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Preface

For the best part of my life I have been a resident in Hampstead, on the high vantage ground of the Heath. Familiar with the place from boyhood, it is endeared to me by many personal memories. I seem to have known it always. About its fair and spacious Heath, and over all parts of its lovely surroundings, I used to ramble and play in my youth. There was hardly a tree I did not know ; many of them it was my delight, with other boys, to climb, to see whose name should be carved nearest to the topmost bough. I remember the Gospel Oak fields — unsurpassable, it seemed to me, in vernal beauty and floral radiance — before the railway was cut through them. There I gathered flower and plant specimens for my botanical lessons, and skimmed the ponds for objects for the microscope. And from that time to the present I have been more or less closely connected with this timehonoured and beautiful suburb.

And my affection for Hampstead has grown with the years. As time has crept on, I have come to be deeply interested in the history and associations of the place generally ; and a great part of such leisure as I have been able to snatch from an active business life has been devoted to studying the picturesque story of Hampstead’s past, and to collecting such mementoes of it as have come within my knowledge and reach. In this way I have become possessed of a great amount of valuable material in the shape of pictures, prints, documents, books, and relics of many kinds ; and the desire to utilise these treasures in a manner that might be publicly acceptable — especially to such as have links of connection with the place — has been the motive in the production of these volumes. First and foremost, therefore, this work may be regarded as the direct outcome and reflex of my Bell-Moor Hampstead Collection.

At one time my aim did not extend beyond the idea of publishing something in the nature of an Art and Literary Supplement to what had already been written about Hampstead ; but a more deliberate consideration of the subject decided me to embark upon this larger project, as being much

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Vlll the more useful aud desirable. Thus, without aspiring to any special literary qualifications, I have ventured to tell the full story of Hampstead in so far as it can be gathered from public and accessible private documents, and it has been my good fortune to have had recourse in many directions to sources of information that were not available to previous writers on Hampstead.

The foundation of the history of Hampstead was well and truly laid by John James Park, in his exceedingly careful work published in 1814. Many sources of knowledge that were closed to him have since been opened or discovered, and fresh lights on the past have disclosed many things that enrich the more ancient story. In the later period, from 1814 until 1912 — nearly a century — there has been such a crowding of events, such an expansion of life, incident, and interest within the boundaries, that it may be said a new Hampstead has arisen, with new associations, new activities, and a new outlook. Much about these later days has been well and entertainingly set forth in Baines’s Records and in Miss White’s Sweet Hampstead ; but a good story is worth retelling, amplifying, and adequately illustrating. I think it will be found that the following pages contain much that is new, and, at the same time, that little of importance of the more ancient record has been omitted.

I have sought to treat local affairs from other than a merely local point of view. Between a history like the present and one of national scope there is an essential difference. Subjects that are of leading importance in one case are outside the purview in the other. Still, general* history of a serviceable kind has been, and may still be, built up from local annals. The significance of familiar incidents, episodes, and persons of our own day and locality is

not always realised. Usually it is only when these recede and take their

places in a long retrospect that we perceive their import. Much historical material that would have become of national interest had it been utilised has been lost by indifference to local happenings of the moment.

I have thought it well for association’s sake to add a quite brief historical sketch of Highgate to the Hampstead narrative. It is only a chapter, how- ‘ever, and does not claim to be supported by any new research, yet it seemed to me to be necessary to the rounding off of the story I had to tell.

As regards the pictorial features of the work generally, I have been able to get together much authoritative illustration that will help to recall the ancient aspect of Hampstead ; qnd at .the same time I have been fortunate

enough to secure able artistic aid in giving a faithful presentment of the

various Hampstead scenes of to-day. It has been a labour of love to me to

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IX suggest and see to the carrying out of these matters in an appropriate form, and the full art result will, I trust, be correspondingly gratifying to my readers.

