name="page130"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 130</span>considerable, and the visitors so
+numerous, that crowds of those who had refused to join were eager
+to be admitted into the society.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p130a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Nicholson&rsquo;s Grave"
+title=
+"Nicholson&rsquo;s Grave"
+src="images/p130a.jpg" />
+</a>Since the annexed sketch of Mr. Nicholson&rsquo;s grave was
+taken, the stone bears the two additional melancholy inscriptions
+of Thomas Crofton Croker, son-in-law of Francis Nicholson, who
+died 8th August, 1854, and Marianne, widow of Thomas Crofton
+Croker, who died 6th October, 1854; and an iron railing has been
+erected on either side of the grave.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p130b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"St. Mark&rsquo;s Chapel"
+title=
+"St. Mark&rsquo;s Chapel"
+src="images/p130b.jpg" />
+</a>Opposite to the Cemetery gates is Veitch&rsquo;s Royal Exotic
+Nursery.</p>
+<p>St. Mark&rsquo;s Chapel, within the grounds of the college,
+stands opposite to St. Mark&rsquo;s Terrace, a row of modern
+houses immediately beyond the cemetery.&nbsp; The grounds extend
+to the King&rsquo;s Road, and contain about eleven acres,
+surrounded by a brick wall; and the entrance to the National
+Society&rsquo;s training college is from that road.&nbsp; <!--
+page 131--><a name="page131"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+131</span>Stanley House, or Stanley Grove House, which was
+purchased in 1840 for upwards of &pound;9000 by the society,
+stood upon the site of a house which Sir Arthur Gorges, the
+friend of Spenser, allegorically named by him Alcyon, <a
+name="citation131"></a><a href="#footnote131"
+class="citation">[131]</a> built for his own residence; and upon
+the death of whose first wife, a daughter of Viscount Bindon, in
+1590, the poet wrote a beautiful elegy, entitled
+&lsquo;Daphnaida.&rsquo;&nbsp; In the Sydney papers mention is
+made, under date 15th November, 1599, that, &ldquo;as the queen
+passed by the faire new building, Sir Arthur Gorges presented her
+with a faire jewell.&rdquo;&nbsp; He died in 1625; and by his
+widow, the daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, the house and
+adjacent land, then called the &ldquo;Brickhills,&rdquo; was
+sold, in 1637, to their only daughter, Elizabeth, the widow of
+Sir Robert Stanley; which sale was confirmed by her
+mother&rsquo;s will, dated 18th July, 1643.&nbsp; The Stanley
+family continued to reside here until 1691, when by the death of
+William Stanley, Esq., that branch of this family became extinct
+in the male line.</p>
+<p>The present house, a square mansion, was built soon
+afterwards; and the old wall, propped by several buttresses,
+inclosing the west side of the grounds, existed on the bank of
+the Kensington Canal until it was washed down by a very high
+tide.&nbsp; This new or square mansion remained unfinished and
+unoccupied for several years.&nbsp; In 1724 it belonged to Henry
+Arundel, Esq. and on the 24th May, 1743, Admiral Sir Charles
+Wager, a distinguished naval officer, died here, and was buried
+in Westminster Abbey.&nbsp; After passing through several hands,
+<!-- page 132--><a name="page132"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+132</span>Stanley Grove became the property of Miss Southwell,
+afterwards the wife of Sir James Eyre, Lord Chief Justice of the
+Common Pleas, who sold it in 1777 to the Countess of
+Strathmore.</p>
+<p>Here her ladyship indulged her love for botany by building
+extensive hot-houses and conservatories, and collecting and
+introducing into England rare exotics.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;She had purchased,&rdquo; says her
+biographer, &ldquo;a fine old mansion, with extensive grounds
+well walled in, and there she had brought exotics from the Cape,
+and was in a way of raising continually an increase to her
+collection, when, by her fatal marriage, the cruel spoiler came
+and threw them, like loathsome weeds, away.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Mr. Lochee, before mentioned, purchased Stanley Grove from the
+Countess of Strathmore and her husband, Mr. Bowes.&nbsp; It was
+afterwards occupied by Dr. Richard Warren, the eminent physician,
+who died in 1797, and who is said to have acquired by the
+honourable practice of his profession no less a sum than
+&pound;150,000.&nbsp; In January 1808, Mr. Leonard Morse, of the
+War Office, died at his residence, Stanley House, and about 1815
+it was purchased by the late Mr. William Richard Hamilton, who
+ranks as one of the first scholars and antiquaries of his
+day.&nbsp; Between that year and 1840 Mr. Hamilton resided here
+at various periods, having occasionally let it.&nbsp; He made a
+considerable addition to the house by building a spacious room as
+a wing on the east side, in the walls of which casts from the
+frieze and metopes of the Elgin marbles were let in.</p>
+<p>When Mr. Hamilton proceeded as envoy to the court of Naples in
+1821, Stanley Grove House became the residence <!-- page 133--><a
+name="page133"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 133</span>of Mrs.
+Gregor, and is thus described by Miss Burney, who was an inmate
+at this time, in the following playful letter <a
+name="citation133"></a><a href="#footnote133"
+class="citation">[133]</a> to a friend, dated 24th September,
+1821:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Whilst you have been traversing sea and
+land, scrambling up rocks and shuddering beside precipices, I
+have been stationary, with no other variety than such as turning
+to the right instead of the left when walking in the garden, or
+sometimes driving into town through Westminster, and, at other
+times, through Piccadilly.&nbsp; Poor Miss Gregor continues to be
+a complete invalid, and, for her sake, we give up all society at
+home and all engagements abroad.&nbsp; Luckily, the house, rented
+by Mrs. Gregor from William Hamilton, Esq. (who accompanied Lord
+Elgin into Greece) abounds with interesting specimens in almost
+every branch of the fine arts.&nbsp; Here are statues, casts from
+the frieze of the Parthenon, pictures, prints, books, and
+minerals; <i>four</i> pianofortes of different sizes, and an
+excellent harp.&nbsp; All this to study does Desdemona
+(that&rsquo;s me) seriously incline; and the more I study the
+more I want to know and to see.&nbsp; In short, I am crazy to
+travel in Greece!&nbsp; The danger is that some good-for-nothing
+bashaw should seize upon me to poke me into his harem, there to
+bury my charms for life, and condemn me for ever to blush
+unseen.&nbsp; However, I could easily strangle or stab him, set
+fire to his castle, and run away by the light of it, accompanied
+by some handsome pirate, with whom I might henceforward live at
+my ease in a cavern on the sea-shore, dressing his dinners one
+moment, and my own sweet person the next in pearls and rubies,
+stolen by him, during some of his plundering expeditions, from
+the fair throat and arms of a shrieking Circassian beauty, whose
+lord he had knocked on the head.&nbsp; Till these genteel
+adventures of mine begin, I beg you to believe me, dear Miss
+---,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;Yours most truly,<br />
+&ldquo;<span class="smcap">S. H. Burney</span>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Theodore Hook notes, in one of his manuscript journals,
+&ldquo;5th July, 1826.&nbsp; W. Hamilton&rsquo;s party.&nbsp;
+Stanley Grove.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>About 1828, Stanley Grove was occupied by the <!-- page
+134--><a name="page134"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+134</span>Marquess of Queensberry; and, in 1830&ndash;31, by
+Colonel Grant, at the rent, it was said, of &pound;1000 per
+annum.</p>
+<p>On the west side of the house the National Society added a
+quadrangle, built in the Italian style after the design of Mr.
+Blore; and, in the grounds near the chapel, an octagonal building
+as a Practising School, for teaching the poor children of the
+neighbourhood.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p134a.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Practising School"
+title=
+"Practising School"
+src="images/p134a.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Crossing the Kensington Canal over Sandford Bridge, 
+<a href="images/p134b.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Sandford Bridge"
+title=
+"Sandford Bridge"
+src="images/p134b.jpg" />
+</a> sometimes written &ldquo;Stanford&rdquo; and
+&ldquo;Stamford,&rdquo; we enter <!-- page 135--><a
+name="page135"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 135</span>the parish
+of Fulham.&nbsp; The road turning off on the west side of the
+canal is called &ldquo;Bull Lane;&rdquo; and a little further on
+a footway existed not long since, known as Bull Alley; both of
+which passages led into the King&rsquo;s Road, and took their
+names from the Bull public-house, which stood between them in
+that road.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p135a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Bull Alley"
+title=
+"Bull Alley"
+src="images/p135a.jpg" />
+</a>Bull Alley is now converted into a good-sized street, called
+Stamford Road, which has a public-house (the Rising Sun) on one
+side, and a bookseller&rsquo;s shop on the other.&nbsp; Here, for
+a few years, was a turnpike, which has been recently removed and
+placed lower down the road, adjoining the Swan Tavern and
+Brewery, Walham Green, established 1765.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p135b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"No. 4, No. 3 Stamford Villas"
+title=
+"No. 4, No. 3 Stamford Villas"
+src="images/p135b.jpg" />
+</a>Houses are being built in all directions opposite several
+&ldquo;single and married houses,&rdquo; with small gardens in
+front and the rear, known as <span class="smcap">Stamford
+Villas</span>, where, at No. 2, resided, in 1836 and 1837, Mr. H.
+K. Browne, better known, perhaps, by his <i>sobriquet</i> of
+&ldquo;Phiz,&rdquo; as an illustrator of popular periodical
+works.</p>
+<p>No. 3 and No. 4 are shown in the annexed cut, and No. 3 may be
+noticed as having been the residence of Mr. Kempe, the author of
+&lsquo;A History of <!-- page 136--><a name="page136"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 136</span>St. Martin-le-Grand,&rsquo; the
+editor of the &lsquo;Losely Papers,&rsquo; and a constant
+contributor, under the signature of A. J. K., to the antiquarian
+lore of the &lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s Magazine.&rsquo;&nbsp; Mr.
+Kempe died here on 21st August, 1846.&nbsp; The three last houses
+of the Stamford Villas are not &ldquo;wedded to each
+other,&rdquo; and in the garden of the one nearest London, Mr.
+Hampton, who made an ascent in a balloon from Cremorne, on the
+13th June, 1839, with every reasonable prospect of breaking his
+neck for the amusement of the public, came down by a parachute
+descent, without injury to himself, although he carried away a
+brick or two from the chimney of the house, much to the annoyance
+of the person in charge, who rushed out upon the aeronaut, and
+told him that he had no business to come in contact with the
+chimney.&nbsp; His reply exhibited an extraordinary coolness, for
+he assured the man it was quite unintentional upon his part.</p>
+<p>The milestone is opposite the entrance to No. 20 Stamford
+Villas, which informs the pedestrian that it is one mile to
+Fulham; and passing Salem Chapel, which is on the right hand side
+of the main road, we reach the village of Walham Green.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 137--><a name="page137"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 137</span>CHAPTER IV.</h2>
+<p class="gutsumm"><span class="smcap">walham green to
+fulham</span>.</p>
+<p>The village of Walham Green, which is distant from Hyde Park
+Corner between two and a half and three miles, appears to have
+been first so called soon after the revolution of 1688.&nbsp;
+Before this, it was known as Wansdon Green, written also Wandon
+and Wandham; all of which names, according to Lysons, originated
+from the manor of Wendon, so was the local name written in 1449,
+which in 1565 was spelled Wandowne.&nbsp; As the name of a low
+and marshy piece of land on the opposite side of the Thames to
+Wandsworth, through which <i>wandered</i> the drainage from the
+higher grounds, or through which the traveller had to
+<i>Wendon</i> (pendan) his way to Fulham; it would not be
+difficult to enter into speculations as to the Anglo-Saxon origin
+of the word, but I refrain from placing before the reader my
+antiquarian ruminations while passing Wansdown House, for few
+things are more fascinating and deceptive than verbal
+associations.&nbsp; Indeed, if indulged in to any extent, they
+might lead an enthusiast to connect in thought the piers of
+Fulham (bridge) with the <i>Piers</i> of <!-- page 138--><a
+name="page138"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 138</span>Fulham,
+who, in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, &ldquo;compyled many
+praty conceytis in love under covert terms of ffyssyng and
+ffowlyng;&rdquo; and which curious poem may be found printed in a
+collection of <i>Ancient Metrical Tales</i>, edited by the Rev.
+Charles Henry Hartshorne. <a name="citation138"></a><a
+href="#footnote138" class="citation">[138]</a></p>
+<p>Two of &ldquo;some ancient houses, erected in 1595, as
+appeared by a date on the truss in the front of one of
+them,&rdquo; were pulled down at Walham Green in 1812; after
+which the important proceedings in the progress of this village
+in suburban advancement consisted in the establishment of
+numerous public-houses; the filling up of a filthy pond, upon the
+ground gained by which act a chapel-of-ease to Fulham, dedicated
+to St. John, has been built, after the design of Mr. Taylor, at
+the estimated expense of &pound;9683 17s. 9d.&nbsp; The first
+stone was laid on the 1st of January, 1827; and it was
+consecrated by the Bishop of London on the 14th of August,
+1828.&nbsp; This was followed by the building of a charity-school
+upon an angular patch of green, or common land, where donkeys had
+been wont to graze, and the village children to play at
+cricket.&nbsp; Then the parish pound was removed from a corner of
+the high road, near a basket-maker&rsquo;s, to a back lane,
+thereby destroying the travelling joke of &ldquo;Did you ever see
+the baskets sold by the pound?&rdquo;&nbsp; And, finally, Walham
+Green has assumed a new aspect, from the construction of the
+Butchers&rsquo; Almshouses, the first stone of which was laid by
+the late Lord Ravensworth, on the 1st of July, 1840.&nbsp; Since
+that time, fancy-fairs and bazaars, with horticultural
+exhibitions, have been fashionably patronised at Walham <!-- page
+139--><a name="page139"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+139</span>Green by omnibus companies, for the support and
+enlargement of this institution.</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Hail, happy isle! and happier Walham
+Green!<br />
+Where all that&rsquo;s fair and beautiful are seen!<br />
+Where wanton zephyrs court the ambient air,<br />
+And sweets ambrosial banish every care;<br />
+Where thought nor trouble social joy molest,<br />
+Nor vain solicitude can banish rest.<br />
+Peaceful and happy here I reign serene,<br />
+Perplexity defy, and smile at spleen;<br />
+Belles, beaux, and statesmen, all around me shine;<br />
+All own me their supreme, me constitute divine;<br />
+All wait my pleasure, own my awful nod,<br />
+And change the humble gardener to the god.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Thus, in the &lsquo;London Magazine&rsquo; for June 1749, did
+Mr. Bartholomew Rocque prophetically apostrophise Walham
+Green,&mdash;the &ldquo;belles, beaux, and statesmen,&rdquo; by
+which he was surrounded being new varieties of flowers, dignified
+by distinguished names.&nbsp; In 1755, he printed a
+&lsquo;Treatise on the Cultivation of the Hyacinth, translated
+from the Dutch;&rsquo; and in 1761 an &lsquo;Essay on Lucerne
+Grass,&rsquo;, of which an enlarged edition was published in
+1764.&nbsp; Mr. Rocque <a name="citation139"></a><a
+href="#footnote139" class="citation">[139]</a> resided in the
+house occupied by the late Mr. King, opposite to the Red Lion,
+where Mr. Oliver Pitts now carries on business as builder and
+carpenter.</p>
+<p>Immediately after leaving Walham Green, on the south, or
+left-hand side, of the main Fulham road, behind a pair of
+carriage gates, connected by a brick wall, stands the <!-- page
+140--><a name="page140"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+140</span>mansion of Lord Ravensworth; in outward appearance
+small and unostentatious, without the slightest attempt at
+architectural decoration, but sufficiently spacious and
+attractive to have received the highest honour that can be
+conferred on the residence of a subject, by her Majesty and
+Prince Albert having visited the late lord here on the 26th of
+June, 1840.&nbsp; The grounds at the back of the house, though
+not extensive, were planted with peculiar skill, care, and taste,
+by the late Mr. Ord; and on that occasion recalled to memory the
+words of our old poet, the author of &lsquo;Britannia&rsquo;s
+Pastorals,&rsquo; William Browne:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;There stood the elme, whose shade so
+mildely dym<br />
+Doth nourish all that groweth under him:<br />
+Cipresse that like piramides runne topping,<br />
+And hurt the least of any by the dropping;<br />
+The alder, whose fat shadow nourisheth<br />
+Each plant set neere to him long flourisheth;<br />
+The heavie-headed plane-tree, by whose shade<br />
+The grasse grows thickest, men are fresher made;<br />
+The oak that best endures the thunder-shocks,<br />
+The everlasting, ebene, cedar, boxe.<br />
+The olive, that in wainscot never cleaves,<br />
+The amourous vine which in the elme still weaves;<br />
+The lotus, juniper, where wormes ne&rsquo;er enter;<br />
+The pyne, with whom men through the ocean venture;<br />
+The warlike yewgh, by which (more than the lance)<br />
+The strong-arm&rsquo;d English spirits conquer&rsquo;d France;<br
+/>
+Amongst the rest, the tamarisks there stood,<br />
+For housewives&rsquo; besomes only knowne most good;<br />
+The cold-place-loving birch, and servis-tree;<br />
+The Walnut-loving vales and mulberry;<br />
+The maple, ashe, that doe delight in fountains,<br />
+Which have their currents by the side of mountains;<br />
+The laurell, mirtle, ivy, date, which hold<br />
+Their leaves all winter, be it ne&rsquo;er so cold;<br />
+<!-- page 141--><a name="page141"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+141</span>The firre, that oftentimes doth rosin drop;<br />
+The beech, that scales the welkin with his top:<br />
+<i>All these and thousand more within this grove</i>,<br />
+<i>By all the industry of nature strove</i><br />
+<i>To frame an arbour that might keepe within it</i><br />
+<i>The best of beauties that the world hath in it</i>.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Since the royal visit, Lord Ravensworth&rsquo;s residence has
+been called <i>Percy Cross</i>, but no reason has been assigned
+for the alteration of name from Purser&rsquo;s Cross, which is
+mentioned as a point &ldquo;on the Fulham road between
+Parson&rsquo;s Green and Walham Green,&rdquo; so far back as
+1602, and at which we shall presently arrive.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p141.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"View of Percy Cross"
+title=
+"View of Percy Cross"
+src="images/p141.jpg" />
+</a>No connection whatever that I am aware of exists between the
+locality and the Percy family, and it only affords another, very
+recent local example of what has been as happily as quaintly
+termed &ldquo;the curiosity of change.&rdquo;&nbsp; The most
+favourable aspect of the house is, perhaps, the view gained of it
+from a neighbouring garden across a piece of water called Eel
+Brook, which ornaments an adjacent meadow.</p>
+<p>John Ord, Esq., the creator of Lord Ravensworth&rsquo;s London
+residence, is better known as &ldquo;Master Ord.&rdquo;&nbsp; He
+was the only son of Robert Ord, Chief Baron of the Court of
+Exchequer in Scotland.&nbsp; In 1746 Mr. Ord entered Trinity
+College, Cambridge, and in 1762, vacated a lay fellowship <!--
+page 142--><a name="page142"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+142</span>by marriage with Eleanor, the second daughter of John
+Simpson, Esq., of Bradley, in the county of Durham.&nbsp; After
+being called to the bar, Mr. Ord practised in the Court of
+Chancery; and, in 1774, was returned to parliament as member for
+Midhurst.&nbsp; In 1778 he was appointed Master of Chancery; and
+the next session, when returned member for Hastings, was chosen
+chairman of &ldquo;Ways and Means,&rdquo; in which situation his
+conduct gave much satisfaction.&nbsp; Mr. Ord retired from
+parliament in 1790, and in 1809 resigned his office of Master in
+Chancery, and that of Attorney-General for Lancaster the
+following year, when &ldquo;he retired to a small place at
+Purser&rsquo;s Cross, in the parish of Fulham, where he had early
+in life amused himself in horticultural pursuits, and where there
+are several foreign trees of his own raising remarkable both for
+their beauty and size.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Lysons, in 1795, says&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;While I am speaking upon this
+subject&rdquo; (the trees planted by Bishop Compton in the
+gardens of Fulham Palace), &ldquo;it would he unpardonable to
+omit the mention of a very curious garden near Walham Green in
+this parish, planted, since the year 1756, by its present
+proprietor, John Ord, Esq., Master in Chancery.&nbsp; It is not a
+little extraordinary that this garden should, within the space of
+forty years (such have been the effects of good management and a
+fertile soil), have produced trees which are now the finest of
+their respective kinds in the kingdom.&nbsp; As a proof of this
+may be mentioned the <i>sophora Japonica</i>, planted anno 1756,
+then about two feet high, now eight feet in girth, and about
+forty in height; a standard <i>Ginko</i> tree, planted about the
+year 1767, two feet three inches in girth; and an Illinois
+walnut, two feet two inches in girth, growing where it was sown
+about the year 1760.&nbsp; Among other trees, very remarkable
+also for their growth, though not to be spoken of as the largest
+of their kind, are a black walnut-tree (sown anno 1757), about
+forty feet high, and five feet four inches in girth; a cedar of
+Libanus (planted in <!-- page 143--><a name="page143"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 143</span>1756), eight feet eight inches in
+girth; a willow-leaved oak (sown anno 1757), four feet in girth;
+the Rhus Vernix, or varnish sumach, four feet in girth; and a
+stone pine of very singular growth.&nbsp; Its girth at one foot
+from the ground is six feet four inches; at that height it
+immediately begins to branch out, and spreads, at least,
+twenty-one feet on each side, forming a large bush of about
+fourteen yards in diameter.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The second edition of Lysons&rsquo; &lsquo;Environs of
+London&rsquo; appeared in 1810, when the measurement of these
+trees, in June 1808 and December 1809, was placed in
+apposition.&nbsp; Faulkner&rsquo;s &lsquo;History of
+Fulham,&rsquo; published in 1813, carries on the history of their
+growth for three years more; but as, from the marginal pencil
+note signed J. M., and dated January 1835 in Lysons&rsquo;, I am
+led to conclude that some of these interesting trees exist no
+longer, the following tabular view compiled from these sources
+may not be unacceptable to the naturalist, who is well aware
+that</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Not small the praise the skilful planter
+claims,<br />
+From his befriended country.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>About the time of Mr. Ord&rsquo;s death, 6th June, 1814, his
+garden contained much that is remarkable in
+horticulture:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;There was,&rdquo; we are told, &ldquo;a
+good collection of American plants; amongst others, a fine
+<i>Andromeda Arborea</i>, planted about eight inches high in
+March 1804; and now (1812) eleven feet eight inches high.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;The <i>Glastonbury Thorn</i> flowered here on Christmas
+day, 1793.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;In the kitchen garden is (1812) a moss-rose, which has
+been much admired.&nbsp; Many years ago Mr. Ord ordered his
+gardener to lay a moss-rose, which, when done, he thought looked
+so well, he would not allow the layers to be taken off, but laid
+them down year after year, till it covered the ground it does at
+present, viz. a diameter of forty-seven feet; want of room has
+confined it to its present size for several years.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<table>
+<tr>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p><!-- page 144--><a name="page144"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 144</span>Girth at 3 feet from the ground in
+1793</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>Girth in June 1808</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>Girth in December 1809</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>Girth in 1812 (Faulkner)</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>Girth in Jan 1835 J.M.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>f.&nbsp;&nbsp; i.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>f.&nbsp; i.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>f.&nbsp; i.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>f.&nbsp; i.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>f.&nbsp; i.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Sophora japonica</i>, <a name="citation144a"></a><a
+href="#footnote144a" class="citation">[144a]</a> in 1809, about
+50 feet in height; it flowered for the first time in August 1807,
+and has continued to flower the two succeeding years.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>9&nbsp;&nbsp; 4</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>9&nbsp;&nbsp; 7&frac12;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>10&nbsp; 1</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>0&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Ginko-tree</i> (<i>Ginko biloba</i>, standard) about 37
+feet high.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp; 6</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp; 9</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp; 10</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>0&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>A tree from an Illinois-nut, given by Mr. Aiton to Mr.
+Ord, about 40 feet high. <a name="citation144b"></a><a
+href="#footnote144b" class="citation">[144b]</a></p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>2&nbsp; 10</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>2&nbsp; 11</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>0&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>A black walnut-tree, (<i>juglans niger</i>), sown where it
+stands in 1757, about 64 feet high in 1809.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>6&nbsp; 11 <a name="citation144c"></a><a href="#footnote144c"
+class="citation">[144c]</a></p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>7&nbsp;&nbsp; 3</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>10&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>A cedar of Lebanon, when planted being two years old, in
+1809 being about 55 feet high.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>9&nbsp; 11 <a name="citation144d"></a><a href="#footnote144d"
+class="citation">[144d]</a></p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>9&nbsp;&nbsp; 9</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>10&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>A willow-leaved oak, sown in 1757.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>5&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 <a name="citation144e"></a><a
+href="#footnote144e" class="citation">[144e]</a></p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>5&nbsp;&nbsp; 7</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>The <i>rhus vernix</i>, or varnish sumach.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>4&nbsp;&nbsp; 10</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>4&nbsp;&nbsp; 10</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Fraxinus ornus</i>, which is covered with flowers every
+year.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Gleditsia triacanthus</i>, sown in 1759, produced pods
+2 feet long in 1780, but the seeds imperfect.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Acacia common</i>, sown in 1757, planted where it
+stands in 1758.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 7</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Ilex</i></p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 9</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Tulip-tree</i>, sown where it stands in 1758, first
+flowered in 1782.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Cyprus deciduus</i>, sown in 1760</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Corylus colurna</i> (Constantinople hazel), between 30
+and 40 feet high, bears fruit, but imperfect.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Virginian cedar</i>, (red) sown in 1758</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Guilandina dioica</i>, or <i>bonduc</i></p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Juglans alba</i>, or white hickory.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Lombardy</i>, or <i>Po poplar</i>, a cutting in 1766
+near 100 feet high.</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p><i>Poplar</i>, planted in 1772</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6</p>
+</td>
+<td><p>&nbsp;</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<blockquote><p>Another column headed 1845, carrying out this
+view, would be an important addition to statistical
+observation.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 145--><a name="page145"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+145</span>Two agaves, or American aloes, flowered in Mr.
+Ord&rsquo;s greenhouse in the summer of 1812, one of which was a
+beautiful striped variety.&nbsp; The plants had been there since
+the year 1756.&nbsp; Amid all these delightful associations,
+there is one melancholy event connected with the place.&nbsp; On
+the night of the 9th September, 1807, a fire broke out in the
+garden-house of Mr. Ord&rsquo;s residence (a cottage upon the
+site of the present stables): the flame raged so furiously as to
+burn the principal gardener, an old and valued servant, almost to
+ashes before any help could be afforded to him.&nbsp; Upon the
+following Sunday (13th), the Rev. John Owen, the then curate of
+Fulham, preached so effective a sermon upon the uncertainty of
+the morrow, <a name="citation145"></a><a href="#footnote145"
+class="citation">[145]</a> that having printed a large impression
+&ldquo;without any loss to himself,&rdquo; a second edition
+appeared on the 3rd of the following month.</p>
+<p>In the second volume of the &lsquo;Transactions of the
+Horticultural Society,&rsquo; a beautifully-coloured
+representation of &lsquo;Ord&rsquo;s apple&rsquo; may be found,
+illustrative of Mr. Salisbury&rsquo;s communication respecting
+it, which was read to the Society on the 17th of January,
+1817.&nbsp; After acknowledging his obligations to Mrs. Anne
+Simpson, the sister of Mrs. Ord, and who Mr. Salisbury represents
+as &ldquo;being as fond of gardening as her late brother-in-law,
+Mr. Ord,&rdquo; it is stated that,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;About forty years ago, the late John Ord,
+Esq. raised, in his garden at <i>Purser&rsquo;s Cross</i>, near
+Fulham, an apple-tree from the seed of the New-town pippin,
+imported from North America.&nbsp; When this tree began to bear,
+its fruit, though without any external beauty, proved remarkably
+good, and had a peculiar quality, namely, a <!-- page 146--><a
+name="page146"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 146</span>melting
+softness in eating, so that it might be said almost to dissolve
+in the mouth.&nbsp; The late Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, often had
+grafts of this tree, and he sold the plant so raised first with
+the name of Ord&rsquo;s apple, and subsequently with the name of
+New-town pippin. . . . .</p>
+<p>&ldquo;This seedling tree,&rdquo; continues Mr. Salisbury,
+&ldquo;is now (1817) of large dimensions, its trunk being four
+feet four inches round at a yard above the ground; but it has of
+late years been very unhealthy, and scarcely borne any fruit
+worth gathering, its roots having, no doubt, penetrated into a
+stratum of unfavourable soil.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Mrs. Anne Simpson sowed some pippins from this remarkable
+tree,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;And two of the healthiest seedlings of this
+second generation were planted out to remain in the
+kitchen-garden, which are now (1817) about twenty years
+old.&nbsp; One of these trees began to bear fruit very soon,
+which is not unlike that of its parent in shape, with a thin
+skin; and, being a very good apple, grafts of it have been
+distributed about the metropolis with the name of
+<i>Simpson&rsquo;s pippin</i>.&nbsp; The other seedling of the
+second generation was several years longer in bearing fruit; and,
+when it did, the apples were quite of a different shape, being
+long, with a thick skin and poor flavour, and so numerous as to
+be all very small.&nbsp; Of late years, however, they have
+gradually improved so much in flavour, as to become a remarkably
+spirited, juicy apple, attaining a good size, which has probably
+been promoted by thinning them, though a full crop has always
+been left upon the tree; and they are now greatly esteemed by all
+who taste them.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This apple is in perfection for eating from Christmas to the
+middle of March.&nbsp; The skin is thick, and always of a green
+colour while on the tree, but tinged with copper-coloured red,
+and several darker spots on the sunny side; after the fruit has
+been gathered some time, the green colour changes to a yellowish
+cast.&nbsp; It may be mentioned that, before the death of the
+late Lord Ravensworth, the house was inhabited by those
+celebrated artistes, Madame Grisi and Signor Mario.</p>
+<p><!-- page 147--><a name="page147"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+147</span>On the opposite side of the road to Lord
+Ravensworth&rsquo;s, and a few yards beyond it, on the way to
+Fulham, is Walham Lodge, formerly Park Cottage, a modern
+well-built house, which stands within extensive grounds,
+surrounded by a brick wall.&nbsp; This was for some years the
+residence of Mr. Brand, the eminent chemist, who particularly
+distinguished himself by the course of lectures which he
+delivered on geology, at the Royal Institution, in 1816; and
+which may be dated as the popular starting point of that branch
+of scientific inquiry in this country.</p>
+<p>A house, now divided into two, and called Dungannon House and
+Albany Lodge, abuts upon the western boundary wall of the grounds
+of Walham Lodge.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p147.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Dungannon House&mdash;Albany Lodge"
+title=
+"Dungannon House&mdash;Albany Lodge"
+src="images/p147.jpg" />
+</a>Tradition stoutly asserts that this united cottage and villa
+were, previous to their division, known by the name of
+<i>Bolingbroke Lodge</i>, and that here Pope did, more than
+once,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Awake my St. John,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>by an early morning visit.</p>
+<p>At Albany Lodge, the farthest part of the old house in our
+view (then Heckfield Villa), resided Mr. Milton, before-mentioned
+as having lived at Heckfield Lodge, Little Chelsea; both of which
+names were introduced on the Fulham Road, from that
+gentleman&rsquo;s attachment to the name of his reverend
+father&rsquo;s living, near Basingstoke.</p>
+<p><!-- page 148--><a name="page148"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+148</span>Dungannon House formerly went by the name of Acacia
+Cottage, and was so called from a tree in the garden.&nbsp; It
+was for many years the country residence of Mr. Joseph Johnson,
+of St. Paul&rsquo;s Churchyard, a publisher worthy of literary
+regard; and here he died on the 20th of December, 1809.&nbsp; He
+was born at Liverpool, in 1738; and, after serving an
+apprenticeship in London, commenced business as a medical
+bookseller, upon Fish Street Hill; &ldquo;a situation he chose as
+being in the track of the medical students resorting to the
+hospitals in the Borough, and which probably was the foundation
+of his connexions with many eminent members of that
+profession.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Having entered into partnership, he removed to Paternoster
+Row, where his house and stock were destroyed by fire, in 1770:
+after which, feeling the advantage of a peculiar locality, he
+carried on business alone, until the time of his death, at the
+house which all juvenile readers who recollect the caterers for
+their amusement and instruction will remember as that of
+&ldquo;Harris and Co., corner of St. Paul&rsquo;s
+Churchyard.&rdquo;&nbsp; This step was considered at the time, by
+&ldquo;the trade,&rdquo; as a bold and inconsiderate measure; but
+it was successfully imitated by the late Mr. Murray, in his
+removal from Fleet Street to Albemarle Street; and, indeed, John
+Murray, as a publisher, seems only to have been a fearless
+copyist, in many matters, of Joseph Johnson.&nbsp; Whether, as a
+tradesman, he was judicious or not in so doing, is a question
+upon which there may be two opinions; but there can be no
+hesitation about the perfect application of Dr. Aikin&rsquo;s
+words to both parties:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The character Mr. Johnson established by
+his integrity, good <!-- page 149--><a name="page149"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 149</span>sense, and honourable principles of
+dealing, soon raised him to eminence as a publisher; and many of
+the most distinguished names in science and literature during the
+last half century appear in works which he ushered to the
+world.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The imprint of Johnson is to be found upon the title-pages
+which first introduced Cowper and Darwin to notice:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The former of these, with the diffidence,
+and perhaps the despondency, of his character, had actually, by
+means of a friend, made over to him (Johnson) his two volumes of
+poems, on no other condition than that of securing him from
+expense; but when the public, which neglected the first volume,
+had discovered the rich mine opened in the <i>Task</i>, and
+assigned the author his merited place among the first-rate
+English poets, Mr. Johnson would not avail himself of his
+advantage, but displayed a liberality which has been warmly
+acknowledged by that admirable, though unfortunate,
+person.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>A score of equally generous anecdotes might be told of
+Murray.&nbsp; In one particular, however, there was, as
+publishers, a decided difference between the views of Johnson and
+Murray.&nbsp; Those of Johnson are at present in the ascendancy;
+but they may produce a revolution in favour of the opinion of
+John Murray against cheap literature.&nbsp; Johnson was the
+opponent of typographical luxury.&nbsp; Murray, on the contrary,
+supported the aristocracy of the press, until obliged, &ldquo;by
+the pressure from without,&rdquo; in some degree to compromise
+his views by the publication of the &lsquo;Family
+Library.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>In the wing (comparatively speaking a modern addition)
+attached to this house, and in the room where Mr. Johnson died,
+is a remarkable chimney-piece, of a monumental character; but I
+can learn nothing respecting it.</p>
+<p><!-- page 150--><a name="page150"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+150</span>The history of Dungannon House when Acacia Cottage,
+could we procure a correct record of all the ideas which 
+<a href="images/p150.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Chimney-piece"
+title=
+"Chimney-piece"
+src="images/p150.jpg" />
+</a> have passed through the human mind within its walls,
+respecting literature and art, would form a chronicle of singular
+interest.&nbsp; The late Mr. Hullmandel, well known as one of the
+most experienced and successful practitioners of lithography in
+England, resided here in 1839 and 1840, when he discovered a new
+process in his favourite art, by simple mental reasoning, upon
+the application of the process of copperplate aquatint to
+lithographic purposes.&nbsp; For this discovery&mdash;and it is
+one of considerable importance&mdash;he subsequently took out a
+patent, under the name of lithotint.&nbsp; Ever since the infancy
+of lithography, hundreds of persons connected with the art,
+beginning with its inventor himself, Senefelder, had endeavoured
+to produce impressions from stone of subjects executed with the
+brush, in the same manner as drawings are made with sepia, or
+Indian ink.&nbsp; <!-- page 151--><a name="page151"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 151</span>And it was natural enough that
+artists should have made every effort to supersede the tedious
+and elaborate process by which alone a liquid could be rendered
+available for the purpose of drawing on stone.&nbsp; The mode of
+drawing technically called &ldquo;the ink style,&rdquo; consists
+merely of a series of lines, some finer, some thicker, executed
+on the white surface of the stone, with ink dissolved in water,
+by means of a fine sable or a steel pen, in imitation of an
+etching on copper.&nbsp; All attempts, however, at producing
+variety of tints, by using the ink thicker or thinner,
+failed,&mdash;the fainter lines either disappearing altogether,
+or printing as dark as thick ones.&nbsp; In every attempt made to
+use this ink as a wash, the result was still more disastrous,
+producing only one dirty mass of indistinctness, amid which the
+original drawing was scarcely to be traced.&nbsp; For twenty
+years did Mr. Hullmandel labour to attain some mode of printing
+drawings, made by a series of washes, with a brush, on stone,
+feeling this to be the great desideratum in the art.&nbsp;
+Lithographers in Germany, in France, and in this country, had
+pronounced it to be &ldquo;utterly impossible;&rdquo; when the
+idea suddenly flashed upon him, that, if he could effect a minute
+granulation of the ink, by treating it as a copperplate engraver
+would the ground of an aquatint plate, the relative strength of
+the different washes might be preserved.&nbsp; He hastened from
+Acacia Cottage to his printing-office in London, to put his
+theory into practice, and was rewarded by the most satisfactory
+results.</p>
+<p>Since that period, several prints, by this process of
+lithotint, were produced by Mr. Hullmandel, from drawings made by
+Harding, Nash, Haghe, Walton, and other clever <!-- page 152--><a
+name="page152"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 152</span>artists, in
+which all the raciness, the smartness, and the beauty of touch,
+are apparent, which hitherto could only be found in the original
+drawing.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p152a.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Arundel House&mdash;front"
+title=
+"Arundel House&mdash;front"
+src="images/p152a.jpg" />
+</a>
+<a href="images/p152b.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Arundel House&mdash;back"
+title=
+"Arundel House&mdash;back"
+src="images/p152b.jpg" />
+</a>In fact, lithotint was not a translation, but a
+multiplication of the original; and its discovery, or, rather,
+the proper application of knowledge, became an eventful era in
+the history of the fine arts.</p>
+<p>Arundel House, a few yards beyond Dungannon House, stands on
+the same side of the road, opposite to Parson&rsquo;s Green Lane,
+which leads to the King&rsquo;s Road.&nbsp; It is a house of
+considerable antiquity, judging from the stone mullions brought
+to light by some repairs,&mdash;probably as old as the time of
+Henry VIII.; although the brick front, as shown above, appears to
+be the work of the latter part of the seventeenth century.</p>
+<p>The back of Arundel House is quite different in character, and
+retains an <!-- page 153--><a name="page153"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 153</span>old porch leading into the
+garden.&nbsp; At the farther end of the garden a venerable
+yew-tree arbour exists; and not 
+<a href="images/p153a.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Arundel House porch and Yew Tree Arbour"
+title=
+"Arundel House porch and Yew Tree Arbour"
+src="images/p153a.jpg" />
+</a> far from it used to stand a picturesque old pump, with the
+date 1758 close to the spout; which pump is now removed, and a
+new one put in its place.&nbsp; Upon a leaden cistern at the back
+of Arundel House, the following monogram occurs beneath an
+earl&rsquo;s coronet, with the date 1703:&mdash;
+<a href="images/p153b.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Old Pump and monogram"
+title=
+"Old Pump and monogram"
+src="images/p153b.jpg" />
+</a>Notwithstanding that this is obviously compounded of the
+letters L. I. C., or C. I. L., and at the first glance with the
+<!-- page 154--><a name="page154"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+154</span>connexion of an earl&rsquo;s coronet and a date would
+appear to present no difficulty respecting the correct
+appropriation, I must confess my inability to state to whom the
+monogram belonged.&nbsp; For the name of Arundel I am equally
+unable to account.&nbsp; No mention whatever is made of this
+house by Mr. Faulkner; nor does the name of Arundel occur in the
+parish records of Fulham, although in 1724, as before mentioned,
+Stanley Grove House appears to have been in the possession of
+Henry Arundel.&nbsp; In the midst of this obscurity, the
+residence of the late Mr. Hallam, the historian, who occupied
+Arundel House in 1819, invests it with a literary association of
+interest.</p>
+<p>On the opposite side of the road is the carriage entrance to
+Park House, which stands in Parson&rsquo;s Green Lane.&nbsp; A
+stone tablet has been let into one of the piers of the gateway,
+inscribed</p>
+<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span
+class="smcap">Purser&rsquo;s Cross</span>,<br />
+7<span class="smcap">th August</span>,<br />
+1738.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>This date has reference to an occurrence which the monthly
+chronologer in the &lsquo;London Magazine&rsquo; thus
+relates:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;An highwayman having committed several
+robberies on Finchley Common, was pursued to London, when he
+thought himself safe, but was, in a little time, discovered at a
+public-house in Burlington Gardens, refreshing himself and his
+horse; however, he had time to remount, and rode through Hyde
+Park, in which there were several gentlemen&rsquo;s servants
+airing their horses, who, taking the alarm, pursued him closely
+as far as Fulham Fields, where, finding no probability of
+escaping, he threw money among some country people who were at
+work in the field, and told them they would soon see the end of
+an unfortunate man.&nbsp; He had no sooner spoke these words but
+he pulled <!-- page 155--><a name="page155"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 155</span>out a pistol, clapped it to his ear,
+and shot himself directly, before his pursuers could prevent
+him.&nbsp; The coroner&rsquo;s inquest brought in their verdict,
+and he was buried in a cross road, with a stake drove through
+him; but &rsquo;twas not known who he was.&rdquo; <a
+name="citation155a"></a><a href="#footnote155a"
+class="citation">[155a]</a></p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>In the &lsquo;Beauties of England and Wales,&rsquo;
+&ldquo;Purser&rsquo;s Cross&rdquo; is said to have been corrupted
+from &ldquo;Parson&rsquo;s Cross,&rdquo; and the vicinity of
+Parson&rsquo;s Green is mentioned in support of the
+conjecture.&nbsp; However, that Purser, and not Percy Cross, has
+been for many years the usual mode of writing the name of this
+locality is established by the &lsquo;Annual Register&rsquo; for
+1781, where the following remarkable coincidence is
+mentioned:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Died, 30th December, 1780, at
+Purser&rsquo;s Cross, Fulham, Mrs. Elizabeth and Mrs. Frances
+Turberville, in the seventy-seventh year of their ages, of
+ancient and respectable west country family; they were twin
+sisters, and both died unmarried.&nbsp; What adds to the
+singularity of this circumstance, they were both born the same
+day, never were known to live separate, died within a few days of
+each other, and were interred on the same day.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Park House presents a fac-simile of an old mansion which stood
+precisely on the same site, and was known as Quibus Hall, a name,
+as is conjectured, bestowed upon it in consequence of some
+dispute respecting possession between the coheirs of Sir Michael
+Wharton, who died about 1725. <a name="citation155b"></a><a
+href="#footnote155b" class="citation">[155b]</a>&nbsp; When
+rebuilt by Mr. Holland for the late Mr. Powell, it was called
+High Elms House, and was for some time occupied as a school,
+conducted by the Rev. <!-- page 156--><a name="page156"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 156</span>Thomas Bowen, who published in 1798
+&lsquo;Thoughts on the Necessity of Moral Discipline in
+Prisons.&rsquo;&nbsp; After Mr. Bowen&rsquo;s death in the
+following year, his widow, with the assistance of the Rev. Joshua
+Ruddock, carried on the establishment until 1825, since which
+time Park House became the occasional residence of Mr. Powell, of
+Quex, in the Isle of Thanet, until his death in 1849.&nbsp; A
+cottage opposite (formerly &ldquo;Brunswick Cottage&rdquo;) was
+called &ldquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower,&rdquo; during the time the
+late Mr. Crofton Croker lived in it (1837&ndash;46).</p>
+<p>In a privately printed description of this cottage, when the
+residence of Mr. Croker, of which but a very few copies were
+distributed to his friends, Mr. Croker himself writes:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;In what, it may be asked, originates the
+romantic name of &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower?&rsquo;&nbsp; A
+question I shall endeavour to answer.&nbsp; The curious reader
+will find from Lysons&rsquo; &lsquo;Environs of London&rsquo;
+(II. 359), that the manor of Rosamonds is an estate near
+Parson&rsquo;s Green, in the 
+<a href="images/p156.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Old Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower and Park House, from a Sketch made
+about 1750"
+title=
+"Old Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower and Park House, from a Sketch made
+about 1750"
+src="images/p156.jpg" />
+</a><!-- page 157--><a name="page157"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 157</span>parish of Fulham.&nbsp; Lysons adds,
+&lsquo;the site of the mansion belonging to this estate, now
+(1795) rented by a gardener, is said, by tradition, to have been
+a palace of Fair Rosamond.&rsquo;&nbsp; There seems to be,
+however, no foundation beyond the name for this tradition, and it
+is unnoticed by Faulkner in his &lsquo;History of Fulham,&rsquo;
+published in 1813.&nbsp; He merely mentions, adjoining High Elms,
+or Park House, an old dwelling, which &lsquo;ancient
+house,&rsquo; continues Faulkner, &lsquo;appears to be of the age
+of Elizabeth, and is commonly called Rosamond&rsquo;s
+Bower.&rsquo;&nbsp; This &lsquo;ancient house&rsquo; was taken
+down by Mr. Powell, in the year 1826, and the present stables of
+Park House are built upon the site.&nbsp; But I have recently
+learned that the name of &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Dairy&rsquo; is
+still attached to an old house probably built between two and
+three hundred years, which stands a little way back from the
+high-road at the north-west corner of Parson&rsquo;s Green.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I have always felt with Dr. Johnson that relics are
+venerable things, and are only <i>not</i> to be worshipped.&nbsp;
+When, therefore, I took my cottage, in 1837, and was told that
+the oak staircase in it had belonged to the veritable
+&lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower,&rsquo; and was the only relic of
+it that existed; and when I found that the name had no longer a
+precise &lsquo;local habitation&rsquo; in Fulham, I ventured,
+purely from motives of respect for the memory of the past, and
+not from any affectation of romance, to revive an ancient
+parochial name which had been suffered to die out, &lsquo;like
+the snuff of a candle.&rsquo;&nbsp; In changing its precise
+situation, in transferring it from one side of Parson&rsquo;s
+Green Lane to the other, a distance, however, not fifty yards
+from the original site, I trust when called upon to show cause
+for the transfer, to be reasonably supported by the history of
+the old oak staircase.&nbsp; Indeed I may here venture to assert
+that the change of name from &lsquo;Brunswick
+Cottage,&rsquo;&mdash;so was &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower&rsquo;
+called when I took it,&mdash;and the assumption of that name, if
+contrasted with the name changing and name travelling fashion of
+the district, is a proceeding in which I am fully borne out by
+numerous precedents.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Miss Edgeworth, in her reply, dated 31st January, 1840,
+to the letter of a juvenile correspondent (then nine years of
+age) inquires, &lsquo;Is Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower a real
+name?&rsquo;&nbsp; And I well remember the gestures and even some
+of the jests which the omnibus passengers made when
+&lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower&rsquo; was first painted upon the
+stone caps of the gate piers, such as Father Prout&rsquo;s
+&lsquo;<i>Rosy</i>-man&rsquo;s Bower near the <i>White</i>
+Sheaf&rsquo; (Wheatsheaf).&nbsp; But the novelty wore off in a
+week or <!-- page 158--><a name="page158"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 158</span>two, and the name has long since
+ceased to be an object of speculation to any but the
+inquisitive.&nbsp; For their information I may state, that in the
+time of Elizabeth all the gardeners&rsquo; cottages in this
+neighbourhood were called bowers.&nbsp; It was the Saxon term for
+a room, and, therefore, applied to the dwelling occupied by the
+labouring class.&nbsp; And Rosamond, or Rosaman, is said to have
+been the name of a family of gardeners bestowed upon the district
+which they had long cultivated&mdash;possibly a sobriquet derived
+from the fame of their roses in times when that flower was a
+badge of party distinction. . . .&nbsp; It only remains for me to
+add, that &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower&rsquo; stands 22 feet
+back from the high road, and has a small garden or court before
+it, measuring, exclusive of the stable-yard, 63 feet.&nbsp; The
+garden behind the house is of that form called a gore, gradually
+narrowing from 63 to 22 feet, in a distance of 550 feet or 183
+yards&mdash;five turns up and down which &lsquo;long walk&rsquo;
+may be reckoned, by exercise meters, &lsquo;a full mile,&rsquo;
+it being 73 yards over and above the distance, an ample allowance
+for ten short turnings.&nbsp; Of the old &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s
+Bower&rsquo; three representations have been preserved; two of
+these are pen-and-ink sketches by Mr. Doherty, made about the
+middle of the last century, one of which is an authority for the
+name of Pershouse Cross.&nbsp; The third view appears in a
+well-executed aquatint plate of &lsquo;Fulham Park School taken
+from the Play Ground.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;The foundation of the present &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s
+Bower,&rsquo; judging from the brickwork on the south side, and
+the thickness of the walls, is probably as old as the time of
+Elizabeth&mdash;I mean the original building which consisted of
+two rooms, one above the other, 12 feet square, and 7 feet in
+height.&nbsp; On the north side of this primitive dwelling was a
+deep draw-well.&nbsp; Subsequently two similar rooms were
+attached, one of which (the present hall) was built over the
+well, and two attics were raised upon this very simple structure,
+thus increasing the number of rooms from two to six.&nbsp; Then a
+kitchen was built (the present dining-room), and another room
+over it (the present drawing-room), at the back of the original
+building, which thus from a labourer&rsquo;s hut assumed the air
+of an eight-roomed cottage.&nbsp; It was then discovered that the
+rooms were of very small dimensions, and it was considered
+necessary to enlarge four of them by the additional space to be
+gained from bay windows in the dining-room, drawing-room, blue
+bedchamber, and dressing-room.&nbsp; But the spirit of
+improvement seldom rests content, and when it was found that the
+<!-- page 159--><a name="page159"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+159</span>kitchen, which looked upon the garden, was a more
+agreeable sitting-room, both as to aspect and quiet, than the
+more ancient and smaller room which looked upon the road, it was
+determined to create another attachment on the north side, by
+building a kitchen of still larger dimensions, with a scullery
+and storeroom behind, to replace the old scullery and out-offices
+by a spacious staircase, and over this new kitchen to place a
+room of corresponding size, or equal to that of the two bedrooms
+upon the same line of building.&nbsp; Thus in 1826 did
+&lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower&rsquo; become a cottage of ten
+rooms; and as it was soon afterwards presumed from the march of
+luxury that no one could live in a decade cottage without
+requiring a coachhouse and stable, an excellent one was built not
+far from the north side, making the third, though not the last,
+addition in that direction.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Parva domus! nemorosa quies,<br />
+Sis tu quoque nostris hospitium laribus<br />
+Subsidium diu: postes tuas Flora ornet<br />
+Pomonaque mensas.&rdquo;</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">THE GARDEN.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;It is much more difficult to describe the garden of
+Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower than its shape.&nbsp; I may, however,
+mention that by means of a sunk fence <a
+name="citation159"></a><a href="#footnote159"
+class="citation">[159]</a> and a wen-like excrescence upon the
+original gore, made in the Spring of 1842, the extensive meadow
+of Park House, with the piece of water which adorns it, appear to
+belong to my residence so completely, that so far as the eye
+questions the matter, &lsquo;I am monarch of all I
+survey.&rsquo;&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p159.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Distant View of &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower&rsquo; from the
+adjoining Meadow"
+title=
+"Distant View of &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower&rsquo; from the
+adjoining Meadow"
+src="images/p159.jpg" />
+</a>The first lawn of the garden rejoices in two very remarkable
+trees, one a standard Ayrshire rose, rising ten feet in height
+from a stem ten inches in circumference, and from which, during
+sunny June, &lsquo;every breeze, of red rose leaves brings down a
+<!-- page 160--><a name="page160"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+160</span>crimson rain.&rsquo; <a name="citation160"></a><a
+href="#footnote160" class="citation">[160]</a>&nbsp; The other a
+weeping ash of singularly beautiful proportions.&nbsp; It has
+been trained, or rather restrained, to the measurement of
+fifty-six feet in circumference, the stem being two feet round,
+and the branches shooting out at the height of five feet with
+incredible luxuriance.&nbsp; Under its branches I had the
+pleasure of seeing no less than thirty-eight friends sit down to
+breakfast on the 22nd June, 1842; and Gunter, who laid covers for
+forty-four, assured me, that another arrangement with circular
+tables, made for the purpose, would have comfortably accommodated
+sixty.&nbsp; A miniature shrubbery, not in height, but in
+breadth, intervenes between the first lawn and the flower garden,
+where, in the centre of beds, stands the &lsquo;Baylis
+Vase&rsquo;&mdash;a memorial, I sincerely trust, of a more
+enduring friendship.&nbsp; Miss Aikin&rsquo;s question&mdash;but
+a very long acquaintance with that lady&rsquo;s fame warrants me
+here writing &lsquo;Lucy Aikin&rsquo;s question&mdash;to me, one
+evening while walking down the garden, whether that urn had been
+placed over the remains of any favourite, was the occasion of the
+following lines being painted on it:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Think not that here was placed this urn<br />
+To mark a spot o&rsquo;er which to mourn.<br />
+Should tender thoughts awake a tear<br />
+For fading flowers or waning year,<br />
+Remember that another spring,<br />
+Fresh flowers and brighter hopes will bring.</p>
+<p>Two elevated strawberry beds, facetiously termed &lsquo;twin
+strawberry hills,&rsquo; rear themselves between the vase and the
+back lawn, the further corners of which are respectively
+protected from wheelbarrow intrusion by an Irish Quern and a
+Capsular Stone, venerated in Irish tradition&mdash;the former a
+remarkably perfect, the latter an exceedingly compact specimen,
+having on one side a double, and on the other a single hollow. .
+. .&nbsp; The remaining points of interest in my garden may be
+noticed in a very few words.&nbsp; It gradually decreases in
+breadth, and is fenced off on one side from the garden of a very
+kind neighbour (which contains two of the finest walnut trees in
+the parish) by an oak paling partially covered with broad, or
+Irish, and embellished by the picturesque narrow-leaved ivy.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;On the other side a trim hedge, kept breast high, which
+runs beside &lsquo;the long walk,&rsquo; separates it from the
+extensive meadow of <!-- page 161--><a name="page161"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 161</span>Park House, and at the termination
+the following inscription from one of Herrick&rsquo;s poems has
+been placed&mdash;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thine own dear grounds,<br
+/>
+Not envying others larger bounds,<br />
+For well thou knowest &rsquo;tis not the extent<br />
+Of land makes life, but sweet content.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;The garden produces plenty of strawberries, an
+abundance of raspberries, and generally a good crop of apples and
+pears, but few vegetables; the cultivation, except of asparagus
+(of which there are two excellent beds), having been abandoned,
+as the bird monopoly of peas, caused every shilling&rsquo;s worth
+that came to table to cost five, and the ingenuity of the slugs
+and snails having completely baffled all amateur gardening
+schemes of defence against their slimy invasions.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p161.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Rustic bench"
+title=
+"Rustic bench"
+src="images/p161.jpg" />
+</a>Among many experiments I may mention one.&nbsp; Some
+vegetables were protected by a circumvallum of salt; but,
+notwithstanding, the slugs and snails contrived to pass this
+supposed deadly line of demarcation by fixing themselves on dry
+leaves which they could easily lift, and thus they wriggled
+safely over it.&nbsp; My greatest enjoyment in the garden has
+been derived from a rustic bench at the north side of the
+shrubbery, through the back and arms of which a honeysuckle has
+luxuriantly interlaced itself; there, particularly when
+recovering from illness, I have sat, and have found, or fancied,
+that pain was soothed, and depressed spirits greatly elevated, by
+the monotonous tone of the bees around me.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The pamphlet from which the above has been taken then enters
+into a minute description of the curiosities, pictures, &amp;c.,
+collected by Mr. Croker at &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower,&rsquo;
+which it is unnecessary further to refer to; indeed, although
+intended for private circulation only, it was not completed, as
+Mr. Croker was led to believe it might appear but an egotistical
+description of an unimportant house.</p>
+<p>The following particulars, connected with Thomas <!-- page
+162--><a name="page162"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+162</span>Moore&rsquo;s visit to &lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s
+Bower,&rsquo; may prove interesting:&mdash;</p>
+<p>On the 6th October, 1838, Moore wrote to Mr. Crofton Croker as
+follows:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Many thanks for your wish to have me at
+Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower, even though I was unlucky enough not to
+profit by that wish&mdash;some other time, however, you must, for
+<i>my</i> sake, try again; and I shall then be most ready for a
+rummage of your Irish treasures.&nbsp; Already, indeed, I have
+been drawing a little upon your &lsquo;Researches in the South of
+Ireland;&rsquo; and should be very glad to have more books of
+yours to pilfer.</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;Yours, my dear Mr. Croker,<br
+/>
+&ldquo;Very truly,<br />
+&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Thomas Moore</span>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>On the 18th November, 1841, Major-General (then Colonel) Sir
+Charles O&rsquo;Donnell lunched at Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower; before
+luncheon Mr. Croker happened to point out to him the passage in
+the preface of the fourth volume of Moore&rsquo;s Works, p. xxxv,
+in which the poet says&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;With the melody entitled, &lsquo;Love,
+Valour, and Wit,&rsquo; an incident is connected, which awakened
+feelings in me of proud, but sad pleasure, to think that my songs
+had reached the hearts of some of the descendants of those great
+Irish families, who found themselves forced, in the dark days of
+persecution, to seek in other lands a refuge from the shame and
+ruin of their own;&mdash;those whose story I have associated with
+one of their country&rsquo;s most characteristic airs:&mdash;</p>
+<p>&lsquo;Ye Blakes and O&rsquo;Donnells, whose fathers
+resign&rsquo;d<br />
+The green hills of their youth, among strangers to find<br />
+That repose which at home they had sigh&rsquo;d for in
+vain.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;From a foreign lady, of this ancient
+extraction,&mdash;whose names, could I venture to mention them,
+would lend to the incident an additional Irish charm,&mdash;I
+received about two years since, through the hands of a gentleman
+to whom it had been intrusted, a large portfolio, adorned inside
+with a beautiful drawing representing Love, Wit, and Valour, as
+described in the song.&nbsp; In the border that surrounds the
+drawing <!-- page 163--><a name="page163"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 163</span>are introduced the favourite emblems
+of Erin, the harp, the shamrock, the mitred head of St. Patrick,
+together with scrolls containing each, inscribed in letters of
+gold, the name of some favourite melody of the fair artist.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;This present was accompanied by the following letter
+from the lady herself&mdash;&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>It is unnecessary to quote this letter, but the gentleman
+alluded to was Sir Charles O&rsquo;Donnell, who had brought the
+parcel from the Continent, and being about to proceed to Canada,
+and personally unacquainted with Moore, requested Mr. Croker to
+get it safely delivered; who took the present opportunity of
+pointing out to Sir Charles this public acknowledgment that his
+commission had been executed.</p>
+<p>They had not been at luncheon many minutes when Mr. Moore was
+announced, and appeared to be no less pleased at meeting Sir
+Charles O&rsquo;Donnell, than the latter was at being introduced
+to Moore.</p>
+<p>A few days afterwards, Mr. Croker received the following note
+from Mr. Moore:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;<i>November</i> 24, 1841.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Dear Croker</span>,</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I was obliged to leave London much sooner than I
+originally intended, and thus lost the opportunity of paying you
+another visit. . . .&nbsp; My next visit to London will, I hope,
+be sufficiently free from other avocations to allow me to devote
+a good deal of time to the examination of your various
+treasures.&nbsp; Pray give my kind remembrances to Mrs.
+Croker.&mdash;I constantly think of my great good luck in
+lighting by chance on so agreeable a dinner-party that day.&nbsp;
+The only drawback was, that it spoiled me&mdash;both mentally and
+physically speaking&mdash;for the dinner that followed.</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;Yours very truly,<br />
+&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Thomas Moore</span>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The name of <span class="smcap">Moore</span> was subsequently
+cut by Mr. Croker on the back of a chair which the poet occupied
+during this <!-- page 164--><a name="page164"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 164</span>visit.&nbsp; It produced the
+following epigram by the Rev. Francis Mahony (Father
+Prout):&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;This is to tell o&rsquo; days<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; When on this Cathedra,<br />
+He of the Melodies<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Solemnly sat, agrah!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Mr. Thomas James Bell, the next tenant of
+&lsquo;Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower,&rsquo; altered the name to
+&lsquo;Audley Cottage,&rsquo; which it now bears, and the
+agreeable associations connected with the former title are in the
+recollection of many who may be unaware of the change, and may
+regret the substitution of a name, for which there appears to
+have been very little reason.</p>
+<p>Parson&rsquo;s Green Lane continues from Rosamond&rsquo;s
+Bower to Parson&rsquo;s Green.&nbsp; It is for the most part
+composed of small cottages.&nbsp; On the left-hand corner of the
+Green is the &lsquo;White Horse&rsquo; public-house, the sign of
+which was, some few years ago supported by the quaint piece of
+iron-work shown in the annexed cut.&nbsp; It is now altered.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p164.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Iron-work sign and White Horse Public-House"
+title=
+"Iron-work sign and White Horse Public-House"
+src="images/p164.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>East End House, on the east side of the Green, next the <!--
+page 165--><a name="page165"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+165</span>pond, was originally built by Sir Francis Child, who
+was Lord Mayor of London, in 1699.&nbsp; It was afterwards the
+residence of Admiral Sir Charles Wager; and Dr. Ekins, Dean of
+Carlisle, died here 20th November, 1791.&nbsp; The house was
+subsequently modernized by the late John Powell, and became the
+residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert, who erected the porch in front of
+the house as a shelter for carriages.&nbsp; Here the Prince of
+Wales (afterwards George IV.) was a frequent visitor.&nbsp;
+Piccolomini lived here for a short time lately.</p>
+<p>The celebrated Sir Thomas Bodley lived at Parson&rsquo;s Green
+from 1605 to 1609.&nbsp; The old mansion at the west side of the
+Green was formerly the Rectory House, and is traditionally
+reported to have been the residence of Adoniram Byfield, the
+noted Presbyterian Chaplain to Colonel Cholmondeley&rsquo;s
+regiment in the Earl of Essex&rsquo;s army, who took so prominent
+a part in Cromwellian politics, that he became immortalized in
+Hudibras.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p165.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"The Rectory House"
+title=
+"The Rectory House"
+src="images/p165.jpg" />
+</a>An old stone building is noticed by Bowack in 1705, as
+adjoining this house, and presumed by him to be of three or four
+hundred years&rsquo; standing, and in all probability a chapel
+for the rectors and their domestics.&nbsp; This building was
+pulled down, according to Lysons, about the <!-- page 166--><a
+name="page166"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 166</span>year 1742,
+and the house is now divided into two, that at the corner being
+occupied by Dr. Lauman&rsquo;s Academy.&nbsp; At the south-west
+side of the Green is the old entrance to Peterborough House, a
+residence with the recollections of which the names of Locke,
+Swift, Pope, Gay, Prior, and a crowd of others are
+associated.</p>
+<p>The present Peterborough House, which is a little beyond the
+old brick gateway, was built by Mr. J. Meyrick, who died there in
+1801.&nbsp; Ho was the father of Sir Samuel Meyrick the
+well-known antiquary.&nbsp; Ho purchased the house, in 1794, of
+R. Heavyside, Esq., and pulled down the old mansion that stood
+close to the site of the ancient maze, which became converted
+into a lawn at the rear of the modern house.&nbsp; The place was
+originally 
+<a href="images/p166.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Old Gate of Peterborough House"
+title=
+"Old Gate of Peterborough House"
+src="images/p166.jpg" />
+</a> termed Brightwells, or Rightwells, and here, in 1569, died
+John Tarnworth, Esq., one of Elizabeth&rsquo;s privy counsellors,
+who lies buried at Fulham.</p>
+<p>Brightwells afterwards belonged to Sir Thomas Knolles, <!--
+page 167--><a name="page167"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+167</span>who, in 1603, sold it to Sir Thomas Smith, who had been
+secretary to the unfortunate Earl of Essex, and became, under
+James I., Clerk of the Council, Latin Secretary, and Master of
+the Requests; and here he died in 1609, and was buried in the
+chancel of Fulham Church, where a handsome monument is erected to
+his memory.&nbsp; After Sir Thomas Smith&rsquo;s death, his widow
+married the first Earl of Exeter, and continued to reside at
+Brightwells until her death, in 1633.&nbsp; Sir Thomas
+Smith&rsquo;s only daughter having married the Honourable Thomas
+Carey, the Earl of Monmouth&rsquo;s second son, he became
+possessed of the estate in right of his wife, and after him the
+place was called Villa Carey, which has led to the belief that
+old Peterborough House was built by him.&nbsp; It stood facing
+the pond on Parson&rsquo;s Green, and at about the same distance
+from the road as the present house.&nbsp; Francis Cleyne, who
+came over to England in the reign of Charles I., was certainly
+employed to decorate the rooms.&nbsp; Mr. Carey died about 1635;
+and his widow, about five years afterwards, married Sir Edward
+Herbert, Attorney-General to King Charles.&nbsp; Sir Edward was a
+firm loyalist, and resided at Parson&rsquo;s Green till the death
+of his royal master, when he accompanied Charles II. in his
+exile, who created him Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and he died
+abroad in 1657.&nbsp; His estate was ordered to be sold with the
+estates of other loyalists in 1653, but the sale does not appear
+to have taken place, as Villa Carey, in 1660, was in the
+possession of Lord Mordaunt, who had married the daughter and
+heiress of Mr. Carey.&nbsp; Lord Clarendon bears honourable
+testimony to the daring spirit and devoted zeal <!-- page
+168--><a name="page168"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 168</span>in
+the royal cause evinced by this &ldquo;young gentleman,&rdquo;
+and to the no less chivalric conduct of his charming bride.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;He was,&rdquo; says the historian,
+&ldquo;of great vigour of mind, and newly married to a young and
+beautiful lady of a very loyal spirit and notable vivacity of wit
+and humour, who concurred with him in all honourable dedications
+of himself.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>When her husband was arrested and brought to trial in 1658, as
+a partizan of Charles II., by her contrivance one of the
+principal witnesses against him was kept out of the way, and his
+judges, being divided in their opinion of his guilt, he was
+acquitted only by the casting vote of the President, the
+notorious John Lisle, who had sat upon the trial of Charles I.,
+by whom he was addressed in the following remarkable
+strain:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;And I have now to speak to you Mr.
+Mordaunt: God hath appeared in justice, and God doth appear in
+mercy, as the Lord is just to them, so the Lord is exceeding
+merciful to you, and I may say to you that God appears to you at
+this time, as he speaks to sinners in Jesus Christ, for Sir, he
+doth clear sinners in Christ Jesus even when they are guilty, and
+so God cleareth you.&nbsp; I will not say you are guilty, but ask
+your own conscience whether you are or no.&nbsp; Sir, bless God
+as long as you live, and bless my Lord Protector, by whose
+authority you are cleared.&nbsp; Sir, I speak no more, but I
+beseech you to speak to God.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The very active part which Lord Mordaunt had taken in
+effecting the restoration of Charles II., in which service,
+according to his epitaph, he &ldquo;encountered a thousand
+dangers, provoking and also defeating the rage of
+Cromwell,&rdquo; was not rewarded by any extraordinary marks of
+distinction or favour, and he seems after that event to have
+quietly resided on his estate at Parson&rsquo;s Green, where he
+died in the forty-eighth year of his age, <!-- page 169--><a
+name="page169"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 169</span>on the 5th
+June, 1675, and was buried in Fulham Church.&nbsp; The son of
+Lord Mordaunt, who afterwards received the title of Earl of
+Peterborough, married first, Carey, daughter to Sir Alexander
+Fraser, of Dover.&nbsp; His second wife was the accomplished
+singer Anastasia Robinson, who survived him.&nbsp; The earl was
+visited at Peterborough House by all the wits and literati of his
+time.&nbsp; Bowack, in 1706, describes the gardens of
+Peterborough House, as containing twenty acres of ground, and
+mentions a tulip-tree seventy-six feet in height, and five feet
+nine inches in girth.&nbsp; Swift, in one of his letters, speaks
+of Lord Peterborough&rsquo;s gardens as the finest he had ever
+seen about London.</p>
+<p>On the same side of the Green as Peterborough House, stood the
+residence of Samuel Richardson, who removed to Parson&rsquo;s
+Green from North End in 1755, and in this house his second wife,
+who survived him, died in November, 1773, aged
+seventy-seven.&nbsp; Formerly the same house belonged to Sir
+Edward Saunders, Lord Chief Justice of the King&rsquo;s Bench in
+1682.&nbsp; A sketch of the house will be found in
+Chambers&rsquo; Cyclop&aelig;dia of English Literature.&nbsp;
+Drury Lodge, situated on the King&rsquo;s Road adjoining
+Parson&rsquo;s Green, and immediately opposite the Malt House,
+formerly known as Ivy Cottage, was built by Walsh Porter in the
+Gothic style, and is now the residence of Mr. E. T. Smith, who
+has called the house after his theatre.&nbsp; The name of the
+lane which runs down by the side of Drury Lodge has, however, not
+been altered to <i>Drury</i> Lane, but still retains its old
+title of Broom Lane.</p>
+<p>It is said that on the site of what is now called Drury <!--
+page 170--><a name="page170"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+170</span>Lodge, was formerly a house, the residence of Oliver
+Cromwell, which was called the <i>Old Red Ivy House</i>.&nbsp;
+Part of the old walls of that building form the west side of the
+present cottage.</p>
+<p>Proceeding forward from Purser&rsquo;s Cross on the main
+Fulham Road, where St. Peter&rsquo;s Villa may be noticed as the
+residence of Madame Garcia in 1842, about a quarter of a mile
+brings us to Munster House, which is supposed to owe its name to
+Melesina Schulenberg, created by George II., in 1716, Duchess of
+Munster.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p170.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Munster house (1844)"
+title=
+"Munster house (1844)"
+src="images/p170.jpg" />
+</a>According to Faulkner, it was also called <i>Mustow</i>
+House&mdash;this was not improbably the duchess&rsquo;s
+pronunciation; and he adds that tradition makes it a hunting-seat
+of Charles II., and asserts that an extensive park was attached
+to it; but Faulkner also tells us that Munster House &ldquo;was
+during the greater part of the seventeenth century, the
+<i>residence</i> and property of Sir William Powell, Bart., who
+founded the almshouses.&rdquo;&nbsp; How, after this statement,
+Mr. Faulkner could have admitted the tradition, requires some
+explanation, as he seems to have followed, without
+acknowledgment, the particulars supplied to Lysons from authentic
+documents by Mr. Deere, of the Auditor&rsquo;s Office, who
+appears merely to have informed <!-- page 171--><a
+name="page171"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 171</span>that
+gentleman, that among the title-deeds of this property there is
+one of Sir Edward Powell&rsquo;s, dated 1640, and that Sir
+William Powell&rsquo;s will bears date 1680.&nbsp; According to
+the same unquestionable records, Munster House came from the
+Powells into the possession of Sir John Williams, Bart., of
+Pengethly, Monmouthshire.</p>
+<p>In 1795, Lysons says that Munster House was &ldquo;occupied as
+a school.&rdquo;&nbsp; Faulkner, in 1813, states that it was
+&ldquo;in the occupation of M. Sampayo, a Portuguese
+merchant.&rdquo;&nbsp; And his successor in the tenancy was John
+Wilson Croker, Esq., M.P., then secretary of the Admiralty, and
+afterwards the Right Hon. Mr. Croker, <a
+name="citation171"></a><a href="#footnote171"
+class="citation">[171]</a> a gentleman who brilliantly retired
+into private life, but whose character is so well known, and has
+been so often discussed in political and literary circles, that I
+shall only venture to remark the local coincidence of three
+indefatigable secretaries of the Admiralty, during the most
+critical periods of England&rsquo;s history&mdash;namely, Sir
+Philip Stevens, Sir Evan Nepean, and Mr. Croker&mdash;having
+selected the quietude of Fulham as the most convenient and
+attractive position in the neighbourhood of London, where they
+might momentarily relax from the arduous strain of official
+duties.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p171.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Marble bust"
+title=
+"Marble bust"
+src="images/p171.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>About 1820, Mr. Croker resigned Munster House as a residence,
+after having externally decorated it with various Cockney
+embattlements of brick, and collected there many curious works of
+art, possibly with a view of reconstruction.&nbsp; <!-- page
+172--><a name="page172"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 172</span>In
+the garden were two marble busts, one of which is figured on
+previous page.&nbsp; The other a female head, not unlike that of
+Queen Anne.</p>
+<p>There was also a fragment of a group, representing a woman
+with a child at her side, obviously the decoration of a fountain,
+and a rustic stone seat, conjectured to have been the bed of a
+formidable piece of ordnance.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p172.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Woman and child&mdash;Rustic stone seat"
+title=
+"Woman and child&mdash;Rustic stone seat"
+src="images/p172.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>A recent tenant of Munster House, the Rev. Stephen Reid
+Cattley, who is known to the reading public as the editor of an
+issue of Fox&rsquo;s &lsquo;Book of Martyrs,&rsquo; was
+unacquainted with the history of the relics in the garden, and
+can only remember the removal of two composition lions from the
+gate-piers of Munster House,&mdash;not placed there, it must be
+observed, by Mr. Croker, but which had the popular effect, for
+some time, of changing the name to <i>Monster House</i>.&nbsp; It
+is now a Lunatic Asylum.&nbsp; Opposite Munster House is
+Dancer&rsquo;s extensive garden for the supply of the London
+market, by the side of which a road runs leading by a turning on
+the left direct back to Parson&rsquo;s Green, or if the straight
+road is kept, the King&rsquo;s Road is reached opposite
+Osborn&rsquo;s Nursery; adjoining which <!-- page 173--><a
+name="page173"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 173</span>nursery is
+Churchfield House, the residence of Dr. Burchell the African
+traveller.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="images/p173.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Fulham Lodge"
+title=
+"Fulham Lodge"
+src="images/p173.jpg" />
+</a>Fulham Lodge stood on the opposite, or south side, of the
+road from Munster House, on the ground immediately beyond Munster
+Terrace, which was built a short time prior to its
+demolition.&nbsp; This cottage, for it was no more, was a
+favourite retirement of the late Duke of York.&nbsp; An affecting
+story is told by George Colman the younger, connected with his
+own feelings while on a visit here.&nbsp; He had lost sight of an
+old college friend, the Rev. Robert Lowth, son of the Bishop of
+London, from the year 1781 to 1822 (one and forty years!), when
+Colman was surprised and pleased by the receipt of the following
+letter, written and left upon his table by a gentleman who had
+called when he was not at home:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;<i>August</i> 16,
+1822.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Dear Colman</span>,&mdash;It may be
+some five-and-thirty years since we met, and I believe as near
+forty years as may be since I was promoted from my garret, No. 3
+Peckwater, into your <i>ci-devant</i> rooms in the old Quad, on
+which occasion I bought your things.&nbsp; Of all your household
+furniture I possess but one article, which I removed with myself
+to my first house and castle in Essex, as a very befitting
+parsonage sideboard, viz., a mahogany table, with two side
+drawers, and which still &lsquo;does the state some
+service,&rsquo; though not of plate.&nbsp; But I have an article
+of yours on a smaller scale, a certain little flat mahogany box,
+furnished partially, I should say, with cakes of paint, which
+probably you <!-- page 174--><a name="page174"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 174</span>over-looked, or undervalued as a
+<i>vade-mecum</i>, and left.&nbsp; And, as an exemplification of
+the great vanity of over-anxious care, and the safe preservation
+<i>per contra</i>, in which an article may possibly be found
+without any care at all, that paint-box is still <i>in statu
+quo</i>, at this present writing, having run the gauntlet, not
+merely of my bachelor days, but of the practical cruelties of my
+thirteen children, all alive and merry, thank God! albeit as
+unused and as little disposed to preserve their own playthings or
+chattels from damage as children usually are, yet it
+survives!&nbsp; &lsquo;The reason why I cannot tell,&rsquo;
+unless I kept it &lsquo;for the dangers it had passed.&rsquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Though I have been well acquainted with you publicly
+nearly ever since our Christ Church days, our habits, pursuits,
+and callings, having cast us into different countries and tracts,
+we have not, I think met since the date I speak of.&nbsp; I have
+a house at Chiswick, where I rather think this nine-lived box is,
+and, whether it is or no, I shall be very glad if you will give
+me a call to dine, and take a bed, if convenient to you; and if I
+cannot introduce you to your old acquaintance and recollections,
+I shall have great pleasure in substituting new ones,&mdash;Mrs.
