MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM 
 
 PAROCHIAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 BY THE REV. 
 
 R. S. COBBETT, M.A., 
 
 OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD. 
 
 SOMH TIME CURATE OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF S. MARY, TWICKENHAM. 
 
 LONDON: 
 SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE. 
 
 1872. 
 
TO MY FRIEND 
 
 ARTHUR BILBROUGH 
 
 I DEDICATE 
 
 THESE "MEMORIALS" 
 IN AFFECTIONATE ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
 
 OF 
 MANY KINDNESSES. t 
 
 344427 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 I HAVE endeavoured in the following pages to supply 
 the long-felt want of a trustworthy record of memorable 
 facts relating to the parish of Twickenham, and of the 
 numerous persons of note who at various periodsTiave 
 lived in it. 
 
 The compilation of these " Memorials " has been 
 to me a source of much pleasure and a welcome relaxa- 
 tion in the intervals of graver duties : the regret with 
 which I finish my self-imposed task is lessened only by 
 the hope that these pages may afford some amount of 
 satisfaction to those friends who have encouraged me in 
 my labours and to other readers who are connected 
 with, or are interested in the place. 
 
 In compiling this work I have availed myself of 
 every source of trustworthy information that was open 
 to me. The substance of Ironside's History and of 
 Lysons' account of Twickenham, in his Environs of 
 London will be found herein embodied. Ironside's 
 book has, from its extreme scarceness, attained a 
 fictitious value, although, owing to its frequent in- 
 accuracies, its use to the historian of Twickenham is 
 
viii PREFACE. 
 
 chiefly valuable, from the continual verification which 
 its most simple statements compel, for very little in it 
 can ever be taken upon trust. 
 
 Lysons, on the contrary, is as correct, speaking 
 generally, as his predecessor is the reverse. As I do not 
 wish to encumber the text with more references than 
 are absolutely indispensable, I content myself with this 
 general acknowledgment of my obligation to these 
 writers. I have also made occasional use of a series of 
 papers published in Frasers Magazine in 1860, which 
 are remarkable for their peculiar liveliness and charm 
 of style. 
 
 I have also enjoyed the advantage of many private 
 sources of information which have enabled me to acquire 
 much valuable original matter. 
 
 Without the aid afforded me by Miss Gardiner it 
 would have been impossible for me to have gathered 
 very many particulars concerning the parish which 
 have made its history continuous and authentic. This 
 lady's residence in Twickenham dates from 1 8 1 1 (the 
 very year in which the second edition of Lysons' 
 Environs of London was published) and her retentive 
 and accurate memory has supplied a connecting link in 
 the annals of the village which could not, I feel sure, 
 have* been furnished by any other living person. Not 
 only has Miss Gardiner given me the fullest informa- 
 tion upon almost every one of the various points which 
 I have submitted to her ; but her interest in the subject 
 was so great that she was kind enough to put her 
 recollections In writing in so clear and succinct a form 
 as to afford me the means of making easy and constant 
 reference to them. 
 
x PREFACE. 
 
 me in the preparation of that useful but uninteresting 
 portion of a book, the Index. 
 
 It will be seen that this work, avowedly a " com- 
 pilation/' can from its nature lay very little claim to 
 originality, and if it should be regarded as " a paste 
 and scissors book," I can only ask for the credit of 
 having used the paste with neatness and the scissors 
 with discretion. 
 
 As regards myself personally, that this publication 
 should occur almost coincidently with the severance of 
 my ministerial connection with the parish is to me 
 a circumstance very sorrowful and sad. It presents 
 me, however, with -an opportunity, of which I cannot 
 refrain from availing myself, of expressing in an 
 enduring manner my deep and grateful sense of the 
 almost universal friendliness, which has been ex- 
 tended to me during the six happy years which I 
 have passed as a curate of Twickenham. 
 
 June, 27 th, 1872. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 PAROCHIAL. 
 
 CHAPTER I. THE VILLAGE. 
 
 PACK 
 
 THE SITUATION, EXTENT, CLIMATE, AND VEGETATION OF TWICKENHAM 
 ITS MARKET-GARDENSDERIVATION OF THE NAME POPULATION 
 HISTORY OF THE MANOR ACCOUNT OF THE MANOR HOUSE 3 
 
 CHAPTER II. THE CHURCH. 
 
 CONVENTUAL ESTABLISHMENT AT TWICKENHAM PATRONAGE OF THE 
 LIVING VALUE OF THE VICARAGE THE PARISH CHURCH THE 
 OLD CHURCH FALLS DOWN IN 1713 THE NEW EDIFICE SUB- 
 SCRIPTION DEED AND FACULTY FOR REBUILDING FORMS USED BY 
 THE CHURCHWARDENS FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF PEWS RESTORA- 
 TION OF THE CHURCH IN 1859 THE BISHOP'S FACULTY MEMORIAL 
 WINDOWS, &c. &c. DECORATION OF THE CHURCH IN 1872 
 COMMUNION PLATE BELLS ADDITIONS MADE TO THE CHURCHYARD 
 GRAVEYARDS IN LONDON ROAD, 1782, AND ROYAL OAK LANE, 
 1837 NEW PAROCHIAL CEMETERY ON WHITTON COMMON, 1867 16 
 
 CHAPTER III. THE REGISTERS. 
 
 ORIGIN AND COMMENCEMENT OF THE REGISTERS EARLY ENTRIES 
 AVERAGE OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS CURIOUS MEMO- 
 RANDA IN THE REGISTER BOOKS EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER 
 OF BAPTISMS, 1592 1852 EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF 
 MARRIAGES, 1609 1 86 1 EXTRACTS FROM THE REGISTER OF 
 BURIALS 1563 1872 WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 44 
 
xii CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. THE MONUMENTS, &c. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 MONUMENTS AND MURAL INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PARISH CHURCH THOSE 
 ON THE EXTERNAL WALLSINTERMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD 
 AND THE TWO GRAVEYARDS 83 
 
 CHAPTER V. THE CLERGY. 
 
 THE VICARS BEFORE THE REFORMATION AND SUBSEQUENT TO IT DR. 
 WATERLAND MR. COSTARD. THE CURATES PREVIOUS TO THE 
 COMMONWEALTH: "MINISTERS" DURING THE COMMONWEALTH : 
 CURATES SINCE THE RESTORATION ., 106 
 
 CHAPTER VL TRINITY CHURCH. 
 
 THE NEW CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, TWICKENHAM COMMON 
 ERECTION IN 1841 ENDOWMENT ENLARGEMENT IN 1863 ME- 
 MORIAL WINDOWS, &c. SCHOOLS MURAL INSCRIPTIONS PER- 
 PETUAL CURATES OR VICARS FROM 1841 1872 129 
 
 CHAPTER VII. WHITTON CHURCH AND 
 TWICKENHAM CHAPEL. 
 
 THE CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP AND JAMES, WHITTON DESCRIPTION OF 
 THE BUILDING AND ITS FITTINGS MEMORIAL WINDOWS SPECIAL 
 OFFERINGS VICARAGE HOUSE THE VICAR PROPOSED NEW 
 CHURCH IN S. MARGARET'S TWICKENHAM CHAPEL PROPRIETORS ' 
 AND MINISTERS SCHOOLS NONCONFORMIST PLACES OF WORSHIP 139 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 FORMATION OF THE PRESENT SCHOOLS BOYS', GIRLS', AND SUNDAY 
 SCHOOLS VARIOUS BEQUESTS ERECTION OF OLD SCHOOLS IN 
 SCHOOL ALLEY, 1809 NEW SCHOOLS IN ARRAGON ROAD, 1861 
 AVERAGE ATTENDANCE AND NUMBER ON THE BOOKS FURTHER 
 BENEFACTIONS 146 
 
 CHAPTER IX. THE TWICKENHAM CHARITIES. 
 
 THE ALMSHOUSES FERRYMAN'S GIFT SYON MEAD TWICKENHAM 
 AYTE FERRY MEAD TWICKENHAM MANOR TWICKENHAM BULL 
 LAND WHITTON BULL LAND MORE MEAD AND IVY CLOSE- 
 GIFTS OF HENRY BECKETT, MARY BUSH, ROBERT MOORE, ELIZABETH 
 
 BOUCHIER AND LEWIS OWEN RlCHARD MOORE'S GlFT POOR'S 
 
 ALLOTMENT PEW RENTS FRANCIS POULTON'S GIFT VICAR'S 
 BREAD MRS. ELIZABETH LOVE'S GIFT GEORGE GOSTLING'S GIFT 
 
CONTENTS. xiii 
 
 PACK 
 
 FRYER'S GIFT MRS. COLE'S GIFT FUEL LAND BENEFACTION OF 
 JOHN AND FRANCES WEST MRS. WEST'S CHARITIES THE EARL 
 OF ORFORD'S CHARITY ROBERT MOORE'S GIFT TO THE MINISTER 
 MRS. GOSTLING'S GIFT MADAME ARTAULT'S GIFT Miss BEAU- 
 CHAMP'S GIFT Miss NICHOLSON'S GIFT OTHER BENEFACTIONS 
 AND GIFTS THE NEW MISSION ROOM AND HOUSE 156 
 
 CHAPTER X.THE PARISH BOOKS. 
 
 CURIOUS AND INTERESTING EXTRACTS ON PAROCHIAL AND GENERAL 
 MATTERS FROM THE MINUTES OF VESTRY : NOTEWORTHY ITEMS 
 FROM THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHURCHWARDENS FROM 1606 TO THE 
 PRESENT TIME.... 186 
 
 PART II. 
 
 TOPOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 CHAPTER XL. THE HOUSES. 
 
 ORLEANS HOUSE ART COLLECTION AND LIBRARY OF H.R.H. THE 
 
 Due D'AUMALE YORK HOUSE "FORMOSA" LODGE an 
 
 CHAPTER XII. THE HOUSES (Continued). 
 
 THE RIVER THAMES AS DESCRIBED IN THE ISLEWORTH SURVEY 
 TWICKENHAM PARK SYON MONASTERY DEEDS IN PARISH CHEST 
 LORD BACON AND SUBSEQUENT OCCUPANTS OF TWICKENHAM PARK 
 HOUSE : THE BERKELEY FAMILY THOMAS VERNON, ESQ. CURIOUS 
 WILL OF THE DOWAGER LADY MOUNTRATH METHOD OF BEATING 
 THE PARISH BOUNDS ADJOINING RESIDENCES "VILLAS " TREES 
 ON MR. GOSTLING'S GROUNDS CAMBRIDGE HOUSE RICHARD 
 OWEN CAMBRIDGE ARCHDEACON CAMBRIDGE'S HOUSE 223 
 
 CHAPTER XIIL THE HOUSES (Continued). 
 
 MARBLE HILL, THE RESIDENCE OF THE COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK LITTLE 
 MARBLE HILL MEADOWSIDE COTTAGE "RAGMAN'S CASTLE" 
 RIVERSIDE MOUNT LEBANON FERRY HOUSE FERRYSIDE SION 
 Row DIAL HOUSE THE VICARAGE , 241 
 
xiv CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. THE HOUSES (Continued}. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 RICHMOND HOUSE THE OLD HOUSES, NOW PULLED DOWN, WHOSE 
 LAST OCCUPANTS WERE, RESPECTIVELY, Miss BEAUCHAMP AND 
 F. G. CARMICHAEL, ESQ. POULETT LODGE THE SUMMER HOUSE 
 ON THE FERRERS' ESTATE "CROSS DEEP" "RIVERSDALE" 
 CROSS DEEP LODGE 254 
 
 CHAPTER XN.THE HOUSES (Continue^. 
 
 POPE'S VILLA EARLY HISTORY OF ALEXANDER POPE His HOUSE AT 
 TWICKENHAM His GROTTO His LATER LIFE AND WORKS DEATH 
 OF HIS MOTHER His OWN DEATH AND BURIAL DENIAL OF THE 
 STATEMENT CONCERNING THE ABSTRACTION OF THE POET'S SKULL 
 FROM HIS GRAVE THE POET'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE, HABITS, 
 CONSTITUTION, TEMPERAMENT His RANK AS A POET COMPARISON 
 OF HIM WITH DRYDEN THACKERAY ON THE CONCLUDING VERSES 
 OF "THE DUNCIAD" SIR WILLIAM STANHOPE ENLARGES THE 
 HOUSE LORD MENDIP DEATH OF POPE'S WILLOW LADY HOWE 
 DEMOLISHES POPE'S HOUSE COMPLETELY HER NEW HOUSE SUB- 
 SEQUENTLY LESSENED AND DIVIDED PROPOSAL TO REBUILD POPE'S 
 VILLA IN FAC-SIMILE SCHEME ABANDONED THE PRESENT SO- 
 CALLED "POPE'S VILLA" THE CARE BESTOWED BY TWICKENHAM 
 ON HER GREATEST RESIDENT 263 
 
 CHAPTER XVI.Ttf HOUSES (Continued}. 
 
 MR. HUDSON'S HOUSE " THE LAWN "MR. HICKEY'S MR. LAMING'S 
 RADNOR HOUSE CROSS DEEP HOUSE " STRAWBERRY HILL : " 
 FORMER RESIDENTS HORACE WALPOLE OPINIONS CONCERNING 
 THE EDIFICE SKETCH OF WALPOLE'S EARLY LIFE His CIRCLE 
 OF FRIENDS AT TWICKENHAM THE " STRAWBERRY HILL " 
 PRESS AND ITS PUBLICATIONS WALPOLE'S RANK AS A LITERARY 
 MAN "THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO" AND OTHER WORKS "THE 
 PARISH REGISTER OF TWICKENHAM " His RELATIONS WITH 
 CHATTERTON CLOSE OF WALPOLE'S LIFE" EARL OF ORFORD " 
 His APPEARANCE, HABITS, AND DISPOSITION His OWN PICTURE 
 OF HIMSELF THE ART COLLECTION MADE BY HIM AT STRAWBERRY 
 HILL THE SALE, 1842 THE PRESENT HOUSE, IMPROVED BY THE 
 COUNTESS OF WALDEGRAVE 291 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. THE HOUSES (Continued}. 
 LITTLE STRAWBERRY HILL MRS. CLIVE THE Miss BERRYS 328 
 
CONTENTS. xv 
 
 CHAPTER XVIIL THE HOUSES (Continued). 
 
 PACK 
 
 TWICKENHAM COMMON THE CAMPS ON HOUNSLOW HEATH GIFFORD 
 LODGE MR. PRADO'S, NOW TAKEN DOWN "THE LODGE" 
 ORCHARD LODGE COLNE LODGE COLNE HOUSE BURTON LODGE 
 MR. PRATT'S THE POND GOTHIC LODGE JOHANNA T SOUTH- 
 COTE "THE GRANGE" FULWELL LODGE 335 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. THE HOUSES (Continued]. 
 
 TWICKENHAM HOUSE SAVILLE HOUSE, THE RESIDENCE OF LADY MARY 
 WORTLEY MONTAGUE HER DISAGREEMENTS WITH POPE HEATH 
 LANE LODGE HEATH HOUSE LAUREL LODGE GROVE HOUSE 
 COPT HALL HOUSE IN BACK LANE, THE RESIDENCE OF FIELDING 
 HOLLY HOUSE GROSVENOR HOUSE TWICKENHAM SCHOOL 346 
 
 CHAPTER XX.TH3 HOUSES (Continued). 
 
 FORTESCUE HOUSE THE RESIDENCE OF MR. S. T. COLE BATHHOUSE 
 PERRYN HOUSE : MR. TWINING'S MUSEUM HEATHAM HOUSE 
 NEVILLE HOUSE AND COLNE COTTAGE BROOK HOUSE IVY LODGE 
 THE LIMES AMYAND HOUSE NEWLAND HOUSE GROVE COTTAGE 
 S. STEPHEN'S MR. LAING'S NURSERY GROUND HIGHSHOT 
 HOUSE NORTH END HOUSE : MR. H. G. BOHN'S ART COLLECTION 
 MONTPELIER Row SANDYCOMB LODGE AILSA PARK VILLAS : 
 RESIDENCES OF CHARLES DICKENS AND MR. HORMUZD RASSAM 362 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 THE HAMLET " KNELLER HALL" WHITTON PARK AND WHITTON 
 PLACE OTHER RESIDENTS COLONEL ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL'S 
 HOUSE OTHER ILLUSTRIOUS INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH, WHOSE 
 DWELLINGS CANNOT NOW BE IDENTIFIED 380 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 
 
 HEATHROW, AN ENDSHIP OF TWICKENHAM IN OLD TIME FAIRS 
 MANUFACTURES PRICE OF LAND FUEL CARRIAGE OF GOODS 
 RICHMOND BRIDGE TWICKENHAM BRIDGE, &c. HIGH TIDES 
 SEVERE FROSTS TWICKENHAM AYTE COMPARATIVE SCALE OF 
 PRICES OF PROVISIONS AND LABOUR IN THE YEARS 1730, 1780 
 
 AND 1872 392 
 
xvi CONTENTS. 
 
 APPENDICES. 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 THE CHURCHWARDENS OF THE PARISH OF TWICKENHAM FROM THE 
 
 YEAR 1606 TO THE PRESENT TIME 399 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 A TABLE OF THE ELECTIONS OR APPOINTMENTS TO CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, 
 MADE BY THE VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF TWICKENHAM, EXTRACTED 
 FROM THE VESTRY BOOKS 407 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 A STATEMENT OF THE PARISH PROPERTY, SHOWING ITS VALUE AT THE 
 
 PRESENT TIME, JUNE, 1872 413 
 
 INDEX 415 
 
PART I. 
 
 PAROCHIAL. 
 
MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 THE VILLAGE. 
 
 THE SITUATION, EXTENT, CLIMATE, AND VEGETATION OF TWICKEN- 
 HAM ITS MARKET-GARDENS DERIVATION OF THE NAME 
 POPULATION HISTORY OF THE MANOR ACCOUNT OF THE 
 MANOR HOUSE. 
 
 THE village of Twickenham is picturesquely situated 
 on the north or Middlesex bank of the River Thames, 
 about mid-way between Teddington and Isle worth. 
 To the natural beauties and advantages with which 
 it is surrounded it owes a great proportion of the 
 renown which it has possessed for the last three 
 centuries. Within the same distance from London, 
 no other place presents scenes of such variety and 
 loveliness. It is no matter of surprise, therefore, to 
 find that it has always had amongst its residents those 
 who have occupied positions of eminence and in- 
 fluence, owing either to their exalted station in life 
 or to their literary, artistic, or political abilities. 
 
 The entire parish is about three and a-half miles 
 in length, one and a-half in breadth, and nine in 
 
MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 circumference'. : Jt : contains, according to the Ordnance 
 Survey, 2,415 acres, 3 roods, 30 perches, in the following 
 distribution : 
 
 2249-543 Land. 
 
 3 2 '2 5 1 Water. 
 
 93 '664 Public roads. 
 
 40-483 Railways. 
 
 The Isleworth Survey, taken in 1635, by order of 
 Algernon, Duke of Northumberland, estimates the 
 number of acres at about 1,850, of which about one- 
 third was arable, a little more than two-ninths pasture, 
 about two-fifths common, and the remainder wood ; 
 proportions, of course, now wholly incorrect."'' 5 " The 
 soil is a sandy loam. The climate has always been 
 celebrated for its pure and healthy influences. The 
 wind, blowing from the south or west, brings glorious . 
 air from the high heath-commons of Hampshire and 
 Surrey, which contrasts strongly with the smoke and 
 gloom that an easterly wind brings from London an 
 effect particularly noticeable by the river-side, and in 
 the early mornings of summer. The atmosphere of 
 the elevated district which stretches between Peters- 
 field and Godalming has been found to contain an 
 
 * The exact figures given in the Survey, as preserved by Ironside, are 
 
 DIMENSIONS. 
 
 Miles. Furls. Poles. 
 
 Length 32 o 
 
 Breadth \\ o 5 
 
 Compass 96 18 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Acres. Roods. Perches. 
 
 Arable land 630 3 20 
 
 Pasture 488 2 16 
 
 Common 694 3 o 
 
 Wood 38 i 9 
 
 Total acres 1,851 
 
CLIMATE AND VEGETATION. 5 
 
 unusually large proportion of ozone, and no intervening 
 factory towns prevent this bracing and invigorating 
 air from reaching Twickenham in unalloyed purity. 
 
 The vegetation is the same as that of most parts of 
 the course of the River Thames. The peculiar mildness 
 of this portion of it is proved by the vigorous growth of 
 myrtles in the open air when placed on the southern 
 side of a building ; the pomegranate also flourishes in 
 a like position. 
 
 The meadows, especially those by the river, before 
 they were so thickly built over, presented in spring a 
 most beautiful appearance from the rare abundance 
 of wild flowers. Some of the choicest British plants 
 grew here luxuriantly. The glyceria fluitans, from 
 which are obtained the seeds called manna kroup> a 
 well-known article in the dietary of invalids, still 
 springs up at the edge of the river. The grasses 
 were, and still are, various. In many of the gardens 
 are cedars of Lebanon of magnificent growth ; one 
 in the grounds belonging to Poulett Lodge is of 
 remarkably stately form, and perhaps ia without its 
 equal anywhere.* 
 
 The group of aspens at the corner of that portion 
 of the grounds of Orleans House which adjoins the 
 river, now very much diminished, was formerly of 
 much grace and beauty, and afforded a very favourite 
 study for landscape painters. 
 
 * It is said that the trees on Mount Lebanon itself are so shattered by winds 
 and storms, that they are surpassed in perfection by the cedars in the neighbourhood 
 of London. In the Account of Twickenham Park a cedar is mentioned 12 ft. 9 in. 
 in girth. Lysons (vol. ii. part ii. p. 787) speaks of others then in the gardens 
 of Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. Gostling (now in the united estate of Miss Gostling) 
 measuring respectively 12 ft. I in., 1 1 ft. 1 1 in., 1 1 ft. 7 in., and 1 1 ft. 4 in. : the girth 
 was taken in November, 1810, at a distance of one yard from the ground. 
 
6 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Twickenham, with the country adjacent to it, has 
 always been distinguished for the fertility of its 
 gardens, which send large supplies of fruit and 
 vegetables, especially strawberries, to the London 
 markets. So early as Queen Elizabeth's reign, the 
 nursery of Bishop Corbet's father was famous, and 
 Richard Pointer, a cotemporary, was remarkable as 
 " a most curious planter and improver of all manner 
 of rare trees." * The more open enclosures Ironside 
 mentions as furnishing great quantities of early peas. 
 He speaks of a Mr. Nettleship as a very intelligent 
 and skilful gardener, who produced annually a great 
 variety of the finest early flowers, as well as early 
 fruits, by well-contrived and extensive stoves ; and of 
 a Mr. West also, as celebrated for the production 
 of our best and choicest fruits, particularly raspberries, 
 of which, Lysons says, that he sent, in a good season, 
 4,1 10 gallons to a distiller in the course of fifteen days. 
 Grapes of fine quality were alsogrown ingreat abundance. 
 Mr. Swainson's nursery (subsequently Mrs. Canham's) 
 was renowned for its production of medicinal herbs 
 and curious plants of other kinds. 
 
 The nursery and market-gardens and many of the 
 private gardens of the present day more than perpetuate 
 the reputation of the parish in this respect ; and 
 through the development of the science of horticulture, 
 with improved modern appliances, excel in the quality 
 of their produce that of former times. 
 
 Twickenham, on account of the geniality of its 
 climate, is, as might be expected, very favourably 
 
 * Lysons' Environs of London, vol. ii. part ii. p. 770. 
 
DERIVATION OF THE NAME. 7 
 
 distinguished for the longevity of its inhabitants. 
 The names of an unusual number of extremely aged 
 people will be found in the extracts from the parish 
 register of burials. The mortality is low : for the last 
 year (1871) it amounted only to i'6 per cent. 
 
 Concerning the derivation of the name there have 
 been many conjectures. Nordern, in the Speculum 
 Britannia i says the place is so called " either for that 
 the Thames seems to be divided into two rivers by 
 reason of the islands there, or else of the two brooks 
 which ' neere the town enter into the Thames, for 
 Twicknam is as much as Twynam, quasi inter binos 
 amnes situm a place scytuate between two rivers ; ' 
 but in several very ancient records, antecedent to the 
 Conquest, it is written Twitham, or Twittanham, or 
 Twicanham." An inscription on a silver alms-dish in 
 the parish church, which has no date, runs thus: 
 " For the Parish of Twitnaham : " on a paten, dated 
 1674, the word is spelt exactly after the modern fashion. 
 To this day people of the old school are seldom 
 heard to pronounce the name in accordance with any 
 other spelling than that of the Cartulary of Christ 
 Church, Canterbury, now in the Bodleian Library at 
 Oxford, viz. Twittanham. 
 
 Ironside on this point is particularly curious and 
 painstaking. The termination ham, he remarks, signifies 
 in the Anglo-Saxon language a village, and may be 
 taken as a proof of its existence in very early times. 
 Twy signifies two, or double (thus two fords are 
 expressed in the word Twy ford], ken is the verb to 
 look ; hence he concludes that the name implies a 
 
8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 town, which has two views from it, namely, in this 
 instance, towards Richmond and Kingston. 
 
 In case this solution should not be received, he 
 makes other suggestions, either that it is a corruption 
 of Twyggenham, the town amongst twigs, boughs, or 
 trees, from the many willows that once grew on the 
 banks of the river ; or Wickenham, the initial letter 
 being pronounced hard as Gwickenkam, the town built 
 on windings or bays of a river- the G having been 
 subsequently modified into T as Thistleworth was from 
 Giesleworth, successively the old names of Isleworth. 
 Mr. Samuel Pegge, speculating upon the derivation 
 of Chiswick, says that it is the wic or village of 
 cheeses, the emporium for the cream-cheeses made in 
 the meads at Twickenham, and suggests that the latter 
 place may have been the town, or the wic, whence the 
 cheese was supplied ! * 
 
 The parish is in the hundred of Isleworth, and for 
 the most part, in the manor of Sion, of which the 
 Duke of Northumberland is lord. Ecclesiastically, it 
 is in the archdeaconry of Middlesex and the diocese 
 of London. 
 
 In the year in which Ironside wrote (about 1780), 
 he estimated the number of houses at 350, or upwards, 
 the inhabitants at about 2,000. Lysons says that 
 in 1794, the houses were 6n, and the inhabitants, 
 including lodgers, 3,355, a number lower than a fair 
 estimate would give it, as the census was taken in the 
 winter. In 1801, according to the return made to 
 
 * S. Pegge's /Anecdotes of the English Language, edited by Rev. Henry 
 Christmas, 1844, p. 280. 
 
THE* MANOR. 9 
 
 parliament under the population act, the same authority 
 states that there were 622 inhabited and 36 unin- 
 habited houses and 3,138 inhabitants: in 1810, he 
 gives the number of houses as 6 70. At the present time, 
 their number is as nearly as possible 2,000. and the 
 population, according to the last census (1871), 10,535. 
 
 The land-tax at four shillings in the pound, pro- 
 duced in 1781, 51 7/. i$s. ^d. * a poor's rate at two 
 shillings and sixpence, 7I2/. 2s. \\d.\ a poor's rate 
 at the same sum would now produce 8,02 7/. 185-. i\d., a 
 penny rate realizing, 2677. us. \\\d. 
 
 The following account of the manor is for the most 
 part taken from Ironside and Lysons, who give it in 
 almost the same words. 
 
 Twickenham is not mentioned in the Doomesday 
 Book ; it was undoubtedly included in Isleworth. In a 
 record bearing date 1301, Twyckenham is mentioned 
 as a hamlet appendant to the manor of Isleworth. 
 Another record, 1390, says that the manor and 
 hundred of Isleworth had always been deemed of the 
 same extent. This did not imply manorial jurisdiction 
 over religious houses, which exercised manorial rights 
 upon their own Estates. The brethren of the Holy 
 Trinity at Hounslow had a small manor within the 
 hundred independent of that of Isleworth. On June 
 1 3th, 704, Twickenham appears to have been given to 
 an ecclesiastic for the remedy of the soul of Suaebraed, 
 King of Essex. Offa, King .of Mercia, between the 
 years 758 and 794, gave to Athelard, Archbishop of 
 
 * So says Ironside in his history, p. 2. On page 152, he says that the land-tax 
 was about one shilling in the pound, and that the gross rental amounted in 1782 
 to io,378/. us. 
 
io MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Canterbury, thirty tributaries of land on the north-side 
 of the River Thames, at a place called Twittanham to 
 provide vestments for the priests officiating in the 
 Church of St. Saviour at Canterbury. Wacherdus, a 
 priest, by his own will, dated 830, gave to the Church 
 of Canterbury eight hides of land with the manor of 
 Twitham in Middlesex, which had been granted to 
 him by Ceolnoth, Dean, and subsequently Archbishop, 
 of Canterbury. In 941, Edmund the king, his brother 
 Eadred, and others restored to the monks of Christ 
 Church, Canterbury, all the lands which they had un- 
 justly taken from them, amongst which was the manor 
 of Twittanham ; a restoration which could not however 
 have been very complete, for King Eadred, by charter 
 dated 948 gave to these monks, as a small offering 
 " for the love of God and the benefit of his own soul," 
 the manor with all its appurtenances, exempting it from 
 all secular burdens, taxes, and tolls, with the exception 
 of contributions towards the building of bridges, for- 
 tifications, and the king's expeditions. His charter con- 
 cludes with the following anathema against any persons 
 who should venture to infringe it : " Whatever be their 
 sex, order, or rank, may their memory be blotted out of 
 the book of life, may their strength continually waste 
 away, and be there no restorative to repair it." "* 
 
 The village during the period in which it was 
 snatched alternately by regal and ecclesiastical power, 
 has been well depicted, as "a collection of small 
 enclosed lands cleared -out of the great forest or warren 
 of Staines, which, until disforested in 1227, extended 
 
 * These facts are taken from the Cartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury, now 
 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 
 
THE MANOR. n 
 
 from the river Brent, on the east side of Syon House, 
 to Staines." * 
 
 In the year 1300 the Master of the Knights 
 Templars in England agreed to pay a fine of 40^. to 
 the King before the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 
 the King's treasurer, at a Parliament holden at West- 
 minster, for licence to receive a certain common 
 pasture within the limits of the hundred of Isleworth, 
 viz., from Cranford to Twickenham in length, and 
 from the bridge of Babbeworthepond to the town of 
 Hounslow in breadth, the gift of Edward Earl of 
 Cornwall. This grant was confirmed the following 
 year by Edward I. The same earl also remitted 
 a yearly rent of is., which he was accustomed to receive 
 from the above master for the same common pasture, 
 a remission which was confirmed by Edward IILt 
 
 The manor, being then vested in the crown, was 
 annexed by Henry VIII. to the honour of Hampton 
 Court, in 1539. Between that year and 1541 it was 
 granted to Edward Earl of Hertford, who in the latter 
 year surrendered it to the King. Charles I. settled it 
 on his queen, Henrietta Maria, as part of her jointure. 
 When the crown lands were sold during the Common- 
 wealth, John Hemsdell, merchant, purchased it, in 
 1650, in behalf of himself and other creditors of the 
 state. The rents payable to copy-holders were valued 
 at 8/. i6s. $d. ; the quit rents of freeholders at 2/. 4^. yd. ; 
 the whole manor at 20/4 After the Restoration the 
 queen-mother resumed it and held it till her death. In 
 
 Prater's Magazine, Vol. ii. 1860, p. 104. 
 Aungier's Sion and Jsleivorlk, p. 196. 
 Parliamentary Surveys, Augmentation Office. 
 
12 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 1670 it was settled for life on Catherine, consort of 
 Charles II. ; in 1675 the King granted a reversionary 
 lease of it for forty-one years, commencing after the 
 queen's death, or the expiration of such leases as she 
 might have granted, to John Earl of Rochester. 
 William Genew, in 1688, had a lease of the manor for 
 twelve years, to commence in 1707. Lord Rochester's 
 lease, which commenced on the expiration of Genew's, 
 becoming vested in Lord Bolingbroke, was forfeited 
 to the Crown on his attainder in 1715. In 1723 it was 
 sold by trustees, appointed for that purpose, to Wen- 
 dover Jay, Esq., Thomas Jay, and John Rutt. In 1727 
 Thomas Jay assigned his share, two-fourths in the 
 manor, manor-house, and sixty-seven acres of demesne 
 lands to Robert Gapper, gent. Mr. Rutt, in 1731, 
 bequeathed his share, a fourth, to his nephew, John 
 Sainsbury, Esq. Robert Gapper, Esq., son of the 
 above-named, was in the beginning of this century 
 lessee of the whole. Soon afterwards he appears 
 as owning it conjointly with Robert Ray, Esq. In 
 the course of a few years the lease granted by the 
 Crown, under which the manor was held, expired, and 
 it was sold by the Crown in 1835 to Charles Osborn, 
 Esq., who, in 1855, sold it to Thomas Wisden, Esq., 
 who, on his decease in 1872, was succeeded by his 
 only son. Thomas Falconer Wisden, Esq., of Broad- 
 water, Sussex, J, P. The Crown granted to the 
 Parish a piece of land in Royal Oak Lane for a burial- 
 ground just before it parted with the Manor. 
 
 The manor of Twickenham extends through the 
 parishes of Twickenham, Isleworth, and Heston. The 
 customs are primogeniture and fine arbitrary. The 
 
THE MANOR HOUSE. 13 
 
 other manors are those of Isleworth Syon, and Isle- 
 worth Rectory, the former belonging to the Duke of 
 Northumberland, the latter now to the Ecclesiastical 
 Commissioners, but formerly to the Dean and Canons 
 of Windsor. In the parish of Twickenham, con- 
 siderably more property is holden, however, of the 
 manor of Isleworth Syon than of either of the other 
 manors. 
 
 The rectorial tithes of the parish were sold many 
 years since by the Dean nd Chapter of Windsor, 
 and were thus separated from the vicarial tithes; 
 they are possessed now, in the shape of a rent charge 
 payable in lieu of them, by seven persons in the follow- 
 ing proportions : 
 
 . s- d. 
 
 Henry Pownall, Esq 158 o o 
 
 The Duke of Northumberland 57 9 6 
 
 Sir William Clay, bart 20 2 9 
 
 George B. Cole, Esq n n o 
 
 T. H. Essex, Esq 16 16 o 
 
 Charles William Calvert, Esq 53 
 
 William Thomas Warren, Esq i 3 9 
 
 The charge similarly payable to the vicar is 684/., 
 making a total of 954/. 6^. 
 
 The manor house stood opposite the church. 
 Tradition reports it to have been the residence of one 
 of Henry VIII.'s queens. It also acquired the name of 
 Arragon House, but the supposition that Catherine 
 of Arragon lived in it is probably an error. Catherine of 
 Braganza, queen of Charles II., is said to have 
 inhabited it for a time.* It is supposed also to have 
 
 * See the Court Rolls for the Manor of Twickenham. 
 
i 4 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 been a part of Queen Catherine Parr's jointure, who 
 may have used it during her residence at Hanworth or 
 Hampton Court. It was leased to several persons : in 
 1557 William Russel had a grant of it for twenty-one 
 years. In 1569 a new lease was granted to Barnard 
 Hampton, (who had been Clerk of the Council to King 
 Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth), and 
 Catherine his wife. In 1583 a lease of twenty-one 
 years was granted to John Hall. In 1603 another 
 lease, for fifty years, commencing in 1625, was granted 
 to Richard Breame and Robert Holland, but it was 
 assigned in the next year to William Carey. In 1635 
 the house was in the occupation of Lady Walter, relict 
 of Sir John Walter, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 
 who probably had resided in it also, for at his death, 
 in 1630, he left a benefaction to the poor of Twicken- 
 ham. In 1650 the house and park adjoining (the lease 
 being then vested in John Browne, Esq.) were sold to 
 John Walker. The survey taken in that year describes 
 two round rooms in a brick turret, and mentions a fair 
 hall wainscotted, in which was a screen of excellent 
 workmanship. Subsequently the manor house was 
 leased to Sir William Perkins ; it was successively in 
 the occupation of Mr. Scott, "the English Can'aletto" 
 a celebratecl painter of sea pieces and landscapes, 
 and Mr. Marlow, another artist of equal celebrity; then 
 for many years it was the residence of the Rev. Henry 
 Fletcher, curate of the parish, after whose death 
 Mr. Sandoz kept in it a seminary for boys, whom he 
 educated on the Pestalozzian system. 
 
 The greater portion of the house was taken down 
 a few years back. A piece of it still survives now, 
 
THE MANOR HOUSE. 15 
 
 and is called Arragon Tower, in which Mr. G. W. 
 Chinery resides. The original house was large, but 
 possessed no features of peculiar interest. It was 
 evidently a Tudor structure (a mantelpiece in it indis- 
 putably belonged to that period,) renovated in the time 
 of William and Mary. In an apartment which was 
 used as a cellar was a carved door of considerable 
 antiquity, and several vacant niches with an ecclesi- 
 astical look about them, similar to those existing in 
 the Vicarage. A large garden adjoined the house, in 
 which was a magnificent walnut tree, which, when cut 
 down, was sold for about 8o/. The royal arms of 
 England were placed either in the hall or over the 
 entrance door. 
 
 An account of Orleans House and York House, 
 parcels of the manor, will be found in the second 
 Part of this volume."" 
 
 * Ironside, in describing the Manor house has inadvertently introduced several 
 facts which belong to Orleans House. 
 
i6 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 THE CHURCH. 
 
 CONVENTUAL ESTABLISHMENT AT TWICKENHAM PATRONAGE OF 
 THE LIVING VALUE OF THE VICARAGE THE PARISH CHURCH 
 THE OLD CHURCH FALLS DOWN IN 1713 THE NEW 
 EDIFICE SUBSCRIPTION DEED AND FACULTY FOR REBUILDING 
 FORMS USED BY THE CHURCHWARDENS FOR THE CON- 
 VEYANCE OF PEWS RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH IN 1859 
 THE BISHOP'S FACULTY MEMORIAL WINDOWS, &c. &c. 
 DECORATION OF THE CHURCH IN 1872 COMMUNION PLATE 
 BELLS ADDITIONS MADE TO THE CHURCHYARD GRAVEYARDS 
 IN LONDON ROAD, 1782, AND ROYAL OAK LANE, 1837 NEW 
 PAROCHIAL CEMETERY ON WHITTON COMMON, 1867. 
 
 TWICKENHAM was probably a place of no importance 
 before the church was built and the religious house 
 founded. The exact date of these events cannot be 
 ascertained. That there was a religious house here, 
 Ironside is confident, from the fact that in his day three 
 large crosses remained in the garden-wall belonging to 
 the vicarage house, near the corner of it; " marks which," 
 he says, " are still in Catholic countries the character- 
 istics of such sort of buildings, and the vicarage house 
 itself has several marks still visible about it to show 
 that it was once a part of the residence of the monks." 
 The most obvious of these are the niches referred to 
 above : other signs have doubtless been obliterated in 
 
PATRONAGE OF THE LIVING. 17 
 
 the necessary alterations of later times, and the " three 
 large crosses " are now nowhere to be found. * 
 
 The church of Twickenham was of old appropriated 
 to the Abbey of S. Valery (or Waleric,) in Picardy, 
 a religious establishment founded by Clothaire, King 
 of the Franks, and a vicarage was endowed, of which 
 the abbot and monks became patrons, the right being 
 confirmed to them by Henry III. They presented 
 to it in virtue of their cell at Takeley in Essex, a 
 manor which had been given to them soon after the 
 Conquest by either William the Conqueror or Henry I., 
 the prior and brethren there being their proctors- 
 general in England. In 1337, during the wars with 
 France, the estates of the alien priories were con- 
 fiscated by Edward III., and let out with all their 
 lands and tenements on lease for three and twenty 
 years. This sovereign appears to have presented three 
 times to the living of Twickenham. Possession was 
 restored to the priory in 1361, but Richard II. seques- 
 trated the estates a second time, and, becoming con- 
 sequently patron of the living, exercised the right of 
 presentation six times, until William of Wykeham, 
 bishop of Winchester, having founded his college near 
 that city, obtained from the king the rectory and parish 
 church, and the advowson of the vicarage " to be made 
 part of the endowment and possessions of the said 
 college, whereby the warden, fellows, and scholars thereof 
 became proprietors of the said Rectory and patrons of the 
 vicarage." This continued until the general suppression 
 of monasteries by Henry VIII., when the rectory and 
 
 * In the view of the church in Ironside's history these crosses appear to be 
 on the churchyard wall and not on that of the vicarage. 
 
i8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 advowson of the vicarage came to the Crown (the date 
 of the surrender is 1544) as did those of Harmonds- 
 worth, Heston, Isleworth, and Hampton, by ex- 
 change with the said college for the lordship and 
 manor of Harmonds worth. Edward VI., in the first 
 year of his reign, -gave this parsonage, with others, to 
 the dean and canons of his free chapel in the castle of 
 Windsor, in recompense for certain lands which they had 
 already released and assigned to King Henry VIII., 
 by means whereof they became patrons of this vicar- 
 age, and have continued so ever since. The lessees 
 have been the same as those of Isleworth. The 
 church was taxed in 1327 at seventeen marks. In 
 1650, the great tithes were valued at io6/. per 
 annum; in 1800, at 300^. when the reserved rent 
 was 35/. i2s. 4i</."* 
 
 The vicarage is rated in the King's Book at ill. 
 per annum; its reputed value in 1800 was 3OO/., out 
 of which the vicar paid his curate 4O/. It follows, 
 therefore, that at this date the greater tithes (which 
 
 * Mr. Aungier in an appendix to his History of Isleworth (p. 456) quotes the 
 results of a survey of the manors and rectories of Isleworth and Twickenham, as 
 parts of the possessions of the late Dean and Chapter of Windsor, taken in 1649, 
 "by virtue of a Commission granted for abolishing Deanes, Deanes and Chapters, 
 Canons, Prebends, etc." 
 
 "All that gleabe land being meadowe ground lying and being in the 
 Parrish of Twickenham commonly called Lynn Mead, conteyning by 
 estimacion nyne acres more or lesse, the common field of Twicktenham 
 
 on the south, and the newe ryver on the north worth per annum 18 
 
 "Paid out of this 1 8 to the poore of the parrish ji 2s. for severing 
 
 of the gleabe from being Lamas ground. 
 ' ' All these tythes arriseinge, comeinge or groweinge in the parrish of 
 
 Twickenham are, per annum 92 
 
 " The value of the gleabe and tythes of Twicktenham are, per annum i 10 
 
 " The Viccarridge of Twickenham is worth per annum 
 
 " Mr. Thomas Willis is Minister there 
 " The Chancell is in noe good repaire." 
 
THE OLD CHURCH. 19 
 
 are impropriate) and the vicarial tithes were of about 
 equal value. The Living is estimated now at 8oo/., 
 with a house of residence, subject to the deduction of 
 5<D/. to the Vicar of Whitton and the salaries of assist- 
 ing clergy. Ironside says that there is no copy of the 
 endowment, nor any terrier except a very imperfect 
 one, which was in the possession of Stephen Cole, Esq. 
 The living has never been augmented by Queen Anne's 
 Bounty. 
 
 * 
 
 The Parish Church is dedicated to Saint Mary the 
 Virgin. The tower is the sole remnant of the original 
 edifice, the date of the erection of which can only be a 
 matter of conjecture. 
 
 Ironside says that a pointed arch was to be seen 
 in the vestry, which, in his day, was under the tower, 
 and (quoting Dr. Ducarel as an authority, who says 
 that " the pointed arch was not introduced until nearly 
 the end of the twelfth century,") he infers that the 
 church and cell could not have been built earlier than 
 A. D. 1 200, or between that year and 1453, " probably 
 when our affairs in Normandy were in the most flourish- 
 ing condition." With so wide a margin as two centuries 
 and a half the inference is of no value. The style of the 
 church as exemplified; by the tower must have belonged 
 to the age of William of Wylceham, and as the Vicar- 
 ages of Twickenham and Isle worth were given by the 
 Crown to that prelate, we may conclude that the parish 
 church was rebuilt under his superintendence. Its 
 date, in that case, would be about the middle of the 
 fourteenth century. The ground-plan of the church 
 comprised at that period a nave (with or without aisles) 
 
20 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 and the still existing western tower. As far as can 
 be ascertained, no old view or engraving of it exists ; 
 the best notion of what it must have been like is 
 supplied by the modern church of St. John's Isleworth- 
 The material of which it was built was Kentish rag ; 
 the solidity of its construction was remarkable : suffered 
 however, by most culpable neglect to become decayed, 
 it actually fell down in the night of the Qth of 
 April, 1713. 
 
 About that time the increase of population and the 
 growing repute of the villages on the banks of the 
 Thames rendered the enlargement of several of 
 the neighbouring churches necessary. Those of Rich- 
 mond, Mortlake, Isleworth, Twickenham, Chiswick, 
 and others were rebuilt, in each case without reference 
 to their previous architectural style, although ample 
 indications of it were afforded by the towers which 
 were in many cases suffered to remain. The tower of 
 Twickenham Church is infinitely superior to any of its 
 neighbours, and with such a pattern in existence, it is 
 hard for us to conceive, in the present day of improved 
 architectural taste, how so utterly incongruous a body 
 could ever have been united to it. 
 
 At the time of the fall of the church, Sir Godfrey 
 Kneller was one of the churchwardens, and under his 
 auspices the present " handsome brick building," or 
 " beautiful Doric structure," as it is sometimes described, 
 was erected. John James, who built also St. George's 
 Hanover Square and St. Luke's Old Street, was the 
 architect. 
 
 A word or two may be said in defence of those who 
 
THE PRESENT CHURCH. 21 
 
 originated and carried out the work, deplorable as its 
 style may seem to us. No other order of architecture 
 was in vogue at that date beside the Classic, which is so 
 eminently unsuitable to the requirements of a building 
 destined for Christian worship. It cannot be denied, 
 too, that " of its kind " the edifice is excellent, much as 
 we may dislike the kind. As a specimen of brickwork 
 it is confessedly inimitable ; a repetition of the accident 
 which had deprived Twickenham of one church was 
 at least amply provided against for the future. The 
 walls are of prodigious thickness, every detail is 
 carried out conscientiously and thoroughly, and in 
 such respects it puts to shame many more pretentious 
 modern structures. 
 
 Its dimensions are, from east to west 88 ft : from 
 north to south 44 ft. In height it is about 40 ft. ; the 
 tower being 20 ft. higher. 
 
 Although the new church provided, doubtless, a 
 large increase of accommodation, this advantage was 
 to a great extent neutralized by the cumbrous square 
 pews of high oak panelling with which the interior was 
 fitted ; and by the granting of quasi-faculties for the 
 possession of these in perpetuity, in return for subscrip- 
 tions to the building fund. These so-called faculties 
 were, unfortunately for those who held them, found to be 
 of no legal value. Several of them are still in existence, 
 and were brought forward as proving a right to pews 
 in the church at the time of its alteration in 1859. 
 
 Copies are appended of the Subscription Deed and 
 Faculty for rebuilding, granted by the bishop, and of 
 one of the quasi-faculties granted by the church- 
 wardens to certain parishioners. 
 
22 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 A. Deed in the Parish Chest relating to the Rebuilding of the 
 Parish Church. 
 
 Whereas the Parish Church of Twickenham in the County 
 of Middx through age and long decay is lately fallen downe so 
 that the Parishioners of the said Parish are destitute of a Parish 
 Church for the service of Almighty God, wee being deeply sencible 
 of the infinite mercy of God in spareing our lives by giveing us 
 sufficient warning to avoid the danger of being buryed in the ruins, 
 and being desirous that a new Church more comodious for the 
 inhabitants may be erected with as little publick charge as is 
 possible to the said inhabitants. In order to so good a work we 
 whose names are hereunder written doe severally promise and agree 
 to and with S r Godfrey Kneller, Knight and Thomas Vernon Esq re 
 the present Churchwardens of the said parish and their successours 
 Churchwardens of the said parish for the time being and every 
 of them for ourselves our heirs executors and administrators to 
 give and pay the respective surnes of mony underwritten over against 
 our hands and scales respectively for the purposes aforesaid into 
 the hands of the said Churchwardens, or such person as they shall 
 depute to receive the same, in four equall payments, the first 
 payment thereof to be made on or before the four and twentyeth day 
 of June next ensuing, after the day of the date hereof, the second 
 payment thereof on or before the nine and twentyeth day of Septem- 
 ber then next following, the third payment thereof on or before the 
 five and twentyeth day of December then next following, and the 
 fourth payment thereof on or before the five and twentyeth day of 
 March then next following, witness our hands and scales this second 
 day of May, in the twelveth yeare of the reigne of our Sovereign 
 Lady Anne, by the grace of God Queen of Great Britain France 
 and Ireland, Defender of the ffaith &c. Annoq Dm 1713 with this 
 express provision that if a pound rate for building the Church shall 
 hereafter be found necessary, each subscriber shall be allowed his or 
 her rate out of his or her subscription. 
 
 Then follows the list of subscriptions, with a seal 
 set against each signature; the " summe totall," of 
 which, including " a note under Mr. Jones's hand in y e 
 minute book," amounted to ,1,289. 
 
FACULTY FOR REBUILDING THE CHURCH. 23 
 
 On the back of the parchment is this endorse- 
 ment, 
 
 This deed was showed to Thomas Jackson, Clement Lock, 
 Paul Mansfield, Adam Pastern, and William Beck, at the time of 
 their severall exaiaions * taken in Chancery on the behalfe of Thomas 
 Morris and others Compl ts against Sir Godfrey Kneller & al s Deft 8 - 
 
 A. TREVOR, 
 
 P. B. 
 
 B. Copy of the Bishofs Faculty for the Rebuilding of the Parish 
 Church of Twickenham, 1714, also in the Parish Chest. 
 
 John,f by Divine permission Lord Bishop of London to all 
 Christian people to whom these presents shall come, or shall or may 
 in any wise concern, but more especially to the Vicar, J Church- 
 wardens, Parishioners and Inhabitants of the parish of Twickenham 
 in the County of Middlesex and Diocess of London. Whereas it 
 hath been sett forth to the Right Worshipfull Henry Newton, Doctor 
 of Lawes our Chancellour, That the Parish Church of Twickenham 
 aforesaid, which was very old and much decayd and not capable to 
 containe the parishioners and inhabitants of the said parish, is lately 
 fallen down, and that the parishioners of the said parish are very 
 desireous and have humbly prayed our Licence or ffaculty for the 
 building and erecting the said church more convenient and of larger 
 dimentions, capable to containe the number of parishioners, which 
 of late years is much increased in the said parish, as in and by a 
 petition under their hands now remaineing in our principall Registry it 
 doth and may more fully appeare. And whereas att the petition of the 
 said parishioners our said Chancellour hath issued out a Commission 
 directed to the Reverend Charles Alston, Doctor in Divinity our Arch- 
 deacon of Essex and Rector of Northall, Richard Cawthorn Clarke, 
 Vicar of Hampton, William Hall Clarke, Vicar of Ealing, Richard Har- 
 nage of Isleworth Esquire, Leonard Hammon of Teddington Esquire, 
 and Richard Bourchier of Isleworth aforesaid Gentleman, respectively 
 in the said County of Middlesex and Diocess of London, or to any 
 
 * Examinations. 
 
 t John Robinson, D.D., previously Bishop of Bristol, was translated to the 
 see of London in this very year, 1714, and he held it until his death in 1723. He 
 was one of the plenipotentiaries at the Treaty of Utrecht at the concluding of the 
 peace between France and England, and Lord Privy Seal at the same time. 
 
 t The Rev. Samuel Prat, S.T.P. 
 
24 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 three of them att least takeing with them Two or more skilfull persons 
 in the art of Building to goe to the said Church of Twickenham and 
 to view the Ruins and Dilapidations thereof and to certify us or our 
 Chancellour the dimentions of the said old Church and of what 
 manner and Dimentions and for what summe of money a convenient 
 new Church may be built sufficient to containe the number of 
 parishioners of the said Parish. And whereas Richard Cawthorn Clerk, 
 Leonard Hammond Esquire and Richard Bourchier Gentleman Three 
 of the said Commissioners have by a certificate under their hands 
 and scales certifyed our said Chancellour that they did in pursuance 
 of the said Commission view the Ruins and Dilapidations of the said 
 parish Church of Twickenham and did find that the old Church did 
 containe within the walls from East to West sixty and ffive fleet and 
 in Breadth from North to South thirty nine ffeet and six inches and 
 that the said Church being very much decayed by Age did in the 
 night time, between the Houres of Ten and Eleaven on tne ninth day 
 of April one Thousand Seaven Hundred and Thirteen fall downe and 
 the Churchwardens and Inhabitants of the said Parish, being sencible 
 that the Dimentions of the old Church would not be capable of con- 
 taineing the Inhabitants of the said Parish, have upon mature con- 
 sideration and by and with the advice of Mr. John James of Green- 
 wich in Kent, an able and experienced Surveyor in Architecture, and 
 likewise by consulting with others belonging to the said Parish 
 resolved to inlarge the Dimentions of the Church now to be rebuilt 
 according to the plan proposed by the afore mentioned Mr. John 
 James, and annexed to the said Certificate which said Church is to be 
 rebuilt part on the old foundation and part on the new, the two 
 Additionall Breaks on the South and North sides of the said Church 
 doe each of them containe in length Thirty and Three ffeet and ffour 
 inches and in Breadth six ffeet and six inches, likewise another 
 additionall Break in the East end of the said Church now to be 
 rebuilt containeing in length from North to South sixteen ffeet and in 
 Breadth Ten ffeet and ffour inches as relation being had to the afore- 
 said plan will more fully appeare, which said Breaks on the North and 
 South sides of the Church are designed to be rebuilt by a charge 
 distinct from that of the Church, as likewise that in the Chancell, 
 according to an agreement and in consideration of the summe of 
 Thirty pounds payable from the Reverend Mr. Charles Jones Clerk 
 Lessee of the Impropriation of the said Church, to the said parish- 
 ioners, is designed to be built according to the Dimentions above 
 expressed, out of the subscription money and exclusive from any 
 
FORM OF CONVEYANCE OF PEWS. 25 
 
 Rate that shall or may hereafter be found requisite or necessary to be 
 made for Rebuilding the said Church, which Church being built 
 according to the plan above-mentioned and agreed upon, will, upon 
 a moderate computation thereof, amount to the summe of two Thou- 
 sand pounds, As in and by the said Return now remaineing in our 
 principall Registry may more fully appear. Wee therefore the Bishop 
 aforesaid, well weighing and considering the premisses, doe herebye 
 Ratifye and confirme what our said Chancellour hath done in the 
 premisses, and being very willing to promote so good and pious 
 a work, Doe, as far as by the Ecclesiasticall and Temporall Lawes of 
 this Realme wee can or may give and grant unto the Churchwardens 
 and Parishioners of the said parish of Twickenham for the time being 
 our Leave, Licence or ffaculty to erect and build a New Church part 
 on the old and part on the New ffoundation, with Two Additionall 
 Breaks on the North and South sides thereof, each Break to contain 
 Thirty and Three ffeet and ffour Inches in Length and in Breadth six 
 fleet and six inches, and with another Additionall Break in the East 
 end of the same now to be rebuilt to containe in Length from North 
 to South sixteen fleet and in Breadth Ten ffeet and ffour inches 
 according to the plan or Modell hereunto annexed with this provisoe, 
 that the Breaks on the North and South sides of the said Church and 
 alsoe the Chancell be rebuilt by the subscription money and distinct 
 from that of the Church and exclusive from any Rate or Rates that 
 shall or may be hereafter found requisite and necessary to be made 
 for rebuilding the said Church. And we doe hereby order and require 
 the Churchwardens of the said parish of Twickenham to certifye us 
 or our said Chancellour what they shall doe or cause to be done in 
 and about the premisses under their Hands on or before the fBrst 
 Day of March next ensueing. Given under the Scale of our said 
 Chancellour which wee use in this behalfe this Thirtieth Day of April 
 In the year of our Lord God one thousand Seaven Hundred and 
 ffourteen, and in the ffirst yeare of our Translation. 
 
 HEN. NEWTON, Vic. Gen : Ed. Alexander Reg. Epis. 
 
 C. Copy of one of the quasi- Faculties granted by the Churchwardens 
 to certain Parishioners. 
 
 Whereas by a Vestry held on the 25th Day of Aprill 1713 The 
 Parishioners of the Parish of fttoicfeenfjam did then and there con- 
 stitute and appoint 22 Persons Inhabitants of the S d Parish of 
 Ctotcfeenfjam or any nine of them to Direct Determine & confirme 
 all contracts Bargains of Sale &c. which shall or may Relate towards 
 
26 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the Rebuilding & compleatly finishing the Parish Church of 
 Ctotdtenfjam then fallen down, anfc whereas y e said Power Invested 
 in the 22 persons before mentioned or in any nine of the s d number 
 was and is since confirmed and Ratifyed by a licence or faculty from 
 the Bishop of London Bearing date Aprill the 3oth 1714 as by 
 the said Licence or faculty relation being thereunto had will more 
 fully appear 5l33e therefore whose names and seals are Hereunder 
 written and Affixed being a lawfull quorum of the 22 Persons above- 
 mentioned and Authorized to Direct Determine & confirme all con- 
 tracts Bargains of sale contracts &c which should or might Relate to 
 the Rebuilding of the Parish church of Twickenham 2ioe as much as 
 in us lye Give & grant unto Elizabeth Baker Relict of Thomas Baker 
 Deceased the one Halfe of a Pew in the South Isle of the church now 
 Re-built being the second Pew on the left Hand from the South 
 Doore or entrance into the said Isle & contains in length six feett & 
 four inches & in Breadth four feett be the same more or Lesse to 
 fjabe & to IJoIlr The said Halfe of the Pew unto the s d Elizabeth 
 Baker Her Heirs Exectrs Admintrs & Assignes for ever for & in 
 consideration of the summe of five Pounds to be Paid unto the 
 Churchwardens of the Parish of Twickenham or their order on demand 
 towards Defraying the charges of Re-building of the s d Parish Church, 
 &n& tis hereby ordered & Agreed that by the Trustees that no other 
 Person or Persons shall have any Right or Title to the Halfe of the 
 Pew now assigned to the above mentioned Elizabeth Baker Her Heirs 
 or Assignes SlfflJttnesse our hands & scales y s 24 th Day of October 
 
 DAN : HEATHER SA : PRAT, vicar 
 
 HAM : LESTRANGE G. KNELLER 
 
 THO : VERNON 
 
 Memorandum that the Above- J. JOHNSTON 
 
 mentioned Elizabeth Baker By Jo N : CROOKSHANKS 
 
 an order of the Trustees sign- NAT : AXTELL 
 
 ing and sealing these Presents JA : COLE 
 
 must Pay Halfe the charge of 
 
 the wainscott front of the Pew (A small seal, the 
 
 above granted to her that of same in all cases, is 
 
 Deal being first Deducted and attached to each 
 
 Allowed for. signature.) 
 
 Nov r ye 8 th 1715. 
 
 Rec d then of Elizabeth Baker The summe of Five Pounds Ten 
 Shillings & Ten Pence in full for the Purchase money for the Halfe 
 
PEWS NO. 8 AND NO. 55. 27 
 
 of the Pew above granted to her & also the charges of the wainscott 
 front of y e s d Pew I say Rec d by me 
 
 11 s d 
 HAM : LESTRANGE 05 : 10 : 10. 
 
 The grant is thus endorsed : 
 
 February 19"' 1805. The Pew herein alluded to is N 37 and 
 now in the possession and in the Right of Miss Martha Wicks, 
 Witness our Hands 
 
 TNO NEWELL ) 
 
 > churchwardens. 
 JOSEPH BELL ) 
 
 Certain pews were allotted in consideration of the 
 occupation of pews in the original church. A convey- 
 ance, drawn up for this purpose to Thomas Newport, 
 Esquire, is, mutatis mutandis, the same as the above. 
 It bears date the 2Oth day of February, 1715. 
 
 The same form was used for the purpose of trans- 
 ferring the proprietorship of pews. Anne, Lady 
 Torrington, was, for instance, assigned a pew in the 
 south break of the church (for and in consideration of 
 the assignment of a pew granted unto Adam Posterne) 
 on the 2yth day of June, 1720.* 
 
 The conveyance of a pew to Sir Godfrey Kneller 
 is recorded in the vestry books. The form adopted, 
 is precisely the same as the one used above, and is 
 entered on the minutes, apparently, as a specimen. 
 
 Vaults were also conveyed after the same manner, 
 possession and the right of interment being granted in 
 return for subscriptions. 
 
 I am able (through the kindness which has recently 
 placed the interesting documents in my possession) to 
 append here an account of pews No. 8, and No. 55, 
 
 * The foregoing documents have been copied with the permission of Mr. George 
 Baker, who owns them. 
 
28 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 and the manner in which they changed owners. The 
 gradual increase of their value is exceedingly curious. 
 
 The first document is an " Instrument of sale," 
 dated June 2oth, 1727, which conveyed the right and 
 title to them, to Colonel Robert Gardner, of Whitton, 
 his heirs, executors, administrators, and assignes, in 
 consideration of 55/. io^.,paid to Mr. Edmund Reeves, 
 then churchwarden, towards the charges of rebuilding 
 the church. This is endorsed with an acknowledgment 
 on the part of Catherine Gardner, that she relinquishes 
 all her " wright and titel " to the pews to " the dowager 
 Lady Francis (sic) Cartelcomer," for the sum of thirty 
 guineas, dated February I4th, 1738-9. 
 
 On the ist of September, 1757, by indenture of 
 assignment, Henry Earl of Lincoln, administrator of 
 the Dowager Viscountess Castlecomer, sold and 
 assigned the said pews and all his right, title, and 
 interest therein and thereto, to John Haverfield, a 
 gardener, of Twickenham, for 4<D/. 
 
 John Haverfield, by indenture made on the i7th of 
 April, 1758, assigned the pews to Frederick Atherton 
 Hindley, Esq., of the parish of St. James's, West- 
 minster, in consideration of the sum of 8o/. paid 
 to him. 
 
 Mr. Hindley's administrator (who was also his 
 nephew and heir-at-law), Samuel Potts, Esq., of the 
 parish of St. Mary-le-bone, by a similar indenture dated 
 27th of February, 1783, assigned the pews to Stafford 
 Briscoe, Esq., of Twickenham, in consideration of the 
 same amount as he had paid for them : viz., 8o/. 
 
 By indenture of assignment, dated 23rd day of 
 July, 1783, made between Stafford Briscoe, Esq., and 
 
REARRANGEMENT OF THE CHURCH. 29 
 
 Philip Beauchamp, of Twickenham, apothecary, the 
 former surrendered all his right and title to the pews 
 for the sum of QO/. 
 
 Mr. Beauchamp's four children, and his executor, 
 John Reeve, Esq., assigned by indenture, bearing date 
 28th December, 1815, these pews to Elizabeth Harding 
 on payment of ioo/. Notwithstanding this deed, which 
 appears to convey two pews to Mrs. Harding No. 8 
 in the middle aisle and No. 55 at the end of the 
 church No. 8 only was possessed by her, as Mr. Beau- 
 champ had parted with No. 55 to the Rev. Mr. Carr, 
 who resigned it to Mr. William Messenger, as the pew- 
 book testified at the time of the registration of the 
 deed. Mrs. Harding paid a rather large sum for one 
 pew only. Mr. Haverfield, the gardener, appears to 
 have made by far the best bargain of all the assignees. 
 The pew eventually came into the possession of the 
 late Miss Beauchamp, and the documents concerning it 
 were held by the late T. G. Gardiner, Esq. her 
 executor. 
 
 The increased accommodation in the new church 
 was obtained by an enlargement of the site of the 
 original edifice in breadth, and, as appears from the 
 foregoing measurements, in length also : the western 
 tower was retained, and, therefore, the position of the 
 altar must have been changed. In this case the church 
 must or ought to have been consecrated anew, but of 
 this ceremony I can find no record. There is a 
 perceptible difference in the occidentation of the pre- 
 sent nave, and what must have been that of the 
 original building as shown by the tower. The new 
 
30 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 structure was not completed until 1715, from which 
 date it remained unaltered for nearly a century and a 
 half. During almost one-third of this long period, the 
 Rev. Charles Proby was Vicar. Twickenham in 
 1859 (the year of his decease) was extremely different 
 in nearly every respect to the place upon the spiritual 
 charge of which he entered in 1818, and, necessarily, 
 the first act of his successor, the Rev. G. S. Master, 
 was to provide more adequately for the demands of 
 the greatly increased population. This was effected, 
 not by enlarging, but by re-arranging the interior of 
 the church. 
 
 A weekly journal * met the effort at its commence- 
 ment with a strong remonstrance, not founded upon 
 any very substantial grounds. 
 
 " Shame to say," thus it runs, " they are about to alter the interior 
 of Twickenham Church. The new vicar asks for subscriptions to 
 repew the seats sacred to Pope, to Walpole, to Fielding, and to Lady 
 Mary Wortley Montagu. This rage for so-called restoration must 
 surely have run its length. We are .... heartily sick of it. Here 
 is a church with no mediaeval feature about it, with no interest beyond 
 the interest of association, about to be deprived of all its interest and 
 all its associations. Build a new church Mr. Vicar and we subscribe, 
 leave the old church alone and we subscribe. Those noble old 
 Queen-Anne-like pews fit for dresses of dukes and duchesses, for 
 the poorer dresses of poets and prose-writers, for maids of honour 
 and ladies of the bed-chamber why disturb them? There is a 
 sanctity in association." 
 
 Nonsense, one would think, could go no further 
 than this. Such associations possessed, assuredly, but 
 little sanctity, and Pope, who was a Roman Catholic, in 
 all probability never entered the church to take part in 
 a service until he was carried into it on the day of his 
 
 * The Illustrated London Neivs, October 22nd, 1859. 
 
THE CHURCH AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. 31 
 
 funeral. The " noble old pews," in spite of their 
 alleged resemblance to Queen Anne, were happily 
 compelled to yield to plainer and more commodious 
 sittings. 
 
 "It was indeed high time," writes Mr. Master on 
 this subject (and from his account we shall be best 
 informed of what the church was and now is), " that 
 something should be done. The entire area of the 
 church was in the possession of a small number of 
 families, and the poor were practically excluded alto- 
 gether ; a few uncomfortable brackets, placed sideways 
 in the central passage, being the only accommodation 
 provided for them. The fronts of the galleries were 
 of unnecessary height, and the divisions of their seats 
 were so contrived as to make them resemble stalls in 
 a stable. The organ occupied the western gallery, 
 above which, close to the ceiling, was another con- 
 trivance of the same kind, unsafe, unwholesome, and 
 unsightly, devoted to the use of the children of the 
 Parish Schools. The vestry occupying the lower 
 storey of the tower, had been arranged at the expense 
 of blocking up the tower arch, the destruction of the 
 western door, and the substitution for it of a hideous 
 brick window. The whole aspect of the church, from 
 its circular east window, leaded apparently in imitation 
 of a spider's web, to its glazed and wainscotted ap- 
 proaches at the west, was melancholy in the extreme, 
 and truly lamentable from its exclusiveness and its 
 inadequacy to the wants of the parishioners. 
 
 " A general acknowledgment of these facts resulted 
 in the raising by subscription of upwards of ^2,000, 
 and the expenditure of this sum in the following altera- 
 
32 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 tions : The removal of the galleries and their re- 
 erection with lower fronts and stronger supports. The 
 destruction of the upper gallery at the west end ; the 
 formation of a chorus cantorum in lieu of a chancel at 
 the east ; the removal of the organ from the west 
 gallery to the ground floor at the north-east corner of 
 the church ; the lowering and alteration of the pulpit ; 
 the opening out and restoration of the tower, with its 
 arch, west window, and doorway ; the erection of a 
 new vestry on the south side of the church ; the 
 uniform reseating of the whole area, galleries included, 
 with open benches ; together with improved appliances 
 for lighting, warming, and ventilation. 
 
 " By these changes about three hundred additional 
 sittings for adults, and a large increase to those of the 
 school children were provided, and nearly one hundred 
 unappropriated sittings allotted to the use of the poor. 
 
 " The works were carried out under the super- 
 intendence of Mr. Gordon Hills, architect, of John 
 Street, Adelphi ; and Mr. T. R. Holmes, of Twicken- 
 ham, was the contractor. Upon investigation the 
 quasi-faculties for pews in perpetuity in the old church, 
 proved to be mere conveyances by Sir Godfrey Kneller 
 and others, in return for subscriptions, and to have no 
 legal value. There was, however, one bond fide faculty 
 in possession of Henry Bevan, Esq., of Cambridge 
 House, who kindly relinquished it by proper instru- 
 ments prior to the commencement of the works." 
 
 The work of restoration was a difficult one, and, 
 considering its difficulties, very creditably accomplished. 
 That the gallery should have been suffered to extend 
 all round the church, and hide half of the good Gothic 
 
RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH. 33 
 
 west window, to the great loss of light and injury to 
 appearance, is a matter for regret ; as was also, perhaps, 
 the unavoidable displacement of some monuments and 
 the concealment of others. But at the time the altera- 
 tions were made, no doubt the very best was done that 
 could have been done. The old church at Sunbury was 
 in process of restoration cotemporaneously, so Twicken- 
 ham could not then profit by the excellent example it 
 now affords of the truest and most successful manner 
 of renovating churches built after their unwieldy and 
 unecclesiastical pattern. Not then in fact not until 
 seven years later had a very bold experiment been 
 tried on Isleworth Parish Church, and the possibility 
 been proved of adding a Gothic chancel to a Tuscan 
 nave with the happiest effect ; one link of connexion 
 only being preserved between them, that of colour. 
 
 The newly restored church was opened by the 
 present Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Tait, then 
 Bishop of London, on Friday, December 23rd, 
 1859, his Grace preaching in the morning, and the 
 Ven. John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, in the 
 evening. The offertories on this occasion amounted 
 to I25/. 
 
 A copy of the Bishop's Faculty for effecting the 
 proposed alterations, which was granted to the Rev. 
 George Streynsham Master, the vicar, and George 
 Powell and William Withers, churchwardens, owing to 
 its great length, is not subjoined. 
 
 This faculty gave permission for the removal of 
 four tablets, viz., one to the memory of Thomas 
 Gilmore and Elizabeth his wife, who died respectively 
 in the years 1691 and 1699 ; one to the memory of 
 
 3 
 
34 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Henry Clarke and Sarah his wife, who died respectively 
 in the years 1819 and 1841 ; one to the memory of 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Espinasse and Maria his wife, who 
 died respectively in the years 1837 and 1845 5 an d one 
 to the memory of Henry Cole, who died in the year 
 1815; and an urn on a pedestal to the memory of 
 Mathew Harvie, who died in the year 1693 ; on 
 condition that they should be replaced as near as 
 possible to their original positions ; an injunction 
 which, if carried out in most instances, was hardly 
 complied with in the removal of Mathew Harvie's 
 handsome monument from the north-east corner of 
 the church to the top landing of the staircase at the 
 north-west end. Two graves containing the remains 
 of John Maddock, who died in the year 1838, and Amy 
 Mary Jennings, who died in the year 1853, and a 
 grave containing the remains of Thomas and Elizabeth 
 Maddock, who died respectively in the years 1783 and 
 1806, all of which were situated on the site determined 
 upon for the new vestry, were suffered to be disturbed 
 under the same stipulation, and also that the remains, 
 if any were discovered, should be carefully and rever- 
 ently re-interred under the immediate superintendence 
 of the vicar and churchwardens. 
 
 One or two supplementary subscriptions followed 
 the general one for the re-arrangement of the church. 
 The friends of the Rev. Charles Proby filled the round 
 east window with stained glass in his memory, at a cost 
 of 5o/. A sad memorial of departed worth ! The 
 design --a figure of the enthroned Saviour is 
 terribly out of drawing, and the colouring to the , 
 last degree poor and weak. It is surprising that the 
 
THE MEMORIAL WINDOWS. 35 
 
 eminent firm who produced it should ever have 
 executed anything so unworthy of their reputation. 
 
 Another improvement was effected in the church- 
 yard, which, traversed by two footpaths, and open to 
 every comer, had long been in a disgraceful condition, 
 having been in fact the common playground of the 
 parish. A separate subscription of 2OO/. was raised 
 to rail off the footways, and to plant the churchyard 
 thus enclosed with evergreens and shrubs. 
 
 Shortly afterwards " the three large brass branches," 
 which Ironside mentions as hanging "over the nave" 
 in the unrestored church, having become useless by the 
 introduction of gas, were disposed of by the church- 
 wardens for 5o/., and the money was applied to the 
 purchase of a handsome brass eagle lectern, the work 
 of Messrs. Hardman, of Birmingham. 
 
 In addition to the east window mentioned above, 
 there are six small stained glass windows under the 
 galleries. 
 
 The first inserted was that on the south side 
 nearest to the east, " To the glory of God, and in 
 memory of Sarah Anne Corben, who died August 3rd, 
 1859." The subject is Christ raising to life the 
 daughter of Jairus. The artists were Messrs. Lavers 
 and Barraud. 
 
 The three windows in the north aisle were filled, 
 in 1 86 1, by subscription amongst their friends, in 
 memory of Misses Elizabeth and Anne Beauchamp, 
 and of Mrs. Seymour Neville, daughter of the Rev. 
 Charles Proby. They are all by Messrs. Clayton 
 and Bell. That nearest to the east is " in affectionate 
 remembrance of Elizabeth Beauchamp, who died 
 
36 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 April loth, 1 86 1." The subject is Martha's com- 
 plaint of Mary. That in the centre is "dedicated by 
 her friends to the memory of Agnes Mary Neville, 
 who died October 12, 1860," and represents our Lord 
 delivering the Sermon on the Mount. That nearest 
 to the west is " a tribute of regard to the memory of 
 Anne Beauchamp, who died October 29th, 1842." 
 Its subject is Christ conversing with the woman of 
 Samaria. 
 
 The centre window on the south side is, as a brass 
 plate beneath it commemorates, " Erected to the glory 
 of God, and in memory of John George Ramsden, Esq., 
 who died April igth, 1862. Aged forty-seven." It 
 depicts our Lord raising Lazarus from the dead. The 
 artist was Mr. Wailes of Newcastle. 
 
 Very recently a sixth window has been added on 
 the south side nearest to the west, the design, the 
 drawing and the colouring of which are equally 
 excellent. It represents the Saviour, as the healer of 
 diseases, bidding the blind to see and the lame to 
 walk. Its inscription runs thus : " To the honour 
 of God and in memory of Charles Coombes Clark, 
 obiit December nth, 1862, aetat, seventy-five, and 
 of Lucy his wife, obiit September ist, 1860, aetat, 
 seventy-six ; erected by their affectionate children." 
 If the selected subject were not so undeniably suitable 
 for a memorial of one who practised for many years in 
 Twickenham as a medical man, it might have been 
 regretted that the subject was not " the raising of the 
 widow's son at Nain," which would have made the 
 series of Gospel pictures on this side of the church 
 more complete. The artists were Messrs. Ward and 
 
SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY'S COFFIN. 37 
 
 Hughes, and the window well marks the conspicuous 
 advance which has been made in this branch of eccle- 
 siastical decoration during the last ten years. 
 
 Whilst the galleries were in course of reconstruction 
 it became necessary to enter the vaults beneath the 
 church in order to build up secure piers of masonry 
 from below. Whenever it was practicable the vaults 
 were filled in with earth, and a bed of concrete to 
 receive the flooring was laid above them. During 
 these operations a singular leaden shell or coffin, said 
 to be that of Sir William Berkeley, was for the second 
 time since its burial brought to light. An engraving 
 of it is given by Ironside. It was very light and quite 
 empty, and appeared to have been formed by wrapping 
 the corpse in thin sheet lead, which was then battened 
 over the body, and thus assumed its form. It was 
 replaced in the vault to which it belonged, in the 
 south-east corner of the church. 
 
 Ironside has a note on this subject to this effect, 
 " On opening this vault about a year ago," (he. dates 
 1785,) " for the interment of (Adm. the Hon, John 
 Biron) one of this family, the body of Sir William 
 Berkeley was found lying on the ground without 3 
 coffin, cased in lead exactly fitted to the shape of the 
 body, showing the form of the features, hands, feet, 
 and even nails ; and appears to be beat firmly to it, 
 and looks like a figure in armour," 
 
 Sir William died in 1677, and was, first interred in 
 the middle of the chancel, and removed to a vault in 
 1678. 
 
 In the year 1860 Viscount Clifden obtained a 
 faculty for the removal of the bodies of his father 
 
38 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 (Lord Dover) and other members of his family from 
 their vault in the north-east corner of the church 
 (where the organ now stands) ; this was effected from 
 the outside, an entrance being obtained beneath the 
 foundations of the church, which was afterwards care- 
 fully bricked up and secured. 
 
 The newly arranged seats were re-allotted to the 
 parishioners by a commission appointed by the bishop, 
 at the request of the vicar and churchwardens : the 
 commissioners were the Archdeacon of Middlesex, the 
 rural dean (the late Rev. William Russell, A.B., rector 
 of Shepperton), and the bishop's secretary. 
 
 In 1864 the old organ was disposed of, and a new 
 one by Messrs. Robson of St. Martin's Lane purchased 
 at a cost of 400 /. 
 
 The font, which stands at the west end of the 
 church near the north door, is small and plain. The 
 piece of brass work which surmounts its cover is the 
 sole remnant of the three brass chandeliers already 
 referred to, that small piece being preserved as a 
 memento of them. Previous to the alterations the 
 font stood in a large pew at the west end of the 
 south aisle. 
 
 The works of 1859 were concluded without the 
 interior of the church being left in a perfectly satis- 
 factory condition. The decorations attempted in the 
 chancel and on the ceiling proved neither bright 
 enough in colour, nor sufficiently bold and conspicuous 
 in design. The walls were only whitewashed, and that 
 
INTERNAL DECORATION OF CHURCH IN 1872. 39 
 
 not thoroughly. Susceptible of every mark, they soon 
 acquired a shabby and dirty appearance, and stains, 
 where scaffold poles had been erected, gradually dis- 
 closed themselves. The neglected condition of the 
 church became within the last few years a fact which 
 every one acknowledged and regretted, but which, until 
 quite recently, no one exerted himself to remedy. It 
 is probable, however, that delay has proved an advan- 
 tage ; as from the imperative need of the work it has 
 been executed more thoroughly and more artistically 
 than might have been the case had it been attempted 
 earlier. 
 
 In 1871 designs for the decoration of the interior were 
 furnished by R. W. Edis, Esq., F.S.A. Mr. Messom 
 of Twickenham was the contractor for such portions 
 of them as were eventually carried out in 1872 at 
 an estimated cost of 425/. The aim was to give to 
 the church an effect of both light and warmth. To 
 accomplish the former the upper part of the walls and 
 the ceiling have been made lighter in tone, the orna- 
 ments being picked out in colour with great taste ; 
 whilst the latter object has been secured by painting 
 the walls, under and, for the distance of a few feet, 
 above the galleries, a rich but dull red, relieved by 
 bands of brighter colours separating the tints. The 
 colouring of the chancel is exceedingly careful and 
 effective ; the upper portion of the east window is 
 bordered with a series of medallions, emblematical 
 of the Holy Spirit, intended hereafter to harmonize 
 with a new window having for its subject the patron 
 saint of the church, Saint Mary the Virgin. Much 
 has been done, but much still remains to be done 
 
40 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 before the very best effect will be produced out of 
 the materials for a worthy place of worship which even 
 Twickenham church supplies. Nothing can remedy 
 the cramped dimensions of the small recess which 
 answers for a chancel ; but its fittings and ornamenta- 
 tion, now meagre to the last degree, might be improved 
 by a larger and more conspicuous table, and a reredos 
 possessing some beauty and significance, in place of 
 the present cumbersome and unmeaning piece of oaken 
 furniture. The plain leaden pipes of the organ would, 
 from their very prominent position, repay the trouble 
 and expense of elaborate illumination ; whilst stained- 
 glass in the good west window when opened up to 
 view, a larger, handsomer font, a safer and more ornate 
 pulpit, supply also eligible opportunities for manifesting 
 the piety and generosity of parishioners in future. 
 