Generally speaking, I mention as I go along the sources from which the main facts of this chronicle have been gathered, but beyond this personal and extensive research it is my gratifying duty here to acknowledge with all thankfulness the courtesy and assistance rendered to me by many friends who have evinced a more than kindly interest in my project, and who, by placing at my service prints, pictures, documents, and helpful matter of various kinds, have enabled me to cover my subject more thoroughly than would otherwise have been possible.

I have to express my thanks to Sir Edward F. Coates, Bart., M.P., for the privilege of reproducing several valuable illustrations of old Hampstead from his unique Collection, with which is incorporated the Gardner Collection ; to Sir Joseph Beecham for permitting me to photograph three of Constable’s paintings ; to Mr. Hildebrand Harmsworth for affording me a similar favour in regard to Constable’s painting of the Vale of Health ; to Mrs. Wrentmore for the loan of interesting drawings of bits of bygone Hampstead, including an original pencil sketch of Steele’s Cottage by J. J. Park, the historian ; to Mr. Henry S. Rooth for allowing a photograph to be taken of the drawing by Mr. J. Fulleylove of the interior of Weatherall House ; to Miss Booth for the like kindness in respect of the Dolphin Fountain ; and to the Earl of Kilmorey for some interesting communications. My thanks are also due to Mr. Sydney C. Mayle for placing at my service some Hampstead illustrations from The Hampstead Annual ; and to Messrs. Cassell and Company, Ltd., for a similar privilege. I have to record, too, my great satisfaction with the admirable series of illustrations contributed to the Bell-Moor Collection, and consequently to these volumes, by Mr. A. R. Quinton, who has shown a fine appreciation of the various subjects he had to illustrate, and has added materially, it will be admitted, to the pictorial effect of the work. The greater portion of the photographs — particularly those of present-day Flampstead scenes — are by Mr. Arthur Praill, whose services in this direction I gladly acknowledge.

On the literary, antiquarian, and more general side of the undertaking, my thanks are no less due and no less freely tendered to those who haye helped me. Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, who has shown a warm interest in this literary venture of mine from the time of its inception, has placed me under deep obligation by voluntarily writing, as he only can write, an Introduction to the

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work. His long residence in Hampstead, his intimate knowledge and intense regard for its associations, and his high literary gifts, render this contribution one of special significance to me personally, and of distinct value to my readers. To Mr. E. E. Newton, whose researches in connection with Hampstead have extended over many years, I am indebted for many matters of special interest and exclusive knowledge, as well as for the loan, for reproduction purposes, of relics and tokens in his possession. Mr. G. W. Potter, with his unrivalled fund of personal memories of early and mid-Victorian Hampstead, has also been a good friend to the work. Sir Spencer Pocklington Maryon Mary on- Wilson, Bart., the Lord of the Manor of Hampstead, kindly allowed me access to the valuable Court records relating to the Manor ; Lord Tennyson gave me permission to bring into the story some acceptable information concerning the residence at Hampstead of Mrs. Tennyson (the late Laureate’s mother) ; Mr. H. Buxton Forman placed much valuable material, not previously published, of both literary and pictorial interest, at my service regarding Keats, and in the same association I was under deep obligation to the late Sir Charles W. Dilke, as I am now to Mr. John C. Francis of the Athenceum. The late Mr. Brodie Hoare kindly permitted me to photograph some of the portraits of members of the Hoare family ; and I am also indebted to Miss Hoare, of North End House, for allowing me access to interesting matters of local and family history. My acknowledgments are likewise due to Mr. George R. Sims, Mr. Max Pemberton, Mr. C. E. Maurice, Mr. W. M. Rossetti, Sir James D. Linton, and Lord Northcliffe for personal recollections and impressions; and to Lord Weardale, Mr. Algernon Graves, Mr. Henry Clarke, Mr. W. Burdett-Coutts, M.P., the Rev. E. F. Evans, and others for assistance in various ways in supplying data or material of one kind or another. The late Sir Samuel Wilks should also be mentioned for a certain scientific interest he took in the work ; and the late Sir Henry Harben for many kindly acts in connection with my garnering of local information. Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A.,the Rev. E. Koch, M.A., Mr. James E. Whiting, Mr. C. J. Gahan of the British Museum (Natural History), Professor J. Logan Lobley, Miss N. Peacock, Miss C. Garlick, and Mr. E. L. Hawke, F.R.Met.Soc., have rendered valuable aid, each in his or her own specialistic way ; and in seeing the work through the press Mr. James Burnley has rendered me a service which I much appreciate.