+Lowth and eleven of our baker&rsquo;s dozen of olive-branches,
+our present complement in the house department, my eldest boy
+being in the West Indies, and my third having returned to the
+military college last Saturday, his vacation furlough having
+expired.&nbsp; As the summer begins to borrow now and then an
+autumn evening, the sooner you will favour me with your company
+the surer you will be of finding me at Grove House, the
+expiration of other holidays being the usual signal for weighing
+anchor and shifting our moorings to parsonage point.&nbsp; I
+remember you, or David Curson, had among your phrases,
+<i>quondam</i>, one of anything being &lsquo;d---d
+summerly;&rsquo; I trust, however, having since tasted the
+delights of the sweet shady side of Pall Mall, that you have worn
+out that prejudice, and will catch the season before it flies us,
+or give me a line, naming no distant day, that I may not be
+elsewhere when you call, and you will much oblige, yours
+sincerely,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Robert
+Lowth</span>.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;P.S.&mdash;In your address to me you must not name
+<i>Chiswick</i>, but Grove House, Turnham Green, as otherwise it
+goes into another postman&rsquo;s walk, who walks it back again
+to the office, and it does not reach me, per Turnham Green,
+peripatetic, till the next day, which is <i>toute autre
+chose</i>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 175--><a name="page175"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+175</span>Colman seems to have been sincerely delighted at the
+receipt of this letter; he answered it immediately, expressing to
+his old friend how much he had gratified him, and how readily he
+accepted the invitation.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;After refreshing my friend&rsquo;s
+memory,&rdquo; says Colman, &ldquo;by touching on some
+particulars which have already been mentioned, I informed him
+that I was of late years in the habit of suburban rustication,
+and that I had passed a considerable part of my summers in a
+house where I was intimate at Fulham, whither I desired him to
+direct to me, as much nearer Chiswick than my own abode, being
+within a few hundred yards of his old family residence, where we
+last parted.&nbsp; Whenever I was at this place, I told him the
+avenue and bishop&rsquo;s walk by the river side, the public
+precincts of the moated episcopal domain, had become my favourite
+morning and evening lounge.&nbsp; I told him, indeed, merely the
+fact, omitting all commentary attached to it, for often had I
+then, and oftener have I since, in a solitary stroll down the
+avenue, thought of him, regretting the wide chasm in our
+intercourse, and musing upon human events.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>There is a regret expressed by Colman that he kept no copy of
+his answer, &ldquo;which,&rdquo; he adds, &ldquo;was written in
+the &lsquo;flow of soul,&rsquo; and at the impulse of the
+moment?&rdquo;&nbsp; Mr. Lowth wrote in reply to Colman,
+detailing in a most amusing manner his having, in the pursuit of
+two Cockneys, who had made an attack upon a grove of Orleans
+plum-trees in his grounds, taken cold, which confined him to his
+room.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;But for this <i>inter poculum et
+labra</i>,&rdquo; continued Mr. Lowth, &ldquo;it was my intention
+to have made you my first <i>post restante</i>, with, perhaps, a
+walk down the old avenue, in my way to town, that identical day;
+and, still hoping to accomplish three miles and back, I have
+hoped from day to day, but I cannot get in travelling condition,
+even for so short a journey.&nbsp; Therefore I hope you will send
+me word by my new Yorkshire groom lad, that you will take
+pot-luck with me on Sunday as the most likely day for you to
+suburbise.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 176--><a name="page176"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+176</span>Colman accepted the invitation, believing from the
+length of Mr. Lowth&rsquo;s letter (three pages), and the
+playfulness of his old friend&rsquo;s communication, that nothing
+more than an ordinary cold was the matter with him.&nbsp; A note,
+however, which followed from one of Mr. Lowth&rsquo;s daughters,
+stated that the meeting proposed by her father must be postponed,
+that he &ldquo;had become extremely unwell, that bleeding and
+cupping had been prescribed,&rdquo; and the most perfect quiet
+enjoined.</p>
+<p>On the day after the receipt of this note, Colman sent over to
+Grove House, Chiswick, to make inquiries as to Mr. Lowth&rsquo;s
+health, when the reply given by an elderly female at the gate,
+after considerable delay, was that &ldquo;her master was no
+more.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>A letter from Dr. Badeley to Colman, dated 22d August, 1822,
+confirmed the melancholy intelligence, which he had at first
+hesitated to believe.&nbsp; It stated that &ldquo;the decease of
+Mr. Lowth took place on Sunday evening,&rdquo; the very evening
+appointed by him for their anticipated happy reunion; and that
+his remains were to be interred in the family vault at Fulham on
+Monday morning at ten o&rsquo;clock.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;I continued,&rdquo; said Colman, &ldquo;at
+Fulham Lodge, which is nearer in a direct line to the church than
+to the Bishop&rsquo;s Palace and the &lsquo;old
+avenue.&rsquo;&nbsp; On Monday the adjacent steeple gave early
+notice of the approaching funeral; religion and sorrow mingled
+within me while the slow and mournful tolling of the bell smote
+upon my heart.&nbsp; Selfish feelings, too, though secondary,
+might now and then obtrude, for they are implanted in our
+nature.&nbsp; My departed friend was about my own age: we had
+entered the field nearly at the same time; we had fought, indeed,
+our chief battles asunder, but in our younger days he had been my
+comrade, close to me in the ranks: he had fallen, and my own turn
+might speedily follow.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 177--><a name="page177"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+177</span>These are the ideas which George Colman the younger
+records as having passed through his mind while an inmate of
+Fulham Lodge:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;My walk next morning,&rdquo; he says,
+&ldquo;was to the sepulchre of the Lowths, to indulge in the
+mournful satisfaction of viewing the depository of my poor
+friend&rsquo;s remains.&nbsp; It stands in the churchyard, a few
+paces from the eastern end of the ancient church at Fulham.&nbsp;
+The surrounding earth, trampled by recent footsteps, and a slab
+of marble which had been evidently taken out and replaced in the
+side of the tomb, too plainly presented traces of those rites,
+which had been performed on the previous day.&nbsp; For several
+mornings I repeated my walk thither, and no summer has since
+glided away, except the last, when my sojournment at Fulham was
+suspended, without my visiting the spot and heaving a sigh to the
+memory of Robert Lowth.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Theodore Hook&rsquo;s manuscript Diary contains the following
+entries with reference to visits made by him at Fulham
+Lodge:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;2nd January, 1826.&mdash;Called.&nbsp; Mrs.
+Carey&rsquo;s luncheon.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Thursday, 5th January.&mdash;Drove over to
+Fulham.&nbsp; Mrs. Carey&rsquo;s din.&nbsp; Colman, Harris, Mrs.
+G.&nbsp; Good hits.&nbsp; Mrs. Coutts, &lsquo;Julius
+C&aelig;sar,&rsquo; &amp;c.&nbsp; Stayed very late, and walked
+home.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Fulham Park Road is now where Fulham Lodge stood, and the
+ground is partly built on, the rest is to be let for
+building.</p>
+<p>This walk is exactly three miles and a half from Hyde Park
+Corner; and what an Irishman would call the iron mile-stone stood
+exactly opposite to Ivy Lodge, until placed against the brick
+wall immediately beyond the railings.</p>
+<p>Ivy Lodge was for some years the residence of Rudolph
+Ackermann, a name, as a printseller, known (it is not <!-- page
+178--><a name="page178"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+178</span>using too broad a word to say) throughout the world,
+and whose representatives still carry on this business in Regent
+Street.</p>
+<p>Ackermann was a remarkable man.&nbsp; He was born in 1764, at
+Stollberg, near Schneeberg, in Saxony; and, having been bred a
+coach-builder, upon visiting England shortly before the French
+Revolution, found employment as a carriage-draughtsman, which led
+to his forming the acquaintance of artists, and becoming a
+print-publisher in London.&nbsp; The French refugees, whose
+necessities obliged them to exercise their acquirements and
+talents as a means of support, found in Mr. Ackermann&rsquo;s
+shop a repository for the exhibition and sale of decorative
+articles, which elevated this branch of business to an importance
+that it had never before assumed in England.&nbsp;
+Ackermann&rsquo;s name stands prominently forward in the early
+history of gas and lithography in England, and he must be
+remembered as the introducer of a species of illustrated
+periodicals, by the publication of the
+&lsquo;Forget-Me-Not;&rsquo; to which, or to similar works,
+nearly every honoured contemporary name in the whole circle of
+British literature have contributed, and which have produced a
+certain, but advantageously a questionable, influence upon the
+Fine Arts.</p>
+<p>After the battle of Leipzig, Mr. Ackermann publicly advocated
+the cause of the starving population of many districts of
+Germany, in consequence of the calamities of war, with so much
+zeal and success, that a parliamentary grant of &pound;100,000
+was more than doubled by a public subscription.&nbsp; In the
+spring of 1830, when residing at Ivy Lodge, he experienced a
+sudden attack of paralysis; and a <!-- page 179--><a
+name="page179"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 179</span>change of
+air was recommended by his medical attendants.&nbsp; This led to
+Mr. Ackermann&rsquo;s removal to Finchley, where he died on the
+30th of March, 1834.</p>
+<p>Having now arrived at Fulham, we will in the next chapter
+accompany the reader in a walk through that ancient village.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p179.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"The Entrance to Fulham (1844)"
+title=
+"The Entrance to Fulham (1844)"
+src="images/p179.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<h2><!-- page 180--><a name="page180"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 180</span>CHAPTER V.</h2>
+<p class="gutsumm"><span class="smcap">fulham</span>.</p>
+<p>In Faulkner&rsquo;s &lsquo;History of Fulham&rsquo; we learn
+that the earliest mention of that village occurs in a grant of
+the manor by Tyrhtilus Bishop of Hereford, to Erkenwald Bishop of
+London, and his successors, about the year 691; in which grant it
+is called <i>Fulanham</i>.&nbsp; Camden in his
+&lsquo;Britannia&rsquo; calls it <i>Fulham</i>, and derives its
+name from the Saxon word <i>Fulanham</i>, <i>Volucrum Domus</i>,
+the habitation of birds or place of fowls.&nbsp; Norden agrees
+with Camden, and adds, &ldquo;It may also be taken for
+<i>Volucrum Amnis</i>, or the river of fowl; for <i>Ham</i> also
+in many places signifies <i>Amnis</i>, a river, but it is most
+probable it should be of land fowl, which usually haunt groves
+and clusters of trees, whereof in this place it seemeth hath been
+plenty.&rdquo;&nbsp; In Somner&rsquo;s and Lye&rsquo;s Saxon
+dictionaries it is called Fulanham, or Foulham, supposed from the
+dirtiness of the place.&nbsp; The earliest historical event
+relating to Fulham, is the arrival of the Danes there in the year
+879.&nbsp; On the right hand side as we enter the village stands
+Holcrofts&rsquo; <i>Hall</i> (formerly Holcrofts&rsquo;) built
+about 1708, which is worthy of mention as belonging to John
+Laurie, Esq., and as having been <!-- page 181--><a
+name="page181"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 181</span>the
+residence of Sir John Burgoyne, where he gave some clever
+dramatic performances, distinguished not only for the
+considerable talent displayed by the actors, but remarkable for
+the scenery and machinery, considering the limited space, the
+whole of which was superintended by the Honourable Mr.
+Wrottesley, son of Lord Wrottesley, who afterwards married Miss
+Burgoyne, an admirable amateur actress: here it was that the
+celebrated Madame Vestris died, on the 8th August, 1856, in her
+59th year.&nbsp; During the time she lived there it was called
+Gore Lodge.&nbsp; The house has been since tenanted for a short
+time by Mr. Charles Mathews and his present wife.&nbsp;
+Holcroft&rsquo;s Priory, which is opposite, was built upon the
+site of Claybrooke House, mentioned by Faulkner.&nbsp; In the
+back lane (Burlington Road) Fulham Almshouses are situated,
+opposite to Burlington House, formerly Roy&rsquo;s well-known
+academy, on the ground attached to which is now a Reformatory
+School, built about four years ago.&nbsp; This lane leads to the
+termination of the King&rsquo;s Road by the Ship Tavern.&nbsp;
+The Almshouses were originally built and endowed by Sir W.
+Powell, Bart., and were rebuilt in 1793.&nbsp; The old workhouse
+(built 1774) still stands on the left-hand side of the High
+Street.&nbsp; It has been in a dilapidated condition for many
+years, and is about to be pulled down.&nbsp; The Fulham and
+Hammersmith Union is now in Fulham Fields.&nbsp; Cipriani lived
+in a house adjoining the workhouse.&nbsp; Further on in Fulham
+High Street is the Golden Lion Inn.&nbsp; There is a tradition
+that Bishop Bonner resided in the Old Golden Lion, and that it
+had a subterranean communication with the palace.&nbsp; The late
+Mr. Crofton Croker <!-- page 182--><a name="page182"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 182</span>read the following paper at the
+meeting of the British Arch&aelig;ological Association at Warwick
+in 1847:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">On
+the probability of the Golden Lion Inn</span>, <span
+class="smcap">at Fulham</span>, <span class="smcap">having been
+frequented by Shakespeare about the years</span> 1595 <span
+class="smcap">and</span> 1596.</p>
+<p>It is certainly extraordinary that of the personal history of
+a man whose writings are of so high an order of genius that they
+may almost be considered as works of inspiration, we should know
+so little, and that conjecture should have to supply so much, as
+in the biography of William Shakespeare.</p>
+<p>Pilgrims as are we at this moment to the birth-place and the
+tomb of the highest name in the literature of this country, we
+all feel that we now tread the classic ground of
+England&mdash;ground too rich in unquestionable memories of
+Shakespeare, to admit of any feeling of jealousy in an attempt to
+connect his fame by circumstantial evidence with any other
+locality.&nbsp; I therefore venture to call attention to the two
+following entries in the parish records of Fulham, a village in
+the county of Middlesex, on the Thames, about four miles west of
+London, and where the Bishop of London has a seat.</p>
+<p>In an assessment made on the 12th October, 1625, for the
+relief of the poor of Fulham side, John Florio, Esq., was rated
+at six shillings, for his house in Fulham Street.</p>
+<p>And in the same assessment upon the &ldquo;Northend&rdquo; of
+the parish, the name of Robert Burbage occurs.</p>
+<p>Meagre as this appears to be, and wide of the date at which I
+aim by thirty years, it is all that I can produce in the shape of
+novel documentary evidence for an attempt to connect the name of
+Shakespeare with Fulham; the other points which I have to offer
+in evidence being admitted facts, although no result has been
+deduced from them.</p>
+<p>In the High Street of Fulham stands a cleanly-looking brick
+house, square in form and newly built, called the Golden Lion,
+where any suburban traveller requiring refreshment may be
+supplied with a mug of excellent ale and bread and cheese, in a
+parlour having a sanded floor, the room, it must be confessed,
+smelling rather strongly of tobacco smoke:&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;You may break, you may ruin the vase if you
+will&mdash;<br />
+But the scent of the roses will hang round it
+still;&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p><!-- page 183--><a name="page183"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+183</span>And so it is, to my mind, with the tobacco smoke of the
+Golden Lion, which stands upon the site of an old hostelry, or
+inn, of the Tudor age, which was pulled down in April, 1836, and
+was described soon afterwards in the &lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s
+Magazine.&rsquo;&nbsp; While the work of destruction 
+<a href="images/p183.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Ancient tobacco pipe"
+title=
+"Ancient tobacco pipe"
+src="images/p183.jpg" />
+</a>was going on, a tobacco pipe of ancient and foreign fashion
+was found behind the old wainscot.&nbsp; The stem was a crooked
+shoot of bamboo, through which a hole had been bored, and a brass
+ornamental termination (of an Elizabethan pattern) formed the
+head of the pipe.&mdash;Why may not this have been the pipe of
+that Bishop of London who had risen into Elizabeth&rsquo;s favour
+by attending Mary on the scaffold at Fotheringay, and who, having
+fallen into disgrace in consequence of a second marriage at an
+advanced period of his life, sought, we are told, in the
+retirement of his house at Fulham, &ldquo;to lose his sorrow in a
+mist of smoke,&rdquo;&mdash;and actually died there suddenly on
+the 15th June, 1596, &ldquo;while sitting in his chair and
+smoking tobacco?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Could this have been the tobacco pipe produced at
+&ldquo;Crowner&rsquo;s &rsquo;quest&rdquo; assembled at the
+Golden Lion to inquire into the cause of his lordship&rsquo;s
+sudden death?&nbsp; It is not even impossible that it may have
+been produced there by his son, John Fletcher, whose name is
+associated with that of Francis Beaumont in our literature.</p>
+<p>Mr. Charles Knight has set the example of an imaginary
+biography of Shakespeare, and has brought many probable and some
+improbable things together on the subject.&mdash;Why, then, has
+he overlooked the Golden Lion in Fulham?&nbsp; The name of John
+Fletcher naturally leads to this question.&nbsp; At the time of
+his father&rsquo;s death, he was in his twentieth year; and who
+will doubt that, at that period of his life, his father&rsquo;s
+(the Bishop&rsquo;s) house was his home.&nbsp; That he may have
+resorted to the Golden Lion, and there have met with Shakespeare,
+is, therefore, quite as probable as that our great dramatist
+associated with Fletcher at the Falcon or the Mermaid, if good
+cause can only be shown for Shakespeare&rsquo;s having had as
+much reason to frequent Fulham as the Bank-side&mdash;or Borough
+of London.</p>
+<p><!-- page 184--><a name="page184"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+184</span>I have already stated that Florio&rsquo;s house was
+assessed for the poor-rate in Fulham Street, on the 12th October,
+1625, the year of Florio&rsquo;s death; and be it remembered that
+Florio was the translator of Montaigne&rsquo;s Essays, of which a
+copy of the original edition, bearing Shakespeare&rsquo;s very
+rare autograph, was not very long since purchased by the British
+Museum, at what was considered to be a very large price.&nbsp;
+When the genuineness of that autograph was keenly discussed among
+antiquaries, and the probable date at which the
+&lsquo;Tempest&rsquo; was written, became a question, no one
+presumed to deny that the coincidences between the passage in the
+2nd Act of the &lsquo;Tempest&rsquo; where Gonzalo
+says&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo; the commonwealth I would by contraries<br />
+Execute all things; for <i>no kind of traffic</i><br />
+Would I admit; <i>no name of magistrate</i>;<br />
+Letters should not be known: <i>riches</i>, <i>poverty</i>,<br />
+<i>And use of service</i>, none: contract, <i>succession</i>;<br
+/>
+Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;<br />
+No use of metal, corn or wine or oil;<br />
+No occupation; all men idle, all;<br />
+And women too; but innocent and pure:<br />
+No Sovereignty:&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>is but an echo of the following in Florio&rsquo;s translation
+of Montaigne:&mdash;</p>
+<p>&mdash;&ldquo;It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath
+<i>no kind of traffic</i>, no knowledge of letters, no
+intelligence of numbers, <i>no name of magistrate</i>, nor of
+politic superiority; no <i>use of service</i>, of <i>riches</i>,
+or of <i>poverty</i>; no <i>contracts</i>, no <i>successions</i>;
+no occupation, but idle, no respect of kindred but common; no
+apparel, but natural; no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corn,
+or metal,&rdquo; etc.</p>
+<div class="gapspace">&nbsp;</div>
+<p>There are other coincidences also, free from the very great
+difficulty of reconciling satisfactorily printed dates with an
+imaginary career&mdash;which coincidences are too remarkable to
+have escaped the host of ingenious commentators upon the supposed
+sources of Shakespeare&rsquo;s information&mdash;of his
+observation what shall I say?</p>
+<p>The coincidence between passages in Daniel&rsquo;s
+&ldquo;Civil Warres,&rdquo; published in 1595, and passages in
+Shakespeare&rsquo;s Richard II., induce Mr. Charles Knight to
+observe that &ldquo;We&rdquo;&mdash;thereby meaning
+himself&mdash;&ldquo;have looked at this poem with some care, and
+we cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that, with reference to
+parts of the conduct of the story, and in a few modes of
+expression, each of which differs from the general narrative and
+the particular language of the chroniclers, there are
+similarities betwixt Shakespeare and Daniel which <!-- page
+185--><a name="page185"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+185</span>would lead to the conclusion either that the poem of
+Daniel was known to Shakespeare, or the play of Shakespeare was
+known to Daniel.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>This position is, indeed, established by Mr. Knight, who
+arrives satisfactorily enough for his own conclusion, that of
+fixing the date of the composition of Shakespeare&rsquo;s play to
+1597; adding, candidly enough, that &ldquo;the exact date is
+really of very little importance; and we should not have dwelt
+upon it had it not been pleasant to trace resemblances between
+contemporary poets, who were themselves personal
+friends.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Now, with regard to dates, and the disputed dates of the
+composition of the &lsquo;Tempest,&rsquo; it is important to
+ascertain who John Florio and Samuel Daniel were.</p>
+<p>We know that Florio was the Italian scholar of his day, and
+the Court favourite.&nbsp; We know that Daniel, whose name is now
+scarcely popularly remembered, was helped into the office of
+poet-laureat by his connection with Florio as his brother-in-law,
+by Florio&rsquo;s recommendations to be the successor of
+&ldquo;that poor poet, Edmund Spenser.&rdquo;&nbsp; Here, at
+once, by admitting Shakespeare&rsquo;s personal intimacy with
+Florio and Daniel, with his knowledge of their writings, there
+can be no question; and supposing that he had seen Florio&rsquo;s
+translation of Montaigne in MS., much difficulty about dates is
+got rid of, and we can account for Shakespeare&rsquo;s
+acquaintance with Italian literature.</p>
+<p>And allow me to add to this the fact noticed by Mr. Collier,
+in his memoirs of the principal actors in the plays of
+Shakespeare, printed for the Shakespeare Society, that
+Shakespeare&rsquo;s fellow-player, Henry Condell, did some time
+sojourn at Fulham; for a tract printed in 1625, entitled
+&lsquo;The Runaway&rsquo;s Answer to a book &ldquo;A Rod for
+Runaways,&rdquo;&rsquo; in reply to a pamphlet published by
+Decker, is inscribed &ldquo;to our much respected and very worthy
+friend, Mr. H. Condell, at his country house at
+Fulham.&rdquo;&nbsp; Again, couple with the name of Condell that
+of Burbadge, in 1625, at Fulham; is not the association most
+extraordinary, although there is no further agreement in the
+Christian name than the first letter, Robert being that in the
+Fulham assessment of poor-rates, Richard that of
+Shakespeare&rsquo;s fellow-actor.&nbsp; The family name of
+Burbadge, however, belongs not to Middlesex, but to
+Warwickshire.&nbsp; Alas! for the credit sake of &lsquo;Robert
+Burbadge, of Northend, Fulham,&rsquo; in the place in the
+poor-rate assessment of 1625, where the sum should have been
+inserted, there is a blank; although twenty-two of his neighbours
+at North End are contributors of sums varying from 6s. 8d. to
+1s.</p>
+<p>Joshua Sylvester, who was born in 1563 or 1564, and died in
+1618, <!-- page 186--><a name="page186"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 186</span>thus describes the village of North
+End, Fulham, where his uncle Plumbe resided, and he (Sylvester)
+formed the attachment which is the subject of his
+poem:&mdash;</p>
+<p>I was wont (for my disport)<br />
+Often in the summer season,<br />
+To a Village to resort<br />
+Famous for the rathe ripe peason,<br />
+Where beneath a <i>Plumb</i>-tree shade<br />
+Many pleasant walks I made.</p>
+<p>And Norden, whom we consider as the father of English
+topography, dates the address &ldquo;to all courteous
+gentlemen,&rdquo; prefixed to his account of Middlesex and
+Hertfordshire, from his &ldquo;poore home, near Fulham, 4th
+November, 1596.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Here, then, we have a mass of facts, which render it
+impossible for us to doubt that the Golden Lion, Fulham, must
+have been, according to the custom of the times, frequented by
+Florio and his brother-in-law Daniel; by Fletcher; by Henry
+Condell, Shakespeare&rsquo;s fellow-player; by some one of the
+name of Burbadge; by Joshua Sylvester, and John Norden, about the
+years 1595 and 1596.&nbsp; Is there not, then, every reasonable
+presumption that our immortal Shakespeare was also a member of
+this clique?</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p186.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Fireplaces in the old Golden Lion"
+title=
+"Fireplaces in the old Golden Lion"
+src="images/p186.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>On the pulling down of the Old Inn by Mr. Powell, the
+panelling was purchased by Mr. Street, of Brewer Street, and <!--
+page 187--><a name="page187"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+187</span>was afterwards sold to Lord Ellenborough, for the
+fitting up of his Lordship&rsquo;s residence, Southam House,
+Cheltenham.</p>
+<p>Fulham High Street, which extends from the London Road to
+Church Row, appears to have been denominated Bear Street, and is
+called in the more ancient parish books Fulham Street.&nbsp; The
+direct approach to Fulham Church is by Church Row, which branches
+off to the right of the High Street.&nbsp; On the left of the
+churchyard entrance is the Vicarage.&nbsp; The present vicar is
+the Rev. R. G. Baker.&nbsp; Opposite the vicarage is a piece of
+ground, which was consecrated in 1843 by Bishop Blomfield, who is
+buried there.&nbsp; Upon this recent addition to the
+burial-ground formerly stood Miss Batsford&rsquo;s seminary for
+young gentlemen.&nbsp; There are several curious old monuments in
+the church, which have been described and engraved by Faulkner,
+to whose work the curious reader may be referred.&nbsp; In the
+churchyard are the tombs and monuments of several of the old
+bishops of London&mdash;Compton, Robinson, Hayter, Gibson,
+Terrick, Lowth, Sherlock, and Randolph.</p>
+<p>The grave of that distinguished author and brilliant wit,
+Theodore Hook, is immediately opposite the chancel window.&nbsp;
+The stone bears the plain inscription &ldquo;Theodore Edward
+Hook, died 24th August, 1841, in the fifty-third year of his
+age.&rdquo;</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p188a.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Old entrance to Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, 1844"
+title=
+"Old entrance to Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, 1844"
+src="images/p188a.jpg" />
+</a> <a name="citation188b"></a><a href="#footnote188b"
+class="citation">[188b]</a></p>
+<p>Leaving the church by the other entrance, we are in Church
+Lane.&nbsp; The first house opposite the gate of the churchyard
+is Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, to which a separate chapter of our little
+volume is devoted, so that we can pass on immediately to the next
+house, Thames Bank, the present residence of Mr. Baylis, whose
+well-known <!-- page 188--><a name="page188"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 188</span>taste will no doubt soon change its
+present aspect.&nbsp; Granville Sharp&rsquo;s <a
+name="citation188a"></a><a href="#footnote188a"
+class="citation">[188a]</a> House stood opposite.&nbsp; It was
+pulled down about twenty-five years ago.&nbsp; John&rsquo;s Place
+(erected 1844) is on the site.</p>
+<p>Next to Thames Bank, formerly stood Egmont Villa, the
+residence of Theodore Hook, and the house in which he died, now
+pulled down, the back of which, is shown in the annexed
+sketch.&nbsp; This house, though of the smallest dimensions, was
+fitted up with much good taste.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p188b.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Back of Egmont Villa"
+title=
+"Back of Egmont Villa"
+src="images/p188b.jpg" />
+</a>There was a small boudoir on the side of the drawing-room,
+which was very rich in articles of virt&ugrave;, more especially
+in some remarkably fine carvings, attributed to Cellini,
+Brustolini, and others.&nbsp; These were left to Hook by his
+brother, the late Dean of Worcester.&nbsp; <!-- page 189--><a
+name="page189"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 189</span>As an
+improvisatore, Hook was unapproachable.&nbsp; In regard to his
+literary merits, let the following suffice, taken from the late
+Mr. Barham&rsquo;s life of Hook, published in 1848:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;There can be no need,&rdquo; says the
+Editor, &ldquo;at this day to enter upon any lengthened criticism
+of Theodore Hook&rsquo;s merits as a novelist; they have been
+discussed over and over again, with little variety of opinion, by
+every reviewer of the kingdom.&nbsp; Indeed, both his faults and
+his excellencies lie on the surface, and are obvious and patent
+to the most superficial reader; his fables, for the most part ill
+knit and insufficient, disappoint as they are unfolded;
+repetitions and omissions are frequent: in short, a general want
+of care and finish is observable throughout, which must be
+attributed to the hurry in which he was compelled to write,
+arising from the multiplicity and distracting nature of his
+engagements.&nbsp; His tendency to caricature was innate; but
+even this would probably have been in a great measure repressed,
+had he allowed himself sufficient time for correction: while, on
+the contrary, in detached scenes, which sprang up as pictures in
+his mind, replete with comic circumstance, in brilliant dialogue
+and portraiture of character, not to mention those flashes of
+sound wisdom with which ever and anon his pages are lighted up,
+his wit and genius had fair play, revelling and rioting in fun,
+and achieving on the spur of the moment those lasting triumphs
+which cast into the shade the minor and mechanical blemishes to
+which we have adverted.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Hook was a successful dramatist, and an extensive
+journalist.&nbsp; Of his novels, &lsquo;Gilbert Gurney&rsquo; may
+be considered to be the most remarkable.</p>
+<p>Hook&rsquo;s furniture was sold by George Robins, in
+September, 1841.&nbsp; In 1855 the aqueduct was erected by the
+Chelsea Water Works Company, for conveying the water from
+Kingston-upon-Thames to the metropolis, and it was necessary that
+the contractor, Mr. Brotherhood, should get possession of Egmont
+Villa, to enable them to erect the <!-- page 190--><a
+name="page190"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 190</span>tower on
+the Fulham side.&nbsp; Here the piles and timbers of the old
+Bishop&rsquo;s Ferry, used for the conveyance of passengers
+across the river from Putney to Fulham, before the old bridge was
+built, were discovered.&nbsp; It was subsequently considered
+desirable to pull the villa down; and there now remains no trace
+of the house in which Hook lived and died, and which stood within
+a few paces of his grave.&nbsp; Bowack mentions that Robert
+Limpany, Esq., &ldquo;whose estate was so considerable in the
+parish that he was commonly called the Lord of Fulham,&rdquo;
+resided in a neat house in Church Lane.&nbsp; He died at the age
+of ninety-four.&nbsp; Beyond the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank on the right,
+is the Bishop&rsquo;s Walk, which runs along the side of the
+Thames for some little distance, and from hence a view of the
+Bishop&rsquo;s Palace is obtained.&nbsp; This palace has been
+from a very early period the summer residence of the Bishops of
+London.&nbsp; The land consists of about 37 acres, and the whole
+is surrounded by a moat, over which are two bridges.</p>
+<p>Following the course of the Bishop&rsquo;s Walk, we come to
+the road leading to Craven Cottage, originally built by the
+Margravine of Anspach, when Countess of Craven, and since altered
+and improved by Walsh Porter, who occasionally resided in it till
+his death in 1809.&nbsp; Craven Cottage was considered the
+prettiest specimen of cottage architecture then existing.&nbsp;
+The three principal reception-rooms were equally remarkable for
+their structure, as well as their furniture.&nbsp; The centre, or
+principal saloon, supported by large palm-trees of considerable
+size, exceedingly well executed, with their drooping foliage at
+the top, supporting the cornice and architraves of the
+room.&nbsp; The other <!-- page 191--><a name="page191"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 191</span>decorations were in corresponding
+taste.&nbsp; The furniture comprised a lion&rsquo;s skin for a
+hearth-rug, for a sofa the back of a tiger, the supports of the
+tables in most instances were four twisted serpents or hydras: in
+fact, the whole of the decorations of the room were of a
+character perfectly unique and uniform in their style.&nbsp; This
+room led to a large Gothic dining-room of very considerable
+dimensions, and on the front of the former apartment was a very
+large oval rustic balcony, opposed to which was a large,
+half-circular library, that became more celebrated afterwards as
+the room in which the highly-gifted and talented author of
+&lsquo;Pelham&rsquo; wrote some of his most celebrated works.</p>
+<p>Craven Cottage was the residence of the Right Hon. Sir E.
+Bulwer-Lytton, from whom it passed to Mr. Baylis, now of Thames
+Bank, who parted with it to Sir Ralph Howard, its present
+occupant, who removed the door shown in the annexed cut, through
+which the library is seen.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p191.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Door of Egyptian Hall at Craven Cottage"
+title=
+"Door of Egyptian Hall at Craven Cottage"
+src="images/p191.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Returning to Church Lane, we come out at the bridge, <!-- page
+192--><a name="page192"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+192</span>built in 1729, and close to which is Willow Bank, the
+late residence of Mr. Delafield and General Conyers.&nbsp; The
+Ferry belonged to the See of London, and it was necessary that
+the consent of the Bishops should be had, for the erection of the
+bridge and consequent destruction of their Ferry; it was,
+therefore, stipulated for the right of themselves, their
+families, and all their dependents, that they should pass over
+the bridge toll free, which right exists at the present time; and
+passengers are often very much astonished at hearing the
+exclamation of &ldquo;Bishop!&rdquo; shouted out by the
+stentorian lungs of bricklayers, carpenters, or others, who may
+be going to the palace, that being the pass-word for the
+privilege of going over.&nbsp; The architect of the bridge was
+the eminent surgeon, W. Cheselden, who died in 1752, and is
+buried in the graveyard attached to Chelsea Hospital.&nbsp; His
+tomb is close to the railings of the new road, leading from
+Sloane Street to the Suspension Bridge at Chelsea.&nbsp;
+Cheselden was for many years, surgeon of Chelsea Hospital.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p192.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"The Swan Tavern"
+title=
+"The Swan Tavern"
+src="images/p192.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Standing by the Ferry is the Swan Tavern, a <!-- page 193--><a
+name="page193"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+193</span>characteristic old house, with a garden attached,
+looking on to the river, and scarcely altered in any of its
+features since Chatelaine published his views of &ldquo;The most
+agreeable Prospects near London,&rdquo; about 1740.&nbsp; It is a
+good specimen of a waterside inn, and appears to have been
+erected about the time of William III.</p>
+<p>At the foot of the bridge is &lsquo;The Eight Bells&rsquo;
+public-house, where the Fulham omnibuses leave for London.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p193.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Approach to Putney Bridge"
+title=
+"Approach to Putney Bridge"
+src="images/p193.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Bridge Street brings us to the point at which we turned off at
+the termination of the High Street, and on the right-hand side as
+we look towards London is Church Street (formerly Windsor Street,
+according to Faulkner), leading up to the Ship Tavern, and thence
+into the King&rsquo;s Road.</p>
+<p>The Charity School is in Church Street.&nbsp; This building
+was erected in 1811.</p>
+<p>Retracing our steps towards London, we come to the George at
+Walham Green, which turns off to the left.&nbsp; The church
+stands on the right hand side.&nbsp; Opposite Walham House, near
+the church, is North End Lodge, the residence <!-- page 194--><a
+name="page194"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 194</span>of the late
+Mr. Albert Smith, and where he died on the 23rd May, 1860.&nbsp;
+As novelist, dramatist, and lecturer, he had achieved
+considerable reputation; and his unexpected death, at the early
+age of forty-four, brought to a sudden close the most popular
+monologue entertainment of this, or of any, time.&nbsp; Mr. Smith
+was an amusing writer and a most genial companion, and was ever
+ready to assist a professional brother in the hour of need.&nbsp;
+Against the brick wall, close to the gate of North End Lodge, is
+a slab with the inscription &ldquo;From Hyde Park Corner, 3 miles
+17 yards.&rdquo;&nbsp; We are now in North End, where there are
+many houses of interest which deserve attention; we will
+therefore go out of the direct road and return to London by way
+of North End.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 195--><a name="page195"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 195</span>CHAPTER VI.</h2>
+<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">north end</span>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><span class="smcap">North End</span> may be described as a
+series of residences on each side the lane, more than a mile in
+length, which runs from the church at Walham Green to the main
+road from Kensington to Hammersmith.&nbsp; There were but few
+houses in it when Faulkner published his map in 1813.&nbsp;
+Market gardens were on both sides the road, and the gardeners
+cottagers were very old.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p195.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Panelled Door"
+title=
+"Panelled Door"
+src="images/p195.jpg" />
+</a>The panelled door, here represented, was fitted to one of
+them, and evidently was fashioned in the seventeenth
+century.&nbsp; The celebrated bookseller, Jacob Tonson, lived for
+some time at North End.&nbsp; At York Cottage, which is on the
+right hand side of the road, about a quarter of a mile from the
+church, resided for many years Mr. J. B. Pyne, the landscape
+painter.&nbsp; At a short distance beyond, the road from Old
+Brompton crosses into Fulham Fields.&nbsp; Here, at one corner,
+is a house (Hermitage Lodge) which was originally constructed as
+stables to the residence of <!-- page 196--><a
+name="page196"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 196</span>Foote, the
+dramatist and comedian, <a name="citation196"></a><a
+href="#footnote196" class="citation">[196]</a> which still stands
+on the opposite side of the road leading to Brompton, and where
+he lived for many years, expending large sums upon its
+improvement.&nbsp; It is now called &ldquo;The Hermitage,&rdquo;
+and is completely surrounded by a large garden enclosed by high
+walls.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p196.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Hermitage Lodge (1844) and The Hermitage"
+title=
+"Hermitage Lodge (1844) and The Hermitage"
+src="images/p196.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Exactly opposite to this house, in the angle of the road,
+stands an old house in a moderate-sized garden (Cambridge
+Lodge).&nbsp; Francis Bartolozzi, the celebrated engraver, who
+arrived in England in 1764, came to reside here in 1777.&nbsp; He
+was born at Florence in 1730, and died at Lisbon in 1813.&nbsp;
+His son, Gaetano Bartolozzi, father to the late Madame Vestris,
+was born in 1757, and died August 25th, 1813.&nbsp; Passing up
+the road, beside market gardens, is the old garden wall of
+Normand House, with some curious brick gates (now closed in): the
+house is very old; the <!-- page 197--><a
+name="page197"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 197</span>date, 1661,
+is in the centre arch, over the principal gateway, and it is said
+to have been used as a hospital for persons recovering from the
+Great Plague in 1665.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p197.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Bartolozzi&rsquo;s House"
+title=
+"Bartolozzi&rsquo;s House"
+src="images/p197.jpg" />
+</a>Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has resided here.&nbsp; In 1813
+&ldquo;it was appropriated for the reception of insane
+ladies&rdquo; (Faulkner), and it is now a lunatic asylum for
+ladies, with the name of &ldquo;Talfourd&rdquo; on a brass
+plate.&nbsp; A little further on the road, out of which we have
+turned, is a cottage to the right named Wentworth Cottage.&nbsp;
+Here Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall once resided.&nbsp; The willow in
+front of the cottage was planted by them from a slip of that over
+the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena.&nbsp; The land opposite this
+cottage is now to be let on building lease.&nbsp; This district,
+now known as &ldquo;Fulham Fields,&rdquo; was formerly called
+&ldquo;No Man&rsquo;s Land,&rdquo; and according to Faulkner, the
+local historian, contained, in 1813, &ldquo;about six
+houses.&rdquo;&nbsp; One of these was &ldquo;an ancient house,
+once the residence of the family of Plumbe,&rdquo; which was
+pulled down about twenty-three years ago, and replaced by a
+cluster of dwellings for the labourers in the surrounding market
+gardens, which extend from Walham Green nearly to the Thames in a
+north-west direction; &ldquo;the North End Road,&rdquo; as it is
+called, forming the eastern boundary of &ldquo;Fulham
+Fields.&rdquo;&nbsp; To establish <!-- page 198--><a
+name="page198"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 198</span>the
+connection of Sylvester&rsquo;s lines, quoted in the late Mr.
+Crofton Croker&rsquo;s Paper on the &ldquo;Golden Lion,&rdquo;
+with this locality, the antiquary who pointed it out observed
+that&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Our poet had an uncle named William Plumbe,
+who resided at North End, Fulham, having married the widow of
+John Gresham, the second son of Sir John Gresham, who was Lord
+Mayor of London in 1547, and which lady was the only daughter and
+heir of Edward Dormer of Fulham.&nbsp; Here it was, while
+visiting his uncle, that Sylvester formed the attachment which is
+the subject of his poem (see the folio edition of his works,
+1621).&nbsp; Uncle Plumbe had been a widower; and from monuments
+which exist, or existed, in the parish church of Fulham, appears
+to have departed this life on the 9th February, 1593&ndash;4,
+aged sixty.&nbsp; In the previous May, his widow had lost her son
+Edmund (or Edward) Gresham, at the age of sixteen; and seriously
+touched by the rapid proofs of mortality within her house, from
+which the hand of death had within twelve months removed both a
+husband and a child, made preparations for her own demise by
+recording her intention to repose beside their remains: and to
+her husband&rsquo;s memory she raised, in Fulham Church, a
+monument &lsquo;of alabaster, inlaid and ornamented with
+various-coloured marble,&rsquo; leaving a space after her name
+for the insertion of the date of her death and age, which appear
+never to have been supplied.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The arms of &ldquo;Dormer, impaled with Gresham,&rdquo; we are
+told remain, &ldquo;those of Plumbe are gone.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+Sylvester&rsquo;s &ldquo;Triumph of Faith&rdquo; is consecrated
+&ldquo;to the grateful memory of the first kind fosterer of our
+tender Muses, by my never sufficiently honoured dear uncle, W.
+Plumb, Esq.&rdquo;&nbsp; It is not our intention to linger over
+the recollections connected with the age of Elizabeth in Fulham
+Fields or at North End, although there can be no doubt that a
+little research might bring some curious local particulars to
+light connected with the history of the literature, the drama,
+and the fine arts of that period,</p>
+<p><!-- page 199--><a name="page199"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+199</span>The gardens here provide the London markets with a
+large supply of vegetables.&nbsp; A very primitive form of
+draw-well was common here, consisting of a pole, balanced
+horizontally on an upright, the bucket being affixed to a rope at
+one end.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p199a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Draw-well"
+title=
+"Draw-well"
+src="images/p199a.jpg" />
+</a>The pole is pulled downward for the bucket to descend the
+well, and when filled, is raised by the weight of wood attached
+to the opposite end of the pole.&nbsp; This mode of raising water
+is still in use in the East, and Wilkinson, in his &lsquo;Manners
+and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,&rsquo; Series I. vol. ii.
+p. 4, has engraved representations of this machine, from
+paintings on the walls of Thebes, of the time of the
+Pharaohs.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p199b.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Cottage in Fulham Fields"
+title=
+"Cottage in Fulham Fields"
+src="images/p199b.jpg" />
+</a>In &ldquo;Fulham Fields&rdquo; are still standing many old
+cottages, inhabited by market-gardeners.&nbsp; A sketch, taken in
+1844, of one of the best examples then existing, is here given as
+a specimen.</p>
+<p>A little beyond &ldquo;Wentworth Cottage,&rdquo; the road
+branches off, the turning to the right going to Hammersmith, and
+that to the left leading to Fulham.&nbsp; Hammersmith was a part
+of Fulham until 1834, when it was formed into a separate parish
+by Act of Parliament.</p>
+<p><!-- page 200--><a name="page200"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+200</span>
+<a href="images/p200a.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Elm House"
+title=
+"Elm House"
+src="images/p200a.jpg" />
+</a>Returning to the lane at North End, immediately beyond
+Bartolozzi&rsquo;s house, is an old wall, apparently of the time
+of Charles II., enclosing a tall peculiar-looking house, now
+called Elm House, once the residence of Cheeseman the engraver,
+of whom little is known, except that he was a pupil of
+Bartolozzi, and lived in Newman Street about thirty years
+ago.&nbsp; He is said to have been very fond of music, and having
+a small independence and less ambition, he was content to engrave
+but little, and with his violoncello and musical friends, passed
+a very happy life.</p>
+<p>A little further on the opposite side of the road stood
+Walnut-Tree Cottage (pulled down in 1846), once the residence of
+Edmund Kean, and also of Copley the artist, which took its name
+from the tree in the fore-court.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p200b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Walnut-Tree Cottage"
+title=
+"Walnut-Tree Cottage"
+src="images/p200b.jpg" />
+</a>We then come to the North End Sunday and Day Schools, erected
+in 1857.&nbsp; The road here curves round by the wall of
+Kensington Hall, a large mansion on the right, built by Slater,
+the well-known <!-- page 201--><a name="page201"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 201</span>butcher of Kensington, and it has
+been called in consequence Slater&rsquo;s Mansion.&nbsp; It is at
+present a school, kept by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, but it is to be
+let or sold.</p>
+<p>A little further to the left is Deadman&rsquo;s Lane.&nbsp;
+Here, in the midst of garden grounds, stands a venerable and
+isolated fabric, which would appear to have been built in the
+reign of James I.&nbsp; This lane leads to Hammersmith, but a
+more agreeable way has been made opposite Edith Villas, called
+Edith Road.&nbsp; The land is to be let on building lease; and
+here once stood the house of Cipriani, the painter.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p201.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Cipriani&rsquo;s House"
+title=
+"Cipriani&rsquo;s House"
+src="images/p201.jpg" />
+</a>Cipriani was born at Florence, in 1727, and died in London in
+1785.&nbsp; He came to England in 1755; and he was one of the
+members of the Royal Academy at its foundation in 1769, when he
+was employed to make the design for the diploma given to
+Academicians and Associates on their admission, which was
+engraved by Bartolozzi.&nbsp; The character and works of this
+artist are thus described by Fuseli: &ldquo;The fertility of his
+invention, the graces of his composition, and the seductive
+elegance of his forms, were only surpassed by the probity of his
+character, the simplicity of his manners, and the benevolence of
+his heart.&rdquo;&nbsp; A few plates were engraved by himself
+after his own designs.</p>
+<p><!-- page 202--><a name="page202"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+202</span>Another curve of the road brings us to the site of Dr.
+Crotch&rsquo;s house, where a row of houses, called Grove
+Cottages, have been built.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p202.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Dr. Crotch&rsquo;s House"
+title=
+"Dr. Crotch&rsquo;s House"
+src="images/p202.jpg" />
+</a>Dr. Crotch was, in 1797, at the early age of twenty-two,
+appointed Professor of Music in the University of Oxford, where
+he received the degree of Doctor of Music.&nbsp; In 1822 he was
+appointed Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.&nbsp; He
+performed for the last time in public in 1834 in Westminster
+Abbey, during the royal festival, and died 20th December, 1847,
+while sitting at dinner.&nbsp; Dr. Crotch has composed numerous
+pieces for the organ and pianoforte, and published, in 1812,
+&lsquo;Elements of Musical Composition and Thorough Bass,&rsquo;
+and subsequently specimens of various styles of music of all
+ages.&nbsp; W. Wynne Ryland, the engraver, lived in this house
+before Dr. Crotch inhabited it.</p>
+<p>Opposite where Dr. Crotch&rsquo;s house formerly stood, facing
+a turning which is called on one side Lawn Terrace, on the other
+Ashton Terrace, is a large brick mansion inhabited by Richardson
+the novelist before his removal to Parson&rsquo;s Green.&nbsp; It
+is of the period of William III., the appearance of which may be
+recognized from the annexed sketch.&nbsp; In the garden was a
+summer-house, in which the novelist wrote before the family were
+up, and he afterwards, at the <!-- page 203--><a
+name="page203"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 203</span>breakfast
+table, communicated the progress of his story.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p203.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"House of Richardson"
+title=
+"House of Richardson"
+src="images/p203.jpg" />
+</a>How little the exterior has been altered in the last fifty
+years, a comparison of this sketch, made in 1844, with the print
+prefixed to the 4th volume of Richardson&rsquo;s
+&lsquo;Correspondence,&rsquo; will show at a glance.&nbsp; Sir
+Richard Phillips&rsquo;s print was published by him May 26,
+1804.&nbsp; Then, as now, this mansion was divided into two
+houses, and the half nearest to the eye was that occupied by the
+novelist, the other half was the residence of a Mr. Vanderplank,
+a name which frequently occurs in &lsquo;Richardson&rsquo;s
+Correspondence.&rsquo;&nbsp; Richardson&rsquo;s house has been
+subsequently inhabited by the late Sir William and Lady Boothby,
+the latter, better known to the public as that charming actress
+Mrs. Nisbett.&nbsp; A few extracts from &lsquo;Richardson&rsquo;s
+Correspondence&rsquo; may here prove interesting.</p>
+<p>One of the most romantic incidents in the business-like and
+hospitable life of Richardson, was his correspondence with, and
+introduction to Lady Bradshaigh, the wife of a Lancashire
+Baronet, whom he tried to prevail upon to visit him at North
+End.&nbsp; After the appearance of the fourth volume of Clarissa
+Harlowe, a lady, who signed herself Belfour, wrote to Richardson,
+stating a report that prevailed, that the history of Clarissa was
+to terminate in a <!-- page 204--><a name="page204"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 204</span>most tragical manner, and requesting
+that her entreaties may avert so dreadful a catastrophe.</p>
+<p>This correspondence with Mrs. Belfour commenced in October,
+1748; and she thus concludes her letter to the novelist, her
+ladyship taking care to mystify her identity by giving her
+address, Post-office, Exeter, although resident at Haigh in
+Lancashire.&nbsp; &ldquo;If you disappoint me,&rdquo; she writes,
+&ldquo;attend to my curse.&rdquo;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;May the hatred of all the young, beautiful,
+and virtuous for ever be your portion, and may your eyes never
+behold anything but age and deformity!&nbsp; May you meet with
+applause only from envious old maids, surly bachelors, and
+tyrannical parents; may you be doomed to the company of such! and
+after death may their ugly souls haunt you!</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now make Lovelace and Clarissa unhappy if you dare!</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Perhaps you may think all this proceeds from a giddy
+girl of sixteen; but know I am past my romantic time of life,
+though young enough to wish two lovers happy in a married
+state.&nbsp; As I myself am in that class, it makes me still more
+anxious for the lovely pair.&nbsp; I have a common understanding,
+and middling judgment, for one of my sex, which I tell you for
+fear you should not find it out.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The correspondence thus commenced goes on, until the vanity of
+Richardson induces him to describe to his unknown correspondent
+his private circumstances: and to a hint given in the January
+following by Lady Bradshaigh, of her intention to visit London
+before she is a year older, when she &ldquo;shall long to
+see&rdquo; Mr. Richardson, and &ldquo;perhaps may contrive
+<i>that</i>, though unknown to him,&rdquo; he replies,&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;But do not, my dear correspondent (still
+let me call you so) say, that you will see me, <i>unknown to
+myself</i>, when you come to town.&nbsp; Permit me to hope, that
+you will not be personally a stranger to me then.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 205--><a name="page205"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+205</span>This is followed by an acknowledgment from Madame
+Belfour, that she is not his &ldquo;Devonshire lady,&rdquo;
+having but very little knowledge of the place, though she has a
+friend there; observing archly, &ldquo;<i>Lancashire</i>, if you
+please;&rdquo; adding an invitation, if he is inclined to take a
+journey of two hundred miles, with the promise of &ldquo;a most
+friendly reception from two persons, who have great reason to
+esteem&rdquo; him &ldquo;a very valuable acquaintance.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Richardson responded to this invitation by another&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;But I will readily come into any proposal
+you shall make, to answer the purpose of your question; and if
+you will be so cruel as to keep yourself still incognito, will
+acquiesce.&nbsp; I wish you would accept of our invitation on
+your coming to town.&nbsp; <i>But three little miles from Hyde
+Park Corner</i>.&nbsp; I keep no vehicle.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>(This was before the age of omnibuses.)</p>
+<blockquote><p>&mdash;&ldquo;but one should be at yours, and at
+your dear man&rsquo;s command, as long as you should both honour
+us with your presence.&nbsp; You shall be only the sister, the
+cousin, the niece&mdash;the what you please of my incognito, and
+I will never address you as other than what you choose to pass
+for.&nbsp; If you knew, Madam, you would not question that I am
+in earnest on this occasion; the less question it, as that at my
+little habitation near Hammersmith, I have common conveniences,
+though not splendid ones, to make my offer good.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Richardson, in the letter from which this passage has been
+extracted, is again led away by his vanity into a description of
+his person, and very plainly hints at a meeting in the Park,
+through which he goes &ldquo;once or twice a week to&rdquo; his
+&ldquo;little retirement.&rdquo;&nbsp; He describes himself
+as</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Short, rather plump than emaciated, about
+five foot five inches; fair wig; lightish cloth coat, all black
+besides; one hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it,
+which he leans upon under the <!-- page 206--><a
+name="page206"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 206</span>skirts of
+his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a
+support, when attacked by sudden tremors or startings and
+dizziness.&rdquo; . . . &ldquo;Of a light-brown complexion; teeth
+not yet failing him; smoothish faced and ruddy cheeked; at some
+times looking to be about sixty-five, at other times much
+younger; a regular even pace, stealing away ground, rather than
+seeming to get rid of it; a grey eye, too often overclouded by
+mistiness from the head; by chance lively&mdash;very lively it
+will be if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and
+honours; his eye always on the ladies&rdquo;&mdash;and so on.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>In return to this description, Lady Bradshaigh on the 16th
+December, 1749, half promises a meeting in an appointed place,
+for she tells the elderly gentleman with &ldquo;a grey eye, too
+often overclouded by mistiness from the head,&rdquo; but
+&ldquo;by chance lively,&rdquo; &ldquo;that she will attend the
+Park every fine warm day, between the hours of one and two.&nbsp;
+I do not,&rdquo; adds this perfect specimen of a literary
+coquette,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Say this to put you in the least out of
+your way, or make you stay a moment longer than your business
+requires; for a walk in the Park is an excuse she uses for her
+health; and as she designs staying some months in town, if she
+misses you one day she may have luck another.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>And Lady Bradshaigh proceeds to present, as if in ridicule of
+Richardson&rsquo;s portrait as drawn by himself, her own.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;In surprise or eagerness she is apt to
+think aloud; and since you have a mind to see <i>her</i>, who has
+seen the King, I give you the advantage of knowing she is middle
+aged, middle sized, a degree above plump, brown as an oak
+wainscot, a good deal of country red in her cheeks: altogether a
+plain woman, but nothing remarkably forbidding.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Any one might think that a meeting would immediately have
+followed these communications, and that the novel-writer and the
+novel-reader would have presented <!-- page 207--><a
+name="page207"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 207</span>themselves
+to each other&rsquo;s gaze for admiration, at the time and place
+appointed, and thus the affair which their letters have left upon
+record might have been satisfactorily wound up in one
+volume.&nbsp; But this did not accord with the sentimental
+typographical taste of the times, which required the dilution of
+an idea into seven or eight volumes to make it palatable.&nbsp;
+For we are told that a young Cantab, who, when asked if he had
+read Clarissa, replied, &ldquo;D---n it, I would not read it
+through to save my life,&rdquo; was set down as an incurable
+dunce.&nbsp; And that a lady reading to her maid, whilst she
+curled her hair, the seventh volume of Clarissa, the poor girl
+let fall such a shower of tears that they wetted her
+mistress&rsquo;s head so much, she had to send her out of the
+room to compose herself.&nbsp; Upon the maid being asked the
+cause of her grief, she said, &ldquo;Oh, madam, to see such
+goodness and innocence in such distress,&rdquo; and her lady
+rewarded her with a crown for the answer.</p>
+<p>January the 9th (1749&ndash;50) has arrived&mdash;the
+tantalizing Lady Bradshaigh, the unknown Mrs. Belfour has been in
+London six weeks, and the novelist begins &ldquo;not to know what
+to think&rdquo; of his fair correspondent&rsquo;s wish to see
+him.&nbsp; &ldquo;May be so,&rdquo; he writes,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;But with such a desire to be in town three
+weeks; on the 16th December to be in sight of my dwelling, and
+three weeks more to elapse, yet I neither to see or hear of the
+lady; it cannot be that she has so strong a desire.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Let any one imagine the ridiculousness of the situation of
+&ldquo;dear, good, excellent Mr. Richardson&rdquo; at this
+time.&nbsp; He had, he confesses,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Such a desire to see one who had seen the
+King, that&rdquo; (he speaking <!-- page 208--><a
+name="page208"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 208</span>of himself,
+says) &ldquo;though prevented by indisposition from going to my
+little retirement on the Saturday, that I had the pleasure of
+your letter, I went into the Park on Sunday (it being a very fine
+day) in hopes of seeing such a lady as you describe, contenting
+myself with dining as I walked, on a sea biscuit which I had put
+in my pocket, my family at home, all the time, knowing not what
+was become of me.&mdash;A Quixotte!</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Last Saturday, being a fine warm day, in my way to
+North End, I walked backwards and forwards in the Mall, till past
+your friend&rsquo;s time of being there (she preparing, possibly,
+for the Court, being Twelfth Night!) and I again was
+disappointed.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>On the 28th January, nineteen days after this was written,
+Lady Bradshaigh, in a letter full of satirical banter, which,
+however, it may be questionable if Richardson did not receive as
+replete with the highest compliments to his genius, says,</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Indeed, Sir, I resolved, if ever I came to
+town, to find out your haunts, if possible, and I have not
+&lsquo;said anything that is not,&rsquo; nor am at all naughty in
+this respect, for I give you my word, endeavours have not been
+wanting.&nbsp; You never go to public places.&nbsp; I knew not
+where to look for you (without making myself known) except in the
+Park, which place I have frequented most warm days.&nbsp; Once I
+fancied I met you; I gave a sort of a fluttering start, and
+surprised my company; but presently recollected you would not
+deceive me by appearing in a grey, instead of a whitish coat;
+besides the cane was wanting, otherwise I might have supposed you
+in mourning.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Could anything exceed this touch about &ldquo;a grey, instead
+of a whitish coat,&rdquo; except the finishing one of the
+&ldquo;mole upon your left cheek?&rdquo;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;To be sure on the Saturday you mention, I
+was dressing for court, as you supposed, and have never been in
+the Park upon a Sunday; but you cannot be sure that I have not
+seen you.&nbsp; How came I to know that you have a mole upon your
+left cheek?&nbsp; But not to make myself appear more knowing than
+I am, I&rsquo;ll tell you, Sir, that I have only seen you in
+effigy, in company with your Clarissa at Mr. Highmore&rsquo;s,
+where I design making you another visit shortly.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 209--><a name="page209"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+209</span>All this and much more is followed by a most
+tantalizing and puzzling P.S. to poor Richardson.&nbsp; His fair,
+or rather &ldquo;brown as an oak-wainscot, with a good
+deal-of-country-red in her cheeks&rdquo; correspondent, requests
+him &ldquo;to direct only to C. L., and enclose it to Miss J., to
+be left at Mrs. G.&rsquo;s&rdquo; etc. etc., previously observing
+that, &ldquo;whenever there happens to be a fine Saturday I shall
+look for you in the Park, that being the day on which I suppose
+you are called that way.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Roused into desperation, Richardson on the 2nd February writes
+to Mrs. Belfour as follows:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;What pains does my unkind correspondent
+take to conceal herself!&nbsp; Loveless thought himself at
+liberty to change names without Act of Parliament.&nbsp; I wish,
+madam, that Lovelace&mdash;&lsquo;A sad dog,&rsquo; said a
+certain lady once, &lsquo;why was he made so wicked, yet so
+agreeable?&rsquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Disappointed and chagrined as I was on Friday night
+with the return of my letter, directed to Miss J---, rejected and
+refused to be taken in at Mrs. G---&rsquo;s, and with my
+servant&rsquo;s bringing me word that the little book I sent on
+Thursday night, with a note in it, was also rejected; and the
+porter (whom I have never since seen or heard of, nor of the
+book) dismissed with an assurance that he must be wrong; my
+servant being sent from one Mrs. G--- to another Mrs. G--- at
+Millbank; yet I resolved to try my fortune on Saturday in the
+Park in my way to North End.&nbsp; The day indeed, thought I, is
+not promising; but where so great an earnestness is professed,
+and the lady possibly by this time made acquainted with the
+disappointment she has given me, who knows but she will be
+carried in a chair to the Park, to make me amends, and there
+reveal herself?&nbsp; Three different chairs at different views
+saw I.&nbsp; My hope, therefore, not so very much out of the way;
+but in none of them the lady I wished to see.&nbsp; Up the Mall
+walked I, down the Mall, and up again, in my way to North
+End.&nbsp; O this dear Will-o&rsquo;-wisp, thought I! when
+nearest, furthest off!&nbsp; Why should I, at this time of
+life?&nbsp; No bad story, the consecrated rose, say what she
+will: and all the spiteful things I could think of I muttered to
+myself.&nbsp; And how, Madam, can I banish them from my memory,
+<!-- page 210--><a name="page210"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+210</span>when I see you so very careful to conceal yourself;
+when I see you so very apprehensive of my curiosity, and so very
+little confiding in my generosity?&nbsp; O Madam! you know me
+not! you will not know me!</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Yesterday, at North End, your billet, apologizing for
+the disappointment was given me.&nbsp; Lud! lud! what a giddy
+appearance! thought I.&nbsp; O that I had half the life, the
+spirit! of anything worth remembering I could make
+memorandums.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Shall I say all I thought?&nbsp; I will not.&nbsp; But
+if these at last reach your hands, take them as written, as they
+were, by Friday night, and believe me to be,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;Madam,<br />
+&ldquo;Your admirer and humble Servant,<br />
+&ldquo;<span class="smcap">S. Richardson</span>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Sir Walter Scott says, that &ldquo;the power of
+Richardson&rsquo;s painting of his deeper scenes of tragedy has
+never been, and probably never will be, excelled;&rdquo; and in
+Mrs. Inchbald&rsquo;s &lsquo;Life of Richardson,&rsquo; we read,
+that &ldquo;as a writer he possessed original genius, and an
+unlimited command over the tender passions.&rdquo;&nbsp; He
+carried on a foreign literary correspondence, and was on terms of
+intimacy with many eminent and literary persons of his time,
+particularly Dr. Young, Dr. Johnson, Aaron Hill, and Arthur
+Onslow, Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons.</p>
+<p>A short distance further on, we enter the Hammersmith Road,
+opposite a tavern called &ldquo;The Bell and Anchor,&rdquo; which
+stands beside the turnpike, and passing about twenty shops on the
+left towards Hammersmith, we notice in the fore-court of a house
+called &ldquo;The Cedars,&rdquo; two noble cedar trees of immense
+girth, one of which is represented in the accompanying cut.&nbsp;
+This was formerly the residence of Sir James Branscomb, who,
+according to Faulkner, &ldquo;in his early days had been a
+servant to the Earl of Gainsborough, <!-- page 211--><a
+name="page211"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 211</span>and
+afterwards, for upwards of forty years, carried on a lottery
+office in Holborn.&nbsp; He was a common-councilman of the Ward
+of Farringdon Without, and received the honour of knighthood
+during his shrievalty.&rdquo;&nbsp; The house has been a
+ladies&rsquo; boarding-school for many years.&nbsp; From the
+Kensington Road we can return direct to London, having in this
+chapter departed from our even course on the Fulham Road for the
+purpose of visiting the North End district.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p211.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Tree in the fore-court of &ldquo;The Cedars&rdquo;"
+title=
+"Tree in the fore-court of &ldquo;The Cedars&rdquo;"
+src="images/p211.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<h2><!-- page 212--><a name="page212"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 212</span>CHAPTER VII.</h2>
+<p class="gutsumm"><span class="smcap">the pryor&rsquo;s
+bank</span>, <span class="smcap">fulham</span>.</p>
+<p>Nestling in trees beneath the old tower of Fulham Church,
+which has been judiciously restored by Mr. George Godwin, there
+may be seen from Putney Bridge a remarkable group of houses, the
+most conspicuous of which will be conjectured from a passing
+glance to belong to the Gothic tribe.&nbsp; This house, which has
+been a pet kind of place of the Strawberry Hill class, is called
+the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, and its history can be told in much less
+than one hundredth part of the space that a mere catalogue of the
+objects of interest which it has contained would occupy.&nbsp; In
+fact, the whole edifice, from the kitchen to the bedrooms, was a
+few years since a museum, arranged with a view to pictorial
+effect; and if it had been called &ldquo;The Museum of British
+Antiquities&rdquo; it would have been found worthy of the
+name.</p>
+<p>In a print, published about forty years since, by J. Edington,
+64 Gracechurch Street, of Fulham Church, as seen from the river,
+the ancient aspect of the modern Pryor&rsquo;s Bank is
+preserved.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p213a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Fulham Church"
+title=
+"Fulham Church"
+src="images/p213a.jpg" />
+</a>The situation of this humble <!-- page 213--><a
+name="page213"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 213</span>residence
+having attracted the fancy of Mr. Walsh Porter, he purchased it,
+raised the building by an additional story, replaced its latticed
+casements by windows of coloured glass, and fitted the interior
+with grotesque embellishments and theatrical decorations.&nbsp;
+The entrance hall was called the robber&rsquo;s cave, for it was
+constructed of material made to look like large projecting rocks,
+with a winding staircase, and mysterious in-and-out
+passages.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p213b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Vine Cottage"
+title=
+"Vine Cottage"
+src="images/p213b.jpg" />
+</a>One of the bed-rooms was called, not inaptly, the
+lion&rsquo;s den.&nbsp; The dining-room represented, on a small
+scale, the ruins of Tintern Abbey; and here Mr. Porter had
+frequently the honour of receiving and entertaining George IV.,
+when Prince of Wales.&nbsp; It was then called Vine Cottage, <a
+name="citation213"></a><a href="#footnote213"
+class="citation">[213]</a> and having been disposed <!-- page
+214--><a name="page214"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 214</span>of
+by Mr. Porter, became, in 1813, the residence of Lady Hawarden;
+and, subsequently, of William Holmes, Esq., M.P., who sold it to
+Mr. Baylis and Mr. Lechmere Whitmore about 1834.</p>
+<p>By them a luxurious vine which covered the exterior was cut
+down, and the cottage, named after it, replaced by a modern
+antique house.&nbsp; Mr. Baylis being a zealous antiquary, his
+good taste induced him to respect neglected things, when
+remarkable as works of art, and inspired him and his friend Mr.