 AH the old communion plate, except the large alms- 
 dish and a paten, to which reference has been already 
 made (page 7), was disposed of by Mr. Master, and in 
 its stead two patens, two chalices and a flagon of silver 
 of elegant and convenient shape and excellent work- 
 manship were provided, They were supplied by 
 Mr. Keith of the City Road. 
 
 There are eight bells in the tower. From their 
 frames Ironside conjectured that originally there were 
 but five."" The oldest of them bears, in raised old 
 English letters with Lombardic capitals, this inscription, 
 
 In multis annis resonet campana Johannis. 
 Ironside omits the first word and says " after the last 
 
 * Five was the number of which a peal in old times usually consisted. 
 
THE BELLS. 41 
 
 word follow the figures cxii.," of which he offers no 
 interpretation, (having obviously mistaken the letters 
 " i, n," for figures). He supposes that the original five 
 bells were dedicated to the Virgin Mary (the patron 
 saint of the Church) and the Four Evangelists. Of these 
 " John " only survives (the oldest bell, to which the 
 rest have been cast,) the others were probably broken 
 or sold at the Reformation.""" 
 
 The inscriptions on the other bells are in Roman 
 characters, and are as follows : 
 
 I W. E. made mee 1695. R. P. P. R. Churchwardens. 
 
 3. William Eldridge made mee 1669. 
 
 4. Richard Phelps f made me 1730. Messrs. W m Blaklock, 
 
 Francis Vincent, Churchwardens. 
 
 5. R. P. fecit 1703. 
 
 6. R. Phelps fecit 1722. The Reverend Samuel Pratt, D.D., 
 
 Vicar, Richard Silvester, Joseph Fitzwater, Ch. wardens. 
 
 7. (Tenor.) Mr. John Hartclif, Vicar. R. Phelps made mee. 
 
 John Bartlet, Paul Mansfeild, Churchwardens, 1708. 
 
 There is a cresting of Maltese crosses and fleurs- 
 de-lys over this last inscription. 
 
 The ugly wooden campanile which formerly rested 
 on the top of the tower (as may be seen in the old 
 prints) and contained the clock bell, was taken down 
 when the church was restored in 1859. 
 
 In the year 1713, when the church was being rebuilt, 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller and Thomas Vernon, Esq. made 
 application to Charles, Duke of Somerset, for the en- 
 
 * He says that he has read somewhere of a family in Italy, the Corsini, who 
 raised themselves to fortune by purchasing bells at the time of the demolition of 
 religious houses in England. 
 
 f- R. Phelps was employed as bell-founder at the rebuilding of St. Paul's 
 Cathedral, and the mellow and harmonious tone of the Twickenham bells attests 
 the skill of the old founders. 
 
42 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 largement of the churchyard, who thereupon was pleased 
 to grant 1585 superficial feet for that purpose. A further 
 addition of 389 feet was made in 1754 by the Earl and 
 Countess of Northumberland, both which gifts are 
 commemorated by inscriptions on the churchyard wall. 
 The churchyard in the course of some years became 
 so full, as to admit of no more interments being 
 made with decency ; and as no ground adjacent could 
 be obtained for its enlargement, the parish purchased 
 a piece of land, at the expense of 3OO/., situated in the 
 Back Lane near the London Road, with a building on 
 it which was converted into a small chapel for the 
 purpose of resting the corpse and reading the funeral 
 service. No trace of this building remains ; the bell 
 which belonged to it is now in Holy Trinity Church. 
 Both ground and chapel were consecrated on the 7th 
 of December 1782, (William Heckford Esq, church- 
 warden) by the Right Rev. Dr. Samuel Halifax, Bishop 
 of Gloucester, who officiated for the Bishop of London. 
 It appears that, although the whole of this land was 
 purchased and vested in trustees for the purpose of 
 a burying-ground, only a part, then thought to be 
 sufficient, was at first appropriated to that use, the 
 remaining part, separated from the other by a wall 
 only, being occupied as a garden ; and about twenty 
 years afterwards we find the parishioners assembled 
 in vestry petitioning the Bishop of London to grant 
 permission to the Bishop of Exeter, then resident in 
 the parish, to consecrate the remaining portion of the 
 ground, and separate it from all profane and common 
 uses. This petition, which bears date November 
 1 4th, 1805, was signed by Henry Fletcher, minister, 
 
THE PAROCHIAL CEMETERY. 43 
 
 Joseph Bell and Joshua Chapman, churchwardens, the 
 overseers, and seventeen parishioners. 
 
 By about the year 1835 this increased provision 
 had proved inadequate, and a fresh piece of ground, 
 situated in Royal Oak Lane, which had been given to 
 the parish by the Crown, was consecrated by the 
 Bishop of London, Dr. C. J. Blomfield, on the i6th of 
 April, 1839 : the Rev. Charles Proby being then vicar, 
 and William Rummell and George Augustus Oliver 
 churchwardens. The first interment in it, which took 
 place about five weeks after the day of consecration, was 
 that of the wife of Major Thomas George Harriott. 
 
 This second additional graveyard having supplied 
 the requirements of the parish for just thirty years, 
 was closed by order of the Queen in council, in so far 
 as regarded the making of new graves, in July, 1868. 
 The parish had previously purchased about eight acres 
 of charity land in that portion of the parish which 
 belongs ecclesiastically to the district of Whitton, at a 
 cost of i,4.oo/. which was appropriated as a cemetery 
 under the superintendence of a burial board. Two 
 handsome chapels, one for the use of the Established 
 Church and the other for that of Nonconformists, have 
 been erected from designs supplied by Mr. Charles 
 Jones of Ealing, architect. Mr. Thomas Nye was 
 the contractor. The foundation stone of the Church 
 of England chapel was laid by the Rev. G. G. P. 
 Glossop, the vicar, on the 2nd of March, 1867 ; and it, 
 together with three-fourths of the ground, was conse- 
 crated on the 2nd of August in the same year by the 
 Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Dr. C. J. Ellicott, 
 who officiated for the Bishop of London. 
 
44 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE REGISTERS. 
 
 ORIGIN AND COMMENCEMENT OF THE REGISTERS EARLY ENTRIES 
 AVERAGE OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS CURIOUS 
 MEMORANDA IN THE REGISTER BOOKS EXTRACTS FROM THE 
 REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, 1592 1852 EXTRACTS FROM THE 
 REGISTER OF MARRIAGES, 1609 1861 EXTRACTS FROM 
 THE REGISTER OF BURIALS 1563 1872 WITH BIOGRAPHICAL 
 NOTICES. 
 
 KING HENRY VIII. in the thirtieth year of his reign 
 appointed Lord Cromwell (afterwards Earl of Essex) 
 his vicar-general and vicegerent in all religious matters, 
 and he in 1538 ordered registers to be kept in every 
 parish of marriages, baptisms, and burials ; in that 
 year the registers of Twickenham Parish Church 
 commence. Ironside says that they begin in 1539; 
 but we are forced to the conclusion that he could not 
 have looked at them, as the first page is headed as 
 distinctly as possible, "Weddings, the year of our 
 Lord God MDXXXVIIJ." 
 
 The first entry in the christenings is the name of 
 Isabel (?) Whyte, xxvm day of October MDXXXVIIJ, 
 and, very strangely, the same person's name, with 
 the same date, begins the list of burials. That it 
 was not impossible for a person in extremis to have 
 
THE REGISTERS. 45 
 
 been baptized and buried on the same day may 
 be inferred from this entry made a few years later, 
 " Henricus Hall, films Henrici Hall, obiit et sepultus est 
 8 die mensis lanuarii. An. D. 1570." 
 
 Lysons gives a list showing from time to time the 
 average of baptisms and burials, from which it appears 
 that during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 
 the population increased in the proportion of about 
 six to one. A comparison of the number of entries 
 made in 1600, 1700, 1800, and during last year, 1871, 
 will show at once the rapid development of the place. 
 
 In the year 1600 the baptisms were 21, marriages, 5, and burials 12. 
 ,, i7o 48, 14, 3 8 - 
 
 i 8 o I00 > 7(0 95. 
 
 1871 136, 32, 106. 
 
 It must be remembered, in order that the figures 
 for the last quoted year may have their full significance, 
 that now the parish register, owing to the formation 
 of two additional ecclesiastical parishes, does not serve 
 for much, if any, more than half the civil parish : also 
 that certain changes in the laws and an increase of 
 dissent have reduced the proportion of entries in the 
 parochial registers, not in this place only but every- 
 where. We must add 72 baptisms, 19 marriages and 
 48 burials, performed in the parish of Holy Trinity, 
 Twickenham Common ; and 16 baptisms, 7 marriages, 
 and 1 7 burials performed in the parish of Whitton ; 
 which makes the total for the entire parish, to be 
 compared with other years : 
 
 Baptisms, 224, marriages, 58, burials, 171, 
 and this, all due allowance being made for causes tending 
 
46 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 to diminish the number of entries, exhibits an immense 
 increase of population since the beginning of the present 
 century. 
 
 On the last page of the first and oldest volume of 
 the Registers are the two following curious memoranda, 
 which show the way in which the good people of 
 Twickenham settled their differences in the sixteenth 
 century. If such means w r ere in fashion now, probably 
 " the hole paryshe " would be assembled very fre- 
 quently. 
 
 The iiij daye of Aprell in 1568 in the presence of the hole paryshe 
 of Twycknam was agrement made betwyxt Mr. Packer & 
 his Wyffe and Hewe Rytte and Sicylye Daye of a slander 
 brought up by the sayde Rytte and Sicylye Daye upon the afore- 
 sayde Mr. Packer." 
 
 " The xi day of Aprell in 1568 was agrement made betwyxt Thomas 
 Whytt & James Herne and have consented that whosoever 
 geveth occasion of the breakyng of Christen love & Charytye 
 betwyxt them to forfett to the poor of the Paryshe iijs iiijd beyng 
 dewelye proved." 
 
 Two rather remarkable efforts at sacred versifica- 
 tion are preserved in the same volume, inscribed in a 
 very -old hand. 
 
 The Lord is only my support and hee 
 That doth me feed. How can I then 
 Lack anything whereof I stand in need ? 
 
 O God that art my writousness, Lord hear 
 Me when I call ! Thou hast set me 
 At liberty when I was bound in thrall. 
 
 I proceed now to make certain extracts from the 
 Registers,* commencing with 
 
 * It seems desirable to explain in a few words the method by which these 
 extracts have been made, and the principles which have guided me in selecting 
 them. I have had three lists to refer to ; first, Ironside's, which, in the case of 
 christenings and burials, begins at the earliest times and goes down to the date at 
 
BAPTISMS, 15921615. 47 
 
 Extracts from the Register of Baptisms. 
 
 Robert, son of Sir John Trade, January 2ist, 1592. 
 
 John, son of Mr. John Suckling, February loth, 1608. [" The most 
 light and sprightly of our poets, except Moore." Mr. John 
 Suckling, the father, became Sir John Suckling, of Whitton, 
 Knight. He was sometime Secretary of State and comptroller 
 of the household to Charles I. and James I., to the former of 
 whom he was also Clerk to the Council. He died on the 27th 
 of March, 1627. The poet, who was nineteen years old at his 
 father's death, died of fever in 1641 at the early age of thirty- 
 three.] 
 
 Mary, daughter of Sir Harry Baker, September pth, 1615. 
 
 Charles, son of Sir Philip Stanhope, baptized at the Countess of 
 Bedford's in the Park, by a special dispensation of the Lord 
 
 which he completed his history, 1790 : from the marriage register he quotes only 
 nine entries. In this he has included, allowing for constant inconsistencies and 
 inaccuracies, nearly every name which bears the addition of " Mr.," " Mrs.," 
 "Esquire," "Gent," and all higher titles; and others which were at the time 
 of his writing locally familiar. Next, Lysons' extracts, given in his account of the 
 Parish in the "Environs of London," which embrace only names of historical 
 notoriety or those which from curious incidents connected with them are worth 
 attention. Last, a supplemental list extending to the year 1865, carefully compiled 
 by the Rev. G. S. Master when Vicar of the parish, with no view to publication. 
 Every one of the extracts in all these lists I have tested and, in cases of incorrect- 
 ness either as regards dates or in other respects, corrected. To them, from my own 
 investigations, I have made several additions. Every name, however, which I have 
 added solely on my own responsibility is marked with an asterisk. I have retained 
 all the extracts made by Lysons and have quoted his accompanying descriptions 
 with occasional modifications and additions. I have not thought it worth while to 
 reproduce a great number of Ironside's names, for the memorial of many of his 
 worthies has perished with them. Mr. Master's list, reaching to our own times, in 
 which the circumstances of the parish are so much altered, and the population so 
 greatly increased, is of too great length to allow me to do more than quote from 
 it names of national celebrity, or which, from their connection with individuals 
 mentioned elsewhere in this history, seem to be of parochial interest. The baptisms 
 of living persons are, with very few exceptions, of course omitted. The tendency 
 of modern times is to obliterate fictitious distinctions of rank, and the old line can 
 no longer be drawn between " Esquires," " Gents" and others, so that it has been 
 impossible for me to include many names which otherwise I should gladly have 
 inserted. I have thought it advisable to terminate the extracts, speaking generally, 
 with the year 1850 : one baptism, two marriages, and six burials, which have taken 
 place subsequently, may, I feel sure, be inserted without apology. Several persons 
 are mentioned only on account of their longevity. The interments of children, even 
 of families otherwise claiming notice, I have frequently, but not always, passed by. 
 
48 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Bishop of London, November nth, 1615. [He died without 
 issue in 1645. Sir Philip, the father, was the first Lord Chester- 
 field ; his wife, Catherine, was daughter of Lord Hastings ; her 
 portrait was at Strawberry Hill.] 
 
 Anne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Line and Margaret his ladie, 
 March 25th, 1617. Also Margaret, November i5th, 1618 ; 
 Jane, May 3ist, 1620; Katherin, September 24th, 1621, their 
 other daughters, and Humphrey, their son, July 26th, 1626. 
 [Sir Humphrey Lynd, says Anthony Wood, was a most learned 
 knight and zealous puritan. He wrote strongly against the 
 Church of Rome ; one of his tracts, entitled Via Tufa, was 
 answered by Jenison, a Jesuit, in a pamphlet called A pair of 
 Spectacles for Sir Humphrey Lynd, to which the knight replied 
 in another tract called A Case for Sir Humphrey LyncTs Spectacles. 
 Another of his works, Via Devia, treated of perversions to Rome. 
 He died on the 8th of June, 1636, and was buried in the parish 
 church of Cobham, in Surrey, when Dr. Daniel Featly (or Fair- 
 clough), of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, rector of Acton, and 
 third and last provost of Chelsea College, preached his funeral 
 sermon. He resided several years at Twickenham in the house 
 which subsequently was Richard Owen Cambridge's.] 
 
 Fenetta, daughter of Sir John and Lady Jane Fenet, July 23rd, 1626. 
 [Sir John Fenet was appointed, in 1626, Master of the Ceremonies 
 to King Charles I. He died on the i2th of July, 1641. He 
 wrote Philoxenes, " being observations on the reception and 
 entertainment of ambassadors in England," and he translated a 
 book from the French, entitled, The Beginning, Continuance, and 
 Decay of 'Estates.} 
 
 Charity, daughter of Andrew Pitkarne, Esq., July i3th, 1639 ; and 
 Andrew, son of the same, then described as deceased, April 26th, 
 1641. 
 
 Alexander, son of Alexander Lynd, Esq., June 22nd, 1641. 
 
 Master John Howard, son of Charles Lord Howard of Andover, was 
 born September 28th, 1650. 
 
 Lady Lucy, daughter of Edward Earl of Manchester, born May 3rd 
 and baptized May i5th, 1655, and George, son of the same, born 
 February 2oth and baptized March 5th, 1656. 
 
 Martha, daughter of Joseph Ashe, Esq., and Mrs. Mary, his wife, 
 born and christened May i4th, 1658; also Diana, July i7th, 
 1666 (Mr. Ashe, then a baronet) ; and James, July 24th, 1674, 
 their other children. 
 
BAPTISMS, 16151710. 49 
 
 Humphrey, January 2ist, 1662-3; Mary, August ioth, 1665; and Hop- 
 ton, August 2ist, 1666, children of Sir Thomas Mackworth, bart. 
 William, son of Toby Chauncey, Esq., was born April 5th, being Good 
 Friday, and christened on the Friday following, April i2th, 1667. 
 Edward, son of Sir Edward Massey and Mary his lady. April i7th, 
 
 1674. 
 Mary, September iQth, 1677 ; and Joseph, August n, 1683; children 
 
 of William Wyndham, Esq. 
 
 James, son of the Right Hon. Lord Francis Brudnall and Frances his 
 Lady, November 2oth, 1687. [Lord Francis was an ancestor of 
 the Earl of Cardigan. This James (his third son) died in 1746, 
 being then Gentleman of the Horse to his Majesty, and M. P. 
 for Chichester. At this time Robert Earl of Cardigan was pro- 
 prietor of Twickenham Park.] 
 
 Alice, June nth, 1690 ; Diana, April i2th, 1692 ; Sharlot, January ist, 
 1693-4; Mary, March 4th, 1694-5; Katharine, April i4th, 1697 ; 
 Christiana, June i6th, 1698; Thomas, December 2ist, 1699; 
 children of Sir Charles Tufton. 
 
 Batty, son of Daniel Langley and Elizabeth his wife, September i4th, 
 1696. [He was an architect and a gardener of considerable pre- 
 tension and moderate ability. His Pomeria; or, The Fruit-Garden 
 illustrated, published in 1728, contains coloured engravings of 
 the choicest fruits then in demand, and records the days and 
 positions in which they ripened in Twickenham in the year 1727. 
 In the same year appeared the New Principles of Gardening ; or, 
 The Laying-out and Planting Parterres, Groves, 6<r. He wrote a 
 useful Guide to Builders, which treated of prices and materials, 
 and a book on Gothic architecture, of which he advocated a very 
 debased form. He died in 1761. Entries concerning members 
 of his family in the registers are numerous. The place of his 
 residence is uncertain.] 
 
 Thomas, son of Thomas Boucher, Esq.,* July 6th, 1701. 
 Katherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Pope Blount, April i3th, 1704, 
 and James Pope, his son, November ioth, 1705. [Sir Thomas 
 Pope Blount, or Blunt, was son of the writer of the same name : 
 the latter was created a baronet in 1673 an d died in 1697.] 
 Erick, son of the Right Hon. the Lord Duffis, August 2oth, 1710. 
 [Only son of Kenneth, Lord Duffis, by Christiana, daughter of 
 Erick de Siobaldhe, Governor and Admiral of Gottenburg. 
 
 * See p. 69. 
 
50 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Lord Duffis, on June 27th, 1711, having command of a 
 forty-six-gun frigate, maintained a most desperate engagement 
 for some hours with eight French privateers ; at length, having 
 received five balls in his body, the ship was captured by the 
 enemy. He was attainted by Act of Parliament in 1715, and 
 afterwards imprisoned in the Tower. On procuring his release 
 he went to Russia, and became a flag officer in the fleet of that 
 country.] 
 
 Ecklin, son of the Hon. Captain Jeremiah Gibbons, July ipth, 1711. 
 
 Lucy, daughter of James Johnson, Esq., and Lucy his wife, July 7th, 
 1717. 
 
 Thomas Roger, son of Gabriel, Marquis du Quesne, August 28th, 
 1718. [A French Huguenot family. The Marquis Gabriel 
 (whom Mr. Smiles in his History of the Huguenots calls " Abra- 
 ham,") was the second son of the celebrated admiral. He was 
 a lieutenant in the French navy : he settled in England after the 
 Revocation, and died here. His son, " Thomas Roger," took 
 holy orders, and became prebendary of Ely and vicar of East 
 Tuddenham, Norfolk. Another branch of this same family 
 settled in England in the sixteenth century, and one of their 
 descendants was an alderman of the City of London. From 
 this branch the Du Canes of Essex are descended, the present 
 head of whom is Charles Du Cane. Esq., late of Braxted Park, 
 and M.P., now Governor of Tasmania.*] 
 
 John, son of the Hon. John Wallop and Lady Bridget his wife, 
 August 3oth, 1718. [The father was the first Earl of Ports- 
 mouth (created April nth, 1743); M.P. for the county of 
 Hants, 1715 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1717 ; created Viscount 
 Lymington and Baron Wallop of Wallop in 1720. The earl's 
 first wife, the baptism of whose first child is here recorded, was 
 the eldest daughter of the first Earl of Tankerville. The father 
 outlived the son by thirteen years : the latter, who became 
 Viscount Lymington, died in 1749. The earl died in 1762.] 
 
 Susannah, daughter of the Hon. Captain Cooke, December 25th, 1719. 
 
 James Shandayes and John Twogood, two Indian princes baptized 
 by Dr. Prat, Dean of Rochester, June 2oth, 1721. 
 
 Anna Sophia, daughter of Mr. Edward Seymour, May 29th, 1722. 
 
 Stephen, son of Sir Clement Cotterell, July 2ist, 1723. 
 
 Anna, daughter of Captain Abraham Dupuis and Mrs. Anna, his 
 wife, August 28th, 1723. 
 
 * The Huguenots, by S. Smiles, p. 509. 
 
BAPTISMS, 17111745. 51 
 
 Mary, November 24th, 1723; Penelippe Irby, August 2nd, 1727; 
 Elizabeth, January i4th, 1730; children of the Hon. Captain 
 Timothy Carr. 
 
 William, son of his Grace John Manners Duke of Rutland, and 
 Bridget his dutchess, born July 29th, was baptized on July 3ist, 
 1724. [The duchess was daughter and sole heir to Robert 
 Sutton, Lord Lexington.] 
 
 George Frederick, son of Charles Gustavus, Baron Sparre, envoy 
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the King of 
 Sweden, at the court of Great Britain, and Elizabeth, Countess 
 of Gyllenburg, his wife, August 8th, 1724. 
 
 Thomas, son of the Right Hon. Philip Howard, and the Hon. 
 Winifred, his lady, February 4th, 1727-8. 
 
 Charles, son of the Hon. Colonel William Townsend, and the Hon. 
 Hinnerritta, his wife, September 6th, 1728. 
 
 Stephen, April i8th, 1732; Thomas Rea, October i6th, 1733; 
 Frances, March 6th, 1734-5; Edward, May 5th, 1737; Sarah, 
 October 291)1, 1738; children of Stephen Cole, Esq., and 
 Frances, his wife. 
 
 Anne, September 4th, 1736; Sarah, April 7th, 1748; William, 
 September i2th, 1751; James, September 3oth, 1754; Sarah, 
 August 9th, 1756; Samuel, October, i2th, 1757; Mary, 
 May i3th, 1759; Mary Ann, December i3th, 1762; Charlotte, 
 August 4th, 1764 ; children of John Haynes, gent. 
 
 Mary, May i3th, 1737; Joseph, September 5th, 1739; Martha, 
 August i4th, 1740 ; John, October, nth, 1742 ; William, 
 November i2th, 1744; John, November 6th, 1745; children 
 of John Wyndham, Esq., and Mary his wife. [The eldest son, 
 Joseph, of Earsham in Norfolk, was born at Twickenham 
 Meadows, then the seat of the Ashe family (with whom the 
 Wyndhams were connected by marriage), on August 2ist, 1739. 
 He was educated at Eton and Christ's College, Cambridge. 
 He was celebrated for his literary tastes and his acquirements 
 in the study of English architecture ; he was particularly con- 
 versant with the antiquities of his own country. He greatly 
 assisted Cameron in his work on Roman Baths. He compiled 
 the chief part of the second volume of Ionian Antiquities, 
 published by the Society of Dilettanti, and assisted in the 
 second volume of Mr. Stuart's Athens. He was also a member 
 of the Society of Antiquaries, to whose Memoirs he con- 
 tributed, in 1779, "Observations on a Passage in Pliny's 
 
52 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Natural History, relative to the Temple of Diana at Ephesus ; " 
 and, in conjunction with Sir H. Englefield, Bart., superin- 
 tended for several years the publication of the Cathedrals of 
 England undertaken by that society. Mr. Wyndham died 
 September 2ist, 1810.] 
 
 Colebrooke, son of John Walker, Esq., and Dionysia, his wife, 
 December i4th, 1739. 
 
 Harriett, daughter of George Morton Pitt, Esq., June 22nd, 1745. 
 
 Philadelphia, daughter of William Batty, M.D., September i4th, 1745. 
 
 William, son of Henry Fielding, Esq., February 25th, 1747-8. 
 [Lysons, on Walpole's authority, says that Fielding, the cele- 
 brated novelist and dramatic writer, rented a house in the Back 
 Lane. This is a mistake, as his name does not appear in the 
 rate books. He had a couple of rooms in the house, which was 
 then let in lodgings. Ironside has incorrectly included William 
 Fielding's name in the register of deaths as well as of baptisms.] 
 
 Charles Owen, April 3ist, 1754; George Owen, August ipth, 1756; 
 sons of Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., and Mary his wife. 
 
 Charles, November 3oth, 1757; James, March 3rd, 1760; Henry, 
 August 25th, 1761; John, February nth, 1763; Catharine, 
 February i3th, 1766; George, November i5th, 1771; children 
 of Stephen Cole, Esq., and Catherine his wife. 
 
 Vere, son of Vere Poulet, Esq. (afterwards Earl Poulet), June i2th, 
 1761. 
 
 George, son of Sir George Pocock, K.B., and Admiral of the Blue 
 and Sophia Pitt, widow of Digby Dent, Esq., December 3rd, 
 
 1765- 
 
 John Hobart, son of the Right Hon. John and Caroline, Earl and 
 Countess of Buckinghamshire, September 2oth, 1773. [This 
 child, who died an infant, was by the earl's second wife, a 
 daughter of William Conolly, Esq., of Stratton Hall. The earl 
 (who was the second of the title) had been ambassador to the 
 court of St. Petersburg, and, in 1776, was appointed Lord- 
 Lieutenant of Ireland.] 
 
 Daniel, August 4th, 1777; George, June 24th, 1782, children of 
 Richard and Mary Twining. 
 
 Sarah, relict of Francis Salvador, a converted Jewess, June 6th, 1780. 
 
 John Lovell, Esther Anne, and Leonora Mary, children of Francis 
 and Sarah Salvador, June 7th, 1780. 
 
 Elizabeth, August iQth, 1780; Susannah, September 28th, 1781, 
 daughters of Samuel Prime, Esq., and Susannah his wife. 
 
BAPTISMS, 17391798. 53 
 
 Charles William Soulegre, son of Lorenzo Moore, Colonel of the 
 Battle Axe Guards in Ireland, and Henrietta, daughter of Sir 
 Stephen Theodore Janssen, Bart., his wife, April 3oth, 1786. 
 
 Ironside's extracts terminate with the year 1786. 
 
 John Whalley, son of George and Lydia Gostling, October 8th, 1787. 
 
 John Morgan, October 5th, 1789; Sarah Chandler, October 7th, 
 1790; Robert Gascoyne, February 2ist, 1792, children of the 
 Rev. Robert and Sarah Burt (the last born posthumously). 
 
 *John Ivatt, son of John (Esq.) and Mary Briscoe, born October 
 1 2th, and baptized November i6th, 1791. [Mr. Briscoe was 
 elected M.P. for Surrey in 1830, and subsequently represented 
 West Surrey ; he sat in the House of Commons for nearly forty 
 years. He died in 1870, aged seventy-nine years ; he married 
 Anna Maria, daughter of Sir Joseph Mawbey, bart, of Botleys, 
 Surrey. His wife survived him only a few months.] 
 
 Alexander, October 29th, 1793; *Mary, September i5th, 1795; 
 Frances, December 2oth, 1796 ; Jane, May i4th, 1799 ; Harriet 
 Barbara, October i2th, 1800; children of Alexander Hatfield, 
 Esq. 
 
 Catherine Amelia, February 26th, 1794; George Hardinge, April 
 9th, 1795 ) children of George Galway Mills, Esq. 
 
 Richard, son of Francis Gostling and Barbara his wife, October 22nd, 
 
 1795- 
 
 *Anne Caroline Julia, daughter of Colonel Colin Campbell and 
 Maria his wife, January 3ist, 1796. 
 
 Elizabeth, February 9th, 1796; George Beauchamp, February 7th, 
 1807; Eldred Mowbray, July 3oth, 1811 ; children of Thomas 
 Cole, Esq., and Lady Elizabeth Cole, his wife. [Stephen Thomas 
 Cole, Esq., of Twickenham and Stoke Lyne, Oxon, was son of 
 Major Thomas Rea Cole, by Isabella, daughter of Sir Henry 
 Ibbetson, bart. He married, on the /5th January, 1795, Lady 
 Elizabeth Henrietta, second daughter of the twelfth Earl of 
 Derby.] 
 
 Richard William, son of James Jelf, Esq., a banker at Gloucester, 
 and Mary his wife, born January 25th, 1798. " Privately bap- 
 tized at Gloucester, and publicly baptized in this parish " by the 
 Rev. George Cambridge, Prebendary of Ely. [Sir James Jelf 
 died on the 27th of April, 1842, at Christ Church, Oxford. He 
 was distantly related to the Earl of Denbigh, through his grand- 
 father, who settled in Denbighshire ; he filled the office of Mayor 
 
54 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 of Gloucester in 1814, and received the honour of knighthood 
 on presenting an address to the throne. His son, whose bap- 
 tism is here recorded, was a most eminent scholar and learned 
 divine. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating 
 in honours in 1820. Six years after he was appointed tutor to 
 Prince George of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover, and 
 was Fellow of Oriel College at the time of the highest celebrity 
 of that society. He took an active part in opposing the Tract- 
 arian movement, an action the more significant on account of his 
 own sound and undoubted Churchmanship. He was Public 
 Examiner in 1825, and in 1844 he preached "the Bampton 
 Lectures," his subject being " The Means of Grace." He 
 edited Bishop Jewell's works, published at the University Press. 
 He was nominated by Lord Melbourne in 1839 to a Canonry of 
 Christ Church, and was also Sub-Almoner to the Queen. In 
 1844 he was elected Principal of King's College, London, an 
 office which he held, to the infinite advantage of that institution, 
 until the beginning of 1868. He died at Oxford on September, 
 19th, 1871, aged 73.] 
 
 * William Affection, a negro livery servant, 28 years of age, "by his 
 
 own earnest desire," September i5th, 1798. 
 Emily Arabella, daughter of Sir John Leicester, bart, January 6th, 
 
 1800. 
 *George Robert, August 26th, 1803 ; Eleanor Maria, November 3rd, 
 
 1804; Maria Horatia, January 4th, 1806; Jane, May 22nd, 
 
 1807; children of John Dean and Frances Eleanor Paul. 
 
 * James George, son of Henry William and Maria Espinasse, Novem- 
 
 ber 22nd, 1803. 
 
 *Edward Henry, October 25th, 1804; Charles Francis Thomas, 
 August lyth, 1808; William Fairfax, October i9th, 1809; James 
 Hatfield, May i3th, 1813; Catherine Isabella, May 2oth, 1816; 
 Burton Stanley, July 28th, 1820; children of Stephen Thomas 
 and Lady Elizabeth Henrietta Cole. 
 
 *George Stevens, son of John and Mary Stevens Byng, August 9th, 
 1806. [John Byng was created Baron Strafford, of Harmonds- 
 worth, in the year 1835. He was a general in the army, G.C.B., 
 and twice received the unanimous thanks of both Houses of 
 Parliament for his services in the Peninsula and at Waterloo ; 
 and from his Majesty, as an especial mark of his royal appro- 
 bation of the " signal intrepidity and heroic valour displayed by 
 him in the action fought at Monguerre, near Bayonne, i3th 
 
BAPTISMS, 17981852. 55 
 
 December, 1813, permission that he and his descendants may 
 
 wear as an honourable augmentation to their armorial bearings, 
 
 the colours of the 3ist regiment of foot, which he had himself 
 
 planted on that day on the enemy's lines." He married on June 
 
 i4th, 1804, Mary, the eldest daughter of Peter Mackenzie, Esq., 
 
 of Twickenham. This son, whose baptism is here recorded, is 
 
 the present Earl StrarTord.] 
 *Henry Thomas, August iQth, 1807 ; *Owen Blayney, October 25th, 
 
 1808 ; *Elizabeth Ibbetson, May i7th, 1811 ; children of Henry 
 
 and Elizabeth Jane Cole. 
 Helen Sarah, daughter of Matthew Cosset, Viscount of Jersey, and 
 
 Laura Honor his lady, January 3oth, 1813. 
 John, November 27th, 1813 ; *John George, January 2oth, 1815 ; 
 
 sons of John and Mary Ramsden. 
 Francoise Louise Caroline, daughter of Louis Philip and Marie 
 
 Amelie d'Orleans, Duke of Orleans, and first Prince of the 
 
 blood of France ; baptized by Claude Jerome Hugot, chaplain 
 
 to the Due d'Orleans, in the presence of George Champagne', 
 
 vicar, March 28th, 1816. 
 George Edward, June nth, 1816; Annette Laura Maria and William 
 
 Arthur, July 31 st, 1819 ; Frederick John William, April 3rd, 1822 ; 
 
 Horatia Elizabeth, May i7th, 1824; children of John James and 
 
 Anne, Earl and Countess of Waldegrave. 
 Robert, March i2th, 1823; *Sophia, January 25th, 1825; Henry 
 
 St. Albans, December i2th, 1827 ; Emily, June i8th, 1830; 
 / *Frederick John, August i8th, 1832 ; *Amy Georgina, October 
 
 1 5th, 1833 ; children of William Jones and Sarah Holmes Burdett. 
 Anne Sarah, daughter of Ronald George and Lady Caroline Ann 
 
 Macdonald, of Clanronald, August igth, 1824. 
 Archibald, April i4th, 1825; Robert Kennedy and Edmund Yates, 
 
 May lyth, 1828; John, August 7th, 1829; children of Jonathan 
 
 Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice Jane, his wife. 
 [Three baptisms solemnized on August 3oth, 1835, are interesting 
 
 from the fact of their bearing the signature of that most dear and 
 
 honoured name John Keble.J 
 
 Alice Laura Sophia, daughter of Lord Cochrane, October i7th, 1849. 
 Hallam, son of Alfred and Emily Sarah Tennyson, October 5th, 1852. 
 
 [The Poet Laureate at that time resided in the house nearest 
 
 Montpelier Chapel on the north side, in which he wrote In 
 
 Memoriam, an exquisite tribute to the friend A. H. Hallam, after 
 
 whom this son is named. 1 
 
56 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Extracts from the Register of Marriages. 
 
 Sir Thomas Holland, bart., and Mrs. Mary Wigmorr, November i6th, 
 1609. 
 
 Thomas Langhorne, Esq., and Philippa Wise, widow, March 4th, 
 1663. 
 
 Christopher Mitchell and Anne Colcot, June 4th, 1665. "Asked 
 and y n marryed by permission fro S r Richard Chaworth, it being 
 within the octaves of Pentecost." [Sir Richard Chaworth was 
 Vicar-General to Archbishop Sheldon who resided at Twickenham.] 
 
 Thomas Howard and Diana Newport, September 4th, 1683. 
 
 Sir Richard Middleton, Bart, and Mrs. Frances Whitmore, widow, 
 April i Qth, 1685. [Lysons wrongly supposes this to have been 
 the lady buried in 1690, being then the wife of Matthew Harvey, 
 Esq., and called Lady Frances Whitmore. This Mrs. Frances 
 was second daughter of Lady Frances by a former husband. She 
 had married, when only thirteen years of age, her cousin William, 
 son and heir of William Whitmore, Esq., of Balmes, in Hackney, 
 who was one year her senior. Their union lasted only five 
 years and nine months. After her youthful husband's decease 
 she contracted the marriage above recorded. Sir Richard 
 Middleton was third Baronet of Chirk Castle ; M.P. for Denbigh- 
 shire for thirty- two years.*] 
 
 John, Earl of Marr, and Mrs. Margaret Hay, April 6th, 1703. [This 
 was the eleventh Earl, K.T., and Secretary of State for Scotland 
 1706, and one of the sixteen representative peers from 1707 to 
 1713. Soon after the accession of George I. he was deprived 
 of his offices, and having joined the Pretender in 1715, com- 
 manded the rebel troops at the battle of Sheriffmoor, and 
 followed him, on the failure of his enterprise, to Rome; was 
 attainted by Act of Parliament, and died at Aix-la-Chapelle in 
 1732. The title thus forfeited was not restored until 1824.] 
 
 Mr. James Rooke and Mary Countess of Derwentwater, August 26th, 
 1707. 
 
 Sir Hugh Patterson, Bart., of Bannockburn, in the county of Sterling, 
 and the Right Hon. Lady Jane Erskine, daughter of Charles 
 
 * For the genealogical information concerning this lady, her mother, and 
 Matthew Harvey, Esq., I am indebted to an unpublished work "Althorp 
 Memoirs," by G. Steinman Steinman, Esq., F.S.A., of Sund ridge, Kent. 
 
MARRIAGES, 16091760. 57 
 
 Earl of Marr, March 2nd, 1711. [This was Charles the tenth 
 Earl, Privy Councillor to Charles II. and James II, who died in 
 1689. John the eleventh Earl was brother to this Lady Jane 
 Erskine. Macky in his Journey Through England (vol i. p. 75) 
 speaks of a small house at Twickenham belonging formerly to 
 Sir Thomas Skip with, but " improved and inhabited by that great 
 architect the late Earl oPMarr, which for beauty and picturesque- 
 ness is worth a traveller's attention."] 
 
 John Wyndham, Esq. and Mary Wyndham, September 25th, 1734. 
 
 Richard Grenville, of the parish of St. James's, Westminster, and Anna 
 Chambers, of the said parish, were married at the Countess of 
 Suffolk's, in the parish of Twickenham, in Middlesex, by the 
 Rev. Dr. John Metcalfe, rector of Hanworth and vicar of Sun- 
 bury, May 9th, 1737. [Richard Grenville was afterwards Earl 
 Temple. Anna Chambers was daughter of Thomas Chambers, 
 Esq., of Hanworth, and Lady Mary daughter of the Earl of 
 Berkeley. She was that Countess Temple whose poems were 
 printed at Strawberry Hill.] 
 
 Digby Dent, Esq., of the Royal Navy, and Sophia Pitt Drake, Sep- 
 tember ist, 1750. 
 
 Stafford Briscoe and Catherine Morrison, widow, December i5th, 
 
 I754- 
 
 Thomas Amyand, clerk, of Hambledon, Bucks, and Frances Rider, 
 August 1 7th, 1 758. [Mr. Amyand was a connection of a Huguenot 
 refugee, who settled in London in the beginning of the century, 
 whose son, Claude, was principal surgeon to George II. Two 
 sons of the latter were Claudius, Under Secretary of State, and 
 George (created a baronet in 1764), who sat in parliament for 
 Barnstaple. The second baronet assumed the name of Cornewall. 
 His daughter married Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, bart., and 
 was the mother of Sir George Cornewall Lewis, bart., M. P. 
 Miss Frances Amyand, belonging to the same branch of the family 
 as the subject of this extract, married William Henry Haggard, 
 of Brudesham, Norfolk, and through her Amyand House, 
 Twickenham, came into possession of the Haggards.*] 
 
 Samuel Hemming, clerk, and Maria Rider, were married by Richard 
 Peterborough, the vicar, in the presence of Daniel and Mary 
 Twining, on December 25th, 1760. 
 
 The Right Hon. George Lord Edgcume, a batchelor, and Emma 
 
 * The Huguenots, by S. Smiles, p. 476. 
 
58 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Gilbert, the natural and lawfull daughter of the Most Reverend 
 His Grace John Gilbert Lord Arch Bishop of York, a spinster, 
 were married in the house of the said Lord Arch Bishop, her 
 father, at Twickenham, in the County of Middlesex, by special 
 licence of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, by Robert Gilbert, 
 Minister, August 6th, 1761. [The Archbishop of York died at 
 Twickenham about three days after this wedding.] 
 
 *John Parker, widower, of the Parish of St. James's Westminster, and 
 the Honourable Theresa Robinson of S. Martin-in-the-Fields, 
 in the County of Middlesex, spinster, were married by special 
 licence by Beilby Porteus, Rector of Lambeth (afterwards Bishop 
 of London), May i8th, 1769. 
 
 Samuel Prime, Esq., and Susan Holden, July 4th, 1771. 
 
 James Townley and Mary Gostling, May 9th, 1773. 
 
 Alexander Watt, of London, widower, and Sarah Gostling, August 22nd, 
 1776. 
 
 John Clies, Esq., and Elizabeth Watkins, by R d - Perryn, officiating 
 minister, October 8th, 1778. 
 
 John Twining, of S. Clement's Danes, and Mary Ann Haynes, 
 November i6th, 1782. 
 
 John Henry Eraser and Maria Hobart, May 9th, 1785. 
 
 Cuthbert Fisher, Esq., of S. Giles-in-the-Fields, and Anne Garnault, 
 October 6th, 1787. 
 
 Alexander Hatfield, Esq., of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and Mary Perryn, 
 June 1 4th, 1788. 
 
 The Reverend Samuel Simon Lawry, of Blenham, Beds, and Caroline 
 Gostling, July 5th, 1788. 
 
 The Hon. Frederick St. John and the Right Hon. Lady Mary Kerr, 
 of Poyle Court, in Surrey, December 9th, 1788. [The Lady Diana 
 Beauclerk has signed her name as one of the witnesses to this 
 marriage.] 
 
 Samuel Hemming, clerk, M. A., and Elizabeth Baker, June 23rd, 1797. 
 
 Henry William Espinasse, Esq., and the Hon. Maria Petre, widow, 
 December loth, 1801. 
 
 James Mackenzie, Esq., of North wood, Isle of Wight, and Sophia 
 Gostling, November loth, 1803. 
 
 Frederick Garsham Carmichael, and Sarah Mackenzie, May 3oth, 
 1809. 
 
 Francis Chantrey, of S. George's, Hanover Square, and Mary Ann 
 Wale, November 23rd, 1809. [This was the celebrated sculptor, 
 who was born at Norton, in Derbyshire, in 1782. He became 
 
MARRIAGES, 17611820. 59 
 
 a member of the Royal Academy in 1818, and of the academies 
 of Rome and Florence in the following year. He was knighted 
 in 1835, an d died in 1841.] 
 
 Henry Bellairs, and Dorothy Parker Mackenzie, May 3oth, 1811. 
 [Mr. Bellairs was the third son of A. Walford Bellairs, Esq., 
 of Uffington in Lincolnshire, a descendant of a family which 
 settled in Leicestershire as early as the twelfth century. At the 
 age of thirteen he entered the navy as a midshipman on board 
 H.M.S. the Spartiate, and was present and twice wounded at 
 the battle of Trafalgar, for which he received a sword from the 
 Patriotic fund and the Trafalgar medal from the Sovereign. He 
 subsequently left the navy and entered the army, holding a 
 commission in the i5th Hussars. He and his brother, Sir 
 William Bellairs, were present at the battle of Waterloo. On 
 the establishment of peace he took holy orders and became 
 rector of Bedworth, Warwickshire, vicar of Hunsingore, York- 
 shire, honorary canon of Worcester Cathedral, and J. P. for the 
 county of Warwick. He died at Paignton near Torquay, on 
 April i yth, 1872, in his eighty-second year. His wife was 
 Mr. Mackenzie's youngest daughter : the eldest of their 
 numerous family is the Rev. Henry Walford Bellairs, vicar 
 of Nuneaton.] 
 
 The Hon. Basil Cochrane and Caroline Lawry, widow, by special 
 licence, in the house of George Gostling, Esq., at Whitton, 
 August 1 3th, 1812. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Vialls, and Louisa Marshall, July ist, 1813. 
 
 William Chafy, D.D., Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 
 and Mary Westwood, December 4th, 1813. 
 
 John Thomas Brooks, Esq., and Mary Hatfield, married by the R d - 
 Perryn, A. M., rector of Standish, Lancashire, April 2oth, 1815. 
 
 John James, Earl of Waldegrave, and Anne, Countess of Waldegrave 
 (formerly Anne King), June i2th, 1816. [The peculiar form of 
 this entry is accounted for by the fact that the marriage ceremony 
 had been performed previously in Paris, and was repeated on this 
 occasion. This was the sixth earl, and the countess was daughter 
 of Mr. William King, of Hastings, in the county of Sussex.] 
 
 Robert Espinasse, Esq., of the Inner Temple, and Emily Petre, 
 December 27th, 1819. 
 
 The Rev. Calvert Fitzgerald Moore and Catherine Marlay, April loth, 
 1820. [Late Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty Queen 
 Victoria.] 
 
60 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 *John Prendergast Lyttleton and Sarah Church, May 4th, 1822. 
 Richard Gerrard Perryn, Esq., of Standish, Lancashire, and Harriet 
 
 Barbara Hatfield, June 2oth, 1822. 
 The Rev. William Burges Hayne, of Henslow, Beds, and Emma 
 
 Eardley Wilmot, May ist, 1823. 
 The Rev. George Trevor Spencer and Harriet Theodora Hobhouse, 
 
 by Thomas Gamier, officiating minister, May 27, 1823. [Mr. 
 
 Spencer subsequently became Bishop of Madras.] 
 *Bernigno Bossi, Marquis de Bossi, and Susannah Adelina Bertrand, 
 
 June loth, 1823. 
 George Brudenell Michelsen Lovibond, and Frances Hatfield. July 
 
 i5th, 1826. 
 John William Fane, Esq., of Lewknor, Oxon, and Catherine Hobhouse, 
 
 November 3oth, 1826. 
 Boyd Alexander, Esq., and Sophia Hobhouse, by G. Trevor Spencer, 
 
 January i7th, 1828. 
 George Edward Pocock, Esq., and Augusta Elinor Coventry, March 
 
 ist, 1830. 
 The Rev. Thomas Beach Whitehurst, of Ampthill, Beds, and Jane 
 
 Hatfield, May 2 ist, 1831. 
 
 William Ker Ashford, and Maria Espinasse, September 20th, 1832 
 George Beauchamp Cole, and Julia Mary Espinasse, October loth, 
 
 1833- 
 
 Sir Robert Shaw, bart, and Amelia Spencer, July 2nd, 1834. 
 
 The Hon. Thomas Barnwall, son of the Right Hon. John Thomas, 
 Baron Trimlestown, of Turvey House, county Dublin, and 
 Margaret Randalina Roche, November 3rd, 1836. 
 
 Walter Frederick Campbell, Esq., and Catherine Isabella Cole, 
 March 16, 1837. 
 
 The Rev. Richard Burgess, of Chelsea, and Sophia Greatheed, by the 
 Rev. Henry Blunt, rector of Streatham. [The Earl of Cadogan's 
 name is amongst the witnesses, July nth, 1837.] 
 
 George Jelf, barrister-at-law, son of Sir J. Jelf, knight, and Mary Emily 
 Sneyd, by the Ven. G. O. Cambridge, December 5th, 1838. 
 
 Hon. Algernon Gray Tollemache and Frances Louisa Halliday, widow, 
 daughter of the Hon. Charles Tollemache, September 28th, 1857. 
 
 Robert Burnet Morier, Esq., and Alice, daughter of Lieu tenant- 
 General the Right Hon, Jonathan Peel, M. P., the Rev. B. 
 Jowett, M. A. (Regius Professor of Greek, and Master of Balliol 
 College, in the University of Oxford) being the officiating 
 minister, September 26th, 1861. 
 
MARRIAGES, 18221861. BURIALS, 15631658. 61 
 
 Extracts from the Register of Burials* 
 
 1563. In September, "olde father della Heze wasse Buryed." [He 
 was probably one of the monks of this cell at the dissolution of 
 religious houses.] 
 
 October 3oth, 1593. Mr. Knight, the herald-at-arms, was buried. 
 
 Anne, daughter of Mr. George Onslow, August 29th, 1600. 
 
 Katherine, wife of Mr. Rowland White, March 23rd, 1603-4. [Mr. 
 Rowland White was the amusing correspondent of the Earl of 
 StrafTord. See the Strafford Papers.] 
 
 Sir John Fitz, of Fitz-ford, in the county of Devon, August loth, 1605. 
 
 [In 1605 sixty-seven persons died of the plague.] 
 
 Lady Bridget Markham, who died in the Lady Bedford's house, in 
 the Park, May i9th, 1609. [Sir Anthony Markham, father of 
 Sir Robert, the first baronet of the family, and ancestor of Sir 
 James Markham, married Bridget, daughter of Sir James 
 Harrington, Bart., and first cousin of the Countess of Bedford. 
 Cf. her epitaph, p. 85.] 
 
 Lady Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, knight, September 
 22nd, 1625. [Sir Benjamin often spoke in Parliament in the 
 reigns of James I. and Charles I. Some of his speeches are in 
 print.] 
 
 Lady Anne, wife of Sir William Foster, November 3rd, 1629. 
 
 John, son of Sir Thomas Fishe (or Fitche), February 6th, 1629. 
 
 Andrew Pitkarne, Esq., December ist, 1640. 
 
 Francis Poulton, Esq., May nth, 1642. 
 
 Sir Thomas Lawley, October 3oth, 1646. 
 
 "And none set downe till 1651." 
 
 Lady Charlotte, wife of Sir Neville Poole, October 2oth, 1653. 
 
 *Thomas Westrow, Esq., departed this life October 29th, 1653. 
 
 Susannah Poulton, late wife to Francis Poulton, Esq., May 2nd, 1656. 
 
 *Anne, wife of Mr. James Ffish, June i9th, 1657. 
 
 The Lady Essex, wife to Edward Earl of Manchester, Countess of 
 Manchester, October 28th, 1658. [The Earl was a distinguished 
 character during the Civil Wars and the Protectorate of Crom- 
 well. He had been Speaker of the House of Lords while the 
 
 * In this list the names of persons who are commemorated by inscriptions in 
 the church are, as a rule, included. 
 
62 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Parliament was at war with the King, a member of the Assembly 
 of Divines, and one of Cromwell's upper house ; but there was 
 little cordiality between him and the Earl, who heartily concurred 
 in the restoration of King Charles II. This lady Essex was 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Cheek, relict of Sir Robert Bevil, and the 
 Earl's third wife, after whose decease he married twice more. His 
 great house at Twickenham was assessed to a parish rate in 1661.] 
 
 Sarah, wife of Michael Holman, Esq., December 9th, 1659. 
 
 Grace, daughter of Sir Joseph Ashe, Bart, June i2th, 1665. 
 
 [In 1665, twenty-four persons died of the plague.] 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Joseph Ashe, March gth, 1668. 
 
 *Mr. William Reeves, March 4th, 1669. 
 
 Sir William Berkeley, July i3th, 1677. [Younger son of Sir Maurice 
 Berkeley and brother of John Lord Berkeley of Stratton. He 
 was of Merton College, Oxford, and afterwards gentleman of the 
 Privy Chamber to Charles I. In 1646, he went on public 
 business to Virginia, of which province he was made governor 
 on the death of Colonel Matthews. Many royalists, on 
 his invitation, retired thither : he even hinted it to the king as a 
 safe retreat. Parliament, however, sent out a few ships which 
 took possession of the province easily and removed Sir William 
 from the government, but left him unmolested on his private 
 estate. Upon Charles II's. restoration, however, he resumed the 
 government and remained there till 1676, when he returned to 
 England. He wrote a History of Virginia, and consolidated 
 the laws of the province, adding most of the best himself, and 
 procured their confirmation at the General Assembly, 1661. 
 He wrote also a tragi-comedy called The Lost Lady. His body 
 was first buried in the middle chancel and removed to the 
 vault in 1678. See p. 37.] 
 
 The Right Hon. John Lord Berkeley, September 5th, 1678. [He 
 resided during the latter part of his life at Twickenham Park. 
 He was a distinguished royalist, and one of the generals in the 
 west where in concert with Sir Ralph Hopton, he gained several 
 victories. On account of an important one at Stratton, he was 
 created a peer, under the title of Lord Berkeley of Stratton, by 
 Charles II. at Brussels in 1658. During the time that he was 
 governor of Exeter, which city he had taken from parliament, 
 the queen, who resided there, gave birth to her daughter 
 Henrietta Maria. After a siege of three months, owing to failure 
 of provisions, he was compelled to surrender the city to General 
 
/! TRIALS, 16591696-7. 63 
 
 Fairfax. He was much in the confidence of his royal master ; 
 during the usurpation he retired to France. (Cf. his epitaph 
 
 P . 9 6.)] 
 
 Kdward, son of the Right Hon. Lawrence Lord Hyde, January 
 7th, 1680. 
 
 *Mary, the daughter of Mr. Hugh Middleton, September i5th, 1680. 
 
 The Right Hon. Charles Lord Berkeley, September 2ist, 1682. 
 [Eldest son of the first Lord Berkeley, he died at the age of 20, 
 and at the time of his death was commander of H.M.S. The 
 
 ty&r.] 
 
 John Whithall, Esq., October yth, 1682. 
 
 Sir Joseph Ashe, Knt. and Bart, April 2ist, 1686. 
 
 [In 1686, there are several entries of persons buried from the Camp 
 on Hounslow Heath. One, for instance, is described as " shot 
 by a felon unknown."] 
 
 *Joseph Ashe, killed at the camp, August ist, 1686. 
 
 Lady Frances Whitmore, wife of Matthew Harvey, Esq., May 
 1 5th, 1690. [This lady was daughter of Sir William Brooke by 
 Penelope, daughter of Sir Moyses Hill, Knt. of Hillsborough 
 co. Down, M.P. for Antrim. Her sister, Margaret, was the 
 infamous Lady Denham. She married first Sir Thomas Whit- 
 more, of Buildvvas, co. Salop and of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, 
 and by him had three daughters. Mr. Harvey was her second 
 husband. There is a portrait of her, by Lely, at Hampton 
 Court.] 
 
 *Thomas Gilmore, gent., August Toth, 1691. 
 
 * Andrew Whittingam, November 5th, 1691. 
 
 * Richard Meggott, " Doctor of devinety and deane of Winchester," 
 
 December loth, 1692. [For some time previously vicar of 
 the parish.] 
 
 Frances, lady of Sir William Humble, September 5th, 1693. 
 
 Thomas Eadon, Esq., September 26th, 1693. 
 
 Matthew Harvey, Esq., January i9th, 1694. [He was nephew to the 
 celebrated M.D., the discoverer of the circulation of the blood : 
 brother of Sir Eliab Harvey, Knt. of Chigwell, co. Essex, and 
 cousin-german to Sir Daniel Harvey, Knt., of Cambridge.*] 
 
 William, son of the Right Hon. John Lord Berkeley, April nth, 1696. 
 
 The Right Hon. John Lord Berkeley, March 5th, 1696-7. [Next 
 brother of Charles. Gentleman of the bed-chamber to Prince 
 
 * Sfe IK >ti- on p. 56. 
 
64 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 George of Denmark and an Admiral of the Fleet. He was 
 successful in an expedition against S. Malo and Granville in 
 1695, and in several other operations against the enemy. The 
 early age at which he attained high rank is almost without 
 parallel. He had been an Admiral eight years when he died 
 aged only 34.] 
 
 Mary, daughter of John Lord Berkeley, March 23rd, 1697. 
 
 Katharine, daughter of Sir Charles Tufton, April 9th, 1697. 
 
 Lady Christiana, Baroness Berkeley, September ist, 1698. 
 
 * Elizabeth Gilmore, widow, January 2nd, 1699 1700 
 
 * Margaret Whitingham, gentlewoman and widdow, November ist, 1701. 
 Joseph, son of Sir James Ashe, Bart , January loth, 1702. 
 Gilbert, son of Sir Gilbert Kate, April 23rd, 1703. 
 
 Katharine, daughter of Sir James Ashe, Bart, February 15, 1704. 
 
 Sir William Humble, " Barrinnight," August i8th, 1705. 
 
 Dame Mary Ashe, relict of Sir Joseph Ashe, December 6th, 1705. 
 
 Mary, daughter of Sir James Ashe, Bart, July i4th, 1706. 
 
 Frances, daughter of Sir James Ashe, July i4th, 1707. 
 
 [These two extracts reveal a strange and melancholy coincidence.] 
 
 The Right Hon. the Lady Berkeley, July 2 ist, 1707. 
 
 Dr. Charles Williams, minester of this parish, January 12, 1708, 
 
 Mary, daughter of Sir Charles Tufton, July i4th, 1710. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lady Bellis, March i3th, 1712. 
 
 Madame Martha Ashe, August nth, 1714. 
 
 *Madame ElenorAVilliams, widow(of Dr. Williams, vicar), July 8th, 1716. 
 
 Catharine, daughter of Colonel Gardner, November 23rd, 1721. 
 
 Mr. James Cole, January 5th, 1722. 
 
 Mr. William Baker, January i5th, 1722. 
 
 Stephen, son of Sir Clement Cotterell, Bart, July 25th, 1722. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller, Knt. and Bart, November 7th, 1723. [This 
 eminent artist was born at Lubeck, in 1648. Originally intended 
 for the army he studied mathematics and fortifications at Leyden. 
 His talents, however, designed him for a painter and he followed 
 their guidance. He became a pupil of Ferdinand Bol and of 
 Rembrandt ; he subsequently visited Italy, studied at Rome under 
 Carlo Maratti, and came to England in 1674, when Lely was at the 
 height of his fame. By the Duke of Monmouth's desire, the King 
 sat to Kneller for his portrait, at the same time that Lely was 
 painting him for the Duke of York. Kneller's success established 
 his fortune : he became portrait-painter to the king, and held 
 the same office under his successors James II., (whom he was in 
 
BURIALS, 16971723. 65 
 
 the act of painting, it is said, when the arrival of the Prince of 
 Orange was announced), William and Mary, Anne and George I. 
 Sir Godfrey was knighted by King William, and created a 
 Baronet by George I., in 1715. The Beauties and the Admirals 
 at Hampton Court, Marshal Schomberg at the battle of the 
 Boyne, and the Kit-cat Club are amongst his most noted works. 
 His style somewhat resembled Vandyck's, but was more 
 artificial; more than 300 of his works have been engraved. 
 There is a monument to his memory in Westminister Abbey, 
 which has given rise to the erroneous notion that he was buried 
 there. It consists of busts of Sir Godfrey and his wife, in white 
 marble, and bears the following inscription : 
 
 " M. S. 
 
 GODEFREDI KNELLER, EQUITIS ROM. IMP. ET. ANGLIAE 
 BARONETTI ; PICTORIS REGIBUS CAROLO I., JACOBI * II., 
 GULIELMO III., ANNLE REGIME, GEORGIO I. Qui OBIT xxvi. 
 
 OCT% AN. MDCCXXIII., J&TAT LXXVII. 
 
 Kneller, by Heaven and not a Master taught, 
 Whose Art was Nature, and whose Pictures thought ; 
 When now two Ages he had snatch'd from Fate 
 Whate'er was Beauteous, and whate'er was Great 
 Rests crown'd with Princes' honours, Poets' lays, 
 Due to his Merit, and brave thirst of Praise, 
 Living, Great Nature fear'd he might outvie 
 Her works; and dying, fears herself may dye. 
 
 A. POPE." 
 
 " Sir Godfrey sent to me," says Pope, "just before he died. He 
 began by telling me he was now convinced he could not live, 
 and fell into a passion of tears. I said, I hoped he might, but 
 if not, he knew it was the will of God. He answered, ' No, 
 no; it is the Evil Spirit' The next word he said was this, 
 ' By God, I will not be buried in Westminster? I asked him 
 why ? He answered ' They do bury fools there. 1 Then he said 
 to me, ' My good friend, where will you be buried ? ' I said, 
 ' Wherever I drop, very likely in Twickenham.' He replied, 
 ' So will I/ He proceeded to desire that I would write his epitaph, 
 which I promised him." He is said to have been buried in the 
 garden of his manor at Whitton now Kneller Hall ; but of the 
 place of his interment, there is no trace. He chose for his monu- 
 
 * This false case is in the original. 
 
66 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 ment in the Church at Twickenham a position already occupied 
 (on the north-east wall of the church) by Pope's tablet to his father 
 and mother, and which afterwards was inscribed, " et sibi." An 
 angry correspondence ensued after Kneller's death, between his 
 widow and Pope, and the monument, by Rysbrach, was ultimately 
 placed in Westminster Abbey, and is the only memorial of a 
 painter which that building contains. Pope fulfilled his promise 
 at his friend's death-bed, but thought the epitaph " the worst 
 thing he ever wrote in his life," and Dr. Johnson said of it : " Of 
 this Epitaph, the first couplet is good, the second not bad ; the 
 third is deformed with a broken metaphor ; the word crowned 
 not being applicable to the honours or the lays; and the fourth 
 is not only borrowed from the epitaph on Raphael, but of a very 
 harsh construction." *] 
 
 Caroline, daughter of the Right Hon. Mr. Secretary Johnson, Feb- 
 ruary i yth, 1724-5. 
 
 Sarah, daughter of Captain William Lister, July 26th, 1725. 
 
 *Massie Beach, November 7th, 1725. [The Christian name in the 
 register is most indistinctly written. Her real name was no 
 doubt "Mary," as it is stated on the tablet erected to her memory 
 by Alexander Pope, " whom she nursed in his infancy." Her 
 signature, affixed to the will of the poet's father, which she 
 attested, appears to be " Mercy Beach," but the writing there is 
 very indistinct also.] 
 
 *Anne, wife of Batty Langley, June 25th, 1726. 
 
 Thomas Vernon, Esq., August 3ist, 1726. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lady Anne Hollis, February iQth, 1727. 
 
 William, son of the Right Hon. Colonel Townsend, October i3th, 1727. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Shelby, January 1 7th, 1727. "The Vickerof Shepperton." 
 
 Mr. Henry Cole, June 5th, 1727. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Cole, June 6th, 1727. 
 
 Frances, daughter of the Right Hon. Mr. Secretary Johnson, February 
 23rd, 1729. 
 
 Hafnond L'Estrange, gent, March 2oth, 1729. 
 
 Dame Susannah, relict of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Knt. and Bart., 
 December nth, 1729. 
 
 The Hon. Major-Gen. Andrew Wheeler, January 7th, 1730. 
 
 * Memorials of Westminster Abbey, by Dean Stanley, pp. 309-10, who refers 
 to Pope's Works, iii. 374, and Johnson's Lives of the Poets, iii. 211. The epitaph 
 on Raphael was written by Bembo, and is in the Pantheon at Rome. 
 
BURIALS, 1724-51742. 67 
 
 Grace, wife of the Rev. Matthias Sympson, February I3th, 1730. 
 
 The Hon. Colonel Gilbert Talbot, September 28th, 1731. 
 
 *Mrs. Editha Pope, widow, June i rth, 1733. [The mother of the poet. 
 This name, strangely enough, appears in no previous list of extracts.] 
 
 Dame Isabella Wentworth, relict of Sir William Wentworth, August 
 zoth, 1733. 
 
 Mr. Frederick Townsend, infant son of the Hon. Colonel Townsend, 
 March 8th, 1734. 
 
 Elizabeth Bouchier, relict of Thomas Bouchier, Esq., November i4th, 
 1734. [She left a benefaction to the poor of the parish.] 
 
 Mrs. Jane Vernon, Spinster, June 6th, 1734. 
 
 The Right Hon. Charlotte Countess of Drogheda, April 8th, 1735. 
 [Dughter of Hugh, first Earl of Falmouth, wife of Henry the 
 fourth Earl] 
 
 Captain John Gray, April ist, 1736. 
 
 James Johnstone, Esq., May nth, 1737. [Son of Sir Archibald John- 
 stone, Lord Warriston (Lord of Sessions in Scotland), who was 
 beheaded in 1663, an d cousin of Bishop Burnet. In 1689, 
 James was sent with the order of the Garter to the Elector of 
 Brandenburg, in company with Gregory King, Lancaster herald. 
 He was afterwards, in 1690, Secretary of State for Scotland, and 
 in 1704 was made Lord Register. At the time of his death he 
 was more than 90 years of age. He resided many years in 
 Twickenham, in Orleans House.] 
 
 ^Nathaniel Piggot,from Whitton, July 9th, 1737. [Mr. Piggot published 
 a book on fines and recoveries, and another on conveyancing.] 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Edward Johnson, October 3rd, 1737. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Crookshanks, June i3th, 1738. "Buried in linnen." 
 
 Daniel Hewet, gent., December 2ist, 1738. 
 
 John Crookshanks, Esq., December 24th, 1738. 
 
 The Hon. Mrs. Anne Cox, February 9th, 1738-9. 
 
 Mr. Stephen Cole, April i7th, 1739. 
 
 Mr. Leonard Cole, August 23rd, 1740. 
 
 Miss Martha Wyndham, October 3ist, 1740. 
 
 *Mr. Thomas Twyning, October 23rd, 1741. 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Amherst, May 2nd, 1742. [A native of Kent, member 
 of St. John's College, Oxford, author of Terra Filius, and editor 
 of the Craftsman, in which he wrote mostly the political papers 
 himself, assisted by Pulteney and Lord Bolingbroke. About ten 
 or twelve thousand copies of this paper were circulated weekly. 
 He also wrote The British General, The Convocation, and other 
 
68 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 political poems. Politics were not a successful trade with him, 
 and they probably caused his expulsion from Oxford ; in conse- 
 quence of an article he was nearly arrested in 1737 by the then 
 ministry; and when his own party acceded to power in 1742, 
 his great services were completely overlooked, treatment which 
 broke his heart and accelerated his death. He died poor, and 
 was buried at the expense of Franklin the printer.] 
 
 Mrs. Twining, jun., July 3oth, 1743. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, February 24th, 1743-4. 
 
 Alexander Pope, Esq., June 5th, 1744. [An account of the poet will 
 be found in connexion with his residence.] 
 
 John, son of John Wyndham, Esq., November loth, 1745. 
 
 Frances, wife of Mr. Stephen Cole, May 24th, 1746. 
 
 *Mrs. L'Estrange, November 5th, 1746. 
 
 *Mrs. Twyning, wife of Mr. Twyning, sen., December 24th, 1746. 
 
 *Mrs. Grey, January 8th, 1746-7. 
 
 *Mrs. Wyatt, September nth, 1747. 
 
 *Mrs. Berkeley, February 4th, 1748-9. 
 
 The widow of Colonel Gardner, of Whitton, September i6th, 1749. 
 
 Sir Chaloner Ogle, Bart, Admiral of the Fleet, April 2oth, 1750. [He 
 was a native of Kirkby, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His fortune 
 and professional advancement were founded on a celebrated 
 action in which he killed Roberts the famous pirate, and took 
 his three ships off the coast of Africa. For this service he was 
 knighted and rose afterwards to the highest rank in the navy, 
 succeeding Sir John Norris as Admiral and Commander-in-chief 
 of the Fleet.] 
 
 Valens Comyns, Esq., May 5th, 1751. 
 
 The wife of Lionel Berkeley, Esq., May 6th, 1751. 
 
 Lady Humble, relict of Sir William Humble, June 2oth, 1752. 
 
 Joseph Nicholls, Esq., February i6th, 1753. 
 
 Cornwall Berkeley, infant son of Lionel Berkeley, Esq., August 3oth, 
 
 1753- 
 
 *Mrs. Margaret Barrow, October 5th, 1753. 
 Charles Pigot, Esq., January 141)1, 1754. 
 Mr. Nathaniel Piggot, March 25th, 1754. 
 The Rev. Mr. Robert Carr, for twenty years curate of this parish, 
 
 May 1 6th, 1755. 
 
 *Mrs. Cole, widow, July 6th, 1755. 
 The Rev. Mr. Gustavus Hamilton, August 3ist, 1755. 
 George Moreton Pitt, Esq., February i2th, 1755. 
 
BURIALS, 17431762. 69 
 
 *Mrs. Jane Boehm, January 2oth, 1756. 
 
 Mr. Seymour, February 3rd, 1757. [This was Mr. Edward Seymour, 
 a painter.] 
 
 Mrs. Gray, July 2ist, 1757. 
 
 The Right Hon. John Earl of Radnor, July 23rd, 1757. 
 
 Lady Byron, September 2ist, 1757. [This was Frances Lady Byron, 
 second daughter of William Lord Berkeley of Stratton. She 
 married, first, William, fourth Lord Byron, whose third wife she 
 was, and afterwards Sir T. Hay, Bart] 
 
 Pauncefote Green, Esq., December 22nd, 1757. 
 
 [During the four years, from 1758 to 1761 inclusive, there are 
 about fifty entries of burials of foundlings, from which it has been 
 supposed that either a foundling hospital must have existed in 
 Twickenham at that time, or that the exposure of infants upon 
 the unenclosed lands hereabouts must have been frightfully com- 
 mon. I incline to the former and more comfortable explanation, 
 which is, moreover, supported by the circumstance of several 
 interments occurring in previous years, being described as "from 
 ye Foundling Hospital."] 
 
 The Right Hon. Countess Dowager of Ferrers, March 25th, 1762. 
 [Mother of Lady Fanny Shirley, on whom the well-known ballad 
 of Fanny, blooming fair, was written. This ballad has usually 
 been ascribed to Lord Chesterfield ; but more probably it was 
 the production of Mr. Thomas Philips, a dramatic writer. It was 
 attributed to him as early as 1733, in the Daily Post. On the 
 26th of May, 1736, a play was acted at the Haymarket for the 
 benefit of the author of Fanny, blooming fair, and in the account 
 of Philips' death in the Daily Post of March i2th, 1738-9, he is 
 positively called the author of this song ; nor was his claim ever 
 contradicted ; yet Lord Chesterfield permitted it to be included 
 in Dodsley's collection with certain pieces written by him. The 
 Countess resided many years in a house which belonged to her 
 husband, the first Earl Ferrers. It stood in Heath Lane, and is 
 now called Heath Lane Lodge. Macky, in his Journey through 
 England (vol. i. p. 73), says, " The seat of Boucher, the famous 
 gamester (now Lord Ferrers,) would pass in Italy for a delicate 
 palace." Boucher died in 1720. Swift, in his Directions to 
 Servants, says that he was one of the fraternity, a footman 
 and that, " when he was worth fifty thousand pounds, he dunned 
 the Duke of Buckingham for an arrear of wages in his service."] 
 
 William Chambers, Esq., April i4th, 1762. 
 
70 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Johnson, May 4th, 1762. 
 
 Mr. Daniel Twining, March i8th, 1762. 
 
 Sarah Lister, June 23rd, 1765. 
 
 Daniel Twining, September nth, 1765. 
 
 Cornelia Durand, wife of Lieutenant-General James Durand, January 
 
 1 2th, 1766. 
 
 Lieutenant-General James Durand, March 6th, 1766. 
 Francis Perigal, gent, June iQth, 1767. 
 Peter Archambo, gent, July 28th, 1767. 
 Peter, son of Peter Archambo, gent, January 7th, 1768. 
 Lady Sophia Pitt Pocock, wife to the Hon. Sir George Pocock, Knt, b. 
 
 Admiral of the Blue, January 7th, 1768. 
 Maria Perrin, March i2th, 1768. 
 Catherine Lister, March i8th, 1768. 
 Mary Berkeley, October 6th, 1768. 
 Charles Boehm, Esq., February 2nd, 1769. 
 Stafford Briscoe Morrison, June 2nd, 1769. 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lister, September 3oth, 1769. 
 ^Susannah Green, April ist, 1771. 
 Lady Maria Tryon, May 23rd, 1771. 
 *Mary Gardiner, November 28th, 1771. 
 John Carr, Lieutenant in the Navy, November 2oth, 1772. 
 William Lister, March loth, 1774. 
 *Dame Lady Buckworth, February 2nd, 1775. 
 John Sydenham, Esq. [grandson of the famous John Sydenham, M.D.], 
 
 March i2th 1775. 
 
 Richard Owen Cambridge, October 6th, 1775. 
 The Hon. William Biron, June 29th, 1776. 
 
 * Elizabeth White, September 2oth, 1776. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Edward Johnson, March 2ist, 1777. 
 John Archambo, gent, May 23rd, 1777. 
 
 * Elizabeth Gardiner, February 28th, 1778. 
 
 Mrs. Lydia Spackman, wife of Mr. John Spackman, April 24th, 
 1778. 
 
 John Haynes, son of Mr. John Haynes, June i8th, 1778. 
 
 Spackman Hill, son of Mr. John Hill, gent, July 9th, 1778. 
 
 *Thomas Hudson, February ist, 1779. 
 
 Susannah Prime, daughter of Samuel Prime, September 3rd, 1779. 
 
 ^Charlotte Weeks, February 24th, 1780. [This lady and Mrs. 
 Elizabeth White, mentioned above, were aunts of Dr. White of 
 Philadelphia, a bishop of the American Church. With them he 
 
BURIALS, 17621785. 71 
 
 made his home on the occasion of his first visit to England, to 
 
 be admitted deacon. They were both dead before his return 
 
 for consecration, which occurred in 1787.] 
 Sir Patrick Hamilton, bart, and alderman of the city of Dublin, 
 
 August 27th, 1780. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Bentham, September nth, 1781. 
 George Gosling, Esq., December 2oth, 1782. 
 Mrs. Margaret Archambo, May i3th, 1784. 
 *Catherine Cambridge, June loth, 1784. 
 The Hon. Caroline Byron, November 2oth, 1784. 
 Elizabeth Lister, December 6th, 1784. 
 Francis Berkeley, August 8th, 1785. 
 Charlotte Blake, daughter of John Blake, Esq., September 22nd, 
 
 1785- 
 
 Lieutenant-Gen eral Henry Lister, of 2nd regiment of Foot Guards, 
 November 27th, 1785. 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Hemming, December nth, 1785. 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Clive, December i4th, 1785. [This celebrated actress 
 was daughter of Mr. William Rafter, an Irish gentleman whose 
 fortunes suffered from his attachment to James II. She was 
 born in 1711. Her first appearance on the stage was in 1782, 
 when she was introduced in the character of a page to sing a 
 song. The same season she gained great applause by acting the 
 character of Phillida. Her performance of Nell in The Devil to 
 Pay, in 1731, fully established her character for comic excellence. 
 For upwards of thirty years, with the interruption of a few seasons, 
 she was engaged at Drury Lane, and continued in full possession 
 of the public favour, playing a great variety of characters in 
 comedy and ballad farces. She shone particularly in representing 
 chambermaids, romps, superannuated beauties, viragos, and all 
 whimsical and affected characters. In 1769, having acquired a 
 handsome competence she resolved, though still retaining her 
 comic powers, to retire from the stage, and after her benefit that 
 year, spoke a farewell address, written for the occasion by 
 Horace Walpole, in whose neighbourhood at Strawberry Hill 
 she resided. The remainder of her life was spent in an honour- 
 able independence ; but she nobly retrenched from the luxuries 
 that it might have afforded her to administer to the comforts of 
 a brother and sister, whose means of subsistence were but 
 slender. She married, in 1732, George Clive, Esq., and though 
 this match did not turn out happily her character always stood 
 
72 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 unimpeachable. She wrote several small dramatic pieces which 
 
 were performed at her own benefits.] 
 Mrs. Emilia Haynes, wife of Mr. Samuel Haynes, gent, January 3rd, 
 
 1786. 
 
 Mr. John Spackman, January 4th, 1786. 
 Henrietta de Villiars, March 24th, 1786. 
 The Hon. Admiral John Biron, April loth, 1786. [He was son, by 
 
 the third wife, of William, fourth Lord Byron, and grandfather of 
 
 the celebrated poet, who thus refers to him, in a poetical epistle 
 
 to his sister : 
 
 " Reversed for me our grandsire's fate of yqre, 
 Ffe had no rest at sea, nor I on shore." 
 
 He was born in 1723, and married in 1748 Sophia, daughter of 
 John Trevanion of Carhays in Cornwall, by whom he had two 
 sons and seven daughters. He first went to sea when about 
 eight years old, and sailed as a midshipman on board the Wager 
 in Lord Anson's famous expedition round the world in 1740. 
 Of his remarkable escape and subsequent adventures he himself 
 published an account. In 1746 he was appointed Captain of 
 the Siren, and in 1757 he was in command of The America, a ship 
 of sixty guns, in Sir Edward Hawke's expedition against Roche- 
 fort. In 1760 he did good service with a small squadron in 
 Chaleur Bay, by destroying three French frigates and a number 
 of ships having troops and stores on board. In 1764, with the 
 rank of Commodore, he was despatched in The Dolphin, 
 accompanied by the storeship Tamar, on a voyage of discovery to 
 the South Seas. He discovered several islands in the Pacific, and 
 also the Patagonians, an account of his adventures is published 
 in Hawksworth's collection. In 1769 he was appointed governor 
 of Newfoundland, and was made Rear- Admiral in 1775. Biron 
 put to sea in July, 1778, (in which year he was made Vice- 
 Admiral) with a squadron to reinforce Lord Howe in the North 
 American station ; and on July 6th in the following year, when 
 commanding twenty-one sail, he bravely encountered the French 
 fleet, consisting of twenty-seven ships of the line under M. 
 D'Estaing, off the Island of Grenada, when an indecisive action 
 took place. He was a courageous officer, but unfortunate; 
 amongst the sailors he was known by the name of " Foul 
 Weather Jack," owing to his singular ill-luck in encountering 
 heavy gales during his voyages.] 
 
BURIALS, 17861794. 73 
 
 "John Ford, parish clerk, aged 87, January 29th, 1788. 
 Lieutenant-General William Tryon, February 4th, 1788. Late 
 
 Governor of New York. 
 Robert Gray, Esq., December 28th, 1788. 
 Robert Baker, Esq., February igth, 1789. 
 
 * Richard Williams, M.D., from London, February 27th, 1789. 
 The Hon. Henry George Byron, May loth, 1789. 
 
 * Maria, wife of the Rev. Samuel Hemming, July nth, 1789. 
 *John Court, Esq., August 27th, 1789. 
 
 Stafford Briscoe, Esq., November 24th, 1789. 
 
 '"Charles Hunter, son of the Rev. Charles and Mary Cole, December 
 
 8th, 1789. 
 Thomas Hill, gent., Lieutenant in the Navy, December 26th, 
 
 1789. 
 
 Stephen Cole, Esq., March loth, 1790, aged 58 years. 
 Henrietta Taylor, April 4, 1790, aged 90. 
 
 This is the last interment extracted by Ironside. 
 
 John Slingsby, Esq., October igth, 1790. 
 
 The Rev. Robert Burt, LL.B., vicar of the parish, and chaplain to 
 H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, October 25th, 1791, aged 34. 
 
 John Nutt, November 24th, 1791, aged 100 years. 
 
 The Hon. Sir George Pocock, K.B., April i2th, 1792, aged 86. 
 [This brave veteran well deserved the honours he attained. He 
 commanded the British fleet in the Eak Indies from 1757 to 
 1760, during which time he defeated the enemy in three engage- 
 ments, each time with an inferior force. For these services he 
 was made a Knight of the Bath, in 1761. The next year he 
 commanded a fleet in the West Indies ; and was Commander-in- 
 Chief at the taking of Havannah. About the year 1765 he came 
 into possession of the house at Twickenham which had been 
 Mr. Johnstone's (Orleans House), and made it his principal 
 residence during the latter part of his life.] 
 
 Master Henry Alexander St. Clair Erskine, from Richmond, October 
 nth, 1792. 
 
 Miss Katherine Cole, October 27th, 1792. 
 
 Master George Augustus Hamilton Mills, November loth, 1792. 
 
 Susannah, wife of Samuel Prime, Esq., January 3rd, 1793. 
 
 *Mrs. Jane Blicke, from Lambeth, Surry, March 6th, 1793. 
 
 Master Alexander Hatfield, February ist, 1794. 
 
74 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Joseph Hickey, Esq., from London, August i8th, 1794. 
 
 John Crookshanks, Esq., of Eaton Street, Pimlico, March 2nd, 1795, 
 aged 85. [This gentleman, who seems to have met with harsh 
 treatment, to which his own irritability of temper probably con- 
 tributed, was suspended by the sentence of a court-martial from 
 his rank of captain in the navy, he having then command of the 
 Lark, of forty guns, for his failure, in concert with the Warwick, 
 of sixty guns, in an attempt to capture the Glorioso, a Spanish 
 man-of-war, of seventy-four guns, on the i4th of July, 1747. 
 The court who sentenced him bore the most honourable testi- 
 mony to his zeal and gallantry, and it appears, to an impartial 
 reader, that Captain Erskine, of the Warwick, who was under 
 his command, and by whom he was brought to a court-martial, 
 was at least as much deserving of blame as himself. Captain 
 Crookshanks, about nine years afterwards, published an account 
 of his conduct and treatment, which produced answers from 
 Admiral Knowles (Commander-in-Chief at Louisburgh, where 
 Captain Crookshanks was tried) and Captain Erskine. These 
 were replied to by Crookshanks, who soon afterwards was 
 restored to his rank, but never again employed. A short time 
 before his death he was involved in a quarrel with the cele- 
 brated Philip Thicknesse, to whom, at the age of 82, he sent a 
 challenge.] 
 
