cal sports and diversions, 602,603; |
curious extracts from the Register,
603, 60-4; meeting-house, 604;
charity-school, ib. bridge over
the Brent, 604, 605; Grand Junc-
tion Canal, 605; manor, 605,
606; seats here, 606.
Brentford, gives title of earl,

607.

606,

battle of, account of, 595—

Burleigh, Lord, a supposed house
of, at Islington, 242.
Burney, Dr. appointed organist to
the Royal Hospital at Chelsea,
56; his death there, 57.
Buroughs, or Burroughs, seat, 550,
551; marvellous tales respecting
it, ib.

Bury Street, ward of Edmonton, 708;
ancient residences here, ib.
Hall, seat, 703.

Earl of, creation of title, Bush Hill, seats there, 708, 709.

598.
606; and revival, 607.

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Patrick Ruthen,
notice of, 606 (and note.)
Brill, the, a supposed Roman en-
campment, 183, 184.
Brockley Hill, supposed site of the
Roman Sulloniacæ, 626; Roman
vestiges found in this neighbour.
hood, ib.; ancient proverb con-
cerning, ib. classical memorial
of site erected here, ib. 627.
seat here, 649; por-
traits, ib.; gardens, ib.
Bromley St. Leonard's, account of
the parish of, 287–290. Name,
287: religious foundation here no-
ticed, 287, 288; manors, 288;
church and monuments, 288, 289;
supposed to be the ancient chapel
of nunnery, 988; burial-ground,
289; manor-house, 289, 290;
human bones found on digging
here, 290; curacy, ib.; rectory
and advowson, ib.; charity school,
ib. alms-houses, ib. (and note ;)
calico printing-grounds, ib.; and
distillery, ib.

Brompton, hamlet, 155, 156. Cele-
brated for nursery gardens, 155;
chapel, 156.

Brook Green, village, 127.
Brooke House, Clapton, 269, 270.
Browne, Joseph, Esq. his house at
Chelsea noticed, 58; formerly oc-
cupied by Dr. Hoadly, ib.
Bruce castle, seat, 698, 699; an
ancient castle of the Bruces for-
merly on this site, 698; present
building, ib. 699.
Buckhurst, Charles, Lord, created
Earl of Middlesex, 4; some
count of him, ib. (and note.)
Buckingham, George Villiers Duke
of, anecdotes of, 37, 38.

ac-

Park, 708.

Bushey Park, extent of, 482, 483;
fine avenues of chesnut trees here,
483; ranger, ib.

———, celebrated contest con-
cerning passage through, 483, 487.
488 (and note.).

Lodge, the seat of H.
R. H. the Duke of Clarence, 483.
Butterwick House, seat, 114.
Butts, Dr. his tomb noticed, 100;
his name immortalized by Shaks-
peare, ib.; portrait of him, ib.

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C.

Cadogan, Lord, present proprietor of
Sir Thomas More's estate at Chel-
sea, 40.

Caligula, an exquisite bust of, found
at Herculaneum, 417.
Cambridge, Richard Owen, some
account of, $87.
Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, memoirs

of, 154, 155.

Town, hamlet, 180-183.
Veterinary college here, 181-

183.

Campden House, former illustrious
inhabitants of, 146, 147.
Canal, Grand Junction, progress of
through the county, 526; 560;
605; 607.

Cane Wood, or Ken Wood, seat of
the Earl of Mansfield, 175-179.
Ancient possessors of estate, 176;
exterior of mansion, ib.; interior,
ib.; music room, ib.; paintings in
school-room, 177; in library, ib. ;
in billiard room, ib.; portraits and
busts in dining-room, ib. ; grounds,
177, 178; fine cedars, 179.
Canning, Elizabeth, strange tale of
robbery

robbery and confinement of her at Chapone, Mrs. Hester, account of,

Enfield Wash, 729-731
Canoe, account of a curious one
found at Sheperton, 497, 498.
Canonbury House, description of,
230, 232.

Manor, account of, 232
-234 (and note.)
Canons, manor of, account of, 634,
635; descent of property, ib.

splendid seat of the Duke
of Chandos formerly here, 635;
description of, 635, 636; grounds,
636, 657; magnificence of the
establishment, 637; satirized by
Pope, 637; his satire examined,
638-642; buildings taken down,
642.

--, seat of Sir Thomas Plumer,
642, 643.

Cardinal's, or King's River, account
of, 482.

Carron, Abbe, some account of, 185,
186.

Cartoons of Raffaelle, at Hampton

Court, 475; executed as designs
for tapesty, ib.; purchased by
Charles I., 476; retained by
Cromwell, ib.; original genius of
Raffaelle, 477; reason why the
cartoons do not strike at first sight
explained, 478; subjects of them,
479; copies, ib.; prints from
them, ib. 480; a series of engrav.
ings from them now in progress,

ib.

745, 746.

Charles 11. King, anecdote of, 667,
(note.)