T. J. B.

Bei.l-Moor, Hampstead Heath,

September 1912.

Chapter I From Prehistoric Times To The Norman Conquest

Geological Evidences — Man arrives — Barbaric Days — Watling Street — Boadicea — Barrow — -Probable Great Battle — Roman Occupation — Roman Relics — After the Roman Domination — Roman Roads — Hampstead’s First Settler — Denizens of the Forest — Pilgrims — Road Dangers — Shrine of St. Albanus — Hampstead’s First Farm — Early Development — Edgar’s Charter — Dunstan and Elfrida — In Edgar’s Time — Ethelred’s Charter — In the Tenth Century — Cucking-Pool — Cure for Scolds — The Miraculous Well — Under the Abbots — Edward the Confessor ..... Pages 1 to 17

Chapter II

After the Conquest — In Domesday — Ranulf Pevrel — Pevrel’s Identity — Domesday Holdings — Villeins — Boors and Bondmen — In Norman Times — A Time of Transition — Kilburn Nunnery — Disforestation — Various Abbots — The Crokesley Bequests — A Moderating Ordinance — Lawsuits — Earliest Mention of Belsize — Roger le Brabazon — Nicholas de Litlyngton — Alienation of Abbey Lands — The de Barentyns — Quarrels between London and Westminster — Constantine Fitz-Alulf — His Lands at Hampstead Pages 18 to 33

Chapter III

Free Tenants — Terms of Holdings — Mixed Rents — Hokeday — The Hall Grange — Pannage — General Feudal Conditions — The Monks and their Neighbours — Pastimes on the Heath — Valuation of 1312 — Village Church in Feudal Times — A Defaulting Priest — The Black Death — The Condition of the Peasantry — The Peasants’ Revolt — Jack Straw — “Jack Straw’s Castle” — The Poor Preachers — New Labour Conditions — Lands on New Lettings — “Pardons” ..... Pages 34 to 40

Chapter IV Hampstead In Tudor Times

Better Days — War Times— Lord Scrope — His Downfall — W olsey’s Subsidy — Henry VIII. — At the Dissolution of Monasteries — Bishop Thirlby- — Valuation of 1542 — Valuation of 1549 — Eton College — Preservation xi

XU of Game — A Prediction — Flocking to Hampstead — A Fateful Day— Hampstead becomes a Separate Parish — Sir Thomas Wroth — Martin Frobisher — A Suppliant Wife — More Wroth s — Sir Baptist lliekes — Chalcot — IVyldes — Alehouses — Offenders — Murder — The “Tyburn T” — Ben Jonson’s Duel — First Water Bill — An Unrealised Scheme — Fleet Ditch — Springs — Tybourne — Westbourne — Hole Bourne . . . . . . . . ' . . Pages 47 to 73

Chapter V

The Masterful Hand — Hampstead’s Isolation — New Conditions — Beautiful Belsize — Armigell Waad — A Famous Expedition — The Alchemist — A Great Funeral — Armigell Waad’s Will — William Waad at Belsize — Important Embassies — Armada Beacon on Hampstead Heath — A Plot against Queen Elizabeth — A Miracle at Sea — William Waad knighted — Waad’s Dismissal — Letters from Belsize — Plague — Estimates of Waad’s Character — Lady Anne Waad and her Successors — Waad’s Treatment of Raleigh and Gerard — Thomas Bushell — Financial Difficulties — Serjeant Wilde lends Lady Anne Money on Mortgage — Wilde in Possession — Daniel O’Neill — Lady Chesterfield — Lord Wotton — The Earls of Chesterfield as Lords of Belsize — Sale of Belsize . . . Pages 74 to 101