 Lady Mary, wife of Sir Richard Perryn, Knt, April 27th, 1795, 
 aged 74. 
 
 Catherine, widow of Stephen Cole, Esq. (she died of apoplexy on the 
 loth), November i9th, 1795. 
 
 Thomas Wildman, Esq., M.P. for Hendon, Wilts, December 28th, 
 
 I79S-* 
 William Heckford, Esq., Justice of the Peace, November 25th, 
 
 1797. 
 Mrs. Anne, widow of George Gostling, Esq., of Whitton, January i8th, 
 
 1799. 
 
 * On January 27th, 1796. "Four unfortunate poor men suffered instant death 
 on Sunday y e 24th by the explosion of y e coming-house of a powder mill in this 
 parish," (then of recent establishment), on July 29th three and on November I7th 
 jive, suffered death in like manner. Seven also were killed in 1 799 in July ; two on 
 June 27th, 1801 ; two in 1807 ; forir in 1810 ; three in. i%n one in. 1812 ; three 
 in 1813 ; one in 1817 ; two in 1819. These are all the interments recorded as 
 having been made in this parish of the victims of such accidents, which unhappily 
 of late years have been of periodical occurrence. 
 
BURIALS, 17941810. 75 
 
 Charles Morton, Esq., M.D. and F.R.S., Principal Librarian of the 
 British Museum, died the loth of February, and was buried on the 
 1 8th, 1799, aged 83. [Dr. Morton, in the earlier part of his life, 
 had settled as a physician at Kendal. On the establishment of 
 the British Museum, in 1756, he was appointed Under Librarian 
 of the MSS. and medal department ; in 1760 he was elected one 
 of the secretaries to the Royal Society, which situation he held 
 till 1774 ; in 1776 he was appointed Principal Librarian at the 
 British Museum. Dr. Morton published an improved edition 
 of Dr. Barnard's engraved table of Alphabets ; and Bulstrode 
 Whittock's Journal of the Swedish Embassy in 1653 and 1654, 
 in 2 vols., 4to. He communicated to the Royal Society a paper 
 on muscular motion, and another on the supposed connection 
 between the hieroglyphic writing of Egypt, and the modern 
 Chinese character. Dr. Morton was buried in the cemetery 
 in the Back Lane near the London Road, where a tombstone 
 is erected to his memory, inscribed only with names and 
 dates.] 
 
 Lady Margery Murray, April 26th, 1799, sister to David Earl of 
 Mansfield. [She resided at the house which had belonged to 
 John Earl of Radnor.] 
 
 *Lady Lucy Agar, Dowager Countess of Clifden, July 2 9th, 1802. 
 [Relict of James, first Baron and Viscount Clifden.] 
 
 * Agnes Breton, August 3oth, 1802. 
 
 Richard Owen Cambridge, September 23rd, 1802. 
 Sir Richard Perryn, January xoth, 1803. 
 Mary Twining, from London, April 28th, 1803. 
 Edward Ironside, June 28th, 1803. [Author of a History of Twicken- 
 ham, in quarto, with plates; published in 1797.] 
 
 This is Lysons' last extract. 
 
 * James George Espinasse, June 2ist, 1804. 
 *Mary Cambridge, aged 90, September nth, 1806. 
 
 *The Right Hon. Mary Dowager Viscountess Dudley and Ward, 
 January 24th, 1810. [She was a widow when she married John 
 the second viscount, and she re-married twice after his 
 decease.] 
 
 *James Alexander Hodson, a child, March i5th, 1810. 
 
 ^Thomas Kirgate, June i6th, 1810. [He was Walpole's last printer 
 at Strawberry Hill, and his patron unfortunately made no pro- 
 vision for him. His Printer's Farewell conveys a melan- 
 
76 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 choly reproof that his thirty years' service was in no way 
 requited.*] 
 Martha, Countess of Elgin, July 4th, 1810. 
 
 * Elizabeth Twining, December 29th, 1810. 
 ^Stephen Cole, December 3ist, 1810. 
 Samuel Prime, aged 63, March 291)1, 1813. 
 
 *Ann Amelia Matilda de Stark, aged 76, April 24th, 1813. 
 
 * Caroline Anne Elliss, aged 20, May lyth, 1814. 
 
 The Right Hon. William Viscount Howe, aged 85, July 22nd, 1814. 
 [The fifth Viscount, K.B. Governor of Plymouth, and Colonel of 
 the i Qth regiment of Dragoons : he died without issue.] 
 
 * Lambert Blair, aged 48, February 2nd, 1815. 
 *Thomas Ingram, Esq., aged 68, January 2nd, 1816. 
 
 Elizabeth Laura, Countess of Waldegrave, aged 55 years, was buried 
 in the parish church of Packington Magna, in the County of 
 Warwick, February 9th, 1816; certified on February 2ist, 1816. 
 [She was widow of the fourth Earl, who died in 1759, and 
 daughter of James the second Earl.] 
 
 * Thomas Terry, M.D., aged 43, April 24th, 1816. 
 *Mary Haynes, aged 93, October i7th, 1816. 
 
 George Wildman, Esq., of Turnham Green, Chiswick, aged 24, 
 
 April loth, 1817. 
 Frances, Viscountess Howe, aged 75, September 8th, 1817. [Widow 
 
 of William, the fifth Viscount, and daughter of the Right Hon. 
 
 William Conolly of Castletown, county Kildare.] 
 
 * Henry Church, Esq., aged 68, September ist, 1819. 
 Mrs. Mary Vialls, aged 93, May 6th, 1820. 
 
 * See Miss Berry's Journal and Correspondence, ii. 65, where the date of his 
 death is wrongly given as 1820, and the following stanzas are inserted, 
 Adieu ! ye groves and Gothic tow'rs Farewell ! my printing house, farewell ! 
 
 Where I have spent my youthful hours, Where I no more shall calmly dwell, 
 
 Alas ! I find in vain : Within my peaceful door : 
 
 Since he who could my age protect No more in conversation free, 
 
 By some mysterious sad neglect, Enjoy my friend, and sip my tea ; 
 
 Has left me to complain ! Oh ! no ; these days are o'er. 
 
 For thirty years of labour past, On thee, my fellow lab'rer dear 
 
 To meet such slight reward at last, My Press, I drop the silent tear 
 
 Has added to my cares : Of pity for thy lot ; 
 
 To quit the quiet scenes of life, For thou, like me, by time art worn, 
 And encounter business, bustle, strife, Like me, too, thou art left forlorn, 
 
 Hangs heavy on my years. Neglected and forgot ! 
 
 October, 1797. T. K. 
 
BURIALS, 1810 1830. 77 
 
 The Hon. Emily Anne Agar of Roehampton, aged 55, Septem- 
 ber 28th, 1821. 
 
 Mary Brittell, aged 104, November i6th, 1821. [Dame Brittell's 
 exact age was 103 years, 10 months and 24 days ; she was born 
 at Aberystwyth, December 24, 1717, and she died at Twicken- 
 ham on November 9th, 1821, in full possession of all her 
 faculties. She had lived in this parish for upwards of 80 years.] 
 
 Mrs. Ann Tryon, aged 83, July i8th, 1822. 
 
 Charlotte Cambridge, aged 77, April 3rd, 1823. 
 
 Joseph Charles Mellish, Esq., aged 54, September 25th, 1823. 
 
 Lady Catherine Marley, December 3rd, 1823. 
 
 James Knight, aged 76. Parish clerk for 19 years, March i4th, 
 1824. 
 
 Richard Twining, aged 74, April 3oth, 1824. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lady Margaret Wildman of Devonshire Cottage, 
 Richmond, aged 25, November 2nd, 1825. G. S. Penfold, M.A., 
 Rector of Christ Church, St. Marylebone, officiating minister. 
 
 William Fairfax Cole, aged 16, May 8th, 1826. 
 
 Richard Burnett, Esq., aged 63, June 2oth, 1826. 
 
 ^Joseph Hickey, Esq., aged 82, April nth, 1827. 
 
 Maria Marow Eardley Wilmot, aged 49, July 5th, 1827. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Mary Ingram, relict of Thomas Ingram, Esq., aged 71, 
 December 7th, 1827. 
 
 John Twining, Esq., of Hampton, aged 68, December i2th, 1827. 
 
 The Rev. John Addison Carr, late curate, aged 33, January nth, 1828. 
 [Mr. Carr rode from Twickenham to Windsor one severe winter's 
 day to officiate in St. George's Chapel, of which he was a minor 
 canon : as he was violently heated with exercise, the extreme 
 cold of the building gave him a chill, from the effects of which 
 he died in the course of a very few days.] 
 
 ''Roger Wilbraham, Esq., aged 85, January i5th, 1829. 
 
 ^George Marlay, Esq., aged 86, April 22nd, 1829. 
 
 *The Rev. Henry Fletcher, aged 84, February 24th, 1830. [Curate 
 of the parish for sixteen years, an office which he resigned 
 twelve years before his death.] 
 
 ^Lieutenant Colonel George Marlay, K.C.B., aged 39, June i5th, 
 1830. 
 
 Sarah, Widow of Thomas Wildman, Esq., M.P., of Newstead Abbey, 
 aged 79, December 6th, 1830. [Lord Byron and a school-fellow 
 carved their names on the wooden panel of the school-room at 
 Harrow, " Byron," " Wildman ; " years afterwards the latter 
 
78 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 succeeded the former at Newstead Abbey, by purchase of the 
 
 Byron property.] 
 
 Alexander Hatfield, Esq., aged 76, February 4th, 1832. 
 *Charles Morton, Esq., aged 30, October i2th, 1832. 
 George James Welbore Agar Ellis, Lord Dover, of Dover, aged 36, 
 
 July 1 7th, 1833. 
 
 Mary Hatfield, aged 77, December i3th, 1834. 
 Stephen Thomas Cole, Esq., aged 71, September i7th, 1835. 
 *Charles Brewster Twining of East Sheen, aged 21, November i4th, 
 
 1835- 
 *Lsetitia Matilda Hawkins, aged 77, November 27, 1835. [The 
 
 authoress, daughter of Sir John Hawkins.] 
 ^Frederick Garsham Carmichael, aged 59, January i4th, 1836. 
 Henry Welbore Agar Ellis, Viscount Clifden, Baron Mendip, aged 75, 
 
 July 3ist, 1836. 
 
 *Mrs. Mary Espinasse, aged 71, June iQth, 1837. 
 Charles Tufton Blicke, Esq., aged 50, August 5th, 1837. 
 *Mary Ann Twining, of Hampton, aged 75, February 3rd, 1838. 
 ^Dorothea Lister, aged 73, March 2ist, 1839. 
 William Jones Burdett, Esq., aged 66, October loth, 1840. 
 Eliza Lister, aged 100 years and n months, April 6th, 1841. 
 John Ramsden, Esq., aged 73, April i3th, 1841. 
 *Henry Hawkins, aged 79, April 24th, 1841. [Son of Sir John 
 
 Hawkins, and brother of the authoress.] 
 The Ven. George Owen Cambridge, Archdeacon of Middlesex and 
 
 prebendary of Ely, aged 85, May 7th, 1841. John H. Ward, 
 
 officiating minister. 
 
 * Juliana Dorothea de Starck, aged 78, May i3th, 1841. 
 Caroline Byng, aged 69, June 22nd, 1841. 
 ^Elizabeth Atterbury, aged 93, November 5th, 1842. 
 
 * Frances Proby, aged 53, March i5th, 1843. 
 
 Sir George Pocock, who died at Brussels in July, 1840, was re-interred 
 
 here in the family vault, May 8th, 1845. 
 Henry William Espinasse, aged 85, November ist, 1845. 
 Sarah Burt, aged 82, November 8th, 1845. [Relict of the Rev. Robert 
 
 Burt, formerly vicar.] 
 
 Charlotte Mary Pocock, aged 80, February nth, 1846. 
 *Samuel Haynes, aged 88, June i7th, 1846. 
 The Hon. Caroline Anne Harriet Agar Ellis, aged 18, June 2Oth, 
 
 1846. 
 Elizabeth Jane Donnithorne, aged 37, March 26th, 1847. 
 
BURIALS, 18321868. 79 
 
 * Angelina Anne Dorinda Standish Barry, aged 12, December 3rd, 
 1850. 
 
 The Rev. Charles Proby, vicar of the parish, aged 88, February 9th, 
 1859. 
 
 *Mary Lady Blakeney, aged 76, January 26th, 1866, [wife of F.M. 
 Sir Edward Blakeney.] 
 
 "^Montague Martin Mahony, M.D., aged 77, February ist, 1868. 
 Inspector-General of Hospitals. [Dr. Mahony served in the 
 Peninsular War from April, 1809 until its end, including the 
 passage of the Douro and the battle of Talavera, where he 
 was taken prisoner and marched to Verdun, the battles of 
 Busaco and Albuera, the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos, 
 the battles of Salamanca and Vittoria, Pampeluna, Orthes, 
 Nivelle and Toulouse, the capture of Madrid, and many minor 
 engagements. He was present at the attack on New Orleans, 
 January 8th, 1815, and subsequently at the capture of Paris. 
 He possessed the war medal with thirteen clasps. He attained 
 the rank of inspector-general, and was placed on half-pay, 
 January i9th, 1849.* His first introduction to Sir Edward 
 Blakeney, his old and constant friend, occurred only a few days 
 before the battle of Busaco in Portugal, which was fought on 
 September i7th, 1810. Sir Edward, then in command of the 
 2nd Battalion, " Royal Fusiliers," was one day riding out when 
 he met a young and fair complexioned good-looking Irishman 
 trudging up a hill, leading a mule which carried his baggage, 
 who accosted him by asking to be directed to the head-quarters 
 of the regiment, to which he had been appointed assistant- 
 surgeon, and who then, to his surprise and relief, found himself 
 in the presence of his commanding officer, under whom he 
 served in the Fusiliers until May, 1825, when Sir Edward 
 became major-general. Their intimacy and friendship con- 
 tinued uninterrupted for fifty-seven years. After Dr. Mahony 
 quitted active service on attaining the rank of surgeon-major, 
 he filled high staff situations in the Mediterranean, at Malta and 
 at Corfu. " The closing trait I have to record in his career," 
 writes one of his executors,! " is one of a noble character and 
 highly honourable to him in every point of view. To mark the 
 
 * Hart's Army List. 
 
 f The late T. G. Gardiner, Esq., to whom I am indebted for all the above 
 particulars. 
 
So MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 high esteem, and I may add admiration he had for his friend 
 and old commander, Sir Edward Blakeney, he made the following 
 disposition in his will : after some legacies and a life interest in 
 his property to his niece, he willed his residuary estate, amount- 
 ing to about 11,000 or i2,ooo/. to the Royal National Life 
 Boat Institution, to form a fund to be called " Sir Edward 
 Blakeney's Fund," to be applied by the said institution in 
 establishing and maintaining life boats on the coast of Ireland. 
 He directed that the boats should be called after Sir Edward's 
 name, to perpetuate it and his memory in that country where 
 he was so highly esteemed and beloved."] 
 
 *Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.B., aged 90, August 8th, 1868. 
 [Created bart. 1849, privy councillor (Ireland) 1836. He 
 was fourth son of the late Colonel Blakeney of Newcastle- 
 upon-Tyne, M.P. for Athenry in the Irish parliament ; born at 
 Newcastle in 1778. He entered the army in 1794 as a cornet 
 in the 8th Light Dragoons, and served in Ireland until he 
 attained the rank of Captain in 1795, and as such served at 
 the taking of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo in 1796, having 
 previously changed into the 99th Regiment. In 1 797 he returned 
 with the staff of the regiment to England, after having been 
 taken prisoner in the course of service three several times by 
 privateers, with which very severe actions occurred : he was 
 kept in irons for nine days. In 1798 he purchased an exchange 
 from half-pay into the i7th Infantry and returned immediately 
 to the West Indies, joining his regiment there stationed at 
 St. Domingo. Having attended the evacuation of that island 
 he returned to England. He accompanied the same regiment 
 to Holland, and served in the campaign of that year under 
 H.R.H. the Duke of York. In 1800 he was stationed in the 
 Island of Minorca, and in 1801 obtained his majority in the 
 2nd Battalion of the same regiment. After the evacuation of 
 Minorca by the Peace of Amiens, in 1803, he was appointed 
 major to the 47th Regiment which he accompanied to Ireland. 
 In 1804 the recommendation of H.R.H. the Duke of York 
 obtained for him the rank of senior major to the 47th Fusiliers ; 
 in 1807 he embarked with that regiment at Hull ; sailing to the 
 Baltic he joined the army commanded by Lord Cathcart and 
 was present at the capture of the City of Copenhagen. He 
 accompanied the Fusiliers in 1808 to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and 
 in the following years served in the expedition against Martinique, 
 
BURIALS, 1868. 8 1 
 
 returning after the conquest of the island to Halifax. He sailed 
 from Halifax to Lisbon in 1811 as major and brevet lieutenant- 
 colonel of the ;th Fusiliers, and served under the Duke of 
 Wellington in the Peninsular wars, being present at all the 
 principal actions, Busaco, Albuera (where he was severely 
 wounded), Vittoria, Pampeluna, Pyrenees, and Nivelle. He 
 took part in the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, being 
 severely wounded again at the latter place. In 1814 he obtained 
 the rank of full colonel : in this year he married Mary, eldest 
 surviving daughter of the late Colonel Thomas Gardiner, of 
 the East India Company's service, and soon afterwards sailed from 
 England to Jamaica. Having taken part in that expedition he led 
 the ist Battalion against New Orleans, under the command of 
 Major General the Hon. Sir Edward M. Pakenham : he was present 
 at the assault of the lines before that place. Returning to England 
 in 1815 with the regiment, he immediately embarked with it, 
 June 1 6th, to Ostend, reaching that town on the i8th. He then 
 joined the Duke of Wellington's army at Paris, where it was 
 stationed after the Battle of Waterloo, and was present at the 
 surrender of Paris. He subsequently commanded the first 
 brigade in the force sent to Portugal under Sir W. Clinton in 
 1826. In 1828 he was appointed to the staff in Ireland. In 
 1832 he succeeded Sir Alured Clarke as colonel of the Royal 
 Fusiliers. During the long and trying period from 1838 to 
 1855 he filled the post of commander-in-chief in Ireland. He 
 attended her Majesty on her entrance into Dublin in August, 
 1849.* In 1855 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Chelsea 
 Hospital, and in 1856 governor. He was nominated in 1812 a 
 knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal : appointed field- 
 marshal in 1862, and colonel-in-chief of the Rifle Brigade in 1865. 
 One of the last of a long list of heroes, his strict impartiality and 
 great kindness of heart endeared him to all with whom he was 
 in any way associated : he was beloved by all who knew him, 
 from the youngest officer who sought his advice and the veteran 
 pensioners over whom he ruled, to the many relatives and personal 
 friends who were bound to him by his unchanging cordiality 
 and warmth of affection. His memory is cherished, and his 
 worthy deeds are written in the hearts of all. Many of those 
 who had served with him attended his funeral, the first part of 
 
 * Her Majesty's Journal, small edition, p. 180. 
 
 /- 
 
82 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the service of which was read in the chapel of Chelsea Hospital, 
 and the concluding portion in the graveyard of Twickenham 
 parish. The chaplain of the hospital, the Rev. George Mathias, 
 was the officiating clergyman.* ] 
 
 *Thomas George Gardiner, aged 79, January 8th, 1872, [late of the 
 Bombay Civil Service.] 
 
 *Penelope Hewson, aged 97, February 3rd, 1872. 
 
 * I am indebted for these particulars to Sir Edward's brother-in-law, the late 
 T. G. Gardiner, Esq., who kindly placed at my use several papers, and amongst 
 them a short journal dictated by Sir Edward himself. 
 
THE MONUMENTS, dw. 83 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE MONUMENTS, &c. 
 
 MONUMENTS AND MURAL INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PARISH CHURCH 
 THOSE ON THE EXTERNAL WALLS INTERMENTS IN THE 
 CHURCHYARD AND THE Two GRAVEYARDS. 
 
 THE oldest monument is a stone slab placed upright 
 on the south wall by the vestry door : a brass 
 plate on which contains the following inscription in 
 old English characters. 
 
 P?ic facet Ktcus iSurtou 3rmig r nup eapttali 3 ma| s font i&egts et 
 
 &gnes SUi r ej s 5111 otmt mm trie Jfulit a ton 1 meercxlm (jr at'abs pptctet lie 8 
 
 This Richard Burton was chief cook to the king, and on 
 account of his holding that office the royal arms of 
 England surmount the inscription : " waj s " is a mis- 
 written abbreviation for magister : the whole in full 
 would run as follows : 
 
 Hie jacet Ricardus Burton armiger nuper capitalis magister domini 
 regis et Agnes uxor ejus qui obiit xxini die Julii Anno Domini 
 MCCCCXLIII, quorum animabus propiciet deus. 
 
 On the north wall of the chancel is a handsome 
 marble monument thus inscribed : 
 
 Near this place, in a Vault, lyeth Buryed the Body of Sir William 
 Humble of Strafford Langthorn in y e County of Essex, Barronet. He 
 married Eliza Allanson daughter of John Allanson, gent, by whom 
 he had issue three sons and six daughters. He dyed the 26th day 
 of December in y e year 1686 and in y e 75th year of his Age. 
 
84 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 In the same vault also Lyeth Buryed the body of Sir William 
 Humble of Twickenham in the County of Middx Barr*- (younger son 
 of the abovenamedS 1 " W L , who dyed y e i2th day of August in the 
 year 1705 and in the 5 6th year of his Age. 
 
 Opposite, on the south wall, is another handsome 
 marble monument. 
 
 In a vault underneath this monument lieth the Body of S r Joseph 
 Ashe of Twittenham Bar* IV th son of James Ashe of the County of 
 Somerset Esq r , descended from the antient family of the Ashes of 
 Devonshire. He married Mary, daughter of Mr. Rob* Wilson of 
 Low, Merch*. He had by her 2 sons, Joseph and James, & vii 
 daughters, Catherinne, married to William Windham of Norfolk Esq r , 
 Mary the late wife of Horatio Lord Viscount Townshend, Anne, 
 Martha, Grace, Elizabeth and Diana. 
 
 He died the xv of Aprill, MDCXXXVI. in the LXIX year of his age, 
 his wife and iv children, James, Catherinne, Anne, Martha, surviving 
 him. 
 
 Mary Ashe relict of S r Joseph Ashe Bar 11 * departed this life the 
 28th of November 1705 in the 74th year of her age, and lyeth inter'd 
 in this vault. 
 
 In this vault lyeth the Body of Martha Ashe 4 th daughter of S r 
 Joseph Ashe Bar* who departed this life y e i st of August 1714, in y e 
 5 7th year of her Age. 
 
 Beneath this is a tablet, 
 
 To the memory of 
 
 John Addison Carr, M.A. 
 
 Curate of this parish, who died January the 6th, 1828, aged 33. 
 
 This tablet is erected by the inhabitants at large, in grateful remem- 
 brance of the faithful discharge of his sacred duties, his ever-ready 
 attention to the wants, whether spiritual or temporal, of the poor, his 
 careful superintendance of the moral and religious instruction of the 
 rising generation, his amiable conduct in all the relations of social life 
 whilst they gained him the respect and esteem due to a diligent 
 minister of the Gospel, were his best preparation for his sudden 
 removal to another world, where it is humbly hoped that through the 
 merits of his Redeemer He may receive the joyful sentence of 
 Approbation, 
 
 "Well done thou good and faithful servant." 
 
MR. FOUL TON'S MONUMENT. 85 
 
 On the east wall of the chancel, on the south side of 
 the recess for the altar, are the following ; first a small 
 white marble slab : 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Frances, wife of Rev. Charles Proby, 
 Canon of Windsor and Vicar of this Parish (daughter of the Rev. 
 John Sharrer, Rector of Can wick by Lincoln) who died very suddenly 
 on March 6th, 1843. 
 
 Next to this, are two most interesting effigies in 
 baked clay, half length and " coloured properly." Origi- 
 nally, as the date would lead us to expect, they evidently 
 had a canopy over them similar in style to that of the 
 celebrated monument of Shakspeare in Stratford-upon- 
 Avon Church, but from its interference with the gallery, 
 or from some other cause it has been long broken 
 down. Beneath the figures is this inscription : 
 
 Neere this place lyeth interred the body of Francis Povlton, Esq., 
 sometime Bencher of Lincolns' Inne, also one of the Comissioners for 
 the Compensation of Alienacons. also a Ivstice of the Peace for 
 Midd : and Surrey. Hee also in his life-time was imployed in many 
 and great offices of Trvst, which hee discharged faithfully. Hee 
 married Svsan, the Eldest Daughter of lohn Foster of Lancaster 
 Esq r , by whome hee had Issve six Sonnes and five Daughters. Hee 
 departed this life the nth of May, A Dm : 1642. Shee yett liveth 
 but desireth with him to bee desolved and to bee with Christ. 
 f Religious Honest Grave wise ivst 
 
 Vs'd in affaires of greatest trvst 
 Sicut vita J And liveing faithful to the ende Virtus post 
 
 finis ita 
 
 To GOD, his Kinge, his Lord and Freind 
 
 funera viuit 
 
 He di'd assvr'd to bee possest 
 
 Of everlasting life and rest. 
 Erected and composed by Teares, by the Pensive Sonne and Daughter 
 viz : Henry Povlton and Frances Morton to the Preciovs Memory of 
 their Deare Father Francis Povlton, Esq. 
 
 Next, on the right, is a small slab inscribed, 
 
 Neere this place in a vault lyeth Buried y e Body of William 
 Reeves, Gent, Sonne and Heire of Rob fc Reeves of Faire Lee in y e 
 
86 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Isle of Wight in y e County of Southton gent., who married Timothea 
 Lowe one of the daughters and coheires of Timothy Lowe of Bromley 
 in y e County of Kent Esq. Hee dyed the first day of March, 1669, 
 His age 35. 
 
 On the south wall, on a large black slab, is this 
 curious epitaph : 
 
 Brigidae lectissimae piisimae innocentissimae fceminae tamen Hoc 
 autem uno quo sexus dignior sexum fassae. Quod Mater fuit Coetera 
 viii Quae generi suo Quo Jacob : Harringtoni Eq : Av : lo : Baronis 
 de Exton Frat : filia fuit. Itaq : inclitse Luciae comit de Bedfo 
 sanguine (Quod Satis) sed & amicitia propinquissima quantum accepit 
 addidit Splendoris. Et Ser imse Annse Mag : Brit : Reg : Dan : Reg : 
 F : cui ab interiori camera acceptiss : quaeq : litigantib : in ilia de 
 superioritate singulis vertutib : ad summum Dei tribunal ut lis 
 dirimeritur Provocavit Migravit Maturavit ante in defuncto Marito 
 Anto: Markham Eq: av : semimortuae adhuc in ejus liberis lo : 
 Rob : Henr : Franc : semi-supstitis Depositum hie servare voluere 
 Amici ejus msestiss : secessit 4 Mai A Salutis suae 1609 ^Etat 30. 
 
 To the right of the preceding is a white marble 
 tablet, 
 
 To the memory of Henry Hawkins Esq r who departed this life 
 April 1 8th, 1841, in the 8oth year of his age. And also of his sister 
 Laetitia Matilda Hawkins who died 22nd November 1835. Aged 75 
 years. 
 
 Beneath this, is another : 
 
 To the memory of Henry Church Esq r Surgeon R.N. (late of 
 Twickenham) who departed this life Aug st 23rd, 1819. Aged 68. 
 His remains rest in the Vicar's vault of this Parish. 
 
 Also to the memory of Sarah, wife of the above and daughter of 
 Reginald and Sarah Lonsdale, who died at Bath May i6th, 1841; 
 Aged 75, her remains repose in the New Cemetery of Walcot parish 
 in the said city. 
 
 This tablet is erected to their memory by their only surviving son 
 Henry, Commander in the Royal Navy. 
 
 On the right of these is a shield-shaped tablet : 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Henry Cole Esq r late of this Parish who 
 died at Brighton May 9th, 1815, Aged 45. 
 
TABLETS IN THE SOUTH AISLE. 87 
 
 He will long be remembered by those who knew him for 
 the many amiable qualities which endeared him to them, but if 
 there was one which they recal with a peculiar interest, and 
 which they would inscribe upon his tomb as that by which he 
 was eminently distinguished it was the Christian benevolence 
 with which his heart glowed and which seemed to breathe in all 
 his words and actions. He was not only tenderly affectionate 
 to those to whom he was bound by the closest ties, but the 
 same benevolent disposition discovered itself towards all who 
 conversed with him in engaging gentleness of manners, a watchful 
 attention to the wishes and a ready sympathy with the joys and 
 sorrows of others. 
 
 This Tablet was placed by Elizabeth Cole 
 
 as a tribute to the memory of her beloved husband 
 
 and in testimony of her own irreparable loss 
 
 when it pleased God to remove him 
 
 as she humbly trusts 
 
 to a better world. 
 
 By the side of the preceding is a tablet : 
 
 To the memory of William Jones Burdett, Esquire who departed 
 this life October 2nd, 1840. Aged 66 years. 
 
 This tablet was erected and inscribed by his brother, Sir Francis 
 Burdett, Bart., as a token of the affection that subsisted between 
 them uninterruptedly from his cradle to his grave. Altho' praises on 
 tombs are frequently regarded as trifles or exaggerations, a short 
 sketch of his character and worth will not be so considered in 
 Twickenham, where he lived so many happy years, where he was so 
 well known, where so much sympathy was manifested at his loss and 
 respect to his remains at his funeral. The gentleness of his manners, 
 the cheerfulness of his mind and benevolence of his heart every one 
 seemed to bear witness to. His failings, for vices he had none, were 
 truly said " to lean to virtue's side." He died as he had lived, happy 
 in his mind, grateful for the past, and in humble hope for the future, 
 anxious alone about those he left behind him. In his life he 
 never did an unbecoming act, yet nothing so became him as his 
 death. FRANCIS BURDETT. 
 
 " Nunquam ego te, vita frater amabiiior, 
 Adspiciam post hac, at certe semper amabo." 
 
88 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 On a marble monument, representing an urn, is 
 written : 
 
 In a vault near this place is interred the Body of Pauncefote 
 Green, Esq r , late of this Parish, who died December the loth, 1757. 
 Aged 83. Also of Susanna, his wife, who died the 25th of March, 
 1771. Aged 8 4 years. 
 
 A tablet between the easternmost and middle 
 windows, on the south wall, is thus inscribed : 
 
 In the Vicarage vault belonging to this church lie interred the 
 remains of Ann Littledale, eldest daughter of the late Henry Littledale 
 of Whitehaven, in the County of Cumberland Esq r at which place a 
 monument is erected to her memory. 
 
 She departed this life the xvth of March M.DCC.XCIV Aged xvii 
 years. Her many amiable endowments of mind and person rendered 
 her deeply regretted by all who had the happiness of knowing her. 
 
 Between the middle and westernmost windows 
 another tablet : 
 
 In a vault near this place lyes buryed Hamon L' Estrange Gent., 
 descended from the Antient Family of that name in Norfolk. He 
 dyed the i2th of March, 1728, aged 58 years. Also Sarah his wife 
 who dyed the 29th of October, 1746, in the 8oth year of her age. 
 
 At the west end of the south side is a tablet : 
 
 Sacred to a much-beloved and justly lamented husband. This 
 stone is erected in grateful and affectionate Remembrance of Thomas 
 Terry, Esq r , M.D., who died the i7th of April, 1816. Aged 42. 
 
 Next to that last mentioned, is a tablet inscribed as 
 follows : 
 
 In a vault in the Middle Aisle of this Church are deposited the 
 mortal remains of Richard Burnett Esq r of Rock House, Brighton, 
 who departed this life at his residence at Twickenham, the i3th of 
 June, 1826. ALt 63. 
 
 To the memory of an effectionate husband this tablet is erected. 
 
 By the side of this is another : 
 Sacred to the memory of Angelina Dorinda, the tenderly-beloved 
 
TABLETS IN THE NORTH AISLE. 89 
 
 and only daughter of Henry and Angelina Standish Barry, who 
 departed this life November 23rd, 1850, aged 12 years. 
 
 This tablet is erected as a last tribute of devoted affection by her 
 deeply bereaved mother. 
 
 Farewell, idol of my heart ! I yield thee to the tomb with many a 
 
 bitter tear. 
 Fond clustering hopes have sunk with thee that earth can ne'er 
 
 restore. 
 Thy home is with the Angels. 
 
 Gone to God. 
 
 Gone ! Ere youth's first flower had perished, 
 To a youth that ne'er can fade. 
 
 The mortal remains are deposited in the middle aisle of this 
 Church. 
 
 Exactly opposite to this, on the north side, is a 
 tablet : 
 
 In Memory of Charles Tufton Blicke, who died the 28th of July 
 1837. Aged 50. This tablet is erected by his affectionate sister, 
 Frances Otway. 
 
 Next to the preceding is another : 
 
 In memory of Jane, the wife of Charles Blicke, died the 26th of 
 February, 1793. Aged 39 years. 
 
 Beloved wife, exemplary mother, excellent woman, 
 
 Adieu. 
 Thy virtues will receive reward in Heaven. 
 
 Also of Sir Charles Blicke, husband of the above, who died 
 November 3oth, 1815. Aged 74. Most deeply lamented by his 
 family and friends. 
 
 Corresponding to the tablet on the south side to 
 Dr. Terry, is one on the north : 
 
 Sacred to the memory of Thomas Ingram, Esq., of Twickenham, 
 and late of Lincoln's Inn. Obiit 26th December, 1815. ^Etatis 68. 
 Sarah Mary Ingram, relict of the above, obiit 29th November, 1827. 
 71. 
 
90 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Between the westernmost and middle windows are 
 two large marble slabs : 
 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 
 of 
 
 LOUISA VISCOUNTESS CLIFDEN 
 
 Widow of James Lord Viscount Clifden 
 
 of the Kingdom of Ireland 
 
 a woman 
 who performed the several duties of 
 
 Wife and Mother 
 
 with exemplary rectitude and piety. 
 
 In life she was universally beloved : 
 
 In death she was tenderly regretted : 
 
 She died the 26th of July 1802. Aged 70. 
 
 And was buried in the Chancel Vault of this Church. 
 
 Where also resteth 
 in hope of a blessed Resurrection 
 
 her sister AGNES 
 Widow of Harvey Breton, Esq r ., of Forty Hill 
 
 in the County of Middlesex. 
 
 She died in August, 1802. Aged 68. 
 
 They were both daughters of 
 
 John Martin, Esq, of the 
 
 Kingdom of Ireland. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 
 of 
 
 an only daughter 
 
 whose virtues and piety 
 
 endeared her to her heavenly Father 
 
 that he was graciously pleased, 
 
 while her young mind was yet 
 
 pure and uncontaminated 
 
 to remove her 
 from this world of cares 
 
 and 
 
 to take her to himself. 
 The Hon ble CAROLINE ANNE AGAR ELLIS, 
 
 only daughter of 
 Henry Viscount Clifden and Lord Mendip 
 
 and Caroline his wife, 
 eldest daughter of George Duke of Marlborough, 
 
 departed this life 
 
 the 1 2th of May, 1814 
 
 in the twentieth year of her age, 
 
 and was buried in the chancel vault of this church. 
 
MONUMENTS MOVED AND RE-ERECTED. 91 
 
 Between the middle and westernmost windows is 
 a tablet, to this effect : 
 
 In a vault near this spot are deposited the remains of James 
 Alexander, son of James Alexander Hodson, of Holland Grove near 
 Wigan, Lancashire, Esquire, and Sarah his wife. He was born 27th 
 of June 1809, and died gth March 1810. 
 
 On the east wall of the north aisle is another tablet : 
 
 In a vault near this spot are deposited the remains of Lambert 
 
 Blair, Esq, of Berbice and of Courtland, Devon, who, after a lingering 
 
 illness which he supported with exemplary Fortitude and Resignation, 
 
 departed this life on the 25th of January, 1815. Aged 48 years. 
 
 On the north wall of the chancel is a quaintly 
 sculptured stone : 
 
 Neare this Place Lyeth the Body of Mrs. Ann Fish, the wife of 
 James Fish, Gent., who was daughter of Thomas Eden of Douwards 
 Hall in the County of Essex, Esq. She departed this life the i8th of 
 June, 1687. ^ tis suae: 32. 
 
 Next to this is a tablet : 
 
 To the memory of Maria, wife of H y . W ra . Espinasse, Esq r . (late 
 LVCol 1 . of the 4th, or " King's Own," Reg 1 .) youngest daughter of 
 Philip Howard, Esq r ., of Corby Castle, Cumberland, and relict of the 
 Hon blc . George Petre. Born January 2nd, 1792. Died June nth, 1837. 
 
 Blessed with " that most excellent gift of charity," spoken of by 
 St. Paul, i Cor s . 13. She was beloved in life as she is mourned in death. 
 
 Also of the abovenamed LVCol 1 . H. W. Espinasse, who, to the 
 great grief of his only surviving daughter, Maria (wife of Wm. Ker 
 Ashford, Esq.) and lamented by all who knew him, died Oct 1 *. the 
 27th, 1845. Aged 85. 
 
 On the top landing of the north staircase is now 
 placed the massive monument, a pedestal with an urn 
 upon it, to Mathew Harvie, Esq., moved during the 
 alterations of 1859, as has been mentioned, from the 
 north-east corner of the Chancel. On one side of 
 the base it is thus inscribed : 
 
 Here lyeth y e Body of Mathew Harvie, Esq r ., he dyed y e i4th of 
 Janu y , 1693. 
 
92 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 On its removal it appears to have been re-inscribed, 
 " Near this place " being substituted on another side 
 for " Here." " Near " being a relative term is perhaps 
 admissible, but it scarcely conveys to any one ignorant 
 of the former position of the monument a just im- 
 pression. 
 
 On the opposite side to the original inscription are 
 Dryden's lines to Lady Whitmore, whose name does 
 not occur on the monument at all. 
 
 Faire, kind and true ! a treasure each alone, 
 A Wife, a Mistress, and a Freind in one. 
 
 Rest in this Tomb, rais'd at thy Husbands cost 
 Here sadly summing what he had and lost. 
 
 Come, Virgins, er'e in equall bands you joine 
 Come first, and Offer at Her sacred Shryne. 
 Pray but for halfe the Virtues of this wife 
 Compound for all the rest w th longer life, 
 And wish your Vowes like her's may be return'd 
 So lov'd when living and when dead so mourn'd. 
 I: D. 
 
 Moved also at the same time and from the same 
 spot as the preceding, and now affixed to the wall of 
 the north gallery is a tablet to this effect : 
 
 Nere this Altar lyeth the Body of Thomas Gilmoore of the family 
 of Gilmoore 9 of Marlborough, in the county of Wilt 3 , Gentleman, who 
 dyed y e 6 th of Aug st , 1691. Aged 46 years. Under this Altar lyeth 
 the Body of Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmoore, the wife of the above-named 
 Mr. Tho : Gilmoore, who dyed December 26th, An no Dom : 1699. 
 
 Exactly above the tablet to Thomas Ingram, Esq., 
 on the ground floor, is, in the gallery, an elegant one 
 executed by Westmacott, 
 
 Sacred to the memory of the Right Honourable Lady Margaret 
 Wildman, wife of John Wildman, Esq r ., and second daughter of 
 Francis 6th Earl of Wemyss and March, who departed this life the 
 22 nd of October, 1825. Aged 25 years. 
 
MONUMENTS IN THE NORTH GALLERY. 93 
 
 On the pier between the westernmost and middle 
 windows of the north gallery is the celebrated monu- 
 ment erected by Bishop Warburton to the memory of 
 Pope, which perhaps for the bad taste of its inscription 
 is scarcely to be equalled. 
 
 ALEXANDRO POPE 
 
 M. H. 
 
 Gulielmus Episcopus Glocestriensis 
 
 Amicitiae causa Fac. Cur. 
 
 MDCCLXI. 
 
 Poeta Loquitur 
 
 For one who would not be buried 
 in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 Heroes and Kings ! your distance keep : 
 In peace let one poor poet sleep ; 
 Who never flatter'd folks like you : 
 Let Horace blush and Virgil too. 
 
 A tablet between the middle and westernmost 
 windows runs as follows : 
 
 H. S. E. 
 
 Vir honorabilis Chaloner Ogle, Eq. Aur. 
 Regiarum classium Praefectus primarius 
 Qui generosam inter Northumbrios stirpem 
 Nobilitate rerum gestarum decoravit. 
 Militise primordia solitaries dux navis \ f Deflagrante tandem bello redux 
 
 Memorabili praelio insignivit 
 
 Archipiratae 
 Indise per maria immanites ferocientis 
 
 Debellator. 
 
 Saevientibus dein quaquaversum armis 
 In altiori imperio collocatus 
 
 Superbos hostes 
 
 Oceani occidentalis dominium affectantes 
 
 Fortitudine pari et consilio coercuit. / \ Mtak. anno Lxx mo Sal. MDCCL rao 
 
 Optimo conjugi Isabella Vidua 
 
 Mcerens posuit. 
 
 * After all, as has been wittily observed, the "distance" from Pope kept by 
 " a hero " is not much more than six feet. 
 
 Opima spolia, victoriarum monumenta, 
 
 Ad urbanas artes excolendas 
 Vir elegans, comis, magnificus, 
 
 Felici studio applicuit : 
 
 Amabilique demum in secessu, 
 
 Classariis clarus, civibus gratiosus, * 
 
 Vitam toties pro patria periclitatam 
 
 Placida moite commutavit 
 
94 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Subjoined to which is the following somewhat 
 unnecessary memorandum, now nearly obliterated : 
 
 Revived May, 1809, by direction of Captain de Starck, maternally 
 descended from the family of Sir C. Ogle. 
 
 Above the tablet to Lambert Blair, Esq., is one 
 
 To the Memory of Roger Wilbraham, Esq., F.R.S. (son of 
 Roger Wilbraham of Townsend in the county of Chester) who 
 departed this life January 5th, 1829, in the 85th year of his age. 
 In grateful remembrance of a kind and generous friend who was no 
 less distinguished in his attachments to those literary pursuits which 
 throughout a long life formed his principal occupation and pleasure, 
 than by the warmth of his feelings, the liberality of his sentiments, 
 and the unblemished rectitude of his conduct. This tablet is erected 
 by his affectionate Nephew George Wilbraham. 
 
 On the north wall of the chancel is a tablet, 
 
 In memory of Joseph Charles Mellish, Esq., who departed this 
 life September i8th, 1823, aged 54 years; and of Caroline his wife, 
 who survived his loss only five months. This tablet is erected by 
 their sorrowing children. 
 
 By the side of this, although now a good deal 
 concealed by the screen of the organ, is a tablet sur- 
 mounted by an urn- 
 Sacred to the memory of Frances, wife of Henry Tufnell. Esq r ., 
 M.P., and second daughter of General Lord Strafford, G. C. B. 
 Born, June 2yth, 1810, married September 24th, 1844. Died, 
 June 4th, 1846 ; leaving one daughter, Caroline Mary, born 
 August 1 6th, 1845. 
 
 If piety, meekness, and charity that believeth hopeth endureth 
 all things ; If Perfection in all the relations of Domestic life as 
 daughter, wife and mother ; If a daily devotion of every thought, 
 word and action to the happiness and best interests of those around 
 her, ever found acceptance at the throne of Grace ; may we humbly 
 hope that she whose only joy on earth was the peaceful exercise of 
 every Christian virtue, may, through the merits of a Crucified Saviour, 
 receive that reward which is promised to the pure in spirit by our 
 Father in heaven. 
 
TABLETS IN THE NORTH GALLERY. 95 
 
 On the east wall is the monument erected by 
 Alexander Pope to his parents " and to himself." The 
 actual place of the poet's tomb is under the second 
 pew from the east end, on the north-side of the 
 middle aisle. 
 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Alexandro Pope 
 
 Viro innocuo, probo, pio 
 
 qui vivit annos LXXV. obiit an. MDCCXvii. 
 
 et Edithae conjugi, inculpabili, pientissim?e 
 
 quae via. annos xciii., obiit MDCCXXxiii. 
 
 Parentibus Benernerentibus 
 
 Filius Fecit 
 
 et Sibi. 
 Qui obiit, anno MDCCXLiiii. ^Etatis Lvii. 
 
 Pope in his last will, gave the following directions ; 
 " As to my body my will is that it be buried near 
 the monument of my dear parents at Twickenham, with 
 the addition, after the words filius fecit -of these only, 
 4 et sibi : Qui obiit anno 17 aetatis / ' 
 
 Below this, is a tablet, now almost out of sight, thus 
 inscribed : 
 
 In the adjoining ground are deposited the earthly remains of 
 Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq r ., who died September lyth, 1802 ; 
 aged 86 years, with Mary his wife, daughter of George Trenchard, 
 Esq r ., of Woolveton, Dorset, who survived her husband, after a happy 
 union of 61 years, in the goth year of her age, Sept r . the nth, 
 1806. And two maiden daughters, Charlotte, born June io th , 1746, 
 died March 25 th , 1823, Catherine, born November igth, 1750, died 
 June 7 th , 1784, with Richard Owen Cambridge, grandson of the 
 above, who died October 6th, 1775; aged 9 years. In the same 
 vault are deposited the remains of the Rev. George Owen Cam- 
 bridge, M.A., Archdeacon of Middlesex and prebendary of Ely, who 
 died May ist, 1841. Aged 85. 
 
 Corresponding to Pope's own monument in the 
 
96 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 north gallery, on the chancel wall of the south gallery, 
 is the ancient monument to the Berkeley family. 
 
 Under this Marble 
 
 Lye the renowned ashes of the Right Honourable 
 the L d . JOHN BERKELEY, Baron of Straton, younger son 
 of Sir Mavrice Berkeley of Bruton in Somersetshire 
 
 In the Civill Wares 
 
 In the dayes of Charles y e i* (for his singuF valour & conduct 
 In recovering y e city of Excester out of the hands of y e Rebells) 
 He was made Govern 1 " thereof & one of his Maj ys General 3 in y e West 
 
 Those Vnhappy Wares ended 
 
 He served many campaynes in Flanders 
 
 Both in the French and Spanish armyes 
 
 According as their alliances w th England engaged him 
 
 After the happy Restauration of Charles y e 2 
 
 He was made Priuy Counsellour, Governour of Conaught 
 
 And after L d Lieuten* of Ireland sent twice Extraord ry Embassao r 
 
 First into France 2 ly to the Treaty of Nimegven. 
 
 His other felicityes were crownd 
 
 By his happy marriage of Christina daughf of S r Andre w Riccar d 
 A young lady of a large Dowry & yet larger Graces and Vartues 
 who also Enricht him with a most hopefull progeny. 
 
 He deceased 
 Aug y e 26. 1678 in y e 72 yeare of his Age. 
 
 - . , , . ...... f Y e An^ name of 
 
 Thoug h sprung from Danish kings of brightest Fame i the Berkeleys was 
 
 Whose Bloud and high Exploits Exalt their name Fitz Harding they 
 
 _ , . TT L , . _, , , { descended from Fitz 
 
 Berkeleys owne Uertues most his Tombe doe grace Harding A young 
 
 Adde glory To, not borrow from his Race. son of V Kin S of 
 
 I Denmarke. 
 
 In this same vault lies the body of Sir William 
 Berkeley, concerning whom see pp. 37 and 62. 
 
 On the south chancel wall is a small tablet near the 
 ceiling, 
 
 In memory of Sir Richard Perryn, knight, and Dame Mary 
 (eldest daughter of Henry Browne, Esquire of Skelbrook, in the county 
 of York) his wife, who, after a faithful discharge of her relative and 
 Christian duties, departed this life April iQth, 1795, m the 74th year 
 of her age. 
 
TABLETS IN THE SOUTH GALLERY, 97 
 
 Sir Richard Perryn's reputation as an able upright lawyer carried 
 him through the successive honours of the profession to the dignity 
 of one of the Barons of the Exchequer, which he sustained, with 
 equal zeal and integrity, upwards of twenty-three years, and died on 
 the 2nd of January, 1803, in his eightieth year. Their remains are 
 interred in the family vault in the New Burial Ground of this Parish. 
 
 Underneath this is a tablet with this inscription :-^ 
 
 In the family vault in the Burying Ground of this Parish are de- 
 posited the mortal remains of Alexander Hatfield, Esq., of Twicken 
 ham, Middx., who departed this life the 28th of Jan y ., 1832. Also 
 of his beloved wife, Mary Hatfield, daughter of the above-named Sir 
 Richard and Lady Perryn, who died on the 7 th of Dec br ., 1834. 
 This tablet is erected by their surviving children as a small tribute of 
 their devoted affection and respect to their memory. 
 
 Beneath this is another 
 
 In memory of Major John Perryn, third son of the above, who 
 lost his life by a fall from his carriage at Ulverstone, in Lancashire, 
 2ist July, 1805, aged 47. 
 
 His suavity of manners and benevolence of heart were such as to 
 render his loss a subject of general regret to all who knew him, of 
 particular affliction to his sister and brother-in-law, Mary & Alex r . 
 Hatfield, who offer this tribute of grateful and lasting affection to 
 his memory. 
 
 Also, on the same wall, a tablet quaintly inscribed 
 by Pope- 
 To the memory of Nathaniel Pigott, Barrister-at-law. Possessed 
 of the highest character by his Learning, Judgment, Experience, 
 Integrity; Deprived of the highest stations only by his conscience 
 and Religion : Many he assisted in the Law, More he preserved 
 from it. A friend to peace, a guardian to the Poor, A Lover of his 
 Country. He died July 5th, 1737, aged 76 years. 
 
 By the side of the foregoing, on the pilaster, is 
 placed a very small tablet- 
 Sacred to the Memory of Maria Marow Eardley-Wilmot, daughter 
 of John Eardley-Wilmot, Esq., late of Berkswell Hall, Warwick, 
 who died at Twickenham, June 27th, 1827, aged 49. Thro' Patience 
 and Comfort of the Scriptures she had Hope. Thro' Faith and 
 
 7 
 
98 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Patience she now inherits the Promises. Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord. Rev. xiv. 13. The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth 
 from all sin. i John i. 7. 
 
 On the other side of the same pilaster is another 
 tablet 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of John Twining, Esq r . (late of Hampton), 
 who died the 4th of December, 1827, aged 67. And of his wife, 
 Mary Ann, daughter of John Haynes, Esq r ., formerly of this place, 
 who died the 27th of January, 1838, aged 75. 
 
 Next to this, on the east wall of the south gallery, 
 is the following inscription : 
 
 Richard Twining, Esq. (second son of Daniel Twining), an inha- 
 bitant of the Strand, London, and of this place, died on the 23rd day 
 of April, 1824, aged 74. 
 
 He exercised a sound understanding enlarged by elegant and 
 useful Study, And the best affections regulated by Christian Motives. 
 The variety of his information, The versatility of his talents, and the 
 peculiar felicity of his manners rendered his society at once delightful 
 and instructive. He was active in the conscientious discharge of many 
 public and private trusts, in the management of an extensive business, 
 and in attention to all the interests of a numerous family. Mary 
 Twining, his beloved wife, daughter of John Aldred, Esq., of Norwich, 
 died on the 2ist day of February, 1803, Aged 53. To their dear and 
 honoured Memory this monument is erected by their children. 
 
 Between the easternmost and middle windows in 
 the same gallery is situated (as will be readily admitted) 
 the most beautiful monument in the church. It was 
 executed by Bacon, and bears the following inscrip- 
 tion : 
 
 M. S. 
 GEORGII GOSTLING et ANN.E CONJUGIS 
 
 de Whitton in hoc comitatu 
 
 Qui obiit xx Decembris, M.DCC.LXXXII. ^Eta. Anno LXVIII. 
 
 Qu9e obiit xi Januarii, M.DCC.XCIX. Gratis LXXV. 
 
 Parentum Benemerentium 
 
 Filius Posuit. 
 
TABLETS IN THE SOUTH GALLERY. 99 
 
 Between the middle and westernmost windows, is a 
 large but not much ornamented, white marble slab thus 
 inscribed : 
 
 Near this place are interred the remains of Thomas Wildman, 
 Esq., late of Lincoln's Inn, Solicitor and Member of Parliament. He 
 lived in the perpetual discharge of all the duties of Private life. Those 
 of his professional and public character he practised with Assiduity 
 and Integrity. 
 
 He died greatly regretted by his family, by whom he was much 
 beloved, and by his friends, by whom he was much respected, on the 
 2ist day of December, 1795, in the 56th year of his age. This 
 monument is affectionately dedicated to his memory by his Widow. 
 
 Underneath this, and so placed as to appear to form 
 a portion of it, is a smaller slab 
 
 To the memory of Sarah, Relict of Thomas Wildman, Esq., M.P. 
 After thirty-five years passed in widowhood of heart and devotion of 
 every thought to the welfare of her children, firm in faith, and consoled 
 by the hope of a reunion with all she loved on earth, she departed this 
 life November 2nd, 1830, aged 79 years. 
 
 At the west end of the projection of the south gallery 
 is a circular tablet of white marble 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Edward Osborn Pocock, Esq., 
 
 who unfortunately perished at sea, 
 
 on the 2oth of January, 1813, aged 19 years. 
 
 The zeal, spirit, and activity which he 
 
 showed in the execution of the various duties 
 
 of his profession gained him the approbation of 
 
 All the commanders under whom he served, by 
 
 whom he was greatly and deservedly beloved. 
 
 This Tablet is erected by his afflicted Parents 
 
 as a memorial of the love and esteem they bore 
 
 for, and the deep regret they have felt in, the 
 
 loss of a most dutiful and affectionate son, 
 
 in whose character were combined the 
 
 noblest principles of the mind with the 
 
 gentlest affections of the heart. 
 
ioo MEMORIALS O* TWICKENHAM. 
 
 The foregoing are the monumental inscriptions at 
 present easily to be found in the church. Those 
 which follow are given by Ironside in his history, 
 and for the most part, they cannot very readily be 
 found. Many are hidden, wholly or in part, by the 
 new flooring to the pews put down in 1859, and some 
 of them have entirely disappeared. 
 
 First of all, he gives, as written on the urn and 
 pedestal in memory of Mathew Harvie, these words : 
 
 Lady Francis Whitmore, wife of Mathew Harvie, Esq., died May 
 the 1 5th, 1690. 
 
 which, at the present time, cannot be discovered 
 upon it. 
 
 He also quotes an epitaph to 
 
 Mrs. Selina Slaughter, daughter of Thomas Buskin, of Develish, 
 in Com. Dorset, Esq., and her four grandchildren ; the first of which 
 was Elizabeth Knight, who died the 3rd of July, 1707. 
 
 And another on a flat stone on the chancel 
 floor 
 
 Here lies the body of Dame Mary Jane Buckworth, relict of Sir 
 John Buckworth, bart, who departed this life January 6, 1775, aged 
 64 years. 
 
 Three inscriptions are, he says, on the floor of the 
 nave, viz. : 
 
 Here lies the body of Martha Berkley (the faithful widow of 
 Lionel Spencer Berkley), who departed this life the 2gth day of April, 
 1751, in the 3oth year of her age. Whose conduct was an ornament 
 to herself, a pattern to her sex, and a pleasure to her husband. 
 
 Under this marble lies interred Mrs. Jane Baker, Granddaughter 
 of William Baker, late of this parish, gentleman. Also Mrs. Anne 
 Cole, widow of Henry Cole, of this parish, gent., and daughter by 
 marriage to the above-named Mr. Baker, Ob. 26th of June, 1775. 
 Aged 71 years. S.C. 
 
INSCRIPTIONS ON FLA-T . &TQM83. '. i o i 
 
 Here lieth the body of Mr. Henry Wiatt, of this parish. He 
 departed this life the nth day of April, 1719, aged 73 years. Also 
 the body of Mrs. Anne Wiatt, wife of Mr. Henry Wiatt. She deceased 
 the 27th of February, 1723, aged 83 years. Also, Anne, the daughter 
 of Henry and Anne Wiatt, who departed this life the 26th of January, 
 I 73 I > aged 51 years. Also, Mr. John Wiatt, who died the 3rd of 
 August, 1734, aged 60 years. Also, Mary Wiatt, who departed this 
 life September 7th, 1747, aged 76 years. 
 
 And four more on the chancel stone, viz. : 
 
 The Right Hon. the Countess of Drogheda, eldest daughter of 
 Lord Viscount Falmouth, died April the 3rd, 1735, in the 32 nd year 
 of her age ; and will, by all that had the happiness to be acquainted 
 with her, be for ever lamented. 
 
 In the chancel vault lies interred the body of the Rev. Charles 
 Williams, minister of this Parish 30 years. He died the 9th of January, 
 1707-8, aged 63 years. 
 
 Also, Mrs. Eleanor Williams, wife of the abovenamed Mr. Williams, 
 who departed this life the 29th day of July, 1716, aged 69 years. 
 
 Here lies the body of Thomas Westrow, Esq., deceased the 29th 
 of October, 1653. Who is not dead but sleepeth. \ 
 
 Hie jacet Thomas Lawley, baronettus de Spon Hill in comitatu 
 Salopiensi, frater et haeres Ricardi Lawley, armigeri. Patrem habuit 
 Franciscum Lawley de Spon Hill pred. ar. matrem Elizabetham 
 (lectissimam faeminam) ex Bromleiorum et Newportorum prosapia 
 ortam ; pietate fuit ac charitate clarus, gravitate ac justa suavitate 
 morum eximius ; qui licet magnus opibus a Deo donatis, majori 
 tamen virtutum est supellectile locupletatus. Tres liberos reliquit 
 superstites (nam Anna ante patris obitum in vivis esse desiit) Eliza- 
 betham, Franciscum baronettum et Thomam Lawley, ex Anna filia 
 et co haerede Johan'is Manning ar. Quae hoc amoris posuit monu- 
 mentum. Obiit 19 Octobris 1646. .^Etatis suse 60. A.F. 
 
 The next four are at the west end of the church : 
 
 Hie subter situm est corpus Michaelis Holman, de Whitton infra 
 parochiam hanc armigeri, nuper unicus aldermanorum de civitate 
 Londinensi, et quondam receptoris generalis omnium et singulorum 
 cxituum revenc'onum D'm'i Caroli nuper regis Angliae, c., ac etiam 
 
102 ^RMORMLS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 D'm'ae Henriettas Marias nuper reginae, necnon Carol! principis infra 
 comitatus Oxon et Berks, ac in civitate Oxoniensi. Vitam habuit per 
 viginti quinque annos apud domum suam manc'onalem in Whitton 
 praedict piam, integram, honestam ; ubi, cum sexagesimum quintum 
 setatis circa complevisset annum, decimo sexto die Novembris, anno 
 salutis 1653, carnem deposuit, et per mortem immortalis evasit; 
 uxorem et novem liberos reliquit dolentes. 
 
 Under this marble in a vault lies buried Mrs. Jane Boehm wife of 
 Charles Boehm Esq., who died January 9, 1756. Aged 44 years. 
 
 Also the body of Charles Boehm Esq., who died January 26, 
 1769. Aged 69 years. Mors janua vitae. 
 
 T. B. 
 1771. 
 
 Here beneath lieth the body of Andrew Whittingham, gent, late 
 steward to the Lord Viscount Newport, who departed this life the 3rd 
 of December, 1691 ; aetatis suae 40. 
 
 Here also lies the body of Margaret, the wife of the abovenamed 
 Andrew Whittingham. She died October 29th, 1701. 
 
 Also Mrs. Alice Lee, mother of Mrs. Whittingham. She died 
 June 1 9th, 1701, aged 91 years. 
 
 And this last on a slab in the nave : 
 
 Here lie the remains of Mary Gardiner, who departed this life 
 November 20th, 1771, in the 7ist year of her age. 
 
 And also of her sister Elizabeth Gardiner, who departed this life 
 February 2oth, 1778, aged 80 years. 
 
 Ironside notices, also, three family vaults inscribed 
 with the names and decorated with the armorial 
 bearings of Samuel Prime, Esq., Hicks, Esq., and 
 Hibbert no inscription being on the first, in his 
 time, and those on the others being defaced.* 
 
 * I have thought it advisable to make, as far as possible, a perfect copy of every 
 inscription within the walls of the church, although many are far from being of any 
 general interest, in order to present the record, as far as I can make it, complete, 
 and trustworthy for any purposes of future reference. 
 
TABLETS ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH, 103 
 
 On the exterior of the church, at the east end, are 
 four tablets. One on the north side is 
 
 To the memory of Mary Beach, who died November the 5th, 
 1725. Aged 78. Alex. Pope, whom she nursed in his infancy, and 
 constantly attended for thirty-eight years, in gratitude to a faithful 
 old servant, erected this stone. 
 
 Another on the chancel wall is 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of 
 
 MRS. CATHERINE CI.IVE 
 who died December the 7th, 1785, aet. 75. 
 Clive's blameless life this tablet shall proclaim, 
 Her moral virtues, and her well-earn'd fame. 
 In comic scenes the stage she early trod, 
 " Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod." 
 In real life was equal praise her due, 
 Open to pity, and to friendship true ; 
 In wit still pleasing, as in converse free 
 From aught that could afflict humanity ; 
 Her generous heart to all her friends was known, 
 And e'en the stranger's sorrows were her own. 
 Content with fame, e'en affluence she wav'd, 
 To share with others what by toil she sav'd ; 
 And nobly bounteous, from her slender store 
 She bade two dear relations not be poor. 
 Such deeds on life's short scenes true glory shed 
 And heav'nly plaudits hail the virtuous dead. 
 
 This inscription was composed, and the tablet 
 erected, September 2oth, 1791, by Miss Jane Pope, 
 an actress who had been brought up by Mrs. Clive. 
 Miss Pope was no connection whatever of the poet's. 
 
 A third tablet bears the following inscription : 
 
 Mr. Thomas Twining, late of London, died May igth, 1741, 
 in the 66th year of his age, and lies inter'd here. His children have 
 erected this stone in gratitude to the Memory of a most Indulgent 
 and Worthy Parent. "The memory of the Just is Blessed." Book 
 of Proverbs, c. 10. v. 7. 
 
104 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 A white marble scroll on the south exterior wall, 
 now very much defaced, which was substituted for 
 a black marble slab originally occupying the same 
 position, is thus inscribed : 
 
 In a vault beneath are deposited the remains of Stephen 
 Cole, Esq., late of this parish, who died February 26th, 1790, aged 
 83 years. Also the remains of Miss Catherine Cole his daughter, 
 who died October 18, 1792, aged 26 years. 
 
 Ironside quotes a long inscription on a tablet, which 
 was once placed against the east end of the church, in 
 memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Butler, but which fell down 
 about twelve years ago and perished completely in 
 'its fall. Its two stone supports alone remain to mark 
 its place. 
 
 Four lines on the tomb-stone of Mr. John Kent, 
 " citizen and dyer of London, late of this parish," who 
 died in 1 780, are worth mention for their quaintness. 
 
 " As Death patrol'd the Western road, 
 
 Staid in this town a short abode, 
 
 Inquiring where true merit lay, 
 
 Stopp'd short and stole this worthy man away." 
 
 In the churchyard, among others, are the tombs of 
 Edward Seymour (the portrait -painter) 1757; the 
 Right Hon. Selina Countess Dowager of Ferrers, 1762 ; 
 Lady Mary Tryon, daughter of Robert Earl Ferrers and 
 wife of Charles Tryon, Esq., 1771; and of Lieut- 
 General William Tryon, Governor of the Province of 
 New York and Colonel of the 2Qth regiment of 
 Foot, 1788. 
 
 In the London-road burial ground are the tombs of 
 Charles Morton, M.D., F.R.S., principal librarian of 
 the British Museum, who died in 1799 ; Edward Iron- 
 
INTERMENTS IN 2 HE GRAVEYARDS. 105 
 
 side, Esq., 1803 ; and the Rev. Robert Burt, LL.B., 
 vicar, 1791. There is also a long upright board 
 inscribed as follows : 
 
 Twickenham, November 24th, 1789. 
 
 This day was opened for the first time, the new vault belonging 
 to the vicar, in this ground, for the interment of Stafford Briscoe, Esq., 
 who departed this life November the yth, 1789, aged 76 ; and again 
 on December the 26th, 1789, for the interment of Thomas Hill, 
 gentleman, many years lieutenant in his Majesty's navy, who departed 
 this life December the 2oth, 1789, aged 52. 
 
 In the graveyard, in Royal Oak Lane, are tombs 
 of the Rev. Charles Proby, M.A., vicar, 1859; Field- 
 Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney, Governor of Chelsea 
 Hospital, 1868, and Lady Blakeney, 1866; and many 
 others of the principal inhabitants of the parish. 
 
 Very few books of epitaphs are without the following, 
 said to be in Twickenham churchyard : 
 
 Here lie I 
 Killed by a sky 
 Rocket in my eye. 
 
 It is, however, nowhere to be found, nor have I 
 met with any inhabitant who remembers having seen 
 or heard of it. 
 
106 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE CLERGY. 
 
 THE VICARS BEFORE THE REFORMATION AND SUBSEQUENT TO IT 
 DR. WATERLAND DR. COSTARD. THE CURATES PREVIOUS 
 TO THE COMMONWEALTH: "MINISTERS" DURING THE 
 COMMONWEALTH : CURATES SINCE THE RESTORATION. 
 
 WILLIAM BROWN appears to have been the first vicar 
 of the parish. He was presented by the Prior 
 and Convent of S. Valerie, in Picardy, on 
 November 12th, 1332. 
 
 Robert de Swacliffe, on the presentation of King 
 Edward III. Many years before his vicariate 
 here, he had been constituted one of the chamber- 
 lains of the King's exchequer in the place of John 
 de Langston. 
 
 Hugh de Newbald, on the presentation of King 
 Edward III. ; Swacliffe having resigned on 
 June 5th, 1350. 
 
 Michael de Shires, on the presentation of King 
 Edward III. 
 
 Robert Fille, November 24th, 1386, on the resignation 
 of Shires. He was presented by King Richard II., 
 in whose hands were the temporalities of the Priory 
 of Takely in Essex, on account of the war with 
 France. Fille was also Rector of Twinsted in 
 
THE VICARS, 13321468. 107 
 
 Essex, 1389, on the presentation of the prior and 
 convent of Moreton in Surrey, a monastery founded 
 by Henry I., A.D. 1121, for the canons of 
 S. Augustine. 
 
 William de Glastonbury, October ist, 1387, on Fille's 
 resignation. 
 
 Hugh Lambard, January 29th, 1389, on Glastonbury's 
 resignation. 
 
 William de Glastonbury, March i4th, 1389, on Lam- 
 bard's resignation. 
 
 John Smith, September 24th, 1390, on Glastonbury's 
 resignation. 
 
 Thomas Heydon, March 2 7th, 1396, on Smith's resig- 
 nation. 
 
 The five preceding were also presented by King 
 Richard II. 
 
 Reginald Body. Also Vicar of Northall in Hertford- 
 shire. 
 
 Philip Pentecost, January 2ist, 1426, on the death of 
 Body. Presented by the warden, fellows, and 
 scholars of the College of S. Mary, Winchester. 
 
 Walter Byseleigh, November 25th, 1433, -on Pentecost's 
 resignation. 
 
 William English, July 5th, 1451, on Byseleigh's resig- 
 nation. 
 
 John White, A.M., May nth, 1468, on the death of 
 English. He was also Vicar of S. Leonard, 
 Shoreditch. 
 
 Robert Oliver, December 22nd, 1468, on White's 
 resignation. He is supposed to have been one of 
 the founders of Uxbridge Chapel in the year 1447. 
 
io8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Richard Woodhouse, June loth, 1474, on Oliver's 
 resignation. Also Rector of Allhallows in the 
 Wall, London ; of Staines in Middlesex ; and of 
 Aldham in Essex. 
 
 William Bradshaw, December I2th, 1478, on Wood- 
 house's resignation. Also Rector of Sheering in 
 Essex, 1496. 
 
 John Clavering, A.M., July 29th, 1491, on Bradshaw's 
 resignation. Also Rector of Bishop's Wickham, 
 1482 ; of Witham, 1485, and of Fairsted, all in 
 Essex ; of Staines, in Middlesex, 1492 ; of 
 S. Christopher's, in London, 1494, and fellow of 
 Eton College. 
 
 John Goodwyn, June loth, 1494, on Clavering's resig- 
 nation. 
 
 Thomas Hare, L/L D. 
 
 Robert Dikar, LL.B., March 7th, 1514,. on Hare's 
 resignation. Also Rector of S. Clement's Danes, 
 in London, 1516. Vicar of S. Sepulchre's, 1524, 
 in which position he had a contest with the prior 
 and Convent of S. Bartholomew. 
 
 Thomas Stonard, or Stannard, June 3rd, 1522, on 
 Dikar's resignation. 
 
 The above twelve Vicars were all presented by 
 Winchester College. By whom Reginald Body was 
 presented is not certain. 
 
 John Thornton, December i8th, 1549, presented by 
 King Edward VI. on the death of Stannard. 
 
 Thomas Wood, May i8th, 1562, presented by Queen 
 Elizabeth on the deprivation of Thornton. Also 
 Rector of Harlington, in Middlesex, 1558; Vicar 
 
THE VICARS, 14741640. 109 
 
 of Isleworth, in the same county ; Vicar of Brad- 
 well juxta-mare, High Ongar, and South Weld, 
 all in Essex. 
 
 All the following vicars were presented by the 
 Dean and Canons of Windsor, with the exception of 
 Dr. Costard, the successor of Dr. Terrick who was 
 elevated to the episcopal bench. 
 
 Thomas Buckmaster, October 24th, 1562, on the 
 deprivation of the last vicar. Also Rector of 
 Allhallows in the Wall, in London, and of S. Mary 
 Woolnoth. 
 
 James Norris, June nth, 1563, on the deprivation of 
 Buckmaster. He took possession, as a memo- 
 randum in the Registers mentions, on S. Peter's day. 
 
 John Heyton, September 5th, 1572, on the death of the 
 last vicar. Also rector of S. Leonard's East- 
 cheap, 1563. 
 
 John After, February 6th, 1580, on Heyton's resigna- 
 tion. Also vicar of Sunbury in Middlesex, 1569. 
 
 Richard Levett, M.A., September i6th, 1584. 
 
 John Vaughan, M.A., January 3ist, 1589, on Levett's 
 resignation. 
 
 William Tompkins, M.A., November 7th, 1590, on 
 Vaughan's resignation. 
 
 Thomas Goole, 1635, (?) Mentioned in the Isleworth 
 survey, as vicar, and in the Bishop of London's 
 register, in the record of the institution of his 
 successor. 
 
 Thomas Soame, S.T.P., April i8th, 1640, on the death of 
 Goole. He was fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 
 and was made Canon of Windsor in the room of 
 
no MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the Archbishop of Spalatro who resigned. He 
 was appointed Prebendary of Caddington Major 
 in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul by King 
 James I., jure prerogative?, February lyth, 1616. 
 He was also prebendary of Caddington Minor. 
 The same king presented him to the vicarage 
 of Staines in Middlesex, August 9th, 1616. 
 11 Being one of those, who, in the last rebellious 
 times, had been compelled to leave their eccle- 
 siastical preferments for their loyalty, he was, 
 August 1 2th, 1645, incorporated in the degree of 
 D.D. in the University of Oxford having pre- 
 viously taken the same degree at Cambridge/' 
 He was also rector of Hasely, in the County of 
 Oxford. He died at Staines in the early part of 
 the year 1649, and was buried there.* 
 The next vicar mentioned by Ironside is William 
 Hobson, S.T.P., instituted in 1661, " on the deprivation 
 of Soame," but Soame died in 1649, and 1661 is the 
 date which Lysons gives for the deprivation of Thomas 
 Willis, (vid. Environs of London, vol. ii. part ii. p. 791). 
 Willis was not a vicar, but only one of the " Ministers " 
 appointed by parliament during the Commonwealth. 
 He was succeeded by 
 
 William Hobson, S.T.P., June 29th, 1661, (a note in 
 the register of the church says, June 3Oth), on the 
 deprivation of the last Incumbent. (Vid. Bishop 
 of London s Register.} 
 
 * Ironside's account of this vicar is curiously incorrect, his dates cannot possibly 
 be reconciled. He has mixed up with the appointments held by this Thomas 
 Soame, those held by Dr. Robert Soame, Master of Peterhouse, and several times 
 Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, an able divine and controversial 
 writer. 
 
THE VICARS, 16611707. in 
 
 Richard Meggot, M.A., November i7th, [668, on the 
 death of Hobson. Of Queen's College, Cam- 
 bridge ; Canon of Windsor ; Chaplain in Ordinary 
 to the King; Vicar of S. Olave's Southwark. 
 On the death of Dr. William Clark, he was 
 installed Dean of Winchester, October 9th, 1679. 
 He died on 7th December, 1692. His funeral 
 sermon was preached in Twickenham Church on 
 December loth by Dr. William Sherlock, (the 
 father of Bishop Sherlock), Dean of St. Paul's, 
 from St. Matthew xiii. 52 ; on which day he 
 was buried at Twickenham. He was the author 
 of several single published sermons. 
 
 Charles Williams, M.A., January I2th, 1686, on 
 Meggot's resignation. Educated at Gloucester 
 Hall (now Worcester College) in the University 
 of Oxford ; he was Minister or Curate of Tedding- 
 ton in Middlesex in 1 700, and was at one period 
 of his life Lecturer of Isleworth. He died 
 January 9th, 1707-8, aged 63 years, having been 
 vicar of Twickenham for more than twenty years, 
 and was buried in the chancel vault. He was cele- 
 brated as a preacher; he published a volume of 
 sermons (1696) and several single discourses. He 
 left a benefaction to the poor of Twickenham. 
 
 John Hartcliff, D.D., February 2ist, 1707, on the 
 death of Williams. He was Fellow of King's 
 College, Cambridge, and published several single 
 sermons. How this vicar comes to be omitted 
 from Ironside's list is inexplicable. Not only is 
 his institution fully recorded in the Bishop's 
 Register, but his name is inscribed plainly enough 
 
ii2 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 on the tenor bell which was cast in the second 
 year of his incumbency, and his signature occurs 
 repeatedly as presiding over the meetings of the 
 vestry, in the minutes of their proceedings. From 
 one of these we are enabled to form some idea of 
 the manner of man he was, an opportunity seldom 
 enough afforded by such records. A vestry, we 
 are told, was held in the afternoon of Sunday the 
 1 3th day of May, 1711, notice having been given 
 of it (according to custom), that same day in 
 church during morning service ; and a resolution 
 passed on the occasion was as follows : 
 
 Whereas the late continual ringing of bells at unseasonable 
 hours was represented as a very great disturbance to Dr. 
 Hartcliff in his study, and whereas of late several disorderly 
 persons did lately (sic] in a very insolent manner and contrary 
 to the order of the said Dr. Hartcliff and the present church- 
 wardens 
 
 who were by name, Thomas Bedell, (spelt by 
 himself in about a dozen different ways) and 
 Robert Taylor 
 
 with the help of a ladder, break into the steeple of the church 
 and ring the bells to the intent and purpose to disturb and 
 provoke the said Dr. Hartcliff. It is therefore ordered by this 
 vestry that for the future during the said doctor's residence in 
 the parish, there be no more ringing of the bells for recreation 
 (unlesseupon some solemn occasion), but two nights in a week, 
 viz., Thursdayes and Mondayes, and not to exceed the hour 
 of nine. 
 
 Surely Dr. Hartcliff was a studious man, and it 
 certainly appears primd facie that Saturday night 
 was the night chosen for the outrage, and that he 
 came to church next morning filled with a sense of 
 
VICARS, 17121730. 113 
 
 recently inflicted wrong : it may have been, per- 
 haps, that he was neither very even-tempered nor 
 very popular. He did not, however, long enjoy 
 immunity from riotous bell-ringing, for he died in 
 the ensuing year, his place being filled by 
 
 Samuel Prat, S. T. P. January 2ist, 1712, on the death 
 of Hartcliff. Formerly tutor to the Duke of 
 Gloucester ; Clerk of the Closet ; Canon of 
 Windsor ; Vicar of Tottenham, 1693 ; Minister of 
 the Chapel Royal, Savoy ; Dean of Rochester, 1697. 
 He was the author of several occasional sermons. 
 
 Penyston Booth, M.A., January zoth, 1723. Canon 
 and subsequently Dean of Windsor. He published 
 a sermon on Baptism in 1718. 
 
 Daniel Waterland, S. T. P. July 24th, 1730, on 
 Booth's resignation. Born at Walesby in the 
 Lindsey division of Lincolnshire on the I4th of 
 February, 1683. He was second son by the 
 second wife of the Rev. Henry Waterland, rector 
 of that parish and of Flixborough near to it. The 
 instruction imparted to him by his father's curate, 
 Mr. Sykes, enabled him to read well at four years 
 of age. His education was continued at the Free 
 School in Lincoln, then of great repute, and at the 
 age of sixteen he was admitted, on the 3oth of 
 March, 1699, at Magdalen College, Cambridge, 
 under the tuition of Mr. Samuel Baker. He 
 obtained a scholarship on the 24th of December, 
 1702, and took his B.A. degree in the Lent term 
 following. On February I5th, 1703-4, he was 
 elected Fellow, in which position he took pupils 
 and " became a great support to the society." He 
 
 8 
 
ii4 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 was alternately tutor and dean, being in residence 
 constantly during Term time. He commenced 
 M.A. in 1706, and, when he was only thirty years 
 of age, on the death of Dr. Gabriel Quadring, in 
 February, 1713, the Earl of Suffolk and Binden, by 
 virtue of his hereditary right, conferred on him the 
 mastership of the College, and also presented him 
 to the Rectory of Ellingham in Norfolk. After this 
 promotion he still continued to act as tutor, and 
 published a tract entitled Advice to a young student, 
 with a method of study for the first four years. 
 He was a deep student of Theology and impaired 
 his health by the late hours consequent upon the 
 assiduity with which he applied himself to that 
 pursuit. In October, 1710 he was Examiner in 
 the schools for the B.A. degree. In 1711 he was 
 appointed Moderator in the Philosophical School. 
 He preached the Commemoration Sermon at 
 S. Mary's, in November, 1712 ; and the Assize 
 Sermon in July, 1713. He had not proceeded 
 beyond M.A. at the time of his election as 
 Master, and, contrary to custom, he did not 
 apply for a degree in Divinity by mandamus, 
 but in the following year took the degree of 
 B.D. by performing the accustomed exercises. 
 His dissertation on that occasion, which occupied 
 more than an hour in delivery, and discussed 
 " whether the Arian Subscription was lawful," 
 was a masterpiece of eloquence and a striking 
 evidence of marvellous theological learning. He 
 was fortunate in the opponent pitted against 
 him, who was Dr. Thomas Sherlock, afterwards 
 
DR. WATERLAND. 115 
 
 Bishop of London. On the death of Dr. James, 
 Regius Professor of Divinity, in 1714, Waterland 
 was universally considered the fittest successor, 
 but he refused to urge his claims and exert 
 his interest against Dr. Bentley, who was ulti- 
 mately elected. During his vice-chancellorship 
 to which office he was chosen on the I4th 
 November, 1715, he proved himself a strong 
 supporter of the Hanoverian succession, and was 
 consequently much maligned by the Jacobite 
 party. He took the degree of D.D. in 1717, 
 which was conferred in the king's presence, 
 strangely enough, upon a Sunday. The Biblio- 
 graphia Britannica says that he was incorporated 
 in the same degree at Oxford upon the presentation 
 of Dr. Delaune, President of S. John's College, 
 and Margaret Professor of Divinity, who passed 
 a glowing encomium upon his talents and deserts ; 
 but, as his name is not to be found amongst 
 Oxford graduates, it is probable that he was 
 not incorporated but only admitted ad eundem 
 gradum. He preached on the 7th of June, 1716, 
 the Thanksgiving Sermon on the Suppression 
 of the Rebellion. His first considerable work A 
 Vindication of Christ's Divinity : being a Defence 
 of some Queries relating to Dr. Clarke s Scheme 
 of the Holy Trinity \ in answer to a Clergyman 
 in the Country * was published in 1719, and 
 obtained the marked approval of Dr. Robinson, 
 Bishop of London, who procured for its author, 
 
 * The clergyman thus answered was Dr. John Jackson, rector of Repington 
 and vicar of Doncaster. 
 
n6 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 by his recommendation, the Lectureship which 
 Lady Moyer had founded during her lifetime. 
 Waterland was the first lecturer, Dr. Morell the 
 last, after whom it lapsed, as the will of Lady 
 Moyer did not make it compulsory upon her heirs 
 to continue it. Waterland's eight sermons preached 
 in this capacity were supplementary to his previous 
 work. Among his other works may be mentioned, 
 The Case of Arian Subscription considered, and A 
 Supplement. A Second Vindication of Christ's 
 Divinity. A Further Vindication, a short tract 
 published in 1724. A Critical History of the 
 Athanasian Creed. The Importance of the Doc- 
 trine of the Holy Trinity, 1 734. Scripture 
 Vindicated. A Defence of the Lord Bishop of 
 S. David's (Dr. Smalbroke) in Relation to a 
 Charge of Persecution. A Recommendatory Pre- 
 face to the Second Edition of Mr. Blair s Sermons. 
 And when Master of Magdalen College he com- 
 piled a history of benefactions to that society, and 
 a list of fellows and scholars from the earliest times 
 to his own.* In 1721 the Dean and Chapter of 
 S. Paul's presented him to the Rectory of SS. 
 Augustine and Faith. He preached at S. Paul's 
 before the Lord Mayor and Corporation 2Qth May, 
 1723, also for the Sons of the Clergy, and at the 
 annual gathering of the charity school children. In 
 1723 Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York, 
 appointed Waterland Chancellor of that diocese. 
 In 1727 the Crown gave him a canonry of Windsor 
 
 * I am informed that specimens of his beautiful handwriting are still shown with 
 pride to strangers visiting his college. I do not wonder at this from what can be 
 seen of it in the parish books of Twickenham. 
 