+Whitmore with the wish to collect and preserve some of the many
+fine specimens of ancient manufacture that had found their way
+into this country from the Continent, as well as to rescue from
+destruction relics of Old England.&nbsp; In the monuments and
+carvings which had been removed from dilapidated churches, and in
+the furniture which had been turned out of the noble mansions of
+England&mdash;the &ldquo;Halls&rdquo; and &ldquo;old
+Places&rdquo;&mdash;Mr. Baylis saw the tangible records of the
+history of his country; and, desirous of upholding such
+memorials, he gleaned a rich harvest from the lumber of
+brokers&rsquo; shops, and saved from oblivion articles
+illustrative of various tastes and periods, that were daily in
+the course of macadamisation or of being consumed for
+firewood.</p>
+<p>The materials thus acquired were freely used by him in the
+construction of a new building upon the site of Vine Cottage, and
+adapted with considerable skill; but when neither the vine nor
+the cottage were in existence, it appeared to Mr. Baylis
+ridiculous to allow a misnomer to attach itself to the
+spot.&nbsp; After due deliberation, therefore, respecting the
+situation upon a delightful bank of gravel, <!-- page 215--><a
+name="page215"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 215</span>and the
+association which an assemblage of ecclesiastic carvings and
+objects connected with &ldquo;monkish memories,&rdquo; there
+collected, were likely to produce upon the mind, the new house
+was styled the &ldquo;Pryor&rsquo;s Bank.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>As Horace Walpole&rsquo;s villa was celebrated by the Earl of
+Bath, so the charms of the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank have been sung in
+&ldquo;the last new ballad on the Fulham regatta&rdquo;&mdash;a
+<i>jeu d&rsquo;esprit</i> circulated at an entertainment given by
+the hospitable owners in 1843:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Strawberry Hill has pass&rsquo;d
+away,<br />
+Every house must have its day;<br />
+So in antiquarian rank<br />
+Up sprung here the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank,<br />
+Full of glorious tapestry,&mdash;<br />
+Full as well as house can be:<br />
+And of carvings old and quaint,<br />
+Relics of some mitr&rsquo;d saint,<br />
+&rsquo;Tis&mdash;I hate to be perfidious&mdash;<br />
+&rsquo;Tis a house most sacrilegious.</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Glorious, glowing painted glass,<br />
+What its beauty can surpass?<br />
+Shrines bedeck&rsquo;d with gems we see,<br />
+Overhung by canopy<br />
+Of embroider&rsquo;d curtains rare&mdash;<br />
+Wondrous works of time and care!<br />
+Up stairs, down stairs, in the hall,<br />
+There is something great or small<br />
+To attract the curious eye<br />
+Into it to rudely pry.</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Here some niche or cabinet<br />
+Full of rarities is set;<br />
+Here some picture&mdash;&lsquo;precious bit&rsquo;&mdash;<br />
+There&rsquo;s no time to dwell on it;<br />
+Bronzes, china&mdash;all present<br />
+Each their own sweet blandishment.<br />
+<!-- page 216--><a name="page216"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+216</span>But what makes our pleasure here,<br />
+Is our welcome and our cheer;<br />
+So I&rsquo;ll not say one bit more,&mdash;<br />
+Long live Baylis and Whitmore!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>I would endeavour to convey some idea of the Pryor&rsquo;s
+Bank and its now dispersed treasures as they were in 1840, in
+which year we will suppose the reader to accompany us through the
+house and grounds; but before entering the house, I would call
+attention to a quiet walk along the garden-terrace, laved to its
+verdant slope by the brimming Thames.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p216.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Terrace at Pryor&rsquo;s Bank"
+title=
+"Terrace at Pryor&rsquo;s Bank"
+src="images/p216.jpg" />
+</a>Suppose, then, we leave those beautiful climbing
+plants&mdash;they are Chilian creepers that so profusely wanton
+on the sunny wall&mdash;and turning sharply round an angle of the
+river front, cut at once, by the most direct walk, the parties
+who in luxurious idleness have assembled about the garden
+fountain; and, lest such folk should attempt to interrupt us in
+our sober purpose, let us not stop to see or admire anything,
+until we reach the bay-window summer-house at the end of the
+terrace.&nbsp; &ldquo;How magnificent are those
+chestnut-trees!&rdquo; I hear you exclaim; &ldquo;and this old
+bay-window!&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 217--><a name="page217"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+217</span>Ay, this summer-house which shelters us, and those
+noble balusters which protect the northern termination of the
+terrace, how many thoughts do they conjure up in the mind!&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p217.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Fountain at Pryor&rsquo;s Bank"
+title=
+"Fountain at Pryor&rsquo;s Bank"
+src="images/p217.jpg" />
+</a>These balusters belonged to the main staircase of Winchester
+House.&nbsp; Do you remember Winchester House in Broad Street, in
+the good city of London, the residence of &ldquo;the loyal
+Paulets?&rdquo;&nbsp; Perhaps not.&nbsp; There is, however, a
+print of its last appearance in the &lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s
+Magazine&rsquo; for April, 1839, and by which you will at once
+identify this summer-house as the bay-window of the principal
+apartment.&nbsp; Indeed the editor tells you that &ldquo;the
+greater part of the remaining ornamental wood-work has been
+purchased by Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., who is fitting up with
+it the kitchen and some of the new rooms of his house,
+Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, Fulham.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>It is stated in the same magazine, that in 1828 the motto of
+the Paulets, <span class="smcap">Aymes Loyaulte</span>, was to be
+seen in the windows of the principal apartment on the first
+floor, in yellow letters, disposed in diagonal stripes; which
+motto, it is added, &ldquo;was probably put there by the loyal
+Marquis of Winchester, in the time of Charles I., by whom the
+<!-- page 218--><a name="page218"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+218</span>same sentence was inscribed in every window of his
+residence at Basing House, in Hants, which he so gallantly
+defended against the Parliamentarians.&rdquo; <a
+name="citation218"></a><a href="#footnote218"
+class="citation">[218]</a></p>
+<p>Now, is it not more probable that the recollection of this
+motto in the windows of his paternal mansion, conveyed through
+the medium of coloured glass, indelibly stamped by sunshine (or
+daguerreotyped, as we might term it) upon the youthful mind of
+the gallant marquis those feelings of devoted loyalty which
+influenced his after conduct, and led him to inscribe with the
+point of his diamond ring the same motto upon the windows of
+Basing House?&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p218.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Turn Buckle"
+title=
+"Turn Buckle"
+src="images/p218.jpg" />
+</a>Be this as it may, it is gratifying to know that many of the
+panes of glass which bore that glorious yellow letter motto in
+Winchester House, at the period when it was doomed to be taken
+down, are preserved, having been with good taste presented to the
+present Marquis of Winchester; and two or three which were
+overlooked have come into the possession of Lord Adolphus
+Fitzclarence.&nbsp; But much of the diamond-shaped glass in this
+bay-window, as it stood upon the terrace of the Pryor&rsquo;s
+Bank, was ancient, and very curious.&nbsp; You could not fail to
+remark the quaint window-latch, termed &ldquo;a Turn
+Buckle.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 219--><a name="page219"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+219</span>Had we time to linger here, how amusing it might be to
+attempt to decipher the monograms, and names, and verses
+inscribed upon the various lozenge-shaped panes of glass, which
+practically exemplified the phrase of &ldquo;diamond cut
+diamond.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The fragments of the old Royal Exchange, with a Burmese
+cross-legged idol perched thereon&mdash;the urn to the memory of
+&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Poor Banquo</span>;&rdquo; the
+green-house, with its billiard-table, and even an alcove, the
+most charming spot in &ldquo;the wide world&rdquo; to talk
+sentiment in, must not detain us from returning to another angle
+of the river front, after 
+<a href="images/p219.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Alcove: and Angle of the River Front"
+title=
+"Alcove: and Angle of the River Front"
+src="images/p219.jpg" />
+</a>glancing at which, we enter the outer hall or passage,
+wainscoted with oak and lined above with arras, separated from
+the inner hall by an oak screen, which was <!-- page 220--><a
+name="page220"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 220</span>usually
+guarded upon gala nights by most respectable
+&ldquo;Beef-eaters,&rdquo; who required the production of
+invitation 
+<a href="images/p220.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Inner Hall with oak screen"
+title=
+"Inner Hall with oak screen"
+src="images/p220.jpg" />
+</a>cards from all visitors.&nbsp; They permit us to pass without
+question; and that is a very proper example for you to follow,
+and a good reason why you should not question me too
+closely:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Do
+you think that I<br />
+Came here to be the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank directory?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>You must use your own eyes, and judge for yourself.&nbsp; I
+will tell you, however, all that I know as briefly as possible,
+and point out whatever occurs to me in our scamper, for a scamper
+it can only be termed: just such a kind of run as a person makes
+through London who has come up by railroad to see all its wonders
+in a week.&nbsp; But I cannot allow you to examine so closely
+that curiously <!-- page 221--><a name="page221"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 221</span>carved oak chimney-piece in the
+inner hall, although I admit that it may be as early as Henry
+VIII.&rsquo;s time, and those interesting old portraits.&nbsp;
+Where shall we begin?&nbsp; You wish to inspect everything.&nbsp;
+Suppose, then, we commence with the kitchen, and steam it
+up-stairs to the dormitories, going at the rate of a
+high-pressure engine.</p>
+<p>You are already aware that the kitchen was panelled with oak
+from the drawing-room of Winchester House, and now you see the
+whole style of fitting-up accords with that of &ldquo;bygone
+days.&rdquo;&nbsp; Look, for instance, towards the kitchen
+window, and you will find that the various cupboards, presses and
+dressers&mdash;even the cooking utensils&mdash;correspond; but,
+although modern improvements have not been lost sight of, antique
+forms have been retained.&nbsp; Let one example suffice, that of
+an ancient gridiron, of beautiful and elaborate workmanship.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p221.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Kitchen Window: and Ancient Gridiron"
+title=
+"Kitchen Window: and Ancient Gridiron"
+src="images/p221.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>The history of the plates and dishes displayed in this <!--
+page 222--><a name="page222"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+222</span>kitchen would afford an opportunity for a dissertation
+on the rise and progress of the fine arts in this country, as
+they present most curious and important specimens of early
+drawing, painting, and poetry.&nbsp; The old English plate was a
+square piece of wood, which indeed is not quite obsolete at the
+present hour.&nbsp; The improvement upon this primitive plate was
+a circular platter, with a raised edge; but there were also thin,
+circular, flat plates of beech-wood in use for the dessert or
+confection, and they were gilt and painted upon one side, and
+inscribed with pious, or instructive, or amorous mottoes, suited
+to the taste of the society in which they were produced.&nbsp;
+Such circular plates are now well known to antiquaries under the
+name of &ldquo;roundels,&rdquo; and were at one time generally
+supposed by them to have been used as cards for fortune-telling,
+or playing with at questions and answers.&nbsp; More sober
+research into their origin and use shows that they were painted
+and decorated with conventional patterns by nuns, who left blank
+spaces for the mottoes, to be supplied by the more learned monks;
+and a set of these roundels generally consisted of twelve.&nbsp;
+As specimens of the style of these mottoes about the time of
+Henry VII. or VIII. the following may be taken:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Wheresoever thou traveleste,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Este, Weste, Northe, or Southe,<br />
+Learne never to looke<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; A geven horsse in the mouthe.&rdquo;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;In friends ther ys flattery,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; In men lyttell trust,<br />
+Thoughe fayre they proffer<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; They be offten unjuste.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>There are many sets of verses for roundels extant in <!-- page
+223--><a name="page223"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+223</span>manuscript, and a few have been printed; indeed, it
+appears likely that to the love for this species of composition
+we owe Tusser&rsquo;s &ldquo;Five Hundred Points of Good
+Husbandry,&rdquo; and most of his other admonitory verses.</p>
+<p>After the Reformation, coloured prints superseded the painted
+and manuscript &ldquo;poesies&rdquo; of the nuns and monks, and
+the elder De Passe, and other artists of the period of James I.
+and Charles I., produced a variety of oval and circular
+engravings, which were pasted upon roundels and varnished
+over.&nbsp; The subjects generally selected were those which
+naturally arranged themselves into a set of twelve, as the
+months.&nbsp; By the Puritans the beechen roundels thus decorated
+were regarded with especial dislike, and they returned to the use
+of the unadorned trencher and &ldquo;godly platter.&rdquo;&nbsp;
+When the &ldquo;Merry Monarch&rdquo; was restored he brought over
+with him from Holland plates and dishes manufactured at Delft,
+where the porcelain known as Faenza, Faience, Majolica, and
+Fynlina ware, made during the fifteenth century in the North of
+Italy, and upon the embellishments of which, according to
+Lamartini&egrave;re, the pencils of Raffaelle, Giulio Romano, and
+the Caracci, were employed, had been successfully, although
+coarsely imitated.&nbsp; And it must be confessed that many of
+the old Dutch plates, dishes, and bowls, upon the kitchen-shelves
+of the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, deserved to be admired for boldness of
+design, effective combinations of colour, and the manual
+dexterity displayed in the execution of the patterns.&nbsp; The
+superior delicacy of the porcelain of China, which about this
+time began to be imported freely into England from the East
+caused it to <!-- page 224--><a name="page224"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 224</span>be preferred to the &ldquo;Dutch
+ware,&rdquo; and the consequence of international commerce was,
+that the Chinese imitated European devices and patterns upon
+their porcelain, probably with the view of rendering the article
+more acceptable in the Dutch and English markets.&nbsp; But while
+the Chinese were imitating us, we were copying their style of art
+in the potteries of Staffordshire, with the commercial
+manufacturing advantage given by the power of transferring a
+print to the clay over the production of the same effect by means
+of the pencil, an idea no doubt suggested by our roundels of
+Charles I.&rsquo;s time, and which process became of the same
+relative importance as printing to manuscript.&nbsp; This was the
+origin of our common blue-and-white plate, or what is known as
+&ldquo;the willow pattern,&rdquo; where</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;Walking through their groves of
+trees,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; Blue bridges and blue rivers,<br />
+Little think those three Chinese<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp; They&rsquo;ll soon be smash&rsquo;d to
+shivers.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The popularity of this porcelain pattern must not be ascribed
+to superior beauty or cheapness, for to the eye of taste surely a
+pure plain white plate is infinitely superior to an unfeeling
+copy of a Chinese pagoda, bridge, and willow-tree &ldquo;in blue
+print.&rdquo;&nbsp; The fact is that the bugbear of a vulgar
+mind&mdash;&ldquo;fashion&rdquo;&mdash;long rendered it
+imperative upon every good housewife and substantial householder
+to keep up a certain dinner-set of earthenware, consisting of two
+soup-tureens and a relative proportion of dishes and
+vegetable-dishes, with covers, soup-plates, dinner-plates, and
+dessert-plates, which were all to correspond; and should any
+accidental breakage of crockery take place, it was a
+manufacturing trick to make it a matter of <!-- page 225--><a
+name="page225"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+225</span>extra-proportionate expense and difficulty readily to
+replace the same unless it happened to be of &ldquo;the blue
+willow pattern.&rdquo;&nbsp; The practice, however, of using for
+the dessert-service plates of Worcester china painted by hand,
+and the execution of many of which as works of art call for our
+admiration as much as any enamel, created a taste for forming
+what are called harlequin sets, among which, if a few plates
+happen to be</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Smash&rsquo;d to shivers,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>the value of the whole set is only proportionately
+depreciated, and what has been broken may perhaps be
+advantageously replaced.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p225.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Earl of Essex"
+title=
+"Earl of Essex"
+src="images/p225.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>If you like, we will return to the inner hall, where is a <!--
+page 226--><a name="page226"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+226</span>portrait of the celebrated Earl of Essex, an undoubted
+original picture, dated 1598, three years previous to his being
+beheaded (Zucchero), and from it at once enter the library, or
+breakfast-room.&nbsp; Here there is a superbly carved Elizabethan
+chimney-piece.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p226.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Elizabethan chimney-piece"
+title=
+"Elizabethan chimney-piece"
+src="images/p226.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>What are you about?&nbsp; You should not have touched so
+thoughtlessly that &ldquo;brass inkstand,&rdquo; as you call
+it.&nbsp; It is actually a pix, or holy box, <a
+name="citation227"></a><a href="#footnote227"
+class="citation">[227]</a> which once contained the host, and was
+considered &ldquo;so sacred, that upon the march of armies it was
+especially prohibited from theft.&rdquo;&nbsp; We are told that
+Henry V. delayed his army for a whole day to discover the thief
+who had stolen one.&nbsp; You may admire the pictures as much as
+you please; they are odd and <!-- page 227--><a
+name="page227"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+227</span>hard-looking portraits to my eye; but they are
+historically curious, and clever, too, for their age.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p227a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Pix, or Holy Box"
+title=
+"Pix, or Holy Box"
+src="images/p227a.jpg" />
+</a>Could you only patiently listen to a discussion upon the
+characters of the originals of the portraits that have hung upon
+these walls, or the volumes that have filled these shelves; you
+might gain a deeper insight into the workings of the human heart
+than, perhaps, you would care to be instructed by.&nbsp; There
+were in the next room&mdash;the dining-room&mdash;into which we
+may proceed when you please, for only by a sliding door between
+the library and dining-room are they separated&mdash;such
+pictures!&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p227b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Sliding door into dining-room"
+title=
+"Sliding door into dining-room"
+src="images/p227b.jpg" />
+</a>An unquestionable &lsquo;Henry VIII.,&rsquo; by Holbein; a
+&lsquo;Queen Mary,&rsquo; by Lucas de Heere, from the collection
+of the late Mr. Dent; and a glorious &lsquo;Elizabeth,&rsquo;
+that had belonged to Nathaniel Rich of Eltham, who we know from
+the particulars of sale that were in the Augmentation Office, was
+the purchaser of Eltham Palace, when disposed <!-- page 228--><a
+name="page228"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 228</span>of by the
+Parliament after the death of Charles I.; and we also know from
+Strype&rsquo;s <i>Annals of the Reformation</i>, that Elizabeth
+visited Eltham and passed some days there in 1559, and that she
+made her favourite Sir Christopher Hatton keeper of the royal
+palace there.</p>
+<p>You should not disturb those books; you will look in vain for
+the publication of George III.&rsquo;s &lsquo;Illustration of
+Shakspeare,&rsquo; and corrected in the autograph of the king for
+a second edition.&nbsp; How remarkable are the opinions
+entertained by His Majesty respecting Doctors Johnson and
+Franklin, and how curious are some of the notes!&nbsp; This book
+is the true history of his reign, and would be worth to us fifty
+black-letter Caxtons.&nbsp; Mr. Thorpe of Piccadilly can tell you
+all about it.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p228.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Monastic chair and damask curtains"
+title=
+"Monastic chair and damask curtains"
+src="images/p228.jpg" />
+</a>Oh, never mind that manuscript in its old French binding, and
+those exquisitely-wrought silver clasps, and dear old Horace
+Walpole&rsquo;s books.&nbsp; We must enter the dining-room.&nbsp;
+Here sit down in this monastic chair, and look around you for
+five minutes.&nbsp; This chair Mr. Baylis picked up in Lincoln;
+and the curtains beside it, they came from Strawberry Hill, and
+are of genuine Spitalfields damask.&nbsp; There is no <!-- page
+229--><a name="page229"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+229</span>such damask to be had now.&nbsp; Eighty years ago were
+these curtains manufactured, and yet they are in most excellent
+condition.&nbsp; The greater portion of the Gothic oak panelling
+around us originally formed the back of the stalls in the
+beautiful chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford.&nbsp; During the
+late repairs this panelling was removed and sold.&nbsp; Much of
+it was purchased by the Marquess of Salisbury for Hatfield House,
+and the remainder Mr. Baylis bought.&nbsp; More of the oak
+panelling in the room, especially the elaborately-wrought
+specimens and the rich tracery work, have been obtained from
+Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster, St. Mary&rsquo;s Coventry,
+and other churches.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p229.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Ornate chimney-piece"
+title=
+"Ornate chimney-piece"
+src="images/p229.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>The chimney-piece is a rich composition of ancient <!-- page
+230--><a name="page230"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+230</span>carving; the canopy came from St. Michael&rsquo;s
+Church, Coventry, and in the niches are some fine figures of the
+kings and queens of England.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p230a.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Knight&rsquo;s armour"
+title=
+"Knight&rsquo;s armour"
+src="images/p230a.jpg" />
+</a>The fire-back is an interesting relic, as it is the original
+one placed in the great dining-hall of Burghley House, by
+Elizabeth&rsquo;s minister, whose arms are upon it, with the date
+1575.&nbsp; The sideboard, with its canopy of oak, assimilates
+with the fitting of the room, and had upon its shelves a
+glittering display of ancient glass and early plate.&nbsp;
+Salvers and cups of singular forms and beautiful shapes arose
+proudly up, one above the other, with dishes of Raffaelle ware
+beneath them.&nbsp; But I cannot help seeing that the steel-clad
+knight, who keeps guard in a recess by the sideboard, attracts
+more of your attention.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p230b.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Leathern black jack and iron jug"
+title=
+"Leathern black jack and iron jug"
+src="images/p230b.jpg" />
+</a>The effigy is an excellent suit of fluted armour of Henry
+VIIth&rsquo;s time; and in the opposite recess, those huge
+drinking-vessels are only an honest old English leathern black
+jack and an iron jug; the former from St. Cross, Winchester, the
+latter from the castle of some German baron, and full of feudal
+character.</p>
+<p>As for the other relics in the dining-room, I will only <!--
+page 231--><a name="page231"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+231</span>particularise two or three more; and they are a pair of
+round and solid well-carved pendents from the chancel of the
+church of Stratford-on-Avon, which have been removed from their
+original station immediately over the tomb of Shakspeare; and are
+now, as you see, inverted and used here as footstools.</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Think of that, Master Brooke!&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The other relic is that matchless piece of sculptured oak 
+<a href="images/p231.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Effigy in oak of Emperor Rudolph II."
+title=
+"Effigy in oak of Emperor Rudolph II."
+src="images/p231.jpg" />
+</a> which represents the Emperor Rudolph II., the size of life
+(five feet six inches in height), and which was brought from
+Aix-la-Chapelle by the late Sir Herbert Taylor.&nbsp; What may
+have been its former history I cannot tell you, but it resembles
+in execution the exquisite Gothic figures in the chimney-piece of
+the town-hall at Bruges, and is of about the same height and
+size.</p>
+<p>Are you willing to forsake the thoughtful soberness of antique
+oak-panelling for the tinsel of Venetian gold and the richness of
+Genoa velvet, Florentine tapestry, and Persian arras?&nbsp; If
+so, we will ascend to the drawing-rooms and gallery.&nbsp; But
+stay a moment and permit this lady and oddly-dressed gentleman to
+pass us on their exit from the gallery, where they have been
+rehearsing some charming entertainment for the evening, or
+getting <!-- page 232--><a name="page232"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 232</span>up some piece of fanciful mummery to
+amuse the idle guests who have congregated around the garden
+fountain.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p232.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Couple exiting from gallery"
+title=
+"Couple exiting from gallery"
+src="images/p232.jpg" />
+</a>The light is not favourable for seeing all the pictures that
+deserve inspection on the staircase&mdash;you had better ascend;
+and now, having reached the head of the semi-staircase, our
+course is along this lobby to the opposite door-way, which is
+that of the drawing-room.</p>
+<p>Let us enter at once, and in our tour of the Pryor&rsquo;s
+Bank regard the ante-drawing-room as a kind of middle or
+passage-room, belonging either to the gallery or the
+drawing-room.&nbsp; I admit that the arrangement of the house,
+which, however, is very simple, appears puzzling at first: the
+reason of this is, that the senses are often deceived, from
+mirrors here and there being so judiciously arranged, that they
+reflect at happy angles objects which would otherwise escape
+observation.&nbsp; It is impossible to convey an idea of the
+whole effect of the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, made up as it has been of
+carvings of unrivalled richness, grace, and variety, solemn and
+grotesque.&nbsp; Statues are there, some of the highest class of
+art, others which belong to an early Gothic period, and yet an
+harmonious effect has been produced.&nbsp; Where <!-- page
+233--><a name="page233"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+233</span>will you take up your position for a general
+view?&nbsp; At the other end? or in the oriel window looking on
+the Bishop&rsquo;s Walk?</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p233.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Oriel Window.  Venetian Table"
+title=
+"Oriel Window.  Venetian Table"
+src="images/p233.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Now if it were not for that richly gilt Venetian table, the
+companion to which is in the possession of the Earl of
+Harrington, we might have an excellent view of that magnificently
+embellished recess, upon the merits of which Mr. Baylis is
+commenting to another oddly equipped gentleman.&nbsp; There
+certainly is something going forward in the fancy-dress
+way.&nbsp; On this Venetian table stands a French astronomical
+clock; upon it are silver medallions of Louis XIII. and XIV., and
+among its ornaments the monograms of these monarchs appear.</p>
+<p>Here is a group, in ivory, of bacchanals, with attendant <!--
+page 234--><a name="page234"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+234</span>boys; a genuine piece of Fiamingo&rsquo;s work, cut
+from solid ivory, and formerly in the collection of the
+Vatican.&nbsp; Here, 
+<a href="images/p234.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Group in Ivory: Tapestried Recess"
+title=
+"Group in Ivory: Tapestried Recess"
+src="images/p234.jpg" />
+</a>come this way, we may as well pick up something of the
+history of this tapestried recess, the canopy and seats of which,
+and the three other recesses in the drawing-room, are fashioned
+out of the remains of a large throne or dais brought from
+Florence, and which had belonged to the Medici family.&nbsp; The
+materials are of the richest possible kind, being flowers of
+floss silk upon a ground-work of gold thread, interspersed with
+silver.&nbsp; The effect produced by this combination is gorgeous
+in the extreme.&nbsp; &ldquo;And those figures?&rdquo;&nbsp; That
+nearest the eye is a statue of the Emperor Rudolph of Hapsburgh,
+admirably carved in oak, the armour is of silver damasked with
+gold.&nbsp; The other <!-- page 235--><a name="page235"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 235</span>figure, and a corresponding one on
+the opposite side of the room, represent Gothic queens, whose
+robes have been restored in the illuminated style of
+decoration.&nbsp; &ldquo;And the tapestry in the
+recess?&rdquo;&nbsp; Listen to what Mr. Baylis is saying.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;Thinking over it,&rdquo; remarked Sir Bulwer Lytton to me,
+&ldquo;I have very little doubt but that my guess was
+right&mdash;that the fisherman is meant for Antony and the lady
+for Cleopatra; it was a favourite story in the middle ages, how
+Antony, wishing to surprise Cleopatra with his success in
+angling, employed a diver to fix fishes on his hook.&nbsp;
+Cleopatra found him out, and, in turn, employed a diver of her
+own to put waggishly a salt (<i>sea</i>) fish on his
+hook.&rdquo;&nbsp; The story is in Plutarch, and the popularity
+of the anecdote may be seen by the use Shakspeare makes of
+it.&nbsp; Charmian says,&mdash;</p>
+<p
+class="poetry">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;&rsquo;Twas
+merry when<br />
+You wagered on your angling; when your diver<br />
+Did <i>hang a salt fish on his hook</i>, which he<br />
+<i>With fervency</i>, <i>drew up</i>.&rdquo; <a
+name="citation235"></a><a href="#footnote235"
+class="citation">[235]</a></p>
+<p>It is no doubt correctly conjectured by Sir Bulwer Lytton,
+that many subjects in tapestry (not Scriptural) have their
+explanation in Plutarch, the fashionable classic source of tale
+and legend for our fathers of the middle ages.&nbsp; Shakspeare,
+it need scarcely be observed, depends on him for all his classic
+plots; and he was no less a favourite on the Continent than with
+us.&nbsp; If you observe the attitude and expression of
+Cleopatra, for so we will consider her, you will perceive that
+there is something impressive, as well as smiling, about her
+which would suit the words she <!-- page 236--><a
+name="page236"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 236</span>is supposed
+to have uttered, when she had laughed sufficiently at the trick
+she played him, and which, to the best of my recollection, ran
+thus, &ldquo;Leave fishing to us smaller potentates; your angling
+should be for cities and kingdoms.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Every article of the furniture merits your attention.&nbsp;
+Here is a Venetian chair; <a name="citation236"></a><a
+href="#footnote236" class="citation">[236]</a> it is one of a set
+of twenty-six, with a sofa, brought from the Gradenigo Palace,
+and is carved and gilt all over,&mdash;the back, and seat, and
+cushions for the arms, being Genoa red velvet.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p236.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Venetian chair"
+title=
+"Venetian chair"
+src="images/p236.jpg" />
+</a>Fourteen of these chairs, with the sofa, are in this room;
+the other twelve were purchased by the Earl of Lonsdale.</p>
+<p>Vases of Dresden china, marqueterie tables, and a shrine (see
+page 237) of gilt carved work at one end of the room, reflected
+in mirrors of gigantic dimensions, dazzle the senses; and its
+ceiling studded with blue and gold pendants, and its walls all
+painted over with quaint devices like the pages of a
+missal.&nbsp; Also a magnificent Gothic chimney-piece (see page
+238) of Carrara marble, fitted with brass-work of ormolu and
+chimney-glass.&nbsp; The chimney was removed from the grand
+Gothic-room at Carlton House, and cost George IV. many hundred
+pounds.&nbsp; Indeed the drawing-room of the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank
+seems to be more like some scene in an enchanted palace, <!--
+page 237--><a name="page237"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+237</span>than in an every-day residence upon the bank of the
+river Thames.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p237.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"Shrine"
+title=
+"Shrine"
+src="images/p237.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>The ante-room is not less splendidly furnished.&nbsp; Its
+ceiling is even more elaborately embellished than that of the
+drawing-room, for the heads of mitred abbots, jolly monks, and
+demure nuns look down upon us from each intersection of the
+groining.</p>
+<p><!-- page 238--><a name="page238"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+238</span>A Florentine cabinet (see page 239), of mosaic work in
+lapis lazuli, pietra dura, topaz, agates, etc., one of the finest
+specimens of the kind ever seen,&mdash;it eventually came into
+the possession of Mr. Hurst, who asked fifteen hundred 
+<a href="images/p238.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Gothic Chimney-piece"
+title=
+"Gothic Chimney-piece"
+src="images/p238.jpg" />
+</a>guineas for it&mdash;a magnificent carved oak chimney-piece
+(see page 240); chairs which belonged to Queen Elizabeth; and
+among other pictures, an undoubted one by <!-- page 239--><a
+name="page239"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 239</span>Janssen, of
+&ldquo;Charles II. dancing at the Hague,&rdquo; must not detain
+us, although it be a duplicate of the celebrated picture in the
+possession of Her Majesty, with which the history of this is
+completely identical, both having been purchased from the same
+individual at the same period.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p239.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"A Florentine Cabinet"
+title=
+"A Florentine Cabinet"
+src="images/p239.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>&ldquo;And that portrait of Elizabeth?&rdquo;&nbsp; It was
+given by Charles II. to Judge Twysden.&nbsp; &ldquo;And that
+other portrait?&rdquo;&nbsp; Yes, it is Lord Monteagle; not of
+Exchequer documentary fame, but of Gunpowder Plot
+notoriety.&nbsp; And there are portraits of Katharine of Aragon
+and Prince Arthur from Strawberry Hill.&nbsp; I positively cannot
+allow you to dwell <!-- page 240--><a name="page240"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 240</span>on that chimney-piece of Raffaelle
+design, carved in oak and coloured in ultra-marine and gold.</p>
+<p>I entirely agree with you in thinking it a pity that the 
+<a href="images/p240.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Carved Oak chimney-piece"
+title=
+"Carved Oak chimney-piece"
+src="images/p240.jpg" />
+</a> vast labours of our ancestors&mdash;things upon which they
+bestowed so much time and thought&mdash;should be blown into
+oblivion by the mere breath of fashion.&nbsp; How much nobler is
+the fashion to respect, cherish, and admire them!</p>
+<p>And now we are again within the gallery, and look upon the
+ante-room through the private entrance, and in another second we
+might be within the bay-window of the gallery; for, place these
+sketches together at a right angle, side by side, and the part of
+the sofa which appears in one, is only the continuation of the
+same seat in the other.&nbsp; But this must not make you think
+that the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank is but a miniature affair, or give
+you a contemptible idea of the size.&nbsp; You should rather take
+your general notion of the proportions of the gallery from a
+glance at that lady who is studying with so much attention the
+part she has <!-- page 241--><a name="page241"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 241</span>undertaken to enact, and look up as
+to the comparative height of the window at the top compartments
+made up of ancient 
+<a href="images/p241.jpg">
+<img class="clearcenter" alt=
+"Bay-Window:  Private Entrance"
+title=
+"Bay-Window:  Private Entrance"
+src="images/p241.jpg" />
+</a>painted glass, charged with the arms of some of the medieval
+kings of England, among which you cannot fail to notice those of
+Richard III.&nbsp; Those two elaborately-wrought lanterns which
+depend from the groined ceiling, formerly hung in the Gothic
+conservatory of Carlton House, and the recesses of the walls are
+adorned with eleven full-length portraits of kings and queens of
+Spain painted upon leather.</p>
+<p>Look at those ebony and ivory couches, and this ebony chair,
+from which justice was formerly meted out by the Dutch and
+English rules to the Cingalese; and see here this great chair, so
+profusely carved and cushioned with <!-- page 242--><a
+name="page242"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 242</span>rich black
+velvet worked with gold.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p242a.jpg">
+<img class="floatright" alt=
+"Black velvet chair"
+title=
+"Black velvet chair"
+src="images/p242a.jpg" />
+</a>It is said to have been the Electoral coronation chair of
+Saxony; and the date assigned to it in the &lsquo;Builder&rsquo;
+is 1620.&nbsp; The armorial bearings embroidered upon the back
+would probably settle the question; but I know little of foreign
+heraldry beyond the fact that sufficient attention is not paid to
+it in this country.</p>
+<p>Attached to the gallery at the opposite end of the lobby from
+which we entered the drawing-room, there is a boudoir, or
+robing-room&mdash;a perfect gem in its way.&nbsp; 
+<a href="images/p242b.jpg">
+<img class="floatleft" alt=
+"Nell Gwynne&rsquo;s mirror"
+title=
+"Nell Gwynne&rsquo;s mirror"
+src="images/p242b.jpg" />
+</a>You have only to touch this spring, and that picture starts
+from the wall and affords us free egress.&nbsp; Just take one
+peep into this fairy boudoir.</p>
+<p>There hangs against the wall Nell Gwynne&rsquo;s mirror, in
+its curious frame of needlework.&nbsp; Oh!&nbsp; You wish to take
+a peep at yourself in Nelly&rsquo;s looking-glass?&nbsp; Odds,
+fish! mind you do not overset that basset table of Japan
+manufacture&mdash;another Strawberry Hill relic.&nbsp; Now, are
+you satisfied?&nbsp; Those <!-- page 243--><a
+name="page243"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 243</span>beautiful
+enamels, and that charming Bermudian brain-stone, the wonderful
+network of which infinitely exceeds the finest lace?&nbsp; Well,
+I must admit that some philosophy is required to feel satisfied
+when revelling among the ornaments of palaces, the treasures of
+monasteries, and the decorations of some of the proudest mansions
+of antiquity; and did we not turn our eyes and regard the
+infinitely superior works of Nature, alike bountifully spread
+before the poor and the rich man, the heart might feel an inward
+sickening at the question.&nbsp; In the state carved-oak bed-room
+is a finely carved walnut-wood German cabinet of the true
+Elizabethan period.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">
+<a href="images/p243.jpg">
+<img alt=
+"German cabinet (Eizabethan period)"
+title=
+"German cabinet (Eizabethan period)"
+src="images/p243.jpg" />
+</a></p>
+<p>Though within the walls of the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, or any
+other human habitation, all that is rich in art may be <!-- page
+244--><a name="page244"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+244</span>assembled, yet, without the wish to turn these objects
+to a beneficial purpose, they become only a load of care; but
+when used to exalt and refine the national taste, they confer an
+immortality upon the possessor, and render him a benefactor to
+his species; when used, also, as accessories to the cultivation
+of kindly sympathies and the promotion of social enjoyment, they
+are objects of public utility.&nbsp; The revival of old-fashioned
+English cordiality, especially at Christmas, had been always a
+favourite idea with the owners of the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, and in
+1839 they gave an entertainment which, like</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s noble feast, will
+ne&rsquo;er be forgot<br />
+By those who were there or those who were not.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>They were fortunate in securing the aid of Theodore Hook, of
+pleasant, and, alas! of painful memory, who was their neighbour,
+with that of some other friends and acquaintances, who thoroughly
+entered into the whim of recalling olden times by the enactment
+of masques and other mummeries.</p>
+<p>Hook, in his manuscript journal of Thursday, the 26th of
+December, 1839, notes that he was engaged to dine with Lady
+Quentin at Kew:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Weather dreadful, so resolved to write her
+an excuse and came home in coach early, so up to Baylis&rsquo;s,
+where I was asked to dine.&nbsp; They came here, and we walked up
+together; so to rehearsal, and then back again to bed.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Hook&rsquo;s letter, in a feigned hand, to Mr. Baylis upon
+this occasion ran thus:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Sir,&mdash;Circumstancis hoeing too the Fox
+hand wether in Lunnun as indered me of goen two Q.&nbsp; wherefor
+hif yew plese i ham reddy to cum <!-- page 245--><a
+name="page245"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 245</span>to re-ersal
+two nite, in ten minnits hif yew wil lett the kal-boy hof yewer
+theeter bring me wud&mdash;if you kant reed mi riten ax Mister
+Kroften Kroker wich his a Hanty queerun like yewerself honly hee
+as bin longer
+hatit&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+yewers two kommand,</p>
+<p style="text-align: right">&ldquo;TEE HEE OOK.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;<i>Master Bailies
+hesquire</i>,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Manger hof
+thee</i>,<br />
+<i>T.R.P.B. and halso Proper rioter thereof</i>.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>On Saturday, Hook records in his &lsquo;Diary&rsquo; his
+having refused his &ldquo;firmest friend&rsquo;s command&rdquo;
+that he should dine with him&mdash;&ldquo;because,&rdquo; writes
+Hook, &ldquo;I cannot on account of the things to be done at
+Pryor&rsquo;s Bank.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Of the memorable Monday, the 30th of December, Hook
+notes:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;To-day, not to town, up and to
+Baylis&rsquo;s; saw preparations.&nbsp; So, back, wrote a little,
+then to dinner, afterwards to dress; so to Pryor&rsquo;s Bank,
+there much people,&mdash;Sir George and Lady Whitmore, Mrs.
+Stopford, Mrs. Nugent, the Bully&rsquo;s, and various others, to
+the amount of 150.&nbsp; I acted the &lsquo;Great Frost&rsquo;
+with considerable effect.&nbsp; Jerdan, Planch&eacute;, Nichols,
+Holmes and wife, Lane, Crofton Croker, Giffard, Barrow.&nbsp; The
+Whitmore family sang beautifully; all went off well.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The part of the Great Frost to which Hook alludes was in a
+masque, written for the occasion, and printed and sold in the
+rooms, for the benefit of the Royal Literary Fund; and among the
+record of miscellaneous benefactions to this most admirable
+charity are registered&mdash;&ldquo;Christmas masquers and
+mummers at the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, Fulham, the seat of Thomas
+Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., and William Lechmere Whitmore, F.S.A.
+(1840), &pound;3 12s. 6d.&rdquo;&nbsp; Thus carrying out in deed
+as well as act the benevolent feelings of the season.</p>
+<p>What little plot there was in this production had <!-- page
+246--><a name="page246"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+246</span>reference to the season, the house in which it was
+performed, and temporary events.&nbsp; Egomet, an imp, most
+piquantly personified by Mr. John Barrow, opened the affair in a
+moralising strain prophetically applicable to the moment.</p>
+<p>After stating who and what he was, he starts:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;But
+I&rsquo;m all over wonder.<br />
+Surely the kitchen must be somewhere under?<br />
+But where&rsquo;s <i>the</i> room?&mdash;the matchless little
+chamber,<br />
+With its dark ceiling, and its light of amber&mdash;<br />
+That fairy den, by Price&rsquo;s pencil drawn,<br />
+Enchantment&rsquo;s dwelling-place?&nbsp; &rsquo;Tis
+gone&mdash;&rsquo;Tis gone!<br />
+The times are changed, I said, and men grown frantic,<br />
+Some cross in steamboats o&rsquo;er the vast Atlantic;<br />
+Some whirl on railroads, and some fools there are<br />
+Who book their places in the pendant car<br />
+Of the great Nassau&mdash;monstrous, big balloon!<br />
+Poor lunatics! they think they&rsquo;ll reach the moon!<br />
+All onward rush in one perpetual ferment,<br />
+No rest for mortals till they find interment;<br />
+Old England is not what it once has been,<br />
+Dogs have their days, and we&rsquo;ve had ours, I ween.<br />
+The country&rsquo;s gone! cut up by cruel railroads,<br />
+They&rsquo;ll prove to many nothing short of jail-roads.<br />
+The spirit vile of restless innovation<br />
+At Fulham e&rsquo;en has taken up his station.<br />
+I landed here, on Father Thames&rsquo;s banks,<br />
+To seek repose, and rest my wearied shanks;<br />
+Here, on the grass, where once I could recline,<br />
+Like a huge mushroom springs this mansion fine.<br />
+Astounding work! but yesterday &rsquo;twas building;<br />
+And now what armour, carving, painting, gilding!<br />
+Vexed as I am, yet loth to be uncivil,<br />
+I only wish the owner at the ---!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Father Thames (Mr. Giffard), who had been slumbering between
+two painted boards, respectively inscribed <!-- page 247--><a
+name="page247"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+247</span>&ldquo;<span class="smcap">middlesex county
+bank</span>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<span class="smcap">surrey
+bank</span>,&rdquo; and surrounded by flower-pots filled with
+bulrushes and sedge, roused by the intended imprecation upon
+their host, here interrupted Egomet, and entered into a long
+dialogue with him, in which he detailed all his grievances so far
+as gas and steam were concerned.&nbsp; At length he feels the
+influence of Hook as &ldquo;the Great Frost,&rdquo; who turns</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;The old blackguard to solid
+ice.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Upon which Egomet&rsquo;s remark was, that&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;The scene to Oxford shifted in a trice
+is,<br />
+This river-god&mdash;no longer Thames, but Isis.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Father Christmas (Mr. Crofton Croker) then appeared with a
+long speech about eating, drinking, and making merry, and the
+wondrous power that a good fire and a cheerful glass have upon
+the heart.&nbsp; Beholding &ldquo;poor Thames
+a-cold&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;an icy, heartless
+river&rdquo;&mdash;the question follows, what</p>
+<p class="poetry">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Do I
+the matter see?<br />
+I&rsquo;ll thaw you soon&mdash;begone to Battersea,<br />
+There let thy icebergs float in Chelsea Reach.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The Great Frost, too, after much buffoonery, turns himself
+into</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;A pleasant fall of fleecy snow,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>which he effected by the vigorous use of the kitchen
+dredging-box, and an ample supply of flour, therewith bepowdering
+Jolly Christmas, Father Thames, and Egomet, so plentifully as to
+leave no doubt upon the minds of the audience respecting the
+transformation.</p>
+<p>Another Christmas revel followed, and then came &ldquo;a Grand
+Tournament,&rdquo; in which a contest between &ldquo;the <!--
+page 248--><a name="page248"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+248</span>Blue Knight&rdquo; (Mr. Lechmere Whitmore), and
+&ldquo;the Yellow Knight&rdquo; (Mr. Baylis), each mounted upon
+hobby-horses, was most fiercely executed.&nbsp; Nor was the Giant
+Cormoran (fourteen feet in height), nor the Queen of Beauty, nor
+the Dragon Queen wanted to complete the chivalry of this
+burlesque upon the memorable meeting at Eglinton.</p>
+<p>The fun which now became</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;fast and furious,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>and to which an impudent but most amusing jester (Mr. Jerdan)
+mainly contributed, was checked only by the announcement of
+supper; and as the guests descended the stairs from the gallery,
+or assembled on the lobby, they beheld their cheer borne in
+procession from the kitchen, headed by a military band and a
+herald-at-arms.&nbsp; A cook, with his cap and apron of snowy
+whiteness, placed a boar&rsquo;s head</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Bedeck&rsquo;d with bays and
+rosemary,&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>upon the table; then came two ancient halberdiers, followed by
+a serving-man in olden livery, carrying the wassail-bowl; then
+another herald in his tabard, and servitors with Christmas-pie,
+and brawn, and soup, and turkey, and sirloin of beef, and
+collared brawn, whereof was an abundant supply, and of the most
+magnificent dimensions.&nbsp; Father Christmas, carving-knife in
+hand, and belted with mincepies, and his attendant Egomet, with
+followers bearing holly, ivy, and mistletoe, brought up the
+rear.&nbsp; Then was sung &ldquo;beautifully,&rdquo; as Hook
+notes, by four voices, the Oxford chant of</p>
+<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The boar&rsquo;s head in hand bear
+I.&rdquo;</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p><!-- page 249--><a name="page249"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+249</span>And here we must drop the curtain, but not without
+stating that several of the guests felt the enjoyment of the
+evening so warmly, that it was in long debate among them what
+suitable acknowledgment in recollection of it should be made to
+Mr. Baylis and Mr. Whitmore; and, that the actors in the masque
+presented these gentlemen with an ancient charter horn, which had
+belonged to the Pickard family, and which they were fortunate
+enough to secure.&nbsp; The height of this horn, which is
+supposed to be that of the Highland buffalo&mdash;an animal said
+to be extinct nearly three hundred years&mdash;is one foot two
+inches, its length is one foot six inches, its width at the top
+five and a half inches; and it is capable of containing one
+gallon.</p>
+<p>Upon this most gratifying memorial to the owners of the
+Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, of the esteem created by their hospitality,
+suitable inscriptions were placed by the donors, with the
+motto:&mdash;</p>
+<p class="poetry">&ldquo;While Thames doth flow, or wine is
+drank,<br />
+par-h&aelig;l to all at Pryor&rsquo;s Bank.<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ++unc-h&aelig;l.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The remembrance of the pleasant hours passed within the walls
+of the Pryor&rsquo;s Bank will not easily be forgotten, though
+the character of the interior is changed since this was
+written.&nbsp; The first sale took place on the 3rd May, 1841,
+and five following days: and there was a subsequent sale on the
+25th May, 1854, and four following days.&nbsp; Both these sales
+took place on the premises, and the Auctioneer, on both
+occasions, was Mr. Deacon.</p>
+<p>Pryor&rsquo;s Bank is now let to Mr. E. T. Smith, of Her
+Majesty&rsquo;s and Drury Lane Theatres.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 250--><a name="page250"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 250</span>INDEX OF PLACES.</h2>
+<p><span class="smcap">Acacia</span> Cottage, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page148">148</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Admiral Keppel,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page75">75</a></span>.<br />
+Albany Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+Alexander Square, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page73">73</a></span>&ndash;4.<br />
+Alfred Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page73">73</a></span>.<br />
+Amelia Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page76">76</a></span>.<br />
+Amyot House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page120">120</a></span>.<br />
+Arundel House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page152">152</a></span>&ndash;4.<br />
+Ashton Terrace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page202">202</a></span>.<br />
+Audley Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page164">164</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Battersea</span> Bridge, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page94">94</a></span>.<br />
+Bear Street, Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Bell and Anchor,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page210">210</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Bell and Horns,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page58">58</a></span>.<br />
+Bishop&rsquo;s Walk, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page190">190</a></span>.<br />
+Bolingbroke Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+Bolton House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page118">118</a></span>.<br />
+Boltons, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+Bostocke&rsquo;s Arbour, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page88">88</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Brickhills,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page131">131</a></span>.<br />
+Bridge Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+Brightwells, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>.<br />
+Brompton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Crescent, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page64">64</a></span>&ndash;7.<br />
+&mdash; Grange, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page63">63</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Grove, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page43">43</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page48">48</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Lower, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page44">44</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Upper, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page43">43</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page87">87</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; National School, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page38">38</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; New Church (Holy Trinity), <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page54">54</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Park, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page29">29</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Row, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page26">26</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page38">38</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page42">42</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Square, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>&ndash;4.<br />
+Broom Lane, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page169">169</a></span>.<br />
+Brunswick Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>.<br />
+Bull Alley, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+Bull Lane, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Public House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Bunch of Grapes,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page43">43</a></span>.<br />
+Burleigh House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page121">121</a></span>.<br />
+Burlington House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Road, Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Butchers&rsquo; Almshouses, Walham Green, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page138">138</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Cambridge</span> Lodge, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page196">196</a></span>.<br />
+Cancer Hospital, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page84">84</a></span>,<br />
+Carey Villa, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page167">167</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Cedars, The,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page210">210</a></span>.<br />
+Cemetery, West London and Westminster, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page127">127</a></span>.<br />
+Chelsea New Church, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page81">81</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Park, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page89">89</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page90">90</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page93">93</a></span>.Church Lane, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Row, Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Street, Brompton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page87">87</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+Churchfield House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page173">173</a></span>.<br />
+Claybrooke House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Consumption Hospital, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page85">85</a></span>.<br />
+Corder&rsquo;s, Mrs., Preparatory School, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page118">118</a></span>.<br />
+Craven Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page190">190</a></span>&ndash;1.<br />
+Cremorne Gardens, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.<br />
+Crescent House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page64">64</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Crown and Sceptre,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page40">40</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Dancer&rsquo;s</span> Nursery, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page172">172</a></span>.<br />
+Deadman&rsquo;s Lane, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page201">201</a></span>.<br />
+Door, Old, Fulham Fields, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page195">195</a></span>.<br />
+Draw Well in Fulham Fields, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page199">199</a></span>.<br />
+Drury Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page169">169</a></span>.<br />
+Dungannon House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Earl&rsquo;s</span> Court, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page58">58</a></span>.<br />
+East End House, Parson&rsquo;s Green, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page164">164</a></span>.<br />
+Edith Grove, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.<br />
+<!-- page 251--><a name="page251"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+251</span>&mdash; Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page201">201</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Villas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page201">201</a></span>.<br />
+Eel Brook, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page141">141</a></span>.<br />
+Egmont Villa, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page188">188</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Eight Bells,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+Elm House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page200">200</a></span>.<br />
+Exhibition Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;<span class="smcap">Flounder</span> Field,&rdquo; <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page72">72</a></span>.<br />
+Foote&rsquo;s House (North End), <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page196">196</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Stables (North End), <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page196">196</a></span>.<br />
+Fowlis Terrace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page87">87</a></span>.<br />
+Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page180">180</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Almshouses, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Aqueduct, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page189">189</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Bridge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page192">192</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Charity School, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Church, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Ferry, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page192">192</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Fields, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page195">195</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page197">197</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+&mdash; High Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page173">173</a></span>&ndash;7.<br />
+&mdash; Palace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page190">190</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Park Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page177">177</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Vicarage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Workhouse, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Gardener&rsquo;s</span> House, Old, Fulham
+Fields, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page199">199</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;George, The,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+Gilston Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+Gloucester Buildings, Brompton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Row, Brompton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Knightsbridge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page26">26</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Goat in Boots,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page94">94</a></span>&ndash;5.<br />
+&ldquo;Golden Lion,&rdquo; Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>&ndash;6.<br />
+Gore Lodge, Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Old Brompton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>.<br />
+Grove House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page44">44</a></span>&ndash;7.<br />
+&mdash; Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page43">43</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page47">47</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Gunter Arms,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page126">126</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Grove, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Hans</span> Place, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page30">30</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page37">37</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Attic at, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+Heckfield Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page120">120</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Villa, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+Hermitage, Brompton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page44">44</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page47">47</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; North End, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page196">196</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Lodge, North End, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page195">195</a></span>&ndash;6.<br />
+High Elms House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page155">155</a></span>.<br />
+Holcroft&rsquo;s Hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page180">180</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Priory, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Hollywood Brewery, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page118">118</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page126">126</a></span>.<br />
+Honey Lane, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.<br />
+Hooper&rsquo;s Court, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+Hospital for Consumption, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page85">85</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Ivy</span> Cottage, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page169">169</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; House, Old Red, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page170">170</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page177">177</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Jews&rsquo;</span> Burial-ground, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page87">87</a></span>.<br />
+John&rsquo;s Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page188">188</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Kensington</span> Canal, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page127">127</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page134">134</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Gore Estate, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page59">59</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page200">200</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page211">211</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Keppel, Admiral,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page75">75</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page75">75</a></span>.<br />
+King&rsquo;s Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+Knightsbridge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Green, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; High Row, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page30">30</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Lansdowne</span> Villas, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page126">126</a></span>.<br />
+Lauman&rsquo;s Academy, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>.<br />
+Lawn Terrace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page202">202</a></span>.<br />
+Little Chelsea, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page94">94</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Machine</span> for Raising Water (Fulham
+Fields), <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page199">199</a></span>.<br />
+Main Fulham Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+Manor Hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+Marlborough Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page75">75</a></span>.<br />
+Michael&rsquo;s Grove, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page63">63</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page50">50</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page67">67</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page70">70</a></span>&ndash;2.<br />
+Military Academy, Chelsea, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page119">119</a></span>.<br />
+Montpellier Square, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page40">40</a></span>.<br />
+Mulberry House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page120">120</a></span>.<br />
+Munster House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page170">170</a></span>&ndash;2.<br />
+&mdash; Terrace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page173">173</a></span>.<br />
+Mustow House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page170">170</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">National</span> School, Brompton, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page38">38</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Society, Practising School of, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page134">134</a></span>.<br />
+New Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page30">30</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page37">37</a></span>.<br />
+<!-- page 252--><a name="page252"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+252</span>&ldquo;No Man&rsquo;s Land,&rdquo; <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page197">197</a></span>.<br />
+Normal School Chapel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page130">130</a></span>.<br />
+Normand House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page196">196</a></span>.<br />
+North End, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page195">195</a></span>&ndash;211.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page197">197</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Terrace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page73">73</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Odell&rsquo;s</span> Place, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page115">115</a></span>.<br />
+Old Brompton Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page58">58</a></span>.<br />
+Onslow Square, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page82">82</a></span>.<br />
+Oratory of St. Philip Neri, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page58">58</a></span>.<br />
+Osborn&rsquo;s Nursery, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page172">172</a></span>.<br />
+Ovington Square, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page47">47</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Paradise</span> Row, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page114">114</a></span>.<br />
+Park Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page154">154</a></span>&ndash;5.<br />
+&mdash; Walk, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page95">95</a></span>.<br />
+Parson&rsquo;s Green, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page164">164</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Lane, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page164">164</a></span>.<br />
+Pelham Crescent, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page76">76</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page79">79</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page79">79</a></span>&ndash;80.<br />
+Percy Cross, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page141">141</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page155">155</a></span>.<br />
+Peterborough House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+Pollard&rsquo;s School, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page58">58</a></span>.<br />
+Pond Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>.<br />
+Porch, Old, of Arundel House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page153">153</a></span>.<br />
+Prince Albert&rsquo;s Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>.<br />
+Pryor&rsquo;s Bank, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page212">212</a></span>&ndash;249.<br />
+Pump, Old, in Arundel House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page153">153</a></span>.<br />
+Purser&rsquo;s Cross, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page141">141</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page154">154</a></span>&ndash;5.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Queen&rsquo;s</span> Buildings, Brompton,
+<span class="indexpageno"><a href="#page25">25</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page30">30</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Knightsbridge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page29">29</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page30">30</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Elm, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page88">88</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+&mdash; Turnpike, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page87">87</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Row, Knightsbridge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+Quibus Hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page155">155</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Rawstorne</span> Street, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page40">40</a></span>.<br />
+Read&rsquo;s, Miss, Academy, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page118">118</a></span>.<br />
+Rectory House, Parson&rsquo;s Green, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Red Lion,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page40">40</a></span>.<br />
+Reformatory School, Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Rightwells, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Rising Sun,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+Robert Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>&ndash;4.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Upper, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>&ndash;164.<br />
+Rosamond&rsquo;s Bower, Old, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Dairy, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page157">157</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">St. Luke&rsquo;s</span> Church, Chelsea,
+<span class="indexpageno"><a href="#page80">80</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+St. Mark&rsquo;s Chapel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page130">130</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; College, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page130">130</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Terrace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page130">130</a></span>.<br />
+St. Mary&rsquo;s Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+St. Peter&rsquo;s Villa, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page170">170</a></span>.<br />
+St. Philip&rsquo;s Orphanage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+Salem Chapel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page136">136</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Sand Hills,&rdquo; The, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page90">90</a></span>.<br />
+Sandford Bridge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page134">134</a></span>.<br />
+School, Practising, at St. Mark&rsquo;s College, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page134">134</a></span>.<br />
+Selwood&rsquo;s Nursery, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page89">89</a></span>.<br />
+Selwood Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page89">89</a></span>.<br />
+Seymour Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page98">98</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Terrace, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page98">98</a></span>.<br />
+Shaftesbury House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page100">100</a></span>&ndash;12.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Garden of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page104">104</a></span>&ndash;5.<br />
+Sign, Old (&ldquo;White Horse&rdquo; at Parson&rsquo;s Green),
+<span class="indexpageno"><a href="#page164">164</a></span>.<br
+/>
+Sir John Scott Lillie&rsquo;s Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Sisters of Compassion,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page44">44</a></span>.<br />
+Sloane Square, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;Somerset Arms,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+South Kensington Museum, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page59">59</a></span>&ndash;61.<br />
+Stamford Road, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Villas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+Stanley Grove, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>&ndash;3.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page131">131</a></span>&ndash;2.<br />
+&mdash; House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page131">131</a></span>.<br />
+Swan Tavern, Fulham, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page192">192</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; and Brewery, Walham Green, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+Sydney Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Tavistock</span> House, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page118">118</a></span>.<br />
+Thames Bank, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+Thistle Grove, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page93">93</a></span>&ndash;4.<br />
+Thurloe Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page61">61</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Veitch&rsquo;s</span> Royal Exotic
+Nursery, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page130">130</a></span>.<br />
+Vine Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page213">213</a></span>&ndash;14.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Walham</span> Green, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page136">136</a></span>&ndash;7.<br
+/>
+&mdash; House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Lodge, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+<!-- page 253--><a name="page253"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+253</span>Walnut Tree Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page200">200</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; &mdash; Walk, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page121">121</a></span>.<br />
+Wansdon Green, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page137">137</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page137">137</a></span>.<br />
+Warwick House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page120">120</a></span>.<br />
+Wentworth Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page197">197</a></span>.<br />
+West Brompton Brewery, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page118">118</a></span>.<br />
+Western Grammar School, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page73">73</a></span>.<br />
+&ldquo;White Horse,&rdquo; old sign of, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page164">164</a></span>.<br />
+Willow Bank, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page192">192</a></span>.<br />
+Windsor Street, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page193">193</a></span>.<br />
+Winter Garden, Old Brompton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>.<br />
+Workhouse, additional, to St. George&rsquo;s, Hanover Square,
+<span class="indexpageno"><a href="#page100">100</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Yeoman&rsquo;s</span> Row, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page43">43</a></span>.<br />
+York Cottage, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page195">195</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Place, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page84">84</a></span>.</p>
+<h2>INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS.</h2>
+<p><span class="smcap">Ackermann</span>, Rudolph, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page177">177</a></span>&ndash;9.<br
+/>
+Aikin, Lucy, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page160">160</a></span>.<br />
+Albert, Prince, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page85">85</a></span>.<br />
+Andrews, J. Petit, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page44">44</a></span>.<br />
+Anspach, Margravine of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page190">190</a></span>.<br />
+Appletree, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page90">90</a></span>.<br />
+Arundel, Henry, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page131">131</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page154">154</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Baker</span>, Rev. R. G., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+Balchen, Sir John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page115">115</a></span>.<br />
+Banim, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page48">48</a></span>&ndash;9, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page79">79</a></span>.<br />
+Barham, H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page90">90</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page189">189</a></span>.<br />
+Barrow, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page246">246</a></span>.<br />
+Bartolozzi, F., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page68">68</a></span>&ndash;9, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page196">196</a></span>.<br />
+Batsford, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+Baud, Benjamin, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.<br />
+Baylis, Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page191">191</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page214">214</a></span>.<br />
+Bayliss, Moses, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+Bell, T. J., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page164">164</a></span>.<br />
+Beloe, Rev. W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page42">42</a></span>.<br />
+Biber, Rev. Dr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+Billington, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page70">70</a></span>.<br />
+Blake, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page90">90</a></span>.<br />
+Blanchard, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page119">119</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, William, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page81">81</a></span>.<br />
+Blomfield, Bishop, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+Blore, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page134">134</a></span>.<br />
+Bodley, Sir Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>.<br />
+Bonnor, Bishop, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Boothby, Sir W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page203">203</a></span>.<br />
+Boscawen, William, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page121">121</a></span>.<br />
+Bovey Family, the, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page101">101</a></span>.<br />
+Bowen, Rev. Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>.<br />
+Bowes, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>.<br />
+Boyd, Hugh, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page46">46</a></span>.<br />
+Boyle, Hon. Robert, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page111">111</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash; Family, the, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page113">113</a></span>.<br />
+Bradshaigh, Lady, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page203">203</a></span>&ndash;210.<br />
+Braham, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page63">63</a></span>.<br />
+Brand, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+Branscomb, Sir James, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page210">210</a></span>.<br />
+Brooks, Shirley, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>.<br />
+Broomfield, W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page92">92</a></span>.<br />
+Brotherhood, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page189">189</a></span>.<br />
+Browne, H. K. (&ldquo;Phiz&rdquo;), <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+Brunton, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page71">71</a></span>.<br />
+Buckstone, J. B., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>.<br />
+Bulwer, Lady, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page31">31</a></span>.<br />
+Burbage, Robert, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page182">182</a></span>.<br />
+Burchell, Dr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page173">173</a></span>.<br />
+Burgoyne, Sir John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Burke, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page94">94</a></span>.<br />
+Burleigh, Lord, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page121">121</a></span>.<br />
+Burney, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page133">133</a></span>.<br />
+Byfield, Adoniram, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Cahill</span>, Dr., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page67">67</a></span>.<br />
+Carey, Hon. Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page167">167</a></span>.<br />
+Catalani, Madame, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page47">47</a></span>.<br />
+Cattley, Rev. Stephen Reid, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page128">128</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page172">172</a></span>.<br />
+Cecill, Hon. John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page121">121</a></span>.<br />
+Chalon, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page37">37</a></span>.<br />
+Chatterley, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>.<br />
+Cheeseman, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page200">200</a></span>.<br />
+Cheselden, W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page192">192</a></span>.<br />
+Child, Sir Francis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>.<br />
+Cipriani, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page201">201</a></span>.<br />
+Clerke, Major Shadwell, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page44">44</a></span>.<br />
+Cleyne, Francis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page167">167</a></span>.<br />
+Cole, Henry, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page60">60</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page82">82</a></span>.<br />
+Collier, Payne, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page53">53</a></span>.<br />
+Colman, George, the Younger, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>&ndash;2, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page173">173</a></span>&ndash;7.<br
+/>
+<!-- page 254--><a name="page254"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+254</span>Conyers, General, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page192">192</a></span>.<br />
+Cooper, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page79">79</a></span>.<br />
+Cope, Sir John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page114">114</a></span>.<br />
+Copley, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page200">200</a></span>.<br />
+Corpe, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page55">55</a></span>.<br />
+Cranfield, Lord Treasurer, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page90">90</a></span>.<br />
+Craven, Countess of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page190">190</a></span>.<br />
+Cribb, R., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page94">94</a></span>.<br />
+Croker, Rt. Hon. John Wilson, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page171">171</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Thomas Crofton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page130">130</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page162">162</a></span>&ndash;3, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page181">181</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page198">198</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page247">247</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs. Crofton, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page130">130</a></span>.<br />
+Croly, Rev. Dr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page50">50</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page77">77</a></span>.<br />
+Cromwell, Oliver, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page170">170</a></span>.<br />
+Crotch, Dr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page202">202</a></span>.<br />
+Curran, John Philpot, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page76">76</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+Curtis, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page85">85</a></span>&ndash;7.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Darby</span>, Mrs., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page117">117</a></span>.<br />
+Davenport, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page71">71</a></span>.<br />
+Davis, the late Henry George, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Charles, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page24">24</a></span>.<br />
+Dawes, Sir W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page113">113</a></span>&ndash;114.<br />
+Deacon, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page250">250</a></span>.<br />
+Delafield, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page192">192</a></span>.<br />
+Delille, C. J., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page72">72</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Madame, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page72">72</a></span>.<br />
+Denham, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page120">120</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Colonel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page120">120</a></span>.<br />
+Doharty, Mr. <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page158">158</a></span>.<br />
+Donaldson, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page54">54</a></span>.<br />
+Dormer, Edward, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page198">198</a></span>.<br />
+Duffield, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page115">115</a></span>.<br />
+Dunn, Anne, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page27">27</a></span>&ndash;8.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Edington</span>, J., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page212">212</a></span>.<br />
+Egerton, Daniel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page81">81</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page82">82</a></span>.<br />
+Ekins, Dr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>.<br />
+Elizabeth, Queen, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page87">87</a></span>.<br />
+Ellenborough, Lord, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>.<br />
+Evelyn, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page111">111</a></span>.<br />
+Eyre, Sir James, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Faber</span>, Rev. F. W., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page59">59</a></span>.<br />
+Fairholt, F. W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page40">40</a></span>.<br />
+Farren, W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page53">53</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Harriet Elizabeth, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page57">57</a></span>.<br />
+Faucit, Helen, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page70">70</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page82">82</a></span>.<br />
+Fitzherbert, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>.<br />
+Fitzroy, Rear Admiral, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+Fitzwilliam, Edward, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>.<br />
+Florio, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page182">182</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page184">184</a></span>&ndash;5.<br />
+Foot, Jesse, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page27">27</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page28">28</a></span>.<br />
+Foote, Samuel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page196">196</a></span>.<br />
+Fowler, Edward, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page113">113</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Garcia</span>, Madame, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page170">170</a></span>.<br />
+George IV., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page213">213</a></span>.<br />
+Giffard, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page247">247</a></span>.<br />
+Glascock, Captain, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page73">73</a></span>&ndash;4.<br />
+Godwin, George, jun., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page38">38</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page74">74</a></span>.<br />
+Golini, Julius, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page67">67</a></span>.<br />
+Gorges, Sir Arthur, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page131">131</a></span>.<br />
+Grant, Colonel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page134">134</a></span>.<br />
+Green, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page30">30</a></span>.<br />
+Gregor, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page133">133</a></span>.<br />
+Gresham, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page198">198</a></span>.<br />
+Griffin, Gerald, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page48">48</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page49">49</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page97">97</a></span>&ndash;8.<br />
+Grisi, Madame, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page146">146</a></span>.<br />
+Guizot, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page79">79</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Madame, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>.<br />
+Gunter, R., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Hall</span>, S. C., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page197">197</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs. S. C., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page31">31</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page197">197</a></span>.<br />
+Hallam, H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page154">154</a></span>.<br />
+Halliwell, J. O., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+Hamey, Dr. Baldwin, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page113">113</a></span>.<br />
+Hamilton, Walter, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page39">39</a></span>&ndash;40.<br />
+&mdash;, William Richard, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>.<br />
+Hampton, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page136">136</a></span>.<br />
+Hargrave, Francis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page84">84</a></span>.<br />
+Harris, A., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page78">78</a></span>.<br />
+Hartshorne, Rev. C. H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page138">138</a></span>.<br />
+Hawarden, Lady, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page214">214</a></span>.<br />
+Hawkins, John Sidney, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page44">44</a></span>.<br />
+Heavyside, R., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>.<br />
+Herbert, Sir E., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page167">167</a></span>.<br />
+Hewett, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page67">67</a></span>.<br />
+Holl, Henry, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page61">61</a></span>.<br />
+Holland, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page155">155</a></span>.<br />
+Holmes, W., M. P., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page214">214</a></span>.<br />
+Hook, Theodore, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page133">133</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page177">177</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page187">187</a></span>&ndash;90, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page245">245</a></span>&ndash;6.<br
+/>
+Howard, Sir Ralph, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page191">191</a></span>.<br />
+Huck, J. G., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page26">26</a></span>.<br />
+Hullmandel, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page150">150</a></span>&ndash;1.<br />
+Humphrey, Ozias, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page29">29</a></span>.<br />
+Hutchins, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+<!-- page 255--><a name="page255"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+255</span>Hyde, Edward, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page115">115</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Incledon</span>, Charles, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page64">64</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Jerdan</span>, W., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page47">47</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page248">248</a></span>.<br />
+Jesse, J. H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page70">70</a></span>.<br />
+Johnson, Mr. Joseph, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page148">148</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+Jones, Richard, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page78">78</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Kean</span>, Edmund, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page200">200</a></span>.<br />
+Keeley, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page54">54</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page79">79</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page54">54</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page79">79</a></span>.<br />
+Kempe, A. J., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page135">135</a></span>.<br />
+King, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page139">139</a></span>.<br />
+Kingsley, Rev. Charles, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+Knight, James House, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page123">123</a></span>.<br />
+Knolles, Sir Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Lacy</span>, Walter, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page40">40</a></span>.<br />
+Lamb, Lady Caroline, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page31">31</a></span>.<br />
+Lance, the Misses, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page32">32</a></span>.<br />
+Landon, Miss (&ldquo;L. E. L.&rdquo;), <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page30">30</a></span>&ndash;7,
+<span class="indexpageno"><a href="#page54">54</a></span>.<br />
+Laurie, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page180">180</a></span>.<br />
+Lazarus, H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>.<br />
+Le Blon, James Christopher, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page91">91</a></span>.<br />
+Lillie, Sir John Scott, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page127">127</a></span>.<br />
+Limpany, Robert, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page190">190</a></span>.<br />
+Liston, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page54">54</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page71">71</a></span>.<br />
+Liston, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page40">40</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page67">67</a></span>.<br />
+Lochee, Lewis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page119">119</a></span>&ndash;20, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page132">132</a></span>.<br />
+Locke, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page104">104</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page111">111</a></span>.<br />
+London, Bishop of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page54">54</a></span>.<br />
+Lorrington, Meribah, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page116">116</a></span>.<br />
+Lowth, Rev. Robert, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page173">173</a></span>&ndash;6.<br />
+Luttrell, Francis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page108">108</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Henry, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page54">54</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Narcissus, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page89">89</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page102">102</a></span>&ndash;3, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page108">108</a></span>.<br />
+Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page191">191</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page197">197</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page236">236</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">M&rsquo;Leod</span>, Dr. John, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page80">80</a></span>.<br />
+M&rsquo;Naughten, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page34">34</a></span>.<br />
+Macpherson, Sir John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page45">45</a></span>&ndash;6.<br />
+Mahony, Rev. F., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page164">164</a></span>.<br />
+Mangeon, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page27">27</a></span>&ndash;8.<br />
+Mario, Signor, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page146">146</a></span>.<br />
+Marochetti, Baron, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page82">82</a></span>.<br />
+Mart, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page114">114</a></span>.<br />
+Martin, Theodore, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page82">82</a></span>.<br />
+Mathews, Charles, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs., sen., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page71">71</a></span>.<br />
+Meyrick, Mr. J., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>.<br />
+Milton, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page121">121</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+Mitford, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page31">31</a></span>.<br />
+Moore, Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page162">162</a></span>&ndash;3.<br />
+Mordaunt, Lord, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page167">167</a></span>&ndash;8.<br />
+More, Sir Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page89">89</a></span>.<br />
+Morland, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page95">95</a></span>.<br />
+Morse, Leonard. <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>.<br />
+Murphy, Arthur, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page26">26</a></span>&ndash;8, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page38">38</a></span>.<br />
+Murray, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page148">148</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+&mdash;, Sir Robert, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page111">111</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Nattes</span>, J. C., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page25">25</a></span>.<br />
+Newman, Rev. J. H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page59">59</a></span>.<br />
+Nicholson, F., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page128">128</a></span>&ndash;30.<br />
+Nisbett, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page203">203</a></span>.<br />
+Novosielski, Madame, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page70">70</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Michael, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page43">43</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page50">50</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page63">63</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">O&rsquo;Donnell</span>, Major-General Sir
+Chas., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page162">162</a></span>&ndash;3.<br />
+Ord, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page140">140</a></span>&ndash;5.<br />
+Orrery, 2nd Earl of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page113">113</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Charles, 4th Earl of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page112">112</a></span>.<br />
+Owen, Rev. John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page145">145</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Parr</span>, Dr., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page42">42</a></span>.<br />
+Piccolomini, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page165">165</a></span>.<br />
+Pigot, the Right Hon. D. R., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page37">37</a></span>.<br />
+Pitts, Mr. Oliver, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page139">139</a></span>.<br />
+Place, Francis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>.<br />
+Planch&eacute;, J. R., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page65">65</a></span>&ndash;6.<br />
+Plumbe, W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page198">198</a></span>.<br />
+Pope, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page70">70</a></span>&ndash;1.<br />
+Porter, Walsh, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page169">169</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page190">190</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page213">213</a></span>.<br />
+Pouch&eacute;e, Louis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page128">128</a></span>.<br />
+Powell, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page186">186</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Sir W., Bart., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page170">170</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Pyne, J. B., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page195">195</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Queensberry</span>, Marquis of, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page134">134</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Ravensworth</span>, Lord, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page138">138</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page140">140</a></span>.<br />
+Reeve, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page42">42</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page53">53</a></span>&ndash;4, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page57">57</a></span>.<br />
+Remaudini, Count, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page67">67</a></span>.<br />
+Rennell, Rev. Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page42">42</a></span>.<br />
+Richardson, C. J., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page66">66</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Samuel, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page169">169</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page202">202</a></span>&ndash;210.<br />
+Riego, General, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+&mdash;, Madame, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>&ndash;9.<br />
+Roberts, Emma, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page31">31</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page34">34</a></span>.<br />
+Robins, George, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page189">189</a></span>.<br />
+Robinson, Anastasia, (&ldquo;Perdita,&rdquo;) <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page115">115</a></span>&ndash;18,
+<span class="indexpageno"><a href="#page169">169</a></span>.<br
+/>
+Robson, W. Frogatt, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page53">53</a></span>.<br />
+Rocque, Bartholomew, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page139">139</a></span>.<br />
+Rodwell, G. H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page39">39</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page65">65</a></span>.<br />
+Rollin, Ledru, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>.<br />
+Romney, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page29">29</a></span>.<br />
+Rovedino, Signor Carlo, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page81">81</a></span>.<br />
+Rowden, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page32">32</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page36">36</a></span>.<br />
+Roy, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Ruddock, Rev. Joshua, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>.<br />
+Rumford, Count, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page40">40</a></span>.<br />
+Ryland, William Wynne, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page26">26</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page202">202</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">St. John</span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page147">147</a></span>.<br />
+St. Quentin, Countess, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page32">32</a></span>.<br />
+Salisbury, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page85">85</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page145">145</a></span>.<br />
+Sampayo, M., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page171">171</a></span>.<br />
+Saunders, Sir Edward, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page169">169</a></span>.<br />
+Savage, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page80">80</a></span>.<br />
+Scoles, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page59">59</a></span>.<br />
+Schiavonetti, Lewis, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page67">67</a></span>&ndash;69.<br />
+Schulenberg, Melesina, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page170">170</a></span>.<br />
+Shaftesbury, Lord, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page101">101</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page104">104</a></span>.<br />
+Shakespeare, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page182">182</a></span>&ndash;6.<br />
+Sharp, Granville, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page188">188</a></span>.<br />
+Sheepshanks, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page60">60</a></span>.<br />
+Shower, Sir Bartholomew, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page113">113</a></span>.<br />
+Simpson, Mrs. Anne, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page145">145</a></span>&ndash;6.<br />
+Slater, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page200">200</a></span>.<br />
+Smith, Albert, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page194">194</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, E. T., 169, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page249">249</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Alderman H., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page72">72</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Sir James, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page101">101</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, &ldquo;O.,&rdquo; <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page73">73</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Sir Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page167">167</a></span>.<br />
+Southwell, Miss, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>.<br />
+Spagnoletti, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>.<br />
+Stanley Family, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page131">131</a></span>.<br />
+Stanley, W., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page131">131</a></span>.<br />
+Steele, R., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page38">38</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page88">88</a></span>.<br />
+Strathmore, Countess of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>.<br />
+Street, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page186">186</a></span>.<br />
+Suckland, Sir John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page112">112</a></span>.<br />
+Sylvester, Joshua, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page185">185</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Talfourd</span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page197">197</a></span>.<br />
+Tarnworth, John, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page166">166</a></span>.<br />
+Taylor, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page138">138</a></span>.<br />
+Testolini, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page68">68</a></span>.<br />
+Thackeray, W. M., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+Tindal, Lord Chief Justice, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page37">37</a></span>.<br />
+Tonson, Jacob, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page195">195</a></span>.<br />
+Trotter, Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page30">30</a></span>.<br />
+Turberville, Mrs. Elizabeth, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page155">155</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs. Frances, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page155">155</a></span>.<br />
+Tyrhtilus, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page180">180</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Vendramini</span>, John, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page39">39</a></span>.<br />
+Vestris, Madame, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Vining, James, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page51">51</a></span>.<br />
+Virtue, William, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page109">109</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Wager</span>, Admiral Sir Charles, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page131">131</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page165">165</a></span>.<br />
+Ward, Sir Edward, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page113">113</a></span>&ndash;14.<br />
+Warde, J. P., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page94">94</a></span>.<br />
+Warren, H, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page84">84</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Dr. Richard, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page132">132</a></span>.<br />
+Warwick, Countess of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page112">112</a></span>.<br />
+Watts, B., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page75">75</a></span>.<br />
+Webster, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page62">62</a></span>.<br />
+Weigall, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page70">70</a></span>.<br />
+Wharton, Marquis of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page90">90</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Sir Michael, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page155">155</a></span>.<br />
+Whitmore, Lechmere, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page214">214</a></span>.<br />
+Whittaker, Dr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page112">112</a></span>.<br />
+Wigan, Alfred, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page37">37</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs. Alfred, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page37">37</a></span>.<br />
+Wilberforce, Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page47">47</a></span>.<br />
+Williams, Sir John, Bart., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page171">171</a></span>.<br />
+Wilson, Lady Frances, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page92">92</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Sir Henry, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page92">92</a></span>.<br />
+Winchester, Marquis of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page218">218</a></span>.<br />
+Wishart, Sir James, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page115">115</a></span>.<br />
+Wood, Dr. Oswald, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page64">64</a></span>.<br />
+Wright, &mdash;, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page92">92</a></span>&ndash;3.<br />
+&mdash;, Edward, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page96">96</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Thomas, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page83">83</a></span>.<br />
+Wrottesley, the Hon. Mr., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page181">181</a></span>.<br />
+Wynne, Edward, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page103">103</a></span>&ndash;4.<br />
+Wynne, Rev. Luttrell, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page108">108</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Serjeant, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page102">102</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page108">108</a></span>.</p>
+<p><span class="smcap">Yates</span>, Mr., <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page54">54</a></span>, <span
+class="indexpageno"><a href="#page71">71</a></span>.<br />
+&mdash;, Mrs., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page71">71</a></span>.<br />
+York, Duke of, <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page173">173</a></span>.<br />
+Young, C. D. and Co., <span class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page61">61</a></span>.</p>
+<h2>FOOTNOTES.</h2>
+<p><a name="footnote18"></a><a href="#citation18"
+class="footnote">[18]</a>&nbsp; See pages <span
+class="indexpageno"><a
+href="#page156">156</a></span>&ndash;164.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote25a"></a><a href="#citation25a"
+class="footnote">[25a]</a>&nbsp; Catalogues of Royal Academy.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote25b"></a><a href="#citation25b"
+class="footnote">[25b]</a>&nbsp; Foot&rsquo;s Life of Arthur
+Murphy.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote25c"></a><a href="#citation25c"
+class="footnote">[25c]</a>&nbsp; Lockie&rsquo;s <i>Topography of
+London</i>.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote25d"></a><a href="#citation25d"
+class="footnote">[25d]</a>&nbsp; Mr. J. Salway&rsquo;s MS. plan,
+executed for the Kensington trustees.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote25e"></a><a href="#citation25e"
+class="footnote">[25e]</a>&nbsp; Cruchley&rsquo;s Map of
+London.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote25f"></a><a href="#citation25f"
+class="footnote">[25f]</a>&nbsp; Elmes&rsquo; <i>Topography of
+London</i>.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote26"></a><a href="#citation26"
+class="footnote">[26]</a>&nbsp; 4 vols. 4to, published in
+1793.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote27a"></a><a href="#citation27a"
+class="footnote">[27a]</a>&nbsp; 2 vols. 8vo, 1801.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote27b"></a><a href="#citation27b"
+class="footnote">[27b]</a>&nbsp; The extent of this garden may
+still be estimated by walking round through Hooper&rsquo;s Court
+into Sloane Street.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote31"></a><a href="#citation31"
+class="footnote">[31]</a>&nbsp; Born 13th November, 1785, and
+married to the Honourable William Lamb (afterwards Viscount
+Melbourne) in 1805.&nbsp; Lady Caroline published three novels,
+viz., <i>Glenarvon</i>, in 1816; <i>Graham Hamilton</i>; and
+<i>Ada Reis</i>, 1823.&nbsp; Her ladyship died in 1828.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote32a"></a><a href="#citation32a"
+class="footnote">[32a]</a>&nbsp; 8vo, 2nd ed. 1812.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote32b"></a><a href="#citation32b"
+class="footnote">[32b]</a>&nbsp; Ibid.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote33"></a><a href="#citation33"
+class="footnote">[33]</a>&nbsp; It was the wing attached to the
+house between it and &ldquo;the Pavilion.&rdquo;&nbsp; From the
+back a flight of steps descended into a small garden.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote35"></a><a href="#citation35"
+class="footnote">[35]</a>&nbsp; Memoirs of the Rival Houses of
+York and Lancaster, Historical and Biographical.&nbsp;
+1827.&nbsp; 2 vols. 8vo.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote38a"></a><a href="#citation38a"
+class="footnote">[38a]</a>&nbsp; Correspondence, vol. i. p.