Chapter VI

Stuart Days— Great Changes— New Residents — Sir Baptist Hickes and the City — Hickes’s Hall — Hickes in Parliament — James I. — The Chicken House— King of Bohemia — Sir Baptist Hickes created Lord Campden — Death of Lord Campden — Church Endowment — A Hampstead Prosecution — Lady Campden’s Gifts — The Campdens fight for Charles I. — Adrian May’s Petition — Parliamentary Confiscation — The Third Viscount Campden in the Field — Lord Campden a Prisoner — Fines and Petitions — Provision for the Minister — Martyn Dawson — The Campdens and the Restoration —Lord Noel, Earl of Gainsborough — Sir William Langhorne — Origin of the Wells Charity Pages 102 to 127

Chapter VII

Contrasts — Residents — Lord Delaware — Baron Wilde — Great Happenings — Notable Houses — The Plague — The Great Fire — The Necromancers — Witchcraft — “Merrie” Hampstead — Taxations — Charitable Appeals — Register Revelations — Sir Harry Vane — Vane House — Vane with the Pilgrim Fathers — Vane in Parliament — Eminent Visitors — Cromwell and Vane — Sir Harry’s Arrest — Vane in Prison — Vane’s Trial — The Execution — Lady Vane — Fifth Monarchy Men — The Rising — The Fanatics hide in lveu Wood — Early Occupants of Ken Wood — Diana Bill .... Pages 128 to 152

Chapter VIII Tragedies Of The Seventeenth Century, And Other Contemporary Matters

Highwaymen — Claude Duval — “Tryals of the Grand High-way-meu ” — List of Stolen Property — Jackson’s Gibbet — Dick Turpin — Turpin at The Spaniards — A Judges’ Walk Suggestion — Highwaymen at Holder’s Green — A Primrose Hill Tragedy — The Finding of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey’s Body —

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Three Men hanged — Titus Oates — An Incident of the Plague — Inquest and Verdict — Strange Evidence — The Popish Plot — A Division of Opinion — Attack on Belsize House — The PIollow Elm — The Elm Turret School — Sir Geoffrey Palmer- — Sir William Jones — Royal Visits — Sir Charles Sedley .......... Pages 153 to 174

Chapter IX

Wells and Spas — Dorothy Rippin — The Purging Wells — Dr. Gibbons— Hampstead becomes Fashionable— The Flask Trade — Daily Distribution in London — Widow Keyes — Tenders invited for leasing the Waters — Lease to John Duffield — “Strange Newes from Hampstead” — Evil Spirits abroad — New Buildings — The Great Room — The “ Consorts ” — Raffling Shop — Sion Chapel Marriages — Duffield in Difficulties — The Heath in Comedy — Mother Huff’s— A Varied Company— Wells Frivolities — The Height of Success — Strolling Players prosecuted — Death of Dr. Gibbons — Lively Scenes — A Local Road Surveyor ......... Pages 175 to 195

Chapter X

The Upper Flask — The Kit-Cat Club — Other Clubs — Kneller and the Portraits- -The Kit-Cat in Literature — Kit-Cat Toasts — Toasting a Young Beauty — Garth and “The Dispensary” — The Kit-Cat Pies — Steele at Haverstock Hill — Steele’s Precepts — Steele’s Practices — Kit-Cat Members and their Foibles — Steele’s Domestic Diplomacy— Tbe Wells in Decadence — A Gaming-room Incident — Duffield’s Entanglement — The Long Room becomes a Chapel — A Queer Water Question . . . Pages 196 to 219

Chapter XI

Strange Doings at Belsize — Belsize a Pleasure-Resort — Povey the Patriot — The “ Welsh Ambassador ” — Horse and Foot Racing — Doe-bunting — Belsize satirised — Discriminating Tactics — Tbe “ Rabble-Guard ” — Defoe at Belsize — Belsize closed to the Public — New Georgia — Traps for tbe Unwary — Turner’s Wood — The Spaniards : Its “ Puppets ” and Pebble Stones — Something like a Prospect — What’s in a Name ? — The Spaniards in Fiction — Napoleon III. ...... Pages 220 to 237