DR. WATERLAND. 117 
 
 through the recommendation of Lord Townshend, 
 Secretary of State, and Dr. Gibson, Bishop of 
 London. On the appointment of Dr. Booth to the 
 deanery of Windsor, in 1730, Waterland became 
 vicar of Twickenham. He published, in the same 
 year, The Nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of the 
 Christian Sacraments Considered, and Regeneration 
 stated and explained, two sermons on Titus iii. 4, 5, 6, 
 preached at Twickenham and Windsor, at the 
 time when Whitfield and Wesley had begun to 
 make proselytes. He then resigned the living of 
 SS. Augustine and Faith, in the capacity of 
 rector of which, the records of Sion College 
 contain no mention of him, except the fact of 
 his borrowing Wickliffe's bible from the library. 
 He was collated by Bishop Gibson to the Arch- 
 deaconry of Middlesex in 1727. Eight of his 
 charges are extant : Two in vindication of Chris- 
 tianity against the Deists, supplementary to Scrip- 
 ture Vindicated. Two, compressed into one, on 
 Fundamentals. One on the doctrinal use of the 
 sacraments ; and three further illustrative of his 
 review of the Eucharist. He divided his time 
 almost equally between Cambridge, Windsor and 
 Twickenham, at which last place he derived 
 much satisfaction and comfort from the society 
 of his friend the Rev. Jeremiah Seed, the minister 
 of Montpelier Chapel. Owing, no doubt, in 
 some measure, to Waterland's companionship 
 and influence, Mr. Seed preached, with consi- 
 derable success, the Moyer Lecture in 1732-33. 
 He is generally described, probably wrongly, as 
 
n8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 curate of Twickenham, for his name nowhere 
 occurs, as officiating, in the parish books. Water- 
 land was offered, in 1734, the Prolocutorship of 
 the Lower House of Convocation, and a presenta- 
 tion speech was actually prepared on his behalf by 
 the learned Dr. Cobden, Archdeacon of London. 
 He refused the honour on account of his weak 
 health.'"' It is said that the Bishopric of Llandaff 
 was also offered to him, but declined for the 
 same reason. Nearly all contemporary theological 
 writers were laid under great obligations by 
 Waterland, amongst whom were Filton, Trapp, 
 Wheatly, Berriman, Fiddes, Webster and Mr. 
 Lewis of " Mergate." His own- labours are best 
 regarded as continuing those of Bishop Bull. 
 Waterland was seized with the illness which proved 
 fatal to him, at Cambridge, where Mr. Chiselden 
 attended him, but a long-neglected complaint 
 refused to yield to medical treatment. On his 
 arrival at London, on his way to Twickenham 
 where he desired to be, an apothecary was called 
 in, who made a somewhat amusing mistake ; from 
 the similarity of name he supposed that he was 
 attending Warburton, and complimented Water- 
 land on his work, The Divine Legation of Moses ; 
 an error which, it is said, provoked the vicar 
 extremely. The incident was told by Warburton 
 to Pope, who took occasion to reply, most ill- 
 naturedly, in a letter dated February 4th, 1 740-41. 
 Waterland reached Twickenham, and died there 
 
 * Convocation was soon afterwards dissolved, and not resuscitated for more than 
 a century. 
 
DR. WATERLAND. 119 
 
 on 23rd December, 1740. He was buried in the 
 Royal Chapel of St. George at Windsor, in a 
 small chapel, called Bray's, on the south side. His 
 widow, Jane, daughter of John Tregonwell, Esq., 
 survived him, dying in 1761. They had no 
 children. On Sunday, 4th January, 1740-1, (the 
 Sunday after his interment), Mr. Seed preached 
 his funeral sermon in Twickenham Chapel, " The 
 happiness of the good in a future state set 
 forth," from St. Matthew xxv. 21. In this 
 discourse he is thus spoken of: " His head 
 was an immense library, where the treasures of 
 learning were ranged in such exact order that 
 whatever himself or his friends wanted, he could 
 have immediate recourse to without any embarrass- 
 ments. A prodigious expanse of reading without 
 a confusion of ideas is almost the peculiar charac- 
 teristic of his writings. His works, particularly 
 those upon our Saviour's Divinity, and the 
 importance of the doctrine, and the Eucharist, 
 into which he has digested the learning of a 
 previous age, will, we may venture to say, be 
 transmitted to and stand the examination of 
 all succeeding ones. He has so thoroughly 
 exhausted every subject that he wrote a set 
 treatise upon, that it is impossible to hit upon 
 anything that is not in his writing, or to express 
 that more justly and clearly which is there." 
 Waterland's works were posthumously collected 
 by a former pupil of his, the Rev. Joseph Clarke, 
 fellow of Magdalen College ; they comprised, 
 inter alia, A Familiar Discourse on the Trinity, 
 
120 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 for the Congregation of SS. Augustine and Faith, 
 London\ thirty- three sermons; two tracts, one on 
 Justification, and one on Infant Communion ; and 
 two letters on Lay Baptism."* To the inestimable 
 importance of the work which "the great Water- 
 land " effected for the Church of England, it is 
 enough to quote Dr. Liddon's testimony that 
 Arianism, which attempted to make a home for 
 itself in the church in the person of Dr. Samuel 
 Clarke, was crushed out, under God, mainly by his 
 genius and energy, t 
 
 Edmund Martin, LL.D., March 3Oth, 1741, on the 
 death of Waterland. Canon of Windsor, and 
 subsequently Dean of Worcester. 
 
 Richard Terrick, D.D., June 3Oth, 1749, on the 
 resignation of Martin. Canon of Windsor : 
 Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty ; canon 
 residentiary of S. Paul's, London, 1757; promoted 
 to the Bishopric of Peterborough, 1757, and trans- 
 lated to that of London in 1764; on obtaining 
 which see, as he could not very well be his own 
 diocesan, he resigned this vicarage. A peculiar 
 interest, however, attaches to this divine. One 
 of his two daughters married Mr. Anthony 
 Hamilton, subsequently Archdeacon of Colchester, 
 father of Archdeacon Hamilton of Taunton, whose 
 eldest son (and, consequently, Bishop Terrick's 
 great grandson) was the late Right Rev. Walter 
 Kerr, Bishop of Sarum. f 
 
 * This sketch has for the most part been compiled from the Life of Waterland, 
 by Bishop Van Mildert, prefixed to the complete edition of his works. 
 f Vide Dr. Liddon's Bampton Lectures, 1866, p. 27. 
 \ IV. K. Sanitii, a Sketch, by the Rev. H. P. Liddon, p. I. 
 
MR. COSTARD. 121 
 
 George Costard, M.A., July 7th, 1764, on the transla- 
 tion of Terrick ; presented by King George III. 
 Son of the Rev. Edward Costard, Vicar of S. 
 Mary's, Shrewsbury, at which place he was born, 
 in 1710, and educated at the Grammar School 
 there. In 1726 he was admitted a member of 
 Wadham College, Oxford, of which society he 
 subsequently became Fellow and Tutor. In 1742 
 he was Proctor, and on the death of Dr. Wyndham, 
 Warden of Wadham, Costard was, says Ironside, 
 elected to succeed him, but he would not accept 
 the appointment* He was curate of Islip, near 
 Oxford ; and afterwards vicar of Whitchurch, a 
 place between Lyme and Bridport in Dorsetshire, 
 serving for some years two churches. The living 
 of Twickenham, which he held till his death, was 
 obtained for him through the interest of Lord 
 Chancellor Northington. He was a most learned 
 divine, deeply read in divinity, astronomy, Greek, 
 Hebrew, and the Oriental languages. Astronomy 
 was his favourite pursuit. A portrait of him 
 inserted in Ironside's history, represents him with 
 compasses in hand engaged in his best loved 
 employment. H is publications were very numerous, 
 and, in some cases, of a fanciful and pedantic 
 
 * This statement is not literally correct. Ironside may have heard from Mr. 
 Costard of the expressed wish of the fellows to elect him, but it was no more than 
 a wish ; it seems most probable that he was solicited to stand for the wardenship 
 in 1744, when Dr. Samuel Lisle was promoted to the bishopric of St. Asaph, and 
 that Dr. Wyndham was unanimously elected on Mr. Costard's refusal. Dr. Wyndham 
 did not die till 1777, only five years before Costard's own decease. I am enabled 
 to make this suggestion through the kindness of the Rev. G. E. Thorley, M.A., 
 Fellow of Wadham, who has referred to the College registers to ascertain the 
 circumstances of the elections. 
 
122 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM, 
 
 character : the more important were A History of 
 the Rise and Progress of Astronomy amongst the 
 Ancients. A Treatise on the Use of Astronomy in 
 History and Chronology. A Letter to Dr. Shaw 
 on Astrology and Chronology amongst the Chinese. 
 Many papers by him are printed in the Philoso- 
 phical Transactions. He also published some 
 criticisms on a passage of Homer, on certain 
 Psalms, and on some portions of the Book of 
 Job ; also Some Strictures on Halshed's History of 
 the Gentoo Laws ; and Reflections on the Language 
 of Tragedy. His library, Oriental manuscripts, and 
 philosophical instruments, were sold by auction 
 by Mr. Samuel Patterson, soon after his death, 
 which occurred in 1 782. By his own express desire 
 he was buried in the south side of Twickenham 
 Churchyard, with no memorial whatever whereby 
 his resting-place may be traced.* 
 
 Henry Charles Jefferies, M.A., March Qth, 1782, on the 
 death of Costard. 
 
 The Hon. and Rev. Harbottle Grimston, M.A., 
 January 27th, 1786, on Jefferies' resignation. He 
 was also rector of Halston in Kent, and of 
 Rebmarsh in Essex, and one of the Chaplains 
 in Ordinary to his Majesty. 
 
 Robert Burt, LL.B., May 5th, 1788, on the resignation 
 of Grimston. He was one of the Chaplains to his 
 
 * Miss Hawkins (Anecdotes, p. 80) says that " our vicar's " name was always 
 preceded by the epithet " learned." He was a feeble, ailing, emaciated man, who 
 had all the appearance of having sacrificed his health to his studies. She also 
 mentions one or two not very abstruse astronomical facts which the great man 
 impressed upon her youthful intelligence ; for instance, that the earth was round, 
 and not ten times the size of the sun. 
 
VICARS, 17821872. 123 
 
 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. He died 
 1 7th October, 1791, before he had completed his 
 thirty-first year. 
 
 Philip Du Val, D.D., F R.S., January 25th, 1792, on 
 the death of Burt. Canon of Windsor ; Treasurer 
 and Secretary to his Royal Highness the Duke of 
 Gloucester. 
 
 George Champagne", M.A., April 29th, 1808. Canon 
 of Windsor. He left a benefaction to Twickenham 
 Parish Schools. 
 
 Charles Proby, M.A., January 3Oth, 1818, on the 
 resignation of Champagne. Second son of the 
 Very Rev. Baptist Proby, Dean of Lichfield and 
 brother of the first Earl of Carysfort ; educated at 
 S. John's College, Cambridge. Vicar of Tach- 
 brook in the County of Warwick, and chaplain to 
 his cousin the second Earl of Carysfort when 
 ambassador at Berlin ; chaplain to the Speaker of 
 the House of Commons ; senior Canon of Windsor. 
 He held the vicarage of Twickenham for forty- one 
 years. 
 
 George Streynsham Master, M.A., March 29th, 1859, 
 on the death of Proby. Educated at Eton, and 
 at Brasenose College, Oxford. Previously Incum- 
 bent of Welsh Hampton, in Shropshire, and now 
 Rector of West Dean, Wilts. 
 
 George Goodwin Pownall Glossop, M.A., May loth, 
 1865, by exchange of livings with his predecessor. 
 Educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, 
 Cambridge. Formerly Rector of West Dean, 
 Wilts. Rural Dean of Hampton 1869. 
 
i2 4 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Curates of Twickenham. 
 
 }. Wayde, 1554. 
 
 Roger Pigot, 1565. 
 
 Thomas Hutchinson, 1640. 
 
 Fferdinand Nicolls, abt. 1645, mentioned in the Vestry 
 books. (See p. 188.) 
 
 John Knowles, or Knowler, date uncertain. [Ironside 
 gives 1652.] 
 
 Thomas Willis, 1646. [Ironside gives 1654.] The 
 preceding names, with the exception of Nicolls, 
 are taken from Ironside's history, as is also the 
 one following ; all subsequent are plain enough, 
 from the respective signatures in the Parish 
 Registers. Even the entries of marriages were 
 not signed by the officiating clergyman previous 
 to about the year 1730; those of baptisms and 
 burials not until much later. Lysons says wrongly 
 that Willis was a " Vicar of Twickenham appointed 
 by Parliament in 1646 : " 1646 was the year in 
 which he became locum tenens. Ironside's date is 
 obviously incorrect. Probably Knowles assisted 
 Willis in the cure. Willis was, according to Calamy, 
 son of a famous schoolmaster who resided in 
 Twickenham ; he wrote a pamphlet called A 
 Warning to England, or a Prophecy of Perilous 
 Times. "In 165 1," Lysons says, " an augmentation 
 of 55/. (i5/. of which was to be paid out of the 
 impropriated tithes of Twickenham) was voted to 
 him by the committees, his vicarage being only 
 55/. per annum ; " but this statement does not coin- 
 cide with the minutes of Vestry quoted on p. 188. 
 
THE CURATES, 15541730. 125 
 
 In the return of the Commissioners appointed to 
 inquire into the state of ecclesiastical benefices, 
 Willis is commended as being diligent in observing 
 all the commands of Parliament. He was deprived 
 in 1 66 1, the year after the Restoration. 
 
 Edward Johnson, M.A., 1719. 
 
 Robert Carr, M.A., about 1730. 
 
 Lysons says that Jeremiah Seed was curate from 
 1727-40, which is probably an error, see pp. 117, 
 1 1 8, 143. The same authority also says that 
 Dr. Morell was for some time curate of Twicken- 
 ham. This distinguished scholar and author was 
 born in 1703, and died in 1784. He was educated 
 at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, of which 
 society he became a Fellow. He was secretary of 
 the Society of Antiquaries, editor and translator 
 of many Greek plays, and one of the earliest con- 
 tributors to the Gentleman's Magazine. Dr. 
 Morell resided at Turnham Green, and was very 
 intimate with Hogarth, whom he is said to have 
 helped in the compilation of his Analysis of 
 Beauty. A portrait of him not, however, intended 
 as an illustration of that work by Hogarth, has 
 been engraved. There is no internal evidence 
 supplied by the registers or vestry-books of 
 Twickenham for allowing us to count him amongst 
 the number of eminent divines who have lived in 
 the parish. His 'signature is to be seen nowhere. 
 He is said to have been curate to Mr. Costard, 
 (vicar from 1764-1782), but it is incredible, if that 
 were the case, that Ironside should have made no 
 mention of such an assistant to a vicar whom he 
 
126 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 specially delighted to honour, and with whom he 
 was no doubt on terms of the greatest intimacy. 
 
 Nathaniel Trotter, M.A., 1760. 
 
 John Burrough, M.A., 1762. Senior Fellow of Mag- 
 dalen College, Oxford, D.D., and one of the 
 Preachers at his Majesty's Chapel Royal, White- 
 hall. 
 
 James Lacy, M.A., 1765. 
 
 Josiah Disturnell, M.A., 1776. Born about the year 
 1747; educated at Christ's Hospital, London, 
 under the Rev. Peter Whalley. When King 
 George III. and Queen Charlotte dined at Guild- 
 hall, gth November, 1762, Sir Samuel Fludyer 
 being Lord Mayor, Disturnell as senior scholar 
 made a speech of congratulation, copies of which 
 he had the honour of presenting to each of their 
 majesties at their coach door, who received them 
 very graciously, and expressed themselves well 
 pleased. He took his degree in arts at Pembroke 
 College, Cambridge, and was for some time curate 
 of the parish of Lothbury, London. On Mr. 
 Lacy's death he was appointed curate of Twicken- 
 ham, but on the death of Mr. Costard, his vicar, 
 he was removed, and returned to London. He 
 held many city chaplaincies and appointments, 
 and in 1792 was presented by the governors of 
 Christ's Hospital who are the patrons to the 
 rectory of Wormshill, in the county of Kent. 
 He held this living till his death in December, 
 
 1834. 
 
 Robartes Carr, 1782. Fifth son of Mr. Robert Carr 
 (curate of the parish about fifty years before). 
 
CURATES, 17601836. 127 
 
 Born at Twickenham, in the year 1 748 ; educated 
 at the Charterhouse, and at Worcester College, 
 Oxford; chaplain to the H.E.I.C. at S. Helena, 
 where he remained ten years. He left the curacy 
 in 1787, and embarked for Bengal, as one of the 
 company's chaplains in that province. He is said 
 to have written the following lines on the first leaf 
 of the old Parish Registers : they are not now in 
 existence : 
 
 A Parish Register ; 
 
 How few exceed this boundary of Fame, 
 Known to the world by some things more than name ! 
 This tells us when they're born and when they die ; 
 What more ? Why this is all their history : 
 Enough if Virtue filled the space between ; 
 Prov'd by the ends of being to have been. 
 
 A brother of his, the Rev. "Colston Carr, kept a 
 
 small but excellent school at Twickenham at this 
 
 time) and in 1797 was collated to the vicarage of 
 
 Ealing. 
 L. M. Stretch, 1783. His signature appears in the 
 
 parish books with " curate " appended to it, but 
 
 only a very few times. He also kept a school in 
 
 the village. 
 
 Peter D'Aranda, M.A., 1787. 
 Henry Fletcher, M.A., 1802. 
 Richard Baker, M.A., 1818. 
 John Addison Carr, M.A., 1820, Minor Canon of 
 
 S. George's Chapel, Windsor. 
 Francis Demainbray, M.A., 1828, of Pembroke College, 
 
 Oxford. 
 J. C Napleton, M.A., 1836, of Worcester College, 
 
 Oxford. Incumbent of All Saints', Lambeth, 1858. 
 
128 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 John Fyler Townsend, M.A., curate for a very short 
 
 time about 1840. 
 James Browell, M.A., 1841, of Exeter College, Oxford. 
 
 Curate of Fulham. Incumbent of S. James's, 
 
 Muswell Hill, 1846. 
 Thomas Mills, M.A., 1845, f Clare College, 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Edward Hutton, M.A., 1848. 
 W. D. Scoones, M.A., 1849, of Trinity College, Oxford. 
 
 Incumbent of Langley Marsh, 1856. 
 Henry T. Salmon, M.A., 1855, of Exeter College, 
 
 Oxford. Vicar of Milford, near Godalming, 
 
 Surrey. 
 Thomas Borlase Coulson, M.A., 1860, of Trinity 
 
 College, Cambridge. Vicar of Skipsea, 1862 ; 
 
 rector of S. Buftan, 1864. 
 Benjamin Maddock, M.A., 1862, of Corpus Christi 
 
 College, Cambridge. Incumbent of Marple, near 
 
 Stockport, 1862. 
 Vere Broughton Smyth, M.A., 1863, of Trinity 
 
 College, Cambridge, formerly rector of Bradfield, 
 
 Suffolk. Vicar of S. Nicholas, Warwick, 1871. 
 Richard Stutely Cobbett, M.A., 1866, of Pembroke 
 
 College, Oxford. 
 Edmund Reynolds Colby, M.A., 1871, of Exeter 
 
 College, Oxford. 
 Joseph Boss Williams Woollnough, M.A., 1872, of 
 
 Worcester College, Oxford. 
 
ERECTION OF TRINITY CHURCH. 129 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 TRINITY CHURCH. 
 
 THE NEW CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, TWICKENHAM COMMON 
 ERECTION IN 1841 ENDOWMENT ENLARGEMENT IN 1863 
 MEMORIAL WINDOWS, &c. SCHOOLS MURAL INSCRIPTIONS 
 PERPETUAL CURATES OR VICARS FROM 1841 1872. 
 
 IN the year 1837, as the need of church accommodation 
 pressed strongly on the public mind, certain proposals 
 were made in vestry to repew the Parish Church, 
 and plans for that purpose were prepared and sub- 
 mitted. This scheme was ultimately abandoned, and 
 the following course of action adopted : 
 
 A public meeting was held in the school-room, 
 Twickenham, on the 27th of July, 1839, to decide upon 
 the necessary steps to be taken for providing an 
 additional church in the parish. Major Harriott 
 occupied the chair. The first resolution, moved by 
 W. Clay, Esq., M.P., and seconded by Henry Pownall, 
 Esq., set forth strongly the necessity of increased 
 church accommodation. The population of the parish 
 was stated to be at its lowest 5,000, for which, 
 spiritually, there was, as the inhabitants had declared 
 in vestry on the 27th December, 1838, no adequate 
 provision in fact the report of the Ecclesiastical 
 
 9 
 
130 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Revenue Commissioners in 1835 had described the 
 church accommodation of the parish to be for 800 only. 
 It was further determined that a new church should 
 be erected, having a separate ecclesiastical district, with 
 a minister, to be appointed by the bishop of the diocese, 
 and that a committee should be appointed consisting 
 of the following gentlemen : 
 
 W. Clay, Esq., M.P. 
 
 T. Twining, Esq. 
 
 D. Crole, Esq. 
 
 W. Jones Burdett, Esq. 
 
 J. J. Briscoe, Esq., M.P. 
 
 H. Pownall, Esq. 
 
 Capt. Jelf Sharp. 
 
 E. H. Donnithorne, Esq. 
 
 Major Harriott. 
 
 Mr. Goodchild. 
 
 Mr. Toone. 
 
 Mr. May. 
 
 who were empowered to take the necessary steps to 
 attain these objects. Of this committee the Rev. 
 Archdeacon Cambridge was Treasurer. 
 
 Their application to his Majesty's Commissioners for 
 Building Churches was favourably responded to, and 
 the Bishop of London gave his consent to the proposal 
 that the appointment of the ministers should be vested 
 in himself and his successors. An eligible site was pro- 
 cured at a cost of 2OO/., and reported by Mr. Warren, 
 a land-surveyor of eminence, to be in every way fit for 
 the intended building. 
 
 Mr. Basevi was employed as architect, and he pre- 
 pared a plan and an estimate for a building to contain 
 600 persons, half of the area of which was to be fitted 
 with free seats, to be devoted to the use of the poor ; 
 the remainder with pews to be let upon a scale of 
 moderate prices. The cost of the church was 2,8oo/. 
 It was endowed w r ith 2,ooo/. ; and with nineteen acres 
 of land given by Archdeacon Cambridge, two acres 
 
ENLARGEMENT OF TRINITY CHURCH. 131 
 
 of which were sold to the South Western Railway 
 Company for 7oo/., which sum has been added to 
 the original endowment fund. 
 
 The subscription list contained many munificent 
 contributions ; one-half of the required sum being pro- 
 vided by the committee on the occasion of their first 
 meeting. 
 
 The church, which was dedicated to the Holy 
 Trinity, was consecrated on July i5th, 1841, by the 
 Bishop of London (Dr. C. J. Blomfield), attended by 
 the Rev. J. Sinclair, his chaplain. 
 
 After the lapse of twenty years, during which time 
 the population of that part of the parish had more 
 than doubled, further provision for spiritual needs 
 became necessary. Trinity Church was for this 
 reason enlarged. By the removal of the original 
 east wall the old church was made to form a nave 
 to a new transept, and an apsidal chancel of great 
 and somewhat disproportionate dimensions, and 400 
 additional seats, were thus obtained. Several other 
 improvements were contemplated which have not yet 
 been carried out. Mr. Dollman, formerly a pupil of 
 Mr. Basevi's, was the architect of the additions, and 
 the cost of them, defrayed by subscriptions, amounted 
 to 3,ooo/. The interior presents few features of interest 
 except the stained glass windows. Of the windows 
 which fill the chancel apse the centre one depicts " the 
 Crucifixion," the two on the left hand " the Adoration 
 of the Shepherds," and " the Baptism of our Lord ; " 
 the two on the right hand, " the appearance of the 
 Angel to the Holy Women at the tomb," and "the 
 Ascension." 
 
132 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 A brass plate beneath the centre window, which 
 was erected by the Hon. and Rev. F. E. C. Byng, as 
 a memorial of his first wife, is thus inscribed : 
 
 In gratitude to Almighty God for his mercies still vouchsafed : 
 and in pious memory of the dead, this window has been placed by 
 F. E. C. B., Sept r 1865. 
 
 The enlarged church was consecrated on De- 
 cember 24th, 1863, by the Bishop of London (Dr. A. 
 C. Tait), the Rev. W. H. Fremantle, his chaplain, 
 attending him. 
 
 Another window, recently inserted at the south end 
 of the transept, is in memory of Mr. John May. The 
 centre light represents " the Sermon on the Mount ; " the 
 left, " S. John Baptist preaching in the wilderness;" 
 the right, " S. Paul preaching at Athens." Sacred 
 symbols are placed above, and beneath is the text 
 " Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God," 
 with this very simple dedicatory inscription, 
 
 "To the Glory of God and in Memory of John May, this window 
 has been placed as a mark of esteem and affection." * 
 
 Its cost, subscribed by Mr. May's friends and 
 neighbours, was 2oo/. 
 
 Messrs. Ward and Hughes, of Frith Street, Soho, 
 are the artists of both windows. 
 
 The Registers necessarily do not yet contain any 
 names of historical note. That of baptisms commences 
 in 1841, that of marriages in 1847, tnat f burials in 1848. 
 
 * Mr. May had been churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church from its consecra- 
 tion in 1841 until his death in 1867. He had also been churchwarden of the 
 parish, and had served almost every parochial office. Besides having been chair- 
 man of the Board of Surveyors, he was chairman of the Board of Guardians in the 
 Brentford Union for twenty-two successive years. 
 
NATIONAL SCHOOLS. 133 
 
 Among the earlier entries in the last, is the interment 
 of the Rev. Thomas Bevan, the first incumbent : the 
 officiating clergyman on the occasion was the Rev. 
 Dr. Frederick Temple (then Principal of the Training 
 College at Kneller Hall), the present Bishop of Exeter. 
 Among the more recent marriages (August 4th, 1866) is 
 that of the then incumbent, the Hon. and Rev. Francis 
 Edmund Cecil Byng, son of George Stevens Byng, 
 Earl of Strafford, to Emily Georgina, daughter of Lord 
 Frederick Herbert Kerr, Captain R.N., performed by 
 the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Archibald Campbell, 
 Lord Bishop of London, assisted by the Rev. Edwyn 
 Arkwright, curate of Holy Trinity Church. 
 
 The parish of Holy Trinity possesses excellent 
 national schools, generally known as " Archdeacon 
 Cambridge's Schools." They were built by sub- 
 scription as a memorial of Archdeacon Cambridge, 
 and in grateful remembrance of his liberal contributions 
 towards the erection and endowment of the Church. 
 His widow left yoo/., which yields a little more than 
 2o/. per annum, as a school endowment ; the property is 
 vested in trustees and the schools are governed by a 
 committee. There are two school-rooms for boys and 
 girls respectively, with class-rooms for each, and houses 
 for the master and mistress. They accommodate 1 60 
 boys and 140 girls. There is also an infant school in 
 another part of the parish, under a separate trust. 
 
134 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Monumental Inscriptions in Holy Trinity Church. 
 On the east wall of the south transept are three 
 tablets, the first, 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of 
 
 BARBARA 
 
 The beloved wife of 
 Lieut. -Colonel Anthony William Durnford 
 
 of Colne Villa Twickenham, 
 
 (Late of the Grenadier Guards) 
 
 and only daughter and heiress 
 
 of the late Hon. William Brabazon 
 
 of Tara House, County of Meath, Ireland. 
 
 Died 4th December 1845. Aged 76. 
 And is interred in a private vault under 
 St. John's Wood Chapel Regent's Park. 
 
 The second is inscribed as follows : 
 
 In the New Burial Ground 
 are interred the mortal remains of 
 
 RICHARD ANCELL 
 Late of Gifford Lodge, in this Parish Esquire. 
 
 After 38 years service 
 In the Secretary of State's office 
 He spent his last days in retirement 
 
 And died in peace 
 on the 1 8th January 1844, aged 88 years. 
 
 Also of ELIZA FRANCES his wife 
 who died on the 2;th of October 1860. 
 
 Aged 74 years. 
 The third is 
 
 In Memory of 
 
 FRANCES ELIZABETH 
 
 the beloved wife of 
 
 MAJOR THOMAS GEORGE HARRIOTT 
 
 eldest daughter of William Henry Ashhurst Esq. 
 
 of Watherstock House Oxfordshire 
 
 She died on the i5th May 1839. 
 
 In the 2 gth year of her age. 
 She was all gentleness, affection and devotion. 
 
TABLETS IN TRANSEPT AND NAVE. 135 
 
 On the east wall of the north transept is a tablet 
 
 In Memory of 
 The Rev d THOMAS BEVAN M.A. 
 
 Second son of Charles Bevan 
 Late Lieut 1 Colonel of the 4th Regiment of Foot. 
 
 He was ten years Minister of this Church 
 And departed this life after a short illness 
 
 July 2nd 1851. Aged 44. 
 " My trust is in thy Mercy and my Heart 
 is joyful in Thy Salvation." 
 
 1 3th Psalm, Verse $th. 
 And another 
 
 In Memory of 
 THOMAS MOXON ESQ. 
 of the Lodge, Twickenham 
 who died i6th January 1854 
 
 Aged 92. 
 
 Also of ANNE his wife 
 who died i6th January 1843 
 
 in her 83rd year 
 
 Also of ANNE MARY 
 
 Eldest child of the above 
 
 who died 4th February 1837 
 
 in her 5oth year. 
 
 On the south wall of the nave is a tablet 
 
 In Memory of 
 
 LIONEL DANIEL MACKINNON 
 Lieut. Colonel in the Coldstream Guards 
 
 Youngest son of 
 W. A. MACKINNON, ESQ. M.P. 
 
 He fell in action 
 
 Whilst gallantly leading on his men 
 to repulse a very superior force 
 
 of the enemy 
 
 at the memorable 
 
 Battle of Inkermann 
 
 on the 5th November 1854 
 
 Aged 2^. 
 
 This tablet is erected 
 by his sorrowing widow. 
 
136 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 On the north wall of the nave is a tablet 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of 
 
 HARRIET 
 
 Wife of SIR WILLIAM CLAY, bart, of Fulwell Lodge in this Parish, 
 born in June 1800, deceased i8th December 1867. 
 
 She died after 45 years of married life, 
 leaving to those to whom that life had been devoted, 
 
 and by whom she was so revered and beloved, 
 
 the imperishable recollection of every virtue that could ennoble 
 
 and every grace that could adorn the character of 
 
 a wife and a mother. 
 
 By the side of this, and corresponding with it in size 
 and form, is a second, 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of 
 
 SIR WILLIAM CLAY, Baronet, 
 
 Born on the i3th of August, 1791, died on the J3th of March, 1869. 
 
 He lived respected and admired by all who knew him. 
 As a father he was beloved by his children, who mourn their 
 irreparable loss, and cherish with fondness the memory of one, 
 who, by his unvarying kindness, and nobleness of heart endeared him- 
 self to them. 
 
 He represented the Tower Hamlets in Parliament from 1832 until 
 1867, and was secretary of the Board of Control, from 1839 to 
 1841. 
 
CLERGY OF TRINITY CHURCH. 137 
 
 The Clergy of Holy Trinity Church, originally Perpetual Curates, now 
 by recent Act, Vicars. 
 
 Thomas Bevan, M.A., 1841, of Balliol College, Oxford, 
 2nd class classics, 1828, previously curate of 
 Morval, and then of Chittlehampton, both in the 
 diocese of Exeter. 
 
 James Twining, M.A., 1851. Of Trinity College, Cam- 
 bridge, 8th Wrangler : now rector of Little Cas- 
 terton, Rutland. Previously curate of Battersea. 
 
 The Hon. Francis E. C. Byng, M.A., 1862, of Christ 
 Church, Oxford. Formerly rector of Little 
 Casterton : he exchanged benefices with his prede- 
 cessor. Late Chaplain at Hampton Court Palace. 
 Now vicar of St. Peter's, Onslow Gardens, and 
 Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. Mr. 
 Byng has published several occasional sermons, 
 and a volume of Sermons for Household reading. 
 
 William Frederick Erskine Knollys, M.A., 1867, of 
 Merton College Oxford. Formerly rector of 
 Quedgeley, near Gloucester ; afterwards incum- 
 bent of Barkingside with Aldborough Hatch, 
 Essex. Late rural dean of Hampton. Now Her 
 Majesty's Reader and Preacher at Whitehall : 
 Chaplain to His Grace the Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, and rector of Saltwood, Kent. 
 
 ISAAC TAYLOR, M.A., 1869, of Trinity College, Cam- 
 bridge, i Qth Wrangler. Previously vicar of St. 
 Matthias', Bethnal Green. Mr. Taylor has 
 published an edition of Becker s Charicles : 
 Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient 
 
138 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Greeks. The Liturgy and the Dissenters. Words 
 and Places, or Etymological Illustrations of 
 History, Ethnology and Geography. The Family 
 Pen: Memorials, Biographical and Literary, 
 of the Taylor Family of Ongar. The Burden 
 of the Poor : A slight sketch of a poor District in 
 the East of London ; and he is now preparing a 
 volume in Macmillan's Sunday Library, to be 
 entitled Xavier and the Jesuit Missionaries. 
 The last licensed curate was the REV. HILL TOLLER, 
 M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. His predecessors 
 have been so numerous and have held, as a rule, the 
 curacy for so short a time, that it is not thought neces- 
 sary to enumerate them. 
 
WHITTON CHURCH. 139 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 WHITTON CHURCH AND TWICKENHAM CHAPEL. 
 
 THE CHURCH OF SS. PHILIP AND JAMES, WHITTON DESCRIPTION 
 OF THE BUILDING AND ITS FITTINGS MEMORIAL WINDOWS 
 SPECIAL OFFERINGS VICARAGE HOUSE THE VICAR PRO- 
 POSED NEW CHURCH IN S. MARGARET'S TWICKENHAM 
 CHAPEL PROPRIETORS AND MINISTERS SCHOOLS NONCON- 
 FORMIST PLACES OF WORSHIP. 
 
 THE small hamlet of Whitton in the parish of Twicken- 
 ham, possessing in the past an unenviable notoriety 
 as a resort of characters not of the best class, and 
 containing at the most but two residences of any size 
 and importance, shared in the growth, although to a less 
 extent, which other portions of the parish had developed, 
 chiefly owing to the building carried on there of cottages 
 for the poorer working classes, by the late Mr. Kyezor. 
 It therefore needed more adequate provision as regards 
 spiritual requirements than the restored parish church 
 could furnish. To supply this need was one of the 
 many excellent projects entertained and carried out 
 by the late vicar, Mr. Master. During the year 1860 
 a committee, consisting of the following influential 
 residents was formed, viz. : 
 
 C. E. Murray, Esq. 
 C. R. Curtis, Esq. 
 H. Pownall, Esq. 
 H. G. Bohn, Esq. 
 F. H. N. Glossop, Esq. 
 
 E. H. Donnithorne, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 Major Whitmore. 
 Rev. G. S. Master. 
 Rev. J. Twining. 
 
 Rev. C. B. Reid. 
 Mr. John May. 
 Mr. Corfe. 
 Mr. Powell. 
 Mr. Withers. 
 
140 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Under their auspices a church was erected at a cost 
 of 2,i5o/. ; this sum did not include several additional 
 expenses, incurred in providing bells and entrance gates, 
 and in paying legal fees, which amounted to 3 5<D/. besides. 
 
 The first stone of the building was laid on Wednes- 
 day, July 1 7th, 1 86 1, by Master Augustus Murray, son 
 of Colonel C. E. Murray of Whitton Park. The church 
 was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of London (Dr. A.C. 
 Tait), who was attended on the occasion by the Rev. 
 W. H. Fremantle, his chaplain, on May 3rd, 1862, the 
 nearest day that could be arranged to the festival of 
 SS. Philip and James, to which saints it is dedicated. 
 
 The patronage of the living is vested in the vicars 
 of Twickenham. Mr. F. H. Pownall, of Gower Street 
 was the architect, and Mr. J. B. Jacklin, of Twickenham, 
 the contractor. Mr. Master has given the following 
 description of the building : 
 
 The church is of the First Pointed style, and of excellent outline 
 and construction. It is constructed externally of Kentish rag, with 
 Bath stone dressings and high pitched roofs of blue slate. Its most 
 noticeable feature is the elegant stone spirelet which surmounts the 
 bell-turret, built by Miss Gostling of Whitton Park as a memorial to the 
 late Rev. Augustus Gostling, LL.D. The ground plan of the church 
 comprises a chancel with organ chamber on the north ; a nave with 
 bell-turret at its north-west angle, a north aisle and north porch. The 
 internal walls are of yellow brick with bands and patterns of red, 
 the arcade between the nave and aisle being similarly treated with 
 excellent effect. The pillars are of Bath stone, and have boldly-carved 
 capitals of crisp foliage. The chancel arch is very lofty, and rests 
 upon stone corbels ; an elegant double arch communicates with the 
 organ chamber. The reredos of tiles is continued along the walls 
 of the sacrarium. The eastern window, an elegant triplet, is filled 
 with stained glass by Clayton and Bell, and represents in medallions 
 the principal events in the life of our Lord. This window with the 
 chancel, of which it forms a part, is a memorial to the wife of 
 
GIFTS TO THE CHURCH. 141 
 
 .Colonel Murray of Whitton Park. In the organ-chamber is another 
 memorial window, by Lavers and Barraud, to the wife and daughter 
 of E. H. Donnithorne, Esq. ; its subjects are " the raising of Jairus' 
 daughter," and " our Lord with Martha and Mary in their home at 
 Bethany." The excellent colouring of both these windows contributes 
 greatly to the internal effect of the church. The seats and fittings are 
 of stained pine, of which material the roofs are also composed. There 
 is a dwarf stone screen at the entrance to the chancel which is fitted with 
 stalls. The font and pulpit are of brick and stone bonded together. 
 
 The church can be enlarged at any time, should 
 need arise, by the addition of a south aisle. Besides 
 the memorial windows above-named, other special 
 offerings were made to the church. Miss Proby pre- 
 sented the Holy Communion plate; Mrs. Williams the 
 velvet altar cloth ; the late Mrs. Glossop of Silver Hall, 
 Isleworth, the marble shafts for the west windows ; 
 Miss Gostling gave the site ; and the architect's 
 expenses were defrayed by the Rev. Henry Glossop, 
 late vicar of Isleworth, F. H. N. Glossop, Esq., and the 
 Rev. G. G. P. Glossop, then rector of West Dean, 
 Wilts. The font was given by Mrs. H. N. Fisher, 
 of Twickenham ; and the Incorporated Church Building 
 Society made a grant of I5o/. 
 
 Towards the endowment, the Rev. G. S. Master 
 Vicar of Twickenham, resigned vicarial tithe rent-charge 
 to the amount of 5o/. per annum. J. Haggard, Esq. 
 gave a piece of land, let at I2/. per annum. Mr. Kyezor 
 gave a rent-charge on his property of 5/. per annum ; 
 and John Farnell, Esq. subscribed towards a capital 
 Fund for the increase of the endowment, 5o/. This, 
 supplemented by pew rents or offertories, produces an 
 income for the incumbent estimated at 1 3o/. per annum. 
 
 In 1865 a committee was formed to promote the 
 erection of a parsonage house, for which a site was 
 
142 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 offered by Miss Gostling contiguous to the church. 
 The project has been carried out, and an excellent 
 house built, from the designs of Mr. Edward Lamb, 
 at a cost, exclusive of draining and legal and professional 
 charges, of about i,2OO/. 
 
 There are few noteworthy entries in the Registers, 
 and any that there may be, are of too modern a date for 
 quotation. 
 
 The first and present incumbent (now vicar) is 
 
 WILLIAM GAMBIER HAWTAYNE, M.A., of Magdalen 
 Hall, Oxford, inducted on the i6th July, 1862. 
 
 There is at Whitton a small National School. 
 
 For some time past efforts have been made to 
 separate a new ecclesiastical parish which should 
 embrace the neighbourhood called S. Margaret's, the 
 eastern portion of the parish near Richmond Bridge, 
 including the populous district of Cambridge and 
 Twickenham Parks. Subscriptions towards the erection 
 of a church had been promised, amounting to about 
 i,ooo/. A site was offered in 1868, in Cambridge 
 Park by Messrs. Little, but for certain reasons the offer 
 was withdrawn. Another site was selected in 1871 in 
 Twickenham Park, but subsequently abandoned. The 
 scheme has at present proved utterly abortive, although 
 grants had been promised by the present Vicar of 
 Twickenham and J. Haggard, Esq., similar to those 
 made by the late vicar and the latter gentleman in the 
 case of the church erected at Whitton. Had the pro- 
 ject been successful it was intended that the Rev. V. B. 
 Smyth, M.A., late senior curate of the parish church, 
 should have been the first vicar. 
 
MINISTERS OF TWICKENHAM CHAPEL. 143 
 
 Twickenham (now called Montpelier) Chapel. 
 
 About the year 1720 Captain Gray, who then 
 possessed an estate at Twickenham, built on a part of 
 it a row of houses called Montpelier Row, and for the 
 convenience of the inhabitants he erected, in 1727, a 
 "small neat chapel." It is a unique and most 
 unecclesiastical structure, deriving all the interest it 
 possesses from its age and the eminent men who have 
 ministered in it. 
 
 Being only a licensed building and unconsecrated, 
 it has no district attached to it, and is, in fact, only a 
 piece of private property. 
 
 After Captain Gray's death, the houses in the Row 
 were sold to different people, as was also the chapel. 
 No doubt it was much used by members of the royal 
 household during the Countess of Suffolk's residence at 
 Marble Hill. 
 
 The first minister of the chapel appears to have 
 been 
 
 The Rev. Matthias Sympson, to whom 
 
 The Rev. Jeremiah Seed, M.A., fellow of Queen's 
 College, Oxford, succeeded. He was Waterland's 
 friend, and preached in this chapel the doctor's funeral 
 sermon ; he held also the Lady Moyer Lecture. (See 
 p. 117). 
 
 After Mr. Seed followed the Rev. John Clarke, and 
 then 
 
 The Rev. William Sympson, on whose surrender 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Hemming, D. D., was admitted, 
 2oth June, 1761. Next 
 
 The Rev William Paxton, 29th December, 1786. 
 
J44 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 The proprietorship then came into the hands of 
 Thomas R. Cole, a layman, we may infer, as he is 
 styled "Esq. " in the original document, I5th April, 
 1789. It was surrendered to 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Hemming, M.A., nephew to the 
 aforenamed Dr. Hemming, 7th April, 1790, and 
 
 The Rev. George Owen Cambridge was admitted 
 for life, on Mr. Hemming's surrender, in 1805 ; 
 then 
 
 The Rev. George Hemming ministered in the 
 chapel for a time, and on his surrender 
 
 The Rev. Henry Glossop, M.A., Vicar of Isle- 
 worth, became proprietor, subject to Archdeacon Cam- 
 bridge's life interest, 26th April, 1832. On the death 
 of the Archdeacon, in 1841, and the surrender of the 
 Rev. H. Glossop and his wife 
 
 The Rev. Henry Parish, LL.D., became minister 
 and proprietor nth April, 1844, and the present minister 
 and proprietor is 
 
 The Rev. William Webster, M.A., late fellow of 
 Queen's College, Cambridge, admitted 7th November, 
 1854. Mr. Webster is co-editor with Mr. Wilkinson 
 of an edition of the Greek Testament, author of 
 Syntax and Synonyms of the New Testament, and of 
 several other works.* Mr. Webster has in his 
 possession an old prayer-book, given to the chapel by 
 the Rev. Matthias Sympson in 1729, the fly-leaves of 
 which appear to have been used as a register. It 
 contains records of marriages from 1729 to 1752. One 
 was performed by Mr. Sympson himself, four by Seed, 
 
 * I am indebted to Mr. Webster for most of the facts concerning the chapel 
 and its ministers. 
 
MONTPELIER SCHOOL. I4 5 
 
 (one of them after banns published in the parish 
 church), and five subsequent to these by John Clarke : 
 the rest are by strangers. An Act of Parliament 
 passed, as I am informed, somewhere about this time 
 (1752), restrained such irregular solemnizations in un- 
 consecrated buildings. 
 
 Montpelier School was built in 1856 on land given 
 by the minister, which was transferred to trustees. It 
 was originally designed for the instruction of about 50 
 children, but there are now about 100 in regular 
 attendance. During the last two years the apartments 
 built for the mistress have been converted into a school 
 for infants, and new rooms erected above it. The 
 Sunday schools are attended by about 60 children. 
 The school is under Government inspection, and has 
 hitherto received liberal grants made in accordance 
 with the results of the examination held by the 
 inspector. 
 
 At the time Ironside wrote there were "no Dissent- 
 ing or other meeting houses, or any popish chapel in 
 the parish, and but very few of its inhabitants " were " of 
 either persuasion." Lysons mentions the existence of 
 a meeting house belonging to the Methodists in the 
 late Mr. Wesley's connection. This still exists, and 
 bears the date 1800. It is situated in the Grosvenor 
 Road, near the first additional burial-ground, and is 
 still the only nonconformist place of worship in the 
 ecclesiastical district attached to the old parish church. 
 
 In the parish of Holy Trinity are a Baptist Chapel, 
 and a Congregational Chapel with schools attached ; 
 they are both of recent erection. 
 
 10 
 
146 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 FORMATION OF THE PRESENT SCHOOLS BOYS', GIRLS', AND SUNDAY 
 SCHOOLS VARIOUS BEQUESTS ERECTION OF OLD SCHOOLS IN 
 SCHOOL ALLEY, 1809 NEW SCHOOLS IN ARRAGON ROAD, 1861 
 AVERAGE ATTENDANCE AND NUMBER ON THE BOOKS 
 FURTHER BENEFACTIONS. 
 
 THE present schools have been formed from three 
 distinct schools, of which it will be necessary to speak 
 separately. 
 
 First the Boys School. In one of the old Parochial 
 vestry books there are traces of the existence of a 
 parochial school as far back as the year 1645, when 
 entries begin to appear concerning the admission of 
 masters to teach in the school-house, which seems 
 to have consisted of apartments in the old parish 
 houses called the church-houses, and to have been 
 kept in repair by the parish and used rent free. 
 
 An entry dated July i2th, 1686, ordered that 
 William Laurence should have the privilege of teaching 
 school in the church-house room, but that he should 
 teach three poor parish boys, to be selected by the 
 vestry, gratis. This regulation seems to have been of 
 an earlier date than this first entry concerning it, 
 for a subsequent entry of May 4th, 1691, relating 
 
RICHARD HOL MAN'S GIFT. 147 
 
 to the appointment of three boys to be taught to 
 read and write, mentions the fact that the school- 
 masters of Twickenham had, by former contracts with 
 the minister and churchwardens, agreed to instruct and 
 teach " three poor inhabitants their children " living 
 in the parish. 
 
 The earliest endowment appears to be that by 
 Richard Holman, who gave by will, proved in 1710, 
 towards educating the poor parish boys of Twicken- 
 ham, ioo/., "to be paid to the minister, trustees, and 
 guardians of the said poor boys, they procuring good 
 security by land," the yearly rent of which to be 
 towards the charge for educating from time to time a 
 certain number of the said poor parish boys at the 
 school. Four computed acres of copyhold land held 
 in the Manor of Isleworth Syon were purchased with 
 this legacy. Upon the enclosure of the common lands 
 in 1817, an allotment containing 2 a. $r. 33^., was 
 made to the trustees of the school in lieu of this land 
 which lay dispersed in the common fields. By this 
 exchange the property was rendered compact and 
 suffered no diminution, as the computed acres in the 
 open fields were generally found not to comprise more 
 than from two-thirds to three-fourths of a measured 
 acre. This parcel of land is in the South Field in 
 the Upper Teddington Road, and has been usually 
 let at a yearly rental of ten guineas. 
 
 Robert Moore by his will, proved in 1 726, devised 
 " a little house on the common's side (after the death of 
 one Robert Hayworth) to the free school of Twicken- 
 ham, towards educating the poor children and scholars 
 thereof for ever." The premises which were copyhold 
 
i 4 8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 were granted to the late Countess of Dunmore, on lease 
 in 1814, at a yearly rental of six guineas. At that 
 period the house no longer existed, but there was a 
 small building on its site used as a dairy. On the 
 enclosure of the common lands, a small frontage to 
 this piece of land containing twenty-four perches, was 
 allotted to the school. The whole property has since 
 been exchanged with E. H. Donnithorne, Esq., the 
 present owner, for a copyhold house in Syon Manor, in 
 the fifth cross -raod, let upon a long lease at a 
 ground rental of twelve guineas per annum. 
 
 At the time of the above-mentioned inclosure 
 an allotment was made in respect of all the charity 
 lands in the parish, the proportion belonging to the 
 schools being 3 r. 2op. (This is the amount in the 
 enclosure award : in the tithe award it is said to be 
 i a. or. ^p. which latter is supposed to be correct.) It 
 is a piece of copyhold land in the Manor of Syon, on 
 Whitton Common adjoining the remainder of the 
 parish land ; it was let on lease at a yearly rental of 
 2/. 2s. to the late Sir William Clay, Bart. 
 
 Second the Girls School. From an early period 
 there appears to have been a parochial school for girls, 
 distinct from the boys' school. There are two entries 
 dated 1648, in the old vestry book, of payments for 
 work done at " the maids' school." This school has 
 received the following benefactions : 
 
 An old school account book, dated 1753, records 
 that Lady Blount gave to the girls' charity school a 
 pew in the north gallery and half a pew in the south 
 break, which were let respectively at eight guineas 
 and one guinea per annum. This charity, on account 
 
STAFFORD BRISCOES BENEFACTION. 149 
 
 of its illegality, has been lost to the parish for some 
 years. 
 
 An annuity of two guineas was bequeathed by the 
 Marchioness of Tweedale : the date is not known. In 
 1815, the then Lord Dysart redeemed this annuity by 
 an investment of yo/. Three per Cent. Consols, in the 
 names of trustees ; the first dividends were received 
 in 1817, when two years' dividends were paid together. 
 
 Third the Sunday School. Stafford Briscoe, Esq., 
 who died in 1789, gave to the vicar and churchwardens 
 of the parish ioo/. upon trust, for the benefit of the 
 Sunday Schools for children in the parish of Twicken- 
 ham, which he wished to be as well for boys as for 
 girls ; the ground to be purchased with the said ioo/. 
 to remain in the names of the vicar and churchwardens 
 of the said parish for ever, and to be transferred into 
 their names as often as there should be a new vicar of 
 the parish. This gift is now represented by I2O/. New 
 Three per Cent. Stock. Another trustee has been 
 added : the dividends are now paid to the Vicar and 
 expended in accordance with the testator's wishes. 
 
 Although an investment was made in accordance 
 with the terms of the will, the very existence of the 
 fund was lost sight of for a period of ten years. In 
 1800 it was discovered, but its true character not being 
 known, it was re-transferred, and the ten-and-a-half 
 years dividends then due, and all subsequent dividends 
 till 1 8 1 8, were carried to the general parish account out 
 of which the charitable payments of the vestry were then 
 made. In 1818 the vestry ordered the stock to be 
 sold for repairing the workhouse. Soon after, the 
 terms of the benefaction were fully discovered, and 
 
150 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the vestry, in February, 1819, ordered that so much 
 money should be supplied out of the poor's rates as 
 would replace the ioo/. stock together with the interest 
 received at the time of its being sold out ; io8/. igs. lod. 
 Four per Cents, were accordingly purchased in the 
 appointed names of the then vicar and churchwardens. 
 
 In the year 1809 these three schools were combined 
 in one establishment upon the plan of the national 
 schools, and the separate funds above-mentioned were 
 brought into one account. In addition to these funds 
 there was a sum of 3,388/. gs. id. Three per Cent. 
 Reduced Annuities, which had arisen from legacies 
 and savings of income. 
 
 A part of this fund, arising from two legacies of 
 5<D/. each, had, at the time of Lord Brougham's Charity 
 Commission, been so recently invested that no dividend 
 had then been received. 
 
 The whole permanent fund belonging to the schools 
 from the above-mentioned sources yielded, in the earlier 
 years of the present century, just I35/. ; this was supple- 
 mented by a subscription list which brought in about 
 1 1 8/. per annum; and by two sermons, one at the church 
 and the other at the chapel, the produce of which together 
 was estimated at about 8o/. The expenses of the school, 
 including 1 39/. for the clothing of thirty boys and twenty- 
 four girls, amounted to nearly 3oo/. 
 
 In 1826 Thomas Beagly left 5o/. to the school 
 founded for clothing and educating poor boys in 
 Twickenham, to be disposed of by the trustees at 
 their discretion. 
 
 The above - mentioned stock, amounting to 
 3,388/. 9^. id., being unaffected by any particular trusts, 
 
CANON CHAMPAGNES GIFT. 151 
 
 was at the disposal of the trustees, for any purpose 
 to which they might desire to apply it. So in 1822 
 6oo/. Three per Cents. Reduced was sold and the 
 proceeds invested in the purchase of 5 a. 3 r. 8/. of 
 freehold land in Moor Mead, called Bandy Close, from 
 the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. This was 
 duly transferred to the trustees : the consideration for 
 its purchase was 535/. It is said to have been bought 
 for a playground, which, from the liability of the field 
 to be flooded, appears unlikely. 
 
 Subsequently a parcel of this ground, said to contain 
 i a. i r., but which in fact contained only 3 r. 39^., was 
 sold to the South Western Railway Company. The 
 proceeds were invested in the purchase of 36o/. i6s. 6d. 
 Consols, now standing in the name of the Accountant 
 General. The remainder is let on lease at a yearly 
 rental of 26/. 55*. 
 
 In addition to the above bequests the Rev. George 
 Champagne^ canon of Windsor and vicar of the parish, 
 by trust-deed, dated February i2th, 1818, transferred 
 the sum of ioo/. Five per Cents, to the dean and 
 canons of Windsor upon trust to pay the dividends 
 yearly to the vicar and curate for the time being of 
 the parish of Twickenham and the minister of Twicken- 
 ham Chapel, being a minister of the Church of England, 
 to be by them expended annually between Christmas 
 and Lady-day, in the purchase of clothes and books to 
 be distributed among six poor boys and four poor girls 
 belonging to and receiving their education in the 
 Charity School of the parish of Twickenham, as shall 
 be deemed by the said vicar, curate, and minister, upon 
 examination, to have made the greatest progress in 
 
152 . MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 religious knowledge in the preceding year, or to be 
 laid out and applied in any other manner for their 
 benefit as shall be thought fit. 
 
 On May 6th, 1823 (the Five per Cents, having 
 been converted into Four per Cents.), Mr. Champagne 
 bought 2O/. additional Stock and invested it as above, 
 to supply the deficiency. For some time this charity 
 yielded 5/. per annum, but from the reduction in the 
 rate of interest, it now yields not more than 3/. 13^. 
 per annum, which is applied to the purchase of reward 
 books. 
 
 By a trust-deed dated January 27th, 1852, which 
 set forth that certain sums had from time to time 
 been subscribed to form a fund, the interest of which 
 should be applied in giving rewards to young persons 
 educated at the schools who after leaving the school 
 should " continue in one service, performing the same 
 well and faithfully ; " provision is made for giving to 
 such young persons rewards of i/. and 3/. for one and 
 three years service respectively ; the balance of the in- 
 come, if any, may be applied to any other purposes for the 
 benefit of the schools. There is a sum of i,oc>5/. 18^. jd. 
 Three per Cent. Consols, belonging to this trust, of 
 which the vicar of Twickenham must always be a 
 trustee. 
 
 Richard Tollemache, Esq., who died in 1867, left 
 2QO/, to the Parochial Schools. 
 
 The school was removed from the church-houses, 
 where it was originally kept, about the year 1 749, and 
 was then held in different hired premises for which 
 rent was paid out of the funds. 
 
ERECTION OF THE OLD SCHOOLS. 153 
 
 The old schools had been managed for many years 
 by trustees, of whom mention is made in Holman's 
 will. 
 
 At an adjourned vestry meeting held March 25th, 
 1809, for considering the state of the charity schools 
 and appointing a master, it was resolved that in future 
 Dr. Bell's (the Madras) system of instruction should be 
 adopted; that the schools should be open to all inhabit- 
 ants of good conduct, whether parishioners or not; that 
 the vicar, the curate, and the minister of Twickenham 
 Chapel, together with the churchwardens, should be 
 permanent trustees during their continuance in their 
 respective offices ; that the regulation of the schools 
 and their funds should be in the direction of the 
 trustees and the subscribers at large ; and that the 
 appointment of master and mistress should be in the 
 hands of the trustees. 
 
 There were in the school, at the time of Lord 
 Brougham's Charity Enquiry, no boys and 70 girls. 
 No Sunday School was then kept, but the children 
 were taken to church on Sundays. 
 
 In 1809 the ld schools in School Alley were 
 erected at a cost of about i,8oo/., which included the 
 expense of converting a building, included in the lease, 
 into a house for the master. The school was held 
 here until 1861. The situation was confined and 
 unhealthy, and the lease was then about to expire : 
 additional accommodation was also required. The 
 trustees therefore determined to acquire better premises 
 'of their own. Under the sanction and advice of the 
 Charity Commissioners they sold out two sums of 
 stock for that purpose, amounting together to 
 
154 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 i,939/. iSs. 6d. Reduced Three per Cent, stock. Nearly 
 all the remainder of the necessary sum was raised in two 
 days by means of a bazaar, the proceeds of which 
 exceeded 8oo/. It was held, by Mrs. Young's permission, 
 in the gardens of Riversdale, under the special presidency 
 of her late Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale, to 
 whose presence and support its success was, in a great 
 measure, due. A suitable site was purchased in the 
 Arragon Road, from Mr. C. M. Corben, for 82O/., upon 
 which most commodious buildings of excellent design 
 were erected at a cost of about 2,ooo/. Mr. F. H. 
 Pownall was the architect, and Mr. J. H. Tarrant the 
 builder. There are also apartments for the master of 
 the Boys' School and for the mistresses of the Girls' and 
 Infants' Schools. 
 
 The new schools were opened by the Duchess 
 d'Aumale on the 3ist December, 1862. 
 
 The demoralizing system of gratuitous education 
 and clothing was abandoned, more efficient teaching 
 power secured, the schools were put under Govern- 
 ment inspection, and now are, except in name, 
 essentially National Schools. The annual expenses 
 connected with them at the present time amount to 
 about 5OO/., to meet which the income derived from 
 all sources (including a Government grant) is barely 
 sufficient. 
 
 In the Boys' School the number on the books is 139, 
 and the average attendance no. 
 
 In the Girls' the number is 109, the average 77, 
 and 
 
 In the Infants' School the number is 116, the 
 average 67. 
 
ADDITIONAL REQUESTS. 155 
 
 There is a Sunday School held both morning and 
 afternoon. 
 
 Two curious answers, which show the unsatisfactory 
 character of the education imparted by these schools, 
 about twenty years ago, have been preserved. Upon 
 the question being put, " What is a fox ? " not a single 
 child knew that it was an animal, while one girl, who 
 was anxious to give an answer, said it was the place 
 where they got beer. " The Fox " is the sign of a public 
 house in the town. 
 
 Another girl, who had left the school and had gone 
 to service, was asked if she could read ; she replied, 
 No, she could not read, but she could mark, interpreting 
 the familiar words of the collect as having reference to 
 marking linen. 
 
 This condition of things has happily been ex- 
 changed for a better/* 
 
 * The information concerning the schools has been mainly derived from Lord 
 Brougham's Charity Commission and from a report made to the Charity Com- 
 missioners' in the year 1860, by one of their inspectors. Lysons' account, which 
 he says "is given from the information of Samuel Prime, Esq., and the Rev. 
 Mr. Fletcher, the late and present treasurers," contains certain statements which 
 the authorities I have consulted do not verify. He mentions Mr. Robert Moore's 
 legacy, but also states that "Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, who died in 1707, bequeathed 
 the sum of ioo/. to be laid out to the best advantage for the benefit of the 
 Charity School at this place, so long as the subscriptions for its support 
 should amount to y>l. per annum, otherwise to be given to the Charity School 
 of some neighbouring parish. This bequest lay dormant for a considerable time. 
 About twenty years ago (i.e. about 1790), Mr. Stephen Cole, representative of 
 the testatrix, made over to the parish the sum of 43 9/., which was laid out in the 
 purchase of 5oo/. 3 per cents. , and is now appropriated to the support of the boys' 
 school, which is endowed also with two small pieces of land let at yl. los. per acre. 
 James Chamness, Esq., gave ioo/. 3 per cents, to this school and the same sum to 
 the girls' school, which has no other endowment except a small stock, the produce 
 of savings." Mrs. Elizabeth Cole left ioo/., the interest to be expended annually 
 in buying sea coal for the benefit of the poor. Mr. Chamness' bequest is included 
 in the balance of i,ooo/. school stock. The numbers given by Lysons (1811) are 
 30 boys and 24 girls, clothed, and 116 others "taught reading, writing, and 
 accounts," in addition to them. 
 
156 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE TWICKENHAM CHARITIES. 
 
 THE ALMSHOUSES FERRYMAN'S GIFT SYON MEAD TWICKEN- 
 HAM AYTE FERRY MEAD TWICKENHAM MANOR TWICKEN- 
 HAM BULL LAND WHITTON BULL LAND MORE MEAD AND 
 IVY CLOSE GIFTS OF HENRY BECKETT, MARY BUSH, ROBERT 
 MOORE, ELIZABETH BOUCHIER AND LEWIS OWEN RICHARD 
 MOORE'S GIFT POOR'S ALLOTMENT PEW RENTS FRANCIS 
 POULTON'S GIFT VICAR'S BREAD MRS. ELIZABETH LOVE'S 
 GIFT GEORGE GOSTLING'S GIFT FRYER'S GIFT MRS. COLE'S 
 GIFT FUEL LAND BENEFACTION OF JOHN AND FRANCES 
 WEST MRS. WEST'S CHARITIES THE EARL OF ORFORD'S 
 CHARITY ROBERT MOORE'S GIFT TO THE MINISTER MRS. 
 GOSTLING'S GIFT MADAME ARTAULT'S GIFT Miss BEAU- 
 CHAMP'S GIFT Miss NICHOLSON'S GIFT OTHER BENEFAC- 
 TIONS AND GIFTS THE NEW MISSION ROOM AND HOUSE. 
 
 IT is necessary here to give a short account of the 
 various moneys possessed by the parish ; it will suffice 
 to give their donors' names with the respective dates, 
 stating briefly the terms of the bequests. 
 
 With the mode of their distribution as at present 
 conducted, or with any changes which may be in con- 
 templation, whether desirable or not, and what their 
 ultimate destination may be, we have no concern. We 
 have to consider only what they were and are, leaving 
 what they may hereafter become to those whose business 
 it will be to determine the point when the fit time arrives. 
 
THE ALMSHOUSES. 157 
 
 THE ALMSHOUSES may be first considered. An 
 entry in the vestry book of the I3th March, 1 703, states 
 that the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Lord and 
 Lady of the Manor of Isle worth Syon, had granted to 
 the parish of Twickenham an acre of land, lying in the 
 lower common of Twickenham, to the intent that the 
 parishioners should erect certain cottages for the benefit 
 of such poor persons as the vestry should appoint and 
 put into the said cottages. On the iQth June, 1704, it 
 was ordered by the vestry "that six cottages be erected 
 on the south side of the said acre of land, and that 
 towards the charge thereof the ioo/. given by Mr. 
 Harvie for the benefit of the poor should be called in 
 and employed, and that such further sum as might be 
 wanting should be paid by the churchwardens and the 
 parishioners." The date of Mr. Harvie's will is not 
 known, but in the vestry minutes of April Qth, 1694, 
 the legacy of ioo/., by Mr. Mathew Harvie, is 
 mentioned " to be laid out for the purchasing of land 
 for the benefit of the poor of this parish." * 
 
 In 1721 six additional almshouses were built, three 
 at each end of the original six, towards the expense of 
 which was applied a legacy of 2oo/. from the Honourable 
 Sarah Greville, who, by her will dated the 1 7th March, 
 1718, gave that sum to the minister and churchwardens 
 of Twickenham, to be by them employed in such 
 manner as they should see fit for the benefit of the poor. 
 
 It is said that there was an inscription on a 
 stone in front of one of the last mentioned almshouses, 
 recording the legacy of Madam Greville and its appli- 
 
 * A condition of this benefaction was that Mr. Harvie's and his lady's 
 monument should be always kept in repair, 
 
158 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 cation to that building, with this addition, " io/. the 
 interest thereof is yearly to be laid out in shifting cloth 
 and given to the poor inhabitants of the parish." The 
 vestry ordered on January 7th, 1728, that shifts and 
 shirts should be provided out of the rates, to the value 
 of io/. There is, however, no trace of the order 
 having been carried out then, or ever after ; one 
 vestry suffered, perhaps, a qualm of conscience, which 
 no other sympathized with. But Mrs. Greville's will 
 does not show that she ever directed such an applica- 
 tion of the interest of her legacy. 
 
 These almshouses were subsequently, by degrees, 
 in addition to another building erected at the end of 
 them, wrongfully converted into a workhouse ; and in 
 1821, the parish appears to have become sensible of 
 this, for an order of vestry (January 5th) directed 
 that three old houses in Freeschool Lane, belonging to 
 the parish, and forming part of the church-houses, 
 should be considered and applied as almshouses, and 
 that the inmates should be elected by the vestry. By the 
 same order of vestry the rent of a house, coal-shed and 
 garden, belonging to the parish, was appropriated to 
 the purposes of the charities. Some other parts of the 
 parish property were first appropriated at this time, 
 probably in like manner. The house and coal-shed 
 have been pulled down : it was intended that other 
 almshouses should be built on the site which faces the 
 river at the end of Freeschool Lane, but in conse- 
 quence of the confined nature of the locality the idea 
 was abandoned. 
 
 The trustees permitted the late Duchess Dowager 
 of Northumberland to erect the handsome pump, which 
 
THE ALMSHOUSES. 159 
 
 is a great boon to the neighbourhood, in the centre of 
 this ground. 
 
 Other and better almsrooms have since been built. 
 There are at present eighteen rooms inhabited by nine 
 poor persons who have two rooms each. The vicar 
 and churchwardens claim the right of appointing to 
 some of the rooms, but it is some time since they have 
 exercised it. 
 
 A new set of rules was adopted by the vestry in 1861, 
 on the recommendation of the inspector of charities, for 
 the future management of the almshouses, to this general 
 effect : That the vicar and churchwardens for the time 
 being be the trustees ; that the vestry elect ; that candi- 
 dates be fully sixty years old, parishioners, or residents 
 in the parish for twenty years, not paupers, but persons 
 of respectability in reduced circumstances, having some 
 slight means of subsistence, who can produce a certificate 
 of good conduct from the minister and churchwardens of 
 the district in which they reside ; that married couples 
 be eligible, but should have, as single persons, two rooms 
 only ; that the trustees can remove occupants ; and that 
 no inmates take a lodger, or suffer any one to live with 
 them, except with the trustees' consent. It was further 
 directed that " The Almshouse Fund/ 1 was to be applied 
 for repairs, and for the maintenance of the inmates, 
 together with the rent of the house in Church Street 
 which the parish possesses, and of the cottage in 
 School Alley, let to the board of guardians as a 
 relieving officer's office, at a yearly rental of 5/. 45-., 
 besides any other sums which the churchwardens 
 might be able to assign to these objects from time to 
 time from the general donation account. 
 
160 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Upon the passing of " the Poor Law Amendment 
 Act " the workhouse was sold, and a sum of three 
 hundred pounds (the amount of Mr. M. Harvie's and 
 Mrs. Greville's legacies) was invested in trustees for 
 the benefit of the almshouses : some consideration for 
 the acre of land on the common, left in 1 704, was also 
 no doubt received ; the almshouse fund now consists 
 of 26gl. is. \d.\ to this account, the rent of the work- 
 house allotment should also be carried. The work- 
 house formerly stood on the north side of the Han- 
 worth Road on the common. The land contains 
 3 a. 2r. 28/. and forms now a portion of the Green, 
 which is let to the Local Board. 
 
 It is not known how the church-houses came into 
 the possession of the parish. They are perpetually 
 mentioned in the parish books : previous to their con- 
 version into almshouses they were rented by different 
 occupiers. The Free-school, as has been mentioned, 
 was in old times held in one of them. 
 
 The house in Church Street, which is .parish 
 property, was built under a building lease, dated 
 December i8th, 1723, whereby the curate and inhabi- 
 tants in vestry assembled, in consideration of a fine 
 of 3<D/., and an agreement to lay out ioo/. in building, 
 granted to Edward Reeve a piece of waste land 
 called the Church House ground, for sixty years at a 
 peppercorn rent. It fell into the hands of the parish 
 in 1809. The two cottages adjoining in Freeschool 
 Lane have come to the parish also by lapse of lease. 
 
 Until the year, 1820, it was customary to carry the 
 income of the parish property partly in aid of the poor 
 
FERRYMAN'S GIFT. 161 
 
 rate, but principally to the churchwardens' general 
 account, out of which distributions were made to the 
 poor in respect of the several charities. Now, the 
 greater part of the income derived from the general 
 charities is divided between the vicar, churchwardens, 
 and overseers of the Parish, and the vicars and church- 
 wardens of Holy Trinity, Twickenham Common, and 
 of SS. Philip and James, Whitton, who distribute it as 
 they think proper. 
 
 PERRYMAN'S GIFT. It is recorded in the old vestry 
 book that George Perryman, by an instrument, bearing 
 date the second year of the reign of King James I., 
 surrendered his house and twenty-three acres of land, 
 holden of the Manor of Isle worth Syon, to his wife and 
 son, subject to a payment of 2os. yearly at Michaelmas, 
 for the use of the poor of Twickenham for ever. 
 
 This charge was paid up to 1833, since which time 
 there is no entry of its receipt. It was charged upon 
 a piece of meadow-land of about two acres, opposite 
 Grove House in Heath Lane, belonging to the late 
 Colonel Harriott. Where the remainder of the twenty- 
 three acres is situated, is unknown. It is to be feared 
 that the gift is completely lost to the parish. 
 
 LYM MEAD. A rent-charge of 16^. per annum is 
 paid by E. H. Donnithorne, Esq., the owner of the 
 land, in respect of a meadow called Lym Mead, con- 
 taining about nine acres. The origin and nature of 
 the payment is unknown. The first trace of it is in 
 the churchwardens' ledger for 1607, when i6s. appears 
 to have been received for Lym Mead. In the accounts 
 
 1 1 
 
162 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 from 1642 to 1648 are receipts of 165-. and also of 6^. 
 for a bushel of wheat and a bushel of malt due from 
 Lym Mead. In the latter year is an entry stating 
 that " whereas there had theretofore been an agree- 
 ment between the commissioners, Mr. Mildmay, and 
 the inhabitants of the parish for the enclosing of Lym 
 Mead, for which was to be paid yearly in money the 
 sum of 1 6s. and one bushel of wheat and one bushel of 
 malt to the churchwardens for the use of the parish, 
 it was thought fit by the vestry that the wheat and 
 malt should be henceforth paid in kind, for avoiding 
 disputes." No further mention is made of the wheat 
 and malt. In 1707, an entry states that an information 
 had been exhibited in the Court of Chancery against 
 Sir John Talbot for the recovery of four years' arrears 
 of i6s. a year, being an annual payment charged on 
 Lym Mead, and that he had submitted to pay the 
 same with costs. 
 
 TWICKENHAM AYTE. A portion of this island con- 
 sisting of 3 r. 32 /. belongs to the parish, and is let at a 
 rental of 61. 6s. per annum. A rent-charge of \6s. 
 per annum is also paid on i a. i r. 2\p. of this ayte by 
 the owner of Richmond House. How or when the 
 parish became possessed of this property and rent- 
 charge is unknown. The earliest notice found on this 
 subject is in an entry in an old vestry book entitled " A 
 copy of the ancient benefactions to this parish ; " amongst 
 which is mentioned " one Ayte, called the parish Ayte, 
 in the possession of Jeremy Holmes." The first mention 
 of the rent of this ayte in the parish books is in the 
 year 1608, when its amount was js. 6d. 
 
FERRY MEAD. 163 
 
 It does not appear how this ancient rent was 
 appropriated, but in 1820 it was directed by an order 
 of vestry that the rent of 61. 6s. paid for the middle 
 part of the island should be distributed to poor aged 
 persons approved by the vestry. It is now carried to 
 the general donation account. 
 
 FERRY MEAD. The origin of this payment, which 
 was anciently /\os. a year, appears from an entry in the 
 old vestry book of 1681, which states, that "in con- 
 sideration of the keeping and inclosing Ferry Mead 
 (belonging to Twickenham Park) free from after 
 pasture in common, there was paid to the poor of 
 this parish 40^. a year ; but now no more is received 
 than 2os. a year, which is received of Sir Joseph Ashe, 
 baronet." 
 
 When or why the reduction was made does not 
 appear. The Countess of Bedford paid the 40^. from 
 1 6 1 1 to 1 6 1 7. I n 1 640 is a memorandum " that the 40^. 
 per annum had not been paid for the last twelve years," 
 and in 1648 (September i8th) is an order of vestry, 
 " that if the owners of Twickenham Park and the Ferry 
 Mead did not make good all arrears due according to 
 a former agreement for the taking in the said Ferry 
 Mead, it should be lawful for the parishioners to put 
 in their cattle the Michaelmas following." The first 
 receipt of 2os. that we find is in the overseers' account 
 for 1673. This sum is now received from the owner 
 of Cambridge House (Lord John Chichester) and is 
 charged upon a piece of land, close to Richmond 
 Bridge. Until 1820 it went to the poor's rate account, 
 but is now carried to the general donation account. 
 
1 64 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 TWICKENHAM MANOR. A charge of il. 6s. 8d. per 
 annum upon the Manor of Twickenham, supposed to 
 have been in ancient times granted as a compensation 
 for stopping up a road over lands belonging to the 
 park of Twickenham, has not been paid since 1834. 
 
 TWICKENHAM BULL LAND. From a copy of the 
 court roll of the Manor of Isleworth Syon, dated 
 December 2oth, 1675, it appears that Thomas Cole 
 surrendered 4 a. i r. lying in several places in the 
 fields of Twickenham, called the parish land, anciently 
 belonging to the inhabitants of Twickenham, in trust 
 for the keeping and maintaining a sufficient bull for 
 the common use of the said inhabitants. 
 
 An entry in the churchwardens' ledger of 1622 
 (see p. 187) states an agreement between the vestry and 
 Mr. Robert Bartlet, that he should hold three acres 
 and a half of the parish land with the Bull mead, 
 paying the same rent to the parish * as he formerly did, 
 with the condition that, receiving a bull from the church- 
 wardens he should keep the bull and if it should die 
 should provide another for the general use. 
 
 Of these three acres and a half of land, three half 
 acres lay in the East field of Twickenham, viz., one acre 
 in Coney furlong, and the other half acre in Bushnell ; 
 another acre lay in further South field, in Ditch furlong ; 
 one half acre in the North field, in Steaken ; and the 
 remaining half acre in Isleworth field, in Birch furlong, 
 in a district called Great Magden. The whole of these 
 lands are lost sight of, and have been suffered to become 
 absorbed in the lands of the neighbouring owners. The 
 last we hear of them is in 1789, when one Hierons 
 
BULL LANDS. 165 
 
 refused to continue a payment of 14^. per annum for 
 some land held by him of the parish called Bull land, 
 unless the parish would point it out, which they could 
 not do. At the time of the enclosure the parish claimed 
 an acre of Bull land, and an allotment was made to 
 them of i r. \6p. copyhold of Syon in the further South 
 field, which is let at a yearly rental of 5/. It does not 
 appear why so small a claim was made. The rent is 
 carried to the general donation account. 
 
 WHITTON BULL LAND. - - This property is first 
 mentioned in the list of benefactions in the old vestry 
 book as lying in the common fields of Whitton, with a 
 reference to the court rolls of the Manor of Isleworth 
 Syon, of October nth, 1626. In 1678 Edward Adams 
 and two others were admitted to two acres called the 
 Bull land, lying in Whitton ; whereof one half acre lay 
 in a place called Bancroft, near Shoemakers' Pray, 
 extending upon the gravel pit on the north part ; two 
 half acres lay in the South field of Whitton, in a Shot 
 there called the Crab Tree Shot ; and the other half 
 acre lay at the High Elms, near the lands, lately in the 
 occupation of John Cannon, on the south part ; upon 
 trust, to keep and maintain a sufficient bull, for the 
 common use of the inhabitants of the town of Whitton. 
 There is no trace of this land in the parish books later 
 than 1705. It is supposed that it is comprised in the 
 lands purchased many years ago of Mr. Prime by 
 Mr. Charles Calvert. Upon the inclosure, a claim was 
 made in respect of this land, the parishioners having 
 been from time to time admitted to the Bull lands 
 upon the court rolls ; and an allotment was made of 
 
1 66 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 2 a. 3 r. 2 4 p. freehold. It forms a part of the 
 general chanty allotment, the whole of which, viz., 
 n a. i r. lop. with the exception of the school 
 piece, consisting of i a. or. 3 p., (mentioned in p. 148), 
 let to Sir William Clay, Bart., has been let for some 
 years to Mr. Decimus Clarke at a rental of 5o/. per 
 annum. A proportionate amount of the rent, viz.. 
 about I2/. ictf. per annum is carried to the general 
 donation account. 
 
 MORE MEAD. In the year 1681 Sir Joseph Ashe 
 of Twickenham, baronet, " in consideration of I2O/. 
 conveyed to Nathaniel Axtell and five others of the 
 Parish of Twickenham and their heirs, a parcel of 
 meadow-ground in Twickenham, containing by estima- 
 tion six acres in a meadow, called More Mead . . ." 
 upon trust, that they should permit the vestry of the 
 said parish to let and dispose of the same to such 
 persons as the said vestry should appoint ; the rent and 
 profits of the said piece of meadow-land to be disposed 
 of for the use of the poor, or other use of the said 
 parish, as the vestry should think fit. 
 