+293.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote38b"></a><a href="#citation38b"
+class="footnote">[38b]</a>&nbsp; Vol. lxxv.&nbsp; Part I. p.
+590.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote38c"></a><a href="#citation38c"
+class="footnote">[38c]</a>&nbsp; Ed. 1820, p. 616.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote45a"></a><a href="#citation45a"
+class="footnote">[45a]</a>&nbsp; 2 vols. 4to, 1795.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote45b"></a><a href="#citation45b"
+class="footnote">[45b]</a>&nbsp; 1 vol. 4to, and 2 vols. 8vo,
+1796,</p>
+<p><a name="footnote48"></a><a href="#citation48"
+class="footnote">[48]</a>&nbsp; &lsquo;Literary Gazette,&rsquo;
+November 25, 1843.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote53"></a><a href="#citation53"
+class="footnote">[53]</a>&nbsp; It is no slight testimony to the
+genius of Mr. Farren, that since his retirement no actor in
+London has attempted to represent &ldquo;Grandfather
+Whitehead.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><a name="footnote58"></a><a href="#citation58"
+class="footnote">[58]</a>&nbsp; Rebuilt, and the sign here
+engraved removed.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote62"></a><a href="#citation62"
+class="footnote">[62]</a>&nbsp; Brompton Park was the retreat of
+one or two favourite actors.&nbsp; Mr. Webster, the talented and
+versatile performer, lessee of the Ade1phi Theatre, resided there
+for many years.&nbsp; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews (Madame
+Vestris) lived at Gore Lodge&mdash;now pulled down&mdash;a name
+they afterwards gave to their residence at Fulham.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote65"></a><a href="#citation65"
+class="footnote">[65]</a>&nbsp; Weber died on the 7th of June
+following, at No. 91, Great Portland Street, in his fortieth
+year.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote72"></a><a href="#citation72"
+class="footnote">[72]</a>&nbsp; 4 vols. 8vo; I. and II. 1838;
+III. and IV. 1839.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote73"></a><a href="#citation73"
+class="footnote">[73]</a>&nbsp; The &lsquo;Naval
+Sketch-book,&rsquo; 1828; &lsquo;Sailors and Saints,&rsquo; 1829;
+&lsquo;Tales of a Tar,&rsquo; 1830; &lsquo;Land Sharks and Sea
+Gulls,&rsquo; 1838.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote78"></a><a href="#citation78"
+class="footnote">[78]</a>&nbsp; Died 30th August, 1851.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote80"></a><a href="#citation80"
+class="footnote">[80]</a>&nbsp; Died 7th May, 1852, aged 74.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote84"></a><a href="#citation84"
+class="footnote">[84]</a>&nbsp; II vols. folio, 1781.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote85"></a><a href="#citation85"
+class="footnote">[85]</a>&nbsp; Vol. lxxx.&nbsp; Part II.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote87a"></a><a href="#citation87a"
+class="footnote">[87a]</a>&nbsp; Brompton Hall, said to have been
+the residence of Lord Burleigh, stands on the Old Brompton Road,
+which, as pointed out in the previous chapter, branches from the
+main Fulham Road at the Bell and Horns.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote87b"></a><a href="#citation87b"
+class="footnote">[87b]</a>&nbsp; The Duke of Buckingham.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote88"></a><a href="#citation88"
+class="footnote">[88]</a>&nbsp; Correspondence, vol. i. p.
+219.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote92"></a><a href="#citation92"
+class="footnote">[92]</a>&nbsp; Sir Henry Wilson, who was in
+Parliament when this estate came into his wife&rsquo;s
+possession, ordered iron gates for it; in one of which were
+wrought his initials, H. W., and to correspond, M.P, was placed
+in the other.&nbsp; Before the gates were put up he had to
+contest his seat, and lost it.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote97"></a><a href="#citation97"
+class="footnote">[97]</a>&nbsp; Riego was executed, on the 7th of
+October, 1823, at Madrid, with every mark of ignominy.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote110"></a><a href="#citation110"
+class="footnote">[110]</a>&nbsp; Funeral Sermon preached at St.
+Martin&rsquo;s-in-the-Fields, 7th January 1691.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote111"></a><a href="#citation111"
+class="footnote">[111]</a>&nbsp; See Birch&rsquo;s &lsquo;Life of
+Boyle,&rsquo; p. 114.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote112"></a><a href="#citation112"
+class="footnote">[112]</a>&nbsp; MS. Diary.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote120"></a><a href="#citation120"
+class="footnote">[120]</a>&nbsp; The obituary of the
+&lsquo;Gentleman&rsquo;s Magazine&rsquo; for June 1791,
+records:&mdash;&ldquo;At Lisle, in Flanders, Lewis Lochee, Esq.,
+late lieutenant colonel of the Belgic Legion, and formerly keeper
+of the Royal Military Academy at Chelsea.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><a name="footnote121"></a><a href="#citation121"
+class="footnote">[121]</a>&nbsp; The gates here represented have
+now given place to a light iron railing, and the posts have been
+surmounted by balls.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote128"></a><a href="#citation128"
+class="footnote">[128]</a>&nbsp; No. 276, vol. xi. p. 301.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote131"></a><a href="#citation131"
+class="footnote">[131]</a>&nbsp; Todd&rsquo;s
+&lsquo;Spenser,&rsquo; viii. 23.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote133"></a><a href="#citation133"
+class="footnote">[133]</a>&nbsp; MS.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote138"></a><a href="#citation138"
+class="footnote">[138]</a>&nbsp; Pickering, 1829.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote139"></a><a href="#citation139"
+class="footnote">[139]</a>&nbsp; Mr. Rocque, the florist, was
+brother to the surveyor of that name, who published a plan of
+London, Westminster, and Southwark, on twenty-four sheets, in
+1747; and a map of London and the country ten miles round, in
+sixteen sheets, the following year.&nbsp; He also published a
+road-book of Great Britain and Ireland in 1763.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote144a"></a><a href="#citation144a"
+class="footnote">[144a]</a>&nbsp; &ldquo;This tree was first
+introduced into England in 1753, by Mr. James
+Gordon.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Lysons</i>.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote144b"></a><a href="#citation144b"
+class="footnote">[144b]</a>&nbsp; &ldquo;The foliage more
+resembles that of the <i>juglans nigra</i> than of the
+Illinois-nut in Kew Gardens.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote144c"></a><a href="#citation144c"
+class="footnote">[144c]</a>&nbsp; &ldquo;At two feet from the
+ground it was seven feet two inches, and now (1810) seven feet
+five inches.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote144d"></a><a href="#citation144d"
+class="footnote">[144d]</a>&nbsp; &ldquo;The girth of this tree
+was taken in 1808 at two feet and a half from the
+ground.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote144e"></a><a href="#citation144e"
+class="footnote">[144e]</a>&nbsp; &ldquo;At two feet and a half
+from the ground.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>Ibid</i>.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote145"></a><a href="#citation145"
+class="footnote">[145]</a>&nbsp; James iv. 14.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote155a"></a><a href="#citation155a"
+class="footnote">[155a]</a>&nbsp; On the same page of the
+&lsquo;London Magazine&rsquo; which chronicles this occurrence,
+may be found the announcement of the death of &ldquo;Mr. Joseph
+Miller, a celebrated comedian.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><a name="footnote155b"></a><a href="#citation155b"
+class="footnote">[155b]</a>&nbsp; Lysons, on the authority of the
+parish books, states that a Sir Michael Wharton was living at
+Parson&rsquo;s Green, anno 1654.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote159"></a><a href="#citation159"
+class="footnote">[159]</a>&nbsp; The ground has been recently
+levelled.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote160"></a><a href="#citation160"
+class="footnote">[160]</a>&nbsp; L. E. L.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote171"></a><a href="#citation171"
+class="footnote">[171]</a>&nbsp; Died, 1858.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote188a"></a><a href="#citation188a"
+class="footnote">[188a]</a>&nbsp; He died there in 1813.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote188b"></a><a href="#citation188b"
+class="footnote">[188b]</a>&nbsp; Since this sketch was made, the
+gateway, with the coat of arms over it, has been removed, and a
+battlemented and Gothic entrance, more in accordance, perhaps,
+with the architecture of both church and mansion, has been
+erected in its stead.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote196"></a><a href="#citation196"
+class="footnote">[196]</a>&nbsp; Died 20th October, 1777, and was
+buried in Westminster Abbey.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote213"></a><a href="#citation213"
+class="footnote">[213]</a>&nbsp; Copied from a picture in oil in
+the possession of George Bunnett, Esq., of Fulham.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote218"></a><a href="#citation218"
+class="footnote">[218]</a>&nbsp; John, the fifth Marquis of
+Winchester, sustained a siege in his seat at Basing from August,
+1643 to 16th October, 1645, when the place was taken by storm and
+burned to the ground, &ldquo;money, jewels, and household
+stuff&rdquo; being found therein to the value of &pound;200,000,
+among which was a rich bed worth &pound;14,000.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote227"></a><a href="#citation227"
+class="footnote">[227]</a>&nbsp; Now in the South Kensington
+Museum.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote235"></a><a href="#citation235"
+class="footnote">[235]</a>&nbsp; Antony and Cleopatra, act ii.
+sc. 5.</p>
+<p><a name="footnote236"></a><a href="#citation236"
+class="footnote">[236]</a>&nbsp; Now in the possession of the
+Duke of Hamilton.</p>
+<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WALK FROM LONDON TO FULHAM***</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Walk from London to Fulham, by Thomas
+Crofton Croker, Edited by T. F. Dillon Croker, Illustrated by F. W.
+Fairholt
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+
+
+
+Title: A Walk from London to Fulham
+
+
+Author: Thomas Crofton Croker
+
+Editor: T. F. Dillon Croker
+
+Release Date: July 29, 2009  [eBook #29541]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WALK FROM LONDON TO FULHAM***
+
+
+This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  A WALK
+                          From London to Fulham
+
+
+                               BY THE LATE
+                 THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, F.S.A., M.R.I.A.
+
+                      REVISED AND EDITED BY HIS SON,
+                  T. F. DILLON CROKER, F.S.A., F.R.G.S.
+
+                    WITH ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS, BY
+                          F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.
+
+                         [Picture: Illustration]
+
+                          LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG.
+                                  1860.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+Note by T. F. Dillon Croker.                                    v
+Dedication to Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.                 vii
+Memoir of the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A., M.R.I.A.,     ix
+    Etc.
+Text of 'A Walk from London to Fulham.'                         22
+Index of Places.                                                250
+Index of Names of Persons.                                      253
+Footnotes.
+
+NOTE.
+
+
+A series of papers which originally appeared in 'Fraser' are now, for the
+first time, published in a collected form with the consent of the
+proprietors of that Magazine.  It should, however, be stated, that this
+is not a mere reprint, but that other matter has been inserted, and
+several illustrations, which did not appear originally, are now added, by
+which the work is very materially increased: the whole having undergone a
+necessary revision.
+
+Since the late Mr. Crofton Croker contributed to 'Fraser' the 'Walk from
+London to Fulham,' there have been many important changes on the road:
+time has continued to efface interesting associations; more old houses
+have been pulled down, new ones built up, and great alterations and
+improvements have taken place not contemplated a few years ago.  It would
+be impossible, for example, that any one who has not visited the locality
+during the last few years could recognize the narrow lanes of yesterday
+in the fine roads now diverging beyond the South Kensington Museum, which
+building has so recently been erected at the commencement of Old
+Brompton; but modern improvements are seemingly endless, and have of late
+become frequent.  It is in the belief that the following pages will be an
+interesting and acceptable record of many places no longer in existence,
+that they are submitted to the public in their present shape by
+
+                                                      T. F. DILLON CROKER.
+
+                                    TO
+                    THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A.
+
+MY DEAR MR. WRIGHT,
+
+As a mark of sincere regard to an old and esteemed friend of my late
+Father, I offer these pages to you.
+
+                                                    Yours most faithfully,
+
+                                                      T. F. DILLON CROKER.
+
+19 _Pelham Place_,
+      _Brompton_, 1860.
+
+
+
+
+MEMOIR
+OF THE LATE
+THOMAS CROFTON CROKER, F.S.A., M.R.I.A., ETC.
+
+
+The late eminent genealogist, Sir W. Betham of Dublin, Ulster
+King-at-Arms, well known as the author of numerous works on the
+Antiquities of Ireland, and Mr. Richard Sainthill, an equally zealous
+antiquary still living in Cork, were two of the most intimate friends and
+correspondents of the late Mr. Crofton Croker.
+
+The first-named gentleman drew up an elaborate table tracing the Croker
+pedigree as far back as the battle of Agincourt.  The Croker crest--"Deus
+alit eos"--was granted to Sir John Croker, who accompanied Edward IV. on
+his expedition to France in 1475, as cup and standard-bearer; but without
+going back to the original generation, or tracing the Limerick or any
+other branch of the family, it will be sufficient to say here that the
+Crokers, if they did not "come over with William the Conqueror" came
+originally from Devonshire, and settled in Ireland in the reign of
+Elizabeth.  Thomas Crofton Croker was the only son of Thomas Croker, who,
+after twenty-five years of arduous and faithful military service in North
+America, Holland, and Ireland, and after having purchased every step in
+the army, was gazetted brevet-major on the 11th May, 1802, in the same
+regiment which he had at first joined (the 38th, or 1st Staffordshire
+Foot), and in which he had uninterruptedly served.  Indeed, he was so
+much attached to his regiment, that, in his case at least, the
+Staffordshire knot became perfectly symbolic.  The closer the knot was
+drawn the firmer the tie became.  He commenced, continued, and ended an
+honourable life of activity in the service of his country from mere
+boyhood, until ill-health and a broken constitution forced him to sell
+his commission.  Thomas Croker was the eldest son of Richard Croker, of
+Mount Long in the county of Tipperary, who died on the 1st January, 1771;
+and his mother was Anne, the daughter of James Long of Dublin, by the
+Honourable Mary Butler, daughter of Theobald the seventh Earl of Cahir.
+Thomas Croker was born on the 29th March, 1761.  In 1796 he married
+Maria, eldest daughter and co-heir of Croker Dillon of Baltidaniel in the
+county of Cork, and on the 15th January, 1798, Thomas Crofton Croker was
+born at the house of his maternal grandmother in Buckingham Square, Cork,
+receiving his first Christian name after his father, and his second after
+his godfather, the Honourable Sir E. Crofton, Bart.
+
+While very young, during the years 1812 and 1815, Crofton Croker made
+several excursions in the south of Ireland, studying the character and
+traditions of the country, on which occasions he was frequently
+accompanied by Mr. Joseph Humphreys, a Quaker, afterwards master of the
+Deaf and Dumb Institution at Claremont near Dublin.  In 1813 he was
+placed with the mercantile firm of Messrs. Lecky and Mark, and in 1817 he
+appeared as an exhibitor in the second exhibition of the Cork Society,
+for he had already displayed considerable talent as an artist.  In 1818
+he contributed to an ephemeral production called 'The Literary and
+Political Examiner:' on the 22nd March of that year his father died, and
+he left Ireland, not to revisit it until he made a short excursion there
+in 1821 with Alfred Nicholson and Miss Nicholson (who afterwards became
+Mrs. Croker), children of the late Mr. Francis Nicholson, one of the
+founders of the English water-colour school, and who died in 1844 at the
+patriarchal age of ninety-one years.
+
+Crofton Croker's first visit to England was paid to Thomas Moore in
+Wiltshire; and soon after his establishing in London he received from the
+late Right Hon. John Wilson Croker an appointment at the Admiralty, of
+which office his namesake (but no relation) was secretary, and from which
+he (Crofton) retired in 1850 as senior clerk of the first class, having
+served upwards of thirty years, thirteen of which were passed in the
+highest class.  This retirement, although he stood first for promotion to
+the office of chief clerk, was compulsory upon a reduction of office, and
+was not a matter of private convenience.  In 1830 Crofton Croker married
+Miss Marianne Nicholson, and the result of their union was an only child,
+Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, born 26th August, 1831, the writer of the
+present memoir.
+
+The literary labours of Crofton Croker were attended with more gratifying
+results than his long and unwearied official services.  The 'Researches
+in the South of Ireland' (1824), an arrangement of notes made during
+several excursions between the years 1812 and 1822, was his first
+important work.  It was published by John Murray, the father of the
+present publisher of the 'Quarterly Review,' and contained illustrations
+by Mr. Alfred and Miss Nicholson: with the 'Fairy Legends,' however, the
+name of Crofton Croker became more especially associated, the first
+edition of which appeared anonymously in 1825, and produced a
+complimentary letter from Sir Walter Scott, which has been published in
+all subsequent editions.  The success of the first edition of the legends
+was such as immediately to justify a second, which appeared the next
+year, illustrated with etchings after sketches by Maclise, and which was
+followed by a second series (Parts 2 and 3) in 1827.  The third part,
+although it appeared under the same title, namely 'Fairy Legends and
+Traditions of the South of Ireland,' may be considered as forming almost
+a separate work, inasmuch as it comprised the fairy superstitions of
+Wales and other countries, in addition to those current in Ireland.  A
+translation of the legends by the Brothers Grimm appeared in Germany in
+1825, and another in Paris in 1828 ('Les Contes Irlandais, precedes d'une
+introduction par M. P. A. Dufau'), but it was not until 1834 that Murray
+published them in a condensed form in his 'Family Library,' the copyright
+of which edition, as revised by the author, was purchased of Murray by
+the late Mr. Tegg, and is now published by his son.  In October, 1826,
+Croker was introduced to Sir Walter Scott at Lockhart's in Pall Mall.
+Sir Walter recorded the interview thus:--"At breakfast Crofton Croker,
+author of the Irish fairy tales--little as a dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk,
+and of easy, prepossessing manners, something like Tom Moore.  Here were
+also Terry, Allan Cunningham, Newton, and others."  At this meeting, Sir
+Walter Scott suggested the adventures of Daniel O'Rourke as the subject
+for the Adelphi pantomime, and, at the request of Messrs. Terry and
+Yates, Croker wrote a pantomime founded upon the legend, which was
+produced at the Adelphi the same year.  It succeeded, and underwent two
+editions: the second was published in 1828, uniform with the legends, and
+entitled 'Daniel O'Rourke; or, Rhymes of a Pantomime, founded on that
+Story.'  Croker wrote to his sister (Mrs. Eyre Coote, alive at the
+present time) the following account of the breakfast party at Lockhart's,
+which, though already published in 'The Gentleman's Magazine' (November,
+1854), is sufficiently interesting to be repeated.  He first mentions
+"the writing and preparing for the Adelphi Theatre a Christmas pantomime
+from the renowned adventures of Daniel O'Rourke, two or three meetings
+with Sir Walter Scott, some anxious experiments in lithography under the
+directions of Mr. Coindet, one of the partners of Englemann's house of
+Paris, who has lately opened an establishment here, which will be of the
+utmost importance to the advancement of the art in this country, and of
+which I hope soon to send you specimens."  Then he adds: "To tell half
+the kindness and attention which I received from Sir Walter Scott would
+be impossible.  The breakfast party at Lockhart's consisted of Allan
+Cunningham, Terry (the actor), Newton (the artist), a Dr. Yates of
+Brighton, Captain, Mr., and Mrs. Lockhart, Miss Scott, Mr. Hogg, and your
+humble servant.  We had all assembled when Sir Walter entered the room.
+Maclise's sketch does not give his expression, although there is
+certainly a strong likeness--a likeness in it which cannot be mistaken;
+but I have a very rough profile sketch in pen and ink by Newton, which is
+admirable, and which some time or other I will copy and send you.  When I
+was introduced to the 'Great Unknown' I really had not the power of
+speaking; it was a strange feeling of embarrassment, which I do not
+remember having felt before in so strong a manner; and of course to his
+'I am glad to see you, Mr. Croker, you and I are not unknown to each
+other,' I could say nothing.  He contrived to say something neat to every
+one in the kindest manner--a well-turned compliment, without, however,
+the slightest appearance of flattery--something at which every one felt
+gratified.  After speaking for a few moments to Mr. Terry and Allan
+Cunningham, he returned to where I stood fixed and 'mute as the monument
+on Fish Street Hill;' but I soon recovered the use of my tongue from the
+easy manner in which he addressed me, and no longer seemed to feel myself
+in the presence of some mighty and mysterious personage.  He spoke
+slowly, with a Scotch accent, and in rather a low tone of voice, so much
+so, indeed, that I found it difficult to catch every word.  He mentioned
+my 'Fairy Legends,' and hoped he should soon have the very great
+enjoyment of reading the second volume.  'You are our--I speak of the
+Celtic nations' (said Sir Walter)--'great authority now on fairy
+superstition, and have made Fairy Land your kingdom; most sincerely do I
+hope it may prove a golden inheritance to you.  To me,' (continued Sir
+Walter) 'it is the land of promise of much future entertainment.  I have
+been reading the German translation of your tales and the Grimms' very
+elaborate introduction.'  Mr. Terry mentioned having received from me
+Daniel O'Rourke in the shape of a Christmas pantomime.  'It is an
+admirable subject,' said Sir Walter, 'and if Mr. Croker has only
+dramatized it with half the skill of tricking up old wives' tales which
+he has shown himself to possess, it must be, and I prophesy, although I
+have not seen it, it will be as great a golden egg in your nest, Terry,
+as Mother Goose was to one of the greater theatres some years ago.'  He
+then repeated by heart part of the conversation between Dan and the
+Eagle, with great zest.  I must confess it was most sweet from such a
+man.  But really I blush, or ought to blush, at writing all this
+flattery."  Here the origin of Maclise's illustrations to the legends is
+thus given by the editor of the 'Gentleman's Magazine.'  "The artist, who
+had not then quitted his native city of Cork, was a frequent visitor to
+Mr. Sainthill (the author of 'Olla Podrida'), at the time that the first
+edition of the work appeared.  Mr. Sainthill read the tales aloud from
+time to time in the evening, and Maclise would frequently, on the next
+morning, produce a drawing of what he had heard.  These were not seen by
+Mr. Croker until his next visit to Cork: but when he did see them he was
+so much pleased with them that he prevailed upon Mr. Sainthill to allow
+them to be copied for his forthcoming edition: and this was done by
+Maclise, and the drawings were engraved by W. H. Brooke, and Maclise's
+name was not attached to them, but merely mentioned by Mr. Croker in his
+preface."
+
+Scott made favourable mention of the 'Fairy Legends' in the collected
+edition of the 'Waverley Novels' published in 1830.  In a note on Fairy
+Superstitions to Chapter XI. of 'Rob Roy,' speaking of the elfin
+traditions peculiar to the wild scenery where Avon Dhu or the River Forth
+has its birth, he observes: "The opinions entertained about these beings
+are much the same with those of the Irish, so exquisitely well narrated
+by Mr. Crofton Croker."  Again, in his 'Letters on Demonology and
+Witchcraft,' Scott says: "We know from the lively and entertaining
+legends published by Mr. Crofton Croker, which, though in most cases,
+told with the wit of the editor and the humour of his country, contain
+points of curious antiquarian information" as to what the opinions of the
+Irish are.  And again, speaking of the Banshee: "The subject has been so
+lately and beautifully investigated and illustrated by Mr. Crofton Croker
+and others, that I may dispense with being very particular regarding it."
+This was indeed gratifying from such an authority.  The late Thomas
+Haynes Bayley dedicated to Crofton Croker a volume entitled 'Songs from
+Fairy Land.'
+
+Having dwelt at considerable length upon the legends, the required limits
+of this notice will not permit more than a reference to the literary
+works of Mr. Croker which succeeded them; and as there is but occasion
+for their enumeration, they shall be here given in the order of their
+appearance, merely premising that the tales of 'Barney Mahoney' and 'My
+Village _versus_ Our Village,' were not by Mr. Croker, although they bore
+his name: they were, in reality, written by Mrs. Croker.  The list stands
+thus:--
+
+1828-9.  'The Christmas-Box, an Annual Present for Children, a collection
+of Tales edited by Mr. Croker, and published by Harrison Ainsworth' (Sir
+Walter Scott, Lockhart, Ainsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Miss Mitford were
+among the contributors).
+
+1829.  'Legends of the Lakes; or, Sayings and Doings at Killarney,
+collected chiefly from the Manuscripts of R. Adolphus Lynch, Esq., H. P.
+King's German Legion, with illustrations by Maclise (Ebers).'  A second
+edition, compressed into one volume as a guide to the Lakes, appeared in
+1831.  (Fisher.)
+
+From this time Croker became contributor to the 'Gentleman's' and
+'Fraser's' Magazines.  In 1832 he was a steward at the famous literary
+dinner given to Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd.
+
+1835.  'Landscape Illustrations to Moore's Irish Melodies, with Comments
+for the Curious.'  (Only one number appeared.)  (Power.)
+
+1837.  'A Memoir of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798.
+From Holt's Autobiographical MS. in the possession of Sir W. Betham.'
+(Colburn.)
+
+'The Journal of a Tour through Ireland in 1644, translated from the
+French of M. de la Boullaye le Gouz, assisted by J. Roche, Father Prout,
+and Thomas Wright.'  (Boone.)  Dedicated to the elder Disraeli, "in
+remembrance of much attention and kindness received from him many years
+ago;" which dedication was cordially responded to by that author.
+
+1839.  'The Popular Songs of Ireland.'  (Colburn.)
+
+1843.  A Description of Rosamond's Bower, Fulham {18} (the residence of
+Mr. Croker for eight years), with an inventory of the pictures,
+furniture, curiosities, etc., etc.  (Privately printed.)
+
+It was here that Moore, Rogers, Maria Edgeworth, Lucy Aikin, "Father
+Prout" (Mahony), Barham (Ingoldsby), Sydney Smith, Jerdan, Theodore Hook,
+Lover, Planche, Lords Braybrooke, Strangford, and Northampton, Sir G.
+Back, John Barrow, Sir Emerson Tennent, Wyon, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, T.
+Wright, and many others were the guests of Mr. Croker.  One room in the
+house was fitted up as a Museum, where such visitors delighted to
+assemble.
+
+During subsequent years Mr. Croker produced several minor works on
+antiquarian and popular subjects, some of them printed for private
+circulation among his friends, and others as contributions to the
+different societies of which he was a member.  He died at his residence,
+3, Gloucester Road, Old Brompton, on the 8th of August, 1854, aged 57,
+and was buried in the private grave of his father-in-law, Mr. Francis
+Nicholson, in the Brompton Cemetery, a sketch of which, by Mr. Fairholt,
+appears in these pages.  It should not be forgotten that Mr. Crofton
+Croker was a contributor to the 'Amulet,' 'Literary Souvenir,' and
+'Friendship's Offering,' as well as (more extensively) to the 'Literary
+Gazette,' when that journal possessed considerable influence under the
+editorship of W. Jerdan.  Mr. Croker also edited for the Camden and Percy
+Societies (in the formation of which he took an active part) many works
+of antiquarian interest.  He was connected, also, with the British
+Archaeological Association as one of the secretaries (1844-9) under the
+presidency of Lord Albert Conyngham (the late Lord Londesborough).  That
+recently-deceased nobleman was one of Mr. Croker's most attached friends,
+and opposite his Lordship's pew in Grimston church, Yorkshire, a neat
+marble tablet was erected bearing the following inscription: "In memory
+of Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq., the amiable and accomplished author of
+the 'Fairy Legends of Ireland,' and other works, Literary and
+Antiquarian.  This tablet is erected by his friend Lord Londesborough,
+1855."
+
+To enumerate all the societies and institutions of which Crofton Croker
+was a member, honorary or otherwise, would in these pages be superfluous;
+but one society shall be here especially mentioned as originating with
+Mr. Croker and a few members of the Society of Antiquaries.  In 1828 a
+club was established, composed of a select few F.S.A.'s, in consequence
+of an excursion during the summer to the site, which, in the time of the
+Romans, had been occupied by the city of Noviomagus.  In a field at
+Keston, near Bromley Common in Kent, Mr. Croker had learned that the
+remains of a Roman building were apparent above the grass, and it was to
+ascertain this fact that the excursion was undertaken.  An excavation was
+made, and a few fragments of Roman pottery and a stone coffin were
+discovered.  From this circumstance the club was called the Noviomagian
+Society.  Mr. Croker was elected its president, and although most of the
+original members had died off, he continued in that office until within a
+very few months of his death.  There are amongst them at the present time
+many highly-valued friends of their late president, who succeed in
+keeping up their meetings in the true Noviomagian spirit.  Long may they
+be spared to assemble together, occasionally introducing fresh life to
+the little society, that its pleasant gatherings may not be allowed to
+die out!  A portrait of Mr. Croker was painted a few years before his
+death by Mr. Stephen Pearce (the artist of the 'Arctic Council').  It is
+a characteristic and an admirable likeness.  The next best is that in
+Maclise's well-known picture of 'All Hallow Eve' (exhibited in the Royal
+Academy in 1833), on which Lover, in describing the engraving, has
+remarked: "And who is that standing behind them?--he seems 'far more
+genteel' than the rest of the company.  Why, 'tis Crofton Croker, or, as
+he is familiarly called amongst his friends, 'The honourable member for
+fairy-land.'  There you are, Crofty, my boy! with your note-book in your
+hand; and maybe you won't pick up a trifle in such good company."  It may
+be added, that Mr. Croker was for many years one of the registrars of the
+Royal Literary Fund.  And now, in drawing this slight sketch of Mr.
+Croker's life to a close, the writer hopes that it may not be an
+uninteresting addition to the present volume.
+
+                                                               T. F. D. C.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+KNIGHTSBRIDGE TO THE BELL AND HORNS, BROMPTON.
+
+[Picture: Anyone] Obliged by circumstances to lead the life of a
+pendulum, vibrating between a certain spot distant four miles from
+London, and a certain spot just out of the smoke of the
+metropolis,--going into town daily in the morning and returning in the
+evening,--may be supposed, after the novelty has worn off, from the
+different ways by which he can shape his course, to find little interest
+in his monotonous movement.  Indeed, I have heard many who live a short
+distance from town complain of this swinging backwards and forwards, or,
+rather, going forwards and backwards over the same ground every day, as
+dull and wearisome; but I cannot sympathise with them.  On the contrary,
+I find that the more constantly any particular line of road is adhered
+to, the more intimate an acquaintance with it is formed, and the more
+interesting it becomes.
+
+In some measure, this may be accounted for by studious habits; a
+tolerable memory, apt to indulge in recollections of the past, and to
+cherish rather than despise, when not impertinent, local gossip, which
+re-peoples the district with its former inhabitants,--
+
+   "Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale
+   Oft up the tide of time I turn my sail,
+   To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours
+   Blest with far greener shades--far fresher flowers."
+
+"We have all by heart," observes the author of the _Curiosities of
+Literature_, "the true and delightful reflection of Johnson on local
+associations, where the scene we tread suggests to us the men or the
+deeds which have left their celebrity to the spot.  'We are in the
+presence of their fame, and feel its influence.'"  How often have I
+fancied, if the walls by which thousands now daily pass without a glance
+of recognition or regard, if those walls could speak, and name some of
+their former inmates, how great would be the regret of many at having
+overlooked houses which they would perhaps have made a pilgrimage of
+miles to behold, as associated with the memory of persons whose names
+history, literature, or art has embalmed for posterity, or as the scene
+of circumstances treasured up in recollection!
+
+If the feelings could be recalled, and faithfully recorded, which the
+dull brick walls that I cannot help regarding with interest must have
+witnessed, what a romantic chapter in the history of the human mind would
+be preserved for study and reflection!--
+
+   "Ay, beautiful the dreaming brought
+      By valleys and green fields;
+   But deeper feeling, higher thought,
+      Is what the City yields."
+
+The difficulty, however, is incredible of procuring accurate information
+as to any thing which has not been chronicled at the moment.  None but
+those who have had occasion to search after a date, or examine into a
+particular fact, can properly estimate their value, or the many inquiries
+that have to be made to ascertain what at first view would appear to be
+without embarrassment,--so deceptive is the memory, and so easy a thing
+is it to forget, especially numbers and localities, the aspect and even
+names of which change with a wonderful degree of rapidity in the progress
+of London out of town.  Thus many places become daily more and more
+confused, and at last completely lose their identity, to the regret of
+the contemplative mind, which loves to associate objects with the
+recollection of those who "have left their celebrity to the spot."
+
+These considerations have induced the writer to arrange his notes, and
+illustrate them by such sketches as will aid the recognition of the
+points mentioned, the appearance of which must be familiar to all who
+have journeyed between London and Fulham,--a district containing, beside
+the ancient village of that name, and remarkable as adjacent to the
+country seat of the Bishop of London, two smaller villages, called Walham
+Green and Parson's Green.  The former of which stands on the main London
+road, the latter on the King's Road,--which roads form nearly parallel
+lines between Fulham and the metropolis.  For all information respecting
+the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge the reader may be referred to a
+recently published work "The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge,
+with notices of its immediate neighbourhood," by the late Henry George
+Davis, edited by Charles Davis (Russell Smith).
+
+From Knightsbridge, formerly a suburb, and now part of London, the main
+roads to Fulham and Hammersmith branch off at the north end of Sloane
+Street (about a quarter of a mile west of Hyde Park Corner), thus:--
+
+                              [Picture: Map]
+
+And at the south termination of Sloane Street, which is 3,299 feet in
+length, the King's Road commences from Sloane Square.
+
+THE MAIN FULHAM ROAD passes for about a mile through a district called by
+the general name of Brompton, which is a hamlet in the parish of
+Kensington.  The house, No. 14 Queen's Buildings, Knightsbridge, on the
+left-hand or south side of the road, [Picture: Hooper's Court] at the
+corner of Hooper's Court, occupied, when sketched in 1844, as two shops,
+by John Hutchins, dyer, and Moses Bayliss, tailor, and now (1860) by
+Hutchins alone, was, from 1792 to 1797 inclusive, the residence of Mr. J.
+C. Nattes, an artist, who deserves notice as one of the sixteen by whose
+association, in 1805, the first exhibition of water-colour paintings was
+formed.
+
+From 1792 to 1797 this house was described as No. 14 Queen's Buildings,
+Knightsbridge; but in the latter year the address was changed to No. 14
+Knightsbridge Green. {25a}  In 1800 it was known as No. 14 Knightsbridge,
+and in 1803 as No. 14 Queen's Row, Knightsbridge. {25b}  In 1810 as
+Gloucester Buildings, Brompton. {25c}  In 1811 as Queen's Buildings.
+{25d}  In 1828 as Gloucester Row. {25e}  In 1831 as Gloucester Buildings;
+{25f} and it has now reverted to its original name of Queen's Buildings,
+_Knightsbridge_, in opposition to Queen's Buildings, _Brompton_, the
+division being Hooper's Court, if, indeed, the original name was not
+Queen's _Row_, Knightsbridge, as this in 1772 was the address of William
+Wynne Ryland (the engraver who was hanged for forgery in 1783).  When
+houses began to be built on the same side of the way, beyond Queen's
+_Row_, the term "_Buildings_" appears to have been assumed as a
+distinction from the row west of Hooper's Court; which row would
+naturally have been considered as a continuation, although, in 1786, the
+Royal Academy Catalogue records Mr. J. G. Huck, an exhibitor, as residing
+at No. 11 Gloster Row, Knightsbridge.
+
+These six alterations of name within half a century, to say nothing of
+the previous changes, illustrate the extreme difficulty which attends
+precise local identification in London, and are merely offered at the
+very starting point as evidence at least of the desire to be accurate.
+
+About the year 1800, the late residence of Mr. Nattes became the lodgings
+of Arthur Murphy, too well known as a literary character of the last
+century to require here more than the mere mention of his name, even to
+those who are accustomed to associate every thing with its pecuniary
+value; as Murphy's portrait, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds for Mr.
+Thrale, sold at Christie's in the sale of Mr. Watson Taylor's pictures
+(June, 1823), for 94 pounds 10s.  Murphy had prepared his translation of
+Tacitus {26} for the press, at his house on Hammersmith Terrace (the last
+at the west end); but declining health and circumstances induced his
+removal into lodgings near London, at "14 Knightsbridge."  From these
+apartments "he soon removed to others in Brompton Row, where he did not
+remain long, not liking the mistress of the house, but returned to his
+former residence (No. 14), where he resided till the time of his death."
+In 1803, the late Lord Sidmouth (then Mr. Addington), conferred a pension
+of 200 pounds a-year on Murphy, "to mark the sense" his majesty
+entertained "of literary merit, particularly when accompanied with sound
+principles and unquestionable character;" which gracious mark of royal
+favour Murphy acknowledged on the 2nd of March, from "14 Queen's Row,
+Knightsbridge."  Here he wrote his life of Garrick, {27a} a work which,
+notwithstanding Mr. Foot's ingenious defence of it, shews that Garrick's
+life remains to be written, and that Murphy's intellectual powers were,
+at the time when he composed it, in a state of decay.
+
+Murphy, according to his biographer, "possessed the first and second
+floors of a very pleasant, neat house, where there was a long gravel walk
+in the garden; {27b} and though his library had been much diminished,
+yet, in the remaining part, he took care to reserve the Elzevir editions
+of the classics.  Mrs. Mangeon (the mistress of the house) was a neat and
+intelligent woman, and Mr. Murphy secured her friendship by giving her
+son a presentation to Christ's Hospital.  Anne Dunn, his own
+servant-maid, was an excellent servant, honest, faithful, and attentive;
+so that, what with the services he had rendered to the mistress of the
+house, and what with the intrinsic fidelity of his female domestic, he
+could put the whole family into a state of requisition, and command an
+elegant table, as well as ready attention, upon any particular occasion.
+Such was the situation of a man of genius, and an author, in the decline
+of a long life, and in a country at the highest pitch of grandeur and
+wealth.  But it must be remembered, that the comforts he possessed were
+not derived from the profits of literature."
+
+During the last year of Arthur Murphy's life he possessed a certain
+income of 500 pounds, and added to this was 150 pounds for the copyright
+of his Tacitus, which, however, was less than half the sum he had been
+frequently offered for it.  The translation of Sallust, which Murphy left
+unfinished, was completed by Thomas Moore, and published in 1807.
+
+Murphy appears to have perfectly reconciled his mind to the stroke of
+death.  He made his will thirteen days previous to it, and dictated and
+signed plain and accurate orders respecting his funeral.  He directed his
+library of books and all his pictures to be sold by auction, and the
+money arising therefrom, together with what money he might have at his
+bankers or in his strong box, he bequeathed to his executor, Mr. Jesse
+Foot, of Dean Street, Soho.  To Mrs. Mangeon (his landlady) he gave "all
+his prints in the room one pair of stairs and whatever articles of
+furniture" he had in her house, "the bookcase excepted."  And to his
+servant, Anne Dunn, "twenty guineas, with all his linen and wearing
+apparel."  After the completion of this will, Murphy observed, "I have
+been preparing for my journey to another region, and now do not care how
+soon I take my departure."  And on the day of his death (18th June, 1805)
+he frequently repeated the lines of Pope:--
+
+   "Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay,
+   To welcome death and calmly pass away."
+
+All that we can further glean respecting the interior of Murphy's
+apartment is, that in it "there was a portrait of Dunning (Lord
+Ashburton), a very striking likeness, painted in crayons by Ozias
+Humphrey."
+
+Humphrey, who was portrait-painter in crayons to George III., and in 1790
+was elected member of the Royal Academy, resided, in 1792 and 1793, at
+No. 19 Queen's Buildings, _Knightsbridge_; but whether this was the fifth
+house beyond Nattes', or the No. 19 Queen's Buildings, now called
+_Brompton Road_ (Mitchell's, a linen-draper's shop), I am unable, after
+many inquiries, to determine.  It will be remembered that Dr. Walcott
+(Peter Pindar) introduced Opie to the patronage of Humphrey, and there
+are many allusions to "honest Ozias," as he was called in the
+contemporary literature.
+
+   "But Humphrey, by whom shall your labours be told,
+   How your colours enliven the young and the old?"
+
+is the comment of Owen Cambridge; and Hayley says,
+
+   "Thy graces, Humphrey, and thy colours clear,
+   From miniatures' small circle disappear;
+   May their distinguished merit still prevail,
+   And shine with lustre on the larger scale."
+
+A portrait of Ozias Humphrey, painted by Romney in 1772, is preserved at
+Knowle, a memorial of the visit of those artists to the Duke of Dorset.
+It has been twice engraved, and the private plate from it, executed by
+Caroline Watson in 1784, is a work of very high merit.  In 1799 Humphrey
+resided at No. 13 High Row, Knightsbridge, nearly opposite to the house
+in which Murphy lodged, and there, with the exception of the last few
+months, he passed the remainder of his life.
+
+At No. 21 Queen's Buildings (the second house beyond that occupied by
+Ozias Humphrey), Mr. Thomas Trotter, an ingenious engraver and
+draughtsman, resided in 1801.  He engraved several portraits, of which
+the most esteemed are a head of the Rev. Stephen Whiston and a head of
+Lord Morpeth.  Nearly the last work of his burin was a portrait of
+Shakspeare, patronized by George Steevens.  Trotter died on the 14th
+February, 1803, having been prevented from following his profession in
+consequence of a blow on one of his eyes, accidentally received by the
+fall of a flower-pot from a window.  He, however, obtained employment in
+making drawings of churches and monuments for the late Sir Richard Hoare,
+and other gentlemen interested in topographical illustration.
+
+Queen's Buildings, Brompton, are divided, rather than terminated, at No.
+28 (Green's, an earthenware-shop) by New Street, leading into Hans
+Place--"snug Hans Place," which possesses one house, at least, that all
+literary pilgrims would desire to turn out of their direct road to visit.
+Miss Landon, alluding to "the fascinations of Hans Place," playfully
+observes, "vivid must be the imagination that could discover them--
+
+   'Never hermit in his cell,
+   Where repose and silence dwell,
+   Human shape and human word
+   Never seen and never heard,'
+
+had a life of duller calm than the indwellers of our square."  Hans Place
+may also be approached from Sloane Street, and No. 22 Hans Place, is the
+south-east corner.  [Picture: No. 22 Hans Place] Among its inmates have
+been Lady Caroline Lamb, {31} Miss Mitford, Lady Bulwer, Miss Landon,
+Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Miss Roberts.  How much of the "romance and reality"
+of life is in a moment conjured up in the mind by the mention of the
+names here grouped in local association!
+
+The editor of the memoirs of L. E. L. records two or three circumstances
+which give a general interest to Hans Place.  Here it was that Miss
+Landon was born on the 14th August, 1802, in the house now No. 25; and
+"it is remarkable that the greater portion of L. E. L.'s existence was
+passed on the spot where she was born.  From Hans Place and its
+neighbourhood she was seldom absent, and then not for any great length of
+time; until within a year or two of her death, she had there found her
+home, not indeed in the house of her birth, but close by.  Taken
+occasionally during the earlier years of childhood into the country, it
+was to Hans Place she returned.  Here some of her school time was passed.
+When her parents removed she yet clung to the old spot, and, as her own
+mistress, chose the same scene for her residence.  When one series of
+inmates quitted it, she still resided there with their successors,
+returning continually after every wandering, 'like a blackbird to his
+nest.'"
+
+The partiality of Miss Landon for London was extraordinary.  In a letter,
+written in 1834, and addressed to a reverend gentleman, she ominously
+says, "When I have the good luck or ill luck (I rather lean to the latter
+opinion) of being married, I shall certainly insist on the wedding
+excursion not extending much beyond Hyde Park Corner."
+
+When in her sixth year (1808), Miss Landon was sent to school at No. 22
+Hans Place.  This school was then kept by Miss Bowden, who in 1801 had
+published 'A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany,' {32a} and in
+1810 a poem entitled 'The Pleasures of Friendship.' {32b}  Miss Bowden
+became the Countess St. Quentin, and died some years ago in the
+neighbourhood of Paris.  In this house, where she had been educated, Miss
+Landon afterwards resided for many years as a boarder with the Misses
+Lance, who conducted a ladies' school.  "It seems," observes the
+biographer of L. E. L., "to have been appropriated to such purposes from
+the time it was built, nor was L. E. L. the first who drank at the 'well
+of English' within its walls.  Miss Mitford, we believe, was educated
+there, and Lady Caroline Lamb was an inmate for a time."
+
+It is the remark of Miss Landon herself, that "a history of the how and
+where works of imagination have been produced would often be more
+extraordinary than the works themselves."  "Her own case," observes a
+female friend, "is, in some degree, an illustration of perfect
+independence of mind over all external circumstances.  Perhaps to the L.
+E. L., of whom so many nonsensical things have been said, as that she
+should write with a crystal pen, dipped in dew, upon silver paper, and
+use for pounce the dust of a butterfly's wing, a dilettante of literature
+would assign for the scene of her authorship a fairy-like boudoir, with
+rose-coloured and silver hangings, fitted with all the luxuries of a
+fastidious taste.  How did the reality agree with this fancy sketch?
+[Picture: Attic, No. 22 Hans Place] Miss Landon's drawing-room, {33}
+indeed, was prettily furnished, but it was her invariable habit to write
+in her bed-room.  I see it now, that homely-looking, almost uncomfortable
+room, fronting the street, and barely furnished with a simple white bed,
+at the foot of which was a small, old, oblong-shaped, sort of
+dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped
+with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for
+aught besides the desk; a little high-backed cane chair, which gave you
+any idea rather than that of comfort.  A few books scattered about
+completed the author's paraphernalia."
+
+In this attic did the muse of L. E. L. dream of and describe music,
+moonlight, and roses, and "apostrophise loves, memories, hopes, and
+fears," with how much ultimate appetite for invention or sympathy may be
+judged from her declaration that, "there is one conclusion at which I
+have arrived, that a horse in a mill has an easier life than an author.
+I am fairly fagged out of my life."
+
+Miss Roberts, who had resided in the same house with Miss Landon,
+prefixed a brief memoir to a collection of poems by that lamented lady,
+which appeared shortly after her death, her own mournful lines--
+
+   "_Alas_! _hope is not prophecy_--_we dream_,
+   _But rarely does the glad fulfilment come_;
+   _We leave our land_, _and we return no more_."
+
+And within less than twenty months from the selection of these lines they
+became applicable to her who had quoted them.
+
+Emma Roberts accompanied her sister, Mrs. M'Naughten, to India, where she
+resided for some time.  On her sister's death Miss Roberts returned to
+England, and employed her pen assiduously and advantageously in
+illustrating the condition of our eastern dominions.  She returned to
+India, and died at Poonah, on the 17th September, 1840.  Though
+considerably the elder, she was one of the early friends of Miss Landon,
+having for several years previous to her first visit to India boarded
+with the Misses Lance in Hans Place.
+
+    "These were happy days, and little boded the premature and melancholy
+    fate which awaited them in foreign climes.  We believe," says the
+    editor of the 'Literary Gazette,' "that it was the example of the
+    literary pursuits of Miss Landon which stimulated Miss Roberts to try
+    her powers as an author, and we remember having the gratification to
+    assist her in launching her first essay--an historical production,
+    {35} which reflected high credit on her talents, and at once
+    established her in a fair position in the ranks of literature.  Since
+    then she has been one of the most prolific of our female writers, and
+    given to the public a number of works of interest and value.  The
+    expedition to India, on which she unfortunately perished, was
+    undertaken with comprehensive views towards the further illustration
+    of the East, and portions of her descriptions have appeared as she
+    journeyed to her destination in periodicals devoted to Asiatic
+    pursuits."
+
+The influence of Miss Landon's literary popularity upon the mind of Miss
+Roberts very probably caused that lady to desire similar celebrity.
+Indeed, so imitative are the impulses of the human mind, that it may
+fairly be questioned if Miss Landon would ever have attuned her lyre had
+she mot been in the presence of Miss Mitford's and Miss Rowden's "fame,
+and felt its influence."  Miss Mitford has chronicled so minutely all the
+sayings and doings of her school-days in Hans Place (H. P., as she
+mysteriously writes it), that she admits us at once behind the scenes.
+She describes herself as sent there (we will not supply the date, but
+presume it to be somewhere about 1800) "a petted child of ten years old,
+born and bred in the country, and as shy as a hare."  The schoolmistress,
+a Mrs. S---, "seldom came near us.  Her post was to sit all day, nicely
+dressed, in a nicely-furnished drawing-room, busy with some piece of
+delicate needlework, receiving mammas, aunts, and godmammas, answering
+questions, and administering as much praise as she conscientiously
+could--perhaps a little more.  In the school-room she ruled, like other
+rulers, by ministers and delegates, of whom the French teacher was the
+principal."  This French teacher, the daughter of an _emigre_ of
+distinction, left, upon the short peace of Amiens, to join her parents in
+an attempt to recover their property, in which they succeeded.  Her
+successor is admirably sketched by Miss Mitford; and the mutual antipathy
+which existed between the French and English teacher, in whom we at once
+recognise Miss Rowden:--
+
+    "Never were two better haters.  Their relative situations had
+    probably something to do with it, and yet it was wonderful that two
+    such excellent persons should so thoroughly detest each other.  Miss
+    R.'s aversion was of the cold, phlegmatic, contemptuous, provoking
+    sort; she kept aloof, and said nothing.  Madame's was acute, fiery,
+    and loquacious; she not only hated Miss R., but hated for her sake
+    knowledge, and literature, and wit, and, above all, poetry, which she
+    denounced as _something fatal and contagious_, _like the plague_."
+
+Miss Mitford's literary and dramatic tastes seem to have been acquired
+from Miss Rowden, whom she describes as "one of the most charming women
+that she had ever known:"--
+
+    "The pretty word _graziosa_, by which Napoleon loved to describe
+    Josephine, seemed made for her.  She was full of a delicate grace of
+    mind and person.  Her little elegant figure and her fair mild face,
+    lighted up so brilliantly by her large hazel eyes, corresponded
+    exactly with the soft, gentle manners which were so often awakened
+    into a delightful playfulness, or an enthusiasm more charming still,
+    by the impulse of her quick and ardent spirit.  To be sure she had a
+    slight touch of distraction about her (distraction French, not
+    distraction English), an interesting absence of mind.  She united in
+    her own person all the sins of forgetfulness of all the young ladies;
+    mislaid her handkerchief, her shawl, her gloves, her work, her music,
+    her drawing, her scissors, her keys; would ask for a book when she
+    held it in her hand, and set a whole class hunting for her thimble,
+    whilst the said thimble was quietly perched upon her finger.  Oh!
+    with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used
+    to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain!  But she was a
+    poetess, as Madame said, and what could you expect better!"
+
+Such was Miss Landon's schoolmistress; and under this lady's especial
+instruction did Miss Mitford pass the years 1802, 3, and 4; together they
+read "chiefly poetry;" and "besides the readings," says Miss Mitford,
+"Miss R. compensated in another way for my unwilling application.  She
+took me often to the theatre; whether as an extra branch of education, or
+because she was herself in the height of a dramatic fever, it would be
+invidious to inquire.  The effect may be easily foreseen; my enthusiasm
+soon equalled her own; we began to read Shakspeare, and read nothing
+else."
+
+In 1810 Miss Mitford first appeared as an authoress, by publishing a
+volume of poems, which, in the course of the following year, passed into
+a second edition.
+
+At No. 21 Hans Place, the talented artistes, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan,
+resided some time.
+
+Returning from Hans Place to the Fulham Road through NEW STREET, No. 7
+may he pointed out as the house formerly occupied by Chalon, "animal
+painter to the royal family;" and No. 6 as the residence of the Right
+Hon. David R. Pigot, the late Solicitor-General for Ireland, while (in
+1824-25) studying in the chambers of the late Lord Chief-Justice Tindal,
+for the profession of which his pupil rapidly became an eminent member.
+
+BROMPTON was formerly an airy outlet to which the citizen, with his
+spouse, were wont to resort for an afternoon of rustic enjoyment.  It had
+also the reputation of being a locality favourable to intrigue.  Steele,
+shrewdly writing on the 27th July, 1713, says:--
+
+    "Dear Wife,--If you please to call at Button's, we will go together
+    to Brompton.
+
+                                                              "Yours ever,
+                                                   "RICHARD STEELE." {38a}
+
+Now is Brompton all built or being built over, which makes the precise
+locality of crescents and rows puzzling to old gentlemen.  Its heath is
+gone, and its grove represented by a few dead trunks and some
+unhealthy-looking trees which stand by the road-side, their branches
+lopped and their growth restrained by order of the district surveyor; and
+Brompton National School, nearly opposite to New Street, a building in
+the Tudor style, was, in 1841, wedged in there "for the education of 400
+children, after the design of Mr. George Godwin, jun.;" so at least the
+newspapers of the day informed the public.
+
+BROMPTON ROW on the north, or right-hand side of the main Fulham Road,
+now consists of fifty-five respectable-looking houses, uniform, or nearly
+so, in appearance; and, according to the statements in the 'Gentleman's
+Magazine' {38b} and Mr. Faulkner's 'History of Kensington' {38c} here
+died Arthur Murphy.  But although this was not the case, in Brompton Row
+have lived and died authors, and actors, and artists, whose performances
+deserve full as much consideration from posterity.
+
+No. 14 BROMPTON ROW was the abode for more than ten years (1820 to 1831)
+of John Vendramini, a distinguished engraver.  [Picture: No. 14 Brompton
+Row] He was born at Roncade, near Bassano, in Italy, and died 8th
+February, 1839, aged seventy.  Vendramini was a pupil of Bartolozzi,
+under whom he worked for many years, and of the effect he produced upon
+British art much remains to be said.  In 1805 Vendramini visited Russia,
+and on his return to England engraved 'The Vision of St. Catherine,'
+after Paul Veronese; the 'St. Sebastian,' after Spagnoletti; 'Leda,'
+after Leonardo da Vinci; and the 'Raising of Lazarus,' from the Sebastian
+del Piombo in the National Gallery.
+
+No. 14 Brompton Row, in 1842, was the residence of the late Mr. George
+Herbert Rodwell, a favourite musical and dramatic composer, who died
+January 22nd, 1852.
+
+At No. 23 Brompton Row resided Mr. Walter Hamilton, who, in 1819,
+published, in two volumes 4to, 'A Geographical, Statistical, and
+Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Country;' according
+to Lowndes' 'Bibliographer's Manual,' "an inestimable compilation,
+containing a more full, detailed, and faithful picture of the whole of
+India than any former work on the subject."  [Picture: Embellishment] Mr.
+Hamilton subsequently lived for a short period at No. 8 Rawstorne Street,
+which street divides No. 27 (a confectioner's shop), and No. 28 (the
+Crown and Sceptre) Brompton Row, opposite to the Red Lion (a public-house
+of which the peculiar and characteristic style of embellishment could
+scarcely have escaped notice at the time when the annexed sketch was
+made, 1844, but which decoration was removed in 1849.)  Soon after his
+return to his house in Brompton Row, Mr. Hamilton died there in July or
+August, 1828.
+
+Rawstorne Street leads to Montpellier Square (built about 1837).  In this
+square, No. 11, resides Mr. F. W. Fairholt, the distinguished artist and
+antiquary, to whose pencil and for much valuable information the editor
+of these pages is greatly indebted; and No. 38 may be mentioned as the
+residence of Mr. Walter Lacy the favourite actor.
+
+Mrs. Liston, the widow of the comedian, resided at No. 35 Brompton Row,
+and No. 45 was the residence of the ingenious Count Rumford, the early
+patron of Sir Humphry Davy.  The Count occupied it between the years 1799
+and 1802, when he finally left England for France, where he married the
+widow of the famous chemist, Lavoisier, and died in 1814.  Count
+Rumford's name was Benjamin Thompson, or Thomson.  He was a native of the
+small town of Rumford (now Concord, in New England), and obtained the
+rank of major in the Local Militia.  In the war with America he rendered
+important services to the officers commanding the British army, and
+coming to England was employed by Lord George Germaine, and rewarded with
+the rank of a provincial lieutenant-colonel, which entitled him to
+half-pay.  [Picture: No. 45 Brompton Row] In 1784 he was knighted, and
+officiated for a short time as one of the under-secretaries of state.  He
+afterwards entered the service of the King of Bavaria, in which he
+introduced various useful reforms in the civil and military departments,
+and for which he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and
+created a count.  At Munich, Count Rumford began those experiments for
+the improvements of fire-places and the plans for the better feeding and
+regulation of the poor, which have rendered his name familiar to every
+one,
+
+    "As his own household hearth."
+
+No. 45 was distinguished some years ago by peculiar projecting windows,
+now removed, outside of the ordinary windows--an experimental contrivance
+by Count Rumford, it is said, for raising the temperature of his rooms.
+
+The same house, in 1810, was inhabited by the Rev. William Beloe, the
+translator of Herodotus, and the author of various works between the
+years 1783 and 1812.  In his last publication, 'The Anecdotes of
+Literature,' Mr. Beloe says, "He who has written and published not less
+than forty volumes, which is my case, may well congratulate himself,
+first, that Providence has graciously spared him for so long a period;
+secondly, that sufficient health and opportunity have been afforded; and,
+lastly, that he has passed through a career so extended and so perilous
+without being seriously implicated in personal or literary hostilities."
+It is strange that a man who could feel thus should immediately have
+entered upon the composition of a work which appeared as a posthumous
+publication in 1817, under the title of 'The Sexagenarian; or, the
+Recollections of a Literary Life;' and which contains the following
+note:--
+
+    "Dr. Parr branded Beloe as an ingrate and a slanderer.  He says, 'The
+    worthy and enlightened Archdeacon Nares disdained to have any concern
+    in this infamous work.'  The Rev. Mr. Rennell, of Kensington, could
+    know but little of Beloe; but, having read his slanderous book, Mr.
+    R., who is a sound scholar, an orthodox clergyman, and a most
+    animated writer, would have done well not to have written a sort of
+    postscript.  From motives of regard and respect for Beloe's amiable
+    widow, Dr. Parr abstained from refuting B.'s wicked falsehoods; but
+    Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury, repelled them very ably in the 'Monthly
+    Review.'"
+
+At No. 46 Brompton Row, Mr. John Reeve, an exceedingly popular low
+comedian, died, on the 24th of January, 1838, at the early age of forty.
+Social habits led to habits of intemperance, and poor John was the
+_Bottle Imp_ of every theatre he ever played in.  "The last time I saw
+him," says Mr. Bunn, in his 'Journal of the Stage,' "he was posting at a
+rapid rate to a city dinner, and, on his drawing up to chat, I said,
+'Well, Reeve, how do you find yourself to-day?' and he returned for
+answer, 'The lord-mayor _finds_ me to-day!'"
+
+BROMPTON GROVE commences on the south, or left-hand side of the main
+Fulham Road, immediately beyond the Red Lion (before mentioned as
+opposite to 28 Brompton Row), and continues to the Bunch of Grapes
+public-house, which was pulled down in August, and rebuilt in September,
+1844, opposite to No. 54 Brompton Row, and in the wall of which
+public-house was placed a stone, with "YEOMAN'S ROW, 1767," engraved upon
+it--the name of a street leading to the "Grange," and, in 1794, the
+address of Michael Novosielski, the architect of the Italian Opera House.
+In that year he exhibited, in the Royal Academy, three architectural
+designs, viz:--
+
+"558.  Elevation of the Opera House, Haymarket;
+
+"661.  Section of the New Concert Room at the Haymarket; and
+
+"663.  Ceiling of the New Concert Room at the Opera House."
+
+But of Novosielski and the Grange more hereafter.
+
+Brompton Grove now consists of two rows of houses, standing a little way
+back from the main road, between which rows there was a green space
+(1811), now occupied by shops, which range close to the footway, and have
+a street, called Grove Place, in the centre.
+
+_Upper Brompton Grove_, or that division of the Grove nearest London,
+consists of seven houses, of which No. 4 was the abode of Major Shadwell
+Clerke, who has reflected literary lustre upon the 'United Service,' by
+the able and judicious manner in which he conducted for so many years the
+periodical journal distinguished by that name.  Major Clerke died 19th
+April, 1849.
+
+_Lower Brompton Grove_ consisted of three houses only in 1844, numbered
+8, 9, and 10; the 11 of former days being of superior size, and once
+known as "Grove House."  The 12, which stood a considerable way behind
+it, as the "Hermitage," and the 13, as the "House next to the Bunch of
+Grapes," all of which, except No. 8, claim a passing remark.
+
+In No. 9, where he had long resided, died, on the 12th of August, 1842,
+Mr. John Sidney Hawkins, at the age of eighty-five.  He was the eldest
+son of Sir John Hawkins, the well-known author of the 'History of Music,'
+and one of the biographers of Dr. Johnson.  Mr. Hawkins was brother of
+Letitia Matilda Hawkins, the popular authoress, and a lady of whom the
+elder Disraeli once remarked, that she was "the redeeming genius of her
+family."  Mr. Hawkins, however, was an antiquary of considerable
+learning, research, and industry; but his temper was sour and jealous,
+and, throughout his whole and long literary career, from 1782 to 1814, he
+appears to have been embroiled in trifling disputes and immaterial
+vindications of his father or himself.
+
+No. 10 Brompton Grove, now occupied by the "Sisters of Compassion," was
+the residence of James Petit Andrews, Esq., younger brother of Sir Joseph
+Andrews, Bart., and one of the magistrates of Queen Square Police Office;
+a gentleman remarkable for his humane feelings as well as for his
+literary taste.  His exertions, following up those of Jonas Hanway, were
+the occasion of procuring an Act of Parliament in favour of chimney-sweep
+apprentices.  Mr. Andrews was the author of a volume of ancient and
+modern anecdotes in 1789, to which a supplemental volume appeared the
+following year.  He also published a 'History of Great Britain, connected
+with the Chronology of Europe;' {45a} and a continuation of Henry's
+'History of Great Britain:' {45b} soon after the appearance of which he
+died, on the 6th of August, 1797.
+
+Grove House (called in 1809 and 1810, as already mentioned, No. 11
+Brompton Grove), was, for many years, the residence of Sir John
+Macpherson, Bart.; and here he died, at an advanced age, on the 12th of
+January, 1821.
+
+[Picture: Grove House]
+
+In 1781 he was appointed Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and
+when proceeding to the East Indies, in the 'Valentine,' Indiaman,
+distinguished himself in an action with the French fleet in Praya Bay.
+Sir John, who was a very large man, to encourage the sailors to stand to
+their guns, promised and paid them from his own pocket five guineas a
+man, which, coupled with his bravery during the action, so pleased the
+seamen, that one of them swore "his soul must be as big as his body," and
+the jokes occasioned by this burst of feeling terminated only with Sir
+John Macpherson's life.  "Fine soles!--soles, a match for Macpherson's!"
+was a Brompton fishmonger's greeting to Sir John, etc.  In the
+neighbourhood of Brompton he was known by the _sobriquet_ of "the Gentle
+Giant," from his usually riding a very small pony, flourishing in the
+most determined manner a huge oak stick over the little animal's head,
+but, of course, never touching it with his club.
+
+Upon the after-dinner conversation at Grove House of Mr. Hugh Boyd rests
+chiefly that gentleman's claim to be considered as one of the many
+authors of 'Junius.'  His host, having temporarily retired from table,
+Boyd's words were, "that Sir John Macpherson little knew he was
+entertaining in his mansion a political writer, whose sentiments were
+once the occasion of a chivalrous appeal from Sir John to
+arms,"--immediately adding, "_I am the author of 'Junius_.'"  The will of
+Sir John Macpherson is a remarkable document, and contains the following
+tribute to the character of George IV.:--
+
+    "I conclude this, my last will and testament, in expressing my early
+    and unalterable admiration of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
+    the truly glorious reigning prince of the British empire; and I
+    request my executors to wait upon his royal highness immediately
+    after my decease, and to state to him, as I do now, that I have
+    bequeathed to his royal highness my celebrated antique statue of
+    Minerva, which he often admired, with any one of my antique rings
+    that would please his royal highness.  I likewise request you to
+    assure his royal highness that I will leave him certain papers, which
+    prove to a demonstration that the glorious system which he has
+    realised for his country and the world, in his difficult reign of
+    eight years, was the early system of his heart and his ambition."
+
+The large room on the east side of Grove House, shown in the annexed
+sketch, was used as the drawing-room, and measured thirty-two feet by
+eighteen.  It was built by Sir John Macpherson for the purpose of
+entertaining the Prince Regent.
+
+[Picture: Grove House from the East (1844)]
+
+Grove House was afterwards occupied by Mr. Wilberforce, who, in his diary
+of the 2nd of July, 1823, notes, "Took possession of our new house at
+Brompton."
+
+Mr. Wilberforce remained there about a year, and his successor in the
+tenancy was Mr. Jerdan, the agreeable and well-known editor of the
+'Literary Gazette' (1817-50).  This house, pulled down in 1846, stood
+upon the ground which now forms the road entrance to Ovington Square.
+
+A narrow lane, which ran down by the west side of Grove House, led to the
+Hermitage, a retreat of the much admired Madame Catalani during her
+sojourn this country, and subsequently converted into an asylum for
+insane persons.  This building was pulled down in 1844, and Grove Place
+has been erected on its site.
+
+[Picture: The Hermitage (1844)]
+
+In the house (No. 13 Brompton Grove) which stood a little way back from
+the road, between Grove House and the Grapes public-house, and which was
+taken down in December, 1844, and in the previous June, when sketched,
+occupied by a stone-mason, Mr. Banim lodged from May, 1822, to October,
+1824.  [Picture: No. 13 Brompton Grove (1844)] While residing here, he
+was engaged in contributing to and editing a short-lived weekly paper,
+entitled the 'Literary Register,' the first number of which appeared on
+the 6th of July, 1822, and which publication terminated with the
+forty-fourth, on the 3rd of May, 1823, when Banim devoted his attention
+to preparing the 'Tales of the O'Hara Family' for the press.  It is a
+remarkable local coincidence, that Gerald Griffin, who
+
+    "To his own mind had lived a mystery,"
+
+the contemporary rival of Banim, as an Irish novelist and dramatist,
+should have immediately succeeded him in the tenancy of "13 Brompton
+Grove," as this house was sometimes called.
+
+    "About this period (1825) he [Griffin] took quiet, retired lodgings,
+    at a house at Brompton, now a stonemason's, close by Hermitage Lane,
+    which separated it from the then residence of the editor of the
+    'Literary Gazette,' and a literary intercourse rather than a personal
+    intimacy, though of a most agreeable nature, grew up between them."
+    {48}
+
+On the 10th of November, 1824, Griffin, writing to his brother, commences
+a letter full of literary gossip with,--
+
+    "Since my last I have visited Mr. J--- several times.  The last time,
+    he wished me to dine with him, which I happened not to be able to do;
+    and was very sorry for it, for his acquaintance is to me a matter of
+    great importance, not only from the engine he wields--and a
+    formidable one it is, being the most widely-circulated journal in
+    Europe--but, also, because he is acquainted with all the principal
+    literary characters of the day, and a very pleasant kind of man."
+
+To the honest support of the 'Literary Gazette' at this critical period
+in Griffin's life may be ascribed the struggle which he made for fame and
+fortune through the blind path of literary distinction.  He came a raw
+Irish lad to the metropolis, with indistinct visions of celebrity
+floating through his poetical mind; or, as he candidly confesses
+himself,--
+
+    "A young gentleman, totally unknown, even to a single family in
+    London, with a few pounds in one pocket and a brace of tragedies in
+    the other, supposing that the one will set him up before the others
+    are exhausted," which, he admits, "is not a very novel, but a very
+    laughable, delusion."
+
+Banim's kindness--his sympathy, indeed, for Griffin, deserves notice.
+
+    "I cannot tell you here," writes the latter, "the many, many
+    instances in which Banim has shown his friendship since I wrote last;
+    let it suffice to say, that he is the sincerest, heartiest, most
+    disinterested being that breathes.  His fireside is the only one
+    where I enjoy anything like social life or home.  I go out (to
+    Brompton Grove) occasionally in an evening, and talk or read for some
+    hours, or have a bed, and leave next day."
+
+Again, in a letter dated 31st of March, 1824, Griffin says:--
+
+    "What would I have done if I had not found Banim?  I should have
+    instantly despaired on ****'s treatment of me.  I should never be
+    tired of talking about and thinking of Banim.  Mark me! he is a man,
+    the only one I have met since I left Ireland, almost.  We walked over
+    Hyde Park together on St. Patrick's Day, and renewed our home
+    recollections by gathering shamrocks, and placing them in our hats,
+    even under the eye of John Bull."