Chapter XII

Clearing the Atmosphere — Corrective Action — A New Wells Champion — Dr. Soame and his “ Directions ” — Hampstead in 1734 — The Truth about the Springs — Renewed Popularity — Pope — Gay and Arbuthnot — Letter from Swift — New Assembly Rooms — Defoe at the Wells — Life and Gaiety — Fielding — Richardson — Clarissa Harlowe — Fashionable People — Dr. Johnson — The Vanity of Human Wishes — Johnson and Steevens— Goldsmith — Nancy Dawson — Moll King — Mrs. Lessingliam — The Modern Jenny Diver — The Honeywoods — Earthquakes — A Foolish Panic — Miss Burney — “ Evelina ” in the Long Room — Mrs. Crewe’s Villa — Burke — A Visit to Lord Mansfield — Mrs. Crewe and Sheridan and Fox — Buff and Blue Pages 238 to 277

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Chapter XIII

The Wells again — Parish Church rebuilt — Church Row — Mrs. Barbauld — The Barbaulds leave Hampstead — George Steevens — Steevens’s Shakespeare — A Hustling Editor — Steevens’s Eccentricity — Steevens and his Portraits — Death of Steevens — Bishop Butler — The Bishop’s Stained Glass — French Refugees — Abbe' Morel — Holly Place Chapel — Distinguished French Visitors — Dinner Club — Eminent Diners — Some Curious Bets — Dinner Patriots — A Dramatic Dissolution — The Waters again — The Goodwin Glamour — A Martyr to Science — Descriptions and Prescriptions — Neutral Saline Springs — Disillusion

Pages 278 to 306

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Tumulus or Barrow between Hampstead and Highgate before the Firs disappeared.

From a drawing by A. R. Quinton in the Bell-Moor Collection ... 3

Roman Urn and Other Relics. Dug up near the Hampstead Wells in 1774 . . 4

Pilgrim’s Costrel or Flask. Dug up at Holly Hill in 1876 .... 7

St. Dunstan (924-988). Abbot of Glastonbury and Archbishop of Canterbury. From a

painting in Westminster Abbey ....... 9

Reproduction of the Endorsement on the /Ethelred Charter of a.d. 986. Photographed

from the original in the British Museum . . • . . .10

Reproduction of the Ethelred Charter of a.d. 986. Photographed from the original

in the British Museum . . . . . . . . .11

St. Dunstan and the Devil. From the Luttrell Psalter . . . . .12

Ducking-Chair at Fordwich near Canterbury, 1912 ..... 13

Ducking-Stool, Ipswich Museum. From a photograph by F. Woolnough, Esq. . . 14

Ducking-Stool. From a chap-book illustration . . . . . .14

The Stocks at the Bottom of Flask Walk, 1831. From a drawing by A. R. Quinton

(from a memory-sketch by G. W. Potter) in the Bell-Moor Collection . . 15

The Pound in 191L From an original drawing by A. R. Quinton in the Bell-Moor

Knights Templars. From Matthew of Paris’s Chronicle . . . . .23

Hawking and Hunting. From an old engraving ...... 36

Wayfarers in the Fourteenth Century. MS. Roy. 2, B. vii. . . . .40

Fourteenth-Century Types. 1. Priest with Pardon. 2. Beggar. 3. Palmer. 4. Hermit.