 A further purchase was soon after made of another 
 parcel of land in More Mead, adjoining the above ; as 
 appears from a copy in the vestry-book of a bond, 
 bearing date the 2yth of February, 1681, from Lady 
 Christian Berkley, of Twickenham, widow, to Nathaniel 
 Axtell, and five others, in the penalty of 32O/., which 
 recited that by direction of the vestry of the parish 
 of Twickenham, and in consideration of i6o/. paid 
 to the said Lady Christian Berkley she had agreed to 
 sell to the trustees of the poor of the said parish for 
 
MORE MEAD. 167 
 
 the benefit of the poor, as the said vestry from time to 
 time should direct, eight acres of meadow-land, lying in 
 the common meadow called More Mead, which said 
 eight acres were held of the Manor of Isleworth Syon 
 by copy of court roll, and which, by the Borough 
 English custom of the manor, descended to the youngest 
 of the said lady's sons, then about 1 3 years of age ; 
 the condition of the bond being that if the said Lady 
 Christian Berkley, her executors, &c., should within 
 six months after such younger son should attain the 
 age of 21 years, procure such younger son to ratify 
 the surrender of the eight acres to the trustees accord- 
 ing to the custom of the manor, or in default thereof 
 pay back to them the i6o/., then the said bond was 
 to be void. 
 
 In 1691, William Berkley, Esq., the heir above- 
 mentioned, then 21 years of age, surrendered the 
 eight acres to the trustees, who were admitted accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 From the old vestry-book it appears that these two 
 sums, 1 2O/. and i6o/., were made up from various moneys 
 and benefactions of which i6o/. was called Parish Stock, 
 and 4<D/. was the gift of one HENRY BECKETT, who gave 
 a legacy of 40^. " to the intent that 52^. might be raised 
 of it yearly, to be bestowed in seven two-penny wheaten 
 loaves every Sabbath day, and that seven poor people 
 should receive it, to be chosen for life, by the vicar, 
 churchwardens, and overseers." This is the only legacy 
 specifically mentioned as having been applied to the 
 purchase of More Mead ; but the three following further 
 benefactions are believed to have been applied, at the 
 same time, to the purchase : 
 
i68 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 MARY BUSH gave io/., the yearly interest to be 
 distributed by the churchwardens and overseers to four 
 poor ancient widows of the parish, to each 35-. This 
 donation appears in the list of benefactions in the 
 year 1631. 
 
 ROBERT MOORE by his will, proved in 1726, 
 (mentioned before in the account of the schools) gave 
 2O/. to the parish of Twickenham, and directed that 
 the money should be laid out in land, and that the 
 income from rent should be given away upon the 
 27th of September for ever, in " groat " loaves of bread 
 to poor widowers or widows, and other poor people, 
 inhabitants of the parish, and not to any pensioner, 
 nor certificate-people. 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH BOUCHIER gave by ivill ioo/., as 
 appears by an order of vestry in 1751 which directs 
 that 4/., as the interest thereof, should be paid out of 
 the rents of the parish-land, and applied pursuant to 
 her will ; viz., 2os. in bread at Easter, and the rest in 
 coals. In 1762 the interest was increased to 5/. 
 
 All that remains of the parish property in More 
 Mead, (originally, as we have seen, consisting of 14 
 acres, 6 freehold and 8 copyhold,) is at the present 
 time 7 a. 3 r. 3/., copyhold, let at 35/. iSs. 6d. per 
 annum, the tenant paying the taxes and rates. 
 
 The Charity Commissioners say that they are 
 unable to account for the great variation in the 
 quantities and description of the premises ; but the 
 lands were enclosed previously to the late enclosure in 
 
IVY CLOSE. 169 
 
 1817, and were surrounded by apparently ancient 
 fences, nor could they learn that any other boundaries 
 than the present had ever been known. 
 
 The rents of More Mead and Ivy Close, after 
 paying the proportions of the income derived from the 
 gifts of those persons above mentioned, were formerly 
 by direction of the vestry given in clothing to ancient 
 men and women and boys and girls, or distributed in 
 such other manner as the vestry thought fit : the rents 
 are carried now to the general donation account. 
 
 IVY CLOSE. Ivy Close consists of three parcels of 
 land called Mother Ivy's Shott, the King's Ring, and 
 Bushnell, and is bounded on the north and east by the 
 brook which divides Isleworth from Twickenham. It 
 consisted originally of 8 acres, partly freehold and partly 
 copyhold, purchased by the parish from Sir Joseph Ashe 
 and other owners. The original trust-deed, July 2ist, 
 1682, states " that forasmuch as the land was purchased 
 with part of the stock of the poor's money of the parish 
 of Twickenham, therefore the trustees should permit 
 the vestrymen to receive the rents of the said land, and 
 distribute it amongst the poor of the said parish or 
 otherwise (!) as they should think fit." There is a 
 provision also for the appointment of new trustees by 
 the vestry, when their number should be reduced to 
 two or one. 
 
 A sum of ioo/. paid to Sir Joseph Ashe for the land 
 in Mother Ivy's Shott is stated in the vestry book, to 
 have been made up, in part of 5<D/., Lewis Owen's gift, 
 mentioned below, and . io/. an anonymous gift; but 
 when this latter was given, nowhere appears. 
 
170 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Ivy Close is now represented by 50. i r. 37/. free- 
 hold, and is let at a yearly rental of 35/. 
 
 LEWIS OWEN, by will, dated in 1623, (as appears by 
 an entry in a parish ledger of the 8th of May, 1631), 
 gave to the vicar and churchwardens 5/. 4^. per 
 annum, to be bestowed in wheaten bread every Sabbath 
 day; which 5 /. 45-., was to be paid out of the lease of 
 Fulwell Lodge for thirty years, and after the said 
 thirty years to issue out of land, which the said 
 Lewis Owen bought of Francis Poulton, Esq. ; which 
 was a close containing eight acres lying between the 
 Warren House and Hounslow Heath. In the same 
 book, is a copy of a receipt by Sir Joseph Ashe for 
 ioo/. in full, for six and a half acres of land in Mother 
 Ivy's Shott ; being 5o/. in money, and the remaining 
 5<D/. for the satisfaction and discharge of i2d. a week, 
 which by a certain decree of Chancery, Sir Joseph 
 Ashe was contented to pay the parish as his own gift, 
 to supply the defect of the gift intended to be given 
 by Lewis Owen who did not leave sufficient effects to 
 discharge it. The remaining 2/. 12^. per annum of 
 the rent-charge was paid by the proprietors of Fulwell 
 Lodge, until the year 1814, when Mr. Dickason, the 
 then owner, gave the parish ioo/., 3 per Cent. Consols 
 in lieu of the same. The income of this charity now 
 consists of a dividend of 3/. per annum, and 2/. 12^., 
 payable from More Mead and Ivy Close, carried to 
 the general account. * 
 
 There is a right of roadway to More Mead across 
 
 * An Inspector of Charities, who inspected the Charities of Twickenham 
 in 1860, says that this 5/. 12s. ought to be given by the vicar and churchwardens 
 in bread every Sunday. 
 
RICHARD MO ORES GIFT. 171 
 
 Bandy Close, and to Ivy Close there is a right of road- 
 way, seventeen feet in width, across a piece of land 
 in the London Road, belonging to G. B. Cole, Esq. : 
 a large boundary stone at the entrance has an inscrip- 
 tion to this effect. 
 
 RICHARD MOORE, by his will, dated the 5th of 
 March, 1686, gave io/. to be laid out in the purchase 
 of land, the rents to be equally distributed by the 
 churchwardens and overseers, in bread, to the poor, 
 every Candlemas day. This legacy was invested in 
 the purchase of half an acre of land in the Tile Kiln 
 Close, in the further South field near Strawberry Hill. 
 In 1814, it was agreed with Lady Waldegrave, the 
 then holder, to exchange this land with the parish for 
 so much land as should be considered of the yearly 
 value of six guineas, (the rental at that date), either 
 out of the allotments made to her in respect to the 
 property at Strawberry Hill, under the act for 
 enclosing the waste lands of the parish, or out of the 
 old enclosures, as might be decided by the com- 
 missioners under the act. By this exchange, the 
 parish became possessed of 8 a. i r. 24 /., of which 
 4 a. and 2 r. are freehold, and 3 a. $r. 24^. copyhold, 
 lying together on Hounslow Heath, near Hospital 
 Bridge ; this land was let, by tender, on a twenty-one 
 years' lease from Michaelmas, 1818, at the yearly rent 
 of I4/. 9^. 9^/. ; and in 1845 was ^ et again, for the same 
 term, to the late Sir W. Clay at ill. i$s. per annum. 
 This land was sold to the newly formed burial board 
 in 1866 for a cemetery, and produced i,483/. Ss. lod. 
 Consols, now standing in the name of the official trustee 
 
172 MEMORIALS OF 1WICKENHAM. 
 
 of charitable funds. For many years the income arising 
 from this charity appears to have been distributed by 
 the vicar and churchwardens in bread ; it is now carried 
 to the general donation account. 
 
 POOR'S ALLOTMENT. Upon the enclosure of the 
 common lands in this parish, two parcels were allotted 
 to the trustees of the poor, containing i a. 3 r. 36 p. ; in 
 respect, no doubt, of More Mead, Ivy Close and Tile 
 Kiln Close. They form part of the twelve acres, 
 mentioned in the account of the parish schools, and 
 the proportion of rent, about 9/., is carried to the 
 general donation account. (See p. 148.) 
 
 PEW RENTS. By an order of vestry, 28th December, 
 1820, the rents of two pews in the church, one let for 
 61. \6s. 6d., and the other for i/. is. a year, were 
 directed to be applied to the use of the poor. In 1746, 
 Mrs. L' Estrange gave her pew for the same purpose. 
 
 These gifts were illegal and have been lost 
 long since. 
 
 FRANCIS POULTON'S GIFT. Francis Poulton, said 
 in his will, dated the gth of February, 1640: "I 
 charge my freehold tenement and land in Twickenham 
 now in the tenure or occupation of Mr. Love, with the 
 payment of 5/. 4^. yearly, for and towards the main- 
 tenance of six poor persons, to be served in the Church 
 of Twickenham every Friday, in such sort as they 
 now are. The six persons to be nominated by me and 
 my wife, during our lives, and afterwards by the 
 churchwardens and vicar of Twickenham, when any 
 of them shall happen to die." 
 
VICAR'S BREAD. 173 
 
 The premises are situated in Heath Lane 
 Twickenham, and consist of a house and yard, 
 formerly in the occupation of Mr. Mason, and a house, 
 yard, smith's-shop, and sundry buildings adjoining the 
 other, formerly in the occupation of Mr. Gatfield. 
 
 The rent-charge is now paid half by the owner 
 of Holly House, and the other half by trustees of 
 Mr. Collins, and is carried to the general donation 
 account. The Charity Inspector reported in 1860, that 
 bread was regularly distributed on Fridays according 
 to the wish of the donor. 
 
 VICAR'S BREAD. An entry in the old vestry book 
 of 1 68 1 states that there is a rent-charge issuing out of 
 the Vicarage Close, containing about six acres, lying in 
 Isle worth, of 2os. a year, to be bestowed in bread to the 
 poor of Twickenham, every Easter. 
 
 The Vicarage Close was exchanged for land of the 
 late Marquis of Ailsa adjoining it, and the annuity is now 
 paid by the owners of the latter property to the vicar 
 and churchwardens, and carried to the general donation 
 account. It was formerly distributed in penny loaves of 
 bread to the poor children of Twickenham on the 
 Thursday after Easter. There was a more ancient 
 custom, which obtained for this charity the name of " A 
 dole called cakes and ale/' of dividing two great cakes in 
 the church on Easter-day amongst the young people ; 
 but, as this was looked upon as a superstitious practice 
 it was ordered by the Long Parliament, in the gloomy 
 year 1645, " that the parishioners should forbear that 
 custom, and instead thereof buy loaves of bread for the 
 poor of the parish, with the money that should have 
 
174 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 bought the cakes." The original order was in the 
 parish chest, as appears from the schedule of records, 
 but is not (says Lysons) now to be found. 
 
 Ironside mentions in his history that this bread 
 used to be thrown down from the top of the church 
 tower into the churchyard on the Thursday after Easter 
 Sunday, to be scrambled for by the children of the 
 poor, after which they were regaled with ale at the 
 vicarage house. The dole, he says, in his time was 
 given in the church at Christmas. A like custom 
 prevailed in the parish of Paddington, and was not 
 totally abolished until comparatively recent times. 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH LOVE'S GIFT. Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Love, by her will dated i8th of June, 1807, g ave the 
 interest of 5o/. stock in the old South Sea annuities to 
 the trustees of the parish of Twickenham, to be given 
 to the poor, in bread, twice every year, in May and 
 November. This stock was subject to some deduction, 
 owing to a slight deficiency in Mrs. Love's effects. 
 Her executor for some time distributed the bread 
 himself, subsequently the churchwardens did so, after 
 tickets had been obtained for the same from the vicar 
 and themselves. The then amount of the bequest, 
 with the interest, was paid over to the vicar and 
 churchwardens, and in April, 1859, 6$l. 123. io</., 
 Three per Cent. Consols, was purchased with it, which 
 stands now in the names of three trustees, and the 
 dividends thereon are carried to the general donation 
 fund. 
 
 GEORGE GOSTLING'S GIFT. Mr. George Gostling, of 
 
GOSTLING'S GIFT. PAYER'S GIFT. 175 
 
 Whitton Place, by his will dated nth of April, 1816, 
 gave to the vicar and churchwardens of the parish of 
 Twickenham, and to their successors for the time 
 being, the sum of 3OO/., Three per Cent. Consols, to 
 apply the interest and dividends in the preservation of 
 the monument in the parish church erected by him to 
 his late father and mother ; the surplus of such interest 
 and dividends to be laid out in bread and meat, and 
 given to the poor of the said parish at Christmas in 
 every year; and it was his wish that the poor of 
 Whitton should be preferred. 
 
 This stock, 27<D/. (3O/. having been deducted for 
 legacy duty), stands in the names of the vicar, church- 
 wardens, and one other trustee ; and since the forma- 
 tion of Whitton into a separate ecclesiastical district, 
 the dividends are paid by the churchwardens of the 
 parish to the vicar and churchwardens of Whitton for 
 the sole use of the poor of that place. 
 
 The trust concerning the monument prevents the 
 transfer of the stock to the names of vicar and church- 
 wardens of Whitton, which otherwise would have been 
 made. 
 
 FRYER'S GIFT. Jonathan Fryer, who died April 
 4th, 1819, gave by will to the parish of Twickenham 
 ioo/. Five per Cent, stock, then in his name, to be 
 transferred to the minister and churchwardens of 
 Twickenham for the time being, the interest to be dis- 
 tributed in bread every New Year's Day, or as soon 
 after as convenient, to the poor of the parish not in the 
 workhouse. It is now represented by IO5/. Three per 
 Cent. Reduced Stock, standing in the names of the same 
 
176 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 trustees as the foregoing charity, and the dividends are 
 carried to the general donation account. 
 
 MRS. COLE'S GIFT. Elizabeth Cole, by her will 
 dated the i6th January, 1706, gave to her executors, 
 Henry Hoare and James Cole, ioo/., in trust, to be 
 invested in the purchase of land, or otherwise, as they 
 might think fit, the interest to be laid out in buying 
 sea-coal every year for the benefit of the poor. 
 
 No land was bought with the money. It was laid 
 out in the purchase of i66/. 13^. \d. Three per Cent. 
 Consols, in the names of some of the Cole family, who 
 used formerly to distribute it. The present trustees 
 are the same as those for the two preceding charities, 
 and the dividends are carried to the general donation 
 account. 
 
 FUEL LAND. Two parcels of land were awarded by 
 the commissioners under the Twickenham enclosure act, 
 to the vicar, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor, in 
 compensation for the right of cutting furze and turf on 
 the common land. One parcel contains 4 a. i r. io/., 
 and is called the Parish Green, and was about ten years 
 back let at a rental of i4/. per annum (less the tithe, 
 about us.) The Charity Inspector, in 1860, reported 
 that " nearly all the rent is exhausted in keeping up 
 the fences, which are not of the best kind, and are 
 constantly in want of repair. The damage done to 
 these by the people attending the fair is so great, and 
 the nuisance to the neighbourhood is such, that it seems 
 very desirable that in future this land should not be 
 used for this purpose." This recommendation has 
 
FUEL LAND. 177 
 
 been acted upon. The common is now let to the local 
 board on lease for forty-two years from Michaelmas, 
 1868, at a yearly rental of 35/. It has been properly 
 enclosed, and the holding of the fair upon it has been 
 discontinued since 1868; further improvements are in 
 contemplation. 
 
 The other parcel of land, containing 5 a. 2 r. 3O/., is 
 situate on Whitton Common, and forms part of the 
 allotment of twelve acres made in respect of the 
 different charity lands of the parish, which has been 
 mentioned above. The proportion of rent amounts now 
 to nearly 25/., and it, together with the rent of the 
 Green, should properly be expended in coals. The 
 moneys at present are carried to the general donation 
 account. 
 
 A report made by the Charity Commissioners, after 
 an inspection of the charities of the parish of Twicken- 
 ham, made by their official, in the year 1860, contains 
 a list of those gifts, the distribution of which was solely 
 under the management and direction of the vestry : 
 and which, as the precise manner of their application 
 had never been specifically expressed by the donors, 
 were carried to the general donation account. 
 
 Alterations made subsequently to the date of that 
 report, in several of the rents, consequent upon the 
 expiration of old, and the granting of new leases, would 
 make the insertion of that list, at the present time, from 
 its inaccuracy, only misleading. 
 
 BENEFACTION OF JOHN AND FRANCES WEST. It 
 appears that by indentures, dated the i8th and igth of 
 
 12 
 
i7<S MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 November, 1720, Mr. and Mrs. West conveyed to 
 the governors of Christ's Hospital certain premises for 
 the maintenance and education in the said hospital of 
 as many children as the yearly rents and profits would 
 be sufficient for, at the rate of io/. for each child ; and 
 directed that one-fifth of the number of children main- 
 tained at the hospital under their said gift should be 
 such as the minister, churchwardens, and parishioners 
 of Twickenham in vestry assembled should present. 
 
 An Act of Parliament, passed in 1806, for regu- 
 lating this charity and granting certain privileges to 
 the governors, raised the sum to be allowed for each 
 child from io/. to 2$l. 
 
 The number of children in Christ's Hospital, sent 
 from the parish of Twickenham, under this bequest is 
 now six boys and two girls, who are elected upon 
 certain conditions by the vestry whenever notice is sent 
 of a vacancy from the hospital. 
 
 The commissioners of 1860 suggest two inquiries 
 whether the property from its increase in value is not 
 adequate to the support of a larger number of children ? 
 and, in what ways can the parish successfully resist the 
 abuse of the preference given to Founder's kin ? 
 
 Certainly the great local advantage conferred by 
 this bequest is strangely undervalued, and a noble 
 education is too often thrown away upon those whose 
 after life does not bear it out. 
 
 MRS. WEST'S CHARITIES. - - Mrs. Frances West 
 established a charity by the conveyance of certain 
 premises from her to the Clothworkers' Company, 
 dated September iith and i2th, 1723, wherein poor 
 
THE EARL OF OR FORDS CHARITY. 179 
 
 men and women born in Twickenham were to par- 
 ticipate. No one (as far as could be ascertained) 
 derived any benefit from this at the time of the 
 Commissisoners' report in 1860. 
 
 Another charity of Mrs. West's for the relief of 
 poor blind persons in different places of which Twicken- 
 ham is one, which is also in the management of the 
 Cloth workers' Company, provides pensions of 5/. per 
 annum for three or four blind persons in Twickenham, 
 but as the number of qualified applicants is limited 
 there are always vacant pensions. 
 
 THE EARL OF ORFORD'S CHARITY. Horatio, Earl 
 of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, by his 
 will, bearing date May i5th, 1793, and proved 
 March J3th, 1797, gave to the vicar and church- 
 wardens for the time being of the parish of Twicken- 
 ham, 3OO/. to be placed in some of the public funds, 
 in the names of the said vicar, and such four sub- 
 stantial parishioners of the said parish as the said 
 vicar and churchwardens should by writing appoint ; 
 and directed that the said vicar and the persons so 
 appointed should stand possessed of such securities in 
 trust, to distribute the yearly dividends arising therefrom 
 once or oftener in every year, among such poor of the 
 said parish as the said trustees for the time being, or 
 the major part of them, should think proper objects of 
 relief, in such proportions as they should think fit ; and 
 he directed, that in case of the death or removal of any 
 vicar, the succeeding vicar should be a trustee of the 
 said securities with the other trustees thereof, and that 
 if either of the other trustees should die, or cease to 
 
i8o MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 be parishioners, or should be desirous of being dis- 
 charged from the trust, the vicar and surviving or 
 remaining trustees should, by writing nominate another 
 substantial parishioner to be a trustee in his stead, and 
 that the trust securities should be assigned accordingly. 
 This bequest is now represented by 528/. 4^. ^d. Three 
 per Cent. Consols, in the names of trustees as the will 
 orders. 
 
 No particular mode of distribution being pointed 
 out, the money has always been expended in coals, in 
 consequence, as it is stated, of Lord Orford having 
 been accustomed to distribute coals at Christmas. 
 The persons receiving these coals have (says the 
 Enquiry Report of 1822) been always parishioners 
 till the last winter, when a part of the distribution was 
 extended to poor inhabitants not parishioners who had 
 suffered from the extraordinary floods which then took 
 place. Up to 1860 there was no record of the receipt 
 or expenditure of this fund in the Parish Books. 
 
 ROBERT MOORE'S GIFT TO THE MINISTER. Robert 
 Moore, by his will referred to in the accounts of the 
 Schools, and of More Mead, gave to the minister of 
 the parish and his successors 5/. yearly on condition 
 that they should read the Common Prayers, by law 
 established, in the parish church every day in the 
 week, at the usual hour of eleven in the forenoon, 
 the said 5/. to be issuing and payable out of the rents 
 and profits of the estate known by the name of Nag's 
 Head Inn, in Twickenham. 
 
 This annuity has been lost long ago. It was not 
 paid at the time of Lord Brougham's Commission, nor 
 
MRS. GOSTLING'S 6- MADAME ARTA ULT'S GIFT. 181 
 
 was it even then known in the parish that such a bene- 
 faction existed. It may have ceased to be paid, the 
 report suggests, on the non -performance of the con- 
 dition annexed to it, or it may have been refused in 
 the first instance as wholly inadequate, as a former 
 vicar has hinted in a note written in pencil on the copy 
 of the report which once belonged to him. 
 
 MRS. GOSTLING'S GIFT. Mrs. Hannah Gostling, 
 by her will, dated October 8th, 1850, gave to the vicar 
 and churchwardens of the parish of Twickenham for 
 the time being 3OO/., to be invested in the Three per 
 Cent. Consols in the names of the vicar and church- 
 wardens of the said parish for the benefit of the poor 
 of Whitton. By a subsequent codicil she inserted a 
 proviso that, first of all, the monument to her late 
 husband should be kept in repair, and the surplus only 
 should be applied as before directed. In November, 
 1854, stock to the amount of 326/. os. 9^. Three per 
 Cent. Consols was purchased in the names of the vicar 
 and churchwardens and other trustees. 
 
 This charity is distributed in exactly the same 
 manner as that of George Gostling, Esq. 
 
 MADAME ARTAULT'S GIFT. Madame Georgiana 
 Elizabeth Artault, by her will, dated May 4th, 1857, 
 left 3OO/. (less, owing to deficiency of effects, 2$l. 14^.) ; 
 with the 2*j6l. 6s., was purchased 3o8/. 2s. nd. Three 
 per Cent. Consols in the names of trustees, the interest 
 of which was to be given to poor, aged, and infirm 
 persons such as those named by her, not to surpersede 
 or diminish the parish allowance, but in addition thereto. 
 
1 82 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 She gave these directions to " the Ministers and 
 Guardians of the Poor of the Parish of Twicken- 
 ham." (?) The dividends are now given to three 
 poor persons (householders) at the rate of $s. each 
 per month by the vicar and churchwardens. 
 
 Miss BEAUCHAMP'S GIFT. Miss Elizabeth Beau- 
 champ, in her will, dated June 3rd, 1859 : " I give 
 one hundred and fifty pounds New Three per Cent. 
 Annuities, free of legacy duty, to the rector and church- 
 wardens of the parish of Twickenham, in the county of 
 Middlesex, in trust to pay and divide the dividends 
 thereof amongst such of the poor of the said parish, 
 living within the district of the old church, as the 
 rector thereof for the time being shall consider most 
 deserving, or at his sole discretion to lay out such 
 dividends in the purchase of bread, meat, or coals for 
 the benefit of such deserving poor." The legacy is in 
 the hands of the official trustee for charitable funds. 
 Its proceeds are distributed by the vicar. Miss Beau- 
 champ also left a similar legacy to the incumbent and 
 churchwardens of Holy Trinity Church, Twickenham 
 Common. 
 
 Miss NICHOLSON'S GIFT. Miss Jane Nicholson, by 
 her will, dated October, 1838, gave to the vicar of the 
 parish of Twickenham for the time being a legacy repre- 
 sented by 68/. 7^. qd. Three per Cent Consols, one-half 
 of the interest to be given annually to the poor in bread 
 on the 1 9th of October, being the anniversary of the 
 death of her father, and the other half on the i8th 
 day of August, being the anniversary of the death of 
 
SMALLER BENEFACTIONS. 183 
 
 her mother. The legacy is in the hands of the official 
 trustee for charitable funds ; its dividends are carried 
 now to the general donation account. The parish 
 appears to have succeeded to this legacy in 1862.'" 
 
 The following benefactions are also recorded on 
 boards placed in the church on the staircase of the 
 north gallery : 
 
 * & 
 
 Mr. Andrew Johnson To the Poor 20 o o 
 
 Sir John Suckling ,,50 o o 
 
 Sir John Walter t ,,20 o o 
 
 Francis Poulton, Esq ,,20 o o 
 
 Mr. Thomas Poulton 20 o 
 
 Mr. George Baker ,, 10 o o 
 
 Mr. Edward Birkhead ,, 10 o o 
 
 Mrs. Leversage ,,50 o o 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Austin ,, ,,20 o o 
 
 Mrs. Weeks ,, ,, 5 o o 
 
 Henry Poulton, Esq ,,20 'o o 
 
 The above sums are supposed to have gone to the 
 purchase of Moor Mead, the rental of which is annually 
 distributed to the poor. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lord I slay gave 3O/. towards 
 erecting the gallery which was occupied by the charity 
 children before the alteration of the interior of the 
 church. 
 
 Mr. Hollingsworth gave a silver cup for the 
 communion . 
 
 Sir Joseph Ashe gave two flagons for the same 
 purpose. 
 
 * I have subjoined (Appendix C.) a list of the charities belonging to the 
 Parochial Schools and to the parish, stating their preciseVilue at this present date, 
 f See p. 14. 
 
184 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Mr. John Spackman and Lydia his wife gave "the 
 chandelier next the communion." 
 
 The Right Hon. Francis Earl of Bradford presented 
 a green velvet pulpit-cloth and cushion embroidered 
 with gold. 
 
 . s. <t. 
 
 Sir Joseph Ashe, to put out poor boys apprentice 10 o o 
 
 Mrs. Francis West To the poor 50 o o 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Williams, Vicar 20 o o 
 
 Countess Montrath ,, ,, 200 o o 
 
 Abraham Prado, Esq 50 o o 
 
 T/ie Hon. Mrs. Tufton 21 o o 
 
 Robert Swan, Esq 100 o o 
 
 John Spackman, Esq 50 o o 
 
 James Whitchurch, Esq ,, ,, 50 o o 
 
 Mrs. Prado 20 o o 
 
 Stafford Briscoe, Esq 20 o o 
 
 Marchioness of Tweedale 20 o o 
 
 Mrs. Burnt 18160 
 
 These thirteen last mentioned sums are supposed to 
 have been given away at the time, as there is no mention 
 of them in the parish-books. 
 
 Joseph Hickey, Esq., gave ioo/. to be bestowed at 
 the discretion of the Rev. J. A. Carr in a manner most 
 serviceable to the poor, and he applied it towards 
 rebuilding the old almshouses in Free School Lane. 
 
 Margaret Dowager Countess Poulett, in 1838, gave 
 5<D/. by will to the poor, which was given away at the 
 time in bread, meat, and blankets. 
 
 Mrs. Ann Barrett gave 5/. to the Parochial 
 Schools. 
 
 All other gifts and bequests which are mentioned 
 on the boards in the church, have been referred to in 
 the account of the charities. 
 
MISSION HOUSE AND ROOM. 185 
 
 In the year 1869 a munificent gift was made to 
 the vicar of Twickenham and his successors for ever, 
 consisting of a freehold cottage and garden, situated 
 by the river-side, near to the west end of the church, 
 which were conveyed by deed of gift by Mr. John 
 Bowyer, to be used for " church purposes." A building 
 from designs furnished by Mr. R. W. Edis has been 
 erected at an estimated cost of 32O/., to be set apart and 
 appropriated for all purposes which may tend to the 
 religious instruction and social improvement of the 
 neighbourhood wherein it is placed. 
 
1 86 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE PARISH BOOKS. 
 
 CURIOUS AND INTERESTING EXTRACTS ON PAROCHIAL AND GENERAL 
 MATTERS FROM THE MINUTES OF VESTRY : NOTEWORTHY 
 ITEMS FROM THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHURCHWARDENS FROM 
 1606 TO THE PRESENT TIME. 
 
 THE minutes of vestry and the accounts of the church- 
 wardens are, for the most part, in good preservation and 
 of great interest. The earliest volume of the former 
 commences in the year 1618, about which time a select 
 vestry consisting of sixteen parishioners, in addition to 
 the vicar and churchwardens for the time being, 
 appears to have been ordered by John, Bishop of 
 London : * and of the latter the most ancient volume is 
 the only one damaged to any considerable extent. Its 
 first legible date is 1606, in the accounts for which year 
 is an entry stating that 
 
 viij d was given to the ringers when the King went by with the 
 King of Denmark. 
 
 In it Strawberry Hill and the Bull Lands are men- 
 tioned for the first time. 
 
 A minute, dated October nth, 1618, is to the 
 effect that 
 
 Andrew Johnson's thirty pounds, which he had left by will to the 
 poor people of Twickenham, was paid in, and by consent of the 
 vestry it was left in the trust of Mr. Lewis Owen. 
 
 * This was Dr. John King, who filled the see from 1611 until 1621.: formerly 
 Archdeacon of Nottingham. 
 
EXTRACTS, 16061630. 187 
 
 It was agreed and covenanted at a vestry, holden October 6th, 
 1622, that Mr. Robert Bartlet should keep still in his possession the 
 three acres and a half of parish land with the bull meads paying the 
 same rent as he did formerly, with the condition that he, receiving 
 now a Bull of the Churchwardens shall keep the said bull at his own 
 charge and if the bull do fortune to dye or miscarrye any other way 
 the said Robert Bartlet promiseth to make it good, so that the parish 
 shall not at any time wante a sufficient bull for their use but he will 
 provyde one at his own costes and charges so long as he shall live 
 and holdeth the foresaid lande at the same rate and he promiseth also 
 to leave the parish as sufficient a bull as he now receiveth. 
 
 The following items occur in the accounts of 
 expenditure in 1625, the year of King Charles I.'s 
 accession : 
 
 It : paid and spent upon the Ringers at the s. d. 
 cominge of the Kinge and Queene unto 
 
 Hampton Court, the fourth of July oo 02 06 
 
 It : to the Ringers the day the King was crowned oo 02 06 
 
 It : paid, spent on the Ringers, the Proclamation 
 
 daye oo 16 oo 
 
 And in 1630, 
 
 It : Spent on y* Ringers y e daye y e Prince was 
 
 borne oo 03 oo 
 
 This Prince became subsequently King Charles II. 
 He was born on the 2Qth of May. 
 
 It : for y e prayer for y e Prince oo oo 08 
 
 It : to the High Constable for maymed souldiers 
 
 and hospitalls, one whole year 01 07 oo 
 
 The same year the following amounts were paid by 
 the churchwardens for bread and wine for the 
 
 communion. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 At Whitsuntide oo 04 04 
 
 At Bartholomewtide oo 04 06 
 
 At Michaelmas oo 03 01 
 
 At Christmas oo 06 06 
 
 At Easter 01 02 07 
 
1 88 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Other entries exhibit like proportions proving that 
 the reception of the Holy Communion at Easter, as 
 enjoined by the prayer-book, was much more general 
 than in later times. The second of the above entries 
 is interesting as showing the strong feeling which still 
 surrounded the memory of the massacre of 1572. 
 
 Amongst the receipts of 1631 and other years are 
 sums, usually about six shillings and sixpence, paid by 
 other parishes, among which Teddington and Cranford 
 are named, " for the loan of the parish pewter," as the 
 sacramental plate was described. 
 
 Among the disbursements of 1633 are the follow- 
 ing : 
 
 . s. d. 
 
 It Given to the ringers att the Kyng's returne 
 
 from Hoolland oo 06 oo 
 
 It m Given to the ringers att the birth of the Duke 
 
 of Yoorke oo 02 06 
 
 On the 8th of May, 1640, it was agreed in vestry, 
 
 That Henry Sanders and Mr. Maddockes, with one of the 
 churchwardens, shall take order for taking up of the indictment 
 against y e Parish for not repaireing the stone bridge and stopping the 
 issues. 
 
 On loth April, 1645, a schoolmaster was appointed, and the 
 churchwardens were ordered " to accomodate the house with necessary 
 repairs for his keeping school accordingly." 
 
 On Dec r . 3oth, 1646, Tithe was collected by certain parishioners 
 which was due to Fferdinando Nicolls, Minister, for the year 1645. 
 [This Nicolls was a locum tenens appointed after Soame's deprivation, 
 and before Thomas Willis who was Incumbent during the Common- 
 wealth.] 
 
 On the 'twenty 4 th ' of Feb 7 ., 1646, it is recorded that "certain 
 parishioners rented the tithes and profits Belonging to the Vicarage : 
 and paid in quarterly portions the sum of zoo/, per annum to 
 Mr. Thomas Willis, Minister : and the moneys issuing from the tithes 
 belonging to the Dean and Canons of Windsor, were paid up to 
 
EXTRACTS, 16311649. 189 
 
 Mr. Willis towards this stipend, the said moneys being appointed by 
 both houses of Parliament for the augumentation of the means of the 
 Minister of the Parish." 
 
 [This salary appears to have caused the parish considerable trouble 
 and to have needed frequent subscriptions " towards making up of the 
 sum." Ecclesiastical affairs were in an unsettled condition some 
 time previously to the death of King Charles I.] 
 
 Amongst the disbursements of the year 1647, are to 
 be found the following : 
 
 s- d. 
 ffor the Baylifife of the Queen's Manor for quit 
 
 rent for the Church House for 1645, 1646, 1647. oo 01 06 
 [It must be remembered that the Manor of 
 Twickenham was part of the jointure of Queen 
 Henrietta Maria.] 
 
 ffor default of ringinge in harvest when the Kinge 
 
 came by twice oo 13 04 
 
 ffor the high Constable upon warrant for the 
 
 maymed souldiers oo 17 04 
 
 [" Maymed " of course in the civil wars. Charles 
 had fled from Oxford and given himself up to the Scots 
 at Newark in 1646.] 
 
 ffor the Ringers upon the Coronation daye in 
 
 drink att Richardson's & bread oo 05 oo 
 
 [King Charles I was crowned on the Feast of the 
 Purification, February 2nd, 1626.] 
 
 ffor drink and bread upon the fifth of Novemb r . 
 
 for the Ringers oo 13 06 
 
 A memorandum is inserted, dated 1648, to this 
 effect : : 
 
 " Mr. Mildman's ancestors having agreed with the inhabitants to 
 pay for the enclosing of Lyme Mead yearly sixteene shillings in 
 money and one bushell of wheat and one bushel of malt unto the 
 churchwardens for use of the same parish the vestry thought fit to 
 enact that the said bushells be paid in kind yearly for avoiding 
 further dispute." 
 
 In 1649 and following year are many entries of 
 
190 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM, 
 
 moneys (usually fourpence) given to " poor Irish 
 people." 
 
 In 1652 the churchwardens made an inventory of 
 the parish goods, which they handed over to their 
 successors in office ; it is as follows : 
 
 A greater silver and guilt cupp with the cover given by Mr. 
 Hollingsworth. 
 
 A lesser silver cupp with a cover. 
 
 Two pewter flaggons. 
 
 A greene velvett cushion for the pulpitt. 
 
 Greene carpett for the comunion table. 
 
 Blacke cloth for the ffimeralls. 
 
 One joyned chest. 
 
 Two joyned stooles. 
 
 One little chest with two locks. 
 
 One diaper table-cloth for the comunion table. 
 
 A rate was made (3rd September, 1652) for 
 38/. 3^., for repairing the church, which though the 
 parishioners protested against its being made a 
 precedent of, as it was higher than the law allowed, 
 they were contented to pay, as the " repayres " were 
 necessary before winter. A full account of the ways 
 in which it was expended is entered. 
 
 On August 2ist, 1653, " ffour pounds one shilling 
 and a peney was collected in the parish for the relief 
 of the inhabitants of Maryborough who had sustained 
 damage by a fire." 
 
 On 3rd October, 1653, Henry Hammerton, the 
 parish-clerk, was chosen in accordance with a recent 
 Act of Parliament to keep the Parish Registers of 
 marriages, christenings, and burials, and the church- 
 wardens ordered a vellum book for the purpose. 
 
 On 1 4th July, 1656, the churchwardens were 
 authorized to let the Church house. On the same day 
 
EXTRACTS, 16521659. 191 
 
 the churchwardens were ordered to consider of the 
 Schools house, and treat with the Schoolmaster about it. 
 The whole business was entrusted to them "as to settling 
 and disposing of the same with the appurtenances, and 
 to take care for the providing of the pore children for 
 the best advantage of the Paryshe not altering the 
 propertye." 
 
 In October, 1656, a certain stone lying in the 
 church porch was sold to Captain Lee for 13^. 4^., the 
 money being given to Henry Hammerton (the Parish 
 Clerk) for his Quarter's wages from Ladye Day to 
 Midsummer. 
 
 In 1657 tne churchwardens were paid eighteen- 
 pence " ffor going to London to carry money which 
 was collected for the banished protestantes." 
 
 Memorandum, dated 4th January, 1657-8 : 
 
 At a meeting on the day aforesaid of the parish in vestry it was 
 in question whether the Clarke of the said Parish be servant to y e 
 Minister or to y e parish or noe, but ordered to be taken into considera- 
 tion at y e next meeting, when also it is to be considered whether 
 y Clarke or y Minister shall sett y e Psalme in y absence of y e 
 Minister, as allsoe which order shall be taken for Readinge y e 
 Scriptures publickly in y e church. 
 
 On 2nd May, 1659, it was ordered in Vestry that : 
 
 "The little seat on the back side of the one where Gooddy 
 Raynor sittes now in, and one on the south side of the seate where 
 Gooddy Barker now sitteth in shall be hereafter belonging to the 
 house which Mr. Peirce now hath by the water-side in lue of the seate 
 which did formerly belong to the said house." 
 
 In the accounts for this year occurs the item : 
 
 *. d. 
 Paid Hobs y e paynter in part for y e King's armes. i 10 o 
 
1 92 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 On the first general Thanksgiving day 18 06 was collected. 
 second 08 04 
 
 third 04 , 09 
 
 fourth 10 06 
 
 all which moneys were given to the poor. 
 
 Memorandum, 3oth August, 1660: 
 Tennor bell recast and sett up at the publick charge, also the fourth 
 bell cast anew. 
 
 On January 26th, 1662 
 
 It was ordered by the Vestry that no ringing be suffered hereafter 
 unlesse it be by Dr. Hopson's (sic] permission which wee desire may 
 not be above once in fourteen dayes. 
 
 An entry on 23rd December, 1664, states how the 
 Parish stock then stood, and in whose hands. 
 
 
 
 Thomas Cole, and Wm. Cole, 3o/., being y e gift of 
 
 Andrews of y e Parke 30 
 
 John Stevens hath 407., being y e gift of Henry Beckett 
 
 for bread 40 
 
 Thomas Bruxon (Bruckson) hath 5o/., being y e gift of 
 
 S r John Suckling 50 
 
 Ffrancis Lame (Lambe) hath 4o/., whereof 2o/. was the 
 
 gift of Lord Chief Baron Walters, (sic) and 2o/. ye e 
 
 gift of Francis Poulton, Esquire 40 
 
 Jno. Derum (Durham ?) hath 2o/., being the gift of 
 
 Tho. Poulton 20 
 
 Thomas Parker hath io/., being the gift of George 
 
 Baker io 
 
 Jesse (?) hath io/., being y e gift of Sergeant 
 
 Birkehead io 
 
 200 
 
 Amongst the expenses for the year 1665 are 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Paid to the maimed soldiers 5 o o 
 
 Paid to the King's bench and hospitalle at 
 
 Marshalsea for two years o 17 4 
 
 Spent on the Ringers on the 29th of May 068 
 
 ,, ist of November 068 
 
EXTRACTS, 16601673. i93 
 
 On Easter Monday, " Aprill i6th, 1666, Dr. Hobson 
 chose Edward Gray his security to be his churchwarden 
 with the Consent of My Lord Chancellour and the 
 Bishop." But a note is appended to this effect by the 
 Rev. the Vicar, " In y e regard y l my Lo. Chancell r is 
 not willing that Edward Gray sh d serve as Church- 
 warden I do make choice of and do nominate Geo: 
 Bartlet above named in his stead WILL HOBSON, 
 Vicar. Aprill 19. 66." 
 
 On May Qth, 1667, " Ed: Gray having complained 
 that y e Erie of Clarendon's pew for his servants in the 
 gallery had been taken away from him by the Church- 
 wardens," it was ordered, " that noe person should sitt 
 in y e said pew but by leave of my Lord Clarendon or 
 his servantts." 
 
 On September 6th, 1670, it was ordered, " that the 
 Church wardenes waite upon S r Joseph Ashe and return 
 him thanks in the name of the parish for two silver 
 flaggons which he gave them for use of the Communion 
 table." 
 
 On September 27th, 1671, it was ordered, "that 
 the Constable for the year give in a list of the armes 
 and their cost which were bought with the Poore 
 Money for the Militia, within 14 days." 
 
 On May 5th, 1673, it was ordered, "that for the 
 highways it is agreed with the consent of the whole 
 
 vestry that 
 
 shillings. 
 
 The labourers of the Parish doe pay 2 
 
 The yeomen not labourers 4 
 
 The gentlemen 6 
 
 Mr. Browne by reason of land ?! 15 
 
 Mr. Knight and others of the 
 
 better degree 15 
 
 The Lords 20 
 
 '3 
 
194 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the Parish to pay 3O/., and to be allowed 8 shillings 
 a day for their worke. The labourers doing a full clayes 
 worke 16 pence." Such was the primitive way in 
 which a rate for keeping the highways in repair was 
 levied two hundred years ago. 
 
 In May, 1673, 5o/. was given to the Parish for the 
 poor anonymously "by a good gentlewoman borne in 
 the Parish." 
 
 On January 23rd, 1673-4, a gallery 22 ft. long and 
 8 ft. wide with three pews in it was allowed to be " sett 
 up, to provide for new houses." Mr. Poulton was 
 also allowed to build a pew. 
 
 On account of the neglect and disorder of Public 
 matters in the Parish at this period, Humphry Bishop 
 of London,* on petition of certain principal inhabitants, 
 authorized the appointment of a select vestry. His 
 faculty is transcribed in the Vestry book and is dated 
 April Qth, 1674, in the eleventh year of his translation. 
 
 On September 2oth, 1674, it was ordered that Bells 
 were not to be rung, " but according to a declaration 
 under My Lord Chief Justice's hand, how he sayes 
 they may be legally ringed." 
 
 On September 2ist, 1674, a rate was made for the 
 maimed soldiers. 
 
 On April i7th, 1676, a parish officer was appointed 
 " to secure the town against vagabones, beggars, and 
 other persons harbouring in barnes or outhouses, also to 
 prevent Theefing and Robbing houses and grounds." 
 
 On June i8th, 1677, it was resolved that " Dr. 
 Meggot as M1n r of this Parish should not be taxed 
 
 * This was Dr. Humphry Henchman, formerly Bishop of Salisbury, who held 
 the see of London from 1663 to 1675. 
 
EXTRACTS, 16731685. 195 
 
 for his owne estate in this parish as to any ayd given 
 the King by Parliament." 
 
 On July 1 2th, 1680, 4/. of Sacrament money was 
 ordered to be paid by the Churchwardens to a Ship- 
 wright with an apprentice ! 
 
 Similar orders were made continually. 
 
 A complete list of parish charities is entered, dated 
 May 8th, 1681. 
 
 "Whereas on April 25th, 1681 it was ordered y l the 
 overseers lay out in wheeles and flax twenty shillings." 
 On May ist, 1682, they were ordered " to call in the 
 4 old wheeles and, if necessary spend twenty shillings 
 more on 4 new ones and more flax." This was of 
 course for the purpose of providing work for the poor. 
 
 On January 3rd, 1681, mention is made in the 
 minutes of a terrier said to be in the possession of 
 Mr. Cole. 
 
 In April, 1683, a butcher was robbed of i8/. on his 
 way to Brentford Market, and he presented a " suite 
 at law" against the hundred, whereupon the church- 
 wardens of Heston, Isleworth, and Twickenham, re- 
 funded the money to him. 
 
 In the churchwardens' disbursements for the same 
 year is this 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Item j Paid at severall times for routing the 
 
 beggars out of the farmers barnes oo 05 oo 
 
 In 1684 the stone bridge was repaired at the public 
 charge. 
 
 On March 8th, 1685, it was ordered "that in 
 regard the Worshipfull S r Joseph Ashe Barr 1 hath been 
 
196 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 a great Benefactor to this Parish that a Vault be made 
 in the South Isle of Twickenham Church as near to my 
 lady Harriett's Vault as may be and the Vaulte to containe 
 seaven feete square." 
 
 In 1686 the Parish was ordered by the Deputy 
 Lieutenancy of the County " to provide coats, hatts 
 and belts for sixteene maimed souldiers." A box was 
 made to keep the articles in. 
 
 In the accounts of 1687 is an entry 
 
 *. *. 
 Paid for the book of Thanksgiving for the 
 
 Queenes being with child oo 01 oo 
 
 [The child was the Pretender the Chevalier de 
 St. George.] 
 
 On June I3th, 1687, bread was ordered to be given 
 to the sick poor by the churchwardens in the vestry- 
 room of the church 
 
 In the accounts of 1688 are these entries : 
 
 * d. 
 Item : Paid to the relief of a sick man brought 
 
 naked out of the Camp and passing him 
 
 away oo n 03 
 
 [It will be remembered that James II. had his 
 camp at this time on Hounslow Heath.] 
 
 Item : To Mr. Guisbey for curing Doll 
 
 Bannister's nose oo 03 oo 
 
 On February ist, 1691, Strawberry hill Close, called 
 Tyle hill Close, was let on a lease of twenty-one years 
 at 1 2s. 6d. yearly rent. 
 
 On July 8th, 1695, tne new bell lately given by 
 Madame Lay ton was ordered to be recast. 
 
 On May nth, 1696, it was ordered that the Beadle 
 have 2os. per annum and the crosshouse rent free, 
 " for to ward within and about this parish and to keep 
 out all Beggars and Vagabonds, that shall Lye, abide 
 
EXTRACTS, 16861709. 197 
 
 or lurk about the towne, and to give correction to 
 such that shall anyways stand in Opposition contrary 
 to the Statutes in that case made and provided." 
 
 In the accounts of 1698 is this 
 
 * * 
 
 Item : Paid old Thomlins for fetching home 
 the Church-gates being thrown into ye 
 Thames in the night by Drunkards oo 02 06 
 
 In 1700 a new clock with chimes was made for 25/., 
 and in the expenses of jthe same year occurs this 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Item : Spent about Susan Webb in getting 
 her out of Newgate where she was put in 
 by the Parson o j 7 i 
 
 On December 26th, 1701, the Parish allowed the 
 R l Hon. the Earl of Bedford, with the consent of his 
 grace the Duke of Somerset, to set up a pillar or 
 column in the middle of Twickenham as his Lordship 
 should see fit. 
 
 On April 3<Dth, 1705, this order was made : 
 
 Whereas there is about two acres and a halfe of land lying in 
 Whitton in Twickenham parish, comonly called ye Bull Land, and 
 whereas the said land hath time out of mind found a comon bull for 
 the use of the Inhabitants of Whitton and whereas Edward Adams 
 of Whitton occupieth and enjoyeth the said Bull Land vx\& findeth no 
 Bull, this Vestry doth in behalfe of themselves and the Parishioners 
 of Twickenham order and direct that unless the said Edward Adams 
 doth speedily provide and buy for the use aforesaid an able sufficient 
 bull that then the said land be disposed of and be occupied by such 
 person or persons of Whitton that shall find a Bull as aforesaid. 
 
 In 1708, the tenor and fourth bells were recast. 
 On May 2nd, 1709, it was ordered, 
 
 That the 2o/. left by Mr. Charles Williams, late vicar, to the poor 
 be expended with the consent of Mrs. Eleanor Williams, his executrix 
 and widow, in buying a black velvet pall for funerals, and the profits 
 
198 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 resulting from it be kept in a separate account and expended yearly 
 in bread to be given to the poor on the gth day of Jan y , yearly, 
 the day of Mr. Charles Williams's decease, deducting the cost of 
 keeping the pall in good condition. 
 
 On May i3th, 1711, the curious order about the 
 bell-ringing was made, quoted on p. 112. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller's name appears first in the 
 parish books about this time. 
 
 On January iQth, 1712-13, an inquiry was 
 instituted as to whether the vicar's close belonged 
 to the minister or to the poor. 
 
 On March i6th, 1712-13, certain repairs to the 
 church were ordered ; but neglect had brought the 
 church to a condition beyond repair, and the next 
 extract, dated 
 
 April 25th, 1713, informs us of the appointment of 
 twenty trustees to consider the rebuilding of the 
 church, if having fallen down on the night of Thursday, 
 April 9//, 1713. 
 
 The names were, 
 
 Sir James Ash, Bart. Mr. L'Estrange. 
 
 Mr. Axtell. Sir George Mathew. 
 
 Sir Thomas Pope Blunt, Bart. Mr. Robert Moore. 
 
 Mr. Clark. Sir George Skipwith, Bart. 
 
 Mr. Cole. Cecil Tufton, Esq. 
 
 Mr. Crookshanks. The Hon. Thomas Newport. 
 
 Capt. Gardner. Tho. Vernon, Esq. 
 
 Mr. Harrold. (Churchwarden). 
 
 Mr. Heather. Capt. Williss. 
 
 The Hon. James Johnson, Esq. Capt. Willson. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller, Mr. Wiett, and 
 
 (Churchwarden). Dr. Prat, the vicar. 
 
 They were empowered to clear away the old 
 church, and rebuild on the same consecrated ground 
 
EXTRACTS, 17111726. 199 
 
 a much larger and more convenient church. Nine 
 trustees were to form a "corum." 
 
 Subsequently we find many grants of vaults, and 
 of pews, the first pew being granted to Sir Godfrey 
 Kneller, the faculty for which was signed by himself 
 amongst others. 
 
 On September 26th, 1715, a church rate was made 
 at 3^. 6d. in the pound. $s. for arrears due to the work- 
 men, and 6d. for debts due for the church and bridges 
 and King's Bench for the year last past. 
 
 On Sunday, July ist, 1716, a church rate was made 
 at 2s. 6d. for arrears of workmen's pay. 
 
 At a vestry, held on January 28th, 1716-17, it was 
 determined to put the names of five or six parishioners 
 who had refused to pay the rate, in a hat, and proceed 
 by law against the first drawn out, if he persisted in 
 his refusal ; if he complied, to proceed to the second, 
 and so on. 
 
 It was ordered on July 28th, 1717, that the fee for 
 breaking ground in the church for burials be 2os. for 
 parishioners, 40^. for non-parishioners. 
 
 On November 4th, 1722, a pound rate was made 
 by order of Chancery, first call of four shillings, to 
 defray workmen's expenses in rebuilding the church. 
 
 On September i3th, 1725, a workhouse at the 
 end of the almshouses on the common was ordered to 
 be built. 
 
 On December 5th, 1726, so many larcenies having 
 been committed, and the sufferers being unwilling to 
 prosecute, on account of expense, the vestry ordered 
 that whenever any larceny, felony, or burglary is 
 committed, Mr. James Tylor, of New Brentford, be 
 
200 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 empowered to manage the prosecution of the same, 
 and for his pains to be paid by a rate. 
 
 On May 7th, 1727, money for certain pews was 
 ordered to be called in, or, in default of payment, that 
 the pews should be sold to the highest bidder. 
 
 On July 2nd, 1727, an address was ordered to 
 be drawn up to the gentry and other inhabitants of 
 the parish, and the churchwardens and overseers to go 
 from house to house to get voluntary subscriptions 
 towards the arrears in building the church. 
 
 On March 3ist, 1728, the first " Christ Church 
 Hospital " boy was elected by the vestry (by name, 
 Thomas Fletcher). 
 
 In 1730 the fourth bell was recast. 
 
 On April iQth, 1731, it was ordered 
 
 That no young fellows or lads be permitted at any time to play 
 in the churchyard at all, and that Joseph Ferriman, the Bedle, take 
 particular care to prevent it for the time to come by ordering all such 
 young men, lads, or fellows, to forbear : and if any of the said young 
 fellows shall presume to resist, or shall refuse to submit to order, the 
 Bedle is hereby ordered to call in a constable to assist him in taking 
 up such unruly persons *for the giving them due correction. 
 
 In the minutes of June I4th, 1736, occurs a copy 
 of a contract so dated, made by Samuel Catherall, to 
 keep and maintain all the poor in the workhouse, or 
 that should hereafter come into it, in a cleanly, decent, 
 and orderly manner, both in sickness and in health, at 
 two shillings a head per week. The bills of fare for 
 health and illness are subjoined ; the latter includes 
 " such suitable diet as mutton broth, drink caudle, 
 sugar slops, drink posset, treacle posset, water gruel 
 with sugar and butter in it." 
 
EXTRACTS, 17271771. 201 
 
 On January 6th, 1751, it was ordered 
 
 That the Butchers, Chandlers, and other shopkeepers of this 
 parish, who presume to keep open their shops and sell their goods on 
 Sundays contrary to Decency and the known laws of this kingdom, 
 be prosecuted for the same, in order to prevent so scandalous a 
 practice for the future, and that notice of this order be published in 
 the church. 
 
 The beadle was ordered also 
 
 To disperse all boys gathered together on the commons and 
 other places in the parish on the Sabbath Days, and if they refuse 
 to disperse, to take them into custody. 
 
 On April 23rd, 1764, it was ordered 
 
 That the House of Correction, commonly called the Round 
 House, situate in the midst of the town, be removed to the church 
 wall, by private contribution offered for that purpose. 
 
 On September 9th, 1764, the stocks and cage 
 were ordered to be re-erected on a dry spot on the 
 Common. 
 
 On September i8th, 1769, a vestry clerk was 
 appointed (apparently) for the first time. 
 
 On January 8th, 1771, the parish petitioned Parlia- 
 ment against the Commisioners of Sewers for the City 
 of London and Liberty of Westminster interfering 
 with the water-courses in the parish. 
 
 On June 2nd, 1771, a contract was accepted for 
 supplying the workhouse with meat for one quarter of 
 the year beef at 2od. per stone with the bone out ; 
 mutton at ^d. per Ib. ; and for the next quarter beef at 
 i8d. and mutton at ^d. Cheese was contracted for 
 at 37^. per cwt. ; butter *]\d. per Ib. ; soap at 58^. per 
 cwt ; candles at 8s. per dozen (!) ; oatmeal is. i id. per 
 peck ; rice 2d. per Ib ; tobacco is. id. per Ib ; 
 approximate prices. 
 
202 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 On August i6th, 1772, the old pulpit was ordered 
 to be removed and a new one erected at a cost of 92/. 
 
 The churchwardens were in the habit of paying for 
 the destruction of vermin ; in their accounts for the 
 years 1773 and 1774, are, for instance, these items : 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Paid for 54 Hedgehogs 18 o 
 
 Paid for 4 Pole-cats i 4 
 
 and similar entries occur in great numbers up to quite 
 recent times. 
 
 On November 5th, 1775, the king's arms was 
 ordered to be put up, as required by the Surrogate 
 of the Bishop of London. 
 
 On June 6th, 1779, the battlements of the steeple 
 were ordered to be taken down and rebuilt. 
 
 On October 2nd, 1 780, printed placards announcing 
 rewards for the apprehension of housebreakers were 
 ordered to be repeated. 
 
 On October ist, 1781, a piece of ground by the 
 water-side, facing the vicarage wall, which had been 
 selected for a burying-ground, was considered improper 
 and impracticable. 
 
 On November I3th, 1781, ground for that purpose 
 was purchased of Mr. Maddocks. 
 
 By a minute dated November ist, 1 784, it was agreed 
 at the vestry " that the Reverend Mr. Jeffreys, Vicar 
 of this Parish, do pay all such parochial rates and duties 
 as he is by law liable to pay, and all arrears due." 
 
 On October iQth, 1783, regulations were passed 
 to be observed by the sexton in the new burying 
 ground. And it was ordered that no new grave be 
 made in the old churchyard. 
 
EXTRACTS, 17721802. 203 
 
 On November 22nd, 1784, the Rev. Mr. Stretch 
 was ordered to pay five guineas for his seats in the 
 gallery. 
 
 On September i2th, 1786, the Vestry offered 
 rewards for the discovery of charity lands unknown. 
 
 On October 9th, 1786, proceedings were ordered 
 to be taken against Mr. Jeffreys, late vicar, who had 
 not paid his poor's rates. 
 
 In 1789, a new eight day clock with a dial plate 
 and two hands, and a clock bell of 3 cwt. were pro- 
 vided at a cost of 95/. 9^. The cupola and clock-case 
 cost 65/. ; nine guineas were allowed for the old one. 
 
 On December 28th, 1789, on the motion of Samuel 
 Prime, Esq., seconded by Sir Richard Perryn, the vicar 
 and his curate were excused from paying all parochial 
 rates. 
 
 On October 4th, 1 790, it was ordered " that a 
 whipping-post be put up at the workhouse immediately'' 
 
 On December 23rd, 1800, at a meeting of the vestry, 
 the Rev. Mr. D'Aranda in the chair, his Majesty's 
 Proclamation of the 3rd inst, having reference to the 
 extraordinary price of bread (one of the consequences 
 of the long war with France), which had occasioned 
 riots in various places, being read, it was agreed that 
 " This Vestry, taking into their serious considera- 
 tion the said proclamation, and being desirous of 
 observing the measures suggested by it for reducing 
 the consumption of every species of grain, do bind 
 themselves to adopt the same in their respective 
 families as far as may be, and do strongly recommend 
 a similar conduct to every inhabitant of this parish." 
 
 On January i 2th, 1802, the deeds &c. relating to 
 
204 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 " Syons Peace" obtained from the Duke of Northum- 
 berland were deposited in a tripartite iron chest, the 
 keys of which were given to the churchwardens of 
 Twickenham, Isleworth, and Heston. The parish 
 in this year acquired Mother Ivy's Close, and Lewis 
 Owen's gift. 
 
 During 1803 there were continual disputes con- 
 cerning the administration of the charity funds. 
 
 On February i3th, 1804, the vicar was again excused 
 from the payment of parochial rates, and the vestry 
 were pleased to say that his conduct and behaviour in 
 the discharge of his duty appeared every way exemplary 
 and satisfactory to the parish. 
 
 On December lyth, 1804, a bellman and beadle 
 was appointed to keep the parish clear of vagrants, with 
 a salary of io/. per annum, and a coat, a hat, a pair of 
 stockings and a pair of shoes once in two years. 
 
 Widow Hart was appointed sexton in the room of 
 her deceased husband. (She resigned her post in 
 1806, and then received 12 1. a year pension.) 
 
 On the same day is inserted an inventory of the 
 parish plate, consisting then of one large silver dish, 
 one smaller, two large silver flagons (Sir Joseph Ashe's 
 gift), one large salver, one small salver, and two French 
 plate dishes. 
 
 On June i8th, 1805, tne purchase of the burial 
 ground was ordered to be completed according to the 
 resolution of vestry, November 26th, 1787. 
 
 On April i4th, 1806, orders were made concerning 
 Lord Orford's Charity, and subsequently, concerning 
 Love's Charity, and the parish land on Twickenham 
 Ait. 
 
EXTRACTS, 18031827. 205 
 
 On March 25th, 1809, rules were issued for the 
 regulation of the Free School. 
 
 On May i/j-th, 1811, it was ordered that an organ 
 be procured to play with either finger or barrel, and 
 later on in the same year it was agreed that parishioners 
 claiming seats in the front gallery be asked to relinquish 
 them for the purpose of accommodating with room the 
 singers of the church. 
 
 On March 3ist, 1814, Mr. Dickason gave ioo/ 
 Consols in lieu of Lewis Owen's rent charge. 
 
 Iji 1815, negotiations were entered on for an 
 exchange of school land with the Countess of Dun- 
 more, but they were not completed. 
 
 In 1816, it was decided that the houses in School 
 Alley belong to the parish and not to the trustees of 
 the school. 
 
 In 1817, the present almsrooms were first used 
 as such. 
 
 On March 9th, 1820, a motion for a select vestry 
 was negatived by nine votes. 
 
 On July 1 3th, 1820, steps were ordered to be taken 
 to re-open the public footpath from the Common 
 through the Oil Mills to Whitton, which had been 
 closed by George Thackrah, Esq. 
 
 During the years 1821 and 1822, many discussions 
 are recorded concerning the charities and their applica- 
 tion, and D'Oyley's gift. 
 
 On April i9th, 1827, as the Almshouses were in a 
 ruinous condition, new buildings were ordered, for which 
 purpose, subsequently, money was borrowed, and sub- 
 scriptions were solicited. The occupants were ordered 
 amongst other things, to attend church regularly. 
 
206 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 On February 2ist, 1828, a proposal was made to 
 enlarge the burial ground. In December of this year 
 the inhabitants enrolled themselves for the protection 
 of their property against thieves. 
 
 On May 8th, 1832, the curate of the parish having 
 hitherto taken the chair at vestries, counsel's opinion 
 was taken, and it was decided that he could not do so, 
 unless by election. 
 
 On December 6th, 1832, the footway which had 
 been the subject of litigation in 1820 having been again 
 blocked up, and force threatened by Mr. Thackrah, an 
 action was brought against him by the parish, which he 
 lost. 
 
 In June, 1834, the inhabitants determined to 
 prepare an address to the King, testifying their loyal 
 attachment to him, and their satisfaction at his Majesty's 
 late declaration to the bishops, and his gracious promise 
 to maintain inviolate the Constitution of Church and 
 State. A part of the Ministry had resigned on the 
 loth of the previous month on the Irish Church 
 question. 
 
 On November loth, 1836, it was recorded that his 
 Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests had 
 expressed their willingness to make a grant of land for 
 a new burial ground, which, in 1837, was planted and 
 walled round. 
 
 On October i8th, 1838, a proposal to repew the 
 parish church, to procure additional seats for the 
 inhabitants, and free seats for the poor was rejected : 
 but the desirability of a new church to be erected by 
 subscription was suggested. 
 
 On January 8th, 1847, petitions were drawn up to 
 
EXTRACTS, 18281869. 2 7 
 
 both Houses of Parliament in favour of the London and 
 South Western Railway Company's line to Windsor. 
 
 On May nth, 1848, a congratulatory address was 
 presented to Government on the measures they had 
 adopted to quell insurrection on April loth : the 
 address was subsequently answered by Sir George 
 Grey, H.M.'s Secretary of State. 
 
 On March 25th, 1865, the vestry expressed their 
 deep regret at Mr. Master's resignation of the vicarage, 
 and tendered to him their warmest thanks for the 
 active and useful part he had taken in all public and 
 parochial business. 
 
 On January 25th, 1866, a new burial ground was 
 resolved to be formed under " the Burials (beyond the 
 Metropolis) Act." 
 
 On January 23rd, 1868, the Local Board, elected 
 by the parishioners, received the vestry's sanction, and 
 was empowered to act. 
 
 On October i4th, 1869, the vestry expressed their 
 sympathy with the family of the late Mr. Louis Kyezor, 
 of Whitton, who had for years taken great interest in 
 parish business, and had served many offices. This 
 gentleman had been cruelly murdered on the nth inst. 
 by one of his tenants, Thomas Haydon Green, aged 
 eighty-two, who committed suicide immediately after 
 his vindictive act. Green (whose real name was 
 Edwards) was the man who revealed the intentions 
 of Thistlewood and the Cato Street conspirators to 
 Lord Harrowby in 1820. 
 
 It may be mentioned that since the formation of a 
 local board, the duties of the parishioners in vestry 
 
208 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 assembled have been much lessened and curtailed. All 
 the responsibilities attaching to the lighting of the 
 parish, the care of its roads and high ways,"* and, especially, 
 the urgent question of drainage, which has been for 
 some time past the subject of much deliberation and 
 discussion, devolve upon the Board, and are now no 
 longer managed by special committees, elected for such 
 purposes, as was the case previous to the year 1868. 
 
 * Twickenham having long been noted for the beauty of its walks, especially 
 those on the banks of the river, it is desirable that all encroachments upon "the 
 rights of way " should be jealously guarded against. To show what these rights are 
 reference should be made to the Law of Highways, by Leonard Shelford, who on 
 page 25 explains them and gives authorities for his statements. It has been deemed 
 advisable to mention this subject on account of the recent erection, in certain places, 
 of fences which, if ignored by the parish, may eventually exclude the public 
 altogether. 
 
PART II. 
 
 TOPOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 '4 
 
MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 211 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 THE HOUSES. 
 ORLEANS HOUSE ART COLLECTION AND LIBRARY OF H.R.H. 
 
 THE DUG D'AUMALE YORK HOUSE " FORMOSA " LODGE. 
 
 THE MANOR HOUSE, called also Arragon House, has 
 been described elsewhere.* 
 
 ORLEANS HOUSE. A messuage of the Manor of 
 Twickenham was, says Lysons, leased to Sir Thomas 
 Newenham for twenty-one years in 1567 ; the same, 
 with fifty-one acres of land, was leased in 1599 to Jane 
 Harden. A lease for thirty years, to commence from 
 1622, was granted to Andrew Pitcarne, groom of the 
 bed-chamber. When the parliamentary survey was 
 taken in 1650, the lease was vested in his widow, 
 Charity Pitcarne. It is described in that survey as a 
 " pleasant and delightful tenement, about twenty poles 
 from the river, built partly with brick and partly with 
 timber, and Flemish wall, with comely chambers ; the 
 gardens, not only rare for pleasure, but exceedingly 
 profitable, being planted with cabbages, turnips, and 
 carrots, and many other such-like creatures ; " there 
 were sixteen acres of cherry gardens. The estate was 
 sold, on the expiration of the lease, to Richard Ell. 
 
 * Page 13. 
 
272 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Immediately after the Restoration it was demised to 
 Richard Webb and George Gosfreight for twenty-one 
 years; in 1671 to Mrs. Jane Davies ; a reversionary 
 lease was granted the same year to Sir Charles Cobb 
 for fourteen years, commencing in 1688 ; and a second 
 lease was afterwards granted to Mrs. Davies for eight 
 years and a half, commencing in 1702. Jenkyn Lewis, 
 in his Memoirs of Prince William Henry Duke of 
 Gloiicester, says that Queen Anne, then Princess of 
 Denmark, took, in 1694, as change of air was con- 
 sidered necessary for the young duke, " three houses 
 at Twickenham, which belonged to Mrs. Davies, an 
 ancient gentlewoman, my Lord Berkeley's aunt, a very 
 temperate, healthy old lady, who was said to live 
 chiefly on herbs, without animal food." The duke 
 brought with him his regiment of boys, which he used 
 to exercise on the ait opposite the house. This ait, 
 which was known in recent times as " the Swan 
 Islet," has now become a part of the mainland. 
 Mr. Samuel Prat, who became vicar of the parish in 
 1712, was the prince's tutor ; he succeeded in teaching 
 his youthful charge the Lord's Prayer and the Ten 
 Commandments, but failed to induce him to . attend 
 the daily prayers of the household. The duke died 
 in his twelfth year. When Sir Benjamin Bathurst 
 (" a very worthy man ") came, at the close of the 
 princess's visit, by her order, to tender to Mrs. Davies 
 a hundred guineas for the month during which she 
 had occupied the houses, that lady refused them, 
 and also objected to be paid for the produce of her 
 field of ripe cherries, which she gave to the family. 
 Lord Rochester's reversionary interest in this estate 
 
ORLEANS HOUSE. 213 
 
 (his lordship at this time held the manor) having been 
 purchased by Mrs. Davies, she made it over to James 
 Johnstone, Esq., Secretary of State for Scotland, who, 
 in 1702, obtained from the queen dowager a lease of 
 thirteen years, from 1720. Mr. Johnstone removed the 
 ancient structures existing on the land, and built the 
 present house after the model of country seats in 
 Lombardy. He built the large octagon room at the end 
 of the house especially for the reception and enter- 
 tainment of Queen Caroline, consort of George II., 
 who visited him here. The queen, during her residence 
 at Hampton Court, was fond of coming down the 
 river early in the morning to visit Lady Catherine 
 Johnstone and to breakfast in the beautiful gardens, in 
 which Mackay (in his Tour through England, which 
 was published in 1720) says that " Secretary Johnstone 
 had the best collection of fruit of most gentlemen in 
 England ; that he had slopes for his vines, from which 
 he made some hogsheads of wine a year ; and that 
 Dr. Bradley, in his Treatise on Gardening, ranked him 
 among the first gardeners in the kingdom." After 
 the death of the Secretary (who had obtained another 
 short lease from King George II.) the property was 
 purchased by George Morton Pitt, Esq., formerly 
 Governor of Fort St. George, in the East Indies. 
 It came afterwards, through his marriage with this 
 gentleman's daughter, to Lord Brownlow Bertie, brother 
 of the Duke of Ancaster. Soon after the death of 
 Lady Bertie it was purchased by Sir George Pococke, 
 K.B., who married a granddaughter of Mr. Pitt."" 
 
 * Ironside in giving these facts says that Governor Pitt was known by the name 
 of "Diamond Pitt," confusing him with Thomas Pitt, Governor of Madras and 
 father of the Earl of Chatham. 
 
214 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 He procured a renewal of the lease in 1765 for such 
 time as should make up fifty years from that date. 
 His son, George Pococke, Esq., M.P., succeeded him, 
 and for some years resided here. 
 
 His Majesty Louis Philippe, King of the French, 
 when Duke of Orleans rented this house of its owner, 
 on his arrival in England from New York in 1800. 
 The duke had here an opportunity of enjoying some 
 repose in the midst of the best English society. He 
 engaged with zeal in the study of political economy, 
 and of the institutions of Great Britain, making at 
 times excursions with his brothers into the country, 
 and becoming thereby much anglicized in tastes and 
 habits. His only subject of concern was the weak 
 health of the then Duke of Montpensier, whose constitu- 
 tion, never robust, had been weakened by a long and 
 cruel confinement in prison, and who, from the time of 
 his arrival in this country, generally sank in bodily 
 strength. He died on the May i8th, 1807, and was 
 buried in Westminster Abbey. The elegant Latin 
 epitaph which marks the place of his interment was 
 the joint composition of the Duke of Orleans and 
 General Dumouriez. 
 
 The duke, in 1807, wrote from Twickenham to the 
 then Bishop of Llandaff some lines, which are interest- 
 ing and characteristic. " I quitted," he says, " my 
 native country so early that I have hardly the manners 
 or the habits of a Frenchman, and I can say with truth 
 that I am attached to England not only by gratitude 
 but by taste and inclination. In the sincerity of my 
 heart I do pray that I may never leave this hospitable 
 soil. But it is not from individual feeling only that I 
 
THE DUG D' A UM ALE'S ART COLLECTION. 215 
 
 take so much interest in the success of England, it is 
 also as a man. The safety of Europe, of the world 
 itself, the happiness and independence of the human 
 race, depend upon the safety and independence of 
 England." 
 
 From Louis Philippe's residence in it the house 
 derives its modern name of " Orleans House." Its 
 next inhabitant was R. Burnett, Esq., and it was sold 
 by the Pococke family in 1827 to Alexander Murray, 
 Esq., of Broughton, M.P. for the county of Kirkcud- 
 bright, the previous possessors having held the property 
 for about a century. After Mr. Murray's death in 1844, 
 the estate was purchased, in 1846, by Lord Kilmorey, 
 of whom it was bought by its present owner, H.R.H. 
 the Due d'Aumale. The Duke has augmented the 
 house by the erection of a large picture gallery and a 
 commodious library. He possesses an extensive and 
 most valuable collection of works of art, some of which 
 were obtained from the Bernal sale, and others were 
 formerly the property of the Duke of Salerno. Amongst 
 the pictures are many specimens of the best old masters 
 in the Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish and French 
 schools : conspicuous amongst these are the Salvator 
 Rosas, which are numerous and excellent, and a price- 
 less Madonna and Child by Raffaelle. There are forty- 
 two portraits of princes and princesses of the royal 
 families of Bourbon and Conde, by Nicolas Fragonard, 
 executed for the Princes of Conde after the original 
 portraits, which were brought from the Castle of 
 Chantilly. Among the numerous works of modern 
 French painters may be mentioned " The Duel after the 
 Ball," by Gerome. A portrait of Louis Philippe Joseph 
 
216 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Due d'Orleans, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is a reduced 
 copy of an original painted for the Prince of Wales, 
 which was destroyed in the fire at Carl ton House 
 in 1820. This picture belonged to Sir Thomas 
 Lawrence and then to Mr. Evans, who purchased 
 it at the sale after Lawrence's death. 
 
 The collection of miniatures and enamels is large 
 and choice. One room in the house, called the Salle 
 Conde, is dedicated to the Grand Conde and contains, 
 almost exclusively, articles which have reference to the 
 history of that Prince and his family. The bust of 
 him, and that of Turenne are by Couston. There is in 
 this room a head of Henri Quatre, executed in coloured 
 wax, and taken probably from a cast after death. 
 
 The drawings and sketches by the most celebrated 
 masters, and the specimens of the works of German, 
 French, and Italian engravers are very numerous. 
 Five pieces of stained glass which were brought from 
 the Castle of Ecouen are attributed to Bernard Palissy. 
 Some mosaics and many pieces of sculpture, china, glass, 
 majolica and glass vessels, are also of great interest. 
 
 The library, which is of extreme value, contains 
 manuscripts on vellum with miniatures, of the ninth, 
 eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, 
 seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. An evan- 
 geliarium bears the date 850. A prayer-book executed 
 for the Due Jean de Berry, brother of Charles V. of 
 France, an ardent patron of miniature painting, is, in 
 all likelihood, the one mentioned in a catalogue com- 
 piled in 1416, the year of the Duke's death. There is 
 a large number of autographs of the Princes of Conde 
 and of ministers, poets, and statesmen of France. 
 
THE DUG U AUMALES LIBRARY. 217 
 
 Amongst the very rare specimens of ancient printing 
 may be mentioned 
 
 Durandus Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, 1459. 
 The first book of an ascertained date printed from 
 movable type. 
 
 A Latin Bible. The first printed with a certain 
 date, 1460. 
 
 An uncut Elzevir Horace, 1676. 
 
 Caxton's Golden Legend, London, 1483. 
 
 Besides these are many rare books printed at Paris, 
 Lyons, Venice, Verona, Florence and Rome, and 
 numerous old and sumptuously bound works of or 
 belonging to eminent personages and by binders 
 of note. 
 
 Amongst other rarities are specimens of old armour, 
 jewels, ornaments and furniture. 
 
 Orleans House, with its beautiful conservatories and 
 gardens, combines all the characteristics of an English 
 nobleman's residence with the sumptuous elegance of 
 continental taste.""" 
 
 It is now unoccupied, and has been so since the 
 Due d'Aumale's return to France, which the fall of the 
 Empire rendered possible. 
 
 YORK HOUSE. Near the church is a capital house 
 standing in seven acres of land, also a messuage of 
 the Manor of Twickenham, called originally, says 
 
 * This very slight account of its contents, which is only a bare outline, and 
 not intended to be a detailed description, has been for the most part gathered 
 from a Description Sommaire des Objets d'Artfaisant partie des collections du 
 Due d'Aumale, exposes pour la visite du Fine Arts Club, le 21 Mai, 1862, 
 "pas un Catalogue mais une simple liste d'objets choisis pour representer les 
 diverses branches d'une Collection, et exposes pour une occasion speciale." See 
 also Dr. Waagen's Galleries of Art in Great Britain, vol. iv. p. 247, etc. 
 
2i8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Lysons, Yorke's Farm. The estate was demised in 
 1566 to John Jermyn and James Bafers ; in 1582 for 
 twenty-one years to Lancelot Alford ; and in 1590 for 
 a further term of twenty-one years to George Watkins 
 and William Forster. In 1635, it was granted in fee, 
 subject to a rent of 2O/. to William Scriven, Philip 
 Eden and their heirs. 
 
 This house appears to have been given by the 
 Crown, together with other valuable presents, to Edward 
 Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, on the public announcement 
 of the marriage of his daughter with James II., then 
 Duke of York, in or about the year of the Restoration. 
 The chancellor was accustomed to pass here the 
 summer months ; he says himself that when he attended 
 the king at Hampton Court, he came home every 
 night to his house at Twickenham. Ironside infers 
 from the name of the house, and from the fact that his 
 two daughters, Mary and Anne, successively Queens 
 of England, were nursed in it, that the Duke of York 
 himself resided here, and that he resigned it to his 
 father-in-law at the instigation of his brother, King 
 Charles, on account of its convenient proximity to 
 Hampton Court and to Ham House, then the Duke 
 of Lauderdale's, where the king used frequently to 
 visit both for pleasure and for the transaction of State 
 business. 
 
 Clarendon probably remained here during the 
 zenith of his popularity : it was his " literary villa," 
 Cornbury being his country seat, and Dunkirk House 
 his London palace. Possibly it was at York House 
 that Ben Jonson visited the Lord Chancellor, and 
 " Isaac Walton, not without his fishing-rod, Cotton, 
 
YORK HOUSE. 219 
 
 May, Carew, Edmund Waller, Sir Kenelm Digby and 
 Chillingworth, probably graced the villa and amused 
 the leisure hours of Clarendon, with whom they are 
 known to have been acquainted ; and their concourse 
 imparts to Twickenham a literary tinge even before 
 the period in which it became celebrated for its literary 
 inhabitants." * During the great Fire of London this 
 house received the furniture of Dunkirk House. Pepys 
 says in his Diary t that on the night of Clarendon's 
 escape to Calais, " his coach and people about it went 
 to Twittenham and all people thought he had been 
 there." 
 
 Queen Anne was born in this house on February 6th, 
 1665. . Lysons says that it subsequently became the 
 property of Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, who 
 was Clarendon's second son, and who owned the 
 Manor of Twickenham. It was purchased about the 
 year 1740, by James Whitchurch, Esq., after whose 
 death it was sold to Lieut.-Col. James Webber, who, 
 at great expense, much improved the house and 
 grounds ; by him it was sold to the Count de Strah- 
 remberg, sometime Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 
 Plenipotentiary from the court of Vienna, who resided 
 in it for a time, and in 1810 it was unoccupied. Soon 
 after, York House became the residence of Archbishop 
 Cleaver of Dublin, who, from mental disease, was 
 unable to discharge the duties of the see. His Grace's 
 two daughters, the younger of whom married, in 1815, 
 the Hon. Captain King, R.N., are remembered by 
 
 * " The Literary Suburb," a valuable and interesting series of papers contributed 
 to Frasers Magazine for 1860. See that year, pp. 132-133. 
 f Page 446. Lord Braybroke's edition. 
 