+
+MICHAEL'S PLACE, on the same side of the way with the Bunch of Grapes, is
+railed off from the main Fulham Road, although a public footpath admits
+the passenger as far as No. 14.  It consists of forty-four houses, and
+was a building speculation of Michael Novosielski, already mentioned,
+whose Christian name it retains, having been commenced by him in 1786.
+But the shells of his houses for many years remained unfinished, and in
+1811, the two last houses (Nos. 43 and 44) of Michael's Place were not
+built.  Novosielski died at Ramsgate, in 1795; and his widow, for some
+years after his death, occupied No. 13.
+
+[Picture: No. 8 Michael's Place] No. 8 Michael's Place, to be recognized
+by its bay-windows, was, for several years, the residence of the Rev. Dr.
+Croly, now rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, distinguished in the pulpit
+by his eloquence, admired as a writer in almost every walk of English
+literature, and respected and beloved by those who know him.  Croly's
+fame must live and die with our language, which he has grasped with an
+unrivalled command.
+
+BROMPTON SQUARE is opposite to the commencement of Michael's Place, to
+which it will be necessary to return, after a visit to the square.
+
+At No. 6 has lived Mr. John Baldwin Buckstone, the actor-author, or
+author-actor, so well known and esteemed by the public.  And at No. 14
+has resided Mr. Edward Fitzwilliam, the musical composer, who died on the
+19th of January, 1857, at the early age of 33.
+
+No. 21 was, between the years 1829 and 1833, the residence of
+Spagnoletti, the leader of the Opera band.  He was succeeded in the
+tenancy by Mrs. Chatterly, a lively and accomplished actress, who
+continued to occupy the same house after her marriage with Mr. Francis
+Place.
+
+[Picture: Nos. 22, 23, 24, Brompton Square] At No. 22 (which now belongs
+to the well-known and much respected actor Mr. James Vining, and is at
+present tenanted by Mr. Shirley Brooks) George Colman the younger died on
+the 26th of October, 1836, at the age of 74, having removed to this house
+from No. 5 Melina Place, Kent Road.  "He ceased to exist on the 17th of
+October, 1836," says his medical attendant, in a letter published in the
+memoirs of the Colman family.  But this is an error, as on the 19th of
+October he appears to have written to Mr. Bunn.  The last earthly
+struggle of George Colman has been thus described:--
+
+    "It has never fallen to my lot to witness in the hour of death so
+    much serenity of mind, such perfect philosophy, or resignation more
+    complete.  Up to within an hour of his decease he was perfectly
+    sensible of his danger, and bore excruciating pain with the utmost
+    fortitude.
+
+    "At one period of his life a more popular man was not in existence,"
+    observes Mr. Bunn; "for the festive board of the prince or the peer
+    was incomplete without Mr. Colman.  He has left behind him a
+    perpetuity of fame in his dramatic works; and much is it to be
+    lamented that no chronicle has been preserved of his various and most
+    extraordinary _jeux-d'esprit_.  He has, moreover, left behind quite
+    enough of renown, could he lay claim to none other, to be found in
+    the following tribute from the pen of Lord Byron:--'I have met George
+    Colman occasionally, and thought him extremely pleasant and
+    convivial.  Sheridan's humour, or rather wit, was always saturnine,
+    and sometimes savage; he never laughed (at least that I saw and I
+    have watched him), but Colman did.  If I had to _choose_, and could
+    not have both at a time, I should say, let me begin the evening with
+    Sheridan, and finish it with Colman.  Sheridan for dinner, Colman for
+    supper.  Sheridan for claret or port, but Colman for everything, from
+    the madeira and champagne at dinner, the claret with a layer of port
+    between the glasses, up to the punch of the night, and down to the
+    grog or gin-and-water of daybreak.  Sheridan was a grenadier company
+    of life-guards, but Colman a whole regiment--of light infantry, to be
+    sure, but still a regiment.'"
+
+The sale of Colman's effects took place on the 29th of November, 1837;
+among the pictures sold was the well-known portrait of George Colman the
+elder, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which has been engraved; another by
+Gainsborough, also engraved; a third in crayons, by Rosalba; and a fourth
+by Zoffani, which formerly belonged to Garrick, a highly-finished
+miniature of Shakspeare, by Ozias Humphrey, executed in 1784 (a copy of
+which, made for the Duchess of Chandos, sold at her sale for 40 pounds);
+some watercolour drawings, by Emery, Mrs. Terry, and others; some
+engravings; more than 1,000 volumes of French and English books; and a
+collection of miscellanies, including the MSS. of the elder Colman's most
+admired productions, and several by George Colman the younger,--amounting
+in all to twenty-six pieces.  John Reeve bought largely of the books; but
+before two months had elapsed Reeve himself was no more.
+
+No. 23 Brompton Square is occupied by Mr. William Farren, who was for a
+long period the unrivalled representative of old men upon the stage, {53}
+and who took his farewell at the Haymarket Theatre in 1855; and No. 24,
+between the years 1840 and 1843, was the residence of Mr. Payne Collier,
+who has given to the public several editions of Shakspeare, and who has
+been long distinguished by his profound knowledge of dramatic literature
+and history, and his extensive acquaintance with the early poetry of
+England.
+
+Mr. Collier's house, in Brompton Square, stood between that which Mr.
+William Farren occupies, and one (No. 25) of which Mr. Farren was
+proprietor, and has now been sold.  At No. 28 resides Mr. William Frogatt
+Robson, Solicitor and Comptroller of Droits of Admiralty.  Mr. William
+Farren has resided at No. 30, next door to Mr. Henry Luttrell (No. 31),
+"the great London wit," as Sir Walter Scott terms him, well known in the
+circles of literature as the author of many epigrams, and of a volume of
+graceful poetry, entitled 'Advice to Julia,' and who died on 19th
+December, 1851, aged 86.
+
+In addition to these literary and dramatic associations of Brompton
+Square, Liston resided for some time at No. 40, Mr. Yates and Mr. John
+Reeve at 57 and 58; and that pair of comic theatrical gems, Mr. and Mrs.
+Keeley, have been inhabitants of No. 19.
+
+[Picture: First grave] BROMPTON NEW CHURCH, a little beyond the Square,
+is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.  The architect was Mr. Donaldson, and
+the first stone was laid in October, 1826.  On the 6th of June, 1829, the
+Bishop of London consecrated this church and its burial-ground, which had
+been a flower-garden.  When the first grave was made in the month
+following, many of the flowers still appeared among the grass; and, after
+viewing it, Miss Landon wrote the following verses.  The "first grave" is
+in the extreme south-west of the corner churchyard, close to the narrow
+pathway that skirts the wall, leaving only space for a grave between.
+The inscription on the stone which originally marked the "first grave,"
+was,--
+
+                                    SACRED
+                               TO THE MEMORY OF
+                                MR. IOHN CORPE
+                                OF THIS PARISH
+                        OF ST. GEORGE'S HANOVER SQUARE
+                            WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
+                              18TH OF JULY 1829
+                                AGED 51 YEARS.
+
+   "A single grave! the only one
+      In this unbroken ground,
+   Where yet the garden leaf and flower
+      Are lingering around.
+   A single grave!--my heart has felt
+      How utterly alone
+   In crowded halls, where breathed for me
+      Not one familiar tone.
+
+   "The shade where forest-trees shut out
+      All but the distant sky,--
+   I've felt the loneliness of night,
+      When the dark winds pass'd by.
+   My pulse has quicken'd with its awe,
+      My lip has gasp'd for breath;
+   But what were they to such as this--
+      The solitude of death?
+
+   "A single grave!--we half forget
+      How sunder human ties,
+   When round the silent place of rest
+      A gather'd kindred lies.
+   We stand beneath the haunted yew,
+      And watch each quiet tomb,
+   And in the ancient churchyard feel
+      Solemnity, not gloom!
+
+   "The place is purified with hope--
+      The hope, that is, of prayer;
+   And human love, and heavenward thought,
+      And pious faith, are there!
+   The wild flowers spring amid the grass,
+      And many a stone appears
+   Carved by affection's memory,
+      Wet with affection's tears.
+
+   "The golden chord which binds us all
+      Is loosed, not rent in twain;
+   And love, and hope, and fear, unite
+      To bring the past again.
+   But _this_ grave is so desolate,
+      With no remembering stone,
+   No fellow-graves for sympathy,--
+      'Tis utterly alone!
+
+   "I do not know who sleeps beneath,
+      His history or name,
+   Whether, if lonely in his life,
+      He is in death the same,--
+   Whether he died unloved, unmourn'd,
+      The last leaf on the bough,
+   Or if some desolated hearth
+      Is weeping for him now?
+
+   "Perhaps this is too fanciful,
+      Though single be his sod,
+   Yet not the less it has around
+      The presence of his God!
+   It may be weakness of the heart,
+      But yet its kindliest, best;
+   Better if in our selfish world
+      It could be less repress'd.
+
+   "Those gentler charities which draw
+      Man closer with his kind,
+   Those sweet humilities which make
+      The music which they find:
+   How many a bitter word 't would hush,
+      How many a pang 't would save,
+   If life more precious held those ties
+      Which sanctify the grave."
+
+Now (1860) the grave-stone has received two additional inscriptions, and
+the character of the upright stone has been altered.
+
+[Picture: Reeve's Grave] Corpe was a ladies' shoemaker, and his son
+carried on that business at No. 126 Mount Street, Berkeley Square, after
+the father's death.  While sketching the grave, the sexton came up, and
+observed, "No one has ever noticed that grave, sir, before, so much as to
+draw it out for a pattern, as I suppose you are doing."
+
+John Reeve's grave ("alas, poor Yorick!") is in the first avenue at the
+back of the church, to the left hand, and immediately at the edge of the
+path that runs parallel with the north side of the building.  The stone,
+which is similar to others in the same vicinity, is inscribed:--
+
+                                  IN MEMORY
+                                      OF
+                               IOHN REEVE ESQ.
+                                 LATE OF THE
+                            THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
+                          OBIIT JANUARY. 24TH. 1838.
+
+                                   ALSO OF
+                               IOHN REEVE ESQ.
+                              UNCLE OF THE ABOVE
+                       OBIIT JANY. 22ND. 1831 AGED 71.
+
+In the central path, leading from the Church Tower, is the grave of
+Harriet Elizabeth Farren, who died 16th of June, 1857, aged 68.  She made
+her first appearance in London in 1813, as Desdemona.
+
+[Picture: Bell and Horns sign] Close to Brompton New Church, at a
+public-house called the Bell and Horns, {58} the road branches off again;
+that branch which goes straight forward leading to Old Brompton, Earl's
+Court, Kensington, and North End, Fulham.  The turn to the left, or bend
+to the south, being the main Fulham Road.  Here, till within the last few
+years, was standing the stump of an old tree, shown in the accompanying
+sketch.  [Picture: Stump] A cluster of trees at the commencement of the
+Old Brompton Road have also been removed, and the road has been
+considerably widened.  On the right-hand side, adjoining Brompton New
+Church, is the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, a Roman Catholic Establishment
+of considerable extent, which stands on the ground once occupied by Mr.
+Pollard's school.  It was opened on 22nd March, 1851, and was originally
+located in King William Street, Strand.  It is bounded on the east by the
+avenue of lime trees leading up to Holy Trinity Church, on the north by
+its cemetery, on the west by the South Kensington Museum, and on the
+south by the road, which has been widened by the commissioners to eighty
+feet.  The superior in London is the Rev. F. W. Faber, and at Birmingham,
+the Rev. J. H. Newman, D.D.  The building, which does not show its size
+to advantage from the road, is erected in the shape of the letter T.
+Some idea of the scale on which the building is executed may be gathered
+from the following dimensions.  The oratory 72 feet long, 30 wide, 29
+high.  The library 72 feet long, 30 wide, 23 high.  The refectory 50 feet
+long, 30 wide, 28 high.  The corridors of the house 164 feet long, 9
+wide, 14 high.  The architect is Mr. Scoles.  Next to the oratory is the
+South Kensington Museum, which was built upon the Kensington Gore estate,
+[Picture: Oratory and Museum] purchased by the Royal Commissioners with
+the surplus funds derived from the Exhibition of 1851.  It was opened on
+the 24th June, 1857, and is a result of the School of Design, founded at
+Somerset House in 1838.  It is the head-quarters of the Government
+Department of Science and Art, previously deposited in Marlborough House,
+which is under the management of Mr. Henry Cole.  The collections are
+temporarily placed in a range of boiler-roofed buildings, hence the term
+"Brompton boilers" has been applied to them.  There are specimens here of
+ornamental art, an architectural, trade, and economical museum; a court
+of modern sculpture, and the gallery of British Art, founded on the
+munificent gift of Mr. John Sheepshanks.  Mr. Sheepshanks having bestowed
+on the nation a collection of 234 oil paintings, mostly by modern British
+artists, and some drawings, etc., the whole formed by himself, including
+some of the most popular works of Wilkie, Mulready, Sir Edwin Landseer,
+Leslie, and other eminent artists of the English school.  To these have
+been since added, in several large rooms, the Turner Collection, and the
+pictures from the Vernon Gallery; also the collection bequeathed to the
+nation by the late Mr. Jacob Bell, and the pictures by British artists
+removed from the National Gallery; all which are well lighted from the
+roof.  The objects of ornamental art consist of medieval furniture and
+decoration, painted glass, plaster casts, electrotype copies,
+photographs, engravings, and drawings, etc., the whole designed with the
+view of aiding general education, and of diffusing among all classes
+those principles of science and art which are calculated to advance the
+individual interests of the country, and to elevate the character of the
+people: facilities are afforded for taking copies of objects upon
+application at the Art Library.  The Educational collections formed by
+the Government, which are in the central portion of the building,
+comprise specimens of scientific instruments, objects of natural history,
+models, casts, and a library; refreshment and waiting rooms are provided;
+and there are lectures delivered in a building devoted to that purpose.
+The admission, which is from ten till four, five or six, according to the
+season, is free on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, also on Monday and
+Tuesday evening, from seven till ten, when the galleries are lighted; on
+Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, being students' days, the admission is
+6d.
+
+In form the building is rectangular, the centre or nave is 42 feet wide,
+and is open from the floor to the roof.  Along the aisles galleries run,
+access to which is obtained by two large central staircases at the ends
+of the building, which is for the most part lighted from the roofs.
+There is ample ventilation, and by means of hot water pipes, the building
+is heated when required.  The exhibition space in floor and galleries is
+nearly one acre and a half, exclusive of the wall space in the galleries
+and aisles.  The arrangement, it may be seen from this description, is
+much the same as that adopted in the Great Exhibition of 1851.  There are
+separate catalogues for each department to be had, which give the visitor
+all necessary information.  The building was constructed from designs and
+drawings prepared by Messrs. Charles D. Young and Co. of Great George
+Street, Westminster.  Opposite the Museum is Thurloe Place.  No. 1 may be
+mentioned as the residence of Mr. Henry Holl, well known some years ago
+as the light comedian of the Haymarket Theatre.  That gentleman has now
+retired from the profession, but in addition to some dramatic productions
+written many years since, he is the author of two or three successful
+pieces recently produced.  It is not the intention of the writer to
+follow the course of the Old Brompton Road, but he will at once return to
+the main road after alluding to the newly-formed magnificent approaches
+from this point to Kensington, by Exhibition Road and Prince Albert's
+Road, on the site of Brompton Park, now broken up. {62}  A winter garden
+is in course of formation here, and the Horticultural Society intend to
+appropriate part of the ground for their annual fetes.  The total amount
+expended on the purchase and laying out of the Kensington Gore Estate
+from 1851 to 1856 inclusive, was 277,309 pounds.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+
+FROM THE BELL AND HORNS, BROMPTON, TO LITTLE CHELSEA.
+
+To return to the continuation of MICHAEL'S PLACE.  It is divided between
+Nos. 11 and 12 by MICHAEL'S GROVE, which led to Brompton Grange, for some
+years the seat of the favourite veteran vocalist, Braham, who made his
+appearance as a public singer at the age of ten years, and so far back as
+1787.  The Grange was taken down in October 1843, and, in the course of
+twelve months, its spacious grounds were covered by a decided crescent
+and other buildings.  Brompton Grange, which was constructed by
+Novosielski for his own residence, was, previous to Mr. Braham's tenancy,
+occupied by a gentleman of large fortune and weak nerves, which were most
+painfully affected by the tone of a bell.  After considerable research,
+this spot was selected for his London residence, in the belief that there
+he would be secure from annoyance.  But the folly of human anticipation
+was speedily illustrated by the building of Brompton Church on the north
+side of his abode, and of Chelsea New Church on the west; so that,
+whatever way the wind blew,
+
+    "The sound of the church-going bell"
+
+was certain of being wafted to the Grange, which was got rid of in
+consequence.
+
+From Michael's Grove, BROMPTON CRESCENT is nearly a straight row of
+twenty-five houses, and forms an angle to the line of the main Fulham
+Road, uniting with Michael's Place at "Crescent House," where the
+carriage communication was formerly interrupted by a bar, in place of
+which a post supporting two lamps is now substituted.
+
+No. 9 was for some time in the occupation of Dr. Oswald Wood, the
+translator (1835) of Von Hammer's 'History of the Assassins,' and who
+died at the early age of thirty-eight, on the 5th of November, 1842, in
+the West Indies, where he held the appointment of Provost-Marshal of
+Antigua.
+
+At No. 13 Brompton Crescent resided Charles Incledon, the rival of his
+neighbour Braham, whose singing he was wont to designate as "Italianised
+humbug;" declaring that no one but himself, Charles Incledon, knew how to
+sing a British ballad: and it must be admitted, that "The Storm" and
+"Black-eyed Susan," as sung by Incledon, produced a deep impression on
+the public mind.  He was a native of Cornwall, and the son of a medical
+gentleman.  As a chorister, under the tuition of Jackson, in Exeter
+Cathedral, Incledon acquired his knowledge of music; for when he was
+fifteen he entered the Royal Navy, in which he served in the West Indies
+from 1779 to 1783, when he abandoned the naval profession, and joined a
+theatrical company at Southampton.  After a popular professional career
+of upwards of forty years as a public singer, Incledon died at Worcester,
+on the 11th of February, 1826.
+
+Of Incledon many amusing anecdotes are told, chiefly caused by his
+inordinate vanity, and his mental singleness of purpose.  He thought of
+no one but himself; he saw nothing beyond the one and immediate object at
+which he grasped; and yet these faults were caused rather by natural
+weakness of intellect than by an unkind or selfish disposition.  In fact,
+Incledon lived and died a petted servant of the public; which
+administered intoxicating draughts of applause to his self-esteem.
+
+Mr. G. Rodwell, already mentioned as having been an inhabitant of No. 14
+Brompton Row, resided at No. 15 Brompton Crescent, in 1830.
+
+No. 20 Brompton Crescent was, between the years 1822 and 1844, occupied
+by Mr. Planche, well known as, perhaps, the most prolific and skilful
+dramatic writer of the day, and as a gentleman of high literary and
+antiquarian attainments.  His connexion with the last musical efforts of
+the German composer Weber, in his opera of 'Oberon,' which was produced
+at Covent Garden on the 12th of May, 1826, {65} cannot be forgotten; and
+to Planche's knowledge of costume and taste for pictorial effects the
+English stage is deeply indebted.  In the drawing-room of this house have
+some of our most agreeable acting dramas been composed, and nothing could
+have been, in its style and appointments, more typical of Planche's
+dialogue than was the apartment--smart and neat, fit for all occasions,
+and suited in a moment to the present purpose, whatever that might be.
+It was polished and elegant; but there was nothing superfluous, beyond a
+bit of exquisite china on the mantel-piece, or a picture, excellent in
+its way, on the wall; something which pleased the eye, and which the mind
+received and relished like a nicely-pointed joke.  A well-painted
+portrait of Planche himself, by Briggs, the Royal Academician, which has
+been engraved, hung opposite to the fireplace; and, as if to carry out
+the similitude between Planche's writings and the place where they were
+written, folding-doors revealed a back drawing-room, which, like his
+memory, was richly stored with the works of heralds and antiquaries, and
+of our elder dramatists and poets, so judiciously arranged, that in a
+moment he was certain of producing the precise passage or the effect
+which he desired.  At the same time so completely was this little battery
+of knowledge masked under quaint bindings and tasteful covers, that no
+one suspected what a mine of learning lay beneath; nor, like his own
+mental resources, was a volume displayed without cause, or unclasped
+without its effect.
+
+Speaking earnestly to Planche respecting the pains and pleasures of
+authorship, L. E. L. once said, "I would give this moment all the fame of
+what I have written, or ever shall write, for one roar of applause from a
+crowded house, such as you must have heard a thousand times."
+
+Mr. Planche afterwards removed to a new and detached house, built on the
+site of Brompton Grange.  He has now quitted the neighbourhood.
+
+Mr. C. J. Richardson, an architect, whose publications illustrative of
+Tudor architecture and domestic English antiquities have materially
+tended to diffuse a feeling of respect for the works of our ancestors,
+and to forward the growing desire to preserve and restore edifices which
+time and circumstances have spared to the country, has resided at No. 22
+Brompton Crescent.  At No. 28 in this crescent, Mrs. Liston died in 1854.
+
+The continuation of MICHAEL'S PLACE, which we left on our right to visit
+Michael's Grove and Brompton Crescent, is the corner house, now Dr.
+Cahill's and Mr. Hewett's.  At No. 12, Lewis Schiavonetti, a
+distinguished engraver, died on the 7th of June, 1810, at the age of
+fifty-five.  He was a native of Bassano, in the Venetian territory, and
+the eldest son of a stationer, whose large family and moderate
+circumstances made him gladly accept the offer of Julius Golini, a
+painter of some repute, to receive his son, at the age of thirteen, for
+instruction in the arts.  [Picture: No. 12 Michael's Place] In three
+years after, Golini expired in the arms of his youthful pupil.  Upon the
+death of his master he determined to seek the patronage of Count
+Remaudini, who had given employment to Bartolozzi and Volpato, and began
+to study the mechanical process of engraving, under a poor man named
+Lorio, who, unable to support himself by his profession, officiated as
+sacristan to a church, and could offer him no better accommodation for
+study than the sacristy.  The circumstances of Schiavonetti not
+permitting him to seek for higher instruction, he remained with this
+master about twelve months, when, finding that he had learned all that
+poor Lorio was able to teach, and feeling an aversion to work
+occasionally among dead bodies, he determined to alter his situation.  A
+copy of a 'Holy Family,' from Bartolozzi, after Carlo Maratta, gained
+Schiavonetti immediate employment from Count Remaudini, and attracted the
+notice of Suntach, an engraver and printseller in opposition to
+Remaudini.
+
+About this time there came to Bassano a Mr. Testolini, of Vicenza, a
+wretched engraver of architecture, but a man of consummate craft and
+address.  He became acquainted with Schiavonetti at Suntach's, and,
+finding in his genius and tractable disposition, a tool which he could
+use to great advantage, he engaged him to work at his house.
+Bartolozzi's engravings in the chalk manner were then in great repute at
+Bassano, and Testolini made several abortive attempts to discover the
+process.  His young friend succeeded better, and imitated several of
+Bartolozzi's prints to perfection; and Testolini took some of
+Schiavonetti's productions to the son of Bartolozzi at Venice, and passed
+them off as his own.  They gained him an introduction to that artist, and
+an invitation to London, where he was then in full occupation, and his
+works highly appreciated.  The change of climate seems to have
+deteriorated the talents of Testolini; but such was his adroitness that
+he gained a complete ascendancy over the easy temper of Bartolozzi, and
+lived in his house at North End, Fulham, about three years.  During that
+time, finding that yet more important advantages might be derived from
+the aid of his former friend, he made several propositions to
+Schiavonetti to come to London.  These were for a time declined: the
+rising fame of the young artist caused his talents to be better
+appreciated, and some Venetian noblemen offered him a pension and
+constant employment if he would abandon his proposed emigration.
+Testolini, to frustrate this, induced Bartolozzi to write a letter of
+persuasion, partly dictated by himself; and, confident of its effect, he
+set out for Italy to bring Schiavonetti over.  During his absence
+Bartolozzi gained an insight into his real character and interested
+views, and, on his return with his _protege_, told him that his house was
+no longer open to him, but that Schiavonetti was welcome to consider it
+his home.  Testolini, however, having found a house in Sloane Square,
+soon persuaded Schiavonetti that it would be better for him to follow his
+fortune than to remain with Bartolozzi, to which Schiavonetti consented.
+This circumstance terminated the connexion between Bartolozzi and
+Schiavonetti; and shortly after the reputation of the latter as an
+engraver became established in London, where he conducted every
+transaction he was engaged in with an uprightness and integrity that
+cause his memory to be equally respected as a gentleman and as an artist.
+The 'Madre Dolorosa,' after Vandyke; the portrait of that master in the
+character of Paris; Michael Angelo's cartoon of the 'Surprise of the
+Soldiers on the banks of the Arno;' a series of etchings from designs by
+Blake, illustrative of Blair's 'Grave,' with a portrait of Blake after
+Phillips; the 'Landing of the British troops in Egypt,' from De
+Loutherbourg; and the etching of the 'Canterbury Pilgrims,' from
+Stothard's admired picture, are some of the most esteemed works of Lewis
+Schiavonetti.  His funeral, which took place on the 14th June 1810, from
+Michael's Place, was attended by West, the president, Phillips, Tresham,
+and other members of the Royal Academy, by his countryman Vendramini, and
+almost all the distinguished engravers of the day, with other artists and
+friends to art.
+
+The greater portion of No. 13, Michael's Place, is shown in the sketch of
+No. 12, and the former may be mentioned as the residence of the widow of
+the builder, Madame Novosielski, who died here on the 30th November,
+1820.  This was the address of Miss Helen Faucit, immediately previous to
+her successful appearance in the English drama before a French audience,
+and is at present in the occupation of Mr. Weigall, an artist whose works
+are highly prized.
+
+Mrs. Billington, the well-known singer and actress, has resided at No.
+15.
+
+Miss Pope, an actress of considerable reputation, died at No. 17,
+Michael's Place, on the 30th July, 1818, aged seventy-five.  Her talents
+had been cultivated by the celebrated Mrs. Clive, and she was
+distinguished by the notice of Garrick.  As a representative of old
+women, Miss Pope is said to have been unrivalled; and, for more than half
+a century, she remained constant to the boards of Drury Lane Theatre,
+never having performed at any other with the exception of a season at
+Dublin and another at Liverpool.
+
+Mr. John Heneage Jesse, in 1842, while engaged in the publication of
+'Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution of 1688 to the
+Death of George II.,' 3 vols. 8vo, a continuation of his 'History of the
+Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts,' lodged at No. 18.
+
+Mr. Yates, the manager of the Adelphi Theatre, and an actor of
+considerable and varied powers, resided at No. 21, Michael's Place,
+immediately previous to his accepting a short engagement in Ireland,
+where he ruptured a blood-vessel, and returned to England in so weak a
+state that he died on the 21st June, 1842, a few days after his arrival
+at the Euston Hotel, Euston Square, from whence it was considered, when
+he reached London, imprudent to remove him to Brompton.  He was in the
+forty-fifth year of his age, and made his first appearance in London at
+Covent Garden on the 7th November, 1818.  On the 30th November, 1823, Mr.
+Yates married Miss Brunton, an exemplary woman and an accomplished
+actress, who had retired from the profession for some years previous to
+her death, aged 61, on 30th August, 1860.  Before Mr. Yates' tenancy, No.
+21 was the residence of Mr. Liston, whose comic humour will long be
+remembered on the stage.
+
+Mrs. Davenport, a clever actress and an admirable representative of old
+women, died at No. 22, on 8th May, 1843, aged eighty-four.  On the 25th
+of May, 1830, she retired from the stage, after an uninterrupted service
+of thirty-six years at Covent Garden Theatre, where she took her "first,
+last, and only benefit," performing the Nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
+
+No. 25, Michael's Place, may be pointed out as the house in which Miss
+Pope, "the other delicious old woman," dwelt previous to her removal to
+No. 17; and No. 26, as the lodgings of Mrs. Mathews, when occupied in the
+composition of the 'Memoirs' of her husband, {72} the eminent comedian,--
+
+   "A man so various, that he seemed to be,
+   Not one, but all mankind's epitome."
+
+At No. 33 died Madame Delille, in 1857, at an advanced age.  This lady
+was the mother of the late Mr. C. J. Delille, professor of the French
+language in Christ's Hospital and in the City of London School, and
+French examiner in the University of London.  Mr. Delille's French
+Grammar is universally adopted by schools, in addition to his 'Repertoire
+Litteraire,' and his 'Lecons et Modeles de Poesie Francaise.'
+
+The ground upon which Michael's Place and Brompton Crescent are built was
+known by the name of "Flounder Field," from its usual moist and muddy
+state.  This field contained fourteen acres, and is said to have been
+part of the estate of Alderman Henry Smith, which in this neighbourhood
+was upwards of eighty-four acres.  He was a native of Wandsworth, where
+he is buried.  It has been asserted that, from very humble circumstances,
+he rose to be an alderman of London--from circumstances so humble,
+indeed, that Salmon, in his 'Antiquities of Surrey,' mentions that he had
+been in early life whipped out of Mitcham parish for begging there.
+Being a widower, and without children, he made over all his estates in
+1620 to trustees for charitable purposes, reserving out of the produce
+500 pounds a-year for himself.  He died in 1627-8, and the intent of his
+will appears to have been to divide his estate equally between the
+poorest of his kindred, and in case of any surplus it was to be applied
+to the relief and ransom of poor captives.  Mr. Smith is said, but we
+know little of the history of this benevolent and extraordinary man, to
+have himself suffered a long captivity in Algiers.  No application having
+been made for many years to redeem captives, in 1772 an act of parliament
+was passed "to enable the trustees of Henry Smith, Esq., deceased, to
+apply certain sums of money to the relief of his poor kindred, and to
+enable the said trustees to grant building leases of an estate in the
+parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, and St. Margaret's, Westminster."
+
+No. 1, North Terrace, leading into Alexander Square, was for some time
+the residence of the celebrated "O." Smith, who, though a great ruffian
+upon the stage, was in private life remarkable for his quiet manners and
+his varied attainments.  At the end of this terrace is the Western
+Grammar School.
+
+ALEXANDER SQUARE, on the north or right-hand side of the main Fulham
+Road, between the Bell and Horns public-house and Pelham Crescent,
+consists of twenty-four houses built in the years 1827 and 1830, and
+divided by Alfred Place: before each portion there is a respectable
+enclosure, and behind numerous new streets, squares, and houses have been
+built, extending to the Old Brompton Road.
+
+No. 19, Alexander Square, was the residence of Captain Glascock, who
+commanded H.M.S. Tyne, and whose pen has enriched the nautical novel
+literature of England {73} with the same racy humour which has
+distinguished his professional career.  When commanding in the Douro,
+some communications which Glascock had occasion to make to the Governor
+of Oporto not having received that attention which the English captain
+considered was due to them, and the governor having apologised for his
+deafness, Glascock replied that in future he would write to his
+excellency.  He did so, but the proceeding did not produce the required
+reply.  Glascock was then told that the governor's memory was defective;
+so he wrote again, and two letters remained unanswered.  In this state of
+things it was intimated to Captain Glascock by a distinguished
+diplomatist, that, as his letters might not have been delivered, he ought
+to write another.  "Certainly," replied that officer; "my letters to his
+excellency, as you say, might not have been delivered, for I have had no
+report absolutely made to me that they had ever reached his hands: but I
+will take care this time there shall be no mistake in the delivery, for
+you shall see me attach my communication to a cannonball, the report of
+which I can testify to my government; and, as my gunner is a sure shot,
+his excellency _will_ (Glascock was an Irishman) have my epistle
+delivered into his hand."  This intimation produced at once the desired
+effect of a satisfactory reply and apology.
+
+Captain Glascock was one of the inspectors under the Poor Relief Act in
+Ireland.  He died in 1847.
+
+No. 24 Alexander Square is the residence of Mr. George Godwin, the editor
+of the 'Builder,' and one of the honorary secretaries of the Art
+Union,--an association which has exercised an important influence upon
+the progress of the fine arts in England.  Mr. Godwin is likewise
+favourably known to the public as the author of several essays which
+evince considerable professional knowledge, antiquarian research, and a
+fertile fancy.
+
+The bend of the Fulham Road terminates at
+
+                            THE ADMIRAL KEPPEL
+
+[Picture: The old Admiral Keppel] public-house, from whence the road
+proceeds in a straight line to Little Chelsea; Marlborough Road and
+Keppel Street, leading to Chelsea, branching off at each side of the
+tavern.  Since this sketch was taken, the old building has been pulled
+down (1856), and a large hotel erected on the same spot, by B. Watts,
+where, in addition to the usual comforts of an inn, hot and cold baths
+may be had.
+
+In 1818 the Admiral Keppel courted the custom of passing travellers by a
+poetical appeal to the feelings of both man and beast:--
+
+   "Stop, brave boys, and quench your thirst;
+   If you won't drink, your horses murst."
+
+There was something rural in this: the distich was painted in very rude
+white letters on a small black board; and when Keppel's portrait, which
+swung in air, like England's flag, braving
+
+    "The battle and the breeze,"
+
+was unhinged and placed against the front of the house, this board was
+appended as its motto.  Both, however, were displaced by the march of
+public-house improvement; the weather-beaten sign of the gallant
+admiral's head was transferred to a wall of the back premises, where its
+"faded form" might, until recently, have been recognised; but, though the
+legible record has perished, _opus vatum durat_.
+
+AMELIA PLACE is a row of nine houses immediately beyond the Admiral
+Keppel.  Within the walls of the last low house in the row, and the
+second with a verandah, the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran died on the
+14th of October, 1817.  It had then a pleasant look-out upon green fields
+and a nursery-garden, now occupied by Pelham Crescent.  Here it was, with
+the exception of a short excursion to Ireland, that Curran had resided
+during the twelve months previous to his death.  [Picture: No. 7 Amelia
+Place] Curran's public life may be said to have terminated in 1806, when
+he accepted the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland, an appointment
+of 5000 pounds a year.  This situation he retained until 1815, when his
+health required a cessation from its laborious attendance.  Upon his
+retirement from office, he "passed through the watering-places with the
+season," and then fixed himself at No. 7, Amelia Place, Brompton, which
+house has now Kettle's boot and shoe warehouse built out in front.  To no
+other contemporary pen than that of the Rev. George Croly can be ascribed
+the following glowing sketch of Curran:--
+
+    "From the period in which Curran emerged from the first struggles of
+    an unfriended man, labouring up a jealous profession, his history
+    makes a part of the annals of his country: once upon the surface, his
+    light was always before the eye, it never sank and was never
+    outshone.  With great powers to lift himself beyond the reach of that
+    tumultuous and stormy agitation that must involve the movers of the
+    public mind in a country such as Ireland then was, he loved to cling
+    to the heavings of the wave; he, at least, never rose to that
+    tranquil elevation to which his early contemporaries had one by one
+    climbed; and never left the struggle till the storm had gone down, it
+    is to be hoped for ever.  This was his destiny, but it might have
+    been his choice, and he was not without the reward, which, to an
+    ambitious mind conscious of its eminent powers, might be more than
+    equivalent to the reluctant patronage of the throne.  To his habits
+    legal distinction would have been only a bounty upon his silence; his
+    limbs would have been fettered by the ermine; but he had the
+    compensation of boundless popular honour, much respect from the
+    higher ranks of party, much admiration and much fear from the lower
+    partizans.  In Parliament he was the assailant most dreaded; in the
+    law-courts he was the advocate deemed the most essential; in both he
+    was an object of all the more powerful passions of man but rivalry,--
+
+                      'He stood alone and shone alone.'"
+
+During Curran's residence in Amelia Place he suffered two slight
+apoplectic attacks; but he, nevertheless, "occasionally indulged in
+society, and was to his last sparkle the most interesting, singular, and
+delightful of all table companions."  The forenoon he generally passed in
+a solitary ramble through the neighbouring fields and gardens (which have
+now disappeared), and in the evening he enjoyed the conversation of a few
+friends; but, though the brilliancy of his wit shone to the last, he
+seemed like one who had outlived everything in life that was worth
+enjoying.  This is exemplified in Curran's melancholy repartee to his
+medical attendant a few days before his decease.  The doctor remarked
+that his patient's cough was not improved.  "That is odd," remarked
+Curran, "for I have been practising all night!"
+
+On Thursday, the 9th of October, Curran dined abroad for the last time
+with Mr. Richard ("Gentleman") Jones, {78} of No. 14 Chapel Street,
+Grosvenor Place, for the purpose of being introduced to George Colman
+"the Younger."  The party, besides the host and hostess, consisted of Mr.
+Harris and Sir William Chatterton.  Colman that evening was unusually
+brilliant, anticipating, by apt quotation and pointed remark, almost
+everything that Curran would have said.  One comment of Curran's,
+however, made a deep impression on all present.  Speaking of Lord Byron's
+'Fare thee well, and if for ever,' he observed that "his lordship first
+weeps over his wife, and then wipes his eyes with the newspapers."  He
+left the dinner-table early, and, on going upstairs to coffee, either
+affected not to know or did not remember George Colman's celebrity as a
+wit, and inquired of Mrs. Jones who that Mr. Colman was?  Mr. Harris
+joined them at this moment, and apologised for his friend Colman
+engrossing so much of the conversation to himself, adding, that he was
+the spoiled child of society, and that even the Prince Regent listened
+with attention when George Colman talked.  "Ay," said Curran, with a
+melancholy smile, "I now know who Colman is; we must both sleep in the
+same bed."
+
+The next morning Curran was seized with apoplexy, and continued
+speechless, though in possession of his senses, till the early part of
+Tuesday the 14th, when he sunk into lethargy, and towards evening died
+without a struggle; so tranquil, indeed, were the last moments of Curran,
+that those in the room were unable to mark the precise time when his
+bright spirit passed away from this earth.  His age has been variously
+stated at sixty-seven, sixty-eight, and seventy.
+
+The first lodging which John Banim, the Irish novelist, temporarily
+occupied in England (April, 1822) was in the house where his illustrious
+countryman had breathed his last, and from whence Banim removed to 13,
+Brompton Grove, as already noticed.  Banim's first wish, when he found
+himself in England, was to visit the scene of Curran's death; led to the
+spot by a strong feeling of patriotic admiration, and finding, by a bill
+in the window, that lodgings were to be let there, he immediately took
+them, "that he might dream of his country," as he energetically told the
+writer, "with the halo of Curran's memory around him."
+
+[Picture: Dropped Capitals for In] PELHAM CRESCENT, which consists of
+twenty-seven houses, and is divided in the centre, between Nos. 14 and
+15, by Pelham Place, both Crescent and Place built upon part of the
+nursery-grounds over which Curran had wandered, dwell at No. 10 Mr. and
+Mrs. Keeley.  At No. 20 resides Mr. John Cooper the well-known veteran
+actor.  M. Guizot, the celebrated French statesman, after the overthrow
+of the government of Louis Philippe, resided for some time at No. 21,
+where Madame Guizot, his mother, died in March, 1848, at the advanced age
+of eighty-three; and the same house was, by a singular coincidence,
+afterwards occupied by Ledru Rollin.  Pelham Place, at the back of the
+Crescent, is notable for having, at No. 2, Mr. Lazarus, the celebrated
+clarionet player, and at No. 8 resides Mr. A. Harris, the present lessee
+of the Princess's Theatre.
+
+Nearly opposite to Pelham Crescent is POND PLACE, where Mr. Curtis, the
+eminent botanist, of whom more hereafter, died on the 7th July, 1799; and
+a little further on, on the same side of the way, appears Chelsea New
+Church, dedicated to St. Luke.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+[Picture: Dropped Capital T] he first stone of this church was laid on
+the 12th October, 1820, and the New Church was consecrated on the 18th
+October, 1824.  The architect was Mr. Savage of Walbrook. {80}  The
+burial-ground in which it stands had been consecrated on the 21st
+November, 1812; and an Act of Parliament, 59 George III., cap. 35, 1819,
+authorised the appropriation of part of that ground for the site of
+building a church.  In the burial-ground repose the remains of Dr. John
+M'Leod, the companion and friend of the gallant Sir Murray Maxwell, and
+the author of 'A Narrative of a Voyage in H.M.S. Alceste to the Yellow
+Sea, and of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar,' published in 1817.
+On his return to England, the services of Dr. M'Leod were rewarded by his
+appointment to the Royal Sovereign yacht, which he did not long enjoy, as
+he died in lodgings in the King's Road, Chelsea, on the 9th November,
+1820, at the age of thirty-eight.
+
+Signor Carlo Rovedino, a bass singer of some reputation, also lies buried
+in this churchyard.  He was a native of Milan, and died on the 6th of
+October, 1822, aged seventy-one.  The remains of Blanchard and Egerton,
+two actors of established character, repose here side by side.  William
+Blanchard was what is termed "a useful comedian;" whatever part was
+assigned to him, he made the most of it.  At the age of seventeen, he
+joined a provincial theatrical company at York, his native city, and in
+1800, after fourteen years of laborious country practice, appeared at
+Covent Garden as Bob Acres in 'The Rivals,' and Crack in 'The Turnpike
+Gate.'  At the time of his death, 9th May, 1835, he resided at No. 1,
+Camera Square, Chelsea.  Blanchard had dined with a friend at
+Hammersmith, and left him to return home about six in the evening of
+Tuesday.  On the following morning, at three o'clock, poor Blanchard was
+found lying in a ditch by the roadside, having been, as is supposed,
+seized by a fit; in the course of the evening he was visited by another
+attack, which was succeeded by one more violent on the Thursday, and on
+the following day he expired.
+
+Daniel Egerton--"oh! kingly Egerton"--personified for many years on the
+stage of Covent Garden all the royal personages about whom there was
+great state and talk, but who had little to say for themselves.  He was
+respected as being, and without doubt was, an industrious and an honest
+man.  Having saved some hardly-earned money, Egerton entered into a
+theatrical speculation with a brother actor, Mr. Abbott, and became
+manager of one of the minor houses, by which he was ruined, and died in
+1835, under the pressure of his misfortunes.  His widow, whose
+representations of the wild women of Scott's novels, Madge Wildfire and
+Meg Merrilies, have distinguished her, died on the 10th August, 1847, at
+Brompton, aged sixty-six, having supported herself nobly amidst the
+troubles of her latter days.  Mrs. Egerton was the daughter of the Rev.
+Peter Fisher, rector of Torrington, in Devonshire.  She appeared at the
+Bath theatre soon after the death of her father in 1803, and in 1811 made
+her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre as Juliet.
+
+On the right-hand side, a little off the main road, is Onslow Square,
+which was built upon the site of the extensive house and grounds once
+occupied as a lunatic asylum.  The row of large trees now in the centre
+of the square was formerly the avenue from the main road to this house.
+Mr. Henry Cole, C.B. lives at No. 17, Onslow Square; he is well known to
+the public as a member of the Executive Committee of the Crystal Palace,
+a promoter of art manufactures, and the author of numerous works
+published under the _nom de plume_ of "Felix Summerly."  No. 31 is the
+residence of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Martin (better known as Miss Helen
+Faucit).  At No. 34 resides Baron Marochetti, the celebrated sculptor,
+who settled in England after the French revolution of February, 1848, and
+has obtained high patronage here.  At the back of the house is the
+studio, with an entrance from the main road, where the avenue of trees
+continues.  W. M. Thackeray, the popular writer, lives at No. 36, and
+Rear-Admiral Fitzroy, the distinguished geographer and navigator, is at
+No. 38.
+
+A few yards beyond Sydney Place (leading into Onslow Square), on the
+opposite side of the road, is Sydney Street, leading direct to St. Luke's
+Church, the late incumbent of which, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, who died
+on 29th February, 1860, aged 78, was the father of the well-known popular
+writer, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, of Eversley Rectory, Hants.  Sydney
+Street was originally called Upper Robert Street, as being the
+continuation of Robert Street, Chelsea; but, under some notion of raising
+its respectability, the inhabitants agreed to change the name.  It
+happened, however, that the corner house adjoining the Fulham Road, on
+the western side, was occupied by a surgeon, who imagined that the change
+in name might be injurious to his practice, and he took advantage of his
+position to retain the old name on his house.  Thus for some time the
+street was known by both names, but that of Upper Robert Street is now
+entirely abandoned.  The opposite corner house, No. 2, Sydney Street, was
+for some years occupied by the Rev. Dr. Biber, author of the 'Life of
+Pestalozzi,' and editor and proprietor of the 'John Bull' newspaper.  On
+his selling the 'John Bull,' it became incorporated with the 'Britannia.'
+
+No. 24 was for some time the residence of Mr. Thomas Wright, the
+well-known antiquary and historical writer, who now lives at No. 14.
+
+ROBERT STREET, which connects the main Fulham Road with the King's Road,
+passes directly before the west side of the spacious burial-ground, and
+immediately opposite to the tower of St. Luke's Church; at No. 17
+formerly resided Mr. Henry Warren, the President of the New Society of
+Water-Colour Painters.
+
+Returning to the main Fulham Road, and passing the Cancer Hospital, now
+in course of erection, we come to YORK PLACE, a row of twenty-two
+well-built and respectable houses on the south, or, according to our
+course, left-hand side of the road.
+
+No. 15, York Place, was, between the years 1813 and 1821, the retirement
+of Francis Hargrave, a laborious literary barrister, and the editor of 'A
+Collection of State Trials,' {84} and many other esteemed legal works.
+Here he died on the 16th of August, 1821, at the age of eighty-one.
+
+In 1813, when obliged to abandon his arduous profession, in consequence
+of over-mental excitement, the sum of 8,000 pounds was voted by
+Parliament, upon the motion of Mr. Whitbread, for the purchase of Mr.
+Hargrave's law books, which were enriched with valuable notes, and for
+300 MSS., to be deposited in the library of Lincoln's Inn, for public
+use.  As documents of national historical importance may be
+particularised, Mr. Hargrave's first publication, in 1772, entitled '_The
+Case of James Somerset_, _a Negro_, _lately determined by the Court of
+King's Bench_, _wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present
+unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in England_;' his '_Three Arguments in
+the two causes in Chancery on the last Will of Peter Thellusson_, _Esq._,
+_with Mr. Morgan's __Calculation of the Accumulation under the Trusts of
+the Will_, _1799_;' and his '_Opinion in the Case of the Duke of Athol in
+respect to the Isle of Man_.'
+
+Opposite to York Place was a fine, open, airy piece of ground to which
+Mr. Curtis, the eminent naturalist, removed his botanical garden from
+Lambeth Marsh, as a more desirable locality.  Upon the south-east portion
+of this nursery-ground the first stone was laid by H.R.H. Prince Albert,
+on the 11th July, 1844, of an hospital for consumption and diseases of
+the chest, and which was speedily surrounded by houses on all sides;
+probably a circumstance not contemplated at the time the ground was
+secured.
+
+The botanical garden of Mr. Curtis, as a public resort for study, was
+continued at Brompton until 1808, when the lease of the land being nearly
+expired, Mr. Salisbury, who in 1792 became his pupil, and in 1798 his
+partner in this horticultural speculation, removed the establishment to
+the vacant space of ground now inclosed between Sloane Street and Cadogan
+Place, where Mr. Salisbury's undertaking failed.  A plan of the gardens
+there, as arranged by him, was published in the 'Gentleman's Magazine'
+for August, 1810. {85}
+
+Mr. Curtis, whose death has been already mentioned, was the son of a
+tanner, and was born at Alton, in Hampshire, in 1746.  He was bound
+apprentice to his grandfather, a quaker apothecary of that town, whose
+house was contiguous to the Crown Inn, where the botanical knowledge of
+John Lagg, the hostler, seems to have excited rivalry in the breast of
+young Curtis.  In the course of events he became assistant to Mr. Thomas
+Talwin, an apothecary in Gracechurch Street, of the same religious
+persuasion as his grandfather, and succeeded Mr. Talwin in his business.
+Mr. Curtis's love of botanical science, however, increased with his
+knowledge.  He connected with it the study of entomology, by printing, in
+1771, 'Instructions for Collecting and Preserving Insects,' and in the
+following year a translation of the 'Fundamenta Entomologiae' of
+Linnaeus.  At this time he rented a very small garden for the cultivation
+of British plants, "near the Grange Road, at the bottom of Bermondsey
+Street," and here it was that he conceived the design of publishing his
+great work, 'The Flora Londinensis.'
+
+    "The Grange Road Garden was soon found too small for his extensive
+    ideas.  He, therefore, took a larger piece of ground in Lambeth
+    Marsh, where he soon assembled the largest collection of British
+    plants ever brought together into one place.  But there was something
+    uncongenial in the air of this place, which made it extremely
+    difficult to preserve sea plants and many of the rare annuals which
+    are adapted to an elevated situation,--_an evil rendered worse every
+    year by the increased number of buildings around_.  This led his
+    active mind, ever anxious for improvement, to inquire for a more
+    favourable soil and purer air.  This, at length, he found at
+    Brompton.  Here he procured a spacious territory, in which he had the
+    pleasure of seeing his wishes gratified to the utmost extent of
+    reasonable expectation.  Here he continued to his death;"
+
+having, I may add, for many years previously, devoted himself entirely to
+botanical pursuits.
+
+To support the slow sale of 'The Flora Londinensis,' Mr. Curtis, about
+1787, started 'The Botanical Magazine,' which became one of the popular
+periodicals of the day, and Dr. Smith's and Mr. Sowerby's 'English
+Botany' was modelled after it.
+
+What Mr. Curtis, as an individual, commenced, the Horticultural Society
+are endeavouring, as a body, to effect.
+
+Immediately past the Hospital for Consumption is Fowlis Terrace, a row of
+newly-built houses, running from the road.
+
+At the corner of Church Street (on the opposite side of the road) is an
+enclosure used as the burial-ground of the Westminster Congregation of
+the Jews.  There is an inscription in Hebrew characters over the
+entrance, above which is an English inscription with the date of the
+erection of the building according to the Jewish computation A.M. 5576,
+or 1816 A.D.  Beside it is the milestone denoting that it is 1.5 mile
+from London.
+
+The QUEEN'S ELM TURNPIKE, pulled down in 1848, was situated here, and
+took its name from the tradition that Queen Elizabeth, when walking out,
+attended by Lord Burleigh, {87a} being overtaken by a heavy shower of
+rain, found shelter here under an elm-tree.  After the rain was over, the
+queen said, "Let this henceforward be called The Queen's Tree."  The
+tradition is strongly supported by the parish records of Chelsea, as
+mention is made in 1586 (the 28th of Elizabeth, and probably the year of
+the occurrence), of a tree situated about this spot, "at the end of the
+Duke's Walk," {87b} as "The Queen's Tree," around which an arbour was
+built, or, in other words, nine young elm-trees were planted, by one
+Bostocke, at the charge of the parish.  The first mention of "The Queen's
+_Elm_," occurs in 1687, ninety-nine years after her Majesty had sheltered
+beneath the tree around which "an arbour was built," when the surveyors
+of the highway were amerced in the sum of five pounds, "for not
+sufficiently mending the highway from the Queen Elm to the bridge, and
+from the Elm to Church Lane."  In a plan of Chelsea, from a survey made
+in 1664 by James Hamilton, and continued to 1717, a tree occupying the
+spot assigned to "The Queen's Elm," is called "The Cross Tree," and in
+the vestry minutes it is designated as "The High Elm," which latter name
+is used by Sir Hans Sloane in 1727.  Bostocke's arbour, however, had the
+effect of giving to the cross-road the name of "The Nine Elms."  Steele,
+on the 22nd June, 1711, writing to his wife, says, "Pray, on the receipt
+of this, go to the Nine Elms, and I will follow you within an hour." {88}
+And so late as 1805, "The Nine Elms, Chelsea," appeared as a local
+address in newspaper advertisements.
+
+Again let me crave indulgence for minute attention to the changes of
+name; but much topographical difficulty often arises from this cause.
+
+The stump of the royal tree, with, as is asserted, its root remaining in
+the ground undisturbed, a few years ago existed squared down to the
+dimensions of an ordinary post, about six feet in height and whitewashed.
+But the identity appears questionable, although a post, not improbably
+fashioned out of one of the nine elms which grew around it, stood till
+within the last few years in front of a public-house named from the
+circumstance the Queen's Elm, which house has been a little altered since
+the annexed sketch was made, by the introduction of a clock between the
+second floor windows, and the house adjoining has been rebuilt,
+overtopping it.
+
+[Picture: Queen's Elm Public House]
+
+On the opposite or north side of the Fulham Road, some small houses are
+called SELWOOD PLACE, from being built on part of the ground of "Mr.
+Selwood's nursery," which is mentioned in 1712 by Mr. Narcissus Luttrell,
+of whom more hereafter, as one of the sources from which he derived a
+variety of pear, cultivated by him in his garden at Little Chelsea.
+
+CHELSEA PARK, on the same side of the way with the Queen's Elm
+public-house, and distant about a furlong from it, as seen from the road,
+appears a noble structure with a magnificent portico.  [Picture: Chelsea
+Park Portico] The ground now called Chelsea Park belonged, with an
+extensive tract of which it formed the northern part, to the famous Sir
+Thomas More, and in his time was unenclosed, and termed "the Sand Hills."
+It received the present name in 1625, when the Lord-Treasurer Cranfield
+(Earl of Middlesex) surrounded with a brick wall about thirty-two acres,
+which he had purchased in 1620 from Mr. Blake.  In 1717 Chelsea Park,
+which extended from the Fulham to the King's Road, was estimated at forty
+acres, and belonged to the Marquis of Wharton, with whom, when appointed
+in 1709 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Addison went over as Secretary.  It
+subsequently became the scene of a joint-stock company speculation under
+a patent granted in 1718 to John Appletree, Esq., for producing raw silk
+of the growth of England, and for raising a fund for carrying on the
+same.  This undertaking was divided into shares of 5 pounds each, of
+which 1 pounds was paid down.  Proposals were published, a
+subscription-book opened, in which several hundred names were soon
+entered; a deed of trust executed and enrolled in Chancery; directors
+were chosen by the subscribers for managing the affairs of the Company;
+and, Chelsea Park being thought a proper soil for the purpose and in a
+convenient situation, a lease was taken of it for 122 years.  Here
+upwards of 2000 mulberry-trees were soon planted, and extensive edifices
+erected for carrying on the work: this number of trees was, however, but
+a small part of what the company intended to plant if they were
+successful.  In the following year Mr. Henry Barham, F.R.S., who was
+probably a member of the company, published 'An Essay on the Silk Worm,'
+in which he thinks "all objections and difficulties against this glorious
+undertaking are shown to be mere phantoms and trifles."  The event,
+however, proved that the company met with difficulties of a real and
+formidable nature; for though the expectation of this gentleman, who
+questioned not that in the ensuing year they should produce a
+considerable quantity of raw silk, may have been partly answered, the
+undertaking soon began to decline, and, in the course of a few years,
+came to nothing.  It must, however, be admitted that the violent
+stock-jobbing speculations of the year 1720, which involved the shares of
+all projects of this nature, might have produced many changes among the
+proprietors, and contributed to derange the original design.  However,
+from that period to the present time, no effort has been made to
+cultivate the silkworm in this country as a mercantile speculation,
+although individuals have continued to rear it with success as an object
+of curiosity.
+
+Walpole, in his 'Catalogue of Engravers,' tells us that James Christopher
+Le Blon, a Fleming by birth, and a mezzotint-engraver by profession, some
+time subsequent to 1732, "set up a project for copying the cartoons in
+tapestry, and made some very fine drawings for that purpose.  Houses were
+built and looms erected in the Mulberry Ground at Chelsea; but either the
+expense was precipitated too fast, or contributions did not arrive fast
+enough.  The bubble burst, several suffered, and Le Blon was heard of no
+more."  Walpole adds, "It is said he died in an hospital at Paris in
+1740:" and observes that Le Blon was "very far from young when he knew
+him, but of surprising vivacity and volubility, and with a head admirably
+mechanic, but an universal projector, and with at least one of the
+qualities that attend that vocation, either a dupe or a cheat; I think,"
+he continues, "the former, though, as most of his projects ended in air,
+the sufferers believed the latter.  As he was much an enthusiast, perhaps
+like most enthusiasts he was both one and t' other."
+
+The present mansion was built upon a portion of Chelsea Park by Mr.
+William Broomfield, an eminent surgeon, who resided in it for several
+years.  The late possessor was Sir Henry Wright Wilson, Bart., to whose
+wife, Lady Frances Wilson (daughter of the Earl of Aylesbury), was left a
+valuable estate in Hampshire, {92} said to be worth about 3,000 pounds a
+year, under the following very singular circumstances.  Her ladyship was
+informed one morning in February, 1814, while at breakfast, that an
+eccentric person named Wright, who had died a few days previously at an
+obscure lodging in Pimlico, had appointed her and Mr. Charles Abbott his
+executors, and after some legacies had bequeathed to Lady Frances the
+residue of his property by a will dated so far back as August, 1800.  As
+Lady Frances declared herself to be unacquainted even with the name of
+the testator, she at first concluded that there was some mistake in the
+matter.  After further explanation, the person of Mr. Wright was
+described to her, and Lady Frances at last recollected that the
+description answered that of a gentleman she had remembered as a constant
+frequenter of the Opera some years previously and considered to be a
+foreigner, and who had annoyed her extremely there by constantly staring
+at her box.  To satisfy herself of the identity, she went to the lodgings
+of the late Mr. Wright, and saw him in his coffin, when she recognized
+the features perfectly as those of the person whose eyes had so often
+persecuted her when she was Lady Frances Bruce, but who had never spoken
+to her, and of whom she had no other knowledge whatever.
+
+Mr. Wright left legacies of 4,000 pounds to the Countess of Rosslyn,
+4,000 pounds to the Speaker of the House of Commons, 1,000 pounds to the
+lord-chancellor, and the same sum to Archdeacon Pott, the rector of St.
+Martin-in-the-Fields, which church Mr. Wright had been in the habit of
+frequenting, having as little acquaintance with any of these parties as
+he had with Lady Frances Wilson.  It may be supposed from these facts
+that Lady Frances Wilson was exceedingly beautiful, and that an
+admiration of her charms might have influenced Mr. Wright to make this
+extraordinary bequest in her favour; but those who knew Lady Frances well
+assert that such could not possibly have been the case, as she was far
+from beautiful at any period of her life; and the oddity of the story is,
+and it seemed to be the general opinion, that Mr. Wright's legacy was
+intended for a lady who usually occupied a box next to that in which Lady
+Frances sat, and who, at the period, was regarded as the _belle_ of the
+Opera.
+
+THISTLE GROVE, on the opposite side of the road from Chelsea Park, leads,
+by what had been a garden pathway, to the Old Brompton Road.  At each
+side of "the Grove," now occupying the sites of trees, are detached
+villas, houses, lodges, and cottages, named, or not named, after the
+taste of their respective proprietors; one of which, on the left hand,
+some fourteen houses distant from the main Fulham Road, was for many
+years the residence of Mr. John Burke, whose laborious heraldic and
+genealogical inquiries induced him to arrange and publish various
+important collections relative to the peerage and family history of the
+United Kingdom, in which may be found, condensed for immediate reference,
+an immense mass of important information.
+
+In Thistle Grove Mr. J. P. Warde, the well-known actor, died in 1840.
+
+Immediately beyond Chelsea Park the village of LITTLE CHELSEA commences,
+about the centre of which, and on the same side of the way, at the corner
+of the road leading to Battersea Bridge, stands the Goat in Boots
+public-house.  [Picture: Goat in Boots] In 1663, there was a "house
+called the Goat at Little Chelsea," which, between that year and 1713,
+enjoyed the right of commonage for two cows and one heifer upon Chelsea
+Heath.
+
+How the Goat became equipped in boots, and the designation of the house
+changed, has been the subject of various conjectures; the most probable
+of which is, that it originates in a corruption of the latter part of the
+Dutch legend,--
+
+    "MERCURIUS IS DER GODEN BOODE,"
+    (Mercury is the messenger of the gods,)
+
+which being divided between each side of a sign bearing the figure of
+Mercury--a sign commonly used in the early part of the last century to
+denote that post-horses were to be obtained--"der goden boode" became
+freely translated into English, "the goat in boots."  To Le Blon is
+attributed the execution of this sign and its motto; but, whoever the
+original artist may have been, and the intermediate retouchers or
+repainters of the god, certain it is that the pencil of Morland, in
+accordance with the desire of the landlord, either transformed the
+petasus of Mercury into the horned head of a goat, his talaria into spurs
+upon boots of huge dimensions, and his caduceus into a cutlass, or thus
+decorated the original sign, thereby liquidating a score which he had run
+up here, without any other means of payment than what his pencil
+afforded.  The sign, however, has been painted over, with considerable
+additional embellishments from gold leaf, so that not the least trace of
+Morland's work remains, except, perhaps, in the outline.
+
+Park Walk (the road turning off at the Goat in Boots) proceeds to the
+King's Road, and, although not in a direct line, to Battersea Bridge.
+Opposite the Goat in Boots is Gilston Road, leading to Boltons and St.
+Mary's Place.  At No. 6, St. Mary's Place, resides J. O. Halliwell,
+F.R.S., F.S.A., the well-known Shaksperian scholar, whose varied
+contributions to literature have been crowned by the production of his
+folio edition of Shakspere--a work still in progress.  At No. 8, Mr.
+Edward Wright, the popular actor, resided for a short time.
+
+A few paces further on the main Fulham Road, at the north or opposite
+side, stood "Manor House," now termed Manor Hall, and occupied by St.
+Philip's Orphanage, a large, old-fashioned building, with the intervening
+space between it and the road screened in by boards,--which were attached
+to the antique iron gate and railings about twenty years ago, when it
+became appropriated to a charitable asylum.  Previously, Manor House had
+been a ladies' boarding-school; and here Miss Bartolozzi, afterwards
+Madame Vestris, was educated.
+
+SEYMOUR PLACE, which leads to Seymour Terrace, is a cul-de-sac on the
+same side of the main Fulham Road, between Manor Hall and the Somerset
+Arms public-house, which last forms the west corner of Seymour Place.
+
+At No. 1, Seymour Terrace expired, on the 19th of June, 1824, in her
+twenty-fifth year, Madame Riego, the widow of the unfortunate patriot
+General Riego, "the restorer and martyr of Spanish freedom."  Her short
+and eventful history possesses more than ordinary melancholy.  While yet
+a child she had to endure all the hardships and privations consequent
+upon a state of warfare, and under the protection of her maternal
+grandfather, had to seek refuge from place to place on the mountains of
+Asturias from the French army.  At the close of 1821 she was married to
+General Riego, to whom she had been known and attached almost from
+infancy, and, in the spring of the following year, became, with her
+distinguished husband, a resident in Madrid.  But the political confusion
+and continued alarm of the period having appeared to affect her health,
+the general proceeded with her in the autumn to Granada, where he parted
+from his young and beloved wife, never again to meet her in this world,
+the convocation of the extraordinary Cortes for October 1822 obliging him
+to return to the capital.
+
+Accompanied by the canon Riego, brother to her husband, and her attached
+sister, Donna Lucie, she removed in March to Malaga, from whence the
+advance of the French army into the south of Spain obliged them to seek
+protection at Gibraltar, which, under the advice of General Riego, they
+left for England on the 4th of July, but, owing to an unfavourable
+passage, did not reach London until the 17th of August.  Here the
+visitation which impended over her was still more calamitous than all
+that had preceded it.  Within little more than two months after her
+arrival in London, the account arrived of General Riego's execution. {97}
+
+Gerald Griffin, the Irish novelist, in a letter dated 22nd of November,
+1823, says,--
+
+    "I have been lately negotiating with my host (of 76 Regent Street)
+    for lodgings for the widow and brother of poor General Riego.  They
+    are splendid apartments, but the affair has been broken off by the
+    account of his death.  It has been concealed from her.  She is a
+    young woman, and is following him fast, being far advanced in a
+    consumption.  His brother is in deep grief.  He says he will go and
+    bury himself for the remainder of his days in the woods of America."
+
+The house,
+
+                          No. 1, SEYMOUR PLACE,
+
+[Picture: No. 1 Seymour Place] as it was then, Seymour Terrace, Little
+Chelsea, as it is now called, became, about this period, the residence of
+the unhappy fugitives.  Griffin, who appears to have made their
+acquaintance through a Spanish gentleman, named Valentine Llanos, writes,
+in February, 1824,--
+
+    "I was introduced the other day to poor Madame Riego, the relict of
+    the unfortunate general.  I was surprised to see her look much better
+    than I was prepared to expect, as she is in a confirmed consumption."
+
+Mental grief, which death only could terminate, had at that moment
+"marked" Madame Riego "for his own;" yet her look, like that of all
+high-minded Spaniards, to a stranger was calm--"much better than he was
+prepared to expect."
+
+On the 18th of May, exactly one month and a day before the termination of
+her sufferings, Griffin says,--
+
+    "The canon Riego, brother to the poor martyr, sent me, the other day,
+    a Spanish poem of many cantos, having for its subject the career of
+    the unhappy general, and expressed a wish that I might find material
+    for an English one in it, if I felt disposed to make anything of the
+    subject.  _Apropos_, Madame Riego is almost dead.  The fire is in her
+    eye, and the flush on her cheek, which are, I believe, no beacons of
+    hope to the consumptive.  She is an interesting woman, and I pity her
+    from my soul.  This Mr. Mathews, who was confined with her husband,
+    and arrived lately in London, and who, moreover, is a countryman of
+    mine, brought her from her dying husband a little favourite dog and a
+    parrot, which were his companions in his dungeon.  He very
+    indiscreetly came before her with the remembrances without any
+    preparation, and she received a shock from it, from which she has not
+    yet, nor ever will recover.  What affecting little circumstances
+    these are, and how interesting to one who has the least mingling of
+    enthusiasm in his character!"
+
+Madame Riego died in the arms of her attached sister, attended by the
+estimable canon.  In her will she directed her executor, the canon, to
+assure the British people of the gratitude she felt towards them for the
+sympathy and support which they extended to her in the hours of her
+adversity.  But what makes the will peculiarly affecting is her solemn
+attestation to the purity and sincerity of the political life of General
+Riego.  She states that she esteems it to be the last act of justice and
+duty to the memory of her beloved husband, solemnly to declare, in the
+awful presence of her God, before whose judgment-seat she feels she must
+soon appear, that all his private feelings and dispositions respecting
+his country corresponded with his public acts and professions in defence
+of its liberties.
+
+A few yards beyond the turn down to Seymour Place, on the opposite side
+of the road, stood, until pulled down in 1856, to make room for the new
+one, the additional workhouse to St. George's, Hanover Square, for which
+purpose Shaftesbury House was purchased by that parish in 1787; and an
+Act of Parliament passed in that year declares it to be in "St. George's
+parish so long as it shall continue to be appropriated to its present
+use."  [Picture: Shaftesbury House] [Picture: Back of Shaftesbury House]
+The parochial adjuncts to Lord Shaftesbury's mansion, which remained,
+until the period of its demolition, in nearly the same state as when
+disposed of, have been considerable; but the building, as his lordship
+left it, could be at once recognised through the iron gate by which you
+entered, and which was surmounted by a lion rampant, probably the crest
+of one of the subsequent possessors.  It is surprising, indeed, that so
+little alteration, externally as well as internally should have taken
+place.  The appearance of the back of Shaftesbury House, as represented
+in an old print, was unchanged, with the exception of the flight of steps
+which led to the garden being transferred to the west (or shaded side) of
+the wing--an addition made by Lord Shaftesbury to the original house.
+This was purchased by him in 1699 from the Bovey family, as heirs to the
+widow of Sir James Smith, by whom there is reason to believe it was built
+in 1635, as [Picture: Stone] was engraved on a stone which formed part of
+the pavement in front of one of the summer-houses in the garden.
+
+The Right Honourable Sir James Smith was buried at Chelsea 18th of
+November, 1681.  He was probably the junior sheriff of London in 1672.
+
+[Picture: Summer-house]
+
+    "It does not appear," says Lysons, "that Lord Shaftesbury pulled down
+    Sir James Smith's house, but altered it and made considerable
+    additions by a building fifty feet in length, which projected into
+    the garden.  It was secured with an iron door, the window-shutters
+    were of the same metal, and there were iron plates between it and the
+    house to prevent all communication by fire, of which this learned and
+    noble peer seems to have entertained great apprehensions.  The whole
+    of the new building, though divided into a gallery and two small
+    rooms (one of which was his lordship's bedchamber), was fitted up as
+    a library.  The earl was very fond of the culture of fruit-trees, and
+    his gardens were planted with the choicest sorts, particularly every
+    kind of vine which would bear the open air of this climate.  It
+    appears by Lord Shaftesbury's letters to Sir John Cropley that he
+    dreaded the smoke of London as so prejudicial to his health, that
+    whenever the wind was easterly he quitted Little Chelsea," where he
+    generally resided during the sitting of Parliament.
+
+In 1710 the noble author of 'Characteristics,' then about to proceed to
+Italy, sold his residence at Little Chelsea to Narcissus Luttrell, Esq.,
+who, as a book-collector, is described by Dr. Dibdin as "ever ardent in
+his love of past learning, and not less voracious in his bibliomaniacal
+appetites" than the Duke of Marlborough.  Sir Walter Scott acknowledges
+in his preface to the works of Dryden the obligations he is under to the
+"valuable" and "curious collection of fugitive pieces of the reigns of
+Charles II., James II., William III., and Queen Anne," "made by Narcissus
+Luttrell, Esq., under whose name the editor quotes it.  This industrious
+collector," continues Sir Walter, "seems to have bought every poetical
+tract, of whatever merit, which was hawked through the streets in his
+time, marking carefully the price and the date of the purchase.  His
+collection contains the earliest editions of many of our most excellent
+poems, bound up, according to the order of time, with the lowest trash of
+Grub Street.  It was dispersed on Mr. Luttrell's death," adds Sir Walter
+Scott, and he then mentions Mr. James Bindley and Mr. Richard Heber as
+having "obtained a great share of the Luttrell collection, and liberally
+furnished him with the loan of some of them in order to the more perfect
+editing of Dryden's works."
+
+This is not exactly correct, as Mr. Luttrell's library descended with
+Shaftesbury House to Mr. Sergeant Wynne, and from him to his eldest son,
+after whose death it was sold by auction in 1786.  On the title-page of
+the sale-catalogue the collection is described as "the valuable library
+of Edward Wynne, Esq., lately deceased, brought from his house at Little
+Chelsea.  Great part of it was formed by an eminent and curious collector
+in the last century."  At the sale of Mr. Wynne's library, Bindley
+purchased lot '209, Collection of Poems, various, Latin and English, 5
+vols. 1626, &c.,' for seven guineas; and '211, Collection of Political
+Poems, Dialogues, Funeral Elegies, Lampoons, &c., with various Political
+Prints and Portraits, 3 vols. 1641, &c.,' for sixteen pounds; and it is
+probable that these are the collections to which Sir Walter Scott refers.
+
+Dr. Dibdin, in his enthusiastic mode of treating matters of bibliography,
+endeavours to establish a pedigree for those who
+
+    "Love a ballad in print a' life,"
+
+from Pepys, placing Mr. Luttrell the Second in descent.
+
+    "The opening of the eighteenth century," he observes, "was
+    distinguished by the death of a bibliomaniac of the very first order
+    and celebrity; of one who had no doubt frequently discoursed largely
+    and eloquently with Luttrell upon the variety and value of certain
+    editions of old ballad poetry, and between whom presents of curious
+    old black-letter volumes were in all probability passing, I allude to
+    the famous Samuel Pepys, secretary to the Admiralty."
+
+Of Narcissus Luttrell he then says:--
+
+    "Nothing would seem to have escaped his lynx-like vigilance.  Let the
+    object be what it may (especially if it related to poetry), let the
+    volume be great or small, or contain good, bad, or indifferent
+    warblings of the Muse, his insatiable craving had 'stomach for all.'
+    We may consider his collection the fountain-head of these copious
+    streams, which, after fructifying in the libraries of many
+    bibliomaniacs in the first half of the eighteenth century, settled
+    for awhile more determinedly in the curious book-reservoir of a Mr.
+    Wynne, and hence breaking up and taking a different direction towards
+    the collections of Farmer, Steevens, and others, they have almost
+    lost their identity in the innumerable rivulets which now inundate
+    the book-world."
+
+It is to the literary taste of Mr. Edward Wynne, as asserted by Dr.
+Dibdin, that modern book-collectors are indebted for the preservation of
+most of the choicest relics of the Bibliotheca Luttrelliana.
+
+    "Mr. Wynne," he continues, "lived at Little Chelsea, and built his
+    library in a room which had the reputation of having been Locke's
+    study.  Here he used to sit surrounded by innumerable books, a great
+    part being formed by 'an eminent and curious collector in the last
+    century.'"
