[278] Hogarth is said to have painted this picture at Hampstead.
[279] Mrs. Delany was a Granville.
[280] Richardson’s ‘Correspondence’
[281] ‘Gray was a little man of very ungainly appearance.’—Horace Walpole.
[282] The name of one of his poems.
[283] ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors.’
[284] Wordsworth.
[285] Charles and Mary Lamb were at this time living in Russell Street, over a brazier’s shop.
[286] The fields commonly called the Conduit Fields lie under Fitzjohn’s Avenue, and a fountain at a corner of it represents the conduit.
[287] Keats.
[288] Brewer’s ‘Middlesex.’
[289] Park calls him her second husband, which is wrong. See Pepys’ ‘Diary,’ vol. i., p. 6.
[290] See Lord Braybrooke’s ‘Notes to Pepys’ Diary,’ vol. iv.
[291] Not his son, as a recent writer on Belsize asserts.
[292] These gentlemen were German Lavie, James Abel, Thomas Roberts, and Thomas Forsyth, Esqs., of Hampstead.
A modern writer on the neighbourhood appears to have been misled by these lines into the supposition that the gates were guarded by living soldiers.
[294] Belsize House stood at the bottom of the present avenue. One of the last inhabitants was old Mr. Martinez, of the famous firm of port-wine shippers, Martinez, Gassiot and Co, Mark Lane, about 1847.—C. A. Ward, Esq.
[295] When Lysons wrote his ‘Environs of London,’ 1812, Belsize was a subrural place, the house modern.
[296] There was a little stile in the lane, at the south-west corner of the estate, and this was the spot of the murder, just as Delarue was mounting it.
[297] Letter of Lucy Aiken to Mrs. Mallett, Hampstead, September, 1845.
[298] The Kilburne rises near West End, Hampstead, and passes through Kilburn to Bayswater, supplying the Serpentine River, Hyde Park; and in Park’s time it flowed through the fields to the Thames at Ranelagh.
‘In a note sewn into a copy of the “Speculum Britanniæ,” wrought by Travaile, and view of John Norden of Fulham, in the year 1596,’ the name is spelt three different ways—Kylburne, Keylbourne, Kulleburne (quoted from Baines’ ‘Records,’ etc.).
[299] Great-uncles to the present Sir Charles Dilke.
[300] The author of the ‘Saturday Half-Holiday Guide’ mentions a pure white variety of Campanula rotundifolia growing on the Heath, but I never had the good fortune to meet with it.
[301] All the plants enumerated in this catalogue have been found by the writer in the habitats indicated on Hampstead Heath.
[302] In reference to this charity, the following paragraph from the ‘Monthly Chronicle’ of the European Magazine for January, 1790, is interesting: ‘At a meeting held in London of the trustees of John Stock, Esq., of Hampstead, who bequeathed a bounty of £100 a year to be divided amongst ten poor curates of the Church of England, whose incomes should not exceed £40 per annum ... thirty-eight petitions were presented and read from poor curates to partake of his benevolence, many of whose stipends were not more than £25 yearly, with which they have to support numerous and burdensome families. As ten only could receive the gift, twenty-eight were unsuccessful candidates.’
[303] In the winter of 1727 Voltaire was lodging at the White Peruke, Covent Garden, and visiting Pope at Twickenham. It may have been on this occasion that he made the acquaintance of Mr. Pitt.
[304] ‘A Pamphlet on the Unequal and Partial Assessments; or, The Book of Assessments to the Poor Rates of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex, laid open by A. Abrahams, 1811, with a view to Meliorate the Situation of the Middling and Lower Classes by a New Assessment.’
[305] At this time twenty loads per day passed through Hampstead, besides what went other ways.
[306] Abrahams mentions Miss Baillie at Frognal, and G. Paxon the Flask—the Lower Flask, of course.
[307] The reason for the name of this avenue has been gravely questioned, and the legend attached to it is looked upon as a mere fable. But in 1859 Sir Francis Palgrave, then Deputy-Keeper of the Record Office, discovered a full account of the assize which was held under these memorable trees in the year 1662—Communicated by G. W. Potter, Esq.
[308] ‘Endymion.’