The first three from MS. Douce 104; the fourth from the Luttrell Psalter . . 41

Jack Straw’s Castle. From Partington’s History of London, 1835 . . . .42

Near Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead Heath. From J. T. Smith’s Remarks on Rural

Scenery, and in all probability drawn or etched, or both, by John Constable, R.A. . 43

Agricultural Labourers. Barclay, Fifth Eclog, 1509 • • • . .56

Martin Frobisher. From an illustration in the Bodleian Library . . . .62 xv

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Facsimile of the first page of a translation of Lannoy’s receipt for transmutation, in the

handwriting of Armigell Waad, with Waad’s signature appended . .80

Sir William Waad. From an old engraving ...... 85

Copy of an illustration from Bishop Carleton’s Thankfull Remembrance of God’s Mercy,

1624 . . . . . . . . . . .86

The Plague in London, 1625. Title-page to J. Taylor’s The Fearefull Summer . . 89

Philip, Second Earl of Chesterfield. After the painting by Sir Peter Lely . . 98

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield. From an original model by

View of the Old Chicken House, Hampstead. Taken from the Yard at the Rear,

looking South-West, 1886. From a water-colour drawing in the Coates Collection 106 View of the Chicken House, Hampstead, 1797. One of Malcolm’s views issued to

extra-illustrate Lysons’s Environs of London . . . . . .107

Old Court, now demolished, on Rosslyn Hill, showing the Staircase of the Chicken

House. From a photograph taken about 1880 . . . . .108

Another View of the Chicken House. From a water-colour drawing after John

Ireland in the Coates Collection . . . . . . .109

An Ointment Jar of Lambeth Ware, 1700, dug up on the Chicken House site, in the

possession of Mr. E. E. Newton . . . . . . .109

The King of Bohemia about 1899, taken from Greenhill. From a sketch by W. Wilks 110 Monument to Baptist, Lord Hickes, Viscount Campden, in the Parish Church of Campden, Gloucestershire. From a photograph by Henry W. Taunt and Co.,

Monument by Grinling Gibbons to Baptist Noel, Third Viscount Campden, in Exton

Baptist Noel, Earl of Gainsborough. From a stipple portrait published by Harding,

1799 .......... 124

The Manor House at Charlton, built by Sir Adam Newton. From an illustration in

A New Display of the Beauties of England and Wales, 1775 . . . .126

Entrance to the Area of 1 1 9 Heath Street in 1911, showing the Half Millstone Step.

From an original drawing by A. R. Quinton in the Bell-Moor Collection . . 131

An Old Heath-side Cottage at North End about 1820. From a drawing by T. Hastings

Two Witches discovered. From the frontispiece to Matthew Hopkins’ Discoverie of

View of Vane House, Hampstead. From a drawing by W. Davison, engraved by

J. Smith. Published November 1813. . . . . . .141

Sir Harry Vane, Knt., Obiit 1662. From a mezzotint engraving published by

Reproduction of a Broadside published in 1660, in which the “Grand Traytors ” are put in the Pound in various animal Shapes, Vane appearing as a Fox. From the Thomason Tracts in the British Museum ...... 145

The Gibbet Elms, North End, 1819- From an original drawing by T. Hastings in the

Bell-Moor Collection . . . . . . . . .156

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The Gibbet Elm — “The Man in Chains.” From a drawing by E. F. Brewtnall . . 157

Primrose Hill and Chalk Farm in 1836. From an original water-colour drawing in the

possession of Mrs. Wrentmore . . . . . . . .163

Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. From a mezzotint engraved by R. Dunkarton after an

original picture supposed to be by Kneller . . . . . .164

Miles Prance. From a contemporary engraving by R. White . . . .166

The Hollow Elm on Hampstead Heath, 1653. From a copy of the scarce print by Hollar

Sir Charles Sedley, Bart. From a picture in the collection of Her Grace the Duchess of

Dorset, drawn by J. Thurston, engraved by C. Rolls . . . . .173

Cottages at the Bottom of Flask Walk, 1010. From a photograph . . . 178

The Pump Room, Well Walk, Hampstead, about 1830. From a drawing in the Coates

Well Walk, with a View of the Present Well, 191 1. From an original drawing by

A. R. Quinton in the Bell-Moor Collection . . . . . . 191

The Yorkshire Grey, Hampstead, 1886, just before its Demolition. The view shows the front of the house looking towards Little Church Row, and running parallel with it.