+
+What Dr. Dibdin says respecting Mr. Wynne's building a library and
+Locke's study is inaccurate, as there can be no reasonable doubt that the
+room or rooms his library occupied were those built by Lord Shaftesbury,
+which had (and correctly) the reputation of having been his lordship's
+library, and the study, not of Locke, although of Locke's pupil and
+friend.  It is not even probable that Lord Shaftesbury was ever visited
+by our great philosopher at Little Chelsea, as from 1700 that illustrious
+man resided altogether at Oates, in Essex, where he died on the 28th of
+October, 1704.
+
+Whether to Lord Shaftesbury or to Mr. Luttrell the embellishments of the
+garden of their residence are to be attributed can now be only matter for
+conjecture, unless some curious autograph-collector's portfolio may by
+chance contain an old letter or other document to establish the claim.
+Their tastes, however, were very similar.  They both loved their books,
+and their fruits and flowers, and enjoyed the study of them.  [Picture:
+Summer-house] An account drawn up by Mr. Luttrell of several pears which
+he cultivated at Little Chelsea, with outlines of their longitudinal
+sections, was communicated to the Horticultural Society by Dr. Luttrell
+Wynne, one hundred years after the notes had been made, and may be found
+printed in the second volume of the Transactions of that Society.  In
+this account twenty-five varieties of pears are mentioned, which had been
+obtained between the years 1712 and 1717 from Mr. Duncan's, Lord
+Cheneys's, Mr. Palmer's, and Mr. Selwood's nursery.
+
+Until recently it was astounding to find, amid the rage for alteration
+and improvement, the formal old-fashioned shape of a trim garden of Queen
+Anne's time carefully preserved, its antique summer-houses respected, and
+the little infant leaden Hercules, which spouted water to cool the air
+from a serpent's throat, still asserting its aquatic supremacy, under the
+shade of a fine old medlar-tree; and all this too in the garden of a
+London parish workhouse!  [Picture: Hercules fountain] Not less
+surprising was the aspect of the interior.  The grotesque workshop of the
+pauper artisans, said to have been [Picture: Workshop] Lord Shaftesbury's
+dairy, and over which was his fire-proof library, was then an apartment
+appropriated to a girls' school.
+
+On the basement story of the original house the embellished mouldings of
+a doorway, carried the mind back to [Picture: Doorway] the days of
+Charles I., and, standing within which, imagination depicted the figure
+of a jolly Cavalier retainer, with his pipe and tankard; or of a
+Puritanical, formal servant, the expression of whose countenance was
+sufficient to turn the best-brewed October into vinegar.  The old carved
+door leading into this apartment is shown in the annexed sketch.
+
+Nor should the apartment then occupied by the intelligent master of the
+workhouse be overlooked.  The panelling of the room, its chimney-piece,
+and the painting and [Picture: Fireplace with painting above] framework
+above it, placed us completely in a chamber of the time of William III.
+And we only required a slight alteration in the furniture, and Lord
+Shaftesbury to enter, to feel that we were in the presence of the author
+of 'Characteristics.'
+
+The staircase, too, with its spiral balusters, as seen through the
+doorway, retained its ancient air.
+
+                [Picture: Staircase seen through doorway]
+
+Narcissus Luttrell died here on the 26th of June, 1732, and was buried at
+Chelsea on the 6th of July following; where Francis Luttrell (presumed to
+be his son) was also buried on the 3rd of September, 1740.  Shaftesbury
+House then passed into the occupation of Mr. Sergeant Wynne, who died on
+the 17th of May, 1765; and from him it descended to his eldest son, Mr.
+Edward Wynne, the author of 'Eunomus: a Dialogue concerning the Law and
+Constitution of England, with an Essay on Dialogue,' 4 vols. 8vo; and
+other works, chiefly of a legal nature.  He died a bachelor, at Little
+Chelsea, on the 27th of December, 1784; and his brother, the Rev.
+Luttrell Wynne, of All Souls, Oxford, inherited Shaftesbury House, and
+the valuable library which Mr. Luttrell, his father, and brother, had
+accumulated.  The house he alienated to William Virtue, from whom, as
+before mentioned, it was purchased by the parish of St. George's, Hanover
+Square, in 1787; and the library formed a twelve-days' sale, by Messrs.
+Leigh and Sotheby, commencing on the 6th of March, 1786.  The
+auction-catalogue contained 2788 lots; and some idea of the value may be
+formed from the circumstance, that nine of the first seventeen lots sold
+for no less a sum than 32 pounds 7s., and that four lots of old
+newspapers, Nos. 25, 26, 27, and 28, were knocked down at 18 pounds 5s.
+No. '376, a collection of old plays, by Gascoigne, White, Windet, Decker,
+&c., 21 vols,' brought 38 pounds 17s.; and No. 644, Milton's
+'Eiconoclastes,' with MS. notes, supposed to be written by Milton, was
+bought by Waldron for 2s., who afterwards gave it to Dr. Farmer.  Dr.
+Dibdin declares, that "never was a precious collection of English history
+and poetry so wretchedly detailed to the public in an auction-catalogue"
+as that of Mr. Wynne's library; and yet it will be seen that it must have
+realised a considerable sum of money.  He mentions, that "a great number
+of the poetical tracts were disposed of, previous to the sale, to Dr.
+Farmer, who gave not more than forty guineas for them."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+FROM LITTLE CHELSEA TO WALHAM GREEN.
+
+After what has been said respecting Shaftesbury House, it may be supposed
+that its associations with the memory of remarkable individuals are
+exhausted.  This is very far from being the case; and a long period in
+its history, from 1635 to 1699, remains to be filled up, which, however,
+must be done by conjecture: although so many circumstances are upon
+record, that it is not impossible others can be produced to complete a
+chain of evidence that may establish among those who have been inmates of
+the ADDITIONAL WORKHOUSE OF ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER SQUARE--startling as
+the assertion may appear--two of the most illustrious individuals in the
+annals of this country; of one of whom Bishop Burnet observed, {110} that
+his "loss is lamented by all learned men;" the other, a man whose "great
+and distinguishing knowledge was the knowledge of human nature or the
+powers and operations of the mind, in which he went further, and spoke
+clearer, than all other writers who preceded him, and whose 'Essay on the
+Human Understanding' is the best book of logic in the world."  After
+this, I need scarcely add that BOYLE and LOCKE are the illustrious
+individuals referred to.
+
+The amiable John Evelyn, in his 'Diary,' mentions his visiting Mr. Boyle
+at Chelsea, on the 9th March, 1661, in company "with that excellent
+person and philosopher, Sir Robert Murray," where they "saw divers
+effects of the eolipile for weighing air."  And in the same year M. de
+Monconys, a French traveller in England, says, "L'apres dine je fus avec
+M. Oldenburg, {111} et mon fils, a deux milles de Londres en carosse pour
+cinq chelins a un village nomme _le petit Chelsey_, voir M. Boyle."  Now
+at this period there probably was no other house at Little Chelsea of
+sufficient importance to be the residence of the Hon. Robert Boyle, where
+he could receive strangers in his laboratory and show them his great
+telescope; and, moreover, notwithstanding what has been said to prove the
+impossibility of Locke having visited Lord Shaftesbury on this spot,
+local tradition continues to assert that Locke's work on the 'Human
+Understanding' was commenced in the retirement of one of the
+summer-houses of Lord Shaftesbury's residence.  This certainly may have
+been the case if we regard Locke as a visitor to his brother philosopher,
+Boyle, and admit his tenancy of the mansion previous to that of Lord
+Shaftesbury, to whom Locke, it is very probable, communicated the
+circumstance, and which might have indirectly led to his lordship's
+purchase of the premises.  Be that as it may, it is an interesting
+association, with something more than mere fancy for its support, to
+contemplate a communion between two of the master-minds of the age, and
+the influence which their conversation possibly had upon that of the
+other.
+
+Boyle's sister, the puritanical Countess of Warwick, under date 27th
+November, 1666, makes the following note: "In the morning, as soon as
+dressed, I prayed, then went with my lord to my house at Chelsea, which
+he had hired, where I was all that day taken up with business about my
+house." {112}  Whether this refers to _Little Chelsea_ or not is more
+than I can affirm, although there are reasons for thinking that
+Shaftesbury House, or, if not, one which will be subsequently pointed
+out, is the house alluded to.
+
+Charles, the fourth Earl of Orrery, and grand-nephew to Boyle the
+philosopher, was born at Dr. Whittaker's house at Little Chelsea on the
+21st July, 1674.  It was his grandfather's marriage with Lady Margaret
+Howard, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk, that induced the witty Sir John
+Suckling to write his well-known 'Ballad upon a Wedding,' in which he so
+lusciously describes the bride:--
+
+    "Her cheeks so rare a white was on,
+    No daisie makes comparison;
+       Who sees them is undone;
+    For streaks of red were mingled there,
+    Such as are on the Cath'rine pear--
+       The side that's next the sun.
+
+    "Her lips were red; and one was thin,
+    Compared to that was next her chin--
+       Some bee had stung it newly;
+    But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face,
+    I durst no more upon her gaze,
+       Than on the sun in July."
+
+The second Earl of Orrery, this lady's son, having married Lady Mary
+Sackville, daughter of the Earl of Dorset, is stated to have led a
+secluded life at Little Chelsea, and to have died in 1682.  His eldest
+son, the third earl, died in 1703, and his brother, mentioned above as
+born at Little Chelsea, became the fourth earl, and distinguished himself
+in the military, scientific, and literary proceedings of his times.  In
+compliment to this Lord Orrery's patronage, Graham, an ingenious
+watchmaker, named after his lordship a piece of mechanism which exhibits
+the movements of the heavenly bodies.  With his brother's death, however,
+in 1703, at Earl's Court, Kensington, the connection of the Boyle family
+with this neighbourhood appears to terminate.
+
+Doctor Baldwin Hamey, an eminent medical practitioner during the time of
+the Commonwealth, and a considerable benefactor to the College of
+Physicians, died at Little Chelsea on the 14th of May, 1676, after an
+honourable retirement from his professional duties of more than ten
+years.
+
+Mr. Faulkner's 'History of Kensington,' published in 1820, and in which
+parish the portion of Little Chelsea on the north side of the Fulham Road
+stands, mentions the residence of Sir Bartholomew Shower, an eminent
+lawyer, in 1693; Sir Edward Ward, lord chief baron of the Exchequer, in
+1697; Edward Fowler, lord bishop of Gloucester, in 1709, who died at his
+house here on the 26th August, 1714; and Sir William Dawes, lord bishop
+of Chester, in 1709, who, I may add, died Archbishop of York in 1724.
+But in Mr. Faulkner's 'History of Chelsea,' published in 1829, nothing
+more is to be found respecting Sir Bartholomew Shower than that he was
+engaged in some parochial law proceedings in 1691.  Sir Edward Ward's
+residence is unnoticed.  The Bishop of Gloucester, who is said to have
+been a devout believer in fairies and witchcraft, is enumerated among the
+inhabitants of Paradise Row, Chelsea (near the hospital, and full a mile
+distant from _le petit Chelsey_); and Sir William Dawes, we find from
+various entries, an inhabitant of the parish between the years 1696 and
+1712, but without "a local habitation" being assigned to him.  All this
+is very unsatisfactory to any one whose appetite craves after map-like
+accuracy in parish affairs.
+
+Bowack, in 1705, mentions that
+
+    "At Little Chelsea stands a regular handsome house, with a noble
+    courtyard and good gardens, built by Mr. Mart, now inhabited by Sir
+    John Cope, Bart., a gentleman of an ancient and honourable family,
+    who formerly was eminent in the service of his country abroad, and
+    for many years of late in Parliament, till he voluntarily retired
+    here to end his days in peace."
+
+And here Sir John Cope died in 1721.  Can he have been the father of the
+
+   "Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking yet,
+   Or are ye sleeping, I would wit?
+   O haste ye, get up, for the drums do beat;
+   O fye, Cope! rise up in the morning!"
+
+--of the Sir John Cope who was forced to retreat from Preston Pans in
+"the '45," and against whom all the shafts of Jacobite ribaldry have been
+levelled?
+
+Faulkner says that this house, which was "subsequently occupied by the
+late Mr. Duffield as a private madhouse, has been pulled down, and its
+site is now called Odell's Place, a little eastward of Lord
+Shaftesbury's;" that is to say, opposite to Manor Hall, and Sir John
+Cope's house was not improbably the residence of two distinguished naval
+officers, Sir James Wishart and Sir John Balchen.  The former was made an
+admiral, and knighted by Queen Anne in 1703, and appointed one of the
+lords of the Admiralty, but was dismissed from the naval service by
+George I. for favouring the interests of the Pretender, and died at
+Little Chelsea on the 30th of May, 1723.  In the 'Daily Courant,' Monday,
+July 15, 1723, the following advertisement appears:--
+
+    "To be sold by auction, the household goods, plate, china ware,
+    linen, &c., of Sir James Wishart, deceased, on Thursday the 18th
+    instant, at his late dwelling-house at Little Chelsea.  The goods to
+    be seen this day, to-morrow, and Wednesday, before the sale, from 9
+    to 12 in the morning, and from 3 to 7 in the evening.  Catalogues to
+    be had at the sale.
+
+    "N.B.  A coach and chariot to be sold, and the house to be let."
+
+Admiral Sir John Balchen resided at Little Chelsea soon after Sir James
+Wishart's death.  In 1744, Admiral Balchen perished in the Victory, of
+120 guns, which had the reputation of being the most beautiful ship in
+the world, but foundered, with eleven hundred souls on board, in the Bay
+of Biscay.
+
+On the 31st of March, 1723, Edward Hyde, the third Earl of Clarendon,
+died "at his house, Little Chelsea;" but where the earl's house stood I
+am unable to state.
+
+Mrs. Robinson, the fascinating "Perdita," tells us, in her autobiography,
+that, at the age of ten (1768), she was "placed for education in a school
+at Chelsea."  And she then commences a most distressing narrative, in
+which the last tragic scene she was witness to occurred at Little
+Chelsea.
+
+    "The mistress of this seminary," Mrs. Robinson describes as "perhaps
+    one of the most extraordinary women that ever graced, or disgraced,
+    society.  Her name was Meribah Lorrington.  She was the most
+    extensively accomplished female that I ever remember to have met
+    with; her mental powers were no less capable of cultivation than
+    superiorly cultivated.  Her father, whose name was Hull, had from her
+    infancy been master of an academy at Earl's Court, near Fulham; and
+    early after his marriage, losing his wife, he resolved on giving this
+    daughter a masculine education.  Meribah was early instructed in all
+    the modern accomplishments, as well as in classical knowledge.  She
+    was mistress of the Latin, French, and Italian languages; she was
+    said to be a perfect arithmetician and astronomer, and possessed the
+    art of painting on silk to a degree of exquisite perfection.  But,
+    alas! with all these advantages, she was addicted to one vice, which
+    at times so completely absorbed her faculties as to deprive her of
+    every power, either mental or corporeal.  Thus, daily and hourly, her
+    superior acquirements, her enlightened understanding, yielded to the
+    intemperance of her ruling infatuation, and every power of reflection
+    seemed absorbed in the unfeminine propensity.
+
+    "All that I ever learned," adds Mrs. Robinson, "I acquired from this
+    extraordinary woman.  In those hours when her senses were not
+    intoxicated, she would delight in the task of instructing me.  She
+    had only five or six pupils, and it was my lot to be her particular
+    favourite.  She always, out of school, called me her little friend,
+    and made no scruple of conversing with me (sometimes half the night,
+    for I slept in her chamber) on domestic and confidential affairs.  I
+    felt for her very sincere affection, and I listened with peculiar
+    attention to all the lessons she inculcated.  Once I recollect her
+    mentioning the particular failing which disgraced so intelligent a
+    being.  She pleaded, in excuse of it, the unmitigable regret of a
+    widowed heart, and with compunction declared that she flew to
+    intoxication as the only refuge from the pang of prevailing sorrow."
+
+Mrs. Robinson remained more than twelve months under the care of Mrs.
+Lorrington,
+
+    "When pecuniary derangements obliged her to give up her school.  Her
+    father's manners were singularly disgusting, as was his appearance,
+    for he wore a silvery beard, which reached to his breast, and a kind
+    of Persian robe, which gave him the external appearance of a
+    necromancer.  He was of the Anabaptist persuasion, and so stern in
+    his conversation, that the young pupils were exposed to perpetual
+    terror; added to these circumstances, the failing of his daughter
+    became so evident, that even during school-hours she was frequently
+    in a state of confirmed intoxication."
+
+In 1772, three years afterwards, when Mrs. Robinson was fourteen, her
+mother, Mrs. Darby, was obliged, as a means of support, to undertake the
+task of tuition.
+
+    "For this purpose, a convenient house was hired at Little Chelsea,
+    and furnished for a ladies' boarding-school.  Assistants of every
+    kind were engaged, and I," says Mrs. Robinson, "was deemed worthy of
+    an occupation that flattered my self-love, and impressed my mind with
+    a sort of domestic consequence.  The English language was my
+    department in the seminary, and I was permitted to select passages
+    both in prose and verse for the studies of my infant pupils; it was
+    also my occupation to superintend their wardrobes, to see them
+    dressed and undressed by the servants, or half-boarders, and to read
+    sacred and moral lessons on saints' days and Sunday evenings.
+
+    "Shortly after my mother had established herself at Chelsea, on a
+    summer's evening, as I was sitting at the window, I heard a deep
+    sigh, or rather groan of anguish, which suddenly attracted my
+    attention.  The night was approaching rapidly, and I looked towards
+    the gate before the house, where I observed a woman, evidently
+    labouring under excessive affliction.  I instantly descended and
+    approached her.  She, bursting into tears, asked whether I did not
+    know her.  Her dress was torn and filthy; she was almost naked, and
+    an old bonnet, which nearly hid her face, so completely disfigured
+    her features, that I had not the smallest idea of the person who was
+    then almost sinking before me.  I gave her a small sum of money, and
+    inquired the cause of her apparent agony.  She took my hand, and
+    pressed it to her lips.  'Sweet girl,' said she, 'you are still the
+    angel I ever knew you!'  I was astonished.  She raised her bonnet;
+    her fine dark eyes met mine.  It was Mrs. Lorrington.  I led her into
+    the house; my mother was not at home.  I took her to my chamber, and,
+    with the assistance of a lady, who was our French teacher, I clothed
+    and comforted her.  She refused to say how she came to be in so
+    deplorable a situation, and took her leave.  It was in vain that I
+    entreated--that I conjured her to let me know where I might send to
+    her.  She refused to give me her address, but promised that in a few
+    days she would call on me again.  It is impossible to describe the
+    wretched appearance of this accomplished woman.  The failing to which
+    she had now yielded, as to a monster that would destroy her, was
+    evident, even at the moment when she was speaking to me.  I saw no
+    more of her; but, to my infinite regret, I was informed, some years
+    after, that she had died, the martyr of a premature decay, brought on
+    by the indulgence of her propensity to intoxication--in the workhouse
+    of Chelsea!"
+
+Mrs. Robinson adds, that--
+
+    "The number of my mother's pupils in a few months amounted to ten or
+    twelve; and, just at a period when an honourable independence
+    promised to cheer the days of an unexampled parent, my father
+    unexpectedly returned from America.  The pride of his soul was deeply
+    wounded by the step which my mother had taken; he was offended even
+    beyond the bounds of reason.
+
+                                  * * * * *
+
+    "At the expiration of eight months, my mother, by my father's
+    positive commands, broke up her establishment, and returned to
+    London."
+
+Nearly opposite to the workhouse is the West Brompton Brewery, formerly
+called "Holly Wood Brewery," and immediately beyond it an irregular row
+of six houses, which stand a little way back from the road, with small
+gardens before them.  The first house is now divided into two, occupied,
+when the sketch was made in 1844, by Miss Read's academy (Tavistock
+House) and Mrs. Corder's Preparatory School; the latter (Bolton House) to
+be distinguished by two ornamented stone-balls on the piers of the
+gateway, was a celebrated military academy, at which many distinguished
+soldiers have been educated.  [Picture: Bolton House gateway] The academy
+was established about the year 1770, by Mr. Lewis Lochee, who died on the
+5th of April, 1787, and who, in 1778, published an 'Essay on
+Castrametation.'  "The premises," says Mr. Faulkner, "which were laid out
+as a regular fortification, and were open to view, excited much attention
+at the time."  When balloons were novelties, and it was supposed might be
+advantageously used in the operations of warfare, they attracted
+considerable notice; and, on the 16th of October, 1784, Mr. Blanchard
+ascended from the grounds of the Military Academy, near Chelsea.  The
+anxiety to witness this exhibition is thus described in a contemporary
+account:--
+
+    "The fields for a considerable way round Little Chelsea were crowded
+    with horse and foot; in consequence of which a general devastation
+    took place in the gardens, the produce being either trampled down or
+    torn up.  The turnip grounds were totally despoiled by the multitude.
+    All the windows and houses round the academy were filled with people
+    of the first fashion.  Every roof within view was covered, and each
+    tree filled with spectators."
+
+Mr. Blanchard, upon this occasion, ascended with some difficulty,
+accompanied by a Mr. Sheldon, a surgeon, whom he landed at Sunbury, from
+whence Blanchard proceeded in his balloon to Romsey, in Hampshire, where
+he came down in safety, after having been between three and four hours in
+the air.
+
+After Mr. Lochee's death, his son, Mr. Lewis Lochee, continued the
+establishment which his father had formed, but, unfortunately for
+himself, engaged in the revolutionary movements which agitated Flanders
+in 1790; where, "being taken prisoner by the Austrians, he was condemned
+to be hanged.  He, however, obtained permission to come to England to
+settle his affairs, upon condition of leaving his only son as a hostage;
+and, upon his return to the Continent, he suffered the punishment of
+death." {120}
+
+"His son, a schoolfellow of mine," adds Mr. Faulkner, "afterwards married
+a daughter of the late Mr. King, an eminent book auctioneer of King
+Street, Covent Garden, and, lamentable to relate, fell by his own hands,"
+8th of December, 1815.
+
+The residence beyond Mr. Lochee's Military Academy is named WARWICK
+HOUSE--why, unless, possibly, the name has some reference to Boyle's
+brother-in-law, the Earl of Warwick, I am at a loss to determine.  The
+next house is Amyot House.  Then comes MULBERRY HOUSE, formerly the
+residence of Mr. Denham, a brother of the lamented African traveller,
+Colonel Denham.  The fifth house is called HECKFIELD LODGE, an arbitrary
+name bestowed by its late occupant, Mr. Milton, the author of two clever
+novels, 'Rivalry,' and 'Lady Cecilia Farrencourt,' recently published,
+and brother to the popular authoress, Mrs. Trollope.  And the sixth and
+last house in the row, on the west side of which is Walnut-tree Walk,
+leading to Earl's Court and Kensington, is distinguished by the name of
+Burleigh House, which, some one humorously observed, {121} might possibly
+be a contraction of "hurley burley," the house being a ladies' school,
+and the unceasing work of education, on the main Fulham Road, appearing
+here for the first time to terminate.  [Picture: Burleigh House (1844)]
+The following entry, however, in the parish register of Kensington,
+respecting the birth of the fourth Earl of Exeter, on the 21st of May,
+1674, may suggest a more probable derivation:--"15 May.  Honble. John
+Cecill, son and heir apparent of the Rt. Honble. John Lord Burleigh and
+the Lady Anne his wife born at Mr. Sheffield's."
+
+William Boscawen, the amiable and accomplished translator of Horace,
+resided at Burleigh House; and here he died, on the 6th of May, 1811, at
+the age of fifty-nine.  He had been called to the bar, but gave up that
+profession in 1786, on being appointed a commissioner for victualling the
+navy.  An excellent classical scholar, and warmly attached to literary
+pursuits, Mr. Boscawen published, in 1793, the first volume of a new
+translation of Horace, containing the 'Odes,' 'Epodes,' and 'Carmen
+Saeculare.'  This, being well received, was followed up by Mr. Boscawen,
+in 1798, by his translation of the 'Satires, Epistles, and Art of
+Poetry,'--completing a work considered to be in many respects superior to
+Francis's translation.  As an early patron and zealous friend of the
+Literary Fund, Mr. Boscawen's memory will be regarded with respect.
+Within five days of his death, he wrote a copy of verses for the
+anniversary meeting, which he contemplated attending:--
+
+   "Relieved from toils, behold the aged steed
+   Contented crop the rich enamell'd mead,
+   Bask in the solar ray, or court the shade,
+   As vernal suns invite, or summer heats invade!
+   But should the horn or clarion from afar
+   Call to the chase, or summon to the war,
+   Roused to new vigour by the well-known sound,
+   He spurns the earth, o'erleaps the opposing mound,
+   Feels youthful ardour in each swelling vein,
+   Darts through the rapid flood, and scours the plain!
+
+   "Thus a lorn Muse, who, worn by cares and woes,
+   Long sought retirement's calm, secure repose,
+   With glad, though feeble, voice resumes her lay,
+   Waked by the call of this auspicious day."
+
+Alas! the hand which on May morning had penned this introduction to an
+appeal in the cause of literary benevolence,--that hand was cold; and the
+lips by which, on the following day, the words that had flowed warmly
+from the heart were to have been uttered,--those lips were mute in death
+within a week.
+
+On the 16th of April, 1765, Mr. James House Knight, of Walham Green,
+returning home from London, was robbed and murdered on the highroad in
+the vicinity of Little Chelsea; the record of his burial in the parish
+register of Kensington is, "Shot in Fulham Road, near Brompton."  For the
+discovery of the murderers a reward of fifty pounds was offered; and, on
+the 7th of July following, two Chelsea pensioners were committed to
+prison, charged with this murder, on the testimony of their accomplice,
+another Chelsea pensioner, whom they had threatened to kill upon some
+quarrel taking place between them.  The accused were tried, found guilty,
+hanged, and gibbeted; one nearly opposite Walnut-tree Walk, close by the
+two-mile stone, the other at Bull Lane, a passage about a quarter of a
+mile farther on, which connects the main Fulham Road with the King's
+Road, by the side of the Kensington Canal.  In these positions, for some
+years, the bodies of the murderers hung in chains, to the terror of
+benighted travellers and of market-gardeners, who
+
+   "Wended their way,
+   In morning's grey,"
+
+towards Covent Garden, until a drunken frolic caused the removal of a
+painful and useless exhibition.  A very interesting paper upon London
+life in the last century occurs in the second volume of Knight's
+'London;' in which it is observed that "a gibbet's tassel" was one of the
+first sights which met the eye of a stranger approaching London from the
+sea.
+
+    "About the middle of the last century, similar objects met the gaze
+    of the traveller by whatever route he entered the metropolis.  '_All_
+    the gibbets in the Edgware Road,' says an extract from the newspapers
+    of the day in the 'Annual Register' for 1763, 'on which _many_
+    malefactors were being hung in chains, were cut down by persons
+    unknown.'  The _all_ and the _many_ of this cool matter-of-fact
+    announcement conjure up the image of a long avenue planted with
+    'gallows-trees,' instead of elms and poplars,--an assemblage of
+    pendent criminals, not exactly 'thick as leaves that strew the brook
+    in Valombrosa,' but frequent as those whose feet tickling Sancho's
+    nose, when he essayed to sleep in the cork forest, drove him from
+    tree to tree in search of an empty bough.
+
+    "Frequent mention is made in the books, magazines, and newspapers of
+    that period, of the bodies of malefactors conveyed after execution to
+    Blackheath, Finchley, and Kennington Commons, or Hounslow Heath, for
+    the purpose of being there permanently suspended.  In those days the
+    approach to London on all sides seems to have lain through serried
+    files of gibbets, growing closer and more thronged as the distance
+    from the city diminished, till they and their occupants arranged
+    themselves in rows of ghastly and grinning sentinels along both sides
+    of the principal avenues."
+
+This picture is not over-coloured; and it is to the following occurrence
+in the main Fulham Road that the removal of these offensive exhibitions
+is to be attributed.  Two or three fashionable parsons, who had
+sacrificed superabundantly to the jolly god at Fulham, returning to
+London, where they desired to arrive quickly, had intellect enough to
+discover that the driver of their post-chaise did not make his horses
+proceed at a pace equal to their wishes, and, after in vain urging him to
+more speed, one of them declared that, if he did not use his whip with
+better effect, he should be made an example of for the public benefit,
+and hanged up at the first gibbet.  The correctness of the old saying,
+that "when the head is hot the hand is ready," was soon verified by the
+postboy being desired to stop at the gibbet opposite Walnut-tree Walk,
+which order, unluckily for himself, he obeyed, instead of proceeding at a
+quicker pace.  Out sprung the inmates of his chaise; they seized him,
+bound him hand and foot, and throwing a rope, which they had fastened
+round his body, over the gibbet, he soon found himself, in spite of his
+cries and entreaties, elevated in air beside the tarred remains of the
+Chelsea pensioner.
+
+The reverend perpetrators of the deed drove off, leaving the luckless
+postboy to protest, loudly and vainly, to "the dull, cold ear of death,"
+against the loathsome companionship.  When the first market-gardener's
+cart passed by, most lustily did he call for help; but every effort to
+get free only tended to prolong his suspense.  What could the carters and
+other early travellers imagine upon hearing shouts proceeding from the
+gibbet, but that the identical murderer of Mr. Knight had by some miracle
+come to life, and now called out, "Stop! stop!" with the intention of
+robbing and murdering them also?  And they, feeling that supernatural
+odds were against them, ran forwards or backwards, not daring to look
+behind, as fast as their feet could carry alarmed and bewildered heads,
+leaving the fate of their carts to the sagacity of the horses.  Finding
+that the louder he called for help the more alarm he excited, the
+suspended postboy determined philosophically to endure the misery of his
+situation in dignified silence.  But there he was suffered to hang
+unnoticed; or, if remarked, it was only concluded that another criminal
+had been added to the gibbet, as its second tassel.  The circumstance,
+however, of a second body having been placed there speedily came to the
+knowledge of a magistrate in the neighbourhood, who had taken an active
+part in the apprehension of Mr. Knight's murderers; and he proceeded,
+without delay, to the spot, that he might satisfy himself as to the
+correctness of the report.  Judge, however, his astonishment on hearing
+himself addressed by name from the gibbet, and implored, in the most
+piteous manner, to deliver from bondage a poor postboy, whose only
+offence was that he would not goad on two overworked horses to humour a
+pair of drunken gentlemen.  These "drunken gentlemen" are said to have
+been men of rank and influence: their names have never transpired, but
+the outrage with which they were charged led to the immediate removal
+from the Fulham Road of the last pair of gibbets which disgraced it.
+
+Upon the ground which was occupied by the gibbet where the kind-hearted
+postboy was strung up, a solitary cottage stood some years ago; and
+tradition asserted, that both the murderer and his gibbet were buried
+beneath it.  [Picture: Solitary cottage] This cottage is now pulled down;
+Lansdowne Villas and Hollywood Place have been erected on the spot, and
+villas and groves continue to the 'Gunter Arms,' a public-house that
+takes its name from Richard Gunter, the well-known confectioner, by the
+side of which is Gunter Grove.  This is now the starting-point of the
+Brompton omnibuses, which formerly did not go beyond Queen's Elm.  Edith
+Grove, a turning between Lansdowne Villas and Gunter Grove, is in a
+direct line with Cremorne Gardens.
+
+Proceeding on our road towards Fulham, the next point which claims
+attention is the extensive inclosure of the West of London and
+Westminster Cemetery Company,--a company incorporated by act of
+parliament 1st of Victoria, cap. 180.  The burial-ground was consecrated
+on the 12th of June, 1840, and extends from the Fulham Road to what is
+called, generally, "Sir John Scott Lillie's Road," and sometimes
+"Brompton Lane Road," which, in fact, is a continuation, to North End,
+Fulham, of the line of the Old Brompton Road,--the point, as the reader
+may recollect, that we turned off from at the Bell and Horns, in order to
+follow the main Fulham Road to Little Chelsea.  The public way on the
+east of the burial-ground is called Honey Lane, and on the west the
+boundary is the pathway by the side of the Kensington Canal.  The
+architect of the chapel and catacombs is Mr. Benjamin Baud.  The cemetery
+is open for public inspection, free of charge, from seven in the morning
+till sunset, except on Sundays, when it is closed till half-past one
+o'clock.  The first interment took place on the 18th of June, 1840, from
+which time, to the 22nd of November, there were thirty-four burials, the
+average number being then four per week.  It is scarcely necessary to
+add, that a considerable average increase has taken place; but the first
+step in statistics is always curious.
+
+One of the most interesting instances of longevity which the annals of
+the West of London and Westminster Cemetery Company present occurs on a
+stone in the north-east corner of the burial-ground, where the age
+recorded of Louis Pouchee is 108; but this does not agree with the burial
+entry made by the Rev. Stephen Reid Cattley--"Louis Pouchee, of St.
+Martin's in the Fields, viz., 40 Castle Street, Leicester Square, buried
+Feb. 21, 1843, aged 107."
+
+This musical patriarch, however, according to a statement in the 'Medical
+Times,' {128} was admitted as a patient to St. George's Hospital November
+24, 1842.  January 4, went out, and died, about three months afterwards,
+of diarrhoea and dysentery.
+
+Another instance of longevity, though not so extraordinary, is one which
+cannot be contemplated without feeling how much influence the
+consciousness of honest industry in the human mind has upon the health
+and happiness of the body.  A gravestone near a public path on the
+south-east side of the burial-ground marks the last resting place of
+Francis Nicholson, landscape-painter, who died the 6th March, 1844, aged
+91 years.
+
+Mr. Nicholson originally practised as a portrait-painter, but the
+simplicity and uprightness of his heart did not permit him to tolerate or
+pander to the vanities of man (and woman) kind.  To flatter was with him
+an utter impossibility; and, as he could not invariably consider the
+"human face divine," he was incapable of assuming the courtly manners so
+essential in that branch of the profession.  He never, indeed, quite
+forgave himself for an approach to duplicity committed at this time upon
+an unfortunate gentleman, who sat to him for his portrait, and who
+squinted so desperately, that in order to gain a likeness it was
+necessary to copy moderately the defect.  The poor man, it seemed,
+perfectly unconscious of the same, on being invited to inspect the
+performance, looked in silence upon it a few moments, and, with rather a
+disappointed air, said--
+
+"I don't know--it seems to me--does it squint?"
+
+"Squint!" replied Nicholson, "no more than you do."
+
+"Really! well, you know best of course; but I declare I fancied there was
+a _queer look_ about it!"
+
+The opening of the Water-Colour Exhibition, in 1805, may be dated as the
+commencement of Mr. Nicholson's fame and success in London.  In
+conjunction with Glover, Varley, Prout, and others, an advance in the art
+of watercolour painting was made, such as to astonish and call forth the
+admiration of the public.
+
+In a manuscript autobiography which Mr. Nicholson left behind him, and
+which is full of curious anecdotes, he gives the following account of the
+formation of that exhibition.
+
+    "Messrs. Hills and Pyne asked me to join in the attempt to establish
+    such a society, which I readily agreed to.  It was a long time before
+    a number of members sufficient to produce so many works as would be
+    required to cover the walls of the exhibition room in Brook Street
+    could be brought to join it.  Artists were afraid they might suffer
+    loss by renting and fitting up the room, the expense being certain
+    and the success very doubtful.  After a great while the society was
+    formed, and, in the first and second exhibition, the sale of drawings
+    was so considerable, and the visitors so numerous, that crowds of
+    those who had refused to join were eager to be admitted into the
+    society."
+
+[Picture: Nicholson's Grave] Since the annexed sketch of Mr. Nicholson's
+grave was taken, the stone bears the two additional melancholy
+inscriptions of Thomas Crofton Croker, son-in-law of Francis Nicholson,
+who died 8th August, 1854, and Marianne, widow of Thomas Crofton Croker,
+who died 6th October, 1854; and an iron railing has been erected on
+either side of the grave.
+
+[Picture: St. Mark's Chapel] Opposite to the Cemetery gates is Veitch's
+Royal Exotic Nursery.
+
+St. Mark's Chapel, within the grounds of the college, stands opposite to
+St. Mark's Terrace, a row of modern houses immediately beyond the
+cemetery.  The grounds extend to the King's Road, and contain about
+eleven acres, surrounded by a brick wall; and the entrance to the
+National Society's training college is from that road.  Stanley House, or
+Stanley Grove House, which was purchased in 1840 for upwards of 9000
+pounds by the society, stood upon the site of a house which Sir Arthur
+Gorges, the friend of Spenser, allegorically named by him Alcyon, {131}
+built for his own residence; and upon the death of whose first wife, a
+daughter of Viscount Bindon, in 1590, the poet wrote a beautiful elegy,
+entitled 'Daphnaida.'  In the Sydney papers mention is made, under date
+15th November, 1599, that, "as the queen passed by the faire new
+building, Sir Arthur Gorges presented her with a faire jewell."  He died
+in 1625; and by his widow, the daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, the house
+and adjacent land, then called the "Brickhills," was sold, in 1637, to
+their only daughter, Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Robert Stanley; which
+sale was confirmed by her mother's will, dated 18th July, 1643.  The
+Stanley family continued to reside here until 1691, when by the death of
+William Stanley, Esq., that branch of this family became extinct in the
+male line.
+
+The present house, a square mansion, was built soon afterwards; and the
+old wall, propped by several buttresses, inclosing the west side of the
+grounds, existed on the bank of the Kensington Canal until it was washed
+down by a very high tide.  This new or square mansion remained unfinished
+and unoccupied for several years.  In 1724 it belonged to Henry Arundel,
+Esq. and on the 24th May, 1743, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a
+distinguished naval officer, died here, and was buried in Westminster
+Abbey.  After passing through several hands, Stanley Grove became the
+property of Miss Southwell, afterwards the wife of Sir James Eyre, Lord
+Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who sold it in 1777 to the Countess of
+Strathmore.
+
+Here her ladyship indulged her love for botany by building extensive
+hot-houses and conservatories, and collecting and introducing into
+England rare exotics.
+
+    "She had purchased," says her biographer, "a fine old mansion, with
+    extensive grounds well walled in, and there she had brought exotics
+    from the Cape, and was in a way of raising continually an increase to
+    her collection, when, by her fatal marriage, the cruel spoiler came
+    and threw them, like loathsome weeds, away."
+
+Mr. Lochee, before mentioned, purchased Stanley Grove from the Countess
+of Strathmore and her husband, Mr. Bowes.  It was afterwards occupied by
+Dr. Richard Warren, the eminent physician, who died in 1797, and who is
+said to have acquired by the honourable practice of his profession no
+less a sum than 150,000 pounds.  In January 1808, Mr. Leonard Morse, of
+the War Office, died at his residence, Stanley House, and about 1815 it
+was purchased by the late Mr. William Richard Hamilton, who ranks as one
+of the first scholars and antiquaries of his day.  Between that year and
+1840 Mr. Hamilton resided here at various periods, having occasionally
+let it.  He made a considerable addition to the house by building a
+spacious room as a wing on the east side, in the walls of which casts
+from the frieze and metopes of the Elgin marbles were let in.
+
+When Mr. Hamilton proceeded as envoy to the court of Naples in 1821,
+Stanley Grove House became the residence of Mrs. Gregor, and is thus
+described by Miss Burney, who was an inmate at this time, in the
+following playful letter {133} to a friend, dated 24th September, 1821:--
+
+    "Whilst you have been traversing sea and land, scrambling up rocks
+    and shuddering beside precipices, I have been stationary, with no
+    other variety than such as turning to the right instead of the left
+    when walking in the garden, or sometimes driving into town through
+    Westminster, and, at other times, through Piccadilly.  Poor Miss
+    Gregor continues to be a complete invalid, and, for her sake, we give
+    up all society at home and all engagements abroad.  Luckily, the
+    house, rented by Mrs. Gregor from William Hamilton, Esq. (who
+    accompanied Lord Elgin into Greece) abounds with interesting
+    specimens in almost every branch of the fine arts.  Here are statues,
+    casts from the frieze of the Parthenon, pictures, prints, books, and
+    minerals; _four_ pianofortes of different sizes, and an excellent
+    harp.  All this to study does Desdemona (that's me) seriously
+    incline; and the more I study the more I want to know and to see.  In
+    short, I am crazy to travel in Greece!  The danger is that some
+    good-for-nothing bashaw should seize upon me to poke me into his
+    harem, there to bury my charms for life, and condemn me for ever to
+    blush unseen.  However, I could easily strangle or stab him, set fire
+    to his castle, and run away by the light of it, accompanied by some
+    handsome pirate, with whom I might henceforward live at my ease in a
+    cavern on the sea-shore, dressing his dinners one moment, and my own
+    sweet person the next in pearls and rubies, stolen by him, during
+    some of his plundering expeditions, from the fair throat and arms of
+    a shrieking Circassian beauty, whose lord he had knocked on the head.
+    Till these genteel adventures of mine begin, I beg you to believe me,
+    dear Miss ---,
+
+                                                        "Yours most truly,
+                                                           "S. H. BURNEY."
+
+Theodore Hook notes, in one of his manuscript journals, "5th July, 1826.
+W. Hamilton's party.  Stanley Grove."
+
+About 1828, Stanley Grove was occupied by the Marquess of Queensberry;
+and, in 1830-31, by Colonel Grant, at the rent, it was said, of 1000
+pounds per annum.
+
+On the west side of the house the National Society added a quadrangle,
+built in the Italian style after the design of Mr. Blore; and, in the
+grounds near the chapel, an octagonal building as a Practising School,
+for teaching the poor children of the neighbourhood.
+
+                       [Picture: Practising School]
+
+Crossing the Kensington Canal over Sandford Bridge, [Picture: Sandford
+Bridge] sometimes written "Stanford" and "Stamford," we enter the parish
+of Fulham.  The road turning off on the west side of the canal is called
+"Bull Lane;" and a little further on a footway existed not long since,
+known as Bull Alley; both of which passages led into the King's Road, and
+took their names from the Bull public-house, which stood between them in
+that road.  [Picture: Bull Alley] Bull Alley is now converted into a
+good-sized street, called Stamford Road, which has a public-house (the
+Rising Sun) on one side, and a bookseller's shop on the other.  Here, for
+a few years, was a turnpike, which has been recently removed and placed
+lower down the road, adjoining the Swan Tavern and Brewery, Walham Green,
+established 1765.  [Picture: No. 4, No. 3 Stamford Villas] Houses are
+being built in all directions opposite several "single and married
+houses," with small gardens in front and the rear, known as STAMFORD
+VILLAS, where, at No. 2, resided, in 1836 and 1837, Mr. H. K. Browne,
+better known, perhaps, by his _sobriquet_ of "Phiz," as an illustrator of
+popular periodical works.
+
+No. 3 and No. 4 are shown in the annexed cut, and No. 3 may be noticed as
+having been the residence of Mr. Kempe, the author of 'A History of St.
+Martin-le-Grand,' the editor of the 'Losely Papers,' and a constant
+contributor, under the signature of A. J. K., to the antiquarian lore of
+the 'Gentleman's Magazine.'  Mr. Kempe died here on 21st August, 1846.
+The three last houses of the Stamford Villas are not "wedded to each
+other," and in the garden of the one nearest London, Mr. Hampton, who
+made an ascent in a balloon from Cremorne, on the 13th June, 1839, with
+every reasonable prospect of breaking his neck for the amusement of the
+public, came down by a parachute descent, without injury to himself,
+although he carried away a brick or two from the chimney of the house,
+much to the annoyance of the person in charge, who rushed out upon the
+aeronaut, and told him that he had no business to come in contact with
+the chimney.  His reply exhibited an extraordinary coolness, for he
+assured the man it was quite unintentional upon his part.
+
+The milestone is opposite the entrance to No. 20 Stamford Villas, which
+informs the pedestrian that it is one mile to Fulham; and passing Salem
+Chapel, which is on the right hand side of the main road, we reach the
+village of Walham Green.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+WALHAM GREEN TO FULHAM.
+
+The village of Walham Green, which is distant from Hyde Park Corner
+between two and a half and three miles, appears to have been first so
+called soon after the revolution of 1688.  Before this, it was known as
+Wansdon Green, written also Wandon and Wandham; all of which names,
+according to Lysons, originated from the manor of Wendon, so was the
+local name written in 1449, which in 1565 was spelled Wandowne.  As the
+name of a low and marshy piece of land on the opposite side of the Thames
+to Wandsworth, through which _wandered_ the drainage from the higher
+grounds, or through which the traveller had to _Wendon_ (pendan) his way
+to Fulham; it would not be difficult to enter into speculations as to the
+Anglo-Saxon origin of the word, but I refrain from placing before the
+reader my antiquarian ruminations while passing Wansdown House, for few
+things are more fascinating and deceptive than verbal associations.
+Indeed, if indulged in to any extent, they might lead an enthusiast to
+connect in thought the piers of Fulham (bridge) with the _Piers_ of
+Fulham, who, in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, "compyled many praty
+conceytis in love under covert terms of ffyssyng and ffowlyng;" and which
+curious poem may be found printed in a collection of _Ancient Metrical
+Tales_, edited by the Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne. {138}
+
+Two of "some ancient houses, erected in 1595, as appeared by a date on
+the truss in the front of one of them," were pulled down at Walham Green
+in 1812; after which the important proceedings in the progress of this
+village in suburban advancement consisted in the establishment of
+numerous public-houses; the filling up of a filthy pond, upon the ground
+gained by which act a chapel-of-ease to Fulham, dedicated to St. John,
+has been built, after the design of Mr. Taylor, at the estimated expense
+of 9683 pounds 17s. 9d.  The first stone was laid on the 1st of January,
+1827; and it was consecrated by the Bishop of London on the 14th of
+August, 1828.  This was followed by the building of a charity-school upon
+an angular patch of green, or common land, where donkeys had been wont to
+graze, and the village children to play at cricket.  Then the parish
+pound was removed from a corner of the high road, near a basket-maker's,
+to a back lane, thereby destroying the travelling joke of "Did you ever
+see the baskets sold by the pound?"  And, finally, Walham Green has
+assumed a new aspect, from the construction of the Butchers' Almshouses,
+the first stone of which was laid by the late Lord Ravensworth, on the
+1st of July, 1840.  Since that time, fancy-fairs and bazaars, with
+horticultural exhibitions, have been fashionably patronised at Walham
+Green by omnibus companies, for the support and enlargement of this
+institution.
+
+   "Hail, happy isle! and happier Walham Green!
+   Where all that's fair and beautiful are seen!
+   Where wanton zephyrs court the ambient air,
+   And sweets ambrosial banish every care;
+   Where thought nor trouble social joy molest,
+   Nor vain solicitude can banish rest.
+   Peaceful and happy here I reign serene,
+   Perplexity defy, and smile at spleen;
+   Belles, beaux, and statesmen, all around me shine;
+   All own me their supreme, me constitute divine;
+   All wait my pleasure, own my awful nod,
+   And change the humble gardener to the god."
+
+Thus, in the 'London Magazine' for June 1749, did Mr. Bartholomew Rocque
+prophetically apostrophise Walham Green,--the "belles, beaux, and
+statesmen," by which he was surrounded being new varieties of flowers,
+dignified by distinguished names.  In 1755, he printed a 'Treatise on the
+Cultivation of the Hyacinth, translated from the Dutch;' and in 1761 an
+'Essay on Lucerne Grass,', of which an enlarged edition was published in
+1764.  Mr. Rocque {139} resided in the house occupied by the late Mr.
+King, opposite to the Red Lion, where Mr. Oliver Pitts now carries on
+business as builder and carpenter.
+
+Immediately after leaving Walham Green, on the south, or left-hand side,
+of the main Fulham road, behind a pair of carriage gates, connected by a
+brick wall, stands the mansion of Lord Ravensworth; in outward appearance
+small and unostentatious, without the slightest attempt at architectural
+decoration, but sufficiently spacious and attractive to have received the
+highest honour that can be conferred on the residence of a subject, by
+her Majesty and Prince Albert having visited the late lord here on the
+26th of June, 1840.  The grounds at the back of the house, though not
+extensive, were planted with peculiar skill, care, and taste, by the late
+Mr. Ord; and on that occasion recalled to memory the words of our old
+poet, the author of 'Britannia's Pastorals,' William Browne:--
+
+   "There stood the elme, whose shade so mildely dym
+   Doth nourish all that groweth under him:
+   Cipresse that like piramides runne topping,
+   And hurt the least of any by the dropping;
+   The alder, whose fat shadow nourisheth
+   Each plant set neere to him long flourisheth;
+   The heavie-headed plane-tree, by whose shade
+   The grasse grows thickest, men are fresher made;
+   The oak that best endures the thunder-shocks,
+   The everlasting, ebene, cedar, boxe.
+   The olive, that in wainscot never cleaves,
+   The amourous vine which in the elme still weaves;
+   The lotus, juniper, where wormes ne'er enter;
+   The pyne, with whom men through the ocean venture;
+   The warlike yewgh, by which (more than the lance)
+   The strong-arm'd English spirits conquer'd France;
+   Amongst the rest, the tamarisks there stood,
+   For housewives' besomes only knowne most good;
+   The cold-place-loving birch, and servis-tree;
+   The Walnut-loving vales and mulberry;
+   The maple, ashe, that doe delight in fountains,
+   Which have their currents by the side of mountains;
+   The laurell, mirtle, ivy, date, which hold
+   Their leaves all winter, be it ne'er so cold;
+   The firre, that oftentimes doth rosin drop;
+   The beech, that scales the welkin with his top:
+   _All these and thousand more within this grove_,
+   _By all the industry of nature strove_
+   _To frame an arbour that might keepe within it_
+   _The best of beauties that the world hath in it_."
+
+Since the royal visit, Lord Ravensworth's residence has been called
+_Percy Cross_, but no reason has been assigned for the alteration of name
+from Purser's Cross, which is mentioned as a point "on the Fulham road
+between Parson's Green and Walham Green," so far back as 1602, and at
+which we shall presently arrive.  [Picture: View of Percy Cross] No
+connection whatever that I am aware of exists between the locality and
+the Percy family, and it only affords another, very recent local example
+of what has been as happily as quaintly termed "the curiosity of change."
+The most favourable aspect of the house is, perhaps, the view gained of
+it from a neighbouring garden across a piece of water called Eel Brook,
+which ornaments an adjacent meadow.
+
+John Ord, Esq., the creator of Lord Ravensworth's London residence, is
+better known as "Master Ord."  He was the only son of Robert Ord, Chief
+Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.  In 1746 Mr. Ord entered
+Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1762, vacated a lay fellowship by
+marriage with Eleanor, the second daughter of John Simpson, Esq., of
+Bradley, in the county of Durham.  After being called to the bar, Mr. Ord
+practised in the Court of Chancery; and, in 1774, was returned to
+parliament as member for Midhurst.  In 1778 he was appointed Master of
+Chancery; and the next session, when returned member for Hastings, was
+chosen chairman of "Ways and Means," in which situation his conduct gave
+much satisfaction.  Mr. Ord retired from parliament in 1790, and in 1809
+resigned his office of Master in Chancery, and that of Attorney-General
+for Lancaster the following year, when "he retired to a small place at
+Purser's Cross, in the parish of Fulham, where he had early in life
+amused himself in horticultural pursuits, and where there are several
+foreign trees of his own raising remarkable both for their beauty and
+size."
+
+Lysons, in 1795, says--
+
+    "While I am speaking upon this subject" (the trees planted by Bishop
+    Compton in the gardens of Fulham Palace), "it would he unpardonable
+    to omit the mention of a very curious garden near Walham Green in
+    this parish, planted, since the year 1756, by its present proprietor,
+    John Ord, Esq., Master in Chancery.  It is not a little extraordinary
+    that this garden should, within the space of forty years (such have
+    been the effects of good management and a fertile soil), have
+    produced trees which are now the finest of their respective kinds in
+    the kingdom.  As a proof of this may be mentioned the _sophora
+    Japonica_, planted anno 1756, then about two feet high, now eight
+    feet in girth, and about forty in height; a standard _Ginko_ tree,
+    planted about the year 1767, two feet three inches in girth; and an
+    Illinois walnut, two feet two inches in girth, growing where it was
+    sown about the year 1760.  Among other trees, very remarkable also
+    for their growth, though not to be spoken of as the largest of their
+    kind, are a black walnut-tree (sown anno 1757), about forty feet
+    high, and five feet four inches in girth; a cedar of Libanus (planted
+    in 1756), eight feet eight inches in girth; a willow-leaved oak (sown
+    anno 1757), four feet in girth; the Rhus Vernix, or varnish sumach,
+    four feet in girth; and a stone pine of very singular growth.  Its
+    girth at one foot from the ground is six feet four inches; at that
+    height it immediately begins to branch out, and spreads, at least,
+    twenty-one feet on each side, forming a large bush of about fourteen
+    yards in diameter."
+
+The second edition of Lysons' 'Environs of London' appeared in 1810, when
+the measurement of these trees, in June 1808 and December 1809, was
+placed in apposition.  Faulkner's 'History of Fulham,' published in 1813,
+carries on the history of their growth for three years more; but as, from
+the marginal pencil note signed J. M., and dated January 1835 in Lysons',
+I am led to conclude that some of these interesting trees exist no
+longer, the following tabular view compiled from these sources may not be
+unacceptable to the naturalist, who is well aware that
+
+   "Not small the praise the skilful planter claims,
+   From his befriended country."
+
+About the time of Mr. Ord's death, 6th June, 1814, his garden contained
+much that is remarkable in horticulture:--
+
+    "There was," we are told, "a good collection of American plants;
+    amongst others, a fine _Andromeda Arborea_, planted about eight
+    inches high in March 1804; and now (1812) eleven feet eight inches
+    high.
+
+    "The _Glastonbury Thorn_ flowered here on Christmas day, 1793.
+
+    "In the kitchen garden is (1812) a moss-rose, which has been much
+    admired.  Many years ago Mr. Ord ordered his gardener to lay a
+    moss-rose, which, when done, he thought looked so well, he would not
+    allow the layers to be taken off, but laid them down year after year,
+    till it covered the ground it does at present, viz. a diameter of
+    forty-seven feet; want of room has confined it to its present size
+    for several years."
+
+                  Girth at 3 feet   Girth in June     Girth in          Girth in 1812     Girth in Jan
+                  from the ground   1808              December 1809     (Faulkner)        1835 J.M.
+                  in 1793
+
+                  f.   i.           f.  i.            f.  i.            f.  i.            f.  i.
+
+_Sophora
+japonica_,
+{144a} in 1809,   8    0            9   4             9   7.5           10  1             0   0
+about 50 feet
+in height; it
+flowered for
+the first time
+in August 1807,
+and has
+continued to
+flower the two
+succeeding
+years.
+
+_Ginko-tree_
+(_Ginko
+biloba_,          2    3            3   6             3   9             3   10            0   0
+standard) about
+37 feet high.
+
+A tree from an
+Illinois-nut,
+given by Mr.      2    2            2  10             2  11             3    0            0   0
+Aiton to Mr.
+Ord, about 40
+feet high.
+{144b}
+
+A black
+walnut-tree,
+(_juglans         5    4            6  11 {144c}      7   3             10   0
+niger_), sown
+where it stands
+in 1757, about
+64 feet high in
+1809.
+
+A cedar of
+Lebanon, when
+planted being     8    8            9  11 {144d}      9   9             10   0
+two years old,
+in 1809 being
+about 55 feet
+high.
+
+A willow-leaved
+oak, sown in
+1757.             4    0            5   5 {144e}      5   7             5    10
+
+The _rhus
+vernix_, or
+varnish sumach.   4    0            4   10            4   10            5     1
+
+_Fraxinus
+ornus_, which
+is covered with                                                         3    10
+flowers every
+year.
+
+_Gleditsia
+triacanthus_,
+sown in 1759,                                                           4     8
+produced pods 2
+feet long in
+1780, but the
+seeds
+imperfect.
+
+_Acacia
+common_, sown
+in 1757,                                                                7     7
+planted where
+it stands in
+1758.
+
+_Ilex_                                                                  6     9
+
+_Tulip-tree_,
+sown where it
+stands in 1758,                                                         5     6
+first flowered
+in 1782.
+
+_Cyprus                                                                 5     6
+deciduus_, sown
+in 1760
+
+_Corylus
+colurna_
+(Constantinople                                                         3     2
+hazel), between
+30 and 40 feet
+high, bears
+fruit, but
+imperfect.
+
+_Virginian
+cedar_, (red)
+sown in 1758                                                            4     0
+
+_Guilandina                                                             2     1
+dioica_, or
+_bonduc_
+
+_Juglans alba_,
+or white
+hickory.                                                                3     1
+
+_Lombardy_, or
+_Po poplar_, a
+cutting in 1766                                                         10    0
+near 100 feet
+high.
+
+_Poplar_,                                                               8     6
+planted in 1772
+
+    Another column headed 1845, carrying out this view, would be an
+    important addition to statistical observation.
+
+Two agaves, or American aloes, flowered in Mr. Ord's greenhouse in the
+summer of 1812, one of which was a beautiful striped variety.  The plants
+had been there since the year 1756.  Amid all these delightful
+associations, there is one melancholy event connected with the place.  On
+the night of the 9th September, 1807, a fire broke out in the
+garden-house of Mr. Ord's residence (a cottage upon the site of the
+present stables): the flame raged so furiously as to burn the principal
+gardener, an old and valued servant, almost to ashes before any help
+could be afforded to him.  Upon the following Sunday (13th), the Rev.
+John Owen, the then curate of Fulham, preached so effective a sermon upon
+the uncertainty of the morrow, {145} that having printed a large
+impression "without any loss to himself," a second edition appeared on
+the 3rd of the following month.
+
+In the second volume of the 'Transactions of the Horticultural Society,'
+a beautifully-coloured representation of 'Ord's apple' may be found,
+illustrative of Mr. Salisbury's communication respecting it, which was
+read to the Society on the 17th of January, 1817.  After acknowledging
+his obligations to Mrs. Anne Simpson, the sister of Mrs. Ord, and who Mr.
+Salisbury represents as "being as fond of gardening as her late
+brother-in-law, Mr. Ord," it is stated that,--
+
+    "About forty years ago, the late John Ord, Esq. raised, in his garden
+    at _Purser's Cross_, near Fulham, an apple-tree from the seed of the
+    New-town pippin, imported from North America.  When this tree began
+    to bear, its fruit, though without any external beauty, proved
+    remarkably good, and had a peculiar quality, namely, a melting
+    softness in eating, so that it might be said almost to dissolve in
+    the mouth.  The late Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, often had grafts of
+    this tree, and he sold the plant so raised first with the name of
+    Ord's apple, and subsequently with the name of New-town pippin. . . .
+    .
+
+    "This seedling tree," continues Mr. Salisbury, "is now (1817) of
+    large dimensions, its trunk being four feet four inches round at a
+    yard above the ground; but it has of late years been very unhealthy,
+    and scarcely borne any fruit worth gathering, its roots having, no
+    doubt, penetrated into a stratum of unfavourable soil."
+
+Mrs. Anne Simpson sowed some pippins from this remarkable tree,--
+
+    "And two of the healthiest seedlings of this second generation were
+    planted out to remain in the kitchen-garden, which are now (1817)
+    about twenty years old.  One of these trees began to bear fruit very
+    soon, which is not unlike that of its parent in shape, with a thin
+    skin; and, being a very good apple, grafts of it have been
+    distributed about the metropolis with the name of _Simpson's pippin_.
+    The other seedling of the second generation was several years longer
+    in bearing fruit; and, when it did, the apples were quite of a
+    different shape, being long, with a thick skin and poor flavour, and
+    so numerous as to be all very small.  Of late years, however, they
+    have gradually improved so much in flavour, as to become a remarkably
+    spirited, juicy apple, attaining a good size, which has probably been
+    promoted by thinning them, though a full crop has always been left
+    upon the tree; and they are now greatly esteemed by all who taste
+    them."
+
+This apple is in perfection for eating from Christmas to the middle of
+March.  The skin is thick, and always of a green colour while on the
+tree, but tinged with copper-coloured red, and several darker spots on
+the sunny side; after the fruit has been gathered some time, the green
+colour changes to a yellowish cast.  It may be mentioned that, before the
+death of the late Lord Ravensworth, the house was inhabited by those
+celebrated artistes, Madame Grisi and Signor Mario.
+
+On the opposite side of the road to Lord Ravensworth's, and a few yards
+beyond it, on the way to Fulham, is Walham Lodge, formerly Park Cottage,
+a modern well-built house, which stands within extensive grounds,
+surrounded by a brick wall.  This was for some years the residence of Mr.
+Brand, the eminent chemist, who particularly distinguished himself by the
+course of lectures which he delivered on geology, at the Royal
+Institution, in 1816; and which may be dated as the popular starting
+point of that branch of scientific inquiry in this country.
+
+A house, now divided into two, and called Dungannon House and Albany
+Lodge, abuts upon the western boundary wall of the grounds of Walham
+Lodge.  [Picture: Dungannon House--Albany Lodge] Tradition stoutly
+asserts that this united cottage and villa were, previous to their
+division, known by the name of _Bolingbroke Lodge_, and that here Pope
+did, more than once,
+
+    "Awake my St. John,"
+
+by an early morning visit.
+
+At Albany Lodge, the farthest part of the old house in our view (then
+Heckfield Villa), resided Mr. Milton, before-mentioned as having lived at
+Heckfield Lodge, Little Chelsea; both of which names were introduced on
+the Fulham Road, from that gentleman's attachment to the name of his
+reverend father's living, near Basingstoke.
+
+Dungannon House formerly went by the name of Acacia Cottage, and was so
+called from a tree in the garden.  It was for many years the country
+residence of Mr. Joseph Johnson, of St. Paul's Churchyard, a publisher
+worthy of literary regard; and here he died on the 20th of December,
+1809.  He was born at Liverpool, in 1738; and, after serving an
+apprenticeship in London, commenced business as a medical bookseller,
+upon Fish Street Hill; "a situation he chose as being in the track of the
+medical students resorting to the hospitals in the Borough, and which
+probably was the foundation of his connexions with many eminent members
+of that profession."
+
+Having entered into partnership, he removed to Paternoster Row, where his
+house and stock were destroyed by fire, in 1770: after which, feeling the
+advantage of a peculiar locality, he carried on business alone, until the
+time of his death, at the house which all juvenile readers who recollect
+the caterers for their amusement and instruction will remember as that of
+"Harris and Co., corner of St. Paul's Churchyard."  This step was
+considered at the time, by "the trade," as a bold and inconsiderate
+measure; but it was successfully imitated by the late Mr. Murray, in his
+removal from Fleet Street to Albemarle Street; and, indeed, John Murray,
+as a publisher, seems only to have been a fearless copyist, in many
+matters, of Joseph Johnson.  Whether, as a tradesman, he was judicious or
+not in so doing, is a question upon which there may be two opinions; but
+there can be no hesitation about the perfect application of Dr. Aikin's
+words to both parties:--
+
+    "The character Mr. Johnson established by his integrity, good sense,
+    and honourable principles of dealing, soon raised him to eminence as
+    a publisher; and many of the most distinguished names in science and
+    literature during the last half century appear in works which he
+    ushered to the world."
+
+The imprint of Johnson is to be found upon the title-pages which first
+introduced Cowper and Darwin to notice:--
+
+    "The former of these, with the diffidence, and perhaps the
+    despondency, of his character, had actually, by means of a friend,
+    made over to him (Johnson) his two volumes of poems, on no other
+    condition than that of securing him from expense; but when the
+    public, which neglected the first volume, had discovered the rich
+    mine opened in the _Task_, and assigned the author his merited place
+    among the first-rate English poets, Mr. Johnson would not avail
+    himself of his advantage, but displayed a liberality which has been
+    warmly acknowledged by that admirable, though unfortunate, person."
+
+A score of equally generous anecdotes might be told of Murray.  In one
+particular, however, there was, as publishers, a decided difference
+between the views of Johnson and Murray.  Those of Johnson are at present
+in the ascendancy; but they may produce a revolution in favour of the
+opinion of John Murray against cheap literature.  Johnson was the
+opponent of typographical luxury.  Murray, on the contrary, supported the
+aristocracy of the press, until obliged, "by the pressure from without,"
+in some degree to compromise his views by the publication of the 'Family
+Library.'
+
+In the wing (comparatively speaking a modern addition) attached to this
+house, and in the room where Mr. Johnson died, is a remarkable
+chimney-piece, of a monumental character; but I can learn nothing
+respecting it.
+
+The history of Dungannon House when Acacia Cottage, could we procure a
+correct record of all the ideas which [Picture: Chimney-piece] have
+passed through the human mind within its walls, respecting literature and
+art, would form a chronicle of singular interest.  The late Mr.
+Hullmandel, well known as one of the most experienced and successful
+practitioners of lithography in England, resided here in 1839 and 1840,
+when he discovered a new process in his favourite art, by simple mental
+reasoning, upon the application of the process of copperplate aquatint to
+lithographic purposes.  For this discovery--and it is one of considerable
+importance--he subsequently took out a patent, under the name of
+lithotint.  Ever since the infancy of lithography, hundreds of persons
+connected with the art, beginning with its inventor himself, Senefelder,
+had endeavoured to produce impressions from stone of subjects executed
+with the brush, in the same manner as drawings are made with sepia, or
+Indian ink.  And it was natural enough that artists should have made
+every effort to supersede the tedious and elaborate process by which
+alone a liquid could be rendered available for the purpose of drawing on
+stone.  The mode of drawing technically called "the ink style," consists
+merely of a series of lines, some finer, some thicker, executed on the
+white surface of the stone, with ink dissolved in water, by means of a
+fine sable or a steel pen, in imitation of an etching on copper.  All
+attempts, however, at producing variety of tints, by using the ink
+thicker or thinner, failed,--the fainter lines either disappearing
+altogether, or printing as dark as thick ones.  In every attempt made to
+use this ink as a wash, the result was still more disastrous, producing
+only one dirty mass of indistinctness, amid which the original drawing
+was scarcely to be traced.  For twenty years did Mr. Hullmandel labour to
+attain some mode of printing drawings, made by a series of washes, with a
+brush, on stone, feeling this to be the great desideratum in the art.
+Lithographers in Germany, in France, and in this country, had pronounced
+it to be "utterly impossible;" when the idea suddenly flashed upon him,
+that, if he could effect a minute granulation of the ink, by treating it
+as a copperplate engraver would the ground of an aquatint plate, the
+relative strength of the different washes might be preserved.  He
+hastened from Acacia Cottage to his printing-office in London, to put his
+theory into practice, and was rewarded by the most satisfactory results.
+
+Since that period, several prints, by this process of lithotint, were
+produced by Mr. Hullmandel, from drawings made by Harding, Nash, Haghe,
+Walton, and other clever artists, in which all the raciness, the
+smartness, and the beauty of touch, are apparent, which hitherto could
+only be found in the original drawing.  [Picture: Arundel House--front]
+[Picture: Arundel House--back] In fact, lithotint was not a translation,
+but a multiplication of the original; and its discovery, or, rather, the
+proper application of knowledge, became an eventful era in the history of
+the fine arts.
+
+Arundel House, a few yards beyond Dungannon House, stands on the same
+side of the road, opposite to Parson's Green Lane, which leads to the
+King's Road.  It is a house of considerable antiquity, judging from the
+stone mullions brought to light by some repairs,--probably as old as the
+time of Henry VIII.; although the brick front, as shown above, appears to
+be the work of the latter part of the seventeenth century.
+
+The back of Arundel House is quite different in character, and retains an
+old porch leading into the garden.  At the farther end of the garden a
+venerable yew-tree arbour exists; and not [Picture: Arundel House porch
+and Yew Tree Arbour] far from it used to stand a picturesque old pump,
+with the date 1758 close to the spout; which pump is now removed, and a
+new one put in its place.  Upon a leaden cistern at the back of Arundel
+House, the following monogram occurs beneath an earl's coronet, with the
+date 1703:--[Picture: Old Pump and monogram] Notwithstanding that this is
+obviously compounded of the letters L. I. C., or C. I. L., and at the
+first glance with the connexion of an earl's coronet and a date would
+appear to present no difficulty respecting the correct appropriation, I
+must confess my inability to state to whom the monogram belonged.  For
+the name of Arundel I am equally unable to account.  No mention whatever
+is made of this house by Mr. Faulkner; nor does the name of Arundel occur
+in the parish records of Fulham, although in 1724, as before mentioned,
+Stanley Grove House appears to have been in the possession of Henry
+Arundel.  In the midst of this obscurity, the residence of the late Mr.
+Hallam, the historian, who occupied Arundel House in 1819, invests it
+with a literary association of interest.
+
+On the opposite side of the road is the carriage entrance to Park House,
+which stands in Parson's Green Lane.  A stone tablet has been let into
+one of the piers of the gateway, inscribed
+
+                               PURSER'S CROSS,
+                                 7TH AUGUST,
+                                    1738.
+
+This date has reference to an occurrence which the monthly chronologer in
+the 'London Magazine' thus relates:--
+
+    "An highwayman having committed several robberies on Finchley Common,
+    was pursued to London, when he thought himself safe, but was, in a
+    little time, discovered at a public-house in Burlington Gardens,
+    refreshing himself and his horse; however, he had time to remount,
+    and rode through Hyde Park, in which there were several gentlemen's
+    servants airing their horses, who, taking the alarm, pursued him
+    closely as far as Fulham Fields, where, finding no probability of
+    escaping, he threw money among some country people who were at work
+    in the field, and told them they would soon see the end of an
+    unfortunate man.  He had no sooner spoke these words but he pulled
+    out a pistol, clapped it to his ear, and shot himself directly,
+    before his pursuers could prevent him.  The coroner's inquest brought
+    in their verdict, and he was buried in a cross road, with a stake
+    drove through him; but 'twas not known who he was." {155a}
+
+In the 'Beauties of England and Wales,' "Purser's Cross" is said to have
+been corrupted from "Parson's Cross," and the vicinity of Parson's Green
+is mentioned in support of the conjecture.  However, that Purser, and not
+Percy Cross, has been for many years the usual mode of writing the name
+of this locality is established by the 'Annual Register' for 1781, where
+the following remarkable coincidence is mentioned:--
+
+    "Died, 30th December, 1780, at Purser's Cross, Fulham, Mrs. Elizabeth
+    and Mrs. Frances Turberville, in the seventy-seventh year of their
+    ages, of ancient and respectable west country family; they were twin
+    sisters, and both died unmarried.  What adds to the singularity of
+    this circumstance, they were both born the same day, never were known
+    to live separate, died within a few days of each other, and were
+    interred on the same day."
+
+Park House presents a fac-simile of an old mansion which stood precisely
+on the same site, and was known as Quibus Hall, a name, as is
+conjectured, bestowed upon it in consequence of some dispute respecting
+possession between the coheirs of Sir Michael Wharton, who died about
+1725. {155b}  When rebuilt by Mr. Holland for the late Mr. Powell, it was
+called High Elms House, and was for some time occupied as a school,
+conducted by the Rev. Thomas Bowen, who published in 1798 'Thoughts on
+the Necessity of Moral Discipline in Prisons.'  After Mr. Bowen's death
+in the following year, his widow, with the assistance of the Rev. Joshua
+Ruddock, carried on the establishment until 1825, since which time Park
+House became the occasional residence of Mr. Powell, of Quex, in the Isle
+of Thanet, until his death in 1849.  A cottage opposite (formerly
+"Brunswick Cottage") was called "Rosamond's Bower," during the time the
+late Mr. Crofton Croker lived in it (1837-46).
+
+In a privately printed description of this cottage, when the residence of
+Mr. Croker, of which but a very few copies were distributed to his
+friends, Mr. Croker himself writes:--
+
+    "In what, it may be asked, originates the romantic name of
+    'Rosamond's Bower?'  A question I shall endeavour to answer.  The
+    curious reader will find from Lysons' 'Environs of London' (II. 359),
+    that the manor of Rosamonds is an estate near Parson's Green, in the
+    [Picture: Old Rosamond's Bower and Park House, from a Sketch made
+    about 1750] parish of Fulham.  Lysons adds, 'the site of the mansion
+    belonging to this estate, now (1795) rented by a gardener, is said,
+    by tradition, to have been a palace of Fair Rosamond.'  There seems
+    to be, however, no foundation beyond the name for this tradition, and
+    it is unnoticed by Faulkner in his 'History of Fulham,' published in
+    1813.  He merely mentions, adjoining High Elms, or Park House, an old
+    dwelling, which 'ancient house,' continues Faulkner, 'appears to be
+    of the age of Elizabeth, and is commonly called Rosamond's Bower.'
+    This 'ancient house' was taken down by Mr. Powell, in the year 1826,
+    and the present stables of Park House are built upon the site.  But I
+    have recently learned that the name of 'Rosamond's Dairy' is still
+    attached to an old house probably built between two and three hundred
+    years, which stands a little way back from the high-road at the
+    north-west corner of Parson's Green.
+
+    "I have always felt with Dr. Johnson that relics are venerable
+    things, and are only _not_ to be worshipped.  When, therefore, I took
+    my cottage, in 1837, and was told that the oak staircase in it had
+    belonged to the veritable 'Rosamond's Bower,' and was the only relic
+    of it that existed; and when I found that the name had no longer a
+    precise 'local habitation' in Fulham, I ventured, purely from motives
+    of respect for the memory of the past, and not from any affectation
+    of romance, to revive an ancient parochial name which had been
+    suffered to die out, 'like the snuff of a candle.'  In changing its
+    precise situation, in transferring it from one side of Parson's Green
+    Lane to the other, a distance, however, not fifty yards from the
+    original site, I trust when called upon to show cause for the
+    transfer, to be reasonably supported by the history of the old oak
+    staircase.  Indeed I may here venture to assert that the change of
+    name from 'Brunswick Cottage,'--so was 'Rosamond's Bower' called when
+    I took it,--and the assumption of that name, if contrasted with the
+    name changing and name travelling fashion of the district, is a
+    proceeding in which I am fully borne out by numerous precedents.