220 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 many on account of their extreme beauty. In The 
 Times of July 3rd, 1817, the house therein described 
 as the residence and property of Prince Strahremberg, 
 was advertised for sale. It was purchased by the 
 Hon. Mrs. Anne Darner, who succeeded Horace 
 Walpole at Strawberry Hill, 'and, having given up 
 that house to Lord Waldegrave, came to reside here, 
 and continued to do so until her death, which 
 happened in London, in 1828, when she was more 
 than eighty years of age. Mrs. Darner was the only 
 daughter of Lady Ailesbury and Field Marshal Henry 
 Conway : she was born in 1748, and in 1767 she 
 married John, the eldest son of Joseph Darner, Lord 
 Milton, afterwards Earl of Dorchester. Nine years 
 after her marriage her husband shot himself in a 
 tavern in London. She was very eminent as a 
 sculptress, having produced many works of great 
 excellence. In later life she boldly espoused the 
 cause of Queen Caroline, whom she frequently enter- 
 tained at Twickenham. She left York House to her 
 niece, Lady Johnstone, the wife of Sir Patrick John- 
 stone. It was let to several tenants, conspicuous 
 amongst whom were the Duchess Dowager of Rox- 
 burgh, relict of William the fourth duke (who re- 
 married on August i gth, 1806, the Hon. John Tolle- 
 mache, second son of Louisa, Countess of Dysart and 
 John Manners, Esq.), and Lord Lonsdale, who died 
 here in 1844, at the age of eighty-seven. So popular 
 was the latter with the middle-class inhabitants of 
 Twickenham, that when his body was removed hence 
 for interment in his own county, nearly all the trades- 
 people followed in procession, some on foot and some 
 
YORK LODGE. 221 
 
 on horseback, until it was out of the parish ; and not 
 a few travelled the whole way to Westmoreland. 
 
 The house was sold a few years ago by the Misses 
 Johnstone, and purchased by H.R.H. the Due 
 d'Aumale for his nephew, H.R.H. the Comte de 
 Paris, the eldest son of the Due d'Orleans (Louis 
 Philippe's eldest son), who lost his life by a melancholy 
 accident in 1842. The Comte de Paris vacated it in 
 the autumn of last year, on his return to France. It 
 is now to be let. 
 
 YORK LODGE. The small house near the gates of 
 York House, now occupied by Mr. Herron, upon which 
 the modern title of " Formosa Lodge" has, unfortu- 
 nately, been bestowed in place of its old name of 
 " York Lodge," * has the appearance of having been 
 a portion of the outbuildings originally connected with 
 Arragon House. It was in the early part of the present 
 century the residence of Major George Marlay and his 
 wife Lady Catherine, second daughter of the second 
 Earl of Lanesborough. The Major was in disposition 
 somewhat misanthropical ; but his wife, differently 
 constituted, assembled at her house many of the most 
 eminent men of the day ; amongst whom are remem- 
 bered George Ponsonby, Lord Chancellor* of Ireland 
 (the husband of Lady Marlay's eldest sister), and the 
 great statesman and orator, Henry Grattan. In the 
 meadows, through which the railroad now runs, 
 Grattan composed his famous speech on Catholic 
 
 * I have heard this house spoken of as " Lancaster Lodge," and it is so named 
 on the Ordnance Map. I am assured, however, that "York Lodge" was its 
 original name. 
 
222 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Emancipation. A lady tells me that, though then 
 only a little girl, the charming manners and unaffected 
 good nature of this Irish coterie, remain impressed on 
 her memory indelibly ; she recollects the orator's hasty 
 steps and impassioned gestures, and how, on one 
 occasion, although he seemed to be absorbed in the 
 consideration and arrangement of his subject, he paused, 
 and with true Irish kindliness, gave her a rosebud 
 from his button-hole. 
 
 Major and Lady C. Marlay had two daughters and a 
 son ; the last, Colonel Marlay, was father to the late 
 Lady John Manners ; the younger of the daughters 
 became the first wife of the Rev. Calvert Fitzgerald 
 Moore ; and the elder, who outlived the rest of the 
 family, resided for some years in France, and having 
 made herself a " chanoinesse " was styled Madame 
 Marlay. 
 
DESCRIPTION OF THE RIVER THAMES. 223 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 THE RIVER THAMES AS DESCRIBED IN THE ISLEWORTH SURVEY 
 TWICKENHAM PARK SYON MONASTERY DEEDS IN PARISH 
 CHEST LORD BACON AND SUBSEQUENT OCCUPANTS OF 
 TWICKENHAM PARK HOUSE : THE BERKELEY FAMILY THOMAS 
 VERNON, ESQ. CURIOUS WILL OF THE DOWAGER LADY 
 
 MOUNTRATH METHOD OF BEATING THE PARISH BOUNDS 
 
 ADJOINING RESIDENCES " VILLAS " TREES ON MR. 
 GOSTLING'S GROUNDS CAMBRIDGE HOUSE RICHARD OWEN 
 CAMBRIDGE ARCHDEACON CAMBRIDGE'S HOUSE. 
 
 IT will be, perhaps, most convenient to commence 
 our survey of the houses (the messuages of the 
 manor having been described), at the north-east 
 corner of the parish, and consider in order those 
 which are situated on or near the banks of the 
 Thames. This river, to which Twickenham owes 
 nearly all its beauty, has been quaintly described in 
 the Isleworth Survey. 
 
 It breedeth much good fishe, whereof the river is free ; it is for 
 all uses of life sufficiently commodious, free from rocks and other 
 incumbrances, from raging currents and swallowing eddies ; neither 
 muddy banks, nor unwholesome vapours, but continually bordered 
 with delightful meadows, runneth with still currents into the sea, so 
 that tho not for quantitie, yet for qualitie, may be compared with the 
 best of the rivers in the worlde, and justly deserveth all such equal 
 prayses as may be sayde of a sweet, cleare, and pleasant river. 
 
224 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 TWICKENHAM PARK. On the border of the parish, 
 partly in Twickenham, and partly in Isleworth, stood 
 Twickenham Park House, the site of which first claims 
 attention. 
 
 Twickenham Park was originally called Isleworth 
 Park, and sometimes also the New Park of Richmond. 
 Stowe says in his Annals* that in 1263, during the 
 disturbances in the reign of Henry III., " Simon de 
 Mountfort with the barons pitched their tents in 
 Istleworth or Thistleworth parke." The site of the 
 encampment is in the parish of Twickenham. In the 
 Park there stood from 1414 to 1431 the monastery of 
 S. Saviour and S. Bridget of Syon of the order of 
 S. Augustine. It was the only religious house in 
 England which followed the rules of S. Bridget, who 
 instituted in 1362 an order of monks and nuns. She 
 was very careful in educating her children, hating 
 idleness, and was most abstemious and charitable. In 
 every one of her monasteries there were sixty nuns and 
 twenty-five monks, comprising thirteen priests, who 
 represented the twelve apostles and S. Paul, four 
 deacons, who represented the four doctors, SS. Ambrose 
 Augustine, Gregory, and Jerome, and eight lay labourers, 
 who occupied themselves with the affairs of the house. 
 The whole number, eighty-five, is supposed to have 
 reference to the thirteen Apostles together with the 
 seventy disciples, but there were two over, for whom it 
 is difficult to account. 
 
 Henry V. founded the monastery, (the date of its 
 charter is March the 3rd, 1414) "ad laudem, gloriam 
 et honorem summae Trinitatis, et gloriam Virginis Marine 
 
 * Page 193. 
 
S YON MO N ASTER Y. 225 
 
 necnon Apostolorum et Discipulorum Dei et omnium 
 Sanctorum, et specialiter in honorem Sanctissimse 
 Brigittae quae, ut satis evidenter agnoscitur, inspiratione 
 coelica unam Religionem sub suo nomine Divinitus 
 inspirata fundavit, ccelitusque obtinuit ut in quocunque 
 regno Monasterium ipsius religionis fundatum fuerit, ibi 
 Pax et Tranquillitas ipsius mediationibus continue firma 
 erit." The king built the house on a parcel of ground 
 (whence some say he had expelled the monks, who 
 were aliens) of his own demesne in his manor of 
 Isle worth in the parish of Twickenham. One of the 
 sixty nuns was to be abbess, and the first was Matilda 
 Newton : of the priests one was appointed confessor ; 
 the first of whom was William Alnewyk. The house 
 had a conventual seal. Although one convent was 
 formed, there were separate cloistered dwellings in it. 
 The king endowed it with one thousand marks till such 
 time as it should be provided with other revenues. 
 The establishment removed in 1431 to Syon House, 
 Isleworth, where it continued until the general sup- 
 pression of monasteries by Henry VIII. in 1539 : its 
 revenues were then, according to Dugdale, as much as 
 i, 73 1/. 8^. \\d. per annum. 
 
 There are in the parish chest two deeds ; one of 
 them has a richly illuminated initial letter in excellent 
 preservation and of great beauty, and is " A release 
 from Matilda, Abbess of the monastery, to their tenants 
 of Istelworthe of a certain yearly tallage of 2O/., which 
 they were held to pay to the said abbess and convent." 
 It bears date 3rd December, 22nd Henry VI. (1444), 
 and has the conventual seal attached. The other, 
 similarly engrossed, but without any illuminated initial, 
 
 15 
 
226 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 is to the same purport, dated 2gth November, in the 
 same year, " and also for establishing and confirming 
 the deed of Thomas, then Duke of Exeter, Earl of 
 Dorset, and Lord High Admiral of England, Henry 
 Fitzhugh, Knight, and Robert Morton, Esquire, dated 
 3rd July, 2nd Henry VI., whereby they granted to 
 Joanna, the then abbess, and the convent of the 
 monastery of Syon, and their successors, the manors, 
 rectories, and churches, of Chilham, Molessh and 
 Trewlegh, in Kent, which the said duke, by name of 
 Thomas Earl of Dorset, Henry Fitzhugh and Robert 
 Morton, with one John Rodenhall, Knight, deceased, 
 lately had of the gift and grant of Henry V., and 
 releasing the said abbess and convent of all right and 
 title of the crown in the said manors, rectories, and 
 churches, as well for the augmentation of the Library 
 of the House of the Fraternity aforesaid, as a re- 
 compense for the tallage aforesaid." 
 
 The date of the above recited original deed of gift, 
 the second year of King Henry VI. (1424) being 
 seven years antecedent to the removal of the monastery 
 from Twickenham, may perhaps account for Twicken- 
 ham being in the possession of the deeds of 1444, 
 which, however, although Lysons mentions one of 
 them, were lost sight of for some years, and only came to 
 light again during the restoration of the church in 1859. 
 
 Robert Bouchier was appointed keeper of Twicken- 
 ham Parkin 1547. Norden, in the manuscript additions 
 to his Speculum Britannia, made towards the end of 
 the sixteenth century, remarks, " Twyckenham Parke 
 is now disparked." " The house," says Ironside, 
 " formerly belonged to Walter, Earl of Essex, the great 
 
TWICKENHAM PARK. 227 
 
 favourite of Queen Elizabeth. The earl made a present 
 of it to Mr. Bacon, afterwards the famous Sir Francis 
 Bacon, Lord Verulam, and 'Lord Chancellor, during 
 whose disgrace it was sold." No authority is quoted 
 for this statement, and it is, in more than one par- 
 ticular, evidently incorrect. Earl Walter was not " the 
 great favourite," but his son, Earl Robert, who alone 
 deserved such a description. There was, however, a 
 lease of it in the Bacon family as early as 1574, when 
 it was demised to Edward Bacon (third son of Sir 
 Nicholas, the Lord Keeper by his first wife). In 1581 
 a lease was granted for thirty years to Edward Fitz- 
 garret; in 1595 a further lease for twenty-one years 
 to Francis Bacon, Esq., and John Hibberd. It appears 
 that in 1592 Bacon somewhat suddenly took refuge 
 in Twickenham Park, (which he somewhere speaks 
 of as " his inheritance,") with several friends, amongst 
 whom was Mr. Field, the author of the treatise, Of the 
 Church, owing to " a pestilential distemper which broke 
 out in London, and dispersed the members of Gray's 
 Inn a community to which Bacon then belonged. At 
 the fall of the year he was honoured by a visit from 
 her Majesty ' at his lodging in Twickenham Park,' 
 and, though not pretending to be a poet, he presented 
 her with a sonnet in praise of the Earl of Essex." * 
 
 The estate became Sir Francis Bacon's in fee 
 simple in 1596; and soon afterwards he sold it for 
 eighteen hundred pounds --a sum much under its 
 value. During the time of his tenure of it he passed 
 much of his leisure time in its peaceful retirement. 
 After a sojourn of a few months here he writes to his 
 
 * " Literary Suburb," see supra, p. 219. 
 
228 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 brother, on October i6th, 1594, " One day draweth 
 on another, and I am well pleased in my being here, 
 for methinks solitariness collecteth the mind as shutting 
 the eyes doth the sight." It surely was the scene of 
 some of the happiest days spent by the " father of 
 experimental philosophy" (as Voltaire calls him), who, 
 nevertheless, descended to the meanest and most con- 
 temptible time-serving and adulation. It is pleasant to 
 think upon his country life : a patient student of nature, 
 indulging in what he calls " the purest of human 
 pleasures/' the pursuit of gardening. It was probably 
 here that he penned some of his famous Essays ; and the 
 Novum Organon, the product of thirty years of his life, 
 was, we may fairly conclude, planned and commenced at 
 Twickenham. Frequently here did Essex visit him, 
 and Queen Elizabeth often, no doubt, sought relaxa- 
 tion in the company of her faithful counsellor. Among 
 the MSS. in the British Museum is a paper entitled 
 " Instructions from the Lord Chancellor Bacon to his 
 servant Thomas Bushell," and it expresses a scheme 
 which he entertained for the purpose of exploring 
 abandoned mineral works. Supposing that such a 
 scheme would meet with due encouragement, he says, 
 - (and his statement sufficiently confutes Mr. Iron- 
 side's idea that the park was sold " during his disgrace," 
 as quoted above), " Let Twitnam Park, which I sold 
 in my younger days, be purchased, if possible, for a 
 residence for such deserving persons to study in, since 
 I experimentally found the situation of that place much 
 convenient for the trial of my philosophical conclusions, 
 expressed in a paper sealed to the trust which I myself 
 had put in practice, and settled the same by Act of 
 
TWICKNAM GARDENS 229 
 
 Parliament, if the vicissitudes of fortune had not inter- 
 vened and prevented me." 
 
 In the year 1606, a lease of this house and estate 
 (for forty years from the date of the letters patent) was 
 granted to John Wakeman and Joseph Earth, Esqrs. ; 
 who, it is probable, had purchased Sir Francis Bacon's 
 interest. In the same year a reversionary lease for forty- 
 one years, after the expiration of Wakeman and Earth's, 
 was granted to Sir Thomas Lake. In 1607 Sir Thomas 
 Lake assigned his interest to Sir Henry Goodyear and 
 Edward Woodward, and in 1608 both leases were made 
 over to George Lord Carew and George Croke, in trust 
 for Lucy, wife to Edward Earl of Bedford. The memory 
 of this Countess has been preserved to posterity by the 
 verses of John Donne, dean of S. Paul's, to whom she 
 was a liberal patroness. Donne was a poet whose early 
 efforts " are distinguished by unbounded licentiousness, 
 while his later partook largely of the sacerdotal element. 
 Isaac Walton, after the fashion of his jesting age, said 
 of him, that he began life as Saul and ended it as 
 Paul." Donne always calls the Countess's residence 
 " Twicknam Garden." Ben Jonson ''also wrote for 
 her an epigram or two. From this spot David 
 Vinkenboom sketched the neighbourhood, where, as 
 Thomson sings,- 
 
 The silver Thames first rural grows 
 Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt 
 In Twitnam's bowers. 
 
 " This artist," continues the contributor to Erasers 
 Magazine, "visited in England, and we see in his 
 somewhat stiff and hard, but well-peopled painting, 
 now in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, the 
 
230 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 prospect from Twickenham Park at a period not long 
 subsequent to Bacon's departure. The usual accessories 
 of boats, swans, and horses drinking in the stream are 
 not omitted ; but the view of Richmond Palace, the 
 ferry-boat which is seen conveying the few passengers 
 whom business or pleasure had led to require its aid, 
 and the morris-dance and hobby-horse in Twickenham 
 Park, are interesting memorials of the time." 
 
 Lady Essex, who devoted much time and care 
 to the cultivation and embellishment of the gardens, 
 resided here until 1618, when she gave the estate to 
 her relation, Sir William Harrington, who sold it, in 
 1621, to Mary, Countess of Home (mother of the 
 Duchess of Lauderdale). 
 
 In 1635 (says Ironside), it was held of the Crown 
 on lease by the Countess of Home. Mr. Lysons says 
 that in 1640, Lady Home sold the remainder of her 
 lease to Sir Thomas Nott, in whom also was vested 
 the perpetuity granted in 1632 to Sir William Russell, 
 subject to a fee-farm rent of 8/. 185-. Sir Thomas Nott 
 sold the estate in 1659 to Henry Murray, Esq., and 
 Anne his wife, who in 1668, alienated it to John Lord 
 Berkeley of Stratton. On the 23rd of March, 1676, 
 Evelyn, to whom were entrusted the family affairs 
 during Lord John's absence at Nimeguen, visited 
 " Twickenham Park, Lord Berkeley's country seate, to 
 examine how the bailiffs and servants ordered matters." 
 This nobleman was a zealous royalist, and took his 
 title, when raised to the peerage by Charles II., from 
 the most important action in which he commanded. 
 The Berkeley family resided here till 1685, when they 
 sold the estate to Robert Earl of Cardigan, who 
 
THE COUNTESS OF MOUNTRATtfS WILL. 231 
 
 in 1698, alienated it to the Earl of Albemarle : the 
 Earl in 1702 conveyed it to Thomas Vernon, Esq., 
 who had been secretary to the Duke of Monmouth. 
 This gentleman was co-churchwarden with Sir Godfrey 
 Kneller. The estate was purchased of his heirs in 
 1743 by Algernon Earl of Mountrath. The subse- 
 quent particulars concerning the disposal of the estate, 
 are given by Lysons, and from the curious instance 
 they afford of " fortuitous accuracy of calculation " are 
 too interesting to be passed over. 
 
 The Earl's widow, Diana, daughter of the Earl of 
 Bradford, by her will dated 1 766, bequeathed it " to 
 the Duchess of Montrose during the joint lives of the 
 Duke and Duchess of Newcastle ; but if the Duchess 
 of Newcastle should survive the Duke, the Duchess of 
 Montrose to quit possession to her ; and if she should 
 survive her, to enjoy it again during her life : after the 
 death of the Duchess of Montrose to remain to Lord 
 Frederick Cavendish and his issue ; on failure of 
 which, after his death, to Lord John Cavendish and 
 his issue, with remainder to Sir William Abdy, Bart, 
 and his heirs in fee." It is remarkable that except in 
 the instance of Lord John not surviving Lord 
 Frederick Cavendish, everything happened which the 
 Countess thus singularly provided for : the Duchess of 
 Montrose took possession, quitted to the Duchess of 
 Newcastle, took possession again on her death, and 
 was succeeded by Lord Frederick Cavendish, on 
 whose death, October 2ist, 1803, it devolved to Sir 
 William Abdy in fee. Lord F. Cavendish was uncle 
 to the then Duke of Devonshire and to Lord G. H. 
 Cavendish. He is described as having been a man of 
 
2 3 2 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 strong mind and amiable manners. He was for many 
 years a field-marshal in his Majesty's forces, and was 
 seventy-four years old when he died ; his wealth was 
 enormous, and in compliance with a promise made 
 to Lady G. H. Cavendish, whom he very highly 
 regarded, the bulk of it was left to her children. He 
 was interred in the family vault in Derbyshire.* 
 Ironside says that he made " great alterations and 
 improvements both in the house and grounds ; the 
 principal front of the house is the same as it was in the 
 Earl of Essex's time ; the other has been rebuilt and is 
 more modern. The only good apartment is the 
 drawing-room, which has been built of late years. The 
 other rooms are, in general, but small, and very 
 indifferently furnished." Several excellent pictures 
 were left as heirlooms by the Countess of Mountrath. 
 
 A series of Select Views of Seats, published by 
 Mr. Angus in 1795, contains a view of " Twickenham 
 Park House " and describes it somewhat differently, as 
 " built of red brick, and containing several handsome 
 apartments, with a noble staircase painted in a similar 
 manner to that at Windsor Castle." Ironside subjoins 
 to his account the following note : " The house stands 
 in the two parishes of Twickenham and Isleworth. In 
 the hall fronting to the south-west, is laid in the 
 Mosaic pavement, of black and white marble, a small 
 iron cross, which divides the two parishes, and in their 
 perambulation of the bounds, the parishioners of 
 Twickenham direct a man to enter a window at the 
 north-west end of the house, who proceeds to the 
 
 "* Ge nil email 1 a Magazine, 1803. Part ii. p. 995. 
 
NEW VILLAS. 233 
 
 centre, comes downstairs, and joins the company in the 
 hall, where they sing the hundredth psalm. He then 
 goes upstairs and proceeds to a south-west window, 
 and comes down a ladder on the outside, joins the 
 company again, and thus the ceremony ends." 
 
 Soon after the house and land had passed to Sir 
 William Abdy, they were offered for sale, but were not 
 actually sold until 1805. The land being divided into 
 lots, the greater number were purchased by F. Gostling, 
 Esq., whose mansion in the parish of Isleworth 
 adjoined. The old house was advertised for sale in 
 The Times of June 27th, 1817, and was eventually 
 taken down : and then there commenced the building 
 of " neat new villas," which has now culminated in the 
 formation of almost a new town. 
 
 On the death of Mr. Gostling, the estate was 
 purchased by Mr. Todd, who sold a portion of the 
 park and a beautiful residence erected thereon, to the 
 Earl of Cassillis. The upper portion of the park he 
 retained for himself, and on or near the site of Lord 
 Bacon's house he built a seat for himself, which, after 
 his occupancy, was inhabited by Mr. Bailey, and is now 
 by Mr. Budd. As the foundations of Mr. Todd's house 
 were being laid many relics of a former building were 
 discovered, some of which afforded proof of its having 
 been in early times the site of a nunnery. The house 
 of the Earl of Cassillis (afterwards Marquis of Ailsa) 
 was taken down by Lord Kilmorey when he lived in 
 the large house which is now the Naval School. The 
 house before it was purchased by the Earl had been 
 successively in the possession of Lady Charleville, Lord 
 Muncaster, and the Duchess of Manchester. Very near 
 
234 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 it was a house (taken down by Lord Cassillis in order to 
 render the principal mansion more completely insulated) 
 which was formerly inhabited by Richard Brinsley 
 Sheridan and his beautiful first wife. This house was 
 built by Mr. James Lacey, of Drury Lane Theatre, 
 and was for some time in the occupation of the Earl of 
 Warwick.* 
 
 I cannot refrain from quoting apropos to the vast 
 collection of " villas " which has recently arisen here- 
 abouts, an account which the contributor to Fraser 
 gives of the growth of the meaning of the word. " At 
 first it would," he says, " have appeared to have 
 denoted a large farm-house with extensive out-buildings 
 and appurtenances suitable to preserve the produce of 
 the surrounding lands. These and the labourers' 
 cottages around would form what we term a village, 
 but the Romans did not scruple to apply to the whole 
 rustic community the word ' villa ' . . . The villa 
 ruralis or villagium of monkish Latin was any collection 
 of buildings and lands not entitled to the honourable 
 designation of a town. In A.D. 948 all Twickenham 
 was a * villa ' and its inhabitants were * villains/ When 
 towns increased in size the manorless wealthy sought 
 in their country villa a still larger mansion than they 
 possessed in town and in addition surrounded by many 
 a broad acre. Such a villa was Twickenham 
 Park. ... A villa now is usually a domain of twenty 
 feet frontage by one hundred deep. The old rule for 
 multiplication by division, invented by that subtlest 
 of arithmeticians, Hercules, when he decapitated the 
 
 * Richmond and its Scenery, by Mrs. Barbara Hofland, pp. 58, 59. I have here 
 slightly transgressed the parochial boundary, but almost unavoidably. 
 
THE ORIGINAL WEEPING WILLOW. 235 
 
 hydra, is as true as ever. Take an old villa, for 
 example Twickenham Park, cut it up into as many 
 pieces as you like each springs up a villa." * 
 
 Mr. Gostling's grounds contained many trees of 
 great age. Some of the alders were said to have been 
 planted by Lord Bacon ; and near the site of the house 
 were several Virginian or red cedars (jfuniperus Vir- 
 giniand) which were much the finest in the kingdom, 
 the two largest measuring respectively 6 ft. 6 in. and 
 6 ft. 5 in. in girth, thus attaining nearly three times 
 the dimensions of that which was planted by Bishop 
 Compton in Fuiham Palace Gardens. A cedar of 
 Lebanon in these grounds measured 1 2 ft. 9 in. in 
 girth, t 
 
 It is believed that this tree, the red cedars, and the 
 first weeping-willows known in this country, were 
 planted in Twickenham Park in the early part of the 
 eighteenth century, \ by Mr. Vernon the then owner. 
 Mr. Vernon was a Turkey merchant at Aleppo. He 
 is said to have imported a graft of willow, which 
 became the original of all the weeping-willows in our 
 gardens. Those who are of this opinion say that Mr. 
 Pope's celebrated tree was one of the earliest scions of 
 Mr. Vernon's ; others, however, maintain that Pope's 
 willow was the eldest and first, and the account given 
 of its origin is that a present came from Spain to Lady 
 Suffolk of Marble Hill, and that Pope was in the 
 company whilst it was being unpacked. Amongst the 
 contents he noticed some pieces of stick which appeared 
 
 * Fraser's Magazine, 1860, p. 550. 
 
 t See p. 5. 
 
 t Brewer's Middlesex, vol. v. p. 386. Lysons, ii. part ii. p. 784, note. 
 
236 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 to have life in them, and, fancying that they might 
 produce some horticultural novelty, he planted them in 
 his garden and thus his willow was produced. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE HOUSE. Near Richmond Bridge, 
 charmingly situated in Twickenham Meadows, is a 
 house called, after its most celebrated occupant, Cam- 
 bridge House. It was built in the early part of the 
 seventeenth century, by Sir Humphry Lynd.* After 
 his death it was occupied by Joyce Countess of 
 Totness, who died there in 1636. Not long after- 
 wards it became the property of Joseph Ashe, Esq., 
 who was created a baronet in 1660. The title became 
 extinct on the death of his son. Windham Ashe, Esq., 
 a subsequent representative of the family, built the 
 west front and greatly enlarged the house. Richard 
 Owen Cambridge, Esq., purchased it in 1751. Mr. 
 Cambridge was highly celebrated in the literary 
 world; he was born in London, February i4th, 1717, 
 and received his education at Eton and S. John's 
 College, Oxford. He was for some time a member of 
 Lincoln's Inn, but ultimately determined to abandon 
 the legal profession. His mock heroic poem The 
 Scribleriad, in six books, " designed to expose false 
 taste and false science," is his best known production. 
 It is said to be " a work of great fancy, just composition, 
 and poetical elegance, but above all of mature judgment 
 conspicuous throughout." He contributed also several 
 papers to The World, (a periodical of his day) 
 "and this circumstance," his son informs us, "gave 
 occasion to a bon mot ... A note from Mr. Moore, 
 
 * See p. 48. 
 
RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE. 237 
 
 requesting an essay, was put into my father's hands on 
 a Sunday morning as he was going to church. My 
 mother, observing him rather inattentive during the 
 sermon whispered, 'What are you thinking of? ' He 
 replied, ' Of the next world, my dear.' * He wrote two 
 epilogues which were spoken by Miss Pope and by a 
 daughter of Mrs. Pritchard's at their respective 
 benefits. 
 
 Mr. Cambridge amply realized the poetical delinea- 
 tion of Thomson, for living in the society of a choice 
 few he was blessed with, 
 
 An elegant sufficiency, content, 
 Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 
 Ease, and alternate labour. 
 
 Boswell refers to " Mr. Cambridge, whom," he says, 
 " if a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames, a few 
 miles distant from London, a numerous and excellent 
 library which he accurately knows and reads, a choice 
 collection of pictures which he understands and relishes, 
 an easy fortune, an amiable family, an extensive circle 
 of friends and acquaintance distinguished by rank 
 fashion and genius, a literary fame, various elegant, 
 and still increasing, colloquial talents rarely to be found, 
 and, with all these means of happiness, enjoying, when 
 well advanced in years, health and vigour of body, 
 serenity and animation of mind, do not entitle to be 
 addressed Fortunate Senex ! I know not to whom in 
 any age that expression could, with propriety, have 
 
 * Works, p. 43, note, which contains another instance of the same species of 
 pleasantry. In one of his rides late in life, he was met by His Majesty on the 
 declivity of Richmond Hill, who, with his accustomed condescension, stopped and 
 conversed with him ; and observing that "he did not ride so fast as he used to do,'* 
 Mr. Cambridge replied, "Sir, I am going down hill" 
 
238 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 been used." And few readers of The Life of Johnson 
 will forget the occasion, April nth, 1775, when in Sir 
 Joshua Reynolds's carriage (on their way from London 
 to dine with Mr. Cambridge), " the great lexicographer, 
 the stately moralist, the masterly critick," startled his 
 faithful friend and admirer, by speaking of himself as a 
 fellow, " a good-humoured fellow? " as if he had been 
 Sam Johnson, a mere pleasant companion ! " 
 
 Mr. Cambridge died on September I7th, 1802, at 
 the age of eighty-five. His works were collected and 
 published in one quarto volume during the next year, 
 with a memoir prefixed, from the pen of his son, who 
 speaks of him as, " an elegant rather than a profound 
 scholar. The liveliness of his parts was more adapted 
 to quick discernment than deep thinking : he had there- 
 fore but little inclination for abstruse studies and those 
 researches which demand laborious investigation. . . . 
 His fondness for books served to increase rather than 
 diminish his study of human nature. His insight into 
 men was correct, judicious, and acute ; he viewed with 
 the eye of a philosopher the influence of the passions, 
 not only in the great and leading points of human 
 conduct, but in the trifling incidents of human life. 
 The follies of mankind excited his mirth rather than 
 his spleen, but his vein of comic humour was ever 
 regulated by that native benevolence which would not 
 allow him voluntarily to inflict the slightest pain. In 
 conformity with this sentiment, it was usual with him 
 to say, c The world has given me credit beyond what 
 I deserve for the witty sayings I may have said ; but 
 I have infinitely more merit for those I have sup- 
 pressed.' ... A firm and uniformly dignified deport- 
 
RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE. 239 
 
 ment, joined to a calm and peaceful disposition, made 
 him always anxious, in the impressive language of 
 Solomon, ' to leave off contention before it be meddled 
 with.' In his political, as well as all other opinions, he 
 manifested that candour which arose from knowledge 
 as well as temper. . . His life and principles were 
 alike free from corruption ; his purity and independence 
 equally untainted." * He was, in fact, the beau ideal 
 of a thorough English gentleman, and verified emphati- 
 cally the assertion of George III., that such an one 
 " unencumbered by rank and easy in fortune was the 
 happiest of men." His life was adorned by a quiet 
 and consistent happy piety. He shunned public life, 
 although a parliamentary career was at one time 
 strongly pressed upon him ; preferring to confer 
 benefits upon his fellows in a less ostentatious 
 manner. Among his intimate and valued friends 
 may be mentioned Earl Bathurst, Lords Hardwicke 
 and Mendip, Sir Richard Lyttelton, Horace Walpole, 
 (who says of him that he used " to tell you three stories 
 to make you understand a fourth,") Lord North, Mr. 
 Wray, Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Johnson, 
 Bishop Porteus (of London), Lord Hyde, and Admiral 
 Boscawen. He had a decided taste for the art of 
 painting, and made a large and valuable collection 
 of pictures, which were partly sold by his son, who, 
 however, retained all the best specimens, and such as 
 had been especial favourites with the family. Among 
 those sold were " Christ's Entry into Jerusalem," by 
 Schiavone, and " the Rape of the Sabines," by Poussin. 
 After his death the house passed to his son, the 
 
 * See also Gentleman's Magazine, 1802, part ii. p. 977. 
 
2 4 o MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Venerable George Owen Cambridge, M.A., Arch- 
 deacon of Middlesex, Prebendary of Ely, and Minister 
 of Twickenham Chapel, who resided in it for a time, 
 and then built for himself a smaller but very excellent 
 house in Twickenham Meadows, now inhabited by 
 Mr. Bishop; there he lived until his death in 1841. 
 His widow survived him and died in 1858. Two Miss 
 Cambridges, sisters of Richard Owen Cambridge, are 
 remembered as living in Cambridge House. It was 
 afterwards the residence of Lord Mount-Edgecumbe, 
 but for a short time only ; and subsequently came into 
 the possession of Henry Bevan, Esq., one of whose 
 daughters married Lord John Chichester, its present 
 occupant and owner. Mr. Bevan very much enlarged 
 and improved the house, which was originally only a 
 plain brick building. The architect of the additions 
 was Mr. Vulliamy. 
 
MARBLE HILL. 241 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 MARBLE HILL, THE RESIDENCE OF THE COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK 
 LITTLE MARBLE HILL MEADOWSIDE COTTAGE " RAGMAN'S 
 CASTLE" RIVERSIDE MOUNT LEBANON FERRY HOUSE 
 FERRYSIDE SIGN Row DIAL HOUSE THE VICARAGE. 
 
 MARBLE HILL. A very conspicuous mansion situated 
 on the river, between Richmond Bridge and Orleans 
 House, is Marble Hill, or, as it seems usually to have 
 been called in the old times, Marble Hall. Towards 
 the expense of its erection George II. gave Henrietta 
 Howard, who was afterwards Countess of Suffolk, ten 
 or twelve thousand pounds. The Earl of Pembroke 
 designed it and occasionally superintended the work 
 whilst it was being built. His intention was evidently 
 to make the rooms on the first floor of most imposing 
 proportions, and to effect this the height of the lower and 
 upper storeys has been somewhat unduly sacrificed. The 
 staircase is made entirely of finely-carved mahogany, 
 and some of the floors are of the same wood. It is said 
 that the unceremonious way in which one of the king's 
 naval officers felled the trees required for this purpose 
 in the Bay of Honduras without permission of the Court 
 of Spain very nearly caused a war. The interior of the 
 house is plain in the extreme ; its front faces the north. 
 
 16 
 
242 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 The gardens were laid out by Pope ; the cellar was 
 stocked by Dean Swift, and of it he was appointed 
 master. Mrs. Howard, in a letter to Gay, dated July, 
 1723, begs him not to mention the plan which he found 
 in her room, as it was necessary to keep the affair 
 secret, although, as she ventures to tell him, the house 
 was almost entirely finished to her satisfaction. She 
 had been for some years building and improving, and 
 Swift, in 1727, describes the house as having exhausted 
 Mrs. Howard's means, and being still incomplete. 
 
 My house was only built for show, 
 My lady's pocket's empty now 
 And now she will not have a shilling 
 To raise the stairs or build the ceiling ; 
 'Tis come to what I always thought, 
 My Dame is hardly worth a groat ! 
 
 The reason of secresy being enjoined on Gay was 
 
 probably the fact of the King's extensive contribution. 
 The Dean prognosticates, also, in his humorous 
 
 epistle from Marble Hill to the Lodge in Richmond 
 
 Park, that- 
 Some South Sea broker from the city 
 Will purchase me, and more's the pity, 
 Lay all my fine plantations waste 
 To fit them to his vulgar taste. 
 
 A prophecy not yet fulfilled, may it never be ! 
 The poet further laments : 
 
 No more the Dean, that grave divine, 
 Shall keep the key of my no-wine ; 
 My ice-house rob as heretofore, 
 And steal my artichokes no more : 
 Poor Patty Blount no more be seen 
 Bedraggled in my walks so green. 
 Plump Johnny Gay will now elope, 
 And here no more will dangle Pope. 
 
THE COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK. 243 
 
 For Gay probably had a home here as well as on the 
 other side of the river with the Duke of Queensberry. 
 A stone bust of this poet was placed over a door leading 
 to two rooms fitted up with coloured glass in the 
 windows, which were called " Gay's Rooms," and 
 contrived in such a manner that he could join the 
 family or not as he pleased. 
 
 The Countess of Suffolk was daughter of Sir 
 Henry Hobart and granddaughter of the first Earl of 
 Buckinghamshire. In Pope's opinion, she concentrated 
 in herself all the virtues attaching to the female sex. 
 Horace Walpole says that, until she succeeded to her 
 title, she enjoyed so little distinction at court " that, as 
 a woman of the bed-chamber, she constantly dressed 
 the Queen's head, who took pleasure in subjecting her to 
 such servile offices, though always apologizing to her 
 * Good Howard' ' " She was," the same authority says 
 elsewhere, " sensible, artful, and agreeable, but had 
 neither sense nor art enough to make him (George II.) 
 think her as agreeable as his wife. When she had left 
 him, tired of acting the mistress while she had in reality 
 all the slights of a wife, and no interest with him, 
 the Opposition affected to cry up her virtue and the 
 obligations which the King had to her for consenting to 
 seem his mistress, while in reality she had confined him 
 to mere friendship a ridiculous pretence, as he was the 
 last man in the world to have a taste for talking 
 sentiments, and that with a woman who was deaf!* 
 She was, however, intelligent and accomplished, and 
 encouraged the visits of the chief wits and authors of 
 her day, to whom she was a tolerably kind friend. 
 
 The Earl of Buckinghamshire lived in this house 
 
244 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 after the Countess's death, which occurred in 1 760, and 
 on his decease it came, by a provision in the will of the 
 latter, to Miss Hotham, daughter of Sir Charles 
 Hotham, who let it to Mrs. Fitzherbert, who had 
 been privately married to George IV., then Prince of 
 Wales. The estate afterwards became the property and 
 residence of Lady Bath. The house was not occupied 
 for some time after her decease, except for a short 
 interval by Lord and Lady Howe before Lady Ann 
 Conolly's death. It subsequently became the seat of 
 Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq. 
 
 Marble Hill is renowned also as having been for 
 some years the residence of the Marquis Wellesley, who 
 in his earlier life was M.P. successively for Beeralston, 
 Saltash, and Windsor ; he was appointed a Lord of the 
 Treasury in 1787, and in 1797 Governor-General of 
 India, which office he held till 1805. During his 
 administration he destroyed the power of Tippoo Saib, 
 eradicated the French interest in India, added Mysore 
 to the British dominions, subjugated the Mahratta 
 confederacy, and conquered the whole tract of country 
 between the Jumna and the Ganges. In 1809 the 
 Marquis was appointed Ambassador to the central 
 junta of Spain, then assembled at Cadiz ; on his return 
 from that embassy he became Chief Secretary of State 
 for the Foreign Department. In 1810 he received the 
 Garter ; in 1821 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of 
 Ireland ; in 1830 Lord Steward ; in 1833 Lord 
 Lieutenant of Ireland for the second time, and in 1835 
 Lord Chamberlain. He was also Grand Master of the 
 Order of S. Patrick. 
 
 A short time after Lord Wellesley left the house, 
 
LITTLE MARBLE HILL. 245 
 
 about the year 1824, it became the property and 
 residence of Lieutenant-General Peel and his wife, 
 Lady Alice, daughter of the Marquis of Ailsa. General 
 Peel is a younger brother of the late Sir Robert Peel. 
 He was M.P. for Norwich in the Parliament of 1826, 
 and for Huntingdon from 1831 to 1868; Surveyor- 
 General of the ordnance from September, 1841, till July, 
 1846; Secretary of State for War in each of Lord 
 Derby's administrations (1858 and 1866). In 1867 
 he, with the Earl of Carnarvon and the Marquis of 
 Salisbury (then Lord Cranborne), withdrew from the 
 Conservative Cabinet on the question of the Reform 
 Bill, and, on the dissolution of Parliament in 1868, he 
 retired from Parliamentary life. 
 
 LITTLE MARBLE HILL. Near Marble Hill, very 
 sweetly situated, is a beautiful villa originally called 
 Spencer Grove, now Marble Hill Cottage, or Little 
 Marble Hill. This villa stands upon the site of a 
 cottage once occupied by Mrs. Clive, who removed 
 from this place to Little Strawberry Hill ; she was 
 succeeded by Mr. Barlow. Daniel Giles, Esq., a bank 
 director, who followed, enlarged the original structure 
 to its present size, making many improvements in the 
 house and in the arrangement of the gardens. Mr. 
 David Franco resided here after Mr. Giles, and the 
 next occupant was Lady Diana Beauclerk, who fitted 
 the house up with great elegance and adorned many of 
 the rooms with her own paintings. This lady was 
 daughter to the Duke of Marlborough, and, having 
 been divorced from Lord Bolingbroke, married, in 
 1768, Mr. Topham Beauclerk, son of Lord Sydney 
 
246 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Beauclerk, and grandson of the first Duke of S. Albans, 
 but better known as the friend of Dr. Johnson, and as 
 one of the famous " Club." With Mr. Beauclerk Dr. 
 Johnson quarrelled very frequently, but he yet said of 
 him, " that his talents were those which he had felt him- 
 self more disposed to envy than those of any whom he 
 had known ; " and on his death, in 1 780, the Doctor 
 said in a letter to Bos well "such another will not often 
 be found amongst mankind." 
 
 Lady Beauclerk was followed by Lady Tollemache, 
 and then by Miss Hotham. The cottage was subse- 
 quently purchased by Sir John Lubbock, Bart. The 
 next occupant was Timothy Brent, Esq., who was 
 succeeded by the Duke of Montrose and afterwards 
 by the late Mr. Kirby. It has been sold, and for the 
 last four years has been unoccupied. 
 
 MEADOWSIDE COTTAGE. A substantial house, called 
 Meadowside Cottage, close to Little Marble Hill, but 
 lying back from the river, was built and for some time 
 occupied by Major Jelf Sharp. It is at present in the 
 occupation of the Dowager Viscountess Harberton. 
 
 RAGMAN'S CASTLE. Opposite the lane which con- 
 tinues Orleans Road and leads down to the river, 
 occupying to Orleans House a position analogous to 
 that which Langham Cottage now holds to York 
 House, stood a small house called " Ragman's Castle," 
 and later in its existence known by the less singular 
 name of " Lawn Cottage." The original appellation is 
 accounted for in various ways : some attribute it to the 
 fact of its having been built by an individual who had 
 
"RAGMAN'S CASTLE." 247 
 
 amassed a fortune in the marine store or rag and bone 
 line of business ; Ironside, with more plausibility, says 
 that an ale-house formerly stood on its site, which was 
 a favourite resort of bargemen, beggars, et hoc genus 
 omne. If he be right, the prestige attaching to the 
 later erection more than compensates for the evil 
 report of the former one. Lady Falkland lived in the 
 cottage first, then John Duke of Montague, who 
 frequently dined " with his friends under the trees 
 close to it." After him, for a short time, the Dowager 
 Lady Pembroke occupied it. It was purchased in 
 1755 by the "celebrated and much-admired actress 
 Mrs. Pritchard, who enlarged and much improved the 
 house at a considerable expense." Dr. Johnson's 
 opinion of her was by no means high : " she no more 
 thought of the play," he said on one occasion, " than a 
 shoemaker thinks of the skin out of which the piece of 
 leather of which he is making a pair of shoes is cut." 
 " Her playing was quite mechanical, it is wonderful 
 how little mind she had." Again, as Mr. Kemble 
 informed Boswell, he expressed himself still more 
 explicitly, " Pritchard in common life was a vulgar 
 idiot : she would talk of her gownd, but when she 
 appeared upon the stage, seemed to be inspired by 
 gentility and understanding." 
 
 After her death, which occurred at Bath in 1758, 
 followed the Earl of Cholmondeley; Lady Bridget Lane ; 
 Sir Charles Warwick Bamfield, Bart. ; and, about the 
 year 1783, George Hardinge, Esq., " one of his 
 Majesty's Justices for Wales," distinguished only, it has 
 been said, by the number of his political and literary 
 friendships. He wrote a series of letters to Burke on 
 
248 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the impeachment of Hastings and many other works, 
 and was the father of that Captain Hardinge who lost 
 his ship and his life in engaging an American frigate 
 of far superior force. Mr. Hardinge died in 1816 and 
 was succeeded by Jeremiah Dyson, Esq. Some other 
 families occupied it subsequently, amongst whom were 
 those of Mr. Bannister, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cole, and 
 Major Jelf Sharp. The cottage was taken down 
 by Lord Kilmorey during his possession of Orleans 
 House. 
 
 RIVERSIDE. Next to Orleans House, the late 
 residence of H.R.H. the Due d'Aumale already 
 mentioned, is the pretty cottage called " Riverside," 
 now inhabited by Mrs. Fisher. These premises 
 appear to have formerly consisted of two tenements, 
 both (generally) occupied by the same person. In 
 1701 Susannah Lowe was the occupier. In 1738 
 Mistress Jane Vernon came to reside here, having 
 left Twickenham Park after her husband's death ; 
 she was succeeded by John Grey, Esq. In 1750, the 
 property came into the occupation of the Countess 
 of Suffolk, who obtained a lease of it for sixty years. 
 In the lease, parts of the premises are mentioned as in 
 the occupation of Lionel Spencer Berkeley, Esq., and 
 one of the tenements as in that of Mr. Whitfield. 
 From 1781 to 1809 both tenements belonged to the 
 Earl of Buckinghamshire ; during his possession and 
 that of the previous owner the combined property was 
 probably underlet. Ironside says that it was for a 
 short time the residence of Mrs. Clive, of the Dowager 
 Countess Denbigh and of Lady Browne ; also of 
 
MOUNT LEBANON. 249 
 
 Mrs. Fitzherbert and of Mr. Forbes. In or about 
 the year 1820 it was occupied by Viscountess Ash- 
 broke ; after whom Mrs. Henrietta Moore became 
 tenant : she was succeeded by her son, the Rev. 
 Calvert Fitzgerald Moore, and in 1850, by the late 
 Mr. Horatio Nelson Fisher. The trustees of Death's 
 Charity sold the property to the Due d'Aumale, on the 
 expiration of Mr. Fisher's lease. 
 
 MOUNT LEBANON. Next is a handsome mansion 
 on the site of which stood originally the house of 
 Pepys' great friend, Dr. William Fuller,* and after him 
 of Lady Ashe. The old house was purchased by Thomas 
 Earl of Strafford in 1701, of Mr. Plumbtree : after the 
 death of the Earl it became the property of his sister, 
 Lady Anne Conolly, who pulled it down and erected 
 the present house, which became the property and 
 residence of her daughter Frances Viscountess Howe. 
 The builder was Mr. George Robert Holmes. Ironside, 
 writing during the time of the re-erection, says, " the 
 house when finished will be an elegant edifice." Upon 
 Lady Howe's death, the house having been left to 
 Miss Fanny Byng, she, with her elder sister Miss 
 Caroline Byng, (aunts of the present Lord Strafford) 
 came to reside in it ; they having formerly occupied the 
 house recently in the possession of the late Mr. Swayne. 
 These ladies, for many years, were the centre of the 
 gayest and most fashionable society. Miss Fanny Byng 
 lived until 1851. The next occupant was the late most 
 
 * Dr. Fuller was a schoolmaster at Twickenham during the Rebellion. At the 
 restoration he became Dean of S. Patrick's ; in 1663 Bishop of Limerick ; and, four 
 years afterwards, was translated to Lincoln : he died in 1675. 
 
250 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 estimable Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, who 
 lived here until her death in August, 1866, and who gave 
 the house its modern name of Mount Lebanon. It then 
 became and continued until last year the residence of 
 H.R.H. the Prince de Joinville, third son of Louis 
 Philippe, King of the French. 
 
 FERRY HOUSE. In the house next beyond the 
 preceding, now occupied by Mr. C. J. Thrupp, lived, 
 when Ironside wrote, James Chamness, Esq., " late 
 common hunt of the City of London, which office he 
 held from 1750 to 1780." He was the munificent donor 
 of ioo/. to each of the Parish schools. 
 
 After Mr. Chamness a family of the name of Fyler 
 lived here ; one of the daughters of which married the 
 Rev. George Townsend, Canon of Durham and author 
 of Armageddon, and numerous other works. One of 
 their sons, the Rev. John Fyler Townsend, was for a 
 short time curate of the parish ; another, the Rev. 
 George Fyler Townsend, is Vicar of S. Michael's, 
 Burleigh Street, Strand. Another occupant was Mr 
 Carter, who lived here for many years, and through 
 whom the house came into the possession of its present 
 owner, Mr. Orton. 
 
 FERRYSIDE. I conclude (but without absolute cer- 
 tainty), that " Ferryside," now occupied by the Miss 
 Lysaghts, was the house mentioned by Ironside as the 
 residence of Dowager Lady Wynne, the relict of 
 Sir Rowland Wynne of Noftell, Yorkshire, Bart. ; and 
 previously of John Archambo, Esq. About the year 
 1816 Sir George Napier lived here. He was brother 
 
SION ROW. 251 
 
 to the celebrated Sir Charles and Sir William, and 
 had served in the campaign in Holland in 1799. 
 For many years lately it was the abode of the Miss 
 Warwicks. 
 
 The "Swan Inn," which adjoins " Ferryside," has 
 been so called for at least a century. 
 
 The two houses between " The Swan " and the 
 corner of Sion Row will, without tracing their ante- 
 cedents, have sufficient interest to all Twickenham 
 people the nearer as having been the residence of the 
 late lamented Mr. Thomas George Gardiner, and the 
 other as being that of his sister Miss Gardiner. 
 
 SIGN Row. Running up at a right angle from the 
 river and adjoining the southern end of a lane which 
 leads to the Richmond Road is Sion Row, bearing 
 date 1721. There was a "French Refuge" here in 
 the year 1727. Number 2 (Mr. Henry Bowyer's large 
 house, now occupied by Mr. C. E. Gold), was the 
 residence of John Sydenham, Esq., a descendant of the 
 celebrated physician of his name ; and, after his death 
 (but not immediately after), of Miss Laetitia Matilda 
 Hawkins. This lady, in her Anecdotes, mentions the 
 " becoming " friendship that existed between her pre- 
 decessor and the old widowed Lady Mary Catherlough 
 who lived in another part of the town. Edward Iron- 
 side, the historian of the parish, lived in No. 6 until 
 the year 1 780, when he moved to a house in King 
 Street, nearly opposite the turning which leads down 
 to Cross Deep. 
 
252 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 DIAL HOUSE. The front part of Dial House, 
 which faces the river, was built early in the last 
 century by Mr. Thomas Twining, son of Mr. Daniel 
 Twining. It is supposed to have been erected at the 
 same time as the church and by the same builder. 
 After Mr. T. Twining's death it was inherited and 
 occupied by his son Daniel, whose elder son, Thomas, 
 was the learned translator of Aristotle s Poetics, and 
 the accomplished musician who afforded such material 
 assistance to Dr. Burney in the compilation of his 
 History of Music. He was educated for a short time 
 at Twickenham, then at Colchester Grammar School, 
 and finally at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He 
 preached on the Sunday succeeding his ordination in 
 Twickenham Chapel in the morning and in the Parish 
 Church in the afternoon. His first cure was the village 
 of Fordham, near Colchester ; subsequently he went 
 to S. Mary's, Colchester, where he remained until his 
 death in 1804, at the age of seventy. His younger 
 brother, Richard, also an excellent scholar, who had 
 become a Director of the East India Company at a 
 critical period of its affairs in 1810, died at Dial House 
 in 1824. He had lived in it in early life, but had let it 
 to various tenants during an intermediate residence of 
 some length at Chiswick. His only unmarried daughter 
 lived on in it until her death in 1834. His younger son, 
 Mr. Thomas Twining, lived, after his return from India, 
 in Perryn House, the present residence of his son. 
 His elder son, named Richard, after him, inherited Dial 
 House, and he also, like his father, was a man of great 
 learning, great business capabilities and unbounded 
 liberality : he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal 
 
THE VICARAGE. 253 
 
 Westminster Volunteers, and in later life became a 
 Fellow of the Royal Society. He left Dial House to 
 his son, another Richard Twining. After five genera- 
 tions the old front was enlarged and a house at 
 the back added on to it. Since 1834 the house has 
 been let to various tenants, some of whom were 
 curates of the parish ; more recently it has been 
 occupied by Dr. Lewis, who had a school in Twicken- 
 ham, by Mr. Ferguson Cameroux, and by Mr. Robin- 
 son. Since. 1866 Miss Elizabeth Twining has made it 
 not only her residence, but the centre of the many 
 pious and self-denying works which she carries on in 
 the parish.* 
 
 Of the Twining family Miss Hawkins (Anec- 
 dotes, p. 13.) thus expresses her appreciation : 
 
 They were by hereditary succession, of high worth, and have 
 produced scholars and men of elegant tastes ; a distinction which does 
 not seem likely to fail. Were I to enter on their biography, I could 
 quote as exemplary their affluence without ostentation, and their 
 dignified independence, which ranks them high amongst those who 
 form the pillars of a commercial country. 
 
 THE VICARAGE, a comfortable, good sized house, 
 much modernized and improved by the Rev. G. S. 
 Master, is not occupied by the present vicar ; Mr. 
 James Bigwood now resides in it. 
 
 * It is to this lady that I am indebted for all these particulars concerning Dial 
 House and its occupants. 
 
254 MEMORIALS OP TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 RICHMOND HOUSE THE OLD HOUSES, NOW PULLED DOWN, WHOSE 
 LAST OCCUPANTS WERE RESPECTIVELY, Miss BEAUCHAMP AND 
 F. G. CARMICHAEL, ESQ. POULETT LODGE THE SUMMER 
 HOUSE ON THE FERRERS' ESTATE " CROSS DEEP " " RIVERS- 
 DALE" CROSS DEEP LODGE. 
 
 RICHMOND HOUSE. In the middle of the town is a 
 large house, called Richmond, or Richmonds house, 
 " one front of which faces the Thames, with a pleasing 
 garden and extensive terrace guarded by handsome 
 iron rails. The other front is to the street, but hid 
 by a high wall, at one end of which is a porter's 
 lodge." It was, in the latter part of the seventeenth 
 century, in the possession, and was the residence of 
 Francis Newport Earl of Bradford, an eminent 
 political character in the reigns of Charles II. and 
 James II., and an active promoter of the Revolution. 
 He had a fine collection of pictures at this place. 
 After his death, which occurred at Twickenham in 
 1 708, the house came to his second son, Lord Torring- 
 ton. In 1740 it was purchased of the executors of 
 Lady Anne Torrington by Anthony Viscount Monta- 
 gue, who, in 1744, sold it to Anthony Keck, Esq. In 
 
RICHMOND HOUSE. 255 
 
 1766 Mr. Keck alienated it to Mary Countess Dowager 
 of Shelburne, who bequeathed it to her second son, the 
 Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice. By him it was conveyed, 
 in 1791, to John Symmonds, Esq., who sold it the next 
 year to Mrs. Allanson, one of the daughters and co- 
 heiresses of Mr. Aislabie, of Studley Park, Yorkshire.* 
 It became afterwards the property and the residence of 
 the Countess Dowager of Elgin, who died in it in the 
 month of June, 1810; after which event the house was 
 inhabited by Lady de Crespigny ; and by Lambert 
 Blair, Esq., who resided here with his mother-in-law, 
 Mrs. Stopford, and others of his wife's family. The 
 old house was taken down and a new one built on its 
 site, in 1816, for Mrs. Lionel Dawson Damer, cousin 
 to the Hon. Mrs. Damer, the sculptress, and the 
 successor of Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Mrs. Damer 
 was attracted to Twickenham by a desire to live hear 
 her intimate friend Mrs. Moore, a widow, who then 
 occupied the house now called " Riverside " and she 
 built the new house which was, originally, somewhat 
 after the pattern of her friend's. It was enlarged to 
 its present dimensions in or about the year 1829, for 
 the accommodation of the Duchess Dowager of Rox- 
 burgh and her husband, the Hon. John Tollemache. 
 Other notable tenants were Lord Lowth and Sir Henry 
 Willock ; and Lady Ann Murray rented this house on 
 the death of her husband, A. Murray, Esq., of Broughton, 
 in 1844, until her death on October 28th, 1850. The 
 house was left by Mrs. Damer to her goddaughter, 
 Mrs. Budgen, a daughter of Mrs. Moore. Sir Edward 
 Blakeney followed Lady Murray in the occupation of 
 
 * Ironside, p. 78. 
 
256 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the house, of which he subsequently took a lease, the 
 remainder of which he surrendered in 1867 to George 
 Gordon Mackintosh, Esq., J.P., the present occupier. 
 
 On the opposite side of King Street stood an old 
 house, in which resided " the Right Hon. the Countess 
 Catherlough, widow of Robert Earl of Catherlough, in 
 Ireland (son of Robert Knight, Esq., cashier of the 
 South Sea Company in the year 1720), previously 
 relict of Sir John Lequesne, Knt, and alderman of the 
 city of London ; " and before her William Rider, Esq.* 
 This lady, says Miss Hawkins, was " related to that 
 Lady Luxborough whose name is often associated 
 with that of Shenstone, and was the correspondent of 
 the worthily celebrated Countess of Hertford." She 
 was a most intimate friend of Mr. Sydenham, who is 
 mentioned elsewhere. Mrs. Cole, and then Mrs. Gell, 
 succeeded Lady Catherlough, and next, the house 
 became the residence of Mr. Beauchamp, who, early in 
 the century, and for years afterwards, was the principal 
 medical man of the village. His daughter, the last 
 surviving member of his family, lived here till her 
 death, after which the house was taken down. 
 
 THE GROVE. Near to this house was another hand- 
 some structure, the first house in the parish, according 
 to an old Twickenham tradition, that was furnished with 
 glazed windows, called in modern times " the Grove," 
 with an extensive garden, standing on the site now 
 occupied by the residence of Mr. Alfred Clark, and by 
 Mr. Corben's coach manufactory. It formerly belonged 
 
 * Ironside, p. 144. 
 
THE GROVE. 257 
 
 to John Poulton, Esq., Steward of the Court, then to 
 Sir Richard Middleton, Bart, a descendant of Sir 
 Hugh Middleton, of New River celebrity ; next Sir 
 William Humble lived in it, and after him the clever 
 and disreputable Duke of Wharton, whom Pope 
 describes as " the scorn and wonder of our days, 
 possessing 
 
 . . . Each gift of nature and of art, 
 
 And wanting nothing but an honest heart." 
 
 During Pope's time it was the residence of his friend 
 James Craggs, junior, whom Horace Walpole spitefully 
 describes as a " showy vapoury man, brought forward 
 to oppose Sir 'Robert." He was in great favour with 
 the wits of the Whig party Steele, Tickell, and 
 Addison, the last of whom he succeeded as Secretary 
 of State in 1718. Addison, only a few days before his 
 death, dedicated all his works to Craggs, " in a letter 
 written," says Lord Macaulay, " with all the sweet and 
 graceful eloquence of a Saturday's Spectator'' On 
 August 6th, 1720, " the foreign ministers dined with 
 him at his house at Twickenham." * He and his father 
 were both ruined by the South Sea scheme. The 
 father died it is supposed by his own hand on the 
 very day before his delinquencies were to be exposed 
 before the House of Commons. The son died on the 
 1 6th of February, 1720-1, of smallpox, a disease then 
 making its first great ravages in England. He was 
 buried on the 2nd of March, in Westminster Abbey. 
 His death at the early age of thirty-five excited con- 
 siderable public sympathy. His monument is not raised 
 immediately over the place of his interment ; it was 
 
 * Reed^s Weekly Journal, quoted by Lysons, vol. ii. part ii. p. 785. 
 
258 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 much thought of at the time of its erection. Pope 
 furnished the epitaph. " The Latin inscription/' he 
 says, " I have made as full and yet as short as I possibly 
 could. It vexes me to reflect how little I. must say> 
 and how far short all I can say is of what I believe 
 and feel on that subject; like true 'lovers' ' expressions, 
 that vex the heart from whence they come, to find how 
 cold and faint they must seem to others in comparison 
 of what inspires them invariably in themselves. The 
 heart glows while the tongue falters." It runs as 
 follows : 
 
 Jacobus Craggs, regni magnae Britanniae a secretis et consiliis 
 sanctioribus, principis pariter ac populi amor et deliciae ; vixit titulis 
 et invidia major, annos heu paucos xxxv. Ob. Feb. xvi. MDCCXX. 
 
 Statesman ; yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere 
 
 In action faithful, and in honour clear ! 
 
 Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 
 
 Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 
 
 Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 
 
 Prais'd, wept, and honour'd by the Muse he lov'd. 
 
 Dr. Johnson objects to " the absurdity of joining 
 together in the same inscription Latin and English, 
 or verse and prose, and also to the redundancy in the 
 second line of the stanza and the by no means obvious 
 opposition intended in the fourth line." * 
 
 To Mr. Craggs, as tenant of the house, succeeded 
 Mr. Edward Waller, a barrister, and grandson of the 
 celebrated poet. After him came Matthew Duane, Esq., 
 a man of literary tastes, and a fellow of the Royal 
 Society, whose widow occupied it after his decease. 
 After her death Mrs. Mackenzie, widow of Peter 
 
 * See Dean Stanley's Memorials of Westminster Abbey, p. 250, etc., and Dr. 
 Johnson's Lives of the Poets, vol. iv. pp. 129, 130. Edition, 1815. 
 
POULETT LODGE. 259 
 
 Mackenzie, Esq., a member of a rich West Indian 
 family, became possessed of it, and it descended, 
 through his marriage with her youngest daughter, 
 to Captain Frederick Garsham Carmichael, of the 
 9th Dragoons. After his death, in 1836, and the 
 removal of his wife and numerous family, the estate 
 was sold by auction and the house was pulled down 
 shortly afterwards. This work of pulling down was a 
 most laborious one, so strong and substantial was the 
 building, which, I am informed, was erected by Inigo 
 Jones for the Duke of Rochester; it is, however, 
 supposed by some to have been of the same date as 
 Hampton Court Palace. It stood within gates, 4 '" and 
 commanded most extensive views ; its grounds were 
 very large, and contained a long row of fine cedar- 
 trees, only one of which now survives. I am told 
 that it was also known by the name of " the Manor 
 House," for what reason I am wholly unable to 
 conjecture. 
 
 POULETT LODGE. Just opposite the spot where 
 the house before-mentioned stood, on the other side 
 of the road, possessing a fine river frontage, is a house 
 built by Dr. Batty, a physician of eminence, on the 
 site of a much smaller house destroyed by fire on 
 June I4th, 1734, then in the possession of Monsieur 
 Chauvigny, the French Ambassador. To Dr. Batty 
 succeeded the Right Hon. Vere, third Earl Poulett, 
 and after his death, in 1788, the dowager Countess 
 remained in this house for some time. It subse- 
 
 * I am told that these gates were removed to, and now form the entrance of 
 Cambridge House, in the Richmond Road. 
 
260 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 quently became the residence of Mrs. Osbaldiston. 
 This lady, having ten children, inspired Horace 
 Walpole with horror. Rather than visit her he said 
 he would visit "a boarding dame at Eton School." 
 He mentions also that, as Lady Poulett's house 
 "would not hold her and her brood," she hired 
 Dr. Duval's parsonage, which was much less, for seven 
 months, at the extravagant rental of 100 guineas. * 
 Lord and Lady Cardigan, and Colonel and Mrs. 
 Webb, successively occupied the house for short 
 periods. For a while it remained empty, 'and then 
 another Dowager Countess Poulett came to live in 
 it. This lady had been the fourth earl's second wife ; 
 she was only daughter of Ynyr Burges, Esq., and 
 was first married to Sir John Smith Burges, of 
 Havering Bower, Essex. On her death, in 1838, 
 the property was purchased by Mr. Maclew, and 
 left by him to his ward, Mr. C. Martin. Mr. Martin 
 was succeeded by Mrs. Ogilby, who married Mr. E. 
 M. Martin. On the death of Mrs. Martin, which 
 occurred in 1870, the property was sold. It was 
 purchased by Mr. W. H. Punchard, who is greatly 
 enlarging and improving it. 
 
 Between this house and the next, on the opposite 
 side of the road, stood the celebrated summer house 
 belonging to the seat of the Ferrers family in Heath 
 Lane, the grounds of which extended to this point. 
 As in old times the road was open and not walled up, 
 the summer house commanded an extensive view of 
 the river, from which it was also a conspicuous object. 
 
 * Miss Berry's Journal, vol. i. p. 421. 
 
RIVERSDALE. CROSS DEEP LODGE. 261 
 
 CROSS DEEP. The next house is stated by 
 Ironside to have been the residence of Colonel 
 Pechell, late of the 2nd troop of Horse Guards, 
 and formerly, about 1750, of Mr. Barnaby Backwell, 
 and after him, of Mr. Shackerly, whose widow 
 rented Dial House for a time. The Hon. Mrs. 
 Butler, a Roman Catholic lady, subsequently resided 
 in it. She made the present dining-room a chapel 
 for her household. During the last years of Mrs. 
 Butler's lease Miss Porter occupied the house, and 
 after its expiration, Mr. George Barnard, who owned 
 it, came to live in it, and his widow, Mrs. Paxton 
 Jervis, and family reside in it now. 
 
 RIVERSDALE. Adjoining this is the beautifully- 
 situated house called Riversdale, belonging to Lord 
 Clifden. A lease of a smaller house on its site 
 was granted by the Right Hon. Welbore Ellis (after- 
 wards Lord Mendip), for thirty years, from April 2nd, 
 1808, to Lady Monson, who greatly enlarged it. 
 Lady Mendip resided here for some time. The next 
 occupant was Mr. G. H. Drummond ; then, for a 
 short time, Lord Uxbridge resided in it, his wife, 
 Lady Uxbridge, dying here on July 3rd, 1828. Lord 
 Cawdor next had a lease of it, the remainder of which, 
 after Lord and Lady Cowley had been tenants for a 
 short time, was purchased by Mr. Henry Young, 
 who lived in this house from 1848 until his death, 
 and whose daughters reside in it still. 
 
 CROSS DEEP LODGE. Opposite Riversdale, on 
 the other side of the road, is Cross Deep Lodge, 
 
262 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 once inhabited by Mr. Thomas Nobbes, executor 
 and legatee to James Quin, the celebrated actor. 
 Mr. Nobbes possessed a portrait of Quin, said to 
 have been the most highly-finished picture which 
 Gainsborough ever produced. Mr. John Blake, 
 attorney at law, succeeded Mr. Nobbes ; subsequently 
 this house became the residence of the three Miss 
 Murthwaites, one of whom married Colonel Barnard, 
 son of Sir George Barnard, librarian to George III., 
 whose son was Mr. George Barnard, of Cross Deep. 
 In 1829, Mr. R. H. Matthews, of Buxar, in the 
 East Indies, took a lease of the house, and lived in it 
 until 1833, when he returned to India, where he died 
 in 1840. His widow and her two children, and her 
 father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, continued to 
 reside here. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop petitioned the 
 House of Lords in 1839 as being next heirs to the 
 earldom of Monteith and Airth, in opposition to 
 the claim of Mr. Barclay Allardice ; the House, how- 
 ever, made no decision, and the title has since remained 
 dormant* Mrs. Matthews died in 1866 : she was 
 succeeded in the occupation of the house by her son, 
 Mr. Graham Matthews, who survived her only four 
 years. It is now in the possession of his widow and 
 family. 
 
 Next to Riversdale is a modern house called " Pope's 
 Villa," but which does not occupy the site of the cele- 
 brated poet's residence, which we must proceed to 
 consider in the next chapter. 
 
 * Vide Burke 1 s Dormant Peerage. 
 
POPE'S VILLA. 263 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 POPE'S VILLA EARLY HISTORY OF ALEXANDER POPE His 
 HOUSE AT TWICKENHAM His GROTTO His LATER LIFE AND 
 WORKS DEATH OF HIS MOTHER His OWN DEATH AND 
 BURIAL DENIAL OF THE STATEMENT CONCERNING THE 
 ABSTRACTION OF THE POET'S SKULL FROM HIS GRAVE THE 
 POET'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE, HABITS, CONSTITUTION, TEM- 
 PERAMENT His RANK AS A POET COMPARISON OF HIM WITH 
 DRYDEN THACKERAY ON THE CONCLUDING VERSES OF " THE 
 DUNCIAD" SIR WILLIAM STANHOPE ENLARGES THE HOUSE 
 LORD MENDIP DEATH OF POPE'S WILLOW LADY HOWE 
 
 DEMOLISHES POPE'S HOUSE COMPLETELY HER NEW HOUSE 
 
 SUBSEQUENTLY LESSENED AND DIVIDED PROPOSAL TO 
 REBUILD POPE'S VILLA IN FAC-SIMILE SCHEME ABANDONED 
 
 THE PRESENT SO-CALLED " POPE'S VlLLA " THE CARE BESTOWED 
 
 BY TWICKENHAM ON HER GREATEST RESIDENT. 
 
 POPE'S VILLA. In the person of Alexander Pope the 
 fame of Twickenham culminates. Whilst it would be 
 impossible in a history of the village to omit the 
 principal events and circumstances in his life, it is 
 equally impossible to enter fully into them within the 
 limits of the present work, for to do so would be 
 to write the literary history of the nation for the first 
 half of the eighteenth century ; nor is it necessary, 
 since many such works, of varying excellence and 
 interest, exist. 
 
264 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 He was born in Lombard Street, London, on 
 May 2 ist, 1688."* His parents were both of the 
 Roman Catholic faith, to which his father had been 
 converted during a residence at Lisbon in his youth. 
 A sickly child, of mild temper, with a sweet voice, 
 which earned him the soubriquet of " the little 
 nightingale," his physical weakness determined the 
 bent of his tastes and the nature of his pursuits. His 
 first instructor was the family priest, named Banister,t 
 who taught him the rudiments of Latin and Greek. 
 After a while he went to a Roman Catholic school at 
 Twyford, but remained there only a short time, the 
 composition of a lampoon on the master necessitating 
 his removal to another school in London. Occasional 
 visits to the theatres induced him to write a play, 
 based upon certain events in the Iliad, and made up 
 of the speeches in Ogilby's translation. It was acted 
 by the elder boys in the school with the assistance of 
 the master's gardener, who sustained the part of Ajax. 
 
 Pope's father, who had been a linendraper, having 
 realized a considerable fortune (which he is said, owing 
 to the insecurity of property and the disabilities imposed 
 on Romanists, to have kept locked up in a chest, taking 
 from thence his necessary expenses from time to time), 
 retired first to Kensington, and then to Binfield, in 
 Windsor Forest, and there, in his twelfth year, the poet 
 joined him. In the seclusion of the country Pope set 
 himself vigorously to read, and also, young as he was, 
 to write. Dryden was the subject of his chiefest admira- 
 
 * Some authorities, Dr. Johnson among them, say the 22nd ; the balance of 
 evidence is in favour of the 2 1st. 
 
 f So says Mr. Roscoe, quoting from Spence's Anecdotes; by some authorities 
 he is called "Taverner." 
 
POPES EARLY LIFE. 265 
 
 tion : he induced a friend to carry him to town, and so 
 he was enabled to see his proposed model at Will's 
 coffee-house, in the very year of the latter's death. 
 Pope says that he " lisped in numbers," and that of 
 his verses his father was always a severe critic : 
 with the remark " these are not good rhymes," he 
 would frequently set his son back "to new turn 
 them." He wrote, at twelve years of age, his Ode 
 to Solitude, four thousand lines of an epic poem, 
 and subsequently translated the first book of the 
 Thebais of Statius, and Ovid's Epistle of Sappho to 
 Phaon ; he put also several of Chaucer's pieces into 
 modern English. 
 
 At Binfield he became acquainted with Sir William 
 Trumbull, a retired statesman sixty years of age, 
 between whom and the young genius there existed 
 a genuine and mutual friendship. By him Pope was 
 introduced to Wycherley, the dramatist, who was older 
 still ; but a coldness with the latter was soon afterwards 
 caused by Pope's somewhat too free strictures on a 
 volume of poems which he was preparing for publica- 
 tion, and had submitted to Pope's revision. From 
 1707 dated the poet's intimacy with Mr. Blount, 
 and his daughters Martha and Teresa, who lived at 
 Maple Durham, near Reading. His Pastorals were 
 printed in 1 709, and in that year he wrote his Essay on 
 Criticism, which was not published until 1711; and 
 about the same time the first draft of The Rape 
 of the Lock appeared anonymously in a volume of 
 Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. The origin of 
 this elegant poem was an estrangement caused between 
 two families, owing to Lord Petre's having stolen a 
 
266 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 lock of Miss Belle Fermor's hair a quarrel which it 
 had the happy effect of terminating. The poem re- 
 appeared amplified in 1714. In 1712 Pope made the 
 acquaintance of Addison, but their friendly relations 
 did not last very long. In this year The Messiah, The 
 Dying Christian to his Soul, The Temple of Fame, and 
 The Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady were printed. 
 Windsor Forest (written for the most part seven years 
 previously), and The Ode on S. Cecilia s Day were 
 published in 1713. In a letter to Addison, written 
 in this year, Pope speaks of his passion for the art 
 of painting, which he studied under Jervas, but in the 
 pursuit of which he was retarded by the weakness of 
 his eyes. At this time he wrote his Poetical Epistle to 
 that artist, which was not published until 1717. 
 
 Pope now formed his design of translating the 
 Iliad, of which no tasteful English version then existed. 
 He was led into this laborious effort, he himself confesses, 
 not from its congeniality to his taste, but by the want 
 of money. " I had then none: not even to buy books." * 
 In his efforts to procure its publication by subscription 
 his friendship with Swift is said to have commenced. 
 The work of translation took him six years ; he was 
 harassed during the commencement of it by continual 
 fears that he should never finish it. In the course of 
 time, however, he was able to produce forty or fifty 
 lines a day. The first volume appeared in 1715, Lintot 
 having purchased the copyright ; and almost simulta- 
 neously another version by Tickell was published by 
 Tonson, which enjoyed the preference and patronage of 
 Addison from its having in it, he said, " more of 
 
 * Spence's Anecdotes, ed. Singer, p. 304. 
 
POPE COMES TO TWICKENHAM. 267 
 
 Homer." This fact caused an estrangement between 
 Pope and Addison, which was never completely healed. 
 The jealousy of the latter is described in the famous 
 Character of Addison, originally printed in Pope's 
 Miscellanies, but afterwards inserted in the Epistle to 
 Dr. Arbuthnot, which now forms the prologue to the 
 Satires. 
 
 By the subscription-list for his translation of Homer, 
 Pope's circumstances were so materially improved that 
 he persuaded his father to remove from Binfield. The 
 next residence of the family was in one of " a row of 
 lofty houses, then recently erected, called ' Mawsom's 
 New Buildings,' at Chiswick : " here Pope continued 
 the Iliad, and wrote the Epistle from Eloisa to A belard, 
 after Lady Mary Wortley Montague's departure from 
 England; and here, on the 23rd of October, 1717, his 
 father died."" It is usual to say that this event 
 happened at Twickenham (for Pope himself strove to 
 forget, and most of his biographers have consequently 
 ignored his residence at Chiswick) ; that it did not so 
 happen is sufficiently shown by the absence of any 
 entry of the burial in the register of the parish. 
 
 After his father's death Pope took a long lease of a 
 house and five acres of ground at Twickenham, and at 
 once set about the work of improvement. Miss 
 Hawkins, in her Anecdotes, says, being reminded of the 
 circumstance by her brother, that demolition must not 
 be considered a new invention, because eleven dwellings 
 were sacrificed to form Pope's Villa. t The house itself, 
 
 * " On Wednesday, October 23rd, died Mr. Pope at Chiswick, father of 
 Mr. Pope, the famous poet. He passed twenty-nine years in privacy." Weekly 
 Journal. Quoted in the Life of Pope by Carruthers, p. 160. 
 
 f Page 87, note. 
 
268 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 except by its being freed from contiguity with ten still 
 smaller structures, was not much altered. It consisted 
 of " a small body with a small hall, paved with stone, 
 and two small parlours on each side ; the upper story 
 being disposed on the same plan." What it was may 
 be best fancied by looking at any engraving of Sir 
 William Stanhope's, or Lord Mendip's " Villa at 
 Twickenham," and removing with the mind's eye the 
 wings on each side, which were added by the former 
 during his occupancy of it. In laying out the grounds 
 on the principles of landscape gardening (for he had 
 ridiculed, some years before, in a humorous paper in 
 the Guardian, the barbarous practice of cutting trees 
 into shapes, and the formalities imported from the 
 continent), and in adorning his grotto, Pope used his 
 utmost ingenuity. 
 
 The latter was a necessity to obviate the un- 
 pleasantness of crossing the high road from Twickenham 
 to Teddington every time the best part of the 
 gardens had to be reached. Martha Blount says that 
 i,ooo/. were expended upon its formation and adorn- 
 ment with spars, shells, gems, &c. Searle (Pope's 
 gardener) says that his master spent on his gardens 
 and other improvements about 5,ooo/. " A grotto," 
 remarks Dr. Johnson, "is not often the wish or pleasure 
 of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit 
 than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was 
 requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some 
 men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an 
 ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced 
 a grotto where necessity enforced a passage." Bishop 
 Warburton goes, on the other hand, to an extreme of 
 
POPES GROTTO. 269 
 
 laudatory criticism when he observes that " the beauty 
 of Pope's poetic genius appeared to as much advantage 
 in the disposition of those romantic materials as in any 
 of his best-contrived poems." * The best description, 
 both of it and of the poet's satisfaction and pleasure in 
 it, is contained in an often quoted letter of his to his 
 friend Edward Blount, dated June 2, 1725 : 
 
 I have put the last hand to my works of this kind, in happily 
 finishing the subterraneous way and grotto. I there found a spring 
 of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual rill, that echoes 
 through the cavern day and night. From the river Thames, you see 
 thro' my arch up a walk of the wilderness, to a kind of open temple, 
 wholly composed of shells in the rustic manner; and from that distance 
 under the temple you look down through a sloping arcade of trees, 
 and see the sails on the river passing suddenly and vanishing as through 
 a perspective glass. When you shut the doors of this grotto it becomes 
 on the instant, from a luminous room, a camera-obscura ; on the walls 
 of which all objects of the river, hills, woods, and boats are forming 
 a moving picture in their visible radiations ; and when you have a 
 mind to light it up it affords you a very different scene. It is finished 
 with shells interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms ; 
 and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a 
 lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, 
 a thousand pointed rays glitter, and are reflected over the place. 
 
 There are connected to this grotto, by a narrower passage, two 
 porches : one towards the river, of smooth stones, full of light, and 
 open ; the other toward the garden, shadowed with trees, rough with 
 shells, flints, and iron ore. The bottom is paved with simple pebble, 
 as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the 
 natural taste agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur and the 
 aquatic idea of the whole place. It wants nothing to complete it but 
 a good statue, with an inscription, like that beautiful antique one which 
 you know I am so fond of. 
 
 Hujus Nympha loci, sacri custodia fontis, 
 
 Dormio dum blandae sentio murmur aquae. 
 Parce meum, quisquis tangis cava marmora, somnum 
 
 Rumpere ; sive bibas, sive lavere, tace. 
 
 * Pope's Works, ed. Warburton, vol. vi. p. 63. 
 
270 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep, 
 And to the murmur of these waters sleep ; 
 Ah, spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! 
 And drink in silence, or in silence lave. 
 
 You'll think I have been very poetical in this description, but 
 it is pretty near the truth. I wish you were here to bear testimony 
 how little it owes to art, either the place itself, or the image I give 
 of it 
 
 From the entrance to this grotto Pope took the 
 sketch of the church and village of Twickenham which 
 he made in the fly leaf of the copy of Homer which he 
 used for his translation. 
 