Chatterton, Lord Orford's conduct to,
considered, 402, 403.
Chelsea, account of the parish of,

28-90; of great biographical
interest, 28; and from its national
establishments, ib; situation and
extent, ib.; Thame's wider here
than at any part west of London
Bridge, ib. (and note); new streets
of, conspicuous for beauty, ib.;
and villas, 29; boundaries and
name, ib.; ancient charter con-
cerning, ib.; account of in Domes-
day, 29, 30; uncertainty con-
cerning its manors, 30; supposed
passage of Britons through River,
by College Gardens, 30, (and
note;) and of Julius Cæsar, 31;
Pope Adrian's legates hold a synod
here, ib.; becomes the residence
of conspicuous persons, ib. 32;
attains consequence by foundation
of hospital, 32; former distin-
guished inhabitants and their
dwellings, S7-57; rendered fa-
mous by the residence of Sir
Thomas More, 34; manor, 45,
46; manor house, 46; supposed
to have been built by Henry
VIII., ib.; eminent inhabitants
of it, 46-48; situation, extent,
and description, 48; and grounds,
49; village rendered attractive by
the residence of Duchess of Maza-
rine, 51; her death there, ib.;
modern villas, 57-59; public
buildings and institutions, 59-84;
see Chelsea Royal Hospital, 70—
81; Royal military asylum, 81-—
84; York Hospital, &4; church,
description of, 59; chapel, ib.;
and monuments, 60-70; addi-
tional burial ground, 70; rectory,
ib.; botanical gardens, 84-86 ;
water works, 86; bridge, ib; pa-
rochial charitable institutions, 86,
87; Moravian burial ground, 87,
88; rapid increase in popula-
tion, 88; Sloane Street, 88, 89;
hamlet, see Little Chelsea, 89,
90.

Little, hamlet, 89, 90;

seals

Conduit, one at Bayswater described, Craven Hill, hamlet, 165.

Drawings from Holbein found by
Q.Caroline at Kensington, account
of, 410 (and note.)
Drayton, or West Drayton, account
of the parish of, 548-552; vil-
lage, 548; boundaries, ib. 549:
manor, 549, 550; seats, 550, 551;
church and monuments, 551; font,
ib. 552; church-yard, ib. ; rectory
and vicarage, ib.; meeting house,
ib.

Duncroft, seat, 508.
Durham Park, seat 751, 752.

E.

Ealing, account of the parish of, 334
-347; boundaries, hamlets, and
name, 334; manor, ib; seats, 334
-337; 359, 340; hamlet, see
Little Ealing, 337; various manors,
337-339; church and monu-
eminent persons
ments, 341;
buried here, S41, 342; vicarage
and lectureship, 342; meeting-
house, ib; almshouses, ib. ; cha-
rity schools, ib. ; hamlet, see Old
Brentford, 343–347.

Green, 354, 335.
Little, hamlet, 337.
House, seat, 335.
Park, seat, 337.

Grove, seat, 335.

Earl's Court, hamlet, 157.
Eastcot, hamlet, 578, 579; seats
here, 579.

East Lodge, seat, 733, 734; for-
merly used as a hunting seat by
Charles I. ib.

Eclipse, a famous race-horse, buried

in the park at Canons, 64$
(note)
Edgware, account of the parish of,
647-650; boundaries, name and
situation, 647; formerly a weekly
market here, ib.; supposed track of
Watling Street, ib.; manors, 647,
648; curious custom of, 648; un-
common fines inflicted here, ib,;
Brockley Hill and seat, 649;
church, 649, 650; patronage and
curacy, 650; eminent curate, ib. ;
almshouses, ib.

Edmonton, hundred of, 694-758;
situation and boundaries, 694.

account of the parish
of, 705-718; imparts a name
to hundred, 706; extent, &e.
706 (and note;) wards, name, &c.
ib.; manor, 706, 707; ancient
building, 707; rectory house, 707,
708; Bury Street and seats, 708;
Bush Hill and seats, 708, 709;
Winchmore Hill, 709; hamlet of
Southgate, seats &c. 709-713;
church and monuments, 713, 714
(and notes;) formerly a chape!
here, 715; advowson and rectory,
ib.; eminent vicar, ib. meeting-
houses, ib.; charity schools, 715,
716; almshouses, 716; Beggar's
Bush fairs, 716; Statute fair, 716,
717 (and note ;) account of sup-
posed witch, 717; poem of John
Gilpin noticed, ib.; eminent na-
tives, 718, 719.

-, Merry devil of, account
of, 714 (and note.)

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witch of, curious ac-
count of, 717.
Elections, for the county held at
Brentford, 594; formerly held on
Hampstead Heath, 200;
(note ;) situation of Booth, 599.
Eliza, Sterne's, notice

husband's monument, 632.

of

594

her

Elm Grove, seat of the late Mr. Per-
ceval 335, 536.

tree, curious account of one
struck by lightning, 592, 593 (and
note.)

Elsynge Hall, Royal seat of Queen
Elizabeth, 724-726; exact site

- unknowu, 724; previous descent
of property, 725 (and note;)
bistorical circumstances connected
with, 725, 726; subsequent descent

of