+
+    "Miss Edgeworth, in her reply, dated 31st January, 1840, to the
+    letter of a juvenile correspondent (then nine years of age) inquires,
+    'Is Rosamond's Bower a real name?'  And I well remember the gestures
+    and even some of the jests which the omnibus passengers made when
+    'Rosamond's Bower' was first painted upon the stone caps of the gate
+    piers, such as Father Prout's '_Rosy_-man's Bower near the _White_
+    Sheaf' (Wheatsheaf).  But the novelty wore off in a week or two, and
+    the name has long since ceased to be an object of speculation to any
+    but the inquisitive.  For their information I may state, that in the
+    time of Elizabeth all the gardeners' cottages in this neighbourhood
+    were called bowers.  It was the Saxon term for a room, and,
+    therefore, applied to the dwelling occupied by the labouring class.
+    And Rosamond, or Rosaman, is said to have been the name of a family
+    of gardeners bestowed upon the district which they had long
+    cultivated--possibly a sobriquet derived from the fame of their roses
+    in times when that flower was a badge of party distinction. . . .  It
+    only remains for me to add, that 'Rosamond's Bower' stands 22 feet
+    back from the high road, and has a small garden or court before it,
+    measuring, exclusive of the stable-yard, 63 feet.  The garden behind
+    the house is of that form called a gore, gradually narrowing from 63
+    to 22 feet, in a distance of 550 feet or 183 yards--five turns up and
+    down which 'long walk' may be reckoned, by exercise meters, 'a full
+    mile,' it being 73 yards over and above the distance, an ample
+    allowance for ten short turnings.  Of the old 'Rosamond's Bower'
+    three representations have been preserved; two of these are
+    pen-and-ink sketches by Mr. Doherty, made about the middle of the
+    last century, one of which is an authority for the name of Pershouse
+    Cross.  The third view appears in a well-executed aquatint plate of
+    'Fulham Park School taken from the Play Ground.'
+
+    "The foundation of the present 'Rosamond's Bower,' judging from the
+    brickwork on the south side, and the thickness of the walls, is
+    probably as old as the time of Elizabeth--I mean the original
+    building which consisted of two rooms, one above the other, 12 feet
+    square, and 7 feet in height.  On the north side of this primitive
+    dwelling was a deep draw-well.  Subsequently two similar rooms were
+    attached, one of which (the present hall) was built over the well,
+    and two attics were raised upon this very simple structure, thus
+    increasing the number of rooms from two to six.  Then a kitchen was
+    built (the present dining-room), and another room over it (the
+    present drawing-room), at the back of the original building, which
+    thus from a labourer's hut assumed the air of an eight-roomed
+    cottage.  It was then discovered that the rooms were of very small
+    dimensions, and it was considered necessary to enlarge four of them
+    by the additional space to be gained from bay windows in the
+    dining-room, drawing-room, blue bedchamber, and dressing-room.  But
+    the spirit of improvement seldom rests content, and when it was found
+    that the kitchen, which looked upon the garden, was a more agreeable
+    sitting-room, both as to aspect and quiet, than the more ancient and
+    smaller room which looked upon the road, it was determined to create
+    another attachment on the north side, by building a kitchen of still
+    larger dimensions, with a scullery and storeroom behind, to replace
+    the old scullery and out-offices by a spacious staircase, and over
+    this new kitchen to place a room of corresponding size, or equal to
+    that of the two bedrooms upon the same line of building.  Thus in
+    1826 did 'Rosamond's Bower' become a cottage of ten rooms; and as it
+    was soon afterwards presumed from the march of luxury that no one
+    could live in a decade cottage without requiring a coachhouse and
+    stable, an excellent one was built not far from the north side,
+    making the third, though not the last, addition in that direction.
+
+    "Parva domus! nemorosa quies,
+    Sis tu quoque nostris hospitium laribus
+    Subsidium diu: postes tuas Flora ornet
+    Pomonaque mensas."
+
+                                 THE GARDEN.
+
+    "It is much more difficult to describe the garden of Rosamond's Bower
+    than its shape.  I may, however, mention that by means of a sunk
+    fence {159} and a wen-like excrescence upon the original gore, made
+    in the Spring of 1842, the extensive meadow of Park House, with the
+    piece of water which adorns it, appear to belong to my residence so
+    completely, that so far as the eye questions the matter, 'I am
+    monarch of all I survey.'  [Picture: Distant View of 'Rosamond's
+    Bower' from the adjoining Meadow] The first lawn of the garden
+    rejoices in two very remarkable trees, one a standard Ayrshire rose,
+    rising ten feet in height from a stem ten inches in circumference,
+    and from which, during sunny June, 'every breeze, of red rose leaves
+    brings down a crimson rain.' {160}  The other a weeping ash of
+    singularly beautiful proportions.  It has been trained, or rather
+    restrained, to the measurement of fifty-six feet in circumference,
+    the stem being two feet round, and the branches shooting out at the
+    height of five feet with incredible luxuriance.  Under its branches I
+    had the pleasure of seeing no less than thirty-eight friends sit down
+    to breakfast on the 22nd June, 1842; and Gunter, who laid covers for
+    forty-four, assured me, that another arrangement with circular
+    tables, made for the purpose, would have comfortably accommodated
+    sixty.  A miniature shrubbery, not in height, but in breadth,
+    intervenes between the first lawn and the flower garden, where, in
+    the centre of beds, stands the 'Baylis Vase'--a memorial, I sincerely
+    trust, of a more enduring friendship.  Miss Aikin's question--but a
+    very long acquaintance with that lady's fame warrants me here writing
+    'Lucy Aikin's question--to me, one evening while walking down the
+    garden, whether that urn had been placed over the remains of any
+    favourite, was the occasion of the following lines being painted on
+    it:--
+
+    Think not that here was placed this urn
+    To mark a spot o'er which to mourn.
+    Should tender thoughts awake a tear
+    For fading flowers or waning year,
+    Remember that another spring,
+    Fresh flowers and brighter hopes will bring.
+
+    Two elevated strawberry beds, facetiously termed 'twin strawberry
+    hills,' rear themselves between the vase and the back lawn, the
+    further corners of which are respectively protected from wheelbarrow
+    intrusion by an Irish Quern and a Capsular Stone, venerated in Irish
+    tradition--the former a remarkably perfect, the latter an exceedingly
+    compact specimen, having on one side a double, and on the other a
+    single hollow. . . .  The remaining points of interest in my garden
+    may be noticed in a very few words.  It gradually decreases in
+    breadth, and is fenced off on one side from the garden of a very kind
+    neighbour (which contains two of the finest walnut trees in the
+    parish) by an oak paling partially covered with broad, or Irish, and
+    embellished by the picturesque narrow-leaved ivy.
+
+    "On the other side a trim hedge, kept breast high, which runs beside
+    'the long walk,' separates it from the extensive meadow of Park
+    House, and at the termination the following inscription from one of
+    Herrick's poems has been placed--
+
+          Thine own dear grounds,
+    Not envying others larger bounds,
+    For well thou knowest 'tis not the extent
+    Of land makes life, but sweet content.
+
+    "The garden produces plenty of strawberries, an abundance of
+    raspberries, and generally a good crop of apples and pears, but few
+    vegetables; the cultivation, except of asparagus (of which there are
+    two excellent beds), having been abandoned, as the bird monopoly of
+    peas, caused every shilling's worth that came to table to cost five,
+    and the ingenuity of the slugs and snails having completely baffled
+    all amateur gardening schemes of defence against their slimy
+    invasions.  [Picture: Rustic bench] Among many experiments I may
+    mention one.  Some vegetables were protected by a circumvallum of
+    salt; but, notwithstanding, the slugs and snails contrived to pass
+    this supposed deadly line of demarcation by fixing themselves on dry
+    leaves which they could easily lift, and thus they wriggled safely
+    over it.  My greatest enjoyment in the garden has been derived from a
+    rustic bench at the north side of the shrubbery, through the back and
+    arms of which a honeysuckle has luxuriantly interlaced itself; there,
+    particularly when recovering from illness, I have sat, and have
+    found, or fancied, that pain was soothed, and depressed spirits
+    greatly elevated, by the monotonous tone of the bees around me."
+
+The pamphlet from which the above has been taken then enters into a
+minute description of the curiosities, pictures, &c., collected by Mr.
+Croker at 'Rosamond's Bower,' which it is unnecessary further to refer
+to; indeed, although intended for private circulation only, it was not
+completed, as Mr. Croker was led to believe it might appear but an
+egotistical description of an unimportant house.
+
+The following particulars, connected with Thomas Moore's visit to
+'Rosamond's Bower,' may prove interesting:--
+
+On the 6th October, 1838, Moore wrote to Mr. Crofton Croker as follows:--
+
+    "Many thanks for your wish to have me at Rosamond's Bower, even
+    though I was unlucky enough not to profit by that wish--some other
+    time, however, you must, for _my_ sake, try again; and I shall then
+    be most ready for a rummage of your Irish treasures.  Already,
+    indeed, I have been drawing a little upon your 'Researches in the
+    South of Ireland;' and should be very glad to have more books of
+    yours to pilfer.
+
+                                               "Yours, my dear Mr. Croker,
+                                                              "Very truly,
+                                                           "THOMAS MOORE."
+
+On the 18th November, 1841, Major-General (then Colonel) Sir Charles
+O'Donnell lunched at Rosamond's Bower; before luncheon Mr. Croker
+happened to point out to him the passage in the preface of the fourth
+volume of Moore's Works, p. xxxv, in which the poet says--
+
+    "With the melody entitled, 'Love, Valour, and Wit,' an incident is
+    connected, which awakened feelings in me of proud, but sad pleasure,
+    to think that my songs had reached the hearts of some of the
+    descendants of those great Irish families, who found themselves
+    forced, in the dark days of persecution, to seek in other lands a
+    refuge from the shame and ruin of their own;--those whose story I
+    have associated with one of their country's most characteristic
+    airs:--
+
+    'Ye Blakes and O'Donnells, whose fathers resign'd
+    The green hills of their youth, among strangers to find
+    That repose which at home they had sigh'd for in vain.'
+
+    "From a foreign lady, of this ancient extraction,--whose names, could
+    I venture to mention them, would lend to the incident an additional
+    Irish charm,--I received about two years since, through the hands of
+    a gentleman to whom it had been intrusted, a large portfolio, adorned
+    inside with a beautiful drawing representing Love, Wit, and Valour,
+    as described in the song.  In the border that surrounds the drawing
+    are introduced the favourite emblems of Erin, the harp, the shamrock,
+    the mitred head of St. Patrick, together with scrolls containing
+    each, inscribed in letters of gold, the name of some favourite melody
+    of the fair artist.
+
+    "This present was accompanied by the following letter from the lady
+    herself--"
+
+It is unnecessary to quote this letter, but the gentleman alluded to was
+Sir Charles O'Donnell, who had brought the parcel from the Continent, and
+being about to proceed to Canada, and personally unacquainted with Moore,
+requested Mr. Croker to get it safely delivered; who took the present
+opportunity of pointing out to Sir Charles this public acknowledgment
+that his commission had been executed.
+
+They had not been at luncheon many minutes when Mr. Moore was announced,
+and appeared to be no less pleased at meeting Sir Charles O'Donnell, than
+the latter was at being introduced to Moore.
+
+A few days afterwards, Mr. Croker received the following note from Mr.
+Moore:--
+
+    "_November_ 24, 1841.
+
+    "DEAR CROKER,
+
+    "I was obliged to leave London much sooner than I originally
+    intended, and thus lost the opportunity of paying you another visit.
+    . . .  My next visit to London will, I hope, be sufficiently free
+    from other avocations to allow me to devote a good deal of time to
+    the examination of your various treasures.  Pray give my kind
+    remembrances to Mrs. Croker.--I constantly think of my great good
+    luck in lighting by chance on so agreeable a dinner-party that day.
+    The only drawback was, that it spoiled me--both mentally and
+    physically speaking--for the dinner that followed.
+
+                                                        "Yours very truly,
+                                                           "THOMAS MOORE."
+
+The name of MOORE was subsequently cut by Mr. Croker on the back of a
+chair which the poet occupied during this visit.  It produced the
+following epigram by the Rev. Francis Mahony (Father Prout):--
+
+   "This is to tell o' days
+      When on this Cathedra,
+   He of the Melodies
+      Solemnly sat, agrah!"
+
+Mr. Thomas James Bell, the next tenant of 'Rosamond's Bower,' altered the
+name to 'Audley Cottage,' which it now bears, and the agreeable
+associations connected with the former title are in the recollection of
+many who may be unaware of the change, and may regret the substitution of
+a name, for which there appears to have been very little reason.
+
+Parson's Green Lane continues from Rosamond's Bower to Parson's Green.
+It is for the most part composed of small cottages.  On the left-hand
+corner of the Green is the 'White Horse' public-house, the sign of which
+was, some few years ago supported by the quaint piece of iron-work shown
+in the annexed cut.  It is now altered.
+
+          [Picture: Iron-work sign and White Horse Public-House]
+
+East End House, on the east side of the Green, next the pond, was
+originally built by Sir Francis Child, who was Lord Mayor of London, in
+1699.  It was afterwards the residence of Admiral Sir Charles Wager; and
+Dr. Ekins, Dean of Carlisle, died here 20th November, 1791.  The house
+was subsequently modernized by the late John Powell, and became the
+residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert, who erected the porch in front of the
+house as a shelter for carriages.  Here the Prince of Wales (afterwards
+George IV.) was a frequent visitor.  Piccolomini lived here for a short
+time lately.
+
+The celebrated Sir Thomas Bodley lived at Parson's Green from 1605 to
+1609.  The old mansion at the west side of the Green was formerly the
+Rectory House, and is traditionally reported to have been the residence
+of Adoniram Byfield, the noted Presbyterian Chaplain to Colonel
+Cholmondeley's regiment in the Earl of Essex's army, who took so
+prominent a part in Cromwellian politics, that he became immortalized in
+Hudibras.  [Picture: The Rectory House] An old stone building is noticed
+by Bowack in 1705, as adjoining this house, and presumed by him to be of
+three or four hundred years' standing, and in all probability a chapel
+for the rectors and their domestics.  This building was pulled down,
+according to Lysons, about the year 1742, and the house is now divided
+into two, that at the corner being occupied by Dr. Lauman's Academy.  At
+the south-west side of the Green is the old entrance to Peterborough
+House, a residence with the recollections of which the names of Locke,
+Swift, Pope, Gay, Prior, and a crowd of others are associated.
+
+The present Peterborough House, which is a little beyond the old brick
+gateway, was built by Mr. J. Meyrick, who died there in 1801.  Ho was the
+father of Sir Samuel Meyrick the well-known antiquary.  Ho purchased the
+house, in 1794, of R. Heavyside, Esq., and pulled down the old mansion
+that stood close to the site of the ancient maze, which became converted
+into a lawn at the rear of the modern house.  The place was originally
+[Picture: Old Gate of Peterborough House] termed Brightwells, or
+Rightwells, and here, in 1569, died John Tarnworth, Esq., one of
+Elizabeth's privy counsellors, who lies buried at Fulham.
+
+Brightwells afterwards belonged to Sir Thomas Knolles, who, in 1603, sold
+it to Sir Thomas Smith, who had been secretary to the unfortunate Earl of
+Essex, and became, under James I., Clerk of the Council, Latin Secretary,
+and Master of the Requests; and here he died in 1609, and was buried in
+the chancel of Fulham Church, where a handsome monument is erected to his
+memory.  After Sir Thomas Smith's death, his widow married the first Earl
+of Exeter, and continued to reside at Brightwells until her death, in
+1633.  Sir Thomas Smith's only daughter having married the Honourable
+Thomas Carey, the Earl of Monmouth's second son, he became possessed of
+the estate in right of his wife, and after him the place was called Villa
+Carey, which has led to the belief that old Peterborough House was built
+by him.  It stood facing the pond on Parson's Green, and at about the
+same distance from the road as the present house.  Francis Cleyne, who
+came over to England in the reign of Charles I., was certainly employed
+to decorate the rooms.  Mr. Carey died about 1635; and his widow, about
+five years afterwards, married Sir Edward Herbert, Attorney-General to
+King Charles.  Sir Edward was a firm loyalist, and resided at Parson's
+Green till the death of his royal master, when he accompanied Charles II.
+in his exile, who created him Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and he died
+abroad in 1657.  His estate was ordered to be sold with the estates of
+other loyalists in 1653, but the sale does not appear to have taken
+place, as Villa Carey, in 1660, was in the possession of Lord Mordaunt,
+who had married the daughter and heiress of Mr. Carey.  Lord Clarendon
+bears honourable testimony to the daring spirit and devoted zeal in the
+royal cause evinced by this "young gentleman," and to the no less
+chivalric conduct of his charming bride.
+
+    "He was," says the historian, "of great vigour of mind, and newly
+    married to a young and beautiful lady of a very loyal spirit and
+    notable vivacity of wit and humour, who concurred with him in all
+    honourable dedications of himself."
+
+When her husband was arrested and brought to trial in 1658, as a partizan
+of Charles II., by her contrivance one of the principal witnesses against
+him was kept out of the way, and his judges, being divided in their
+opinion of his guilt, he was acquitted only by the casting vote of the
+President, the notorious John Lisle, who had sat upon the trial of
+Charles I., by whom he was addressed in the following remarkable
+strain:--
+
+    "And I have now to speak to you Mr. Mordaunt: God hath appeared in
+    justice, and God doth appear in mercy, as the Lord is just to them,
+    so the Lord is exceeding merciful to you, and I may say to you that
+    God appears to you at this time, as he speaks to sinners in Jesus
+    Christ, for Sir, he doth clear sinners in Christ Jesus even when they
+    are guilty, and so God cleareth you.  I will not say you are guilty,
+    but ask your own conscience whether you are or no.  Sir, bless God as
+    long as you live, and bless my Lord Protector, by whose authority you
+    are cleared.  Sir, I speak no more, but I beseech you to speak to
+    God."
+
+The very active part which Lord Mordaunt had taken in effecting the
+restoration of Charles II., in which service, according to his epitaph,
+he "encountered a thousand dangers, provoking and also defeating the rage
+of Cromwell," was not rewarded by any extraordinary marks of distinction
+or favour, and he seems after that event to have quietly resided on his
+estate at Parson's Green, where he died in the forty-eighth year of his
+age, on the 5th June, 1675, and was buried in Fulham Church.  The son of
+Lord Mordaunt, who afterwards received the title of Earl of Peterborough,
+married first, Carey, daughter to Sir Alexander Fraser, of Dover.  His
+second wife was the accomplished singer Anastasia Robinson, who survived
+him.  The earl was visited at Peterborough House by all the wits and
+literati of his time.  Bowack, in 1706, describes the gardens of
+Peterborough House, as containing twenty acres of ground, and mentions a
+tulip-tree seventy-six feet in height, and five feet nine inches in
+girth.  Swift, in one of his letters, speaks of Lord Peterborough's
+gardens as the finest he had ever seen about London.
+
+On the same side of the Green as Peterborough House, stood the residence
+of Samuel Richardson, who removed to Parson's Green from North End in
+1755, and in this house his second wife, who survived him, died in
+November, 1773, aged seventy-seven.  Formerly the same house belonged to
+Sir Edward Saunders, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1682.  A
+sketch of the house will be found in Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English
+Literature.  Drury Lodge, situated on the King's Road adjoining Parson's
+Green, and immediately opposite the Malt House, formerly known as Ivy
+Cottage, was built by Walsh Porter in the Gothic style, and is now the
+residence of Mr. E. T. Smith, who has called the house after his theatre.
+The name of the lane which runs down by the side of Drury Lodge has,
+however, not been altered to _Drury_ Lane, but still retains its old
+title of Broom Lane.
+
+It is said that on the site of what is now called Drury Lodge, was
+formerly a house, the residence of Oliver Cromwell, which was called the
+_Old Red Ivy House_.  Part of the old walls of that building form the
+west side of the present cottage.
+
+Proceeding forward from Purser's Cross on the main Fulham Road, where St.
+Peter's Villa may be noticed as the residence of Madame Garcia in 1842,
+about a quarter of a mile brings us to Munster House, which is supposed
+to owe its name to Melesina Schulenberg, created by George II., in 1716,
+Duchess of Munster.  [Picture: Munster house (1844)] According to
+Faulkner, it was also called _Mustow_ House--this was not improbably the
+duchess's pronunciation; and he adds that tradition makes it a
+hunting-seat of Charles II., and asserts that an extensive park was
+attached to it; but Faulkner also tells us that Munster House "was during
+the greater part of the seventeenth century, the _residence_ and property
+of Sir William Powell, Bart., who founded the almshouses."  How, after
+this statement, Mr. Faulkner could have admitted the tradition, requires
+some explanation, as he seems to have followed, without acknowledgment,
+the particulars supplied to Lysons from authentic documents by Mr. Deere,
+of the Auditor's Office, who appears merely to have informed that
+gentleman, that among the title-deeds of this property there is one of
+Sir Edward Powell's, dated 1640, and that Sir William Powell's will bears
+date 1680.  According to the same unquestionable records, Munster House
+came from the Powells into the possession of Sir John Williams, Bart., of
+Pengethly, Monmouthshire.
+
+In 1795, Lysons says that Munster House was "occupied as a school."
+Faulkner, in 1813, states that it was "in the occupation of M. Sampayo, a
+Portuguese merchant."  And his successor in the tenancy was John Wilson
+Croker, Esq., M.P., then secretary of the Admiralty, and afterwards the
+Right Hon. Mr. Croker, {171} a gentleman who brilliantly retired into
+private life, but whose character is so well known, and has been so often
+discussed in political and literary circles, that I shall only venture to
+remark the local coincidence of three indefatigable secretaries of the
+Admiralty, during the most critical periods of England's history--namely,
+Sir Philip Stevens, Sir Evan Nepean, and Mr. Croker--having selected the
+quietude of Fulham as the most convenient and attractive position in the
+neighbourhood of London, where they might momentarily relax from the
+arduous strain of official duties.
+
+[Picture: Marble bust]
+
+About 1820, Mr. Croker resigned Munster House as a residence, after
+having externally decorated it with various Cockney embattlements of
+brick, and collected there many curious works of art, possibly with a
+view of reconstruction.  In the garden were two marble busts, one of
+which is figured on previous page.  The other a female head, not unlike
+that of Queen Anne.
+
+There was also a fragment of a group, representing a woman with a child
+at her side, obviously the decoration of a fountain, and a rustic stone
+seat, conjectured to have been the bed of a formidable piece of ordnance.
+
+              [Picture: Woman and child--Rustic stone seat]
+
+A recent tenant of Munster House, the Rev. Stephen Reid Cattley, who is
+known to the reading public as the editor of an issue of Fox's 'Book of
+Martyrs,' was unacquainted with the history of the relics in the garden,
+and can only remember the removal of two composition lions from the
+gate-piers of Munster House,--not placed there, it must be observed, by
+Mr. Croker, but which had the popular effect, for some time, of changing
+the name to _Monster House_.  It is now a Lunatic Asylum.  Opposite
+Munster House is Dancer's extensive garden for the supply of the London
+market, by the side of which a road runs leading by a turning on the left
+direct back to Parson's Green, or if the straight road is kept, the
+King's Road is reached opposite Osborn's Nursery; adjoining which nursery
+is Churchfield House, the residence of Dr. Burchell the African
+traveller.
+
+[Picture: Fulham Lodge] Fulham Lodge stood on the opposite, or south
+side, of the road from Munster House, on the ground immediately beyond
+Munster Terrace, which was built a short time prior to its demolition.
+This cottage, for it was no more, was a favourite retirement of the late
+Duke of York.  An affecting story is told by George Colman the younger,
+connected with his own feelings while on a visit here.  He had lost sight
+of an old college friend, the Rev. Robert Lowth, son of the Bishop of
+London, from the year 1781 to 1822 (one and forty years!), when Colman
+was surprised and pleased by the receipt of the following letter, written
+and left upon his table by a gentleman who had called when he was not at
+home:--
+
+                                                       "_August_ 16, 1822.
+
+    "DEAR COLMAN,--It may be some five-and-thirty years since we met, and
+    I believe as near forty years as may be since I was promoted from my
+    garret, No. 3 Peckwater, into your _ci-devant_ rooms in the old Quad,
+    on which occasion I bought your things.  Of all your household
+    furniture I possess but one article, which I removed with myself to
+    my first house and castle in Essex, as a very befitting parsonage
+    sideboard, viz., a mahogany table, with two side drawers, and which
+    still 'does the state some service,' though not of plate.  But I have
+    an article of yours on a smaller scale, a certain little flat
+    mahogany box, furnished partially, I should say, with cakes of paint,
+    which probably you over-looked, or undervalued as a _vade-mecum_, and
+    left.  And, as an exemplification of the great vanity of over-anxious
+    care, and the safe preservation _per contra_, in which an article may
+    possibly be found without any care at all, that paint-box is still
+    _in statu quo_, at this present writing, having run the gauntlet, not
+    merely of my bachelor days, but of the practical cruelties of my
+    thirteen children, all alive and merry, thank God! albeit as unused
+    and as little disposed to preserve their own playthings or chattels
+    from damage as children usually are, yet it survives!  'The reason
+    why I cannot tell,' unless I kept it 'for the dangers it had passed.'
+
+    "Though I have been well acquainted with you publicly nearly ever
+    since our Christ Church days, our habits, pursuits, and callings,
+    having cast us into different countries and tracts, we have not, I
+    think met since the date I speak of.  I have a house at Chiswick,
+    where I rather think this nine-lived box is, and, whether it is or
+    no, I shall be very glad if you will give me a call to dine, and take
+    a bed, if convenient to you; and if I cannot introduce you to your
+    old acquaintance and recollections, I shall have great pleasure in
+    substituting new ones,--Mrs. Lowth and eleven of our baker's dozen of
+    olive-branches, our present complement in the house department, my
+    eldest boy being in the West Indies, and my third having returned to
+    the military college last Saturday, his vacation furlough having
+    expired.  As the summer begins to borrow now and then an autumn
+    evening, the sooner you will favour me with your company the surer
+    you will be of finding me at Grove House, the expiration of other
+    holidays being the usual signal for weighing anchor and shifting our
+    moorings to parsonage point.  I remember you, or David Curson, had
+    among your phrases, _quondam_, one of anything being 'd---d
+    summerly;' I trust, however, having since tasted the delights of the
+    sweet shady side of Pall Mall, that you have worn out that prejudice,
+    and will catch the season before it flies us, or give me a line,
+    naming no distant day, that I may not be elsewhere when you call, and
+    you will much oblige, yours sincerely,
+
+                                                           "ROBERT LOWTH."
+
+    "P.S.--In your address to me you must not name _Chiswick_, but Grove
+    House, Turnham Green, as otherwise it goes into another postman's
+    walk, who walks it back again to the office, and it does not reach
+    me, per Turnham Green, peripatetic, till the next day, which is
+    _toute autre chose_."
+
+Colman seems to have been sincerely delighted at the receipt of this
+letter; he answered it immediately, expressing to his old friend how much
+he had gratified him, and how readily he accepted the invitation.
+
+    "After refreshing my friend's memory," says Colman, "by touching on
+    some particulars which have already been mentioned, I informed him
+    that I was of late years in the habit of suburban rustication, and
+    that I had passed a considerable part of my summers in a house where
+    I was intimate at Fulham, whither I desired him to direct to me, as
+    much nearer Chiswick than my own abode, being within a few hundred
+    yards of his old family residence, where we last parted.  Whenever I
+    was at this place, I told him the avenue and bishop's walk by the
+    river side, the public precincts of the moated episcopal domain, had
+    become my favourite morning and evening lounge.  I told him, indeed,
+    merely the fact, omitting all commentary attached to it, for often
+    had I then, and oftener have I since, in a solitary stroll down the
+    avenue, thought of him, regretting the wide chasm in our intercourse,
+    and musing upon human events."
+
+There is a regret expressed by Colman that he kept no copy of his answer,
+"which," he adds, "was written in the 'flow of soul,' and at the impulse
+of the moment?"  Mr. Lowth wrote in reply to Colman, detailing in a most
+amusing manner his having, in the pursuit of two Cockneys, who had made
+an attack upon a grove of Orleans plum-trees in his grounds, taken cold,
+which confined him to his room.
+
+    "But for this _inter poculum et labra_," continued Mr. Lowth, "it was
+    my intention to have made you my first _post restante_, with,
+    perhaps, a walk down the old avenue, in my way to town, that
+    identical day; and, still hoping to accomplish three miles and back,
+    I have hoped from day to day, but I cannot get in travelling
+    condition, even for so short a journey.  Therefore I hope you will
+    send me word by my new Yorkshire groom lad, that you will take
+    pot-luck with me on Sunday as the most likely day for you to
+    suburbise."
+
+Colman accepted the invitation, believing from the length of Mr. Lowth's
+letter (three pages), and the playfulness of his old friend's
+communication, that nothing more than an ordinary cold was the matter
+with him.  A note, however, which followed from one of Mr. Lowth's
+daughters, stated that the meeting proposed by her father must be
+postponed, that he "had become extremely unwell, that bleeding and
+cupping had been prescribed," and the most perfect quiet enjoined.
+
+On the day after the receipt of this note, Colman sent over to Grove
+House, Chiswick, to make inquiries as to Mr. Lowth's health, when the
+reply given by an elderly female at the gate, after considerable delay,
+was that "her master was no more."
+
+A letter from Dr. Badeley to Colman, dated 22d August, 1822, confirmed
+the melancholy intelligence, which he had at first hesitated to believe.
+It stated that "the decease of Mr. Lowth took place on Sunday evening,"
+the very evening appointed by him for their anticipated happy reunion;
+and that his remains were to be interred in the family vault at Fulham on
+Monday morning at ten o'clock.
+
+    "I continued," said Colman, "at Fulham Lodge, which is nearer in a
+    direct line to the church than to the Bishop's Palace and the 'old
+    avenue.'  On Monday the adjacent steeple gave early notice of the
+    approaching funeral; religion and sorrow mingled within me while the
+    slow and mournful tolling of the bell smote upon my heart.  Selfish
+    feelings, too, though secondary, might now and then obtrude, for they
+    are implanted in our nature.  My departed friend was about my own
+    age: we had entered the field nearly at the same time; we had fought,
+    indeed, our chief battles asunder, but in our younger days he had
+    been my comrade, close to me in the ranks: he had fallen, and my own
+    turn might speedily follow."
+
+These are the ideas which George Colman the younger records as having
+passed through his mind while an inmate of Fulham Lodge:--
+
+    "My walk next morning," he says, "was to the sepulchre of the Lowths,
+    to indulge in the mournful satisfaction of viewing the depository of
+    my poor friend's remains.  It stands in the churchyard, a few paces
+    from the eastern end of the ancient church at Fulham.  The
+    surrounding earth, trampled by recent footsteps, and a slab of marble
+    which had been evidently taken out and replaced in the side of the
+    tomb, too plainly presented traces of those rites, which had been
+    performed on the previous day.  For several mornings I repeated my
+    walk thither, and no summer has since glided away, except the last,
+    when my sojournment at Fulham was suspended, without my visiting the
+    spot and heaving a sigh to the memory of Robert Lowth."
+
+Theodore Hook's manuscript Diary contains the following entries with
+reference to visits made by him at Fulham Lodge:--
+
+    "2nd January, 1826.--Called.  Mrs. Carey's luncheon.
+
+    "Thursday, 5th January.--Drove over to Fulham.  Mrs. Carey's din.
+    Colman, Harris, Mrs. G.  Good hits.  Mrs. Coutts, 'Julius Caesar,'
+    &c.  Stayed very late, and walked home."
+
+Fulham Park Road is now where Fulham Lodge stood, and the ground is
+partly built on, the rest is to be let for building.
+
+This walk is exactly three miles and a half from Hyde Park Corner; and
+what an Irishman would call the iron mile-stone stood exactly opposite to
+Ivy Lodge, until placed against the brick wall immediately beyond the
+railings.
+
+Ivy Lodge was for some years the residence of Rudolph Ackermann, a name,
+as a printseller, known (it is not using too broad a word to say)
+throughout the world, and whose representatives still carry on this
+business in Regent Street.
+
+Ackermann was a remarkable man.  He was born in 1764, at Stollberg, near
+Schneeberg, in Saxony; and, having been bred a coach-builder, upon
+visiting England shortly before the French Revolution, found employment
+as a carriage-draughtsman, which led to his forming the acquaintance of
+artists, and becoming a print-publisher in London.  The French refugees,
+whose necessities obliged them to exercise their acquirements and talents
+as a means of support, found in Mr. Ackermann's shop a repository for the
+exhibition and sale of decorative articles, which elevated this branch of
+business to an importance that it had never before assumed in England.
+Ackermann's name stands prominently forward in the early history of gas
+and lithography in England, and he must be remembered as the introducer
+of a species of illustrated periodicals, by the publication of the
+'Forget-Me-Not;' to which, or to similar works, nearly every honoured
+contemporary name in the whole circle of British literature have
+contributed, and which have produced a certain, but advantageously a
+questionable, influence upon the Fine Arts.
+
+After the battle of Leipzig, Mr. Ackermann publicly advocated the cause
+of the starving population of many districts of Germany, in consequence
+of the calamities of war, with so much zeal and success, that a
+parliamentary grant of 100,000 pounds was more than doubled by a public
+subscription.  In the spring of 1830, when residing at Ivy Lodge, he
+experienced a sudden attack of paralysis; and a change of air was
+recommended by his medical attendants.  This led to Mr. Ackermann's
+removal to Finchley, where he died on the 30th of March, 1834.
+
+Having now arrived at Fulham, we will in the next chapter accompany the
+reader in a walk through that ancient village.
+
+                 [Picture: The Entrance to Fulham (1844)]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+
+FULHAM.
+
+In Faulkner's 'History of Fulham' we learn that the earliest mention of
+that village occurs in a grant of the manor by Tyrhtilus Bishop of
+Hereford, to Erkenwald Bishop of London, and his successors, about the
+year 691; in which grant it is called _Fulanham_.  Camden in his
+'Britannia' calls it _Fulham_, and derives its name from the Saxon word
+_Fulanham_, _Volucrum Domus_, the habitation of birds or place of fowls.
+Norden agrees with Camden, and adds, "It may also be taken for _Volucrum
+Amnis_, or the river of fowl; for _Ham_ also in many places signifies
+_Amnis_, a river, but it is most probable it should be of land fowl,
+which usually haunt groves and clusters of trees, whereof in this place
+it seemeth hath been plenty."  In Somner's and Lye's Saxon dictionaries
+it is called Fulanham, or Foulham, supposed from the dirtiness of the
+place.  The earliest historical event relating to Fulham, is the arrival
+of the Danes there in the year 879.  On the right hand side as we enter
+the village stands Holcrofts' _Hall_ (formerly Holcrofts') built about
+1708, which is worthy of mention as belonging to John Laurie, Esq., and
+as having been the residence of Sir John Burgoyne, where he gave some
+clever dramatic performances, distinguished not only for the considerable
+talent displayed by the actors, but remarkable for the scenery and
+machinery, considering the limited space, the whole of which was
+superintended by the Honourable Mr. Wrottesley, son of Lord Wrottesley,
+who afterwards married Miss Burgoyne, an admirable amateur actress: here
+it was that the celebrated Madame Vestris died, on the 8th August, 1856,
+in her 59th year.  During the time she lived there it was called Gore
+Lodge.  The house has been since tenanted for a short time by Mr. Charles
+Mathews and his present wife.  Holcroft's Priory, which is opposite, was
+built upon the site of Claybrooke House, mentioned by Faulkner.  In the
+back lane (Burlington Road) Fulham Almshouses are situated, opposite to
+Burlington House, formerly Roy's well-known academy, on the ground
+attached to which is now a Reformatory School, built about four years
+ago.  This lane leads to the termination of the King's Road by the Ship
+Tavern.  The Almshouses were originally built and endowed by Sir W.
+Powell, Bart., and were rebuilt in 1793.  The old workhouse (built 1774)
+still stands on the left-hand side of the High Street.  It has been in a
+dilapidated condition for many years, and is about to be pulled down.
+The Fulham and Hammersmith Union is now in Fulham Fields.  Cipriani lived
+in a house adjoining the workhouse.  Further on in Fulham High Street is
+the Golden Lion Inn.  There is a tradition that Bishop Bonner resided in
+the Old Golden Lion, and that it had a subterranean communication with
+the palace.  The late Mr. Crofton Croker read the following paper at the
+meeting of the British Archaeological Association at Warwick in 1847:--
+
+      ON THE PROBABILITY OF THE GOLDEN LION INN, AT FULHAM, HAVING BEEN
+           FREQUENTED BY SHAKESPEARE ABOUT THE YEARS 1595 AND 1596.
+
+    It is certainly extraordinary that of the personal history of a man
+    whose writings are of so high an order of genius that they may almost
+    be considered as works of inspiration, we should know so little, and
+    that conjecture should have to supply so much, as in the biography of
+    William Shakespeare.
+
+    Pilgrims as are we at this moment to the birth-place and the tomb of
+    the highest name in the literature of this country, we all feel that
+    we now tread the classic ground of England--ground too rich in
+    unquestionable memories of Shakespeare, to admit of any feeling of
+    jealousy in an attempt to connect his fame by circumstantial evidence
+    with any other locality.  I therefore venture to call attention to
+    the two following entries in the parish records of Fulham, a village
+    in the county of Middlesex, on the Thames, about four miles west of
+    London, and where the Bishop of London has a seat.
+
+    In an assessment made on the 12th October, 1625, for the relief of
+    the poor of Fulham side, John Florio, Esq., was rated at six
+    shillings, for his house in Fulham Street.
+
+    And in the same assessment upon the "Northend" of the parish, the
+    name of Robert Burbage occurs.
+
+    Meagre as this appears to be, and wide of the date at which I aim by
+    thirty years, it is all that I can produce in the shape of novel
+    documentary evidence for an attempt to connect the name of
+    Shakespeare with Fulham; the other points which I have to offer in
+    evidence being admitted facts, although no result has been deduced
+    from them.
+
+    In the High Street of Fulham stands a cleanly-looking brick house,
+    square in form and newly built, called the Golden Lion, where any
+    suburban traveller requiring refreshment may be supplied with a mug
+    of excellent ale and bread and cheese, in a parlour having a sanded
+    floor, the room, it must be confessed, smelling rather strongly of
+    tobacco smoke:--
+
+    "You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will--
+    But the scent of the roses will hang round it still;"--
+
+    And so it is, to my mind, with the tobacco smoke of the Golden Lion,
+    which stands upon the site of an old hostelry, or inn, of the Tudor
+    age, which was pulled down in April, 1836, and was described soon
+    afterwards in the 'Gentleman's Magazine.'  While the work of
+    destruction [Picture: Ancient tobacco pipe] was going on, a tobacco
+    pipe of ancient and foreign fashion was found behind the old
+    wainscot.  The stem was a crooked shoot of bamboo, through which a
+    hole had been bored, and a brass ornamental termination (of an
+    Elizabethan pattern) formed the head of the pipe.--Why may not this
+    have been the pipe of that Bishop of London who had risen into
+    Elizabeth's favour by attending Mary on the scaffold at Fotheringay,
+    and who, having fallen into disgrace in consequence of a second
+    marriage at an advanced period of his life, sought, we are told, in
+    the retirement of his house at Fulham, "to lose his sorrow in a mist
+    of smoke,"--and actually died there suddenly on the 15th June, 1596,
+    "while sitting in his chair and smoking tobacco?"
+
+    Could this have been the tobacco pipe produced at "Crowner's 'quest"
+    assembled at the Golden Lion to inquire into the cause of his
+    lordship's sudden death?  It is not even impossible that it may have
+    been produced there by his son, John Fletcher, whose name is
+    associated with that of Francis Beaumont in our literature.
+
+    Mr. Charles Knight has set the example of an imaginary biography of
+    Shakespeare, and has brought many probable and some improbable things
+    together on the subject.--Why, then, has he overlooked the Golden
+    Lion in Fulham?  The name of John Fletcher naturally leads to this
+    question.  At the time of his father's death, he was in his twentieth
+    year; and who will doubt that, at that period of his life, his
+    father's (the Bishop's) house was his home.  That he may have
+    resorted to the Golden Lion, and there have met with Shakespeare, is,
+    therefore, quite as probable as that our great dramatist associated
+    with Fletcher at the Falcon or the Mermaid, if good cause can only be
+    shown for Shakespeare's having had as much reason to frequent Fulham
+    as the Bank-side--or Borough of London.
+
+    I have already stated that Florio's house was assessed for the
+    poor-rate in Fulham Street, on the 12th October, 1625, the year of
+    Florio's death; and be it remembered that Florio was the translator
+    of Montaigne's Essays, of which a copy of the original edition,
+    bearing Shakespeare's very rare autograph, was not very long since
+    purchased by the British Museum, at what was considered to be a very
+    large price.  When the genuineness of that autograph was keenly
+    discussed among antiquaries, and the probable date at which the
+    'Tempest' was written, became a question, no one presumed to deny
+    that the coincidences between the passage in the 2nd Act of the
+    'Tempest' where Gonzalo says--
+
+    "I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
+    Execute all things; for _no kind of traffic_
+    Would I admit; _no name of magistrate_;
+    Letters should not be known: _riches_, _poverty_,
+    _And use of service_, none: contract, _succession_;
+    Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
+    No use of metal, corn or wine or oil;
+    No occupation; all men idle, all;
+    And women too; but innocent and pure:
+    No Sovereignty:"--
+
+    is but an echo of the following in Florio's translation of
+    Montaigne:--
+
+    --"It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath _no kind of
+    traffic_, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, _no
+    name of magistrate_, nor of politic superiority; no _use of service_,
+    of _riches_, or of _poverty_; no _contracts_, no _successions_; no
+    occupation, but idle, no respect of kindred but common; no apparel,
+    but natural; no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corn, or metal,"
+    etc.
+
+                                  * * * * *
+
+    There are other coincidences also, free from the very great
+    difficulty of reconciling satisfactorily printed dates with an
+    imaginary career--which coincidences are too remarkable to have
+    escaped the host of ingenious commentators upon the supposed sources
+    of Shakespeare's information--of his observation what shall I say?
+
+    The coincidence between passages in Daniel's "Civil Warres,"
+    published in 1595, and passages in Shakespeare's Richard II., induce
+    Mr. Charles Knight to observe that "We"--thereby meaning
+    himself--"have looked at this poem with some care, and we cannot
+    avoid coming to the conclusion that, with reference to parts of the
+    conduct of the story, and in a few modes of expression, each of which
+    differs from the general narrative and the particular language of the
+    chroniclers, there are similarities betwixt Shakespeare and Daniel
+    which would lead to the conclusion either that the poem of Daniel was
+    known to Shakespeare, or the play of Shakespeare was known to
+    Daniel."
+
+    This position is, indeed, established by Mr. Knight, who arrives
+    satisfactorily enough for his own conclusion, that of fixing the date
+    of the composition of Shakespeare's play to 1597; adding, candidly
+    enough, that "the exact date is really of very little importance; and
+    we should not have dwelt upon it had it not been pleasant to trace
+    resemblances between contemporary poets, who were themselves personal
+    friends."
+
+    Now, with regard to dates, and the disputed dates of the composition
+    of the 'Tempest,' it is important to ascertain who John Florio and
+    Samuel Daniel were.
+
+    We know that Florio was the Italian scholar of his day, and the Court
+    favourite.  We know that Daniel, whose name is now scarcely popularly
+    remembered, was helped into the office of poet-laureat by his
+    connection with Florio as his brother-in-law, by Florio's
+    recommendations to be the successor of "that poor poet, Edmund
+    Spenser."  Here, at once, by admitting Shakespeare's personal
+    intimacy with Florio and Daniel, with his knowledge of their
+    writings, there can be no question; and supposing that he had seen
+    Florio's translation of Montaigne in MS., much difficulty about dates
+    is got rid of, and we can account for Shakespeare's acquaintance with
+    Italian literature.
+
+    And allow me to add to this the fact noticed by Mr. Collier, in his
+    memoirs of the principal actors in the plays of Shakespeare, printed
+    for the Shakespeare Society, that Shakespeare's fellow-player, Henry
+    Condell, did some time sojourn at Fulham; for a tract printed in
+    1625, entitled 'The Runaway's Answer to a book "A Rod for Runaways,"'
+    in reply to a pamphlet published by Decker, is inscribed "to our much
+    respected and very worthy friend, Mr. H. Condell, at his country
+    house at Fulham."  Again, couple with the name of Condell that of
+    Burbadge, in 1625, at Fulham; is not the association most
+    extraordinary, although there is no further agreement in the
+    Christian name than the first letter, Robert being that in the Fulham
+    assessment of poor-rates, Richard that of Shakespeare's fellow-actor.
+    The family name of Burbadge, however, belongs not to Middlesex, but
+    to Warwickshire.  Alas! for the credit sake of 'Robert Burbadge, of
+    Northend, Fulham,' in the place in the poor-rate assessment of 1625,
+    where the sum should have been inserted, there is a blank; although
+    twenty-two of his neighbours at North End are contributors of sums
+    varying from 6s. 8d. to 1s.
+
+    Joshua Sylvester, who was born in 1563 or 1564, and died in 1618,
+    thus describes the village of North End, Fulham, where his uncle
+    Plumbe resided, and he (Sylvester) formed the attachment which is the
+    subject of his poem:--
+
+    I was wont (for my disport)
+    Often in the summer season,
+    To a Village to resort
+    Famous for the rathe ripe peason,
+    Where beneath a _Plumb_-tree shade
+    Many pleasant walks I made.
+
+    And Norden, whom we consider as the father of English topography,
+    dates the address "to all courteous gentlemen," prefixed to his
+    account of Middlesex and Hertfordshire, from his "poore home, near
+    Fulham, 4th November, 1596."
+
+    Here, then, we have a mass of facts, which render it impossible for
+    us to doubt that the Golden Lion, Fulham, must have been, according
+    to the custom of the times, frequented by Florio and his
+    brother-in-law Daniel; by Fletcher; by Henry Condell, Shakespeare's
+    fellow-player; by some one of the name of Burbadge; by Joshua
+    Sylvester, and John Norden, about the years 1595 and 1596.  Is there
+    not, then, every reasonable presumption that our immortal Shakespeare
+    was also a member of this clique?
+
+               [Picture: Fireplaces in the old Golden Lion]
+
+On the pulling down of the Old Inn by Mr. Powell, the panelling was
+purchased by Mr. Street, of Brewer Street, and was afterwards sold to
+Lord Ellenborough, for the fitting up of his Lordship's residence,
+Southam House, Cheltenham.
+
+Fulham High Street, which extends from the London Road to Church Row,
+appears to have been denominated Bear Street, and is called in the more
+ancient parish books Fulham Street.  The direct approach to Fulham Church
+is by Church Row, which branches off to the right of the High Street.  On
+the left of the churchyard entrance is the Vicarage.  The present vicar
+is the Rev. R. G. Baker.  Opposite the vicarage is a piece of ground,
+which was consecrated in 1843 by Bishop Blomfield, who is buried there.
+Upon this recent addition to the burial-ground formerly stood Miss
+Batsford's seminary for young gentlemen.  There are several curious old
+monuments in the church, which have been described and engraved by
+Faulkner, to whose work the curious reader may be referred.  In the
+churchyard are the tombs and monuments of several of the old bishops of
+London--Compton, Robinson, Hayter, Gibson, Terrick, Lowth, Sherlock, and
+Randolph.
+
+The grave of that distinguished author and brilliant wit, Theodore Hook,
+is immediately opposite the chancel window.  The stone bears the plain
+inscription "Theodore Edward Hook, died 24th August, 1841, in the
+fifty-third year of his age."
+
+           [Picture: Old entrance to Pryor's Bank, 1844] {188b}
+
+Leaving the church by the other entrance, we are in Church Lane.  The
+first house opposite the gate of the churchyard is Pryor's Bank, to which
+a separate chapter of our little volume is devoted, so that we can pass
+on immediately to the next house, Thames Bank, the present residence of
+Mr. Baylis, whose well-known taste will no doubt soon change its present
+aspect.  Granville Sharp's {188a} House stood opposite.  It was pulled
+down about twenty-five years ago.  John's Place (erected 1844) is on the
+site.
+
+Next to Thames Bank, formerly stood Egmont Villa, the residence of
+Theodore Hook, and the house in which he died, now pulled down, the back
+of which, is shown in the annexed sketch.  This house, though of the
+smallest dimensions, was fitted up with much good taste.  [Picture: Back
+of Egmont Villa] There was a small boudoir on the side of the
+drawing-room, which was very rich in articles of virtu, more especially
+in some remarkably fine carvings, attributed to Cellini, Brustolini, and
+others.  These were left to Hook by his brother, the late Dean of
+Worcester.  As an improvisatore, Hook was unapproachable.  In regard to
+his literary merits, let the following suffice, taken from the late Mr.
+Barham's life of Hook, published in 1848:--
+
+    "There can be no need," says the Editor, "at this day to enter upon
+    any lengthened criticism of Theodore Hook's merits as a novelist;
+    they have been discussed over and over again, with little variety of
+    opinion, by every reviewer of the kingdom.  Indeed, both his faults
+    and his excellencies lie on the surface, and are obvious and patent
+    to the most superficial reader; his fables, for the most part ill
+    knit and insufficient, disappoint as they are unfolded; repetitions
+    and omissions are frequent: in short, a general want of care and
+    finish is observable throughout, which must be attributed to the
+    hurry in which he was compelled to write, arising from the
+    multiplicity and distracting nature of his engagements.  His tendency
+    to caricature was innate; but even this would probably have been in a
+    great measure repressed, had he allowed himself sufficient time for
+    correction: while, on the contrary, in detached scenes, which sprang
+    up as pictures in his mind, replete with comic circumstance, in
+    brilliant dialogue and portraiture of character, not to mention those
+    flashes of sound wisdom with which ever and anon his pages are
+    lighted up, his wit and genius had fair play, revelling and rioting
+    in fun, and achieving on the spur of the moment those lasting
+    triumphs which cast into the shade the minor and mechanical blemishes
+    to which we have adverted."
+
+Hook was a successful dramatist, and an extensive journalist.  Of his
+novels, 'Gilbert Gurney' may be considered to be the most remarkable.
+
+Hook's furniture was sold by George Robins, in September, 1841.  In 1855
+the aqueduct was erected by the Chelsea Water Works Company, for
+conveying the water from Kingston-upon-Thames to the metropolis, and it
+was necessary that the contractor, Mr. Brotherhood, should get possession
+of Egmont Villa, to enable them to erect the tower on the Fulham side.
+Here the piles and timbers of the old Bishop's Ferry, used for the
+conveyance of passengers across the river from Putney to Fulham, before
+the old bridge was built, were discovered.  It was subsequently
+considered desirable to pull the villa down; and there now remains no
+trace of the house in which Hook lived and died, and which stood within a
+few paces of his grave.  Bowack mentions that Robert Limpany, Esq.,
+"whose estate was so considerable in the parish that he was commonly
+called the Lord of Fulham," resided in a neat house in Church Lane.  He
+died at the age of ninety-four.  Beyond the Pryor's Bank on the right, is
+the Bishop's Walk, which runs along the side of the Thames for some
+little distance, and from hence a view of the Bishop's Palace is
+obtained.  This palace has been from a very early period the summer
+residence of the Bishops of London.  The land consists of about 37 acres,
+and the whole is surrounded by a moat, over which are two bridges.
+
+Following the course of the Bishop's Walk, we come to the road leading to
+Craven Cottage, originally built by the Margravine of Anspach, when
+Countess of Craven, and since altered and improved by Walsh Porter, who
+occasionally resided in it till his death in 1809.  Craven Cottage was
+considered the prettiest specimen of cottage architecture then existing.
+The three principal reception-rooms were equally remarkable for their
+structure, as well as their furniture.  The centre, or principal saloon,
+supported by large palm-trees of considerable size, exceedingly well
+executed, with their drooping foliage at the top, supporting the cornice
+and architraves of the room.  The other decorations were in corresponding
+taste.  The furniture comprised a lion's skin for a hearth-rug, for a
+sofa the back of a tiger, the supports of the tables in most instances
+were four twisted serpents or hydras: in fact, the whole of the
+decorations of the room were of a character perfectly unique and uniform
+in their style.  This room led to a large Gothic dining-room of very
+considerable dimensions, and on the front of the former apartment was a
+very large oval rustic balcony, opposed to which was a large,
+half-circular library, that became more celebrated afterwards as the room
+in which the highly-gifted and talented author of 'Pelham' wrote some of
+his most celebrated works.
+
+Craven Cottage was the residence of the Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton,
+from whom it passed to Mr. Baylis, now of Thames Bank, who parted with it
+to Sir Ralph Howard, its present occupant, who removed the door shown in
+the annexed cut, through which the library is seen.
+
+            [Picture: Door of Egyptian Hall at Craven Cottage]
+
+Returning to Church Lane, we come out at the bridge, built in 1729, and
+close to which is Willow Bank, the late residence of Mr. Delafield and
+General Conyers.  The Ferry belonged to the See of London, and it was
+necessary that the consent of the Bishops should be had, for the erection
+of the bridge and consequent destruction of their Ferry; it was,
+therefore, stipulated for the right of themselves, their families, and
+all their dependents, that they should pass over the bridge toll free,
+which right exists at the present time; and passengers are often very
+much astonished at hearing the exclamation of "Bishop!" shouted out by
+the stentorian lungs of bricklayers, carpenters, or others, who may be
+going to the palace, that being the pass-word for the privilege of going
+over.  The architect of the bridge was the eminent surgeon, W. Cheselden,
+who died in 1752, and is buried in the graveyard attached to Chelsea
+Hospital.  His tomb is close to the railings of the new road, leading
+from Sloane Street to the Suspension Bridge at Chelsea.  Cheselden was
+for many years, surgeon of Chelsea Hospital.
+
+                        [Picture: The Swan Tavern]
+
+Standing by the Ferry is the Swan Tavern, a characteristic old house,
+with a garden attached, looking on to the river, and scarcely altered in
+any of its features since Chatelaine published his views of "The most
+agreeable Prospects near London," about 1740.  It is a good specimen of a
+waterside inn, and appears to have been erected about the time of William
+III.
+
+At the foot of the bridge is 'The Eight Bells' public-house, where the
+Fulham omnibuses leave for London.
+
+                   [Picture: Approach to Putney Bridge]
+
+Bridge Street brings us to the point at which we turned off at the
+termination of the High Street, and on the right-hand side as we look
+towards London is Church Street (formerly Windsor Street, according to
+Faulkner), leading up to the Ship Tavern, and thence into the King's
+Road.
+
+The Charity School is in Church Street.  This building was erected in
+1811.
+
+Retracing our steps towards London, we come to the George at Walham
+Green, which turns off to the left.  The church stands on the right hand
+side.  Opposite Walham House, near the church, is North End Lodge, the
+residence of the late Mr. Albert Smith, and where he died on the 23rd
+May, 1860.  As novelist, dramatist, and lecturer, he had achieved
+considerable reputation; and his unexpected death, at the early age of
+forty-four, brought to a sudden close the most popular monologue
+entertainment of this, or of any, time.  Mr. Smith was an amusing writer
+and a most genial companion, and was ever ready to assist a professional
+brother in the hour of need.  Against the brick wall, close to the gate
+of North End Lodge, is a slab with the inscription "From Hyde Park
+Corner, 3 miles 17 yards."  We are now in North End, where there are many
+houses of interest which deserve attention; we will therefore go out of
+the direct road and return to London by way of North End.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+
+    NORTH END.
+
+NORTH END may be described as a series of residences on each side the
+lane, more than a mile in length, which runs from the church at Walham
+Green to the main road from Kensington to Hammersmith.  There were but
+few houses in it when Faulkner published his map in 1813.  Market gardens
+were on both sides the road, and the gardeners cottagers were very old.
+[Picture: Panelled Door] The panelled door, here represented, was fitted
+to one of them, and evidently was fashioned in the seventeenth century.
+The celebrated bookseller, Jacob Tonson, lived for some time at North
+End.  At York Cottage, which is on the right hand side of the road, about
+a quarter of a mile from the church, resided for many years Mr. J. B.
+Pyne, the landscape painter.  At a short distance beyond, the road from
+Old Brompton crosses into Fulham Fields.  Here, at one corner, is a house
+(Hermitage Lodge) which was originally constructed as stables to the
+residence of Foote, the dramatist and comedian, {196} which still stands
+on the opposite side of the road leading to Brompton, and where he lived
+for many years, expending large sums upon its improvement.  It is now
+called "The Hermitage," and is completely surrounded by a large garden
+enclosed by high walls.
+
+           [Picture: Hermitage Lodge (1844) and The Hermitage]
+
+Exactly opposite to this house, in the angle of the road, stands an old
+house in a moderate-sized garden (Cambridge Lodge).  Francis Bartolozzi,
+the celebrated engraver, who arrived in England in 1764, came to reside
+here in 1777.  He was born at Florence in 1730, and died at Lisbon in
+1813.  His son, Gaetano Bartolozzi, father to the late Madame Vestris,
+was born in 1757, and died August 25th, 1813.  Passing up the road,
+beside market gardens, is the old garden wall of Normand House, with some
+curious brick gates (now closed in): the house is very old; the date,
+1661, is in the centre arch, over the principal gateway, and it is said
+to have been used as a hospital for persons recovering from the Great
+Plague in 1665.  [Picture: Bartolozzi's House] Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has
+resided here.  In 1813 "it was appropriated for the reception of insane
+ladies" (Faulkner), and it is now a lunatic asylum for ladies, with the
+name of "Talfourd" on a brass plate.  A little further on the road, out
+of which we have turned, is a cottage to the right named Wentworth
+Cottage.  Here Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall once resided.  The willow in front
+of the cottage was planted by them from a slip of that over the grave of
+Napoleon at St. Helena.  The land opposite this cottage is now to be let
+on building lease.  This district, now known as "Fulham Fields," was
+formerly called "No Man's Land," and according to Faulkner, the local
+historian, contained, in 1813, "about six houses."  One of these was "an
+ancient house, once the residence of the family of Plumbe," which was
+pulled down about twenty-three years ago, and replaced by a cluster of
+dwellings for the labourers in the surrounding market gardens, which
+extend from Walham Green nearly to the Thames in a north-west direction;
+"the North End Road," as it is called, forming the eastern boundary of
+"Fulham Fields."  To establish the connection of Sylvester's lines,
+quoted in the late Mr. Crofton Croker's Paper on the "Golden Lion," with
+this locality, the antiquary who pointed it out observed that--
+
+    "Our poet had an uncle named William Plumbe, who resided at North
+    End, Fulham, having married the widow of John Gresham, the second son
+    of Sir John Gresham, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1547, and which
+    lady was the only daughter and heir of Edward Dormer of Fulham.  Here
+    it was, while visiting his uncle, that Sylvester formed the
+    attachment which is the subject of his poem (see the folio edition of
+    his works, 1621).  Uncle Plumbe had been a widower; and from
+    monuments which exist, or existed, in the parish church of Fulham,
+    appears to have departed this life on the 9th February, 1593-4, aged
+    sixty.  In the previous May, his widow had lost her son Edmund (or
+    Edward) Gresham, at the age of sixteen; and seriously touched by the
+    rapid proofs of mortality within her house, from which the hand of
+    death had within twelve months removed both a husband and a child,
+    made preparations for her own demise by recording her intention to
+    repose beside their remains: and to her husband's memory she raised,
+    in Fulham Church, a monument 'of alabaster, inlaid and ornamented
+    with various-coloured marble,' leaving a space after her name for the
+    insertion of the date of her death and age, which appear never to
+    have been supplied."
+
+The arms of "Dormer, impaled with Gresham," we are told remain, "those of
+Plumbe are gone."  Sylvester's "Triumph of Faith" is consecrated "to the
+grateful memory of the first kind fosterer of our tender Muses, by my
+never sufficiently honoured dear uncle, W. Plumb, Esq."  It is not our
+intention to linger over the recollections connected with the age of
+Elizabeth in Fulham Fields or at North End, although there can be no
+doubt that a little research might bring some curious local particulars
+to light connected with the history of the literature, the drama, and the
+fine arts of that period,
+
+The gardens here provide the London markets with a large supply of
+vegetables.  A very primitive form of draw-well was common here,
+consisting of a pole, balanced horizontally on an upright, the bucket
+being affixed to a rope at one end.  [Picture: Draw-well] The pole is
+pulled downward for the bucket to descend the well, and when filled, is
+raised by the weight of wood attached to the opposite end of the pole.
+This mode of raising water is still in use in the East, and Wilkinson, in
+his 'Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,' Series I. vol. ii. p.
+4, has engraved representations of this machine, from paintings on the
+walls of Thebes, of the time of the Pharaohs.  [Picture: Cottage in
+Fulham Fields] In "Fulham Fields" are still standing many old cottages,
+inhabited by market-gardeners.  A sketch, taken in 1844, of one of the
+best examples then existing, is here given as a specimen.
+
+A little beyond "Wentworth Cottage," the road branches off, the turning
+to the right going to Hammersmith, and that to the left leading to
+Fulham.  Hammersmith was a part of Fulham until 1834, when it was formed
+into a separate parish by Act of Parliament.
+
+[Picture: Elm House] Returning to the lane at North End, immediately
+beyond Bartolozzi's house, is an old wall, apparently of the time of
+Charles II., enclosing a tall peculiar-looking house, now called Elm
+House, once the residence of Cheeseman the engraver, of whom little is
+known, except that he was a pupil of Bartolozzi, and lived in Newman
+Street about thirty years ago.  He is said to have been very fond of
+music, and having a small independence and less ambition, he was content
+to engrave but little, and with his violoncello and musical friends,
+passed a very happy life.
+
+A little further on the opposite side of the road stood Walnut-Tree
+Cottage (pulled down in 1846), once the residence of Edmund Kean, and
+also of Copley the artist, which took its name from the tree in the
+fore-court.  [Picture: Walnut-Tree Cottage] We then come to the North End
+Sunday and Day Schools, erected in 1857.  The road here curves round by
+the wall of Kensington Hall, a large mansion on the right, built by
+Slater, the well-known butcher of Kensington, and it has been called in
+consequence Slater's Mansion.  It is at present a school, kept by Mr. and
+Mrs. Johnson, but it is to be let or sold.
+
+A little further to the left is Deadman's Lane.  Here, in the midst of
+garden grounds, stands a venerable and isolated fabric, which would
+appear to have been built in the reign of James I.  This lane leads to
+Hammersmith, but a more agreeable way has been made opposite Edith
+Villas, called Edith Road.  The land is to be let on building lease; and
+here once stood the house of Cipriani, the painter.  [Picture: Cipriani's
+House] Cipriani was born at Florence, in 1727, and died in London in
+1785.  He came to England in 1755; and he was one of the members of the
+Royal Academy at its foundation in 1769, when he was employed to make the
+design for the diploma given to Academicians and Associates on their
+admission, which was engraved by Bartolozzi.  The character and works of
+this artist are thus described by Fuseli: "The fertility of his
+invention, the graces of his composition, and the seductive elegance of
+his forms, were only surpassed by the probity of his character, the
+simplicity of his manners, and the benevolence of his heart."  A few
+plates were engraved by himself after his own designs.
+
+Another curve of the road brings us to the site of Dr. Crotch's house,
+where a row of houses, called Grove Cottages, have been built.  [Picture:
+Dr. Crotch's House] Dr. Crotch was, in 1797, at the early age of
+twenty-two, appointed Professor of Music in the University of Oxford,
+where he received the degree of Doctor of Music.  In 1822 he was
+appointed Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.  He performed for the
+last time in public in 1834 in Westminster Abbey, during the royal
+festival, and died 20th December, 1847, while sitting at dinner.  Dr.
+Crotch has composed numerous pieces for the organ and pianoforte, and
+published, in 1812, 'Elements of Musical Composition and Thorough Bass,'
+and subsequently specimens of various styles of music of all ages.  W.
+Wynne Ryland, the engraver, lived in this house before Dr. Crotch
+inhabited it.
+
+Opposite where Dr. Crotch's house formerly stood, facing a turning which
+is called on one side Lawn Terrace, on the other Ashton Terrace, is a
+large brick mansion inhabited by Richardson the novelist before his
+removal to Parson's Green.  It is of the period of William III., the
+appearance of which may be recognized from the annexed sketch.  In the
+garden was a summer-house, in which the novelist wrote before the family
+were up, and he afterwards, at the breakfast table, communicated the
+progress of his story.  [Picture: House of Richardson] How little the
+exterior has been altered in the last fifty years, a comparison of this
+sketch, made in 1844, with the print prefixed to the 4th volume of
+Richardson's 'Correspondence,' will show at a glance.  Sir Richard
+Phillips's print was published by him May 26, 1804.  Then, as now, this
+mansion was divided into two houses, and the half nearest to the eye was
+that occupied by the novelist, the other half was the residence of a Mr.
+Vanderplank, a name which frequently occurs in 'Richardson's
+Correspondence.'  Richardson's house has been subsequently inhabited by
+the late Sir William and Lady Boothby, the latter, better known to the
+public as that charming actress Mrs. Nisbett.  A few extracts from
+'Richardson's Correspondence' may here prove interesting.
+
+One of the most romantic incidents in the business-like and hospitable
+life of Richardson, was his correspondence with, and introduction to Lady
+Bradshaigh, the wife of a Lancashire Baronet, whom he tried to prevail
+upon to visit him at North End.  After the appearance of the fourth
+volume of Clarissa Harlowe, a lady, who signed herself Belfour, wrote to
+Richardson, stating a report that prevailed, that the history of Clarissa
+was to terminate in a most tragical manner, and requesting that her
+entreaties may avert so dreadful a catastrophe.
+
+This correspondence with Mrs. Belfour commenced in October, 1748; and she
+thus concludes her letter to the novelist, her ladyship taking care to
+mystify her identity by giving her address, Post-office, Exeter, although
+resident at Haigh in Lancashire.  "If you disappoint me," she writes,
+"attend to my curse."
+
+    "May the hatred of all the young, beautiful, and virtuous for ever be
+    your portion, and may your eyes never behold anything but age and
+    deformity!  May you meet with applause only from envious old maids,
+    surly bachelors, and tyrannical parents; may you be doomed to the
+    company of such! and after death may their ugly souls haunt you!
+
+    "Now make Lovelace and Clarissa unhappy if you dare!
+
+    "Perhaps you may think all this proceeds from a giddy girl of
+    sixteen; but know I am past my romantic time of life, though young
+    enough to wish two lovers happy in a married state.  As I myself am
+    in that class, it makes me still more anxious for the lovely pair.  I
+    have a common understanding, and middling judgment, for one of my
+    sex, which I tell you for fear you should not find it out."
+
+The correspondence thus commenced goes on, until the vanity of Richardson
+induces him to describe to his unknown correspondent his private
+circumstances: and to a hint given in the January following by Lady
+Bradshaigh, of her intention to visit London before she is a year older,
+when she "shall long to see" Mr. Richardson, and "perhaps may contrive
+_that_, though unknown to him," he replies,--
+
+    "But do not, my dear correspondent (still let me call you so) say,
+    that you will see me, _unknown to myself_, when you come to town.
+    Permit me to hope, that you will not be personally a stranger to me
+    then."
+
+This is followed by an acknowledgment from Madame Belfour, that she is
+not his "Devonshire lady," having but very little knowledge of the place,
+though she has a friend there; observing archly, "_Lancashire_, if you
+please;" adding an invitation, if he is inclined to take a journey of two
+hundred miles, with the promise of "a most friendly reception from two
+persons, who have great reason to esteem" him "a very valuable
+acquaintance."
+
+Richardson responded to this invitation by another--
+
+    "But I will readily come into any proposal you shall make, to answer
+    the purpose of your question; and if you will be so cruel as to keep
+    yourself still incognito, will acquiesce.  I wish you would accept of
+    our invitation on your coming to town.  _But three little miles from
+    Hyde Park Corner_.  I keep no vehicle."
+
+(This was before the age of omnibuses.)
+
+    --"but one should be at yours, and at your dear man's command, as
+    long as you should both honour us with your presence.  You shall be
+    only the sister, the cousin, the niece--the what you please of my
+    incognito, and I will never address you as other than what you choose
+    to pass for.  If you knew, Madam, you would not question that I am in
+    earnest on this occasion; the less question it, as that at my little
+    habitation near Hammersmith, I have common conveniences, though not
+    splendid ones, to make my offer good."
+
+Richardson, in the letter from which this passage has been extracted, is
+again led away by his vanity into a description of his person, and very
+plainly hints at a meeting in the Park, through which he goes "once or
+twice a week to" his "little retirement."  He describes himself as
+
+    "Short, rather plump than emaciated, about five foot five inches;
+    fair wig; lightish cloth coat, all black besides; one hand generally
+    in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the
+    skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a
+    support, when attacked by sudden tremors or startings and dizziness."
+    . . . "Of a light-brown complexion; teeth not yet failing him;
+    smoothish faced and ruddy cheeked; at some times looking to be about
+    sixty-five, at other times much younger; a regular even pace,
+    stealing away ground, rather than seeming to get rid of it; a grey
+    eye, too often overclouded by mistiness from the head; by chance
+    lively--very lively it will be if he have hope of seeing a lady whom
+    he loves and honours; his eye always on the ladies"--and so on.
+
+In return to this description, Lady Bradshaigh on the 16th December,
+1749, half promises a meeting in an appointed place, for she tells the
+elderly gentleman with "a grey eye, too often overclouded by mistiness
+from the head," but "by chance lively," "that she will attend the Park
+every fine warm day, between the hours of one and two.  I do not," adds
+this perfect specimen of a literary coquette,
+
+    "Say this to put you in the least out of your way, or make you stay a
+    moment longer than your business requires; for a walk in the Park is
+    an excuse she uses for her health; and as she designs staying some
+    months in town, if she misses you one day she may have luck another."
+
+And Lady Bradshaigh proceeds to present, as if in ridicule of
+Richardson's portrait as drawn by himself, her own.
+
+    "In surprise or eagerness she is apt to think aloud; and since you
+    have a mind to see _her_, who has seen the King, I give you the
+    advantage of knowing she is middle aged, middle sized, a degree above
+    plump, brown as an oak wainscot, a good deal of country red in her
+    cheeks: altogether a plain woman, but nothing remarkably forbidding."
+
+Any one might think that a meeting would immediately have followed these
+communications, and that the novel-writer and the novel-reader would have
+presented themselves to each other's gaze for admiration, at the time and
+place appointed, and thus the affair which their letters have left upon
+record might have been satisfactorily wound up in one volume.  But this
+did not accord with the sentimental typographical taste of the times,
+which required the dilution of an idea into seven or eight volumes to
+make it palatable.  For we are told that a young Cantab, who, when asked
+if he had read Clarissa, replied, "D---n it, I would not read it through
+to save my life," was set down as an incurable dunce.  And that a lady
+reading to her maid, whilst she curled her hair, the seventh volume of
+Clarissa, the poor girl let fall such a shower of tears that they wetted
+her mistress's head so much, she had to send her out of the room to
+compose herself.  Upon the maid being asked the cause of her grief, she
+said, "Oh, madam, to see such goodness and innocence in such distress,"
+and her lady rewarded her with a crown for the answer.
+
+January the 9th (1749-50) has arrived--the tantalizing Lady Bradshaigh,
+the unknown Mrs. Belfour has been in London six weeks, and the novelist
+begins "not to know what to think" of his fair correspondent's wish to
+see him.  "May be so," he writes,
+
+    "But with such a desire to be in town three weeks; on the 16th
+    December to be in sight of my dwelling, and three weeks more to
+    elapse, yet I neither to see or hear of the lady; it cannot be that
+    she has so strong a desire."
+
+Let any one imagine the ridiculousness of the situation of "dear, good,
+excellent Mr. Richardson" at this time.  He had, he confesses,
+
+    "Such a desire to see one who had seen the King, that" (he speaking
+    of himself, says) "though prevented by indisposition from going to my
+    little retirement on the Saturday, that I had the pleasure of your
+    letter, I went into the Park on Sunday (it being a very fine day) in
+    hopes of seeing such a lady as you describe, contenting myself with
+    dining as I walked, on a sea biscuit which I had put in my pocket, my
+    family at home, all the time, knowing not what was become of me.--A
+    Quixotte!
+
+    "Last Saturday, being a fine warm day, in my way to North End, I
+    walked backwards and forwards in the Mall, till past your friend's
+    time of being there (she preparing, possibly, for the Court, being
+    Twelfth Night!) and I again was disappointed."