 A plan of the gardens, a view of the grotto, and a 
 catalogue of the ores, spars, and gems which enriched 
 it, with the names of those who had been benefactors 
 to it, were published in a pamphlet by John Searle in 
 the year succeeding Pope's death. Amongst those who 
 contributed to its beauty were the Dowager Duchess 
 of Cleveland of Raby Castle, Dr. Borlase, the Cornish 
 antiquary, Lyttelton, Spence, Gilbert West, Sir Hans 
 Sloane, Mr. Allen of Bath, and Mr. Cambridge. At 
 the entrance of it was inscribed on a stone this line 
 from Horace : 
 
 Secretum iter et fallentis semita vitae.* 
 
 Until his death Pope continued making additions to it 
 and to his gardens. In some verses entitled The Cave 
 of Pope by Dodsley, are some prophetic lines concern- 
 ing the curiosity of future visitors and their pilfering of 
 gems as relics, which have been amply fulfilled : 
 
 * A letter of Pope's concerning his grotto to Dr. Oliver of Bath, on the inside 
 blank page of which is a draft of the doctor's reply, and another letter of the poet's 
 on the same, to him, engrossing subject, together with a pen-and-ink ground plan 
 of the grotto, are in the possession of Henry G. Bohn, Esq. The letters and a wood- 
 cut of the plan may be found in Carruthers' Life and Letters of Pope, pp. 173 176. 
 
POPE'S GROTTO. 271 
 
 Then some small gem, or moss, or shining ore, 
 Departing, each shall pilfer, in fond hope 
 
 To please their friends in every distant shore, 
 Boasting a relic from the cave of Pope. 
 
 Pope's fondness for and pride in his Twickenham 
 villa, " my Tusculum," as he called it, is expressed 
 by him in letters and poems continually. In a letter to 
 his friend Mr. Digby he says, 
 
 No ideas you could form in the winter can make you imagine 
 what Twickenham is in the summer season. Our river glitters 
 beneath an unclouded sun, at the same time that its banks retain the 
 verdure of showers; our gardens are offering their first nosegays; our 
 trees, like new acquaintances brought happily together, are stretching 
 their arms to meet each other, and growing nearer and nearer every 
 hour; the birds are paying their thanksgiving songs for the new 
 habitations I have made them; my building rises high enough to 
 attract the eye and curiosity of the passenger from the river, where, 
 when beholding a mixture of beauty and ruin, he inquires what house 
 is falling or what church is rising ; so little taste have our common 
 Tritons of Vitruvius, whatever delight the poetical god of the river 
 may take in reflecting on their streams my Tuscan porticos or Ionic 
 pilasters. 
 
 " On his grotto " he composed the following : 
 
 Thou who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent wave 
 
 Shines a broad mirror through the shadowy cave : 
 
 Where lingering drops from mineral roofs distil, 
 
 And pointed crystals break the sparkling rill 
 
 Unpolish'd gems no ray on pride bestow, 
 
 And latent metals innocently glow : 
 
 Approach. Great Nature studiously behold ! 
 
 And eye the mine without a wish for gold. 
 
 Approach ; but awful ! lo ! the ^gerian grot 
 
 Where, nobly pensive, St. John sat and thought ; 
 
 Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole, 
 
 And the bright flame was shot through Marchmont's soul. 
 
 Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor, 
 
 Who dare to love their country and be poor ! 
 
272 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 These lines were sent to St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, 
 in the following letter : 
 
 Next to patching up my constitution my great business has been 
 to patch up a grotto (the same you have so often sat in times past 
 under my house) with all the varieties of nature underground, spars, 
 minerals, and marbles ! I hope yet to live to philosophise with you 
 in this Museum, which is now a study for virtuosi and a scene for 
 contemplation ; at least I am resolved to have it remembered that 
 you was there, as you will see from the verses I dare to set over it 
 Adieu may you and yours be happy ! 
 
 Again, in his Imitations of Horace, he thus speaks of 
 his retreat and of some of the friends who enlivened it : 
 
 To Virtue only, and her friends, a friend : 
 The world beside may murmur, or commend, 
 Know, all the distant din that world can keep 
 Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep, 
 There, my retreat the best companions grace, 
 Chiefs out of war and statesmen out of place. 
 There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl 
 The feast of reason and the flow of soul ; 
 And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines 
 Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines 
 Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, 
 Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.* 
 
 The remainder of his life, which he passed at 
 Twickenham, was the most important portion of the 
 poet's career. He was one of the very few literary 
 men who in his own or any previous time acquired a 
 competence through their dealings with the book- 
 sellers. In 1718 the object of his somewhat absurd 
 admiration, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, became 
 his neighbour ; their friendly relations were, however, 
 short-lived.f The first volume of the Iliad appeared 
 
 * Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, who, in the year 1705, took 
 Barcelona, and in the next winter conquered Valencia with a very small force, 
 f Seep. 35- 
 
THE " OD YSSE Y 273 
 
 in 1715, and a fresh volume followed yearly until 
 the completion of the whole work in 1720. Their 
 publication, as has been remarked, commenced a battle 
 (slight premonitory engagements of which had occurred 
 previously,) which lasted longer than the siege of Troy 
 itself; but into Pope's endless feuds with the publishers 
 and less accounted authors who attacked him, and 
 whose attacks he resented with interest in his 
 Dunciad and elsewhere, this is not the place to 
 enter : the fame of the poet has outlived the 
 remembrance of these squabbles, which were, by their 
 nature, ephemeral. He next published a translation 
 of the Odyssey, considerable portions of which were 
 contributed by his coadjutors Fenton and Broome. In 
 1723 his great friend Bishop Atterbury, of Rochester, 
 was tried before the House of Lords and found guilty 
 on a charge of conspiracy, which necessitated his retire- 
 ment to the Continent ; Pope's loss of this intimate 
 friend, who so much interested himself in his welfare as 
 even to have attempted to win him back from Roman 
 Catholicism, was in some degree compensated by the 
 return of Bolingbroke to England, he having been 
 pardoned almost at the same time. Pope next edited 
 Shakespeare, not satisfactorily, however, for he lacked 
 much knowledge essential to the successful performance 
 of such an undertaking. On account of an essay on 
 the completed Odyssey written by Dr. Spence, 
 Professor of History in the University of Oxford, that 
 divine became a frequent visitor at the poet's house, 
 which was continually graced at this time by the 
 presence of Swift and Gay, the latter of whom is said 
 to have written at Twickenham his successful play 
 
 18 
 
274 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 called The Beggar s Opera. These three friends, 
 triumvirs of Parnassus, are addressed by Lord 
 Bolingbroke in one of his letters as " the Three Yahoos 
 of Twickenham, Jonathan, Alexander, and John." 
 
 In September, 1726, a serious accident, which might 
 have had a fatal termination, befell Pope. " The poet 
 had been dining with Bolingbroke at Dawley, and late 
 at night the peer sent his friend home in a stately 
 fashion, in a coach and six. A small bridge about a 
 mile from Pope's residence was broken down, and the 
 postilion taking the water, the coach came in contact 
 with the trunk of a tree and was overturned. Before 
 the coachman could get to Pope's assistance the water 
 had reached the knots of his periwig. The glass was 
 broken and he was rescued, but not until he had 
 received a severe wound in his right hand, which for 
 some time disqualified him from writing. Voltaire, 
 who was then on a visit to Dawley " a man, by the 
 way, whom the poet thoroughly disliked " sent his 
 condolences in an English epistle, stating that the water 
 into which Pope fell was ' not Hippocrene's water 
 otherwise it would have respected him/' "Is it 
 possible," he added, " that those fingers which have 
 written the Rape of the Lock and the Criticism, which 
 have dressed Homer so becomingly in an English coat, 
 should have been so barbarously treated ? " * 
 
 In 1727 there appeared two volumes of Miscellanies 
 by Pope and Swift, to which Gay and Arbuthnot con- 
 tributed, as a means of repudiating certain spurious 
 pieces which had been published as their genuine 
 productions. I n these Miscellanies was printed Martinus 
 
 * Pope's Life, by Carruthers, p. 238. 
 
LITERARY LABOURS. 275 
 
 Scriblerus IIEPI BAGOTS, or the Art of Sinking in 
 Poetry, which exasperated the scribblers who were, 
 or thought they were, ridiculed therein, to the highest 
 pitch. Upon them one and all Pope took complete 
 vengeance in the Dunciad, first published in three 
 books in 1729 ; a fourth book was added in 1742. In 
 1731 an Epistle on Taste was printed. An Epistle 
 on the Use of Riches, and two epistles of the Essay 
 on Man (which was published anonymously in order 
 to obtain the unbiased approbation of enemies) appeared 
 in 1732 ; which year was made mournfully memorable 
 to Pope by the death of Gay, as was the succeeding 
 year also by the death of his mother, on the 7th of June, 
 in her 94th year. Mrs. Pope was buried on the i ith, by 
 torch-light, in a vault in Twickenham Church, being 
 carried to the grave by six poor old men of the village, 
 to whom were given suits of dark grey cloth, and 
 followed by six poor old women in the same sort of 
 mourning. In the interval between her death and burial 
 a portrait (which has been engraved) was taken of her 
 by Richardson at Pope's request. To her memory her 
 son erected the mural tablet on the north-east wall of 
 the chancel, with a Latin inscription, into which his 
 father's name was introduced ; and in a secluded part of 
 his grounds he erected an obelisk (long since removed) 
 inscribed on its four sides with the words 
 
 Ah Editha ! 
 
 Matrum Optima ! 
 
 Mulierum amantissima ! 
 
 Vale ! * 
 
 * The obelisk was one of the last surviving memorials of the poet. A suggestion 
 was made that it should be re-erected in the gardens of Hampton Court Palace, 
 but this was never carried into effect. It was sent by Lady Howe, to Gopsall, her 
 family residence in Leicestershire. 
 
276 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 During this year, 1733, was published the third 
 epistle of the Essay on Man and an Imitation of the 
 First Satire of Horace s Second Book. 
 
 In 1734 appeared the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 
 "one of our author's most finished productions," the fourth 
 epistle of the Essay on Man, and the Second Satire of 
 the Second Book of Horace ; and in 1735 An Epistle to 
 a Lady (Martha Blount) on the Characters of Women. 
 " The Essay on Man and The Moral Epistles were 
 intended to form portions of a great system of ethics," 
 concerning the completion of which he entertained fears 
 owing to a fancy which he had conceived that his poetical 
 powers were on the wane. In 1 737 two more Imitations 
 of Horace were published in addition to the former two, 
 and an Ode to Venus, copied from the same classic 
 author. In 1738 two dialogues, each entitled " One 
 Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-Eight," appeared 
 separately. A third dialogue was checked by the 
 prosecution of Dodsley on account of his publication of 
 a poem by Paul Whitehead, which was intended as a 
 hint to Pope. In this year, also, The Universal Prayer 
 appeared. 
 
 In 1740 Pope edited two volumes, entitled Selecta 
 Poemata Italorum ; and in this year Warburton 
 published a defence of Pope's Essay on Man, which 
 had been impugned by Crousaz, a Swiss professor, as 
 a denial of revelation. In 1743 Pope's health began to 
 decline ; his headaches, to which he had been subject 
 during all his life, increased in frequency, in addition to 
 which he suffered from an asthma and dropsy on the 
 chest. Among his latest acts was one of kindness to the 
 talented but unprincipled poet Savage. In his illness 
 
POPE'S LAST ILLNESS. 277 
 
 he was patient and placid, viewing the approach of 
 death with magnanimity and resignation. The infidel 
 Bolingbroke is said to have been disgusted at the 
 firmness of Pope's Christian hope. Duringa lucid interval 
 in the course of a temporary aberration of reason with 
 which he was attacked, he was found busily engaged 
 early one morning on an essay on the Immortality of 
 the Soul. Shortly before his death he observed, " I am 
 so certain of the soul's being immortal, that I seem to 
 feel it within me." On the third day before his death 
 he desired to be brought to the table where his friends 
 were at dinner. All present noticed that he was dying. 
 Miss Anne Arbuthnot exclaimed involuntarily, " Lord 
 have mercy upon us ! this is quite an Egyptian feast ! " 
 Next day he sat for three hours in a sedan-chair in his 
 garden, taking his last look at scenes so dear to him, 
 then in their early summer beauty. To this occasion 
 Dr. Johnson's incredible statement about Martha 
 Blount appears to belong. He says that one day, as 
 Pope was " sitting in the air with Lord Bolingbroke and 
 Lord Marchmont, he saw his favourite, Martha Blount, 
 at the bottom of the terrace, and asked Lord Boling- 
 broke to go and hand her up. Bolingbroke, not liking 
 the errand, crossed his legs and sat still ; but Lord 
 Marchmont, who was younger and less captious, waited 
 on the lady, who, when he came to her, asked, * What, 
 is he not dead yet ? ' She is said," continues the 
 doctor, " to have neglected him with shameful unkind- 
 ness in the latter time of his decay." The improbability 
 of the question is seen on the face of it. Could Martha 
 Blount be possibly ignorant whether Pope were alive or 
 dead ? Or, if the question were really put, it need not 
 
278 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 necessarily be construed harshly, nay, it may have 
 been so uttered as to imply pity and tenderness for the 
 lingering agonies of the sufferer. 
 
 On the day preceding his death he took an airing in 
 Bushey Park, and, in obedience to the suggestion of 
 Mr. Tooke, he received the last consolations of the 
 faith in which he had lived. His existence, which had 
 been, as he described it, one continued death, terminated 
 easily and imperceptibly, about eleven o'clock at night, 
 on the 3Oth of May, 1 744. 
 
 Pope was buried, as he directed, in Twickenham 
 church, in a vault in the middle aisle, under the second 
 pew from the east end. A stone, inscribed with the 
 letter P., marks the spot, which is now hidden by the 
 flooring of the seats. His body, as was his mother's, 
 was borne by six of the poorest men of the parish, to 
 each of whom he bequeathed a suit of grey coarse cloth 
 as mourning. For seventeen years the words " et 
 sibi " and the date of his death, on the tablet to his 
 parents, were the poet's only memorial. In 1761 his 
 friend Warburton, then a bishop (to whom he left the 
 copyright of his works), erected the marble monument 
 with the medallion portrait.* 
 
 By some writers it is denied that Pope's whole body is 
 in its coffin : they declare that the head was abstracted 
 during some repairs of the church. Mr. Howitt, in his 
 Homes and Haunts of the British Poets, f writes thus 
 in his article on Pope : " By one of those acts which 
 neither science nor curiosity can excuse, the skull of 
 Pope is now in the private collection of a phrenologist. 
 The manner in which it was obtained is said to have 
 
 * See p. 93. t Page 115. 
 
THE POET'S SKULL. 279 
 
 been this : On some occasion of alteration in the 
 church, or burial of some one in the same spot, the 
 coffin of Pope was disinterred, and opened to see 
 the state of the remains. By a bribe to the sexton of 
 the time, possession of the skull was obtained for a 
 night and another skull returned instead of it. I have 
 heard that fifty pounds were paid to manage and carry 
 through this transaction. Be that as it may, the 
 undoubted skull of Pope now figures in the phrenological 
 collection of Mr. Holm of Highgate, and was frequently 
 exhibited by him, in his lectures, as demonstrating 
 by its not large but well-balanced proportions its 
 affinity to the intellectual character of the poet/' Such 
 statements are hard to be disproved, more especially 
 when motives of interest support them. It is fair, 
 however, to the Rev. Charles Proby (the vicar, during 
 whose time the alleged theft was committed), and to 
 the then officials of the church, to give, as he communi- 
 cated it to Mr. Powell, his churchwarden, his unqualified 
 denial of each and every part of the story. Mr. Proby 
 had seen Mr. Howitt's paragraph, and desired, as he 
 was too old to enter into a paper war, that the real 
 facts which gave rise to the report should be published, 
 if a new history of Twickenham were ever written. 
 Mr. Proby 's statement is as follows : " Upon 
 opening a vault some years ago in the middle aisle 
 of the church, adjoining Pope's, the latter fell in, 
 the coffin was broken, and disclosed the skeleton, which 
 was very short, with a large skull. I was immediately 
 informed of it, when I directed my curate, Mr. Fletcher, 
 to remain in the church and not to leave until the whole 
 was restored and built up. A cast of the skull was 
 
2 So MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 taken, with my permission, by the mason employed, 
 who well knew how to accomplish it. I am quite sure 
 that Mr. Fletcher rigidly carried out my instructions. 
 No such abstraction could have been made." 
 
 We must obtain from Dr. Johnson an account of 
 Pope's personal appearance, although that biographer 
 has described the poet rather as he appeared in the 
 latter portion of his life, when his never robust frame 
 was made still weaker by disease. " He has, in his 
 account of the ' Little Club,' compared himself to a spider, 
 and by another is described as protuberant behind and 
 before. He is said to have been beautiful in his 
 infancy ; but he was of a constitution originally feeble 
 and weak ; and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily 
 distorted, his deformity was probably in part the effect 
 of his application. His stature was so low, that to bring 
 him to a level with common tables it was necessary to 
 raise his seat. But his face was not displeasing, and his 
 eyes were animated and vivid .... After .... middle 
 .... life he was so weak as to stand in perpetual 
 need of female attendance ; extremely sensible of cold, 
 so that he wore a kind of fur doublet under a shirt of 
 a very coarse warm linen with fine sleeves. When he 
 rose he was invested in a boddice made of stiff canvas, 
 being scarcely able to hold himself erect till it was 
 laced, and he then put on a flannel waistcoat. One 
 side was contracted. His legs were so slender that 
 he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, 
 which were drawn off and on by the maid ; for he was 
 not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went 
 to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it 
 very difficult for him to be clean. His hair had fallen 
 
PERSONAL DESCRIPTION OF POPE. 281 
 
 almost all away ; and he used to dine sometimes with 
 Lord Oxford, privately, in a velvet cap. His dress of 
 ceremony was black, with a tie-wig and a little sword." 
 
 Throughout his life he was a valetudinarian. His 
 faults were in a great degree consequent upon this fact : 
 he was peevish, capricious, and fretful, and demanded 
 incessant attention. His friends called him " the nightin- 
 gale," his enemies, " the wasp," of Twickenham. His 
 conversational powers were not of a high order. He 
 seldom or never laughed heartily. He delighted in 
 artifice, and attempted to gain all his ends by indirect 
 methods. " He hardly drank tea without a stratagem." 
 Lady Bolingbroke said that " he played the politician 
 about cabbages and turnips." He was somewhat too 
 much inclined to indulge his appetite ; fond of highly- 
 seasoned dishes, conserves, and drams. In domestic 
 life he was careful and economical : in some cases to a 
 fault ; " he would set at supper a single pint upon the 
 table ; and, having himself taken two small glasses, 
 would retire, and say, * Gentlemen, I leave you to your 
 wine.' Yet he tells his friends that ' he has a heart for 
 all, a house for all, and, whatever they may think, a 
 fortune for all.' " * He was as constant in his friend- 
 ships as he was bitter in his enmities ; his sole passion 
 was fame ; his most conspicuous weakness inordinate 
 self-conceit. It is a notable circumstance with respect 
 to Pope, who was himself a Roman Catholic, that of 
 his three most intimate friends, one, Atterbury, was a 
 high churchman, another, Warburton, a low churchman, 
 and the third, Bolingbroke, an avowed Infidel. 
 
 In his devoted love and attention to his parents 
 
 * Johnson's Life of Pope. 
 
282 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Pope appears at his best : he was a pattern of filial 
 affection. He was fond of visiting from place to place. 
 From Twickenham he paid occasional visits to London 
 in his little chariot, in which Atterbury compared him 
 to " Homer in a nutshell." His favourite way of taking 
 the air was to have his sedan chair placed in a boat, 
 and be rowed about. So late as 1813 there survived 
 an aged Thames waterman, " Old Home," who had 
 often, when a boy, seen Mr. Pope, and who well 
 remembered him. 
 
 As to Pope's rank and place as a poet, there will 
 always be great difference of opinion ; in the judgment 
 of some he stands almost without a rival, while others 
 would deny him the title of poet altogether. But 
 because we may prefer that poetry should treat of the 
 great truths and passions of nature and man, which 
 transcend all time, we need not withhold the due pro- 
 portion of praise to him, because he has concerned him- 
 self chiefly with the fleeting incidents and manners of 
 his own day. His versification is careful and accurate, 
 his aim was finished and faultless composition : even 
 if his Muse at times sought higher flights of imagina- 
 tion and enthusiasm, he checked it. His thoughts and 
 expressions are wonderfully terse, his arguments clear 
 and consecutive, and his arrangement lucid. In the Rape 
 of the Lock and Eloisa to Abelardreste his claim to inven- 
 tion, and the elegance and pathos of these poems show 
 the height to which he might have risen. Between the 
 respective excellences of Pope and his model and prede- 
 cessor Dry den/" Dr. Johnson has struck a careful balance. 
 
 * The resemblance between the two poets in another and very different way is 
 amusingly shown by Pope, in a note affixed to the Dunciad, in which he recounts 
 the various complimentary names whereby they were both called. 
 
POPE'S RANK AS A POET. 283 
 
 " Dryden," he says, " knew more of man in his general nature, and 
 Pope in his local manners : the notions of Dryden were formed by 
 comprehensive speculation, those of Pope by minute attention. 
 There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, more certainty 
 in that of Pope. Dryden is sometimes vehement, Pope always 
 smooth. Dryden's page is a natural field, Pope's, a velvet lawn. 
 If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the 
 wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is 
 more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, 
 and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent 
 astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." * 
 
 Cowper describes Pope as being ; 
 
 As harmony itself exact, 
 In verse well disciplined, complete, compact ; 
 
 but adds that he 
 
 Made poetry a mere mechanic art 
 
 And every warbler has his tune by heart, t 
 
 Thackeray, in prose as magnificent as the poetry of 
 which he treats, says of the concluding verses of the 
 Dunciad, that " no poet's verse ever mounted higher." 
 
 In these astonishing lines, Pope reaches, I think, to the very 
 greatest height which his sublime art has attained, and shows him- 
 self the equal of all poets of all times. It is the brightest ardour, 
 the loftiest assertion of truth, the most generous wisdom, illustrated 
 by the noblest poetic figure, and spoken in words the aptest, grandest, 
 and most harmonious. It is heroic courage speaking : a splendid 
 declaration of righteous wrath and war. It is the gage flung down, 
 and the silver trumpet ringing defiance to falsehood, tyranny, deceit, 
 dulness, and superstition. It is Truth, the champion, shining, and 
 intrepid, and fronting the great world-tyrant with armies of slaves at 
 his back. It is a wonderful and victorious single combat, in that great 
 battle which has always been waging since society began. 
 
 And, concluding his reflections upon the Poet, he 
 adds : 
 
 In considering Pope's admirable career I am forced into simili- 
 tudes drawn from other courage and greatness, and into comparing him 
 
 * Johnson's Life of Pope. \ Table-Talk. 
 
284 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 with those who achieved triumphs in actual war. I think of the 
 works of young Pope as I do of the actions of young Bonaparte or 
 young Nelson. In their common life you will find frailties and 
 meannesses, as great as the vices and follies of the meanest men. 
 But in the presence of the great occasion, the great soul flashes out 
 and conquers transcendent. In thinking of the splendour of Pope's 
 young victories, of his merit, unequalled as his renown, I hail and 
 salute the achieving genius and do homage to the pen of a hero. * 
 
 In the face of such a testimony as this the detractors 
 of Pope may well keep silence. 
 
 After Pope's death his estate was sold to Sir 
 William Stanhope (brother to the Earl of Chesterfield), 
 who (as has been said), added wings to the house, and 
 enlarged the gardens by another piece of ground on 
 the opposite side of the road, which was connected 
 with the premises by a second subterranean passage. 
 Over this were placed the following lines from the pen 
 of Lord Clare : 
 
 The humble roof, the garden's scanty line, 
 111 suit the genius of the bard divine ; 
 But Fancy now displays a fairer scope, 
 And Stanhope's plans unfold the soul of Pope. 
 
 Horace Walpole, however, viewed the alterations in a 
 different light; in a letter to Sir Horace Mann, written 
 in 1 760, he criticized them severely : 
 
 I must tell you a private woe that has happened to me in my 
 neighbourhood. Sir William Stanhope bought Pope's house and 
 garden. The former was so small and bad, one could not avoid 
 pardoning his hollowing out that fragment of the rock of Parnassus 
 into habitable chambers ; but would you believe it, he has cut down 
 the sacred groves themselves ? In short, it was a little bit of ground 
 of five acres, enclosed with three lanes and seeing nothing. Pope 
 had twisted and twirled, and rhymed and harmonized this, till it 
 appeared two or three sweet little lawns opening and opening beyond 
 
 * English Humourists, pp. 289, 290, new ed. 
 
POPE'S WILLOW. 285 
 
 one another, and the whole surrounded with thick impenetrable 
 woods. Sir William, by advice of his son-in-law, Mr. Ellis, has 
 hacked and hewn these groves, wriggled a winding gravel walk 
 through them, with an edging of shrubs, in what they call modem 
 taste, and in short, desired the three lanes to walk in again, and now 
 is forced to shut them out by a wall, for there was not a Muse could 
 walk there but she was spied by every country fellow that went by 
 with a pipe in his mouth. 
 
 On this owner's death the villa passed to the 
 Right Hon. Welbore Ellis (the son-in-law above- 
 named), afterwards created Lord Mendip, who had 
 married the daughter of Sir William Stanhope 1 . 
 Writers on this subject delight to contrast Mr. Ellis's 
 care of the poet's belongings, with the conduct of a 
 lady to be mentioned soon. The former guarded with 
 reverence every memorial, and preserved the house, 
 as far as possible, in its original condition ; especially 
 did he protect the far-famed weeping willow, which 
 stood in the front of the house and was supposed 
 to have been planted by the hand of Pope himself, and 
 from which the Empress of Russia took cuttings, in 
 1789, for her garden at S. Petersburgh. In spite of all 
 the attention bestowed upon it, however, it perished 
 and fell to the ground in the year 1801, about twelve 
 months previously to the death of its venerable and 
 noble owner, who died in his eighty-ninth year on 
 February ist, 1802. Of the two accounts of the origin 
 of this willow, we have already spoken."* When it fell 
 it was worked up by an eminent jeweller into trinkets 
 and ornaments of all kinds, which had an extensive 
 sale. The present willow trees no doubt derive their 
 existence from it ; one of considerable age, and propped 
 
 * See p. 235. 
 
286 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 up as much as we may suppose its parent to have been, 
 exists now in the garden of " Riversdale." A few years 
 before the fall of Pope's tree, some tasteful verses, 
 which foretold its fate, appeared in the Microcosm of 
 London (vol. iii., p. 276). They are worthy of pre- 
 servation, and run thus : 
 
 Weep, verdant Willow, ever weep 
 
 And spread thy pendant branches round ; 
 
 Oh, may no gaudy flow'ret creep 
 Along the consecrated ground ! 
 
 Thou art the Muses' fav'rite tree : 
 
 They lov'd the bard who planted thee. 
 
 The wintry blast assails in vain ; 
 
 The forked lightning passes by 
 To stretch the oak upon the plain, 
 
 Whose tow'ring branches brav'd the sky ; 
 The Muses guard their fav'rite tree : 
 They loved the bard who planted thee. 
 
 And oft, 'tis said, at evening hour, 
 To Fancy's eye bright forms appear, 
 
 To glide beneath the leafy bower, 
 While music steals on Fancy's ear :- 
 
 The Muses haunt their fav'rite tree : 
 
 They loved the bard who planted thee. 
 
 But all the Muses tender care 
 
 Cannot prolong the final date : 
 Rude time will strip thy branches bare, 
 
 And thou must feel the stroke of fate ; 
 E'en thou, the Muses' fav'rite tree, 
 Must fall, like him who planted thee. 
 
 But still the Muse will hover near, 
 And, planted there by hands unseen, 
 
 Another willow will appear, 
 
 Of pensive form upon the green ; 
 
 To grace the spot, where thou no more 
 
 Shall overarch the hallo w'd shore. 
 
 After Lord Mendip's death, the villa and grounds 
 
DEMOLITION OF POPE'S VILLA. 287 
 
 were sold by auction, some say by the then Lord 
 Chesterfield (on whom the property had been entailed 
 by Sir William Stanhope), "who had little poetry and 
 wanted money ; " or according to others by Lord 
 Mendip's nephew and successor, Viscount Clifden of 
 the Kingdom of Ireland.* Mr. Rogers, the poet, con- 
 templated purchasing it, but was deterred by the 
 report that its classical associations would make its 
 price a very high one. As a fact, the villa did not 
 realize one half of the sum anticipated, and its 
 purchaser was Sir John Briscoe, Bart. On the decease 
 of this gentleman in 1807 ft was again sold, and 
 bought, unfortunately, by the Baroness Howe, the 
 widow of the son of the celebrated admiral. She 
 married a s'econd time, in 1812, Mr. Phipps, (the court 
 oculist, who died blind !) who was subsequently created 
 a baronet and adopted the surname of Waller. Lady 
 Howe's connection with Pope's residence is told in a 
 moment. She razed the house to the ground and blotted 
 out utterly every memorial of the poet. For this act she 
 has been roundly abused by every writer on the subject ; 
 and it is impossible to excuse so bold an act of ruthless 
 vandalism. "It might have been hoped, nay, might it not 
 have been expected, that Pope's house and gardens would 
 have been purchased and held sacred by some kindred 
 character, and that the vaticination which follows would 
 have been fulfilled ! 
 
 Grateful posterity, from age to age, 
 
 With pious hand the ruin shall repair 
 Some good old man, to each enquiring sage, 
 
 Pointing the place, shall cry, the bard lived there." f 
 
 * Pope's Life, by Carruthers, p. 168, note ; and Lysons ii. part ii. p. 784. 
 f " Lady Howe's Villa," in Cooke's Thames Scenery. 
 
288 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Mr. Brewer, in his history of Middlesex, suggests 
 rather coarsely that Lady Howe may have been 
 tempted by the chance of selling the building materials 
 of the old house, which were worth, he estimates, 
 about five and forty pounds ; and he also offers hints, 
 which were made, unhappily, too late, as to the way in 
 which she could have still preserved " the former 
 residence of a poet who is the boast of his country," 
 and constructed a good house for herself at the same 
 time. Another writer elevates her to the rank of 
 " Queen of the Goths," and dwells mournfully upon the 
 little sympathy shown by some of the aristocracy of 
 rank for the aristocracy of genius. The contributor to 
 Fraser, from whose admirable papers we have often 
 quoted, reminds us that Pindar's house was left when 
 Thebes was destroyed because it was Pindar's ; that 
 when the proprietor of Petrarch's house wanted to 
 alter it, the populace interfered to prevent him, but 
 that when this tasteless owner proved furens quid 
 foemina possit, the people of Twickenham came and 
 looked on. But poor Lady Howe did not want to be 
 the proprietor of a public exhibition, her tastes were 
 not poetic, nor was her disposition conservative ; what 
 she did desire was " a commodious family residence," 
 and that she certainly provided for herself. It was 
 formed partly out of a dwelling which had been erected 
 by Hudson, the painter, the scholar and son-in-law 
 of Richardson, who retired to this place after marrying 
 his second wife, a Mrs. Fiennes. 
 
 The hospitality of Lady Howe and her husband is 
 well remembered ; their lawn parties, which were 
 frequently attended by members of the royal family, 
 
SCHEME FOR RESTORING POPE'S VILLA. 289 
 
 occurred almost weekly during the summer months : and 
 on the anniversaries of the ever memorable ist of June, 
 Sir J. Wathen Waller, it is said, was wont to appear 
 decorated with the insignia of his wife's late father-in- 
 law ! On these occasions the Baroness used always to 
 give a silver cup to be rowed for. 
 
 In The Times of January 2 ;th, 1840, Pope's villa, as 
 the new structure was wrongly called, was advertised 
 for sale, and the building materials of the same shortly 
 afterwards. The end of Baroness Howe's house, the 
 site of which was about one hundred yards from 
 Pope's, was that its outside wings were taken down, 
 and its central portion divided into the two houses, 
 of which one was recently inhabited by the late Mr. 
 Thielcke and now by Mr. Stuart, and the other is 
 the residence of Mr. Morley. 
 
 About this time there was some talk of building a 
 house on the then unoccupied site, exactly like Pope's, 
 and of restoring, as far as might be possible, the grotto 
 to its original condition. The scheme was ultimately 
 abandoned,- and a new house was built by Mr. Thomas 
 Young (not however on the site) " neither like Pope's 
 nor any other." Its style might be pronounced 
 as indescribable, but for a laudable attempt made by 
 the author of Rambles by Rivers, who says, "It is a 
 combination of an Elizabethan half-timber house and 
 a Stuart renaissance, with the addition of Dutch and 
 Swiss, Italian and Chinese features, probably designed 
 when its architect was fresh from a diligent study of 
 the paintings in Lord Kingsborough's work on Mexican 
 Antiquities." Some people have suggested more simply 
 that its design was, in the main, copied by the tea 
 
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290 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM, 
 
 merchant who built it, from one of his chests. It is> 
 nevertheless, in spite of these criticisms, a very pleasing 
 object when viewed from the river, and one well known 
 to all city dignitaries who always moor their state 
 barge, the " Maria Wood," in front of its beautiful 
 lawn when they come up the river on festive occasions. 
 Its present occupant is Mr. Aird. 
 
 All, then, that Twickenham has preserved of her 
 greatest resident is, in the church a grave wherein 
 his remains rest (and these, Mr. Howitt would say, 
 mutilated and imperfect) impenetrably sealed up, and 
 all traces of its exact site entirely hidden from view ; 
 two words on a tablet and a date ; and last of all a 
 monument remarkable for the pre-eminent bad taste 
 of its inscription : from this, during the restoration 
 of the church in 1859, the whole of its marble laurel 
 wreath was chipped off bit by bit, by wretches who 
 wanted to possess a piece of " Popes tomb." Outside the 
 church nothing remains but his grotto now despoiled 
 of most of its former adornments. 
 
MR. HUDSON'S HOUSE. 291 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 MR. HUDSON'S HOUSE "THE LAWN-" MR. HICKEY'S MR. 
 LAMING'S EADNOR HOUSE CROSS DEEP HOUSE "STRAW- 
 BERRY HILL : " FORMER RESIDENTS HORACE WALPOLE 
 "OPINIONS CONCERNING THE EDIFICE S_KETCH OF WALPOLE*3 
 EARLY LIFE His CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AT TWICKENHAM THE 
 " STRAWBERRY HILL " PRESS AND ITS PUBLICATIONS WALPOLE'S 
 RANK AS A LITERARY MAN THE " CASTLE OF OTRANTO" AND 
 OTHER WORKS " THE PARISH REGISTER OF TWICKENHAM " 
 Uj[S RELATIONS wmTCHATTERTON CLOSE OF WALPOLE'S LIFE 
 " EARL OF ORFORD" His APPEARANCE, HABITS, AND DIS- 
 POSITION His OWN PICTURE OF HIMSELF THE ART COLLECTION 
 
 MADE BY HlM AT STRAWBERRY HlLL THE SALE, 1842 THE 
 
 PRESENT HOUSE, IMPROVED BY THE COUNTESS OF WALDEGRAVE. 
 
 NEAR Pope's villa was a house built by Mr. Thomas 
 Hudson, a portrait painter of some celebrity who was 
 born in Devonshire in 1701. He visited Rome in 
 1752 in company with Roubilliac, the sculptor. His 
 pictures are in Kneller's style but of inferior excellence. 
 Amongst his pupils he included Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
 Mortimer, and Wright of Derby. Hudson is said 
 to have painted the only portrait of Handel ever taken ; 
 the picture is now in the National Portrait Gallery. 
 " In this house," says Ironside, " was a small but 
 valuable collection of pictures and drawings ; of the 
 latter were several out of the great Arundel collection, 
 
292 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 and the greater part from the valuable and celebrated 
 volumes of Father Resta, in the library of Lord 
 Chancellor Somers, after whose death they were dis- 
 persed, and many of them purchased by Mr. Richard- 
 son, the painter, whose pupil Mr. Hudson was, and 
 whose daughter he married, and from whom he came 
 into possession of them." On Mr. Hudson's death, in 
 1779, the collection was sold by public auction ; and the 
 house became the property of his nephew and heir, 
 Mr. John May. 
 
 This house was absorbed into her own premises by 
 Baroness Howe at the time she destroyed Pope's villa. 
 Mr. May lived in a small house, which also belonged 
 to him, on the opposite side of the way ; it had been 
 previously in the occupation of Mrs. Lewin and of 
 Captain Robert Carr ; he was in the service of the East 
 India Company, brother to the two clergymen of that 
 name living in Twickenham at that time, and son of 
 Mr. Robert Carr, who had been for thirty years curate 
 of the parish. 
 
 THE LAWN. In the garden of the new house 
 called the " Lawn," the residence of Captain Tumour, 
 are remains of a structure used by Pope as a wine 
 cellar, the grounds having been originally part of the 
 poet's estate. 
 
 On the site of the newly built house, now the 
 residence of Mr. Childs, stood the residence of Mr. 
 Joseph Hickey, an attorney of considerable eminence, 
 but of whom Horace Walpole spoke with little respect 
 as " Mr. H. the impudent lawyer that Tom Hervey 
 
RADNOR HOUSE. 293 
 
 wrote against." Goldsmith, however, in his poem 
 Retaliation, describing the feast to which " each guest 
 brought himself/' introduces Hickey as " the Capon," 
 and further mentions him as " a most blunt pleasant 
 creature," and adds 
 
 . . that slander itself must allow him good nature. 
 He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'd a bumper 
 Yet one fault he had and that one was a thumper, 
 And what was his failing ? Come tell it and bum ye, 
 He was, could he help it? a special attorney. 
 
 Ironside says that Hickey built his house himself, 
 and he is probably right ; others that Scott the painter 
 built it. It was subsequently the residence of Miss 
 H olden, and of Mr. William Baker. . 
 
 Next to this is an old house now occupied by 
 Mr. Laming in which once lived Mrs. Gostling, the 
 relict of Mr. George Gostling, a proctor in Doctors' 
 Commons. " This house" says Ironside (and the rate 
 books bear out his statement), "was built by Scott the 
 celebrated painter of landscape and shipping." It was 
 subsequently the residence of Mr. Francis Lind. 
 
 RADNOR HOUSE. Further on is Radnor House, so 
 called from its having been the residence of John, the 
 last Earl of Radnor, of the Robartes family. After him 
 followed John Atherton Hindley, Esq., one of the deputy 
 tellers of the Exchequer, under the Earl of Maccles- 
 field ; Sir Francis Basset, Bart, succeeded. The 
 Ladies Murray subsequently occupied it, and after 
 them Mr. Charles Marsh, F.A.S., a gentleman of 
 literary tastes, who possessed a valuable library con- 
 
294 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 taining many rare works in black letter : he was an 
 original Life-governor of the British Institution, and 
 was the writer of an Essay on the " Barbarini Vase." He 
 left Radnor House to his nephew the Rev. Thomas 
 Vialls, then curate of Teddington, who next resided in 
 it. On his death the property was sold, first to 
 Mr. J. I. Briscoe, and then to Lord Kilmorey, from 
 whom it was purchased by the late Mr. Chillingworth, 
 whose son-in-law Mr. Stearns now possesses it. The old 
 house has in recent times been much modernized. It 
 was during the Earl of Radnor's residence here that 
 Pope first met Warburton, in 1740, in the gardens 
 of this house. 
 
 CROSS-DEEP HOUSE. " On the opposite side of 
 the way is a neat and convenient family house," 
 which belonged to Mr. Stafford Briscoe, " the 
 gardens of which, as well as a beautiful little lawn 
 to the river, have ever," says Ironside, "been 
 noticed for their remarkable neatness and the 
 taste in which they are laid out." There was on 
 the lawn " a neat Gothic summer-house," which com- 
 manded an extensive and pleasing prospect. This 
 gentleman's nephew, Mr. John Briscoe, succeeded, 
 and after his decease it descended to his son, the late 
 Mr. John Ivatt Briscoe, M.P. for West Surrey. For 
 some years since it has been in the occupation of 
 Mr. C. J. Freake, who only vacated it last year. Its 
 present occupant is Mr. W. Vernon Harcourt, M.P. 
 
 STRAWBERRY HILL. Just at the corner of the 
 Upper Road to Teddington is Strawberry Hill, 
 
STRA WBERR Y HILL. 295 
 
 the celebrated villa of Horace Walpole (afterwards 
 Earl of Orford). The house stands on a piece 
 of ground called in old writings Strawberry Hill 
 Shot, and was originally a small tenement, built 
 in 1698 by the Earl of Bradford's coachman, and 
 let as a lodging-house. This cottage was called by 
 the common people Chopped-straw Hall, " they 
 supposing that by feeding his lord's horses with 
 chopped straw he had saved money enough to build 
 his house." Colley "Gibber was one of its first tenants, 
 when he was in attendance for acting at Hampton 
 Court, and wrote in it a comedy called, 7^he Refusal ; 
 or, the Ladys Philosophy. The beauty of the situation 
 attracted many individuals of wealth and rank to take 
 it as a summer residence. Dr. Talbot, Bishop of 
 Durham, lived in it eight years. He had the reputation 
 of keeping a good table, a fact which surprised 
 Horace Walpole when he became acquainted with 
 the size of the original kitchen. The next occupant 
 was Henry Bridges, Marquis of Carnarvon, son of 
 James, Duke of Chandos, to which title he subse- 
 quently succeeded. It was then hired by Mrs. 
 Chenevix, the noted toy-woman, with whom lodged 
 for a time Pere Courayer, the celebrated French 
 divine. She, on her husband's decease, let it to 
 Lord John Philip Sackville, second son of Lionel, 
 Duke of Dorset, who kept it about two years. In May, 
 1747, Horace Walpole took the remainder of Mrs. 
 Chenevix's lease, and the next year purchased the fee- 
 simple by act of parliament, it being then the property 
 of three minors of the name of Mortimer. Walpole, 
 in a letter to Mr. (afterwards Marshal) Conway, gives 
 
296 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the following description of the place about the time of 
 his first taking possession of it. 
 
 Twickenham, June 8, 1747. You perceive by my date that 1 
 am got into a new camp, and have left my tub at Windsor. It is a 
 little plaything house that I got out of Mrs. Chenevix's shop, and is 
 the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, 
 with phillagree hedges, 
 
 A small Euphrates through the place is roll'd, 
 And little fishes wave their wings in gold. 
 
 Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply me continually 
 with coaches and chaises : barges as solemn as barons of the 
 Exchequer move under my window. Richmond-hill and Ham walks 
 bound my prospects ; but, thank God, the Thames is between me 
 and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders 
 inhabit all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my 
 window by a most poetical moonlight. The Chenevixes had tricked 
 the cottage up for themselves. Up two pair of stairs is what they 
 call Mr. Chenevix's library, furnished with three maps, one shelf, a 
 bust of Sir Isaac Newton, and a lunar telescope without any glasses. 
 Lord John SackYiUe/r#&2Xf/me here, and instituted certain games 
 called cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in 
 honour of him in a neighbouring meadow. 
 
 Along with the house and some other tenements 
 was a small one occupied at the time of Walpole's 
 purchasing the estate by Richard Franklin, printer of 
 the Craftsman, who had been taken up for printing 
 that paper during the administration of Sir Robert 
 Walpole. It is remarkable not only that the printer of 
 much abuse of the father should be tenant of the son, 
 but that the author of the abuse, William Pulteney, 
 Earl of Bath, should write an ode in praise of the son's 
 residence. The well-known panegyric commences 
 
 thus : 
 
 Some cry up Gunnersbury, 
 For Syon some declare ; 
 And some say that with Chiswick-house 
 No villa can compare : 
 
STRA WBERR Y HILL. 297 
 
 But ask the beaux of Middlesex, 
 
 Who know the country well, 
 If Strawb'ry hill, if Strawb'ry hill 
 
 Don't bear away the bell ? 
 
 It consists of five stanzas, of which only the first 
 and third were the work of the original author, 
 Walpole modestly supplying the remaining ones 
 himself. At the time of its purchase only five 
 acres of ground belonged to the house " land 
 enough," says its owner, " to keep such a farm as 
 Noah's, when he set up in the ark with a pair of 
 each kind," - the rest was obtained subsequently. 
 Walpole conceived the idea of enlarging his cottage, 
 and, being impressed with the general disuse of 
 Gothic architecture, which caused him to fear that 
 its existence would be limited soon to prints only, 
 he determined to adopt that style, and prove, if 
 he could, its adaptability to domestic buildings and 
 their decorations. " The Castle," as^ he called it, 
 " was not entirely built from the ground, but formed at 
 different times, by alterations of, and additions to, the 
 old small house. The library and refectory, or great 
 parlour, were entirely new-built in 1753; the gallery, 
 round tower, great cloister, and cabinet, in 1760 and 
 176:1: ; the great north bed-chamber in 1770; and the 
 Beauclerk tower with the hexagon closet in 1776." 
 The result attained has been variously appreciated ; 
 to some critics it has appeared as " possessing the 
 genuine appearance of former times without the 
 decay ; " they have approved, together with its 
 possessor, " the choice selection of the best specimens 
 of what is called Gothic architecture," and the happy 
 
298 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 appropriation of the internal decoration and furniture 
 to its external form. They have praised " the embowed 
 roof, the stoned windows, and the dim religious light, 
 contrived with minute attention to the character of the 
 place," and the beauty which it possessed from the 
 uniformity and co-operation of its design.* Others 
 have not hesitated, with the unavoidable injustice 6F~ 
 most strong and one-sided expressions, to stigmatize it 
 as " the most trumpery piece of ginger-bread Gothic 
 ever constructed ^ as a whole, monstrous ; in detail, in- 
 correct ; " or to speak of it as " a rickety miserable 
 oyster-grotto-like profanation," and to say that a place 
 more intrinsically paltry never existed ; urging that 
 whilst classic styles admit of application equally to 
 buildings great and small, the Gothic needs breadth 
 and amplitude, and that " the attempt to illustrate its 
 beauties in lath and plaster at Strawberry Hill has 
 produced only a very ugly incommodious structure, 
 destitute of either beauty or sublimity." t It may 
 readily be admitted that of all styles of architecture 
 the Gothic is the least domestic in character, that the 
 design of a tomb adapted as a mantelpiece is an 
 incongruity and a solecism in artistic taste ; but yet 
 the details, whether quite accurate or not here and 
 there, must speak for themselves, and to Horace 
 Walpole must be accredited, in spite of many bastard 
 imitations sufficiently contemptible, the revival of the 
 style which has in the present day, under more" 
 intelligent masters than he, produced such admirabl 
 results. It has been well said, " the pleasure in seeing 
 
 . * Cooke's Scenes on the Thames. 
 
 Murray's Picturesque Tour of the Thames, pp. 132, 133. 
 
STRA WBERR Y HILL. 299 
 
 Strawberry Hill supersedes censure, and criticism 
 wishes to be deceived." 
 
 To fill this house with " knick-knacks," as his collec- 
 
 ^ M<Mi " IMRIIII> *MM*MMaW"' M ** IIIB t 
 
 tion is generally designated, Walpole, from his fortieth 
 year, devoted the remainder of his life. 
 
 "In his villa," says Lord Macaulay, "every apartment is a 
 museum ; every piece of furniture is a curiosity ; there is something 
 strange in the form of the shovel ; there is a long story belonging to 
 the bell-rope. We wander among a profusion of rarities, of trifling 
 intrinsic value, but so quaint in fashion, or connected with such 
 remarkable names and events that they may well detain our attention 
 for a moment. A moment is enough. Some new relic, some new 
 unique, some new carved work, some new enamel is forthcoming in 
 an instant. One cabinet of trinkets is no sooner closed than another 
 is opened." 
 
 His early career may be briefly described. He 
 was born in 1717, the third son of Sir Robert 
 Walpole, by his first wife, the daughter of John Shorter, 
 Esq., who had been arbitrarily appointed Lord Mayor 
 of London by the special favour of King James II. 
 His school days were passed at Eton (where his 
 friendship with Gray commenced), whence he proceeded 
 to King's College, Cambridge. In the summer of 1738 
 he was appointed Inspector-general of Imports and 
 Exports, which post he soon afterwards exchanged for 
 the sinecure office of Usher of the Exchequer, at a salary 
 of 3,ooo/. per annum ; other posts followed, thanks to 
 the interest of his father, amounting to the aggregate 
 annual income of i7,ooo/. He left England to travel 
 with Gray in March, 1739 : on their return, at Reggio, 
 on their route from Florence to Venice, there occurred 
 a dispute, the blame of which Walpole assumed. It 
 " arose," he says, " from (Gray's) being too serious a 
 
300 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 companion .... Gray was for antiquities, I was for 
 perpetual balls and plays : the fault was mine." Owing 
 to this circumstance, however, Gray did not obtain 
 either a pension or an office from Sir Robert 
 Walpole. 
 
 On his return Horace Walpole was elected M.P. 
 for Callington, in Cornwall. He ably defended his 
 father when a committee of secrecy was agitated to 
 examine the conduct of the minister, and for his speech 
 on that occasion he had the honour of being complimented 
 by Pitt. He was afterwards a silent member, exerting 
 himself little, except in the cause of the unfortunate 
 Admiral Byng. He sat for Castle Rising, in Norfolk, 
 in 1747, and for King's Lynn in 1754 and 1761. His 
 Counter Address to the Public on the late Dismission of 
 a General Officer (Marshal Con way) appeared in 1 764. 
 In 1767 he communicated to the Mayor of Lynn his 
 intention of abandoning parliamentary life. 
 
 In 1749 he had a narrow escape of being shot by 
 a highwayman named Maclean, whose pistol went 
 off by accident before aim had been taken. He 
 wrote an amusing account of the adventure in The 
 World. 
 
 Walpole gathered round him at Twickenham a select 
 social circle, of which he may be in some senses con- 
 sidered the centre. Among his friends may be 
 mentioned Garrick, Paul Whitehead, Admiral Byron, 
 Hudson, Mrs. Pritchard, Kitty Clive, the two Miss 
 Berrys, Ladies Suffolk and Diana Beauclerk, the 
 Marquise du Deffand, Conway, Gray, with whom he 
 renewed acquaintance in 1 744 - - George Selwyn, 
 Richard Bentley, Lords Edgecombe and Strafford, 
 
WALPOLES PRINTING PRESS. 
 
 301 
 
 and Sir Horace Mann. He was visited by the Abbe 
 Raynal, and several Frenchmen of rank. Of some of 
 these latter an amusing tale is told. They were over- 
 heard to object to the scene from Strawberry Hill 
 windows as being " flat ; " and added that " everything 
 in England only served to recommend France the 
 more." Mr. Churchill, who caught the remark, observed 
 that "the Cherokees, when in England, could eat nothing 
 but train oil." 
 
 In 1757 Walpole set up a printing press in the 
 grounds of Strawberry Hill. The first printer employed 
 was William Robinson, the last, Mr. Kirgate. Its 
 first productions were two odes by Gray, of which 
 i, ioo copies were printed in quarto. The rest of the 
 books printed at this press are as follows : 
 
 A Translation of a part of 
 
 Heutzner's Travels Small 8vo. 1757. 220 copies. 
 
 Royal and Noble Authors. 2 
 
 vols ,, 1758. 300 
 
 Walpole's Fugitive Pieces 1758. 200 
 
 Whit worth's Account of Russia ,, 1758. 700 
 Spence's Parallel of Maglia- 
 
 bechi and Hill 1758. 700 
 
 Bentley's Lucan Quarto. 1759. 500 
 
 Anecdotes of Painting, 3 vois., 
 
 and i vol. of Engravers. Small 4to. 1761. 600 
 
 A Second Edition of the same. 1765. 600 
 
 Lord Herbert's Life 1764. 200 
 
 Lady Temple's Poems Quarto. 1764. ioo 
 
 Cornelie, Tragedie de Henaut. Small 8vo. 1768. 200 
 
 ( 1 50 copies went to Paris). 
 The Mysterious Mother. 
 
 A Tragedy 1768. 50 
 
 Hoyland's Poems 1769. 300 
 
 Memoires de Grammont ,, 1771- ioo 
 
 (30 copies went to Paris.) 
 
302 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Letters of Edward VI Small 4to. 1771. 200 copies. 
 
 Miscellaneous Antiquities. 
 
 2 numbers 1772. 500 
 
 Description of Strawberry 
 
 Hill 1774- ioo 
 
 (6 on large paper). 
 Mr. Fitzpatrick's Dorinda, 
 
 and Mr. Charles Fox's 
 
 Verses to Mrs. Crewe 1775. 3 
 
 The Sleep-Walker. A Comedy. 
 
 By Lady Craven Small 8vo. 1778. 75 
 
 Letter to the Editor of 
 
 Chatterton's Miscellanies Octavo. 1779. 20 
 Mr. Charles Miller's Verses to 
 
 Lady Horatia Walde- 
 
 grave Small 4to. 1780. 150 
 
 Fourth Volume of the Anec- 
 dotes of Painting 1780. 600 
 
 (Printed in 1770, but not 
 
 published till October, 
 
 1780). 
 Mr. Jones's Ode on. Lord 
 
 Althorp's Marriage 1781. 250 
 
 Letter from the Hon. Thomas 
 
 Walpole 1781. 120 
 
 Description of Strawberry Hill. Royal 4to. 1784. 200 
 
 Mr. Miller's, Mr. Fitzpatrick's, and Mr. Fox's 
 verses, Hoyland's Poems, and Mr. T. Walpole's 
 Letter, were only loose sheets or small tracts.'* 
 
 These " Strawberry Hill" editions are now scarce, 
 and command high prices. Walpole's earliest work 
 was published as early as 1747; its title was sEdes 
 Walpoliana, a description of his father's house at 
 Hough ton, which contained a valuable art-collection, 
 
 * Walpole's Works, vol. ii. pp. 515, 516. Another list, (Walpoliana ii. 
 Appendix i. pp. 163, 164) adds, A translation of the Duke de Nivernois' Essay on 
 Gardening ; 1785, 400 copies (200 to Paris). 
 
WALPOLE AS AN AUTHOR. 303 
 
 that the nation should have preserved, but failed to 
 do so. It is difficult to assign justly Horace Walpole's 
 rank as a literary man. " The original parts of his 
 works which fill five quarto volumes would not 
 confer any distinguished celebrity upon an author who 
 had not something besides his knowledge and his 
 talents to distinguish him. His poetry has no flights ; 
 and, except in an occasional passage in his tragedy of 
 The Mysterious Mother, does not rise beyond common 
 thought and expression, regular measure, and chaste 
 mediocrity. His Castle of Otranto was gleaned from 
 that kind of reading of which he may be supposed to 
 have been fond, and with which he was familiar ; but 
 what better character of it can be given than that it was 
 calculated to be popular among the frequenters of 
 circulating libraries, and that it became a stock book 
 in those repositories of literary entertainment ? " * 
 Sir Walter Scott, nevertheless, says that "it is remark- 
 able not only for the wild interest of its story, but as 
 the first modern attempt to found a tale of amusing 
 fiction upon the basis of the ancient romances of 
 chivalry." He regards it "as not only the original 
 and model of a peculiar species of composition attempted 
 and successfully executed by a man of great genius, 
 but as one of the standard works of our higher litera- 
 ture," and demands for the author of the Castle of 
 Otranto the applause due to chastity of style and to 
 him who can excite the passions of fear and pity. The 
 writer himself gives, in a letter to the Rev. William 
 Cole, an interesting account of the origin of the 
 story. 
 
 * Cooke's Thames Scenery, " Strawberry Hill." 
 
304 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, 
 of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an 
 ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine) and 
 that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic 
 hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write 
 without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The 
 work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. In short, I was so 
 engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, 
 that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six 
 o'clock, till half-an-hour after one in the morning, when my hand and 
 fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the 
 sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella in the middle of a paragraph. 
 
 Mr. Cole expressed in return the pleasure and 
 entertainment which the book afforded him. Its effect 
 upon " idle literature was precisely analogous to that 
 which Strawberry Hill produced upon the pleasure 
 
 houses of the day It founded a new romance 
 
 school in which Mrs. Radcliffewas the most distinguished 
 artist. It completed the Gothic renaissance." "* 
 
 Walpole's papers in The World and other similar 
 productions are the works of a man of cultivated mind 
 and general knowledge, but without any claim to 
 pre-eminence of thought or beauty of style. The Lives of 
 Painters and Engravers is the best of his publications. 
 His Memoirs lose their value from their one-sided 
 character : every sketch is tainted with current scandal, 
 and exhibits his own political bias. Not content with 
 stating facts, he insists upon supplying motives which 
 are usually interested and unworthy. His fame, how- 
 ever, rests mainly upon his famous Letters. Miss 
 Berry declares them to possess all the charm and 
 grace of those of Madame Sevigne. He was, as it 
 would seem, made out of the clay which 
 
 Dame Nature meant some French madame should be. 
 * Fraser's Magazine, July, 1860, p. 97. / 
 
THE PARISH REGISTERS 305 
 
 u He loved letter-writing," says Lord Macaulay, who 
 ranks his Letters above all his other works, " and had 
 evidently studied it as an art. It was, in truth, the very 
 kind of writing for such a man, for a man very ambitious 
 to rank among wits, yet nervously afraid that, while 
 obtaining the reputation of a wit, he might lose caste as 
 a gentleman." 
 
 Some verses of Walpole's, called The Parish 
 Register of Twickenham, written in or about the year 
 1758, concisely commemorate some of the principal 
 residents of the parish ; from any account of whom 
 they cannot be omitted : 
 
 Where Silver Thames round Twit'nam meads 
 
 His winding current sweetly leads ; 
 
 Twit'nam, the Muses' fav'rite seat, 
 
 Twit'nam, the Graces' lov'd retreat ; 
 
 There polished Essex* went to sport, 
 
 The pride and victim of a court ! 
 
 There Bacon tuned the grateful lyre 
 
 To soothe Eliza's haughty ire. 
 
 Ah, happy had no meaner strain 
 
 Than friendship's dashed his mighty vein ! 
 
 Twit'nam, where Hyde,t majestic sage, 
 
 Retir'd from folly's frantic stage, 
 
 While his vast soul was hung on tenters, 
 
 To mend the world and vex dissenters ; 
 
 Twit'nam, where frolic Wharton \ revel'd, 
 
 Where Montagu, with lock dishevel'd 
 
 (Conflict of dirt and warmth divine), 
 
 Invok'd and scandaliz'd the Nine : 
 
 Where Pope in moral music spoke, 
 
 To th' anguish'd soul of Bolingbroke, 
 
 And whisper'd, how true genius errs, 
 
 Preferring joys that power confers ; 
 
 * Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. 
 
 f Lord Clarendon. 
 
 t The Duke of Wharton. 
 
 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 
 
 20 
 
306 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Bliss never to great minds arising 
 
 From ruling worlds, but from despising : 
 
 Where Fielding * met his bunter Muse 
 
 And, as they quaff'd the fiery juice, 
 
 Droll Nature stamp'd each lucky hit 
 
 With unimaginable wit : 
 
 Where Suffolk t sought the peaceful scene, 
 
 Resigning Richmond to the Queen, 
 
 And all the glory, all the teasing, 
 
 Of pleasing one,J not worth the pleasing ; 
 
 Where Fanny, "ever blooming fair," 
 
 Ejaculates the graceful pray'r, 
 
 And, scap'd from sense, with nonsense smit 
 
 For Whitfield's cant leaves Stanhope's || wit : 
 
 Amid this choir of sounding names 
 
 Of statesmen, bards, and beauteous dames, 
 
 Shall the last trifler of the throng 
 
 Enroll his own such names among ? 
 
 Oh ! no, enough if I consign 
 
 To lasting type their notes divine : 
 
 Enough if Strawberry's humble-hill 
 
 The title page of fame shall fill. 
 
 To this he added, in 1784 a complimentary 
 " postcript " introducing Lady Diana Beauclerk. 
 
 Here genius in a later hour 
 
 Selected its sequester'd bower, 
 
 And threw around the verdant room 
 
 The blushing lilac's chill perfume. 
 
 So loose is flung each bold festoon 
 
 Each bough so breathes the touch of noon 
 
 The happy pencil so deceives, 
 
 That Flora doubly jealous cries 
 
 " The work's not mine yet, trust these eyes, 
 
 'Tis my own Zephyr waves the leaves." 
 
 One thing Horace Walpole was not, and never 
 
 * Henry Fielding. 
 
 f Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk. 
 
 i George II. 
 
 Lady Fanny Shirley. 
 
 || Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. 
 
WALPOLE' S CONDUCT TO CHATTRRTON. 307 
 
 pretended to be a patron of men of letters. Apart 
 from his own predilections, had they turned in this 
 direction, his income, which was not more than 5,ooo/. 
 per annum after his retirement from public life, would 
 have decided the question. He has been blamed in 
 regard of his conduct towards Chatterton, the ill-fated 
 but " marvellous boy " who came from a provincial 
 attorney's office to London to starve, and ultimately to 
 die by his own hand. He appealed in his penury to 
 Walpole, who turned a deaf ear to his case. Walpole 
 is said to have started for the continent with the young 
 poet's compositions in his possession, to have neglected 
 his request for their return, and to have repudiated his 
 complaint of such conduct as an insolent piece of pre- 
 sumption. Chatterton had mistaken the character of 
 the man whom he desired to make his patron. Walpole, 
 however, cannot be charged with the sad issue of what 
 may be considered his neglect, for the looseness of the 
 youth's life, as well as the wildness of his genius led 
 equally, as Miss Hawkins justly observes, to the 
 lamentable catastrophe. " I am confident," she adds, 
 " had he asked Mr. Walpole for twenty pounds, and 
 only shown what he could do, he might have obtained 
 it." Walpole mentions a kind letter of advice which 
 he wrote to the unhappy lad as having been suppressed 
 wilfully by his traducers in this matter. 
 
 A few words will conclude our notice of Walpole's 
 career. A painful incident in his domestic life was the 
 discovery of the body of his man-servant, who had been 
 missing for some days, hung on a tree in the grounds 
 near the chapel. The man had committed suicide after 
 a petty robbery of one or two spoons and forks. 
 
3 o8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 In 1791, his 73rd year, he became, by the death of 
 his nephew, Earl of Orford, which added 3,8oo/. to his 
 income, but also many fresh sources of expenditure. 
 He never took his seat in the house of peers. The 
 French Revolution, which he cordially hated, a new 
 title which was tiresome to him, and his old enemy the 
 gout, made him irritable and uncongenial towards his 
 servants and friends. He himself has commemorated 
 his accession to the title in a few lines called an 
 ^Epitaphium vivi Auctoris,,^.^ dated 1792. 
 
 An estate and an earldom at seventy-four ! 
 
 Had I sought them or wished them, 't would add one fear more, 
 
 That of making a countess when almost four-score. 
 
 But Fortune who scatters her gifts out of season, 
 
 Though unkind to my limbs, has still left me my reason ; 
 
 And whether she lowers or lifts me, I'll try 
 
 In the plain simple style I have lived in, to die : 
 
 For ambition too humble, for meanness too high. 
 
 He died at his house in Berkeley Square on the 2nd 
 of March, 1797, in his eightieth year, and was buried at 
 the family seat of Houghton. In him terminated Sir 
 Robert Walpole's male descent. He bequeathed 
 about ioo,ooo/. in various ways, but none of it to men 
 of letters. The portraits of him render his personal 
 appearance generally familiar. His figure, says Miss 
 Hawkins, describing him as he appeared before 1772, 
 "was not merely tall, but more properly, long and 
 slender to excess ; his complexion, and particularly his 
 hands, of a most unhealthy paleness ... His eyes 
 were remarkably bright and penetrating, very dark 
 and lively ; his voice was not strong, but his tones 
 were extremely pleasant, and, if I may so say, highly 
 gentlemanly. I clo not remember his common gait ; 
 
WALPOLES PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 309 
 
 he always entered a room in that style of affected 
 delicacy which fashion had made almost natural ; 
 chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to 
 compress it under his arm, knees bent and feet on 
 tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor ! His dress in visiting 
 was most usually, in summer, when I most saw him, 
 a lavender suit, the waistcoat embroidered with a little 
 silver, or of white silk worked in the tambour ; 
 partridge silk stockings, and gold buckles ; ruffles 
 and frill generally lace ! I remember when a child 
 thinking him very much undressed if at any time, 
 except in mourning, he wore hemmed cambric. In 
 summer no powder, but his wig combed straight, and 
 showing his very smooth pale forehead, and queued 
 behind ; in winter powder." 
 
 Though of weak frame he was singularly free from 
 susceptibility to cold. He would walk in his garden late 
 on a cheerless November afternoon in spite of the mists 
 from the river, so prevalent in Twickenham, with 
 uncovered head and feet in slippers. To his friends' 
 solicitude on this subject he would always reply, " My 
 head is the same as my face, and my neck is like my 
 nose." He was always accompanied in his walks by 
 his favourite little pet dog, a legacy to him from the 
 Marquise du Deffand. He was frugal in his habits. 
 His tendency to gout made him compulsorily 
 abstemious. When alone he used to have dinner 
 served in the small parlour : " he ate mostly of chicken, 
 pheasant, or any light food. Pastry he disliked as 
 difficult of digestion, though he would taste a morsel 
 of venison pie. Never but once, when he drank two 
 glasses of white wine, did the editor (of Walpoliana) 
 
310 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 see him taste any liquid, except ice-water. A pail 
 of ice was placed under his table, in which stood a 
 decanter of water from which he supplied himself with 
 his favourite beverage." Immediately after dinner he 
 rang for coffee, which was the last refreshment he par- 
 took of in the day ; except occasional pinches from his 
 box of tabac d'etrennes, from Fribourg's, " a canister 
 of which lodged in a marble urn of great thickness 
 which stood in the window-seat, and served to secure 
 its moisture and rich flavour." He would sit up till 
 one or two in the morning, passing the evening in 
 continued and vivacious conversation. His breakfast 
 hour was nine o'clock ; for this meal he always had 
 an appetite, and it was his habit to share its delicacies 
 with his dog and squirrel. His hospitality was 
 unbounded. He used to say he kept an inn " The 
 Gothic Castle " and he playfully advises a friend, 
 " never to build a charming house between London 
 and Hampton Court, for every one will live in it except 
 himself!' 
 
 Miss Hawkins, speaking of his religious sentiments, 
 defends him from the charge of Atheism by proving 
 him a Deist. He was early inured to flattery, and to 
 all the indulgences of high rank and large fortune, of 
 which he continued to expect the enjoyment until the 
 end of a long life. Burke, comparing their relative 
 positions and pursuits, called him and very justly 
 " an elegant trifler." The home he built for himself 
 mirrors his mind, " in which there was nothing great, 
 at the same time that it was plentifully stored with 
 elegant knowledge and gifted with the power of com- 
 municating it in a manner of superior polish and 
 
CHARACTER OF WALPOLE. 311 
 
 amusement." His conversational powers were great 
 and attractive, obtaining even the praise of Dr. Johnson, 
 a man whom he thoroughly disliked. Mr. Roscoe, 
 writing to Miss Berry in 1810, notices " instances of 
 a kind and beneficent disposition, ... an enlarged 
 and impartial solicitude for the good of others, with- 
 out the least affectation or pretence." \ Such praise, 
 however, is more extravagant than truthful : no doubt 
 there were many excellent points in his character 
 there are such in most men's but underlying and 
 spoiling all was a coldness and an insensibility, 
 a narrowness of sympathy and sentiment, which 
 betrayed the man's inherent weakness. " In every- 
 thing in which Walpole busied himself," writes Lord 
 Macaulay, " in the fine arts, in literature, in public 
 affairs, he was drawn by some strange attraction from 
 the great to the little and from the useful to the odd. 
 The politics in which he took the keenest interests 
 were politics scarcely deserving of the name. The 
 growlings of George the Second, the flirtations of 
 Princess Emily with the Duke of Grafton, the amours 
 of Prince Frederic and Lady Middlesex, the squabbles 
 between Gold Stick in waiting and the Master of the 
 Buckhounds, the disagreements between the tutors of 
 Prince George, these matters engaged almost all the 
 attention which Walpole could spare from matters 
 more important still, from bidding for Zinckes and 
 Petitots, from cheapening fragments of tapestry and 
 handles of old lances, from joining bits of painted glass 
 and from setting up memorials of departed cats and 
 
 * Cooke's Thames, "Strawberry Hill." 
 
 f Miss Berry's Memoirs and Correspondence, ii. p. 431. 
 
312 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 dogs. While he was fetching and carrying the gossip 
 of Kensington Palace and Carl ton House he fancied 
 that he was engaged in politics, and when he recorded 
 that gossip, he fancied that he was writing history." 
 
 , Nearly at his life's end he sketches himself in a 
 way which makes Miss Hawkins confess that his words 
 are not those " of a man who knew how to ' commune 
 with his own heart/ nor of one who was often at home 
 to the visits of 'cherub contemplation/' "I have 
 time," he writes, " for nothing I like ; I have always 
 lived post, and shall now die before I can bait; yet it 
 is not my wish to be unemployed, could I but choose 
 my occupations. My life has been passed in turbulent 
 scenes, in pleasures, or rather pastimes, and in much 
 fashionable dissipation. Still, books, antiquity and 
 virtu kept hold of a corner of my heart ; and since 
 necessity has forced me of late years to be a man of 
 business, my disposition tends to be a recluse for what 
 remains ; but it will not be my lot ; and though there 
 is some excuse for the young doing what they like, I 
 doubt an old man should do nothing but what he 
 ought, and I hope doing one's duty is the best pre- 
 paration for death. Sitting with one's arms folded to 
 think about it is a very lazy way of preparing for it. 
 One may avoid active guilt in a sequestered life but 
 the virtue, of it is merely negative, though innocence is 
 beautiful." 
 
 It is impossible to dismiss the consideration of 
 Strawberry Hill, without some remarks, as short as can 
 C3nsistently be, upon its contents. It will be best to 
 follow the lead of Mr. Lysons, (who was the Earl's 
 chaplain), and to refer those who desire fuller par- 
 
THE HOUSE AND ITS TREASURES. 313 
 
 ticulars to Walpole's own 1 1 3 pages, quarto, in the 
 second volume of his collected works, or to Mr. 
 Robins's catalogue compiled for the sale of the 
 collection, which took place in 1842. 
 
 The entrance to the house has been considerably 
 altered ; originally, after entering by the North gate 
 into the grounds, the first noticeable object was an 
 oratory wherein were vessels for holy water and an 
 enshrined saint : an iron screen, copied from the tomb 
 in Old St. Paul's, of Roger Niger, Bishop of London, 
 parted off the prior's garden on the right ; and on the 
 left, before the entrance of the house was reached, a 
 small cloister had to be passed, in which were two 
 objects of interest ; the first, a bas-relief* in marble of 
 the Princess Leonora D'Este " Dia Helionora," 
 with whom Tasso was in love ; and the second, the 
 blue and white china tub in which Walpole's cat was 
 drowned. To the pedestal on which it stood was 
 affixed the first stanza of Gray's beautiful ode on the 
 occasion. The embattled wall reaching tp the road 
 was copied from a print of Aston House in Warwick- 
 shire in Dugdale's History of that county. 
 
 The Hall, formerly, was small and lighted only by 
 two narrow windows ; it was connected with the stair- 
 case, in the well of which depended a Gothic lantern. 
 This latter, and also the balustrade, which is decorated 
 by an antelope (one of Lord Orford's supporters) at 
 every corner, were designed by Richard Bentley, the 
 only son of the learned Doctor Bentley, Master of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 Leading out of the entrance hall is the Refectory or 
 Great Parlour, " hung," says Horace Walpole, "with 
 
3 i4 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 paper in imitation of stucco / " It contained several 
 portraits of members of the family, most of which are 
 still at Strawberry Hill, although differently placed. 
 Amongst them may be mentioned Sir Robert Walpole, 
 his two wives, and three sons : an early production of 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds' called " A Conversation" repre- 
 senting George Selwyn, Lord Edgcombe and G. I. 
 Williams, very intimate friends of Walpole's : and the 
 three beauties the ladies Laura, Maria, and Horatia 
 Waldegrave, by the same eminent master. For this 
 latter picture Walpole is said to have given 800 guineas, 
 at the sale it realized only 577/. ics. 
 
 In the Waiting-room was a bust of Colley Gibber, 
 coloured aftec life, and considered a good likeness. It 
 was formerly the property of Mrs. Clive, an4 was given 
 to Lord Orford by her brother Mr. Raitor. There 
 was also a head of John Dryden the poet, who was 
 great uncle to Catherine Shorter, Horace Walpole's 
 mother. 
 
 The contents of " the China-room " adjoining were 
 much prized by the owner, and fill thirteen pages of 
 his list. They afforded greater scope for derision than 
 any other portions of the collection : such items as the 
 following have been cited with contempt, 
 
 Two old blue and white plates, artichoke pattern. 
 An octagon square plate with a cock and hen. 
 A blue and white caudle-cup. 
 
 Other specimens, however, possessed more interest : 
 for instance, several Roman lachrymatories and other 
 relics from the collection of Dr. Mead, and " two 
 Saxon tankards, one with Chinese figures, the other 
 with European." " These tankards," writes their 
 
THE STRAWBERRY HILL COLLECTION. 315 
 
 owner, " are extremely remarkable. Sir Robert Walpole 
 drank ale ; the Duchess of Kendal, mistress of King 
 George I., gave him the former ; a dozen or more years 
 afterwards, the Countess of Yarmouth, mistress of 
 King George II., without having seen the other, gave 
 him the second ; and they match exactly in form 
 and size." 
 
 The chimney-piece in " the Little Parlour " is taken 
 from the tomb of Thomas Ruthall, Bishop of Durham, 
 in Westminister Abbey. In this room, amongst other 
 things, was the original model in terra cotta by 
 Mrs. Damer, of two sleeping dogs, which she after- 
 wards executed in marble for the Duke of Richmond. 
 
 On the first landing-place of the Staircase is a 
 boudoir formerly known as " the Blue Breakfast-room," 
 which contained miniatures of the Digby family, by 
 Isaac and Peter Oliver; fifteen others chiefly by 
 Milliard and Petitot ; the portrait of the poet Cowley 
 by Sir Peter Lely ; the celebrated picture of Rose, the 
 gardener, presenting the first pine-apple raised in 
 England to King Charles II. This picture was 
 bequeathed by the grandson of Loudon, the nursery- 
 man who was partner of Mr. Wise, to the Rev. 
 Mr. Pennicott of Ditton, who gave it to Walpole. In 
 "the Green Closet," within this room, were Mrs. Darner's 
 two celebrated kittens, in life pets of Walpole's (who, 
 like many bachelors, was fond of cats) and a portrait 
 by Hogarth of Sarah Malcolm, painted the day before 
 she was executed for the murder of her mistress and 
 two fellow-servants. Walpole says that " she had put 
 on red to look the better." 
 
 On the Staircase was a suit of steel armour which 
 
316 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 had belonged to Francis I., King of France, gilt and 
 covered with bas-reliefs ; the lance was of ebony inlaid 
 with silver, and the sword of steel inlaid with gold. It 
 was purchased in 1772 from the Crozat collection, on 
 the death of Baron de Thiers, and realized 32O/. 5^. at 
 the Strawberry Hill sale. 
 
 Amongst other articles were an ancient curfew or 
 coverfire, and the top of a warming-pan which had 
 belonged to Charles II., with his arms and the motto 
 " Sarve God and live for ever." It bears date 1660, 
 and the initials C.R. 
 
 The top landing leading to the library - door, 
 portioned off by three Gothic arches, was called " the 
 Armoury." In this stood, besides many curious and 
 valuable specimens of old weapons, a terra cotta model 
 of the head of Isis, by Mrs. Darner, which she after- 
 wards enlarged in stone for the bridge at Henley. 
 
 " The Library " contained a valuable collection of 
 about 15,000 volumes, chiefly on antiquarian and 
 historical subjects. The book-cases were modelled 
 from the choir of Old St. Paul's as represented in 
 Dugdale. The chimney-piece was copied from the 
 tomb of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, in West- 
 minster Abbey, the stone-work from that of Thomas, 
 Duke of Clarence, at Canterbury. One of the most 
 valuable books contained a collection of original 
 drawings of French celebrities of the time of 
 Francis I., by Janet, which had belonged to Bran- 
 tome and subsequently to Mariette. The portraits 
 were in pencil, tinted with red chalk. This book was 
 sold for sixty guineas. 
 
 Another unique volume was Calcot's pocket-book, 
 
THE LIBRARY. 317 
 
 filled with his original drawings in pen and ink. An 
 interesting MS. was a book of the expenses of George 
 Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, kept by Sir Sack- 
 ville Crowe, his grace's treasurer. The printed books 
 comprised some very curious specimens : The New 
 Yettrs Gift, by Microphilus (Jeffery Hudson the 
 dwarf), presented by him in 1638 to Queen Henrietta 
 Maria ; a copy of Virgil with drawings in the covers 
 by Lady Diana Beauclerk ; the identical copy of 
 Homer used by Pope for his translation, in one 
 of the volumes of which is a sketch of Twicken- 
 ham taken from the garden of his villa by the poet 
 himself. Other rarities were a letter from Catherine 
 Parr, widow of Henry VIII., written in the year she 
 died, to Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral of 
 England ; and a letter from Oliver Cromwell to his 
 wife, written on the day after the battle of Dunbar. 
 
 Family portraits surmounted the book-cases. 
 
 The most remarkable objects in the room were an 
 old painting representing the marriage of King 
 Edward VI. ; a silver-gilt clock richly chased, pre- 
 sented by Henry VIII. to Anna Boleyn on their 
 marriage : on the weights are the letters H and A, 
 with true lover's knots, on one were the words " The 
 most happye," on the other the royal motto, (her 
 Majesty Queen Victoria purchased this at the sale for 
 i io/. 5^. ) ; a screen of the first tapestry made in 
 England, being a rnap of part of Surrey and Middlesex ; 
 and the osprey eagle modelled life-size in terra cotta, 
 by Mrs. Darner. " The bird was taken at Lord 
 Melbourne's Park at Brocket-hall ; and in taking it one 
 of the wings was almost cut off. Mrs. Darner saw it 
 
3i8 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 in that momentary rage, which she remembered and 
 has executed exactly." She wrote her own name in 
 Greek on the base, to which Walpole added this 
 line : 
 
 Non me Praxiteles finxit at Anna Darner, 1787. 
 
 In "the Star-Chamber," so called from the ad%rn- 
 ment of its ceiling with golden stars in mosaic, (a 
 small ante-room leading to " the Holbein-room" and 
 Great Gallery,) stood the famous bust of Henry VII., 
 designed for his tomb by Torregiano. In this apart- 
 ment was placed a great portion of the extensive 
 collection of coins and medals. 
 
 The chimney-piece in " the Holbein-room," designed 
 by Mr. Bentley, was taken from the tomb of Arch- 
 bishop Warham at Canterbury. A part of the room 
 is divided off by a screen, the pierced arches of which 
 were copied from the gates of the choir at Rouen. It 
 contained many valuable originals by the artist from 
 whom it takes its name, and several copies of his 
 works by Vertue ; a copy of the celebrated picture of 
 " The Triumph of Poverty and the Triumph of Riches," 
 by Zucchero, and an original pencil sketch of great 
 beauty of a design for a chimney-piece in one of 
 Henry VIII.'s palaces. Here also was a curious 
 picture of the Duchess of Suffolk and her husband 
 Adrian Stokes, by Lucas de Heere, and an original 
 picture of Prince Arthur and Catherine of Arragon, 
 from Colonel Myddelton's in Denbighshire. There 
 were two models by Holbein, one a head exquisitely 
 carved in box-wood, another a full length figure in 
 terra cotta. Two highly interesting relics preserved 
 in this room were, " a very ancient chair of oak, which 
 
THE GALLERY, 319 
 
 came out of Glastonbury Abbey ; " on which are carved 
 these sentences : " Johannes Arthurus Monacus Glas- 
 tonis, salvet eum Deus : Da pacem Domine : Sit Laus 
 Deo." From this original many copies have been 
 made : it obtained in the sale as large a sum as 
 73/. IQS. Placed near to the sumptuous bed, was 
 " the red-hat of Cardinal Wolsey, found in the great 
 wardrobe by Bishop Burnet when clerk of the closet. 
 From his son, the judge, it came to the Countess 
 Dowager of Albemarle, who gave it to Mr. Walpole." 
 There seems to be nothing to prove that it was 
 Cardinal Wolsey's hat rather than any other cardinal's ; 
 but Mr. Charles Kean no doubt satisfied himself suffi- 
 ciently on the point, for he bought it at the auction for 
 twenty guineas. A carpet in this room was worked 
 by Mrs. Clive the celebrated comic actress. 
 