From a drawing by H. Lawes in the Coates Collection . . . .192

The Old White Horse, South End Green, Hampstead, 1869- Twice rebuilt since.

From a drawing by J. T. Wilson in the Coates Collection .... 193

The Cock and Hoop, West End, Hampstead, 186,9. From a drawing by J. T. Wilson

in the Coates Collection . . . . . . . .194

Side View of “ Upper Heath ” from the Grounds. Showing part of the original building

on the left. By permission of the Photo-Pictorial Agency . . . .197

John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1735,

after the original painting by Kneller . . . . . . .198

Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bart. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1735, after the

original painting by Kneller . . . . . . . .198

Jacob Tonson. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1733, after the original painting by

Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of Kingston. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1733, after

Kneller’ s original painting, 1709 . . . . . . .199

Addison. From one of Kneller’s original sketches, now at Bell-Moor . . . 200

Steele. From one of Kneller’s original sketches, now at Bell-Moor. . . .201

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. From an engraving by Caroline Watson, after a painting

Naming Toasts for the Year at the Kit-Cat Club : the Duke of Kingston presenting his Daughter, Lady Mary Pierrepont, to the Members. From the original picture by Charles Green, R.I., at Bell-Moor ....... 203

Sir Richard Blackmore. From an old engraving ...... 204

Sir Samuel Garth, M.D. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1733, after the original

painting by Kneller ......... 205

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Joseph Addison. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1733, after the original painting by

Vignette View of Steele’s Cottage, about 1805. Drawn by R. Freebairn, engraved by

Sir Richard Steele, Knt. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1733, after the original

painting by Kneller ......... 208

Sir John Vanbrugh. From a mezzotint engraving by Faber, 1733, after the original

painting by Kneller ......... 209

Entrance to Flask Walk, demolished in 1911. From an original drawing by A. R.

Quinton in the Bell-Moor Collection . . . . . . .210

Sir R. Steele. From an engraving after the original painting by Kneller . . .211

View of Steele’s Cottage. From a drawing by Schnebellie, made in 1804, with facsimile autograph letter by Steele. One of the plates from Smith’s Literary Curiosities. The view is taken from the fields at the back of the house . . . .212

Steele’s Cottage and Haverstock Hill, about 1829- From an engraving by E. Finden,

after a drawing by W. Westall, A.R.A. . . . . . .213

Steele’s Cottage, Haverstock Hill, about 1810. From a drawing by J. J. Park (author

of the first History of Hampstead'), in the possession of Mrs. Wrentmore . . 214

Copper “Ticket” of Admission to the Hampstead Long Room, about 1730. In the

possession of Mr. E. E. Newton . . . . . . .217

Old Belsize House. From an eighteenth-century print . . . . . 223

Reproduction of a scarce sheet of music, relating to Belsize, about 1722. In the Bell-Moor

Old Toll House and Barn in Belsize Lane, standing in 1871. From a drawing by

G. Maund in the Coates Collection ....... 229

Belsize House, near Hampstead, in 1751. From the extra-illustrated copy of Lysons

in the Guildhall Library . . . . . . . .231

View from the Fir Trees, Hampstead Heath, looking towards Harrow. Sketched and

lithographed by T. M. Baynes, 1822 ....... 232

The Firs, on Spaniards Road, at Heath End, 1911. From a photograph . . 233

South View of The Spaniards, near Hampstead. One of the small views by Chatelain,

from his set of Views in the Vicinity of London, 1750 . . . . 234

Mrs. Bardell’s Party at The Spaniards is broken in upon. From the original engraving

The Spaniards in 1 9 1 1 - From an original drawing by A. R. Quinton in the Bell-Moor

View taken from the Pond (no longer existing) below Judges’ Walk, showing Harrow

in the Distance, 1796. From an aquatint after T. Stowers .... 239

Entrance to the Heath from near Pond Street, about 1840. From a lithograph by