+
+On the 28th January, nineteen days after this was written, Lady
+Bradshaigh, in a letter full of satirical banter, which, however, it may
+be questionable if Richardson did not receive as replete with the highest
+compliments to his genius, says,
+
+    "Indeed, Sir, I resolved, if ever I came to town, to find out your
+    haunts, if possible, and I have not 'said anything that is not,' nor
+    am at all naughty in this respect, for I give you my word, endeavours
+    have not been wanting.  You never go to public places.  I knew not
+    where to look for you (without making myself known) except in the
+    Park, which place I have frequented most warm days.  Once I fancied I
+    met you; I gave a sort of a fluttering start, and surprised my
+    company; but presently recollected you would not deceive me by
+    appearing in a grey, instead of a whitish coat; besides the cane was
+    wanting, otherwise I might have supposed you in mourning."
+
+Could anything exceed this touch about "a grey, instead of a whitish
+coat," except the finishing one of the "mole upon your left cheek?"
+
+    "To be sure on the Saturday you mention, I was dressing for court, as
+    you supposed, and have never been in the Park upon a Sunday; but you
+    cannot be sure that I have not seen you.  How came I to know that you
+    have a mole upon your left cheek?  But not to make myself appear more
+    knowing than I am, I'll tell you, Sir, that I have only seen you in
+    effigy, in company with your Clarissa at Mr. Highmore's, where I
+    design making you another visit shortly."
+
+All this and much more is followed by a most tantalizing and puzzling
+P.S. to poor Richardson.  His fair, or rather "brown as an oak-wainscot,
+with a good deal-of-country-red in her cheeks" correspondent, requests
+him "to direct only to C. L., and enclose it to Miss J., to be left at
+Mrs. G.'s" etc. etc., previously observing that, "whenever there happens
+to be a fine Saturday I shall look for you in the Park, that being the
+day on which I suppose you are called that way."
+
+Roused into desperation, Richardson on the 2nd February writes to Mrs.
+Belfour as follows:--
+
+    "What pains does my unkind correspondent take to conceal herself!
+    Loveless thought himself at liberty to change names without Act of
+    Parliament.  I wish, madam, that Lovelace--'A sad dog,' said a
+    certain lady once, 'why was he made so wicked, yet so agreeable?'
+
+    "Disappointed and chagrined as I was on Friday night with the return
+    of my letter, directed to Miss J---, rejected and refused to be taken
+    in at Mrs. G---'s, and with my servant's bringing me word that the
+    little book I sent on Thursday night, with a note in it, was also
+    rejected; and the porter (whom I have never since seen or heard of,
+    nor of the book) dismissed with an assurance that he must be wrong;
+    my servant being sent from one Mrs. G--- to another Mrs. G--- at
+    Millbank; yet I resolved to try my fortune on Saturday in the Park in
+    my way to North End.  The day indeed, thought I, is not promising;
+    but where so great an earnestness is professed, and the lady possibly
+    by this time made acquainted with the disappointment she has given
+    me, who knows but she will be carried in a chair to the Park, to make
+    me amends, and there reveal herself?  Three different chairs at
+    different views saw I.  My hope, therefore, not so very much out of
+    the way; but in none of them the lady I wished to see.  Up the Mall
+    walked I, down the Mall, and up again, in my way to North End.  O
+    this dear Will-o'-wisp, thought I! when nearest, furthest off!  Why
+    should I, at this time of life?  No bad story, the consecrated rose,
+    say what she will: and all the spiteful things I could think of I
+    muttered to myself.  And how, Madam, can I banish them from my
+    memory, when I see you so very careful to conceal yourself; when I
+    see you so very apprehensive of my curiosity, and so very little
+    confiding in my generosity?  O Madam! you know me not! you will not
+    know me!
+
+    "Yesterday, at North End, your billet, apologizing for the
+    disappointment was given me.  Lud! lud! what a giddy appearance!
+    thought I.  O that I had half the life, the spirit! of anything worth
+    remembering I could make memorandums.
+
+    "Shall I say all I thought?  I will not.  But if these at last reach
+    your hands, take them as written, as they were, by Friday night, and
+    believe me to be,
+
+                                                                   "Madam,
+                                         "Your admirer and humble Servant,
+                                                          "S. RICHARDSON."
+
+Sir Walter Scott says, that "the power of Richardson's painting of his
+deeper scenes of tragedy has never been, and probably never will be,
+excelled;" and in Mrs. Inchbald's 'Life of Richardson,' we read, that "as
+a writer he possessed original genius, and an unlimited command over the
+tender passions."  He carried on a foreign literary correspondence, and
+was on terms of intimacy with many eminent and literary persons of his
+time, particularly Dr. Young, Dr. Johnson, Aaron Hill, and Arthur Onslow,
+Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons.
+
+A short distance further on, we enter the Hammersmith Road, opposite a
+tavern called "The Bell and Anchor," which stands beside the turnpike,
+and passing about twenty shops on the left towards Hammersmith, we notice
+in the fore-court of a house called "The Cedars," two noble cedar trees
+of immense girth, one of which is represented in the accompanying cut.
+This was formerly the residence of Sir James Branscomb, who, according to
+Faulkner, "in his early days had been a servant to the Earl of
+Gainsborough, and afterwards, for upwards of forty years, carried on a
+lottery office in Holborn.  He was a common-councilman of the Ward of
+Farringdon Without, and received the honour of knighthood during his
+shrievalty."  The house has been a ladies' boarding-school for many
+years.  From the Kensington Road we can return direct to London, having
+in this chapter departed from our even course on the Fulham Road for the
+purpose of visiting the North End district.
+
+            [Picture: Tree in the fore-court of "The Cedars"]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+
+THE PRYOR'S BANK, FULHAM.
+
+Nestling in trees beneath the old tower of Fulham Church, which has been
+judiciously restored by Mr. George Godwin, there may be seen from Putney
+Bridge a remarkable group of houses, the most conspicuous of which will
+be conjectured from a passing glance to belong to the Gothic tribe.  This
+house, which has been a pet kind of place of the Strawberry Hill class,
+is called the Pryor's Bank, and its history can be told in much less than
+one hundredth part of the space that a mere catalogue of the objects of
+interest which it has contained would occupy.  In fact, the whole
+edifice, from the kitchen to the bedrooms, was a few years since a
+museum, arranged with a view to pictorial effect; and if it had been
+called "The Museum of British Antiquities" it would have been found
+worthy of the name.
+
+In a print, published about forty years since, by J. Edington, 64
+Gracechurch Street, of Fulham Church, as seen from the river, the ancient
+aspect of the modern Pryor's Bank is preserved.  [Picture: Fulham Church]
+The situation of this humble residence having attracted the fancy of Mr.
+Walsh Porter, he purchased it, raised the building by an additional
+story, replaced its latticed casements by windows of coloured glass, and
+fitted the interior with grotesque embellishments and theatrical
+decorations.  The entrance hall was called the robber's cave, for it was
+constructed of material made to look like large projecting rocks, with a
+winding staircase, and mysterious in-and-out passages.  [Picture: Vine
+Cottage] One of the bed-rooms was called, not inaptly, the lion's den.
+The dining-room represented, on a small scale, the ruins of Tintern
+Abbey; and here Mr. Porter had frequently the honour of receiving and
+entertaining George IV., when Prince of Wales.  It was then called Vine
+Cottage, {213} and having been disposed of by Mr. Porter, became, in
+1813, the residence of Lady Hawarden; and, subsequently, of William
+Holmes, Esq., M.P., who sold it to Mr. Baylis and Mr. Lechmere Whitmore
+about 1834.
+
+By them a luxurious vine which covered the exterior was cut down, and the
+cottage, named after it, replaced by a modern antique house.  Mr. Baylis
+being a zealous antiquary, his good taste induced him to respect
+neglected things, when remarkable as works of art, and inspired him and
+his friend Mr. Whitmore with the wish to collect and preserve some of the
+many fine specimens of ancient manufacture that had found their way into
+this country from the Continent, as well as to rescue from destruction
+relics of Old England.  In the monuments and carvings which had been
+removed from dilapidated churches, and in the furniture which had been
+turned out of the noble mansions of England--the "Halls" and "old
+Places"--Mr. Baylis saw the tangible records of the history of his
+country; and, desirous of upholding such memorials, he gleaned a rich
+harvest from the lumber of brokers' shops, and saved from oblivion
+articles illustrative of various tastes and periods, that were daily in
+the course of macadamisation or of being consumed for firewood.
+
+The materials thus acquired were freely used by him in the construction
+of a new building upon the site of Vine Cottage, and adapted with
+considerable skill; but when neither the vine nor the cottage were in
+existence, it appeared to Mr. Baylis ridiculous to allow a misnomer to
+attach itself to the spot.  After due deliberation, therefore, respecting
+the situation upon a delightful bank of gravel, and the association which
+an assemblage of ecclesiastic carvings and objects connected with
+"monkish memories," there collected, were likely to produce upon the
+mind, the new house was styled the "Pryor's Bank."
+
+As Horace Walpole's villa was celebrated by the Earl of Bath, so the
+charms of the Pryor's Bank have been sung in "the last new ballad on the
+Fulham regatta"--a _jeu d'esprit_ circulated at an entertainment given by
+the hospitable owners in 1843:--
+
+   "Strawberry Hill has pass'd away,
+   Every house must have its day;
+   So in antiquarian rank
+   Up sprung here the Pryor's Bank,
+   Full of glorious tapestry,--
+   Full as well as house can be:
+   And of carvings old and quaint,
+   Relics of some mitr'd saint,
+   'Tis--I hate to be perfidious--
+   'Tis a house most sacrilegious.
+
+   "Glorious, glowing painted glass,
+   What its beauty can surpass?
+   Shrines bedeck'd with gems we see,
+   Overhung by canopy
+   Of embroider'd curtains rare--
+   Wondrous works of time and care!
+   Up stairs, down stairs, in the hall,
+   There is something great or small
+   To attract the curious eye
+   Into it to rudely pry.
+
+   "Here some niche or cabinet
+   Full of rarities is set;
+   Here some picture--'precious bit'--
+   There's no time to dwell on it;
+   Bronzes, china--all present
+   Each their own sweet blandishment.
+   But what makes our pleasure here,
+   Is our welcome and our cheer;
+   So I'll not say one bit more,--
+   Long live Baylis and Whitmore!"
+
+I would endeavour to convey some idea of the Pryor's Bank and its now
+dispersed treasures as they were in 1840, in which year we will suppose
+the reader to accompany us through the house and grounds; but before
+entering the house, I would call attention to a quiet walk along the
+garden-terrace, laved to its verdant slope by the brimming Thames.
+[Picture: Terrace at Pryor's Bank] Suppose, then, we leave those
+beautiful climbing plants--they are Chilian creepers that so profusely
+wanton on the sunny wall--and turning sharply round an angle of the river
+front, cut at once, by the most direct walk, the parties who in luxurious
+idleness have assembled about the garden fountain; and, lest such folk
+should attempt to interrupt us in our sober purpose, let us not stop to
+see or admire anything, until we reach the bay-window summer-house at the
+end of the terrace.  "How magnificent are those chestnut-trees!" I hear
+you exclaim; "and this old bay-window!"
+
+Ay, this summer-house which shelters us, and those noble balusters which
+protect the northern termination of the terrace, how many thoughts do
+they conjure up in the mind!  [Picture: Fountain at Pryor's Bank] These
+balusters belonged to the main staircase of Winchester House.  Do you
+remember Winchester House in Broad Street, in the good city of London,
+the residence of "the loyal Paulets?"  Perhaps not.  There is, however, a
+print of its last appearance in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' for April,
+1839, and by which you will at once identify this summer-house as the
+bay-window of the principal apartment.  Indeed the editor tells you that
+"the greater part of the remaining ornamental wood-work has been
+purchased by Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., who is fitting up with it the
+kitchen and some of the new rooms of his house, Pryor's Bank, Fulham."
+
+It is stated in the same magazine, that in 1828 the motto of the Paulets,
+AYMES LOYAULTE, was to be seen in the windows of the principal apartment
+on the first floor, in yellow letters, disposed in diagonal stripes;
+which motto, it is added, "was probably put there by the loyal Marquis of
+Winchester, in the time of Charles I., by whom the same sentence was
+inscribed in every window of his residence at Basing House, in Hants,
+which he so gallantly defended against the Parliamentarians." {218}
+
+Now, is it not more probable that the recollection of this motto in the
+windows of his paternal mansion, conveyed through the medium of coloured
+glass, indelibly stamped by sunshine (or daguerreotyped, as we might term
+it) upon the youthful mind of the gallant marquis those feelings of
+devoted loyalty which influenced his after conduct, and led him to
+inscribe with the point of his diamond ring the same motto upon the
+windows of Basing House?  [Picture: Turn Buckle] Be this as it may, it is
+gratifying to know that many of the panes of glass which bore that
+glorious yellow letter motto in Winchester House, at the period when it
+was doomed to be taken down, are preserved, having been with good taste
+presented to the present Marquis of Winchester; and two or three which
+were overlooked have come into the possession of Lord Adolphus
+Fitzclarence.  But much of the diamond-shaped glass in this bay-window,
+as it stood upon the terrace of the Pryor's Bank, was ancient, and very
+curious.  You could not fail to remark the quaint window-latch, termed "a
+Turn Buckle."
+
+Had we time to linger here, how amusing it might be to attempt to
+decipher the monograms, and names, and verses inscribed upon the various
+lozenge-shaped panes of glass, which practically exemplified the phrase
+of "diamond cut diamond."
+
+The fragments of the old Royal Exchange, with a Burmese cross-legged idol
+perched thereon--the urn to the memory of "POOR BANQUO;" the green-house,
+with its billiard-table, and even an alcove, the most charming spot in
+"the wide world" to talk sentiment in, must not detain us from returning
+to another angle of the river front, after [Picture: Alcove: and Angle of
+the River Front] glancing at which, we enter the outer hall or passage,
+wainscoted with oak and lined above with arras, separated from the inner
+hall by an oak screen, which was usually guarded upon gala nights by most
+respectable "Beef-eaters," who required the production of invitation
+[Picture: Inner Hall with oak screen] cards from all visitors.  They
+permit us to pass without question; and that is a very proper example for
+you to follow, and a good reason why you should not question me too
+closely:--
+
+         "Do you think that I
+   Came here to be the Pryor's Bank directory?"
+
+You must use your own eyes, and judge for yourself.  I will tell you,
+however, all that I know as briefly as possible, and point out whatever
+occurs to me in our scamper, for a scamper it can only be termed: just
+such a kind of run as a person makes through London who has come up by
+railroad to see all its wonders in a week.  But I cannot allow you to
+examine so closely that curiously carved oak chimney-piece in the inner
+hall, although I admit that it may be as early as Henry VIII.'s time, and
+those interesting old portraits.  Where shall we begin?  You wish to
+inspect everything.  Suppose, then, we commence with the kitchen, and
+steam it up-stairs to the dormitories, going at the rate of a
+high-pressure engine.
+
+You are already aware that the kitchen was panelled with oak from the
+drawing-room of Winchester House, and now you see the whole style of
+fitting-up accords with that of "bygone days."  Look, for instance,
+towards the kitchen window, and you will find that the various cupboards,
+presses and dressers--even the cooking utensils--correspond; but,
+although modern improvements have not been lost sight of, antique forms
+have been retained.  Let one example suffice, that of an ancient
+gridiron, of beautiful and elaborate workmanship.
+
+             [Picture: Kitchen Window: and Ancient Gridiron]
+
+The history of the plates and dishes displayed in this kitchen would
+afford an opportunity for a dissertation on the rise and progress of the
+fine arts in this country, as they present most curious and important
+specimens of early drawing, painting, and poetry.  The old English plate
+was a square piece of wood, which indeed is not quite obsolete at the
+present hour.  The improvement upon this primitive plate was a circular
+platter, with a raised edge; but there were also thin, circular, flat
+plates of beech-wood in use for the dessert or confection, and they were
+gilt and painted upon one side, and inscribed with pious, or instructive,
+or amorous mottoes, suited to the taste of the society in which they were
+produced.  Such circular plates are now well known to antiquaries under
+the name of "roundels," and were at one time generally supposed by them
+to have been used as cards for fortune-telling, or playing with at
+questions and answers.  More sober research into their origin and use
+shows that they were painted and decorated with conventional patterns by
+nuns, who left blank spaces for the mottoes, to be supplied by the more
+learned monks; and a set of these roundels generally consisted of twelve.
+As specimens of the style of these mottoes about the time of Henry VII.
+or VIII. the following may be taken:--
+
+   "Wheresoever thou traveleste,
+      Este, Weste, Northe, or Southe,
+   Learne never to looke
+      A geven horsse in the mouthe."
+
+   "In friends ther ys flattery,
+      In men lyttell trust,
+   Thoughe fayre they proffer
+      They be offten unjuste."
+
+There are many sets of verses for roundels extant in manuscript, and a
+few have been printed; indeed, it appears likely that to the love for
+this species of composition we owe Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Good
+Husbandry," and most of his other admonitory verses.
+
+After the Reformation, coloured prints superseded the painted and
+manuscript "poesies" of the nuns and monks, and the elder De Passe, and
+other artists of the period of James I. and Charles I., produced a
+variety of oval and circular engravings, which were pasted upon roundels
+and varnished over.  The subjects generally selected were those which
+naturally arranged themselves into a set of twelve, as the months.  By
+the Puritans the beechen roundels thus decorated were regarded with
+especial dislike, and they returned to the use of the unadorned trencher
+and "godly platter."  When the "Merry Monarch" was restored he brought
+over with him from Holland plates and dishes manufactured at Delft, where
+the porcelain known as Faenza, Faience, Majolica, and Fynlina ware, made
+during the fifteenth century in the North of Italy, and upon the
+embellishments of which, according to Lamartiniere, the pencils of
+Raffaelle, Giulio Romano, and the Caracci, were employed, had been
+successfully, although coarsely imitated.  And it must be confessed that
+many of the old Dutch plates, dishes, and bowls, upon the kitchen-shelves
+of the Pryor's Bank, deserved to be admired for boldness of design,
+effective combinations of colour, and the manual dexterity displayed in
+the execution of the patterns.  The superior delicacy of the porcelain of
+China, which about this time began to be imported freely into England
+from the East caused it to be preferred to the "Dutch ware," and the
+consequence of international commerce was, that the Chinese imitated
+European devices and patterns upon their porcelain, probably with the
+view of rendering the article more acceptable in the Dutch and English
+markets.  But while the Chinese were imitating us, we were copying their
+style of art in the potteries of Staffordshire, with the commercial
+manufacturing advantage given by the power of transferring a print to the
+clay over the production of the same effect by means of the pencil, an
+idea no doubt suggested by our roundels of Charles I.'s time, and which
+process became of the same relative importance as printing to manuscript.
+This was the origin of our common blue-and-white plate, or what is known
+as "the willow pattern," where
+
+   "Walking through their groves of trees,
+      Blue bridges and blue rivers,
+   Little think those three Chinese
+      They'll soon be smash'd to shivers."
+
+The popularity of this porcelain pattern must not be ascribed to superior
+beauty or cheapness, for to the eye of taste surely a pure plain white
+plate is infinitely superior to an unfeeling copy of a Chinese pagoda,
+bridge, and willow-tree "in blue print."  The fact is that the bugbear of
+a vulgar mind--"fashion"--long rendered it imperative upon every good
+housewife and substantial householder to keep up a certain dinner-set of
+earthenware, consisting of two soup-tureens and a relative proportion of
+dishes and vegetable-dishes, with covers, soup-plates, dinner-plates, and
+dessert-plates, which were all to correspond; and should any accidental
+breakage of crockery take place, it was a manufacturing trick to make it
+a matter of extra-proportionate expense and difficulty readily to replace
+the same unless it happened to be of "the blue willow pattern."  The
+practice, however, of using for the dessert-service plates of Worcester
+china painted by hand, and the execution of many of which as works of art
+call for our admiration as much as any enamel, created a taste for
+forming what are called harlequin sets, among which, if a few plates
+happen to be
+
+    "Smash'd to shivers,"
+
+the value of the whole set is only proportionately depreciated, and what
+has been broken may perhaps be advantageously replaced.
+
+                         [Picture: Earl of Essex]
+
+If you like, we will return to the inner hall, where is a portrait of the
+celebrated Earl of Essex, an undoubted original picture, dated 1598,
+three years previous to his being beheaded (Zucchero), and from it at
+once enter the library, or breakfast-room.  Here there is a superbly
+carved Elizabethan chimney-piece.
+
+                   [Picture: Elizabethan chimney-piece]
+
+What are you about?  You should not have touched so thoughtlessly that
+"brass inkstand," as you call it.  It is actually a pix, or holy box,
+{227} which once contained the host, and was considered "so sacred, that
+upon the march of armies it was especially prohibited from theft."  We
+are told that Henry V. delayed his army for a whole day to discover the
+thief who had stolen one.  You may admire the pictures as much as you
+please; they are odd and hard-looking portraits to my eye; but they are
+historically curious, and clever, too, for their age.  [Picture: Pix, or
+Holy Box] Could you only patiently listen to a discussion upon the
+characters of the originals of the portraits that have hung upon these
+walls, or the volumes that have filled these shelves; you might gain a
+deeper insight into the workings of the human heart than, perhaps, you
+would care to be instructed by.  There were in the next room--the
+dining-room--into which we may proceed when you please, for only by a
+sliding door between the library and dining-room are they separated--such
+pictures!  [Picture: Sliding door into dining-room] An unquestionable
+'Henry VIII.,' by Holbein; a 'Queen Mary,' by Lucas de Heere, from the
+collection of the late Mr. Dent; and a glorious 'Elizabeth,' that had
+belonged to Nathaniel Rich of Eltham, who we know from the particulars of
+sale that were in the Augmentation Office, was the purchaser of Eltham
+Palace, when disposed of by the Parliament after the death of Charles I.;
+and we also know from Strype's _Annals of the Reformation_, that
+Elizabeth visited Eltham and passed some days there in 1559, and that she
+made her favourite Sir Christopher Hatton keeper of the royal palace
+there.
+
+You should not disturb those books; you will look in vain for the
+publication of George III.'s 'Illustration of Shakspeare,' and corrected
+in the autograph of the king for a second edition.  How remarkable are
+the opinions entertained by His Majesty respecting Doctors Johnson and
+Franklin, and how curious are some of the notes!  This book is the true
+history of his reign, and would be worth to us fifty black-letter
+Caxtons.  Mr. Thorpe of Piccadilly can tell you all about it.  [Picture:
+Monastic chair and damask curtains] Oh, never mind that manuscript in its
+old French binding, and those exquisitely-wrought silver clasps, and dear
+old Horace Walpole's books.  We must enter the dining-room.  Here sit
+down in this monastic chair, and look around you for five minutes.  This
+chair Mr. Baylis picked up in Lincoln; and the curtains beside it, they
+came from Strawberry Hill, and are of genuine Spitalfields damask.  There
+is no such damask to be had now.  Eighty years ago were these curtains
+manufactured, and yet they are in most excellent condition.  The greater
+portion of the Gothic oak panelling around us originally formed the back
+of the stalls in the beautiful chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford.
+During the late repairs this panelling was removed and sold.  Much of it
+was purchased by the Marquess of Salisbury for Hatfield House, and the
+remainder Mr. Baylis bought.  More of the oak panelling in the room,
+especially the elaborately-wrought specimens and the rich tracery work,
+have been obtained from Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster, St. Mary's
+Coventry, and other churches.
+
+                     [Picture: Ornate chimney-piece]
+
+The chimney-piece is a rich composition of ancient carving; the canopy
+came from St. Michael's Church, Coventry, and in the niches are some fine
+figures of the kings and queens of England.  [Picture: Knight's armour]
+The fire-back is an interesting relic, as it is the original one placed
+in the great dining-hall of Burghley House, by Elizabeth's minister,
+whose arms are upon it, with the date 1575.  The sideboard, with its
+canopy of oak, assimilates with the fitting of the room, and had upon its
+shelves a glittering display of ancient glass and early plate.  Salvers
+and cups of singular forms and beautiful shapes arose proudly up, one
+above the other, with dishes of Raffaelle ware beneath them.  But I
+cannot help seeing that the steel-clad knight, who keeps guard in a
+recess by the sideboard, attracts more of your attention.  [Picture:
+Leathern black jack and iron jug] The effigy is an excellent suit of
+fluted armour of Henry VIIth's time; and in the opposite recess, those
+huge drinking-vessels are only an honest old English leathern black jack
+and an iron jug; the former from St. Cross, Winchester, the latter from
+the castle of some German baron, and full of feudal character.
+
+As for the other relics in the dining-room, I will only particularise two
+or three more; and they are a pair of round and solid well-carved
+pendents from the chancel of the church of Stratford-on-Avon, which have
+been removed from their original station immediately over the tomb of
+Shakspeare; and are now, as you see, inverted and used here as
+footstools.
+
+    "Think of that, Master Brooke!"
+
+The other relic is that matchless piece of sculptured oak [Picture:
+Effigy in oak of Emperor Rudolph II.] which represents the Emperor
+Rudolph II., the size of life (five feet six inches in height), and which
+was brought from Aix-la-Chapelle by the late Sir Herbert Taylor.  What
+may have been its former history I cannot tell you, but it resembles in
+execution the exquisite Gothic figures in the chimney-piece of the
+town-hall at Bruges, and is of about the same height and size.
+
+Are you willing to forsake the thoughtful soberness of antique
+oak-panelling for the tinsel of Venetian gold and the richness of Genoa
+velvet, Florentine tapestry, and Persian arras?  If so, we will ascend to
+the drawing-rooms and gallery.  But stay a moment and permit this lady
+and oddly-dressed gentleman to pass us on their exit from the gallery,
+where they have been rehearsing some charming entertainment for the
+evening, or getting up some piece of fanciful mummery to amuse the idle
+guests who have congregated around the garden fountain.  [Picture: Couple
+exiting from gallery] The light is not favourable for seeing all the
+pictures that deserve inspection on the staircase--you had better ascend;
+and now, having reached the head of the semi-staircase, our course is
+along this lobby to the opposite door-way, which is that of the
+drawing-room.
+
+Let us enter at once, and in our tour of the Pryor's Bank regard the
+ante-drawing-room as a kind of middle or passage-room, belonging either
+to the gallery or the drawing-room.  I admit that the arrangement of the
+house, which, however, is very simple, appears puzzling at first: the
+reason of this is, that the senses are often deceived, from mirrors here
+and there being so judiciously arranged, that they reflect at happy
+angles objects which would otherwise escape observation.  It is
+impossible to convey an idea of the whole effect of the Pryor's Bank,
+made up as it has been of carvings of unrivalled richness, grace, and
+variety, solemn and grotesque.  Statues are there, some of the highest
+class of art, others which belong to an early Gothic period, and yet an
+harmonious effect has been produced.  Where will you take up your
+position for a general view?  At the other end? or in the oriel window
+looking on the Bishop's Walk?
+
+                 [Picture: Oriel Window.  Venetian Table]
+
+Now if it were not for that richly gilt Venetian table, the companion to
+which is in the possession of the Earl of Harrington, we might have an
+excellent view of that magnificently embellished recess, upon the merits
+of which Mr. Baylis is commenting to another oddly equipped gentleman.
+There certainly is something going forward in the fancy-dress way.  On
+this Venetian table stands a French astronomical clock; upon it are
+silver medallions of Louis XIII. and XIV., and among its ornaments the
+monograms of these monarchs appear.
+
+Here is a group, in ivory, of bacchanals, with attendant boys; a genuine
+piece of Fiamingo's work, cut from solid ivory, and formerly in the
+collection of the Vatican.  Here, [Picture: Group in Ivory: Tapestried
+Recess] come this way, we may as well pick up something of the history of
+this tapestried recess, the canopy and seats of which, and the three
+other recesses in the drawing-room, are fashioned out of the remains of a
+large throne or dais brought from Florence, and which had belonged to the
+Medici family.  The materials are of the richest possible kind, being
+flowers of floss silk upon a ground-work of gold thread, interspersed
+with silver.  The effect produced by this combination is gorgeous in the
+extreme.  "And those figures?"  That nearest the eye is a statue of the
+Emperor Rudolph of Hapsburgh, admirably carved in oak, the armour is of
+silver damasked with gold.  The other figure, and a corresponding one on
+the opposite side of the room, represent Gothic queens, whose robes have
+been restored in the illuminated style of decoration.  "And the tapestry
+in the recess?"  Listen to what Mr. Baylis is saying.  "Thinking over
+it," remarked Sir Bulwer Lytton to me, "I have very little doubt but that
+my guess was right--that the fisherman is meant for Antony and the lady
+for Cleopatra; it was a favourite story in the middle ages, how Antony,
+wishing to surprise Cleopatra with his success in angling, employed a
+diver to fix fishes on his hook.  Cleopatra found him out, and, in turn,
+employed a diver of her own to put waggishly a salt (_sea_) fish on his
+hook."  The story is in Plutarch, and the popularity of the anecdote may
+be seen by the use Shakspeare makes of it.  Charmian says,--
+
+         "'Twas merry when
+   You wagered on your angling; when your diver
+   Did _hang a salt fish on his hook_, which he
+   _With fervency_, _drew up_." {235}
+
+It is no doubt correctly conjectured by Sir Bulwer Lytton, that many
+subjects in tapestry (not Scriptural) have their explanation in Plutarch,
+the fashionable classic source of tale and legend for our fathers of the
+middle ages.  Shakspeare, it need scarcely be observed, depends on him
+for all his classic plots; and he was no less a favourite on the
+Continent than with us.  If you observe the attitude and expression of
+Cleopatra, for so we will consider her, you will perceive that there is
+something impressive, as well as smiling, about her which would suit the
+words she is supposed to have uttered, when she had laughed sufficiently
+at the trick she played him, and which, to the best of my recollection,
+ran thus, "Leave fishing to us smaller potentates; your angling should be
+for cities and kingdoms."
+
+Every article of the furniture merits your attention.  Here is a Venetian
+chair; {236} it is one of a set of twenty-six, with a sofa, brought from
+the Gradenigo Palace, and is carved and gilt all over,--the back, and
+seat, and cushions for the arms, being Genoa red velvet.  [Picture:
+Venetian chair] Fourteen of these chairs, with the sofa, are in this
+room; the other twelve were purchased by the Earl of Lonsdale.
+
+Vases of Dresden china, marqueterie tables, and a shrine (see page 237)
+of gilt carved work at one end of the room, reflected in mirrors of
+gigantic dimensions, dazzle the senses; and its ceiling studded with blue
+and gold pendants, and its walls all painted over with quaint devices
+like the pages of a missal.  Also a magnificent Gothic chimney-piece (see
+page 238) of Carrara marble, fitted with brass-work of ormolu and
+chimney-glass.  The chimney was removed from the grand Gothic-room at
+Carlton House, and cost George IV. many hundred pounds.  Indeed the
+drawing-room of the Pryor's Bank seems to be more like some scene in an
+enchanted palace, than in an every-day residence upon the bank of the
+river Thames.
+
+                            [Picture: Shrine]
+
+The ante-room is not less splendidly furnished.  Its ceiling is even more
+elaborately embellished than that of the drawing-room, for the heads of
+mitred abbots, jolly monks, and demure nuns look down upon us from each
+intersection of the groining.
+
+A Florentine cabinet (see page 239), of mosaic work in lapis lazuli,
+pietra dura, topaz, agates, etc., one of the finest specimens of the kind
+ever seen,--it eventually came into the possession of Mr. Hurst, who
+asked fifteen hundred [Picture: Gothic Chimney-piece] guineas for it--a
+magnificent carved oak chimney-piece (see page 240); chairs which
+belonged to Queen Elizabeth; and among other pictures, an undoubted one
+by Janssen, of "Charles II. dancing at the Hague," must not detain us,
+although it be a duplicate of the celebrated picture in the possession of
+Her Majesty, with which the history of this is completely identical, both
+having been purchased from the same individual at the same period.
+
+                     [Picture: A Florentine Cabinet]
+
+"And that portrait of Elizabeth?"  It was given by Charles II. to Judge
+Twysden.  "And that other portrait?"  Yes, it is Lord Monteagle; not of
+Exchequer documentary fame, but of Gunpowder Plot notoriety.  And there
+are portraits of Katharine of Aragon and Prince Arthur from Strawberry
+Hill.  I positively cannot allow you to dwell on that chimney-piece of
+Raffaelle design, carved in oak and coloured in ultra-marine and gold.
+
+I entirely agree with you in thinking it a pity that the [Picture: Carved
+Oak chimney-piece] vast labours of our ancestors--things upon which they
+bestowed so much time and thought--should be blown into oblivion by the
+mere breath of fashion.  How much nobler is the fashion to respect,
+cherish, and admire them!
+
+And now we are again within the gallery, and look upon the ante-room
+through the private entrance, and in another second we might be within
+the bay-window of the gallery; for, place these sketches together at a
+right angle, side by side, and the part of the sofa which appears in one,
+is only the continuation of the same seat in the other.  But this must
+not make you think that the Pryor's Bank is but a miniature affair, or
+give you a contemptible idea of the size.  You should rather take your
+general notion of the proportions of the gallery from a glance at that
+lady who is studying with so much attention the part she has undertaken
+to enact, and look up as to the comparative height of the window at the
+top compartments made up of ancient [Picture: Bay-Window:  Private
+Entrance] painted glass, charged with the arms of some of the medieval
+kings of England, among which you cannot fail to notice those of Richard
+III.  Those two elaborately-wrought lanterns which depend from the
+groined ceiling, formerly hung in the Gothic conservatory of Carlton
+House, and the recesses of the walls are adorned with eleven full-length
+portraits of kings and queens of Spain painted upon leather.
+
+Look at those ebony and ivory couches, and this ebony chair, from which
+justice was formerly meted out by the Dutch and English rules to the
+Cingalese; and see here this great chair, so profusely carved and
+cushioned with rich black velvet worked with gold.  [Picture: Black
+velvet chair] It is said to have been the Electoral coronation chair of
+Saxony; and the date assigned to it in the 'Builder' is 1620.  The
+armorial bearings embroidered upon the back would probably settle the
+question; but I know little of foreign heraldry beyond the fact that
+sufficient attention is not paid to it in this country.
+
+Attached to the gallery at the opposite end of the lobby from which we
+entered the drawing-room, there is a boudoir, or robing-room--a perfect
+gem in its way.  [Picture: Nell Gwynne's mirror] You have only to touch
+this spring, and that picture starts from the wall and affords us free
+egress.  Just take one peep into this fairy boudoir.
+
+There hangs against the wall Nell Gwynne's mirror, in its curious frame
+of needlework.  Oh!  You wish to take a peep at yourself in Nelly's
+looking-glass?  Odds, fish! mind you do not overset that basset table of
+Japan manufacture--another Strawberry Hill relic.  Now, are you
+satisfied?  Those beautiful enamels, and that charming Bermudian
+brain-stone, the wonderful network of which infinitely exceeds the finest
+lace?  Well, I must admit that some philosophy is required to feel
+satisfied when revelling among the ornaments of palaces, the treasures of
+monasteries, and the decorations of some of the proudest mansions of
+antiquity; and did we not turn our eyes and regard the infinitely
+superior works of Nature, alike bountifully spread before the poor and
+the rich man, the heart might feel an inward sickening at the question.
+In the state carved-oak bed-room is a finely carved walnut-wood German
+cabinet of the true Elizabethan period.
+
+              [Picture: German cabinet (Eizabethan period)]
+
+Though within the walls of the Pryor's Bank, or any other human
+habitation, all that is rich in art may be assembled, yet, without the
+wish to turn these objects to a beneficial purpose, they become only a
+load of care; but when used to exalt and refine the national taste, they
+confer an immortality upon the possessor, and render him a benefactor to
+his species; when used, also, as accessories to the cultivation of kindly
+sympathies and the promotion of social enjoyment, they are objects of
+public utility.  The revival of old-fashioned English cordiality,
+especially at Christmas, had been always a favourite idea with the owners
+of the Pryor's Bank, and in 1839 they gave an entertainment which, like
+
+   "O'Rourke's noble feast, will ne'er be forgot
+   By those who were there or those who were not."
+
+They were fortunate in securing the aid of Theodore Hook, of pleasant,
+and, alas! of painful memory, who was their neighbour, with that of some
+other friends and acquaintances, who thoroughly entered into the whim of
+recalling olden times by the enactment of masques and other mummeries.
+
+Hook, in his manuscript journal of Thursday, the 26th of December, 1839,
+notes that he was engaged to dine with Lady Quentin at Kew:--
+
+    "Weather dreadful, so resolved to write her an excuse and came home
+    in coach early, so up to Baylis's, where I was asked to dine.  They
+    came here, and we walked up together; so to rehearsal, and then back
+    again to bed."
+
+Hook's letter, in a feigned hand, to Mr. Baylis upon this occasion ran
+thus:--
+
+    "Sir,--Circumstancis hoeing too the Fox hand wether in Lunnun as
+    indered me of goen two Q.  wherefor hif yew plese i ham reddy to cum
+    to re-ersal two nite, in ten minnits hif yew wil lett the kal-boy hof
+    yewer theeter bring me wud--if you kant reed mi riten ax Mister
+    Kroften Kroker wich his a Hanty queerun like yewerself honly hee as
+    bin longer hatit           yewers two kommand,
+
+                                                            "TEE HEE OOK."
+
+          "_Master Bailies hesquire_,
+             _Manger hof thee_,
+    _T.R.P.B. and halso Proper rioter thereof_."
+
+On Saturday, Hook records in his 'Diary' his having refused his "firmest
+friend's command" that he should dine with him--"because," writes Hook,
+"I cannot on account of the things to be done at Pryor's Bank."
+
+Of the memorable Monday, the 30th of December, Hook notes:--
+
+    "To-day, not to town, up and to Baylis's; saw preparations.  So,
+    back, wrote a little, then to dinner, afterwards to dress; so to
+    Pryor's Bank, there much people,--Sir George and Lady Whitmore, Mrs.
+    Stopford, Mrs. Nugent, the Bully's, and various others, to the amount
+    of 150.  I acted the 'Great Frost' with considerable effect.  Jerdan,
+    Planche, Nichols, Holmes and wife, Lane, Crofton Croker, Giffard,
+    Barrow.  The Whitmore family sang beautifully; all went off well."
+
+The part of the Great Frost to which Hook alludes was in a masque,
+written for the occasion, and printed and sold in the rooms, for the
+benefit of the Royal Literary Fund; and among the record of miscellaneous
+benefactions to this most admirable charity are registered--"Christmas
+masquers and mummers at the Pryor's Bank, Fulham, the seat of Thomas
+Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., and William Lechmere Whitmore, F.S.A. (1840), 3
+pounds 12s. 6d."  Thus carrying out in deed as well as act the benevolent
+feelings of the season.
+
+What little plot there was in this production had reference to the
+season, the house in which it was performed, and temporary events.
+Egomet, an imp, most piquantly personified by Mr. John Barrow, opened the
+affair in a moralising strain prophetically applicable to the moment.
+
+After stating who and what he was, he starts:--
+
+         "But I'm all over wonder.
+   Surely the kitchen must be somewhere under?
+   But where's _the_ room?--the matchless little chamber,
+   With its dark ceiling, and its light of amber--
+   That fairy den, by Price's pencil drawn,
+   Enchantment's dwelling-place?  'Tis gone--'Tis gone!
+   The times are changed, I said, and men grown frantic,
+   Some cross in steamboats o'er the vast Atlantic;
+   Some whirl on railroads, and some fools there are
+   Who book their places in the pendant car
+   Of the great Nassau--monstrous, big balloon!
+   Poor lunatics! they think they'll reach the moon!
+   All onward rush in one perpetual ferment,
+   No rest for mortals till they find interment;
+   Old England is not what it once has been,
+   Dogs have their days, and we've had ours, I ween.
+   The country's gone! cut up by cruel railroads,
+   They'll prove to many nothing short of jail-roads.
+   The spirit vile of restless innovation
+   At Fulham e'en has taken up his station.
+   I landed here, on Father Thames's banks,
+   To seek repose, and rest my wearied shanks;
+   Here, on the grass, where once I could recline,
+   Like a huge mushroom springs this mansion fine.
+   Astounding work! but yesterday 'twas building;
+   And now what armour, carving, painting, gilding!
+   Vexed as I am, yet loth to be uncivil,
+   I only wish the owner at the ---!"
+
+Father Thames (Mr. Giffard), who had been slumbering between two painted
+boards, respectively inscribed "MIDDLESEX COUNTY BANK" and "SURREY BANK,"
+and surrounded by flower-pots filled with bulrushes and sedge, roused by
+the intended imprecation upon their host, here interrupted Egomet, and
+entered into a long dialogue with him, in which he detailed all his
+grievances so far as gas and steam were concerned.  At length he feels
+the influence of Hook as "the Great Frost," who turns
+
+   "The old blackguard to solid ice."
+
+Upon which Egomet's remark was, that--
+
+   "The scene to Oxford shifted in a trice is,
+   This river-god--no longer Thames, but Isis."
+
+Father Christmas (Mr. Crofton Croker) then appeared with a long speech
+about eating, drinking, and making merry, and the wondrous power that a
+good fire and a cheerful glass have upon the heart.  Beholding "poor
+Thames a-cold"--"an icy, heartless river"--the question follows, what
+
+         "Do I the matter see?
+   I'll thaw you soon--begone to Battersea,
+   There let thy icebergs float in Chelsea Reach."
+
+The Great Frost, too, after much buffoonery, turns himself into
+
+    "A pleasant fall of fleecy snow,"
+
+which he effected by the vigorous use of the kitchen dredging-box, and an
+ample supply of flour, therewith bepowdering Jolly Christmas, Father
+Thames, and Egomet, so plentifully as to leave no doubt upon the minds of
+the audience respecting the transformation.
+
+Another Christmas revel followed, and then came "a Grand Tournament," in
+which a contest between "the Blue Knight" (Mr. Lechmere Whitmore), and
+"the Yellow Knight" (Mr. Baylis), each mounted upon hobby-horses, was
+most fiercely executed.  Nor was the Giant Cormoran (fourteen feet in
+height), nor the Queen of Beauty, nor the Dragon Queen wanted to complete
+the chivalry of this burlesque upon the memorable meeting at Eglinton.
+
+The fun which now became
+
+    "fast and furious,"
+
+and to which an impudent but most amusing jester (Mr. Jerdan) mainly
+contributed, was checked only by the announcement of supper; and as the
+guests descended the stairs from the gallery, or assembled on the lobby,
+they beheld their cheer borne in procession from the kitchen, headed by a
+military band and a herald-at-arms.  A cook, with his cap and apron of
+snowy whiteness, placed a boar's head
+
+    "Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary,"
+
+upon the table; then came two ancient halberdiers, followed by a
+serving-man in olden livery, carrying the wassail-bowl; then another
+herald in his tabard, and servitors with Christmas-pie, and brawn, and
+soup, and turkey, and sirloin of beef, and collared brawn, whereof was an
+abundant supply, and of the most magnificent dimensions.  Father
+Christmas, carving-knife in hand, and belted with mincepies, and his
+attendant Egomet, with followers bearing holly, ivy, and mistletoe,
+brought up the rear.  Then was sung "beautifully," as Hook notes, by four
+voices, the Oxford chant of
+
+    "The boar's head in hand bear I."
+
+And here we must drop the curtain, but not without stating that several
+of the guests felt the enjoyment of the evening so warmly, that it was in
+long debate among them what suitable acknowledgment in recollection of it
+should be made to Mr. Baylis and Mr. Whitmore; and, that the actors in
+the masque presented these gentlemen with an ancient charter horn, which
+had belonged to the Pickard family, and which they were fortunate enough
+to secure.  The height of this horn, which is supposed to be that of the
+Highland buffalo--an animal said to be extinct nearly three hundred
+years--is one foot two inches, its length is one foot six inches, its
+width at the top five and a half inches; and it is capable of containing
+one gallon.
+
+Upon this most gratifying memorial to the owners of the Pryor's Bank, of
+the esteem created by their hospitality, suitable inscriptions were
+placed by the donors, with the motto:--
+
+   "While Thames doth flow, or wine is drank,
+   par-hael to all at Pryor's Bank.
+         ++unc-hael."
+
+The remembrance of the pleasant hours passed within the walls of the
+Pryor's Bank will not easily be forgotten, though the character of the
+interior is changed since this was written.  The first sale took place on
+the 3rd May, 1841, and five following days: and there was a subsequent
+sale on the 25th May, 1854, and four following days.  Both these sales
+took place on the premises, and the Auctioneer, on both occasions, was
+Mr. Deacon.
+
+Pryor's Bank is now let to Mr. E. T. Smith, of Her Majesty's and Drury
+Lane Theatres.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF PLACES.
+
+
+ACACIA Cottage, 148.
+"Admiral Keppel," 75.
+Albany Lodge, 147.
+Alexander Square, 73-4.
+Alfred Place, 73.
+Amelia Place, 76.
+Amyot House, 120.
+Arundel House, 152-4.
+Ashton Terrace, 202.
+Audley Cottage, 164.
+
+BATTERSEA Bridge, 94.
+Bear Street, Fulham, 187.
+"Bell and Anchor," 210.
+"Bell and Horns," 58.
+Bishop's Walk, 190.
+Bolingbroke Lodge, 147.
+Bolton House, 118.
+Boltons, 96.
+Bostocke's Arbour, 88.
+"Brickhills," 131.
+Bridge Street, 193.
+Brightwells, 166.
+Brompton, 24.
+-- Crescent, 64-7.
+-- Grange, 63.
+-- Grove, 43, 48.
+-- -- Lower, 44.
+-- -- Upper, 43.
+-- Hall, 87.
+-- National School, 38.
+-- New Church (Holy Trinity), 54.
+-- Park, 62.
+-- Road, 29.
+-- Row, 26, 38, 42.
+-- Square, 51-4.
+Broom Lane, 169.
+Brunswick Cottage, 156.
+Bull Alley, 135.
+Bull Lane, 135.
+-- Public House, 135.
+"Bunch of Grapes," 43.
+Burleigh House, 121.
+Burlington House, 181.
+-- Road, Fulham, 181.
+Butchers' Almshouses, Walham Green, 138.
+
+CAMBRIDGE Lodge, 196.
+Cancer Hospital, 84,
+Carey Villa, 167.
+"Cedars, The," 210.
+Cemetery, West London and Westminster, 127.
+Chelsea New Church, 80, 81.
+-- Park, 89, 90, 93.Church Lane, 187.
+-- Row, Fulham, 187.
+-- Street, Brompton, 87.
+-- -- Fulham, 193.
+Churchfield House, 173.
+Claybrooke House, 181.
+Consumption Hospital, 85.
+Corder's, Mrs., Preparatory School, 118.
+Craven Cottage, 190-1.
+Cremorne Gardens, 127.
+Crescent House, 64.
+"Crown and Sceptre," 40.
+
+DANCER'S Nursery, 172.
+Deadman's Lane, 201.
+Door, Old, Fulham Fields, 195.
+Draw Well in Fulham Fields, 199.
+Drury Lodge, 169.
+Dungannon House, 147.
+
+EARL'S Court, 58.
+East End House, Parson's Green, 164.
+Edith Grove, 127.
+-- Road, 201.
+-- Villas, 201.
+Eel Brook, 141.
+Egmont Villa, 188.
+"Eight Bells," 193.
+Elm House, 200.
+Exhibition Road, 62.
+
+"FLOUNDER Field," 72.
+Foote's House (North End), 196.
+-- Stables (North End), 196.
+Fowlis Terrace, 87.
+Fulham, 180.
+-- Almshouses, 181.
+-- Aqueduct, 189.
+-- Bridge, 192.
+-- Charity School, 193.
+-- Church, 187.
+-- Ferry, 192.
+-- Fields, 195, 197-9.
+-- High Street, 181, 187.
+-- Lodge, 173-7.
+-- Palace, 190.
+-- Park Road, 177.
+-- Street, 187.
+-- Vicarage, 187.
+-- Workhouse, 181.
+
+GARDENER'S House, Old, Fulham Fields, 199.
+"George, The," 193.
+Gilston Road, 96.
+Gloucester Buildings, Brompton, 25.
+-- Row, Brompton, 25.
+-- -- Knightsbridge, 26.
+"Goat in Boots," 94-5.
+"Golden Lion," Fulham, 181-6.
+Gore Lodge, Fulham, 181.
+-- -- Old Brompton, 62.
+Grove House, 44-7.
+-- Place, 43, 47.
+"Gunter Arms," 126.
+-- Grove, 127.
+
+HANS Place, 30, 37.
+-- -- Attic at, 83.
+Heckfield Lodge, 120.
+-- Villa, 147.
+Hermitage, Brompton, 44, 47.
+-- North End, 196.
+-- Lodge, North End, 195-6.
+High Elms House, 155.
+Holcroft's Hall, 180.
+-- Priory, 181.
+Hollywood Brewery, 118.
+-- Place, 126.
+Honey Lane, 127.
+Hooper's Court, 25.
+Hospital for Consumption, 85.
+
+IVY Cottage, 169.
+-- House, Old Red, 170.
+-- Lodge, 177.
+
+JEWS' Burial-ground, 87.
+John's Place, 188.
+
+KENSINGTON Canal, 127, 134.
+-- Gore Estate, 59.
+-- Hall, 200.
+-- Road, 211.
+"Keppel, Admiral," 75.
+-- Street, 75.
+King's Road, 24.
+Knightsbridge, 24.
+-- Green, 25.
+-- High Row, 30.
+
+LANSDOWNE Villas, 126.
+Lauman's Academy, 166.
+Lawn Terrace, 202.
+Little Chelsea, 94.
+
+MACHINE for Raising Water (Fulham Fields), 199.
+Main Fulham Road, 24.
+Manor Hall, 96.
+-- House, 96.
+Marlborough Road, 75.
+Michael's Grove, 63.
+-- Place, 50, 67, 70-2.
+Military Academy, Chelsea, 119.
+Montpellier Square, 40.
+Mulberry House, 120.
+Munster House, 170-2.
+-- Terrace, 173.
+Mustow House, 170.
+
+NATIONAL School, Brompton, 38.
+-- Society, Practising School of, 134.
+New Street, 30, 37.
+"No Man's Land," 197.
+Normal School Chapel, 130.
+Normand House, 196.
+North End, 195-211.
+-- -- Lodge, 193.
+-- -- Road, 197.
+-- Terrace, 73.
+
+ODELL'S Place, 115.
+Old Brompton Road, 58.
+Onslow Square, 82.
+Oratory of St. Philip Neri, 58.
+Osborn's Nursery, 172.
+Ovington Square, 47.
+
+PARADISE Row, 114.
+Park Cottage, 147.
+-- House, 154-5.
+-- Walk, 95.
+Parson's Green, 164-9.
+-- -- Lane, 164.
+Pelham Crescent, 76, 79.
+-- Place, 79-80.
+Percy Cross, 141, 155.
+Peterborough House, 166-9.
+Pollard's School, 58.
+Pond Place, 80.
+Porch, Old, of Arundel House, 153.
+Prince Albert's Road, 62.
+Pryor's Bank, 187, 212-249.
+Pump, Old, in Arundel House, 153.
+Purser's Cross, 141, 154-5.
+
+QUEEN'S Buildings, Brompton, 25, 30.
+-- -- Knightsbridge, 25, 29, 30.
+-- Elm, 88-9.
+-- Turnpike, 87.
+-- Row, Knightsbridge, 25.
+Quibus Hall, 155.
+
+RAWSTORNE Street, 40.
+Read's, Miss, Academy, 118.
+Rectory House, Parson's Green, 165.
+"Red Lion," 40.
+Reformatory School, Fulham, 181.
+Rightwells, 166.
+"Rising Sun," 135.
+Robert Street, 83-4.
+-- -- Upper, 83.
+Rosamond's Bower, 156-164.
+Rosamond's Bower, Old, 156.
+-- Dairy, 157.
+
+ST. LUKE'S Church, Chelsea, 80, 83.
+St. Mark's Chapel, 130.
+-- College, 130.
+-- Terrace, 130.
+St. Mary's Place, 96.
+St. Peter's Villa, 170.
+St. Philip's Orphanage, 96.
+Salem Chapel, 136.
+"Sand Hills," The, 90.
+Sandford Bridge, 134.
+School, Practising, at St. Mark's College, 134.
+Selwood's Nursery, 89.
+Selwood Place, 89.
+Seymour Place, 96, 98.
+-- Terrace, 96, 98.
+Shaftesbury House, 100-12.
+-- -- Garden of, 104-5.
+Sign, Old ("White Horse" at Parson's Green), 164.
+Sir John Scott Lillie's Road, 127.
+"Sisters of Compassion," 44.
+Sloane Square, 24.
+-- Street, 24.
+"Somerset Arms," 96.
+South Kensington Museum, 59-61.
+Stamford Road, 135.
+-- Villas, 135.
+Stanley Grove, 132-3.
+-- -- House, 131-2.
+-- House, 131.
+Swan Tavern, Fulham, 192.
+-- -- and Brewery, Walham Green, 135.
+Sydney Place, 83.
+-- Street, 83.
+
+TAVISTOCK House, 118.
+Thames Bank, 187.
+Thistle Grove, 93-4.
+Thurloe Place, 61.
+
+VEITCH'S Royal Exotic Nursery, 130.
+Vine Cottage, 213-14.
+
+WALHAM Green, 136-7.
+-- House, 193.
+-- Lodge, 147.
+Walnut Tree Cottage, 200.
+-- -- Walk, 121.
+Wansdon Green, 137.
+-- House, 137.
+Warwick House, 120.
+Wentworth Cottage, 197.
+West Brompton Brewery, 118.
+Western Grammar School, 73.
+"White Horse," old sign of, 164.
+Willow Bank, 192.
+Windsor Street, 193.
+Winter Garden, Old Brompton, 62.
+Workhouse, additional, to St. George's, Hanover Square, 100.
+
+YEOMAN'S Row, 43.
+York Cottage, 195.
+-- Place, 84.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX OF NAMES OF PERSONS.
+
+
+ACKERMANN, Rudolph, 177-9.
+Aikin, Lucy, 160.
+Albert, Prince, 85.
+Andrews, J. Petit, 44.
+Anspach, Margravine of, 190.
+Appletree, John, 90.
+Arundel, Henry, 131, 154.
+
+BAKER, Rev. R. G., 187.
+Balchen, Sir John, 115.
+Banim, 48-9, 79.
+Barham, H., 90, 189.
+Barrow, John, 246.
+Bartolozzi, F., 68-9, 196.
+Batsford, Miss, 187.
+Baud, Benjamin, 127.
+Baylis, Thomas, 187, 191, 214.
+Bayliss, Moses, 25.
+Bell, T. J., 164.
+Beloe, Rev. W., 42.
+Biber, Rev. Dr., 83.
+Billington, Mrs., 70.
+Blake, Mr., 90.
+Blanchard, Mr., 119.
+--, William, 81.
+Blomfield, Bishop, 187.
+Blore, Mr., 134.
+Bodley, Sir Thomas, 165.
+Bonnor, Bishop, 181.
+Boothby, Sir W., 203.
+Boscawen, William, 121.
+Bovey Family, the, 101.
+Bowen, Rev. Thomas, 156.
+Bowes, Mr., 132.
+Boyd, Hugh, 46.
+Boyle, Hon. Robert, 111.
+-- Family, the, 113.
+Bradshaigh, Lady, 203-210.
+Braham, John, 63.
+Brand, Mr., 147.
+Branscomb, Sir James, 210.
+Brooks, Shirley, 51.
+Broomfield, W., 92.
+Brotherhood, Mr., 189.
+Browne, H. K. ("Phiz"), 135.
+Brunton, Miss, 71.
+Buckstone, J. B., 51.
+Bulwer, Lady, 31.
+Burbage, Robert, 182.
+Burchell, Dr., 173.
+Burgoyne, Sir John, 181.
+--, Miss, 181.
+Burke, John, 94.
+Burleigh, Lord, 121.
+Burney, Miss, 133.
+Byfield, Adoniram, 165.
+
+CAHILL, Dr., 67.
+Carey, Hon. Thomas, 167.
+Catalani, Madame, 47.
+Cattley, Rev. Stephen Reid, 128, 172.
+Cecill, Hon. John, 121.
+Chalon, Mr., 37.
+Chatterley, Mrs., 51.
+Cheeseman, 200.
+Cheselden, W., 192.
+Child, Sir Francis, 165.
+Cipriani, 181, 201.
+Clerke, Major Shadwell, 44.
+Cleyne, Francis, 167.
+Cole, Henry, 60, 82.
+Collier, Payne, 53.
+Colman, George, the Younger, 51-2, 173-7.
+Conyers, General, 192.
+Cooper, John, 79.
+Cope, Sir John, 114.
+Copley, 200.
+Corpe, John, 55.
+Cranfield, Lord Treasurer, 90.
+Craven, Countess of, 190.
+Cribb, R., 94.
+Croker, Rt. Hon. John Wilson, 171.
+--, Thomas Crofton, 130, 156, 162-3, 181, 198, 247.
+--, Mrs. Crofton, 130.
+Croly, Rev. Dr., 50, 77.
+Cromwell, Oliver, 170.
+Crotch, Dr., 202.
+Curran, John Philpot, 76-9.
+Curtis, Mr., 80, 85-7.
+
+DARBY, Mrs., 117.
+Davenport, Mrs., 71.
+Davis, the late Henry George, 24.
+--, Charles, 24.
+Dawes, Sir W., 113-114.
+Deacon, Mr., 250.
+Delafield, Mr., 192.
+Delille, C. J., 72.
+--, Madame, 72.
+Denham, Mr., 120.
+--, Colonel, 120.
+Doharty, Mr. 158.
+Donaldson, Mr., 54.
+Dormer, Edward, 198.
+Duffield, Mr., 115.
+Dunn, Anne, 27-8.
+
+EDINGTON, J., 212.
+Egerton, Daniel, 81.
+--, Mrs., 82.
+Ekins, Dr., 165.
+Elizabeth, Queen, 87.
+Ellenborough, Lord, 187.
+Evelyn, John, 111.
+Eyre, Sir James, 132.
+
+FABER, Rev. F. W., 59.
+Fairholt, F. W., 40.
+Farren, W., 53.
+--, Harriet Elizabeth, 57.
+Faucit, Helen, 70, 82.
+Fitzherbert, Mrs., 165.
+Fitzroy, Rear Admiral, 83.
+Fitzwilliam, Edward, 51.
+Florio, 182, 184-5.
+Foot, Jesse, 27, 28.
+Foote, Samuel, 196.
+Fowler, Edward, 113.
+
+GARCIA, Madame, 170.
+George IV., 165, 213.
+Giffard, Mr., 247.
+Glascock, Captain, 73-4.
+Godwin, George, jun., 38, 74.
+Golini, Julius, 67.
+Gorges, Sir Arthur, 131.
+Grant, Colonel, 134.
+Green, 30.
+Gregor, Mrs., 133.
+Gresham, John, 198.
+Griffin, Gerald, 48, 49, 97-8.
+Grisi, Madame, 146.
+Guizot, 79.
+--, Madame, 80.
+Gunter, R., 127.
+
+HALL, S. C., 197.
+--, Mrs. S. C., 31, 197.
+Hallam, H., 154.
+Halliwell, J. O., 96.
+Hamey, Dr. Baldwin, 113.
+Hamilton, Walter, 39-40.
+--, William Richard, 132.
+Hampton, Mr., 136.
+Hargrave, Francis, 84.
+Harris, A., 80.
+--, H., 78.
+Hartshorne, Rev. C. H., 138.
+Hawarden, Lady, 214.
+Hawkins, John Sidney, 44.
+Heavyside, R., 166.
+Herbert, Sir E., 167.
+Hewett, Mr., 67.
+Holl, Henry, 61.
+Holland, Mr., 155.
+Holmes, W., M. P., 214.
+Hook, Theodore, 133, 177, 187-90, 245-6.
+Howard, Sir Ralph, 191.
+Huck, J. G., 26.
+Hullmandel, Mr., 150-1.
+Humphrey, Ozias, 29.
+Hutchins, John, 25.
+Hyde, Edward, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, 115.
+
+INCLEDON, Charles, 64.
+
+JERDAN, W., 47, 248.
+Jesse, J. H., 70.
+Johnson, Mr. Joseph, 148-9.
+Jones, Richard, 78.
+
+KEAN, Edmund, 200.
+Keeley, Mr., 54, 79.
+--, Mrs., 54, 79.
+Kempe, A. J., 135.
+King, Mr., 139.
+Kingsley, Rev. Charles, 83.
+Knight, James House, 123.
+Knolles, Sir Thomas, 166.
+
+LACY, Walter, 40.
+Lamb, Lady Caroline, 31.
+Lance, the Misses, 32.
+Landon, Miss ("L. E. L."), 30-7, 54.
+Laurie, John, 180.
+Lazarus, H., 80.
+Le Blon, James Christopher, 91.
+Lillie, Sir John Scott, 127.
+Limpany, Robert, 190.
+Liston, Mr., 54, 71.
+Liston, Mrs., 40, 67.
+Lochee, Lewis, 119-20, 132.
+Locke, 104, 111.
+London, Bishop of, 54.
+Lorrington, Meribah, 116.
+Lowth, Rev. Robert, 173-6.
+Luttrell, Francis, 108.
+--, Henry, 54.
+--, Narcissus, 89, 102-3, 108.
+Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, 191, 197, 236.
+
+M'LEOD, Dr. John, 80.
+M'Naughten, Mrs., 34.
+Macpherson, Sir John, 45-6.
+Mahony, Rev. F., 164.
+Mangeon, Mrs., 27-8.
+Mario, Signor, 146.
+Marochetti, Baron, 82.
+Mart, Mr., 114.
+Martin, Theodore, 82.
+Mathews, Charles, 62, 181.
+--, Mrs., sen., 71.
+Meyrick, Mr. J., 166.
+Milton, Mr., 121, 147.
+Mitford, Miss, 31.
+Moore, Thomas, 162-3.
+Mordaunt, Lord, 167-8.
+More, Sir Thomas, 89.
+Morland, 95.
+Morse, Leonard. 132.
+Murphy, Arthur, 26-8, 38.
+Murray, John, 148-9.
+--, Sir Robert, 111.
+
+NATTES, J. C., 25.
+Newman, Rev. J. H., 59.
+Nicholson, F., 128-30.
+Nisbett, Mrs., 203.
+Novosielski, Madame, 70.
+--, Michael, 43, 50, 63.
+
+O'DONNELL, Major-General Sir Chas., 162-3.
+Ord, John, 140-5.
+Orrery, 2nd Earl of, 113.
+--, Charles, 4th Earl of, 112.
+Owen, Rev. John, 145.
+
+PARR, Dr., 42.
+Piccolomini, 165.
+Pigot, the Right Hon. D. R., 37.
+Pitts, Mr. Oliver, 139.
+Place, Francis, 51.
+Planche, J. R., 65-6.
+Plumbe, W., 198.
+Pope, 147.
+--, Miss, 70-1.
+Porter, Walsh, 169, 190, 213.
+Pouchee, Louis, 128.
+Powell, Mr., 156, 186.
+--, Sir W., Bart., 170, 181.
+Pyne, J. B., 195.
+
+QUEENSBERRY, Marquis of, 134.
+
+RAVENSWORTH, Lord, 138, 140.
+Reeve, John, 42, 53-4, 57.
+Remaudini, Count, 67.
+Rennell, Rev. Mr., 42.
+Richardson, C. J., 66.
+--, Samuel, 169, 202-210.
+Riego, General, 96-9.
+--, Madame, 96-9.
+Roberts, Emma, 31, 34.
+Robins, George, 189.
+Robinson, Anastasia, ("Perdita,") 115-18, 169.
+Robson, W. Frogatt, 53.
+Rocque, Bartholomew, 139.
+Rodwell, G. H., 39, 65.
+Rollin, Ledru, 80.
+Romney, 29.
+Rovedino, Signor Carlo, 81.
+Rowden, Miss, 32, 36.
+Roy, 181.
+Ruddock, Rev. Joshua, 156.
+Rumford, Count, 40.
+Ryland, William Wynne, 26, 202.
+
+ST. JOHN, 147.
+St. Quentin, Countess, 32.
+Salisbury, Mr., 85, 145.
+Sampayo, M., 171.
+Saunders, Sir Edward, 169.
+Savage, Mr., 80.
+Scoles, Mr., 59.
+Schiavonetti, Lewis, 67-69.
+Schulenberg, Melesina, 170.
+Shaftesbury, Lord, 101, 104.
+Shakespeare, 182-6.
+Sharp, Granville, 188.
+Sheepshanks, John, 60.
+Shower, Sir Bartholomew, 113.
+Simpson, Mrs. Anne, 145-6.
+Slater, Mr., 200.
+Smith, Albert, 194.
+--, E. T., 169, 249.
+--, Alderman H., 72.
+--, Sir James, 101.
+--, "O.," 73.
+--, Sir Thomas, 167.
+Southwell, Miss, 132.
+Spagnoletti, 51.
+Stanley Family, 131.
+Stanley, W., 131.
+Steele, R., 38, 88.
+Strathmore, Countess of, 132.
+Street, Mr., 186.
+Suckland, Sir John, 112.
+Sylvester, Joshua, 185.
+
+TALFOURD, 197.
+Tarnworth, John, 166.
+Taylor, Mr., 138.
+Testolini, 68.
+Thackeray, W. M., 83.
+Tindal, Lord Chief Justice, 37.
+Tonson, Jacob, 195.
+Trotter, Thomas, 30.
+Turberville, Mrs. Elizabeth, 155.
+--, Mrs. Frances, 155.
+Tyrhtilus, 180.
+
+VENDRAMINI, John, 39.
+Vestris, Madame, 62, 96, 181.
+Vining, James, 51.
+Virtue, William, 109.
+
+WAGER, Admiral Sir Charles, 131, 165.
+Ward, Sir Edward, 113-14.
+Warde, J. P., 94.
+Warren, H, 84.
+--, Dr. Richard, 132.
+Warwick, Countess of, 112.
+Watts, B., 75.
+Webster, Mr., 62.
+Weigall, Mr., 70.
+Wharton, Marquis of, 90.
+--, Sir Michael, 155.
+Whitmore, Lechmere, 214.
+Whittaker, Dr., 112.
+Wigan, Alfred, 37.
+--, Mrs. Alfred, 37.
+Wilberforce, Mr., 47.
+Williams, Sir John, Bart., 171.
+Wilson, Lady Frances, 92.
+--, Sir Henry, 92.
+Winchester, Marquis of, 218.
+Wishart, Sir James, 115.
+Wood, Dr. Oswald, 64.
+Wright, --, 92-3.
+--, Edward, 96.
+--, Thomas, 83.
+Wrottesley, the Hon. Mr., 181.
+Wynne, Edward, 103-4.
+Wynne, Rev. Luttrell, 108.
+--, Serjeant, 102, 108.
+
+YATES, Mr., 54, 71.
+--, Mrs., 71.
+York, Duke of, 173.
+Young, C. D. and Co., 61.
+
+
+
+
+FOOTNOTES.
+
+
+{18}  See pages 156-164.
+
+{25a}  Catalogues of Royal Academy.
+
+{25b}  Foot's Life of Arthur Murphy.
+
+{25c}  Lockie's _Topography of London_.
+
+{25d}  Mr. J. Salway's MS. plan, executed for the Kensington trustees.
+
+{25e}  Cruchley's Map of London.
+
+{25f}  Elmes' _Topography of London_.
+
+{26}  4 vols. 4to, published in 1793.
+
+{27a}  2 vols. 8vo, 1801.
+
+{27b}  The extent of this garden may still be estimated by walking round
+through Hooper's Court into Sloane Street.
+
+{31}  Born 13th November, 1785, and married to the Honourable William
+Lamb (afterwards Viscount Melbourne) in 1805.  Lady Caroline published
+three novels, viz., _Glenarvon_, in 1816; _Graham Hamilton_; and _Ada
+Reis_, 1823.  Her ladyship died in 1828.
+
+{32a}  8vo, 2nd ed. 1812.
+
+{32b}  Ibid.
+
+{33}  It was the wing attached to the house between it and "the
+Pavilion."  From the back a flight of steps descended into a small
+garden.
+
+{35}  Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster, Historical and
+Biographical.  1827.  2 vols. 8vo.
+
+{38a}  Correspondence, vol. i. p. 293.
+
+{38b}  Vol. lxxv.  Part I. p. 590.
+
+{38c}  Ed. 1820, p. 616.
+
+{45a}  2 vols. 4to, 1795.
+
+{45b}  1 vol. 4to, and 2 vols. 8vo, 1796,
+
+{48}  'Literary Gazette,' November 25, 1843.
+
+{53}  It is no slight testimony to the genius of Mr. Farren, that since
+his retirement no actor in London has attempted to represent "Grandfather
+Whitehead."
+
+{58}  Rebuilt, and the sign here engraved removed.
+
+{62}  Brompton Park was the retreat of one or two favourite actors.  Mr.
+Webster, the talented and versatile performer, lessee of the Ade1phi
+Theatre, resided there for many years.  Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews
+(Madame Vestris) lived at Gore Lodge--now pulled down--a name they
+afterwards gave to their residence at Fulham.
+
+{65}  Weber died on the 7th of June following, at No. 91, Great Portland
+Street, in his fortieth year.
+
+{72}  4 vols. 8vo; I. and II. 1838; III. and IV. 1839.
+
+{73}  The 'Naval Sketch-book,' 1828; 'Sailors and Saints,' 1829; 'Tales
+of a Tar,' 1830; 'Land Sharks and Sea Gulls,' 1838.
+
+{78}  Died 30th August, 1851.
+
+{80}  Died 7th May, 1852, aged 74.
+
+{84}  II vols. folio, 1781.
+
+{85}  Vol. lxxx.  Part II.
+
+{87a}  Brompton Hall, said to have been the residence of Lord Burleigh,
+stands on the Old Brompton Road, which, as pointed out in the previous
+chapter, branches from the main Fulham Road at the Bell and Horns.
+
+{87b}  The Duke of Buckingham.
+
+{88}  Correspondence, vol. i. p. 219.
+
+{92}  Sir Henry Wilson, who was in Parliament when this estate came into
+his wife's possession, ordered iron gates for it; in one of which were
+wrought his initials, H. W., and to correspond, M.P, was placed in the
+other.  Before the gates were put up he had to contest his seat, and lost
+it.
+
+{97}  Riego was executed, on the 7th of October, 1823, at Madrid, with
+every mark of ignominy.
+
+{110}  Funeral Sermon preached at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 7th January
+1691.
+
+{111}  See Birch's 'Life of Boyle,' p. 114.
+
+{112}  MS. Diary.
+
+{120}  The obituary of the 'Gentleman's Magazine' for June 1791,
+records:--"At Lisle, in Flanders, Lewis Lochee, Esq., late lieutenant
+colonel of the Belgic Legion, and formerly keeper of the Royal Military
+Academy at Chelsea."
+
+{121}  The gates here represented have now given place to a light iron
+railing, and the posts have been surmounted by balls.
+
+{128}  No. 276, vol. xi. p. 301.
+
+{131}  Todd's 'Spenser,' viii. 23.
+
+{133}  MS.
+
+{138}  Pickering, 1829.
+
+{139}  Mr. Rocque, the florist, was brother to the surveyor of that name,
+who published a plan of London, Westminster, and Southwark, on
+twenty-four sheets, in 1747; and a map of London and the country ten
+miles round, in sixteen sheets, the following year.  He also published a
+road-book of Great Britain and Ireland in 1763.
+
+{144a}  "This tree was first introduced into England in 1753, by Mr.
+James Gordon."--_Lysons_.
+
+{144b}  "The foliage more resembles that of the _juglans nigra_ than of
+the Illinois-nut in Kew Gardens."--_Ibid_.
+
+{144c}  "At two feet from the ground it was seven feet two inches, and
+now (1810) seven feet five inches."--_Ibid_.
+
+{144d}  "The girth of this tree was taken in 1808 at two feet and a half
+from the ground."--_Ibid_.
+
+{144e}  "At two feet and a half from the ground."--_Ibid_.
+
+{145}  James iv. 14.
+
+{155a}  On the same page of the 'London Magazine' which chronicles this
+occurrence, may be found the announcement of the death of "Mr. Joseph
+Miller, a celebrated comedian."
+
+{155b}  Lysons, on the authority of the parish books, states that a Sir
+Michael Wharton was living at Parson's Green, anno 1654.
+
+{159}  The ground has been recently levelled.
+
+{160}  L. E. L.
+
+{171}  Died, 1858.
+
+{188a}  He died there in 1813.
+
+{188b}  Since this sketch was made, the gateway, with the coat of arms
+over it, has been removed, and a battlemented and Gothic entrance, more
+in accordance, perhaps, with the architecture of both church and mansion,
+has been erected in its stead.
+
+{196}  Died 20th October, 1777, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
+
+{213}  Copied from a picture in oil in the possession of George Bunnett,
+Esq., of Fulham.
+
+{218}  John, the fifth Marquis of Winchester, sustained a siege in his
+seat at Basing from August, 1643 to 16th October, 1645, when the place
+was taken by storm and burned to the ground, "money, jewels, and
+household stuff" being found therein to the value of 200,000 pounds,
+among which was a rich bed worth 14,000 pounds.
+
+{227}  Now in the South Kensington Museum.
+
+{235}  Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. 5.
+
+{236}  Now in the possession of the Duke of Hamilton.
+
+
+
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