 " The Gallery," fifty-six feet long, seventeen high 
 and thirteen wide, without reckoning the five recesses, 
 was the largest and most attractive apartment in the 
 villa. " The ceiling is taken from one of the side 
 aisles in Henry the VII.'s chapel. The great door 
 is copied from the north door at St. Alban's, and the 
 two smaller are parts of the same design. The side 
 with recesses, which are finished with a gold net-work 
 over looking-glass, is taken from the tomb of Arch- 
 bishop Bourchier at Canterbury." 
 
 Amongst the most noteworthy of its contents 
 were : 
 
 The eagle found in the gardens of Boccapadugli 
 within the precinct of Caracalla's Baths at Rome, in the 
 year 1742 accounted one of the finest remaining 
 pieces of Greek sculpture, of which very few good 
 
320 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 specimens of birds or animals survive. Gray in his 
 ode, the Progress of Poesy, has from this sculpture 
 derived his fine description of the eagle lulled to rest 
 by Music, 
 
 Perching on the scept'red hand 
 
 Of Jove, .... 
 
 With ruffled plumes and flagging wing. 
 
 And there was a noble bust of Vespasian in basalt, 
 purchased from the collection of Cardinal Ottoboni, for 
 22/., " reckoned the best in Rome except the Caracalla 
 of the Farnese." 
 
 In addition to many cabinets, coffers, and bronzes, 
 there was a large collection of pictures by the most 
 famous masters, the greater number of the family 
 portraits in which, still adorn the house. The most 
 noted of the others was the marriage of Henry VII. 
 with Elizabeth of York, by Mabuse, which realized 
 at the sale lyS/. los. 
 
 The Gallery now contains, amongst numerous 
 others, two fine portraits of the Due and late 
 Duchesse d'Aumale, by Sant ; also portraits of the 
 Marchioness of Westminster ; the Duchess of Suther- 
 land ; Lords Lyndhurst and Clarendon ; Dr. Samuel 
 Wilberforce, Lord Bishop of Winchester ; and Frances 
 Countess of Waldegrave. 
 
 Leaving the Gallery by its great door, the new 
 boudoir, drawing-room, dining-room, and other rooms 
 added by its present owner to the house about ten 
 years ago, are reached. This new wing, though 
 erected to harmonize with the original edifice, is, as 
 might be expected, as solid and substantial as the latter 
 is fragile. 
 
THE MODERN DRAWING-ROOM. 321 
 
 The Drawing-room, which is of fine proportions, 
 contains Magni's celebrated sculpture, " The Reading- 
 Girl," exhibited in the London International Exhibition 
 of 1862 ; and amongst other pictures the following : 
 
 Lady Mary Faulkner, by Liotard. 
 
 Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Horatia Waldegrave, 
 subsequently Countess of Waldegrave, Countess of 
 Exeter, and Lady Hugh Seymour, by Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds. 
 
 James the first Earl of Waldegrave. 
 
 James the second Earl of Waldegrave. 
 
 Laura and Charlotte Walpole, daughters of Sir 
 Edward Walpole, who became respectively Countess 
 of Dysart, and Mrs. Keppel, wife of Frederic, Bishop 
 of Exeter, by Ramsay. 
 
 Sir Robert Walpole. 
 
 Lady Henrietta Walpole, wife of the Hon. Edward 
 Herbert. 
 
 Maria Countess of Waldegrave. 
 
 The Duke of Buckingham. 
 
 Horace Walpole and Mrs. Darner. 
 
 Marquise de Prie, given to Horace Walpole by 
 Madame du Deffand. 
 
 In the adjoining boudoir is a fine Madonna by 
 Sassoferrato ; an old painting of Pope's villa ; a 
 portrait of Lady Elizabeth Harcourt, daughter of 
 Richard second Earl Lucan ; and a statuette of the 
 Marquis of Lansdowne. From this room a wide stair- 
 case communicates with the garden. 
 
 The New Dining-room is also enriched by a large 
 number of pictures, the majority of which are also from 
 the old collection. Amongst them are 
 
 21 
 
322 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 King George II. 
 
 The Duchess of Buckingham. 
 
 Henry first Lord Waldegrave, by Sir Godfrey 
 Kneller, and 
 
 Henrietta his wife, by the same. 
 
 James the second Lord and first Earl, and 
 
 Mary Webb his wife. 
 
 Sir Edward Walpole. 
 
 Dorothy Viscountess Townsend. 
 
 Catherine Shorter, the first wife of Sir Robert 
 Walpole. 
 
 The Duchess of Gloucester. 
 
 Lady Camden. 
 
 The Countess of Essex. 
 
 The Princess Amelia, by Reynolds, 
 and others. 
 
 On the staircase leading to the Dining-room are 
 portraits of John James the sixth Earl of Waldegrave, 
 and John Braham, Esq. 
 
 Returning from the new to the original portion of 
 the house 
 
 At the extremity of the gallery is " the Round 
 Drawing-room." " The design of the chimney-piece 
 is taken from the tomb of Edward the Confessor, 
 improved by Mr. Adam (!), and beautifully executed 
 in white marble inlaid with scagliola by Richter." It 
 formerly contained a few, but valuable, pictures by old 
 masters, conspicuous amongst which were Vandyck's 
 portraits of the Countesses of Carlisle and Leicester ; 
 and of Mrs. Lemon. 
 
 " The Tribune " " is a square room with a semi- 
 
THE TRIBUNE. 323 
 
 circular recess in the middle of each side, with windows 
 and niches, the latter taken from those on the sides of 
 the north door of the great church at St. Alban's. The 
 roof, which is copied from the chapter house at York, is 
 terminated by a square of yellow glass. In this room 
 was the large collection of miniatures by Pettitot and 
 other masters, the most beautiful of which were 
 Cowley the poet, by Zincke ; the Countess D'Olonne, 
 by Pettitot ; Isaac Oliver, by himself ; and Catherine 
 Parr and Catherine of Arragon, by Holbein : also a 
 vast number of antiquities, of which must be noticed 
 the following : 
 
 One of the seven mourning rings given at the burial 
 of Charles I. It has the king's head in miniature, and, 
 behind, a death's head between the letters C. R., and 
 the motto, " Prepared be to follow me." 
 
 The dagger of Henry VIII., the handle made 
 of chalcedony enriched with diamonds and rubies. This 
 was purchased at the sale by Mr. Charles Kean for 
 54/. i2s. 
 
 A pendant golden heart set with a heart-shaped 
 sapphire and otherwise richly jewelled and enamelled, 
 ornamented with emblematic figures and inscribed with 
 Scottish mottoes around and within it. It was made 
 by order of the Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of 
 Lenox, mother of Henry Lord Darnley, husband of 
 Mary Queen of Scots. Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lenox, 
 Regent of Scotland, was murdered in 1572, and his 
 widow caused this jewel to be made in memory of 
 him.* 
 
 * This jewel was purchased by the Queen at the sale in 1842, and is at this 
 present time (1872) lent by her Majesty to the Exhibition of Jewellery at South 
 Kensington. 
 
324 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 A fine bust of Jupiter Serapis in basalt. 
 
 A small bronze bust of Caligula, with silver eyes, 
 found at the discovery of Herculaneum, given to 
 Walpole by Sir Horace Mann, the English minister at 
 Florence. 
 
 A magnificent missal, with miniatures by Raffaelle 
 and his scholars, set in gold, enamelled, and adorned 
 with rubies and turquoises ; the sides are of cornelian, 
 engraved with religious subjects ; the clasp is a large 
 garnet. It belonged to Claude, Queen of Francis I. of 
 France, and it was purchased by Walpole from the 
 collection of Doctor Meade in 1755. 
 
 The Psalms of David, written with a fine pen on 
 vellum, enriched with twenty -one illuminations by 
 Giulio Clovio, the pupil of Giulio Romano, executed in 
 1537 ; and 
 
 A most beautiful silver bell made for Pope 
 Clement VII. by Benvenuto Cellini, with which to 
 curse the caterpillars. It is covered with antique 
 masks, flies, grasshoppers, and other insects in high 
 relief; at the top the Virgin and boy-angels, at the 
 bottom a wreath of leaves. It came out of the 
 collection of Leonati at Parma, and was bought by 
 the Marquis of Rockingham. Walpole, who prized 
 it very highly, exchanged for it all his collection of 
 Roman coins. 
 
 These three last rarities were purchased at the sale 
 by Lord Waldegrave at the prices respectively of 
 H5/. ios., 44i/., and 252/. 
 
 The chimney-piece in "the Great North Bed- 
 chamber " was designed by Walpole from the 
 tomb of Bishop Dudley in Westminster Abbey ; over 
 
THE CHAPEL. 325 
 
 it was a curious picture of Henry VIII. and his 
 children. The most remarkable pictures in this room 
 were of Henry VII.; the Duchesse de la Valliere ; 
 Madame de Maintenon ; Ninon de 1'Enclos ; and a full 
 length portrait of Mrs. Margaret Smith, by Vandyck. 
 Here also was Hogarth's Sketch of the Beggars Opera, 
 containing portraits of the original performers ; and 
 the Rehearsal of an Opera, with caricatures of the 
 chief actors, amongst whom were Nicolini, Mrs. Toft, 
 Margarita, and Sir Robert Rich. For accounts of the 
 two ladies the reader is referred to the fifth volume of 
 Sir John Hawkins's History of Music. The picture 
 was the joint work of Sebastian and Marco Ricci. 
 This room contained also many articles of great value, 
 and a considerable number of no value at all among 
 the latter was the speculum of cannel coal used by 
 the renowned impostor Dr. Dee. 
 
 The " Beauclerk Closet" is hexagonal in shape, 
 and was built in 1776 on purpose to receive seven 
 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk in illustration of 
 Walpole's tragedy, The Mysterious Mother. They 
 were all executed in a fortnight ; and it is a matter of 
 congratulation that the talented artist devoted no more 
 of her time to a subject so objectionable. In this room 
 was also, together with other pictures, a portrait of 
 Lady Diana, by Powell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
 which is now hung in the billiard-room ; as is, too, a 
 portrait of Mrs. Clive, by Davison, presented to Lord 
 Orford by her brother, which formerly adorned the 
 Library over the round drawing-room (now used as a 
 bed-room), where was also a profile of Miss Barry the 
 actress, in pencil, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 
 
326 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 In the gardens Walpole erected a chapel, built 
 of brick with a front of Portland stone, copied from 
 the tomb of Edmund Audley, Bishop of Salisbury, 
 in that cathedral. In the chapel were four panels of 
 wood from the Abbey of St. Edmondsbury, with the 
 portraits of Cardinal Beaufort, Humphrey Duke of 
 Gloucester, and Archbishop Kemp, and a shrine in 
 mosaic, the work of Petrus Cavalini, who made the 
 tomb of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. 
 It was originally erected in 1256 over the bodies of the 
 martyrs, Simplicius, Faustina, and Beatrix, in the 
 church of Santa Maria Maggiore at Rome ; and was 
 removed thence when the new pavement was laid in 
 1768. The window in the chapel was brought from 
 Bexhill in Sussex. The structure has been demolished 
 and removed. 
 
 The cottage in the garden was used by Mr. 
 Walpole as a place of refuge when visitors became too 
 overpowering even for him. It contained a " tea- 
 rpom," ornamented with many prints, and a " Little 
 Library." 
 
 Its owner permitted Strawberry Hill to be seen by 
 tickets, which, however, were only to be obtained by 
 application to himself. 
 
 Walpole bequeathed his house and its contents to 
 Mrs. Darner, the sculptress, for life, together with 
 2,ooo/. to keep it in repair. She having resided in 
 it for some years, resigned it, in 1811, in favour of the 
 then Countess Dowager of Waldegrave, in whom the 
 remainder in fee was vested under Lord Orford's will. 
 
 By descent it became the property of a late Earl of 
 Waldegrave, who sold off its contents, as has been 
 
PRESENT OWNER. 327 
 
 stated, by public auction, in 1842. The sale lasted 
 twenty-four days, from April 25th to May 2ist, and 
 realized 33,4687. It was conducted by Mr. George 
 Robins, in a large temporary building erected on the 
 lawn for the purpose. 4 " 
 
 The house remained, dismantled and neglected, in 
 a most melancholy condition for some time, until it 
 became the property of the present possessor, Frances 
 Countess of Waldegrave, who, having thoroughly 
 renovated and much improved and enlarged it, has made 
 it, from the sumptuousness of its adornment, inferior 
 to few of the houses of the nobility in the kingdom. 
 The Countess and her husband, the Rt. Hon. Chichester 
 Fortescue, M.P., late Chief Secretary for Ireland, and 
 now President of the Board of Trade, occupy it during 
 part of the year. 
 
 * A private opinion written at the time of the sale, on the value of the collection, 
 may have some interest: "I have been amusing myself lately," writes Lord 
 Jeffrey to Miss Berry, "by looking over the catalogue of the 'Strawberry Hill' 
 collections, and, as you may suppose, have had you often enough in my mind as I 
 went through names and little anecdotes which must be pregnant to you with so 
 many touching recollections. I should like, if I were rich enough, to have some 
 twelve or twenty of the pictures and miniatures, but would really give nothing for 
 the china, furniture, and bijouterie, and not a great deal for the library. But, above 
 all, 1 should like to have a little drawing or two by a certain amateur artist, and 
 trust, at all events, that they will not be allowed to go into the hands of mere 
 strangers. Altogether, I suppose, they will bring a good deal of money ; and so 
 passes the glory of this world ! vanity of vanities ! " Miss Berry's Journal, 
 iii. 476. 
 
328 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 LITTLE STRAWBERRY HILL MRS. CLIVE THE Miss BERRYS. 
 
 ON the lower road to Teddington, just on the 
 confines of Twickenham parish, is LITTLE STRAWBERRY 
 HILL, celebrated as the residence of Mrs. Catherine 
 Clive, the eminent comic actress. Horace Walpole, 
 her great friend and near neighbour, used to call the 
 house " Cliveden." He wrote the following inscription 
 to her memory on an urn placed in the shrubbery : 
 Ye smiles and jests still hover round ; 
 This is mirth's consecrated ground : 
 Here liv'd the laughter-loving dame, 
 A matchless actress, Clive her name. 
 The comic muse with her retir'd, 
 And shed a tear when she expir'd. 
 
 Mrs. Clive retired from the stage to this pleasant 
 retreat in 1 769, speaking her farewell epilogue, written 
 by Walpole, on her benefit night, April 24th. 
 
 Ironside gives some lines of an epistle to her, not 
 published when he wrote, a few lines of which run 
 
 thus : 
 
 **.** 
 
 Believe the friendship, and the verse excuse, 
 Rude is the lay, unlike what Twick'nam heard, 
 Charm'd with the music of her favourite bard. 
 
MRS. CLIVE. 329 
 
 Yet on those banks where every Muse once sung, 
 What bard in silence, and his lyre unstrung, 
 Can idly sit, nor feel the sacred fire 
 Thrill through his veins, and every thought inspire, 
 Whilst warm the thought, and bright the fancy glows, 
 The numbers rise, and verse spontaneous flows, 
 To tell how much those seats the Muse admires 
 Where Clive from smoke, and crowds, and fame retires ? 
 
 How blest those seats, where all her choicest stores 
 Of various sweets indulgent nature pours ! 
 When the pleas'd eye the smiling scene surveys, 
 And every part a fresh delight conveys ! 
 Here low the herds, Pan feeds his fleecy care, 
 There yellow Ceres binds her golden hair ; 
 Here the trees thicken, and exclude the day ; 
 There opening glades a wider scene display, 
 To mark how Thames in silver current rolls, 
 To waft her bounties to the distant poles. 
 
 Mrs. Clive died suddenly on the 7th of September, 
 1 785, at the age of 75 years. The tablet to her memory, 
 which is affixed to the church, has been described 
 else where. ~* 
 
 She was capable of pleasing off the stage as well 
 as on it, as the statement of the critical Dr. Johnson 
 bears witness. " Clive, sir," he said, " is a good thing 
 to sit by : she always understands what you say." 
 The appreciation was mutual. " I love/' the lady said, 
 " to sit next Dr. Johnson ; he always entertains one/'t 
 
 The great moralist paid her also this tribute of 
 admiration : " Mrs. Clive in the sprightliness of humour 
 I have never seen equalled. What Clive did best she 
 did better than Garrick ; but could not do half so 
 many things well ; she was a better romp than I ever 
 saw in nature." 
 
 * Seep. 103. t BoswelFs Life of Johnson, vol. iv, p. 7., ed. 1807. 
 
330 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 The cottage, which belonged to Horace Walpole, 
 was bequeathed by him to Miss Mary and Miss Agnes 
 Berry, two ladies to whom he was much attached, 
 and whom he has described as " the best informed and 
 most perfect creatures he ever saw." They had first 
 taken up their residence in it after their return from 
 Florence, in November, 1791, and it continued to be 
 their country residence for many years. 
 
 In the persons of these ladies the memories of those 
 who well recollect them are united to the older and 
 more celebrated days of Twickenham. The elder of 
 the two, born in the third year after King George the 
 Third's accession, lived to be in her old age privately 
 presented to Queen Victoria. 
 
 The family was of Scotch extraction. Mr. Berry 
 was disinherited by an uncle, whose heir he was, on 
 account of his having married a lady with every charm 
 except a good fortune, and on her death refusing to 
 marry again. The uncle left him ten thousand, and his 
 younger brother three hundred thousand pounds. The 
 latter, to escape the censure of the world, settled on 
 Mr. Berry an annuity of i,ooo/. Much of the Miss 
 Berrys' early life was passed on the Continent, where 
 their education was completed. The elder was an 
 accomplished linguist and a fair Latin scholar ; the 
 younger drew admirably. To Mr. Berry Lord Orford 
 left the task of editing his works eventually printed 
 and published in five quarto volumes in which 
 labour his elder daughter rendered him invaluable 
 assistance. To her and her sister Walpole inscribed 
 in the following words his catalogue of Strawberry 
 Hill : 
 
THE MISS BERRYS. 331 
 
 To 
 
 the dear sisters 
 
 MARY and AGNES BERRY 
 
 This description 
 
 of 
 
 His villa at Strawberry Hill 
 
 which they often made delightfull 
 
 by their company, conversation and talents 
 
 is offered 
 
 by 
 
 HORACE WALPOLE 
 
 from a heart overflowing with 
 
 admiration, esteem and friendship, 
 
 hoping 
 
 that long after he shall be no more 
 
 it may, while amusing them, 
 
 recall some kind thoughts 
 
 of a most devoted 
 and affectionate humble servant. 
 
 December , 1789. 
 
 It is plausibly conjectured that Horace Walpole 
 was prevented only by a sense of the disparity of age, 
 and the fear of imperilling by such an offer a friend- 
 ship which he much valued, from offering his hand in 
 marriage to Miss Berry. 
 
 On the occasion of the first visit of the sisters to 
 Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole addressed them in 
 these playful stanzas : 
 
 To Mary's lips has ancient Rome, 
 
 Her purest language taught 
 And from the modern city home, 
 
 Agnes its pencil brought. 
 
 Rome's ancient Horace sweetly chants, 
 
 Such maids with lyric fire, 
 Albion's old Horace sings nor paints ; 
 
 He only can admire. 
 
332 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Still would his press their fame record, 
 
 So amiable the pair is ! 
 But ah ! how vain to think his word 
 
 Can add a straw to Berrys ! 
 
 Miss Berry answered these lines thus : 
 
 Had Rome's famed Horace thus addrest 
 
 His Lydia or his Lyce ; 
 He'd ne'er complained to him their breast, 
 
 Was often cold and icy. 
 
 But had they sought their joy t' explain, 
 
 Or praise their gen'rous bard, 
 Perhaps like me they'd tried in vain, 
 
 And felt the task too hard. 
 
 Miss Berry published in 1802 a comedy in five 
 acts, entitled Fashionable Friends, which was brought 
 out at Drury Lane, but was not successful. She next 
 appeared before the public in 1810 as the editor of the 
 letters bequeathed to Horace Walpole by Madame du 
 Deffand at her death in 1740. She emphatically 
 protested against any approbation of or participa- 
 tion in the opinions and views of the authoress. 
 In 1815, she published the Letters of Rachael Lady 
 Russell, with some Account of her Life ; and in 
 1828, she brought out the first volume of her most 
 considerable work, a Comparative View of Social 
 Life in England and France, from the Restoration of 
 Charles I I. to the Present Time, and the second volume 
 three years later. 
 
 Miss Berry let Little Strawberry Hill in 1810 to the 
 Rev. Dr. Bell, Prebendary of Westminster ; and in 1813 
 to Alderman Wood for seven years : after this gentle- 
 man's beautiful daughter Maria, the City State barge, 
 which is so frequent a visitor to Twickenham during 
 
THE MISS BERRYS. 333 
 
 the summer months, was named. Other occupants have 
 been Admiral Bowen, Mrs. Davies, and Miss Money ; 
 it has been unoccupied now for some years. 
 
 Mr. Berry died at Genoa on the 1 8th of May, 1817. 
 Miss Agnes Berry died in January, 1852, and Miss 
 Berry on the 20th of November in the same year, at 
 the age of ninety. They were both buried in Peters- 
 ham churchyard,* their old friend Dr. Milman, the 
 Dean of S. Paul's, officiating on both occasions. An 
 epitaph from the pen of the Earl of Carlisle was 
 inscribed to their memory : 
 
 MARY BERRY 
 Born March 1763, died Nov. 1852. 
 
 AGNES BERRY 
 
 Born May 1764, died Jan. 1852. 
 Beneath this stone are laid the remains of 
 
 these 
 
 two sisters, 
 
 amidst scenes which in life 
 
 they had frequented and loved, 
 
 followed by the tender regret of those 
 
 who close 
 
 the unbroken succession of friends 
 
 devoted to them with fond affection 
 
 during every step 
 
 of their long career. 
 
 In pious adoration of the great God of Heaven and Earth 
 
 they looked to rest in the Lord. 
 
 They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their 
 death they were not divided. 
 
 * " 'In Petersham Churchyard," although Miss Berry tells us in her Journal 
 (vol. ii. 390) that on the evening of August 8th, 1809, she went through Twicken- 
 ham churchyard, and settled in her own mind upon the place where she should have 
 liked a stone to be placed and herself deposited near it. ' ' It is, " she says ' ' a cheerful 
 churchyard, and the place I have chosen near that beautiful view of the river, the 
 group of poplars, and the opposite bank, which I have always so much admired, 
 and at which I stood this evening for nearly a quarter of an hour in quiet and 
 solitary enjoyment gilded as it was by a beautiful evening sun." 
 
334 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Mr. Monckton Milnes, now Lord Houghton, pub- 
 lished in The Times some pathetic verses, after the 
 funeral of Miss Berry, of which the two last stanzas are 
 as follows : 
 
 Farewell, dear ladies ! in your loss 
 
 We feel the past recede, 
 The gap our hands could almost cross 
 
 Is now a gulf indeed. 
 Ye, and the days in which your claims 
 
 And charms were early known, 
 Lose substance, and ye stand as names 
 
 That History makes its own. 
 
 Farewell ! the pleasant social page 
 
 Is read, but ye remain 
 Examples of ennobled age, 
 
 Long life without a stain : 
 A lesson to be scorned by none, 
 
 Least by the wise and brave, 
 Delightful as the winter sun 
 
 That gilds this open grave.* 
 
 In Strawberry Vale, almost opposite to Little 
 Strawberry Hill, on the edge of the river, is a row of 
 newly-erected villas, the last of which is called " the 
 Bachelors " (a land-mark very familiar to rowing-men), 
 and this is also the last house in the Parish of Twicken- 
 ham on the confines of Teddington. 
 
 * For further particulars concerning the Miss Berrys reference should be made 
 to Miss Berry's Life and Correspondence, edited by Lady Theresa Lewis, published 
 in 1866, from which work most of the above particulars have been obtained. 
 
TWICKENHAM COMMON. 335 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 TWICKENHAM COMMON THE CAMPS ON HOUNSLOW HEATH 
 GIFFORD LODGE MR. PRADO'S, NOW TAKEN DOWN " THE 
 LODGE " ORCHARD LODGE COLNE LODGE COLNE HOUSE 
 BURTON LODGE MR. PRATT'S THE POND GOTHIC LODGE 
 JOHANNA SOUTHCOTE " THE GRANGE " FULWELL LODGE. 
 
 HAVING now attempted to trace the history of the 
 houses situated on the river border of the parish from 
 the point where it adjoins Isleworth on the north-east 
 to that where it touches Teddington on the west a 
 reach of the Thames unsurpassed in beauty, save 
 perhaps, by that which lies between Cookham and 
 Maidenhead, running through Cliefden woods it will 
 be. convenient to walk (in fancy) across the fields which 
 the railroad now intersects, and which are fast becoming 
 covered with newly-erected villas, from Strawberry 
 Hill to that part of the parish which is still called 
 Twickenham Common. 
 
 The road leading from the village proper to this 
 new district, which rivals it in size and population, is 
 called Heath Road, because in old time it led to 
 Hounslow Heath, of which the common was a part, 
 and which extended to within a quarter of a mile of 
 the town. Almost in the place where the railway- 
 
336 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 bridge now crosses the road stood the gate at the 
 entrance of the common (which, according to the 
 Isleworth Survey of 1635, contained 175 acres), just 
 within which to the right were the cage and stocks. 
 All that now exists of the once extensive common is 
 the small enclosed triangular space in front of Trinity 
 Church, called " The Green ; " and a trace of the former 
 wild land may be seen between the roads leading to 
 Hampton and Teddington, where several furze bushes 
 still remain in a rough field. 
 
 It will not be forgotten that it was on Hounslow 
 Heath that both Charles II. and James II. formed 
 camps on more than one occasion. Evelyn, in his 
 Diary for 29th of June, 1678, speaks of his return from 
 Windsor through Hounslow Heath, where he " saw 
 the new raised army encamped, designed against 
 France in pretence at least, but which gave umbrage 
 to Parliament. His Majesty and a world of company 
 were in the field, the whole army in battalia, a very 
 glorious sight/' It was at this time and place, the 
 same author asserts, that, " the new sort of soldiers 
 called grenadiers " were brought into service, whom he 
 quaintly describes as " dexterous in flinging hand 
 grenades, every one having a pouchful ; they had furred 
 caps with coped crowns like Janizaries, which made 
 them look very fierce, and some had long hoods 
 hanging down behind as we picture fools ; their 
 clothing being likewise piebald, yellow, and red." 
 
 After the space of eight years, in his Diary for 
 June 2nd, 1686, Evelyn mentions the camp at 
 Hounslow again, when storms, rain and foul weather 
 produced sickness and other inconveniences, which 
 
HOUNSLOW HEATH. 337 
 
 compelled it to retire to quarters. He speaks of 
 " many jealousies and discourses as to the meaning of 
 this encampment." His entry for June 6th, 1687, runs 
 thus : " Camp now again pitched at Hounslow, the 
 commanders vying in the expense and magnificence of 
 the tents." Of this more recent encampment Macaulay 
 gives a graphic description. The King (James II.), he 
 says, 
 
 . . . collected there within a circumference of about two miles and a 
 half, fourteen battalions of foot and thirty-two squadrons of horse, 
 amounting to thirteen thousand fighting men. Twenty-six pieces of 
 artillery and many wains laden with arms and ammunition were 
 dragged from the tower through the city to Hounslow. The 
 Londoners saw this great force assembled in their neighbourhood 
 with a terror which familiarity soon diminished. A visit to Hounslow, 
 became their favourite amusement on holidays. The camp presented 
 the appearance of a vast fair. Mingled with the musketeers and 
 dragoons, a multitude of fine gentlemen and ladies from Soho 
 Square, sharpers and painted women from Whitefriars, invalids in 
 sedans, monks in hoods and gowns, lacqueys in rich liveries, pedlars, 
 orange girls, mischievous apprentices and gaping clowns, was con- 
 stantly passing and repassing through the long lanes of tents. From 
 some pavilions were heard the noises of drunken revelry, from others 
 the curses of gamblers. In truth the place was only a gay suburb of 
 the capital.* 
 
 The camp existed only two years, being broken up 
 in August, 1688. It was formed " to overawe the 
 mutinous capital ; " but ended by becoming " more 
 mutinous than the capital itself, and being much more 
 feared by the court than by the citizens." During 
 these years many burials are described as from the 
 camp.t The bridge on the road leading out of the 
 Hanworth Road to the new cemetery is to this day 
 
 * Macaulay's History of England, ii. 101, 102, etc, 
 t See p. 63. 
 
 22 
 
338 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 called " Hospital Bridge," from the fact of its proximity 
 to the camp hospital. 
 
 GTFFORD LODGE. The first house of importance be- 
 yond the common gate was Gifford Lodge, the residence 
 of Lord Kingston, and then of the Marchioness of 
 Tweedale, the widow of John the fourth Marquis, ne 
 Lady Frances Carteret, daughter of the Earl of Granville. 
 Her house was partially taken down, and out of its 
 remnants, with considerable additions, a convenient 
 new residence was constructed. The Marchioness subse- 
 quently lived on Ham Common, where she died in 
 1788. Her successor at Gifford Lodge was General 
 Gunning, a brother of the "beautiful Miss Gunnings," 
 who became subsequently Duchess of Hamilton, 
 Duchess of Argyle, and Lady Coventry. The 
 General's wife and daughter (who became Mrs. 
 Plunket), both distinguished themselves by the publi- 
 cation of several novels. 
 
 Gifford Lodge was next owned by Mr. Lucas. I 
 am informed on trustworthy authority that it was the 
 private residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert and her children, 
 Marble Hill being the house wherein guests were 
 entertained. More recently it has been occupied by 
 Mr. Richard Ancell, Mr. Samuel Redgrave, Mrs. 
 Birch and her family, and at the present time 
 Mr. Collinson lives in it. 
 
 Ironside thus describes the next house of consider- 
 ation, the residence of Mr. Abraham Prado: 
 
 The gardens are large, and kept in remarkable good order and 
 neatness, as were his grounds about it. This gentleman's knowledge 
 
THE LODGE. 339 
 
 in gardening was extensive ; and he was a celebrated cultivator of the 
 vine. He imported the large white and red Syriac grape, which have 
 produced some bunches weighing i4lbs. He was also successfully 
 attentive to the culture of other choice natural and forced fruits, and 
 had the finest of every kind of any gentleman in this part of the 
 country. 
 
 This house, as far as I can ascertain, stood some- 
 where about the present site of the Carpenters' Alms- 
 houses. It was, as well as Gifford Lodge, in the 
 possession of Mr. Lucas, and was pulled down in or 
 about the year 1817. 
 
 THE LODGE. -- Above Mr. Prado's, Ironside 
 mentions a plain convenient family-house, with most 
 pleasant grounds, belonging to Mr. John Davenport, 
 who was, he says, the greatest landholder in the 
 parish. Mr. Davenport enclosed about one acre of 
 ground as a plantation in which his wife, who was an 
 invalid, could take exercise ; traces of this survived 
 for many years. Before Mr. Davenport, there lived 
 in this house Mr. Francis Salvador, a Jew, the baptism 
 of whose wife and daughters was solemnized in the 
 Parish Church * in the year 1 780. Walpole praises 
 the grapes produced by this gentleman. After Mr. 
 Davenport left the house a family of the name of 
 Moore occupied it for a short time. In 1820 Mr. Thomas 
 Moxon, entered upon his tenure, which lasted until 
 his death, in 1854. The property passed from the 
 possession of Mr. Davenport to that of the Baroness 
 Howe. The house, called in later times " The Lodge," 
 was in its character incongruous, suggesting the 
 possibility of a smaller structure having been added to 
 
 * See p. 52. 
 
340 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 the remnants of a much larger building which originally 
 existed. 
 
 A large mansion called WELLESLEY HOUSE stands on 
 the Hampton Road. It has been used at several 
 periods for a boys' school, but has been for some time 
 unoccupied. 
 
 ORCHARD LODGE. An excellent house in Pope's 
 Grove, was built at about the same time as Trinity 
 Church, by the late Rev. T. Bevan, the first incum- 
 bent, for a residence, there being no house attached to 
 the living. It is now the abode of Colonel Charles 
 Wise, whom Mrs. Bevan married, and of that lady's 
 family. 
 
 COLNE LODGE. This house is first renowned as 
 having been the residence of Paul Whitehead the poet, 
 of whom Lysons gives the following account appended 
 to the extract of his burial on January 4th, 1775, m 
 the Register of the Parish of Teddington. 
 
 Mr. Whitehead was born in the Parish of St. Andrew, Holbourn, in 
 1710. He was originally apprenticed to a mercer, but afterwards became 
 a member of the Temple, and studied the law. His chief pursuits, 
 nevertheless, appear to have been politics and poetry. He published 
 a pamphlet in vindication of Mr. Alexander Murray ; and attaching 
 himself to the Prince of Wales's party, became a violent patriot, and 
 " the champion and bard of Leicester House." When his patron, 
 Lord Le Despencer, came into power he accepted a lucrative place, 
 which subjected him to much censure and ridicule from those with 
 whom he had formerly acted in opposition to the court. Mr. White- 
 head was a member of the famous Medmenham club [called also 
 the " Hell-fire " club] instituted by Lord Le Despencer, of which 
 Mr. Wilkes was the last survivor. His principal poems were, The 
 
PAUL WHITEHEAD. 341 
 
 State Dunces, The Gymnasiad, or Boxing-match, and an Epistle to Dr. 
 Thompson, which, with some others, were collected into a quarto 
 volume and published, in 1777, by Captain Edward Thompson, 
 [from whose prefatory Memoir the facts which Lysons pre- 
 serves were obtained.] He wrote also a pamphlet on the conduct 
 of the managers of Covent Garden Theatre, and is said to have 
 planned the mock procession of the Freemasons in 1742, and to have 
 designed the print which was engraved of it. His principal residence 
 was on Twickenham Heath.* By his will he bequeathed the sum of 
 5o/. to be expended on a marble urn, in which he directed that his 
 heart should be inclosed and deposited in the mausoleum of his 
 patron at West Wycomb. On the i3th of August, in the year after 
 his death, Whitehead's heart was deposited there with very singular 
 ceremonies in imitation of the ancients. The urn was followed from 
 the house by a military procession attended by a choir of vocal per 
 formers conducted by Atterbury and Mulso. Before the urn was 
 deposited in the mausoleum, the following incantation, written for the 
 purpose, and composed by Dr. Arne, was sung : 
 
 From earth to heav'n Whitehead's soul is fled, 
 Refulgent glories beam about his head ! 
 His Muse concording with resounding strings 
 Gives angels words to praise the King of Kings ! 
 
 The following inscription was placed on the urn : Paul Whitehead, 
 Esq., of Twickenham, ob. Dec. 30, 1774. 
 
 Unhallow'd hands ! this urn forbear, 
 
 No gems or orient spoil lie here conceal'd, 
 
 But what's more rare, 
 A heart that knew no guile. 
 
 * Miss Hawkins mentions him as an acquaintance and neighbour, and defends 
 him from the charges brought against him of immorality and bad life. In appear- 
 ance, she says, he resembled the portraits of the great King of Prussia. " He 
 was living, in a way that did honour to his feelings, or his sense of right, with the 
 poor weak creature whom he had, I believe, really for the sake of her money, 
 made his wife. She was so nearly idiotic that she would call off his attention in 
 conversation to look at a cow, not as one of singular beauty, but in the words, 
 ' Mr. Whitehead, there's a cow.' He took it most patiently, as he did all such 
 trials of his temper, sweetened, perhaps, by a pretty villa and a handsome chariot 
 which her fortune enabled him to enjoy." Although he is represented as' resisting 
 all Sir John Hawkins's efforts to induce him to go to church, on the plea of his 
 not being quite "settled," that he was not wholly insensible to "feelings con- 
 nected with religion," Miss Hawkins shows by quoting this piously expressed 
 speech of his: "When I go," said he, "into St. Paul's, I admiie it as a very 
 fine grand beautiful building ; and when I have contemplated its beauty, I come 
 out ; but if I go into Westminster Abbey, me, I'm all devotion ! *' 
 
342 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 The oratorio of Goliah, composed for the occasion, was performed 
 the same day in West Wycomb Church, before a crowded audience, 
 all persons being admitted upon contributing something to the poor's 
 box. There is no memorial to Mr. Whitehead at Teddington. The 
 following epitaph, written by Mr. Garrick, if ever inscribed on his 
 tomb, does not now exist. " Near this place are deposited the 
 remains of Paul Whitehead, Esq., who was born Jan. 25, 1710, and 
 died Dec. 30, 1774, aged 65. 
 
 " Here lies a man misfortune could not bend, 
 Prais'd as a poet, honour'd as a friend : 
 Though his youth kindled with a love of fame, 
 Within his bosom glow'd a brighter flame ; 
 Whene'er his friends with sharp affliction bled, 
 And from the wounded deer the herd was fled, 
 WHITEHEAD stood forth, the healing balm apply'd 
 Nor quitted their distresses till he dyed." * 
 
 The Countess of Dunmore purchased the house 
 subsequently, and lived in it with her family. Amongst 
 other occupants of it were Mr. Benjamin Bradbury, 
 Mrs. Laing, and, about the year 1816, Mrs. Eardley 
 Wilmot. The Countess of Dunmore, who died in 
 1818, surviving her husband John, the fourth earl, 
 by nine years, left the property to her youngest 
 child, the Lady Virginia Murray, who was born in the 
 colony of Virginia, and named after it at the request of 
 the council and assembly, the Earl being governor of 
 it at that time. An elder sister of Lady Virginia's 
 was Lady Augusta Murray (permitted by his Majesty 
 King George III. to take the surname of De Ameland), 
 who was married, first in Rome, and secondly in 
 London, in 1793, to H.R.H. Prince Augustus Frederick, 
 Duke of Sussex, then a minor. The marriage was 
 declared null and void, under the provisions of the 
 Royal Marriage Act of 1772, in the next year; her 
 ladyship having given birth to a son previous to the 
 
 * Lysons 1 Environs^ vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. 741 743. 
 
C OLNE HO USE.B UR TON L ODGE. 343 
 
 dissolution. The duke used to visit her constantly 
 when she lived at Twickenham. Edward Harris 
 Donnithorne, Esq., J.P., the present owner, purchased 
 the house, in 1841, of Lady Virginia Murray, then a 
 very old lady, residing at Paris. A coloured view of 
 the house is to be seen in the library of the British 
 Museum, amongst the collection of views in Middlesex 
 which belonged to King George III. 
 
 COLNE HOUSE. Now in the occupation of Mr. 
 Nicholson, and recently of its owner, Mrs. Roffey, 
 relict of the late Mr. George Roffey, is of modern 
 erection. A previous occupant was Lieut. -Colonel 
 Anthony William Durnford, of the Grenadier Guards. 
 
 BURTON LODGE. Next, Ironside mentions " a very 
 small, but neat box, with a pretty garden, in the middle 
 of which is an elegant little octagon room, thatched 
 at the top, which has a pretty appearance from the 
 road. It was erected, and the gardens laid out, by 
 William Barnard, Esq., a gentleman of distinguished 
 abilities as an architect, and taste for gardening." 
 After him it became the property of Mr. R. Colling- 
 wood Selby, steward to the Duke of Northumberland, 
 and clerk of the peace for the county of Middlesex. 
 From the description Ironside gives of the piece of 
 water opposite to this house, the care of which would 
 devolve upon his Grace's steward, it is most probable 
 that it received the name of Pond House, which was 
 subsequently changed to Burstead Lodge, and once 
 again to its present title of Burton Lodge. It is now 
 occupied by Mr. Mayor. 
 
344 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Above this was a small house, in which, in 1 790, 
 lived Miss Dorothea Fellowes, daughter of Coulston 
 Fellowes, Esq., and sister to the Countess of Ports- 
 mouth. Of her the property was purchased by Mr. 
 Charles Simmonds. 
 
 The last of the old houses in the same line, 
 described by Ironside as a " small box with bow 
 windows," belonged to John Davis, Esq., nephew to 
 the late Duchess of Norfolk, who was for many years 
 a distinguished officer in his Majesty's service. He 
 commanded a troop in Lord Pembroke's dragoons, 
 and was aide-de-camp to General Hawley, in Germany. 
 He is mentioned as possessing a pleasing collection of 
 pictures. The identification of this house is certain. 
 There is a view of it exactly as it now appears in 
 King George the Third's collection, above referred to. 
 Mr. Pratt is its present occupant. 
 
 The occupants of these houses, somewhere about 
 the year 1 780, at their joint expense, had the ground 
 lowered, and a large piece of water on the opposite 
 side of the road greatly increased, so that it became 
 " a great ornament to the premises and to the houses 
 adjoining. It serves," says Ironside, " as a store pond 
 of carp and tench and other fish, for the use of his 
 grace the Duke of Northumberland, and is usually 
 dragged once a year ; but they always replenish it with 
 young fish." The pond is no longer applied to the 
 same purpose, but carp are still to be caught in it. 
 
 GOTHIC LODGE. Situated below the pond, on the 
 
THE GRANGE. FULWELL LODGE. 345 
 
 same side of the road, recently the residence of the 
 late Dr. Stephens, and formerly of a French family of 
 the name of Dufaure, is built on the site of a small 
 fancy cottage which belonged to Benjamin Hawes, Esq., 
 M.P., Under Secretary of State for War. 
 
 In a small cottage which adjoined Coles's Nursery, 
 on the Staines Road, which was pulled down only 
 about five years ago, and was of the same character 
 as two cottages now remaining on the western side of 
 the nursery, lived and preached Joanna Southcote, the 
 deluded Devonshire woman, who claimed to be an 
 inspired prophetess. Many people in Exeter and in 
 London were imposed upon by her, and I have myself 
 found traces of attachment to her in Twickenham, 
 although she died in 1814. 
 
 The grounds surrounding the house called " THE 
 GRANGE," now in the" occupation of Mr. Edward Levy, 
 originally formed part of the orangery belonging to 
 Baroness Howe. The property was purchased by 
 Mr. Wright, of Halifax, Yorkshire, who formerly 
 lived here. 
 
 FULWELL LODGE, the last house on the Hanworth 
 Road, the seat of Sir W. D. Clay, Bart., and lately of 
 his father, Sir William Clay, Bart., M.P. for the Tower 
 Hamlets, obtains its name from a spring of good water 
 which exists on the estate. Mr. Dickason, the father of 
 the first Lady Clay, purchased it some years ago, and 
 left it to his daughter. It is said to have been a hunting- 
 box belonging to King James II. 
 
346 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 TWICKENHAM HOUSE SAVILLE HOUSE, THE RESIDENCE OF LADY 
 MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE HER DISAGREEMENTS WITH POPE 
 HEATH LANE LODGE HEATH HOUSE LAUREL LODGE 
 GROVE HOUSE COPT HALL HOUSE IN BACK LANE, THE 
 RESIDENCE OF FIELDING HOLLY HOUSE GROSVENOR HOUSE 
 TWICKENHAM SCHOOL. 
 
 TWICKENHAM HOUSE. Turning towards the old 
 village, the house called Twickenham House, near 
 the railway bridge, on the south side of the road, 
 now occupied by Dr. Hugh M. Diamond, is cele- 
 brated as having been the residence of Sir John 
 Hawkins, Knt. He was born in 1719. His father 
 was a Scotchman, and by trade a builder, who claimed 
 descent from the renowned Sir John Hawkins, who 
 was in command under Sir Francis Drake at the time 
 of the attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada. 
 In early life Sir J. Hawkins was apprenticed to 
 an attorney, and married, at the age of thirty-three, 
 the daughter of Mr. Peter Storer. He practised as an 
 attorney in London until circumstances enabled him to 
 acquire, in addition to his town residence, his country 
 house, which he did not give up until the death of his 
 father. He became the head of the Commission of the 
 
SfA JOHN HA WKINS. 347 
 
 Peace for the County of Middlesex, and chairman of 
 the Quarter Sessions, and, on being presented to the 
 king for the honour of knighthood, he was described 
 by the Earl of Rochefort (then one of the secretaries of 
 state) as " the best magistrate in the kingdom." Sir 
 John was a devoted fisherman, a recreation in which his 
 residence at Twickenham enabled him fully to indulge ; 
 he edited with notes and published Isaac Walton s 
 Complete Angler. He is best known, however, by two 
 works, one of which, The History of Music, which was 
 first published in five quarto volumes, and has recently 
 been re-published, he undertook at the instance of 
 Horace Walpole ; the other, a Life of Dr. Johnson, 
 has been sharply, and perhaps somewhat too severely, 
 censured by Boswell. 
 
 Hawkins's intimacy with Johnson was of long 
 standing. He was a member of a club founded by the 
 latter, which held its meetings in Ivy Lane, Paternoster 
 Row, and an original member of " the Literary Club." 
 " By assiduous attention upon Johnson in his last 
 illness, he obtained," says Boswell, " the office of one of 
 his executors." There is a building in the gardens of 
 Twickenham House which was built for the meetings 
 of the club to which Hawkins belonged. The circular 
 room with a dome roof, now used as a drawing-room, 
 was originally his concert-room. There is a very 
 curious fence in the grounds formed of sword-blades, 
 which tradition affirms to have been collected after the 
 battle from the field of Culloden. Sir John Hawkins 
 died in 1789, and was buried on January 28th, in 
 Westminster Abbey. He lies in the north cloister, 
 and, by his own request, only the letters " J. H " mark 
 
348 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 his gravestone.* His literary fame was perpetuated 
 by his daughter Laetitia Matilda, who lived until 
 her death in the large house at the end of Sion 
 Row, now belonging to Mr. Henry Bowyer. She pub- 
 lished a large number of novels, which have passed 
 into oblivion ; but her three volumes of Anecdotes still 
 possess much interest and afford many pleasing pictures 
 of what Twickenham was during the period which her 
 long life enabled her to remember. Dr. Johnson was 
 Miss Hawkins's ideal hero. She, with her brother 
 Henry, who was named on account of his considerable 
 attainments, " Harry Classic," and a companion, Miss 
 Mary Mitchell, formed as grotesque a trio as can well 
 be imagined. 
 
 After Sir John quitted Twickenham House, it 
 became the abode of Mr. Paul Vaillant, who was, 
 says Ironside, " many years a respectable bookseller 
 in the Strand, and one of the sheriffs of London and 
 Middlesex in 1759-60." He is described in the year 
 1816 as "lately" living here. After this time, for 
 many years, it was the abode of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ingram, and of Mrs. Ingram, after her husband's 
 decease. 
 
 SAVILLE HOUSE. The next house is celebrated as 
 having been that occupied for many years by Lady 
 Mary Wortley Montague. This lady was born in 1690, 
 and was the eldest daughter of the Duke of Kingston. 
 Her father, who was " of course a member of the K it- 
 Cat Club," nominated her, at the age of eight, as one of 
 the toasts for the year, and her name was engraved on 
 
 * Dean Stanley's Memorials of Westminster Abbey, note, p. 308. 
 
LAD Y MAR Y WORTLE Y MONTA G UE. 349 
 
 the club glasses, amongst the others, in proper form. 
 She married Mr. Edward Wortley Montague, and she 
 accompanied him, in 1716, when he was sent on an 
 embassy to the Porte. Pope had seen her frequently 
 in London before her departure, and had become 
 deeply impressed by her graces of mind and person ; 
 he was by chance the last person to part from her 
 before she set sail. During her absence he wrote 
 her many letters of an extravagantly complimentary 
 character, to which she sensibly replied by narrating 
 to him some ordinary and commonplace incidents in 
 her travels. Not only did she make herself famous 
 during her residence in Turkey by her admirable 
 " letters," descriptive of the country and the manners 
 and customs of its people, but she became a public 
 benefactress, in spite of much ignorant opposition, by 
 introducing inoculation into this country as a remedy 
 against small-pox. She returned to England in 1718 
 Pope, to his great delight, induced her to settle at 
 Twickenham, and by Sir Godfrey Kneller's assistance 
 obtained this house for her : she came to live in it 
 somewhere about the year 1 720, and Mr. Wortley 
 Montague purchased it in 1721. 
 
 There was no limit to the court which Pope paid 
 to her, and the admiration which he felt for her. First 
 of all he induced her to sit to Kneller for her portrait, 
 and he, in a few "-extemporaneous " verses, attempted 
 to depict 
 
 The equal lustre of her heavenly mind, 
 Where every grace with every virtue's joined. 
 
 To her he also addressed an ode ; and when Gay 
 congratulated him on the completion of his house and 
 
350 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 garden, he answered him in a very beautiful little poem, 
 in which he declares that, 
 
 In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, 
 In vain my Thames reflects the double scenes 
 Of hanging mountains and of sloping greens ; 
 Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, 
 And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. 
 
 Soon, however, the spell was broken ; the love burnt 
 itself out; the adoration changed to hate, and the 
 compliments to very reprehensible abuse : the poet's 
 last letter to her who had been his " bright particular 
 star," is dated September i5th, 1721. He suppressed 
 the five lines quoted above, and two which preceded 
 them, and Lady Mary, writing to her sister, states 
 that " she stifled them." The verse in Pope's Epistle 
 to Jervas, written in 1716, which runs now, 
 And other beauties envy Worsley's eyes, 
 
 was originally " Wortley's ; " the compliment was in 
 subsequent editions ingeniously transferred. Various 
 causes have been assigned to this sudden change. 
 Pope's own account was that he refused to satirize 
 some individuals against whom Lady Mary had a 
 grudge : Lady Mary said that Pope turned jealous 
 at her intimacy with the Duke of Wharton ; her 
 granddaughter gives a different and more probable 
 account. " At an unlucky moment, when she least 
 expected what romancers call a declaration, he (Pope) 
 made such passionate love to her, as, in spite of 
 her utmost endevours to be angry and look grave, 
 provoked an immoderate fit of laughter : from that 
 moment he was her implacable enemy." His vanity 
 being Pope's most vulnerable part, it is not surprising 
 
"A POP UPON POPE." 351 
 
 that he was offended at the consciousness of having 
 appeared grotesque in the eyes of his idol. Miss 
 Hawkins, in her Anecdotes, takes much lower ground, 
 and states that her father remembered that the 
 quarrel originated in the return of a borrowed pair 
 of sheets unwashed, but which of the two borrowed 
 and which lent had escaped him. If Sir John's state- 
 ment be correct, we may infer that it was Lady Mary 
 who was in fault, for Horace Walpole says " she was 
 always a dirty little thing : " on any other supposition 
 she really seems to have been very little to blame. 
 But a quarrel was, from the differing dispositions of 
 the poet and the lady, the one having been rendered 
 highly sensitive by indulgence, and disabled from 
 forming sound judgments by his own conceit, whimsical 
 and querulous, and the other too satirical to be prudent, 
 sharp, matter-of-fact, and worldly, sooner or later 
 almost inevitable. 
 
 Pope's attacks on Lady Mary were most scurrilous 
 and shameless, and she almost as scurrilously retorted ; 
 assistance being rendered her on many occasions by 
 Lord Hervey, whom the poet had also attacked under 
 the title of " Lady Fanny." Most conspicuous amongst 
 her replies are an Epistle to the Imitator of Horace, 
 and a pamphlet, that has always been thought to 
 have been the joint work of these two allies, which 
 appeared after the publication of the Dunciad. It 
 was entitled A Pop upon Pope, or a true and faithful 
 Account of a late horrid and barbarous Whipping com- 
 mitted on the body of Sawney Pope, Poet, as he was 
 innocently walking in Ham Walks, near the River 
 Thames, meditating verses for the good of the Public. 
 
352 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Supposed to have been done by two evil-disposed persons 
 out of spite and revenge for a harmless lampoon which 
 the said Poet had writ upon them. The narrative is 
 short, and states that two gentlemen came up to the 
 poet, and 
 
 Knowing him perfectly well, partly by his back and partly by his 
 face, walked a turn or two with him : when, entering into a con- 
 versation (as we hear, on the Dunciad, a pretty poem of the said 
 poet's writing), on a sudden one of the gentlemen hoisted poor 
 Master Pope, the poet, on his back, whilst the other drew out from 
 under his coat a long birchen rod (as we are informed, made out of 
 a stable broom) and with the said long rod did, with great violence, 
 and unmerciful hand strike Master Pope .... After the whipping, 
 
 and when the gentlemen had made off, good Mrs. B (Martha 
 
 Blount), a good charitable woman, and near neighbour of Master 
 Pope's, at Twickenham, chancing to come by, took him up in her 
 apron, and carried him to the water side, where she got a boat to 
 convey him home. 
 
 The whipping is then described as having affected 
 the poet's head, causing him to rave continually for 
 pens, ink, and paper, which were allowed him by his 
 physician, Dr. A(rbuthno)t, who entirely mistook his 
 case. A pretended advertisement, which is perhaps 
 its best part, was added to a second edition of the 
 lampoon. It purports to be Pope's reply extracted 
 from the Daily Post, of June i4th, 1728, in which 
 paper it is hardly necessary to say that it does not 
 appear.* It is as follows : 
 
 Whereas there has been a scandalous paper cried about the 
 streets, under the title of " a Pop upon Pope," insinuating that I was 
 whipped in Ham- Walks on Thursday last ; This is to give notice that 
 I did not stir out of my house at Twickenham all that day ; and the 
 same is a malicious and ill-grounded report A. P. 
 
 * This advertisement is, however, regarded by some authorities as a bond fide 
 repudiation on the poet's part. 
 
SAVILLE HOUSE. 353 
 
 Pope confesses that, 
 
 Once, and but once, his heedless youth was bit, 
 And liked that dangerous thing, a female wit. 
 
 Lady Mary remained in England until 1739, when, 
 in failing health and suffering from domestic disap- 
 pointments, she went abroad again, making Italy the 
 principal place of her travels. After her husband's 
 death in 1761 she returned only to survive him by 
 about one year. Her writings consist of poems, 
 eclogues, epigrams and satires : her character possesses 
 much interest, although there were many unwomanly 
 traits in it ; the judgment usually formed of her seems 
 in many respects to be far harsher than her deserts. 
 
 Her successor was a widowed Lady Saville, (from 
 whom the house derived its name " Saville House,") 
 the mother of Sir George Saville who, among many 
 others, is supposed to have been the original of 
 Richardson's " Sir Charles Grandison." She married 
 Dr. Charles Morton, the principal librarian of the 
 British Museum/' 5 " who, after her decease, married a 
 lady who had been his former wife's companion. 
 At the time Lysons wrote Mrs. James kept a 
 ladies' school here. The next occupant was the Rev. 
 C. Pettingal. After him followed Mr. Moreton Carr, 
 whose widow (a daughter of Lord Robert Ker) 
 removed from this house to Hampton Court Palace 
 in 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Napier next occupied 
 it, to whom Mr. Edwards succeeded ; the present 
 resident is Colonel Gardiner, late of the Buffs, who 
 recently purchased the house. 
 
 * See p. 75. ' 
 
354 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 HEATH LANE LODGE. Nearer the village is Heath 
 Lane Lodge, built on the site of a house, originally 
 the seat of more than one Earl Ferrers. Tradition 
 says that Laurence, the four.th Earl, who in a fit of 
 frenzy, shot Mr. Johnson, his steward, was taken from 
 this house to execution. In the year 1790 its occupant 
 appears to have been the Hon. George Shirley, son 
 of one Earl Ferrers and uncle of another. This house 
 was once the dwelling of Mr. Bouchier the celebrated 
 gamester. * Its gardens were most extensive, reaching 
 to the Teddington Road, and possessing a river 
 frontage between Poulett Lodge and Cross Deep Villa, 
 the terrace being on the upper side of the road. Old 
 prints depict the " handsome summer-house of brick 
 with ornaments and a dome top" as Ironside de- 
 scribes it. There was a portrait in the original house 
 of the lovely Lady Fanny Shirley, whom Miss Hawkins 
 remembers as residing here with her mother, "a very 
 ancient Countess Ferrers." She mentions Lady Fanny's 
 having presented a guinea-pig to her and her brother 
 in their early youth, and also expresses her regret at 
 the utter demolition of the old house. 
 
 The grounds, soon after the commencement of the 
 present century, were laid out by Mr. Isaac Swainson, 
 as a nursery-ground and botanic garden, which con- 
 tained as excellent a horticultural collection as any in 
 the kingdom. Mr. Swainson was succeeded in the 
 same pursuit by Mr. Canham. The small house in 
 the grounds, then called " Shirley House," was subse- 
 quently occupied by Mr. Benjamin Bousefield. Mr. 
 
 * See p. 69. 
 
HOUSES IN HEATH ROAD. 355 
 
 Freake, who also for a time lived here, says that in his 
 time these gardens contained very many rare plants 
 and shrubs, specimens of some of which are not to 
 be found in Kew Gardens. In 1852 Vice- Admiral 
 Lysaght took a lease of the house, to which he 
 made considerable additions, and on his decease the 
 remainder of the term was purchased by the present 
 occupant, Mr. Nesbitt. After Mr. George Shirley's 
 death the Hon. Welbore Ellis (afterwards Lord 
 Mendip and Viscount Clifden), purchased the property, 
 and it belongs now to Viscount Clifden, a minor. 
 
 HEATH HOUSE. Three houses, almost opposite 
 to the three last mentioned, on the north side of the 
 road, deserve notice. That which is nearest to the 
 railway-bridge Heath House was for some years 
 the residence of Mr. John Haynes, whose widow died 
 in 1816, at the age of ninety-two, and whose grave is 
 at the entrance of the old churchyard. A daughter 
 and a grand-daughter of theirs married members of 
 the Twining family, and a son of the latter was the 
 second incumbent of Holy Trinity Church. Other 
 occupants were Mr. Briggs ; Colonel Mackinnon, who 
 lost his life at the Battle of Inkermann ; Mr. E. A. 
 Wilde, whose eldest son is the present Lord Penzance ; 
 Mr. Barnewell ; and, now, Mr. C. A. Hardman. 
 
 LAUREL LODGE. The centre house of the three 
 
 Laurel Lodge belonged, in 1776, to Mr. Robert 
 
 Baker, and was occupied by Vice- Admiral Holborne ; 
 
 after him by M. Augustine Noverre, who sold it at 
 
 the beginning of the present century, to the relict 
 
356 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 of Benjamin Green, Esq., deputy registrar of the Court 
 of Chancery, who sold it, in 1805, to Mr. Samuel 
 Haynes ; in the course of a few years it became the 
 property of Mrs. Tubbs, who lived in it for some 
 time. More recent occupants have been Colonel 
 Godfrey Greene, Mr. G. R. Cox, Mr. Hargrove, and 
 now Frank Ashton, Esq., J.P. for the county Palatine 
 of Lancaster, who has much improved and enlarged it. 
 
 GROVE HOUSE. The next house was, in 1 790, the 
 residence of Mr. Robert Gray, whose widow lived in 
 it for some years after his decease. Mr. Gray was 
 father of Robert Gray, Bishop of Bristol, who was 
 renowned for his intrepidity during the great riots 
 in that city, in 1831, when the episcopal palace was 
 burnt down, and grandfather of another Robert Gray, 
 the present Bishop of Capetown and Metropolitan of 
 South Africa, consecrated in 1847, who, inheriting his 
 father's brave disposition, has, amid unceasing troubles 
 of the sorest kind, proved himself one of the most 
 zealous defenders of the Catholic faith that this century 
 has as yet produced. Subsequently a Roman Catholic 
 lady the Countess de Front lived here. She is 
 remembered to have possessed a live toad which had 
 been long imbedded in coal, a curiosity similar to that 
 which excited considerable interest in the International 
 Exhibition of 1862. She was succeeded by the ladies 
 Tumour, of the Winterton family ; after whom followed 
 Colonel Thomas George Harriott, J.P. The present 
 occupant is Mr. Gwatkin. 
 
 COPT HALL. Beyond Heath Lane Lodge, on the 
 
COPT HALL. 357 
 
 north-side of the road, but lying a little back from it, 
 are the ruined entrance-gates and out-buildings which 
 formerly belonged to Copt Hall. The original of the 
 house was a much smaller one, inhabited by Sir 
 Thomas Skipwith, which was much improved by its 
 next occupant, John, the eleventh Earl of Marr, who 
 married the sister of Lady Mary Wortley Montague. 
 Ironside says " Charles " Earl of Marr, but is manifestly 
 in error ; the parish rate-books give the name of Sir 
 Thomas Skipwith as paying rates in 1 708, and " Lord 
 Marr" from 1709 to 1712. Earl Charles had died in 
 1689.^ Ironside mentions Admiral Fox as residing 
 in this house after the Earl, and of him Miss Hawkins 
 narrates an amusing anecdote. She speaks of a 
 humble dwelling opposite Twickenham House (I 
 suppose on the site of Heath House) which had 
 been a laboratory occupied (not, of course, in her 
 recollection) by a chemist named Ward. This establish- 
 ment having become a nuisance to the neighbourhood, 
 the parish was obliged to have recourse to law. The 
 admiral, when the case was tried, was called as a witness; 
 he swore the stench was intolerable, and failed in being 
 able, on the spur of the moment, to find a suitable com- 
 parison for it. " Like like I don't know what it is 
 like," he said ; " it is like the horridest smell I ever 
 smelt." The examining barrister, remembering that 
 once when on important service the veteran's courage 
 had slightly given way, inquired, " Was it like gun- 
 powder, Mr. Admiral ? " Universal laughter compelled 
 the witness to retreat. 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Tuite was living herein 1762. He 
 
 * See pp. 56, 57. 
 
358 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 was followed by Mrs. Douglas, whose successor was 
 the Lady Ann Conolly, who lived here until the death 
 of her brother, the Earl of Strafford, left her in possession 
 of his house by the water-side. Lady Ann Conolly 
 was the eldest daughter of the third Earl Strafford and 
 relict of the Right Hon. William Conolly, of Castletown, 
 County Kildare. For some time Mrs. D'Oyley lived 
 here. It was to one of her servants (as I am informed) 
 that Chantrey, then quite unknown to fame, paid his 
 addresses ; he also received many kindnesses at the hand 
 of the butler, whose name was Bowyer, in acknowledge- 
 ment of which he painted him a picture. In subsequent 
 fame and success the friend of old days was not for- 
 gotten, but once a year until his death, in 1841, Sir 
 Francis used to come with Lady Chantrey (whether she 
 was the original sweetheart or not I do not know) to 
 dine with Bowyer and go out on the river with him. 
 
 Copt Hall was next, for many years, the residence 
 of William Jones Burdett, Esq., and after his decease 
 the property was purchased by Mr. C. J. Freake, by 
 whom the house was taken down and the gardens 
 devoted to building purposes. 
 
 FIELDING'S HOUSE. In Back Lane, not far from the 
 site of Copt Hall, stands a quaint old-fashioned wooden 
 house celebrated as the residence of Henry Fielding 
 the novelist. This author was second cousin to Lady 
 Mary Wortley Montague, their common great-grand- 
 father having been George Fielding, Earl of Desmond ; 
 she was a kind friend to him, and to her he dedicated 
 his first comedy, Love in Several Masks, published in 
 1727. He esteemed her judgment, he says, more " than 
 
FIELDING'S HOUSE HOLLY HOUSE. 359 
 
 the loudest applauses of a theatre. Whatever had 
 passed it, he thought might without any imputation of 
 immodesty refer want of success to want of judgment 
 in an audience." In this house he wrote his most 
 famous work Tom Jones, which was published in 1 746. 
 Horace Walpole, with much less than his usual taste, 
 refers to Fielding's " unimaginable wit " in his Parish 
 Register of Twickenham* 
 
 Fielding did not come to reside in the parish until 
 after the death of his first wife the original of Amelia 
 after which event he married her maid Mary Mac- 
 daniel : the baptism of their son, William, which was 
 solemnized in 1747, has been quoted in the extracts 
 from the registers. He left Twickenham on being 
 appointed, in 1748, through Lord Lyttelton's interest, 
 a Middlesex magistrate, and died on a foreign excur- 
 sion, undertaken on account of ill-health, at Lisbon, 
 in 1754. Hogarth made a sketch of him from 
 memory after death, and Lady Montague wrote of 
 him thus : 
 
 I am sorry for H. Fielding's death, not only as I shall read no 
 more of his writings, but I believe he lost more than others, as no 
 man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do 
 so ... His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains 
 half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a 
 venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded 
 he has known more happy moments than any prince upon earth. 
 
 HOLLY HOUSE. The large house at the back of 
 this, called " Holly House," now, in common with most 
 Twickenham residences, despoiled of its country-like 
 isolation, and approached from a road lined with " neat 
 villas," was for many years the abode of Mr. John 
 
 * See p. 306. 
 
360 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Spackman, and afterwards of his son-in-law Lieutenant 
 Thomas Hill, of his Majesty's navy. It has until very 
 lately remained in the possession of the descendants of 
 the same family, although it has been let by them to 
 various tenants, amongst whom was Miss Chownes, 
 who kept a ladies' school here. Mr. Swanston, an 
 eminent chancery lawyer, and a gentleman of great 
 literary and artistic tastes, whose valuable library has 
 been recently sold, resided in it for many years. 
 His son, Mr. C T. Swanston, Q.C., succeeded his 
 father in the occupation of the house : but within the 
 last few years he has left and disposed of it* It is 
 now occupied by the Rev. J. Twentyman, M.A., Vice- 
 master of King's College School. 
 
 GROSVENOR HOUSE. The old house near the first 
 additional grave-yard at the back of the London Road, 
 now called " Grosvenor House " (the residence of 
 Mr. Booth) is mentioned by Ironside as the residence 
 of " Thomas Budgen, Esq., of Darking in the county 
 of Surrey ; sometime the residence of the Dowager 
 Lady Harborough." It next belonged to " Mr. J. 
 Spyres, draftsman," and it was for many years the 
 residence of Mr. Charles Coombs Clark, a medical 
 
 * It may be mentioned here that Mr. Swanston possesses a very curious 
 Twickenham relic, a fork and spoon which belonged to the great Lord Bacon. It is 
 composed of three materials, " gold, silver, and glass ; and is so contrived that 
 to the fork may be attached a bowl, by which is formed an elegant and useful 
 spoon. The bowl is of silver and is fastened to the two silver prongs of the fork by 
 four silver loops through which they pass. The handle of the fork is of glass, set 
 in silver, which is joined to the fork by an ornament of gold ; and at the top 
 modelled in gold is a boar, the crest of Lord Bacon. The length of the fork inclusive 
 of the crest is five inches and the circumference of the bowl seven inches. The 
 entire weight is 594 grains, or I oz. 4dwts. 18 grains." This description was com- 
 municated to the Illustrated London News of January 22nd, 1848, and an engraving 
 was given with it. 
 
WALNUT-TREE HOUSE. 361 
 
 man who had a considerable practice in Twickenham 
 in his day. 
 
 Opposite this house on the east-side of the London 
 Road is " Twickenham School," which is now conducted 
 by Dr. Clayton Palmer, L.C.P.,who was preceded imme- 
 diately by the Rev. J. Wilkie, and before him by the 
 Rev. Dr. Lewis. The house was in the beginning of 
 the century a ladies' school under Mrs. Pomeroy. It 
 had previously been the residence of a very aged lady, 
 Mrs. Nepheune, the widow of an admiral in the Dutch 
 service. 
 
 WALNUT-TREE HOUSE. The old house at the 
 corner of the road joining the London Road to Arragon 
 Road, is evidently a portion of the out-buildings of 
 Arragon House ; it appears in the map prefixed to 
 Ironside's History exactly in its present shape, and 
 was then used as a shop by Mr. Pritchard, a carver 
 and gilder. 
 
362 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 THE HOUSES Continued. 
 
 FORTESCUE HOUSE THE RESIDENCE OF MR. S. T. COLE 
 BATH HOUSE PERRYN HOUSE : MR. TWINING'S MUSEUM 
 HEATHAM HOUSE NEVILLE HOUSE AND COLNE COTTAGE 
 BROOK HOUSE IVY LODGE THE LIMES AMYAND HOUSE 
 NEWLAND HOUSE GROVE COTTAGE S. STEPHEN'S MR. 
 LAING'S NURSERY GROUND HIGHSHOT HOUSE NORTH END 
 HOUSE : MR. H. G. BOHN'S ART COLLECTION MONTPELIER 
 Row SANDYCOMB LODGE AILSA PARK VILLAS : RESIDENCES 
 OF CHARLES DICKENS AND MR. HORMUZD RASSAM. 
 
 FORTESCUE HOUSE. THE rather dreary - looking 
 mansion, called " Fortescue House," at the corner of 
 Shews Lane, derives its name from its having been the 
 residence of a former Lord Fortescue, who possessed in 
 it several valuable pictures, by Vandyck, Rembrandt, and 
 other painters of celebrity. It soon degenerated from its 
 earlier uses, and became a ladies' boarding school, kept 
 by Miss Button. Since that time it has been continually 
 used (conspicuously by Mrs. Lewis, amongst others), 
 for educational purposes. Amongst many occupants 
 may be mentioned Dr. Henry Nicholson, M. Raymond 
 De Vericour, and the Rev. James Balfour. The raising 
 of the road on account of the railway bridge has spoilt 
 its approach and given to it the appearance of lying in 
 a hollow, which it did not originally present. It is 
 
PERRYN HOUSE. 363 
 
 now rented as an orphanage for the destitute children 
 of members of the Metropolitan and City Police. 
 
 Beyond it was a small house belonging to Mr. 
 Stephen Cole, where lived Mrs. Huddy, the widow of 
 Mr. Thomas Huddy, an elder of the Trinity House. 
 This has long since been taken down. 
 
 On the site where now is a most unhealthy double 
 row of cottages called Cole's Buildings, stood the 
 residence of Mr. Stephen Thomas Cole, and his wife 
 Lady Elizabeth. This gentleman succeeded his father, 
 Mr. Stephen Cole, who was in the commission of the 
 peace for the county of Middlesex. 
 
 BATH HOUSE. Nearly opposite to Fortescue House 
 is the house used for the last few years by the late 
 Mr. Merrett, as a boys' school of considerable excellence: 
 predecessors of whom, in a like profession, have been, 
 amongst others, the Rev. L. M. Stretch and Mr. Gittins. 
 It was until about the year 1 830 the residence of Colonel 
 Espinasse, who moved hence to Heatham House. 
 
 PERRYN HOUSE. At the junction of the roads 
 leading to Whitton, on the left, and to Isleworth, 
 on the right, is " Perry n House," so called from its 
 having been originally the residence of Sir Richard 
 Perryn, Knt, a baron of the Exchequer. The judge, 
 who died in 1803, left the house to his daughter Mary, 
 who married Captain Hatfield, whom she survived two 
 years, dying in 1834. One of their four daughters 
 married a cousin, and the second son of this couple 
 
364 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 is Mr. R. H. Perryn, now residing in Cambridge Park. 
 A few years after Mrs. Hatfi eld's decease the property 
 was purchased by Thomas Twining, Esq., J. P., who 
 resided in it till his death in 1861, since which time it 
 has been, and now is, the home of his son, who 
 commenced, in 1856, to form a permanent Educational 
 Exhibition of things appertaining to Domestic and 
 Sanitary Economy, which, from its having been 
 devoted to the furtherance of what may be called 
 economic knowledge, took the name of the " Economic 
 Museum." 
 
 The building stood in the grounds of Perryn House. 
 Its contents included models or specimens of 
 
 Building designs, intended as a guide to persons de- 
 sirous of improving the dwellings of the working classes. 
 
 Building materials, fixtures, furniture, and household 
 utensils. 
 
 Textile materials, fabrics, and costumes. 
 
 Food, fuel, and household stores. 
 
 Sanitary appliances for water supply, ventilation, 
 sewerage; disinfectants, baths ; drugs and their adultera- 
 tions ; poisons and their antidotes ; means of safety in 
 case of accident, etc., etc. 
 
 Appliances for home education, self-instruction, and 
 recreation, and for cottage decoration ; musical instru- 
 ments ; gymnastic apparatus. 
 
 Scientific appliances for household use ; clocks, 
 thermometers, barometers, scales, weights, measures, 
 tools, etc., etc. 
 
 Attached to the museum was a valuable and com- 
 prehensive library of books, pamphlets, and documents 
 (British and foreign), selected and arranged for con- 
 
HEATHAM HOUSE. 365 
 
 venience of reference in matters of domestic, sanitary, 
 educational, and social economy and practical benevo- 
 lence.* 
 
 Access to the museum was readily afforded to 
 visitors. Its usefulness and that of lectures explanatory 
 of the subjects of which it contained examples, compiled 
 by Mr. Twining and delivered by his agents in many 
 parts of London and the suburbs, gradually became 
 felt and acknowledged by many persons whose opinion 
 was of great weight and value. The labour of many 
 years, unhappily, was suddenly terminated, and the 
 results of much care, study, and expenditure utterly 
 destroyed. On Tuesday, the 4th of April, 1871, the 
 museum was discovered to be on fire, but the flames, 
 then confined to the cellars, were promptly extinguished. 
 On the next day, however, at about the same hour in 
 the afternoon, the fire broke out again ; it soon obtained 
 so firm a hold upon the building as to resist all the 
 strenuous efforts made by the Twickenham and other 
 neighbouring fire brigades to subdue it. The museum 
 and all its valuable contents, including the library, were 
 totally consumed. The loss (so far as such a loss can 
 be estimated) amounted to about io,ooo/. 
 
 HEATHAM HOUSE. Opposite to this house, at the 
 commencement of the Whitton Road, on the left, is 
 " Heatham House," described by Ironside as " a neat 
 house, with a pleasant garden round it, through which 
 runs a pretty stream of water " (the river Crane, mis- 
 called the Colne), " over which is a neat bridge, and 
 under the bridge a small cascade. The new bridge 
 
 * Science for the People, by T. Twining, Esq.,- pp. n, 118 121. 
 
366 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 opposite is a pleasing object from the garden. These 
 premises belong to Stephen Cole, Esq., brewer .... 
 This gentleman's family have been resident in Twicken- 
 ham ever since the year 1630, as appears by the Isle- 
 worth survey." The member of the family referred to 
 in the Survey was Mr. Thomas Cole, a brewer, who 
 lived in a house on the site of the " Three Tuns " 
 alehouse, which stood very near Fortescue House, and 
 was taken down many years ago. On or near the 
 site of Heatham House was an old mansion, which 
 the same survey mentions as having been inhabited by 
 Richard Corbet, the poet, and Bishop of Norwich (to 
 which see he had been translated from that of Oxford), 
 whose father is said to have had a nursery ground at this 
 place before him. Lysons mentions Lady Anne Simpson 
 as living in Heatham House after Mr. Stephen Cole, 
 and to her succeeded Roger Wilbraham, Esq.,* a well- 
 known Whig partizan, an associate of Charles James 
 Fox, and a true specimen of a portly, convivial, old 
 English gentleman. After Mr. Wilbraham's death, in 
 1829, Colonel Espinasse came to reside here until 
 his death in 1845. In the year 1846 Mr. George 
 Beauchamp Cole, whose first wife was a Miss Espinasse, 
 occupied it. After Mr. Cole left it it became the 
 residence of Major W. A. Shaw, and its present 
 occupant is Mrs. Shaw, who is in no way connected 
 with her predecessor. 
 
 NEVILLE HOUSE AND COLNE COTTAGE. Next to 
 
 * Mr. Wilbraham devoted much time to the production of fruit of which he was 
 a great connoiseur. So anxious was he that he is traditionally reported to have 
 been in the habit of sitting up during the night so as to be sure of gathering his 
 pears at the exact moment of perfect ripeness ! 
 
BROOK HOUSE. 367 
 
 Perryn House, on the left hand side of the Isleworth 
 Road, is Neville House, and opposite to it, but a little 
 nearer the bridge, is Colne Cottage, both of which, from 
 an exceedingly remote period, have been in the posses- 
 sion, and, during the greater part of the time have been 
 the residences, of members of the Lister family, one of 
 very long standing in the parish. Major General 
 Henry Lister, who had occupied Neville House, was 
 succeeded by the Duke of Montrose in or about 1785. 
 Others of the family who owned it succeeded his grace. 
 Recently it was tenanted by the late Mr. Richard 
 Archibald Brooman, and is now unoccupied. Colne 
 Cottage was for a long time the residence of Mr. 
 Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Cole, their son, Mr. 
 George B. Cole, being born here. Miss Lister after- 
 wards made it her own residence, and remained here 
 up to the time of her death. It is now in the occupa- 
 tion of Mr. Vincent Griffiths. 
 
 BROOK HOUSE. Beyond this is " Brook House," 
 which was, as Ironside mentions, in his time, a select 
 private school, kept by the Rev. Coulston Carr, one 
 of the sons of the Rev. Robert Carr, for many years 
 the much-esteemed and valued curate of the parish. A 
 son of the Rev. C. Carr became Bishop of Chichester. 
 It was afterwards the private residence of Mrs. Hodges. 
 In 1829, when the house became the property of Captain 
 Ramsden, it was lowered by one storey, and made into 
 its present shape. Miss Porter occupied it from 1830 
 for some years. Very recently Mr. Trew has lived 
 in it, and it is now the residence of Mr. Edmund B. 
 Ashforcl 
 
368 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 IVY LODGE, which is nearly opposite to the pre- 
 ceding, was enlarged by Captain John Ramsden, of 
 the Hon. East India Company's service, from a much 
 smaller house, and by him made his abode until his 
 death in 1841. He was succeeded by his son Mr. 
 John George Ramsden, whose widow now occupies 
 the house. 
 
 THE LIMES. Beyond Ivy Lodge on the other side 
 of the road is a house, now occupied by Mr. R. W. 
 Burrows, which belongs to, and has often been inhabited 
 by members of, the Cole family. 
 
 AMYAND HOUSE. Across the fields which are not 
 yet built upon, and the railway, on the upper road to 
 Richmond, is Amyand House. The property on which 
 it stands belonged to a Miss Maria Rider, who, in 1760, 
 married the Rev. Samuel Hemming, minister of Mont- 
 pelier Chapel. The house was built, or mainly enlarged, 
 by them shortly after. Mrs. Hemming devised the 
 property to her sister, Mrs. Frances Amyand, by 
 whom it was left to her son, Thomas Amyand ; from 
 him, dying intestate, it passed to his sister Frances, 
 the wife of Mr. William Henry Haggard, of Kneb- 
 worth Place, Herts. Their son William Haggard 
 inherited it on his father's decease in 1837; and 
 he left it to his youngest son, Mr. James Haggard, 
 of Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, the present owner. 
 In 1799 the house was occupied by Lord Clifden 
 as tenant; and from 1813 to 1827 by Miss Porter. 
 At other times members of the family who own it 
 have resided in it, and recently F. H. N. Glossop, 
 
GROVE COTTAGE. HIGH-SHOT HOUSE. 369 
 
 Esq., J.P., who, in 1866, was succeeded by his 
 brother, the present vicar of the parish, the Rev* 
 G. G. P. Glossop, M.A. Its present occupant is the 
 Rev. J. B. W. Woollnough, M. A., curate of the parish. 
 
 NEWLAND HOUSE. Mr. Glossop left Amyand 
 House in 1871, having erected for himself a residence 
 called Newland House, which stands on a portion of 
 the original garden of Amyand House. It was built 
 after designs by Mr. R. W. Edis, F.S.A. 
 
 GROVE COTTAGE, in which Miss Proby now lives, 
 then much smaller, was occupied by the Rev. George 
 Townshend, Canon of Durham, and author of Arma- 
 geddon, &c., during his residence in Twickenham. 
 
 S. STEPHEN'S, or, as it was called in old days, " The 
 Folley," recently occupied by Dr. Yearsley, a well- 
 known aurist, had, for a short time, somewhere about 
 the year 1815, as its inmates, the widow and two 
 daughters of King Christolphe of S. Domingo. 
 
 Mr. Laing's nursery ground is marked on Ironside's 
 map as being in the possession of Mr. Nettleship. 
 Descendants of that gentleman own the property still, 
 and ancestors preceded him in the occupation of it. It 
 has belonged to the same family for upwards of one 
 hundred and fifty years, and has always been applied 
 to the same use. 
 
 HIGH-SHOT HOUSE, now Mrs. Hough's, situated 
 near the Richmond Road, in Crown Lane, is interesting 
 
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370 MEMORIALS OF 1WICKENHAM. 
 
 as having been the first house in Twickenham inhabited 
 by Louis Philippe when he and his brothers were in 
 exile and very poor. The duke taught drawing con 
 amore to a Miss Forbes, the daughter of a lady then 
 occupying North End House. Some time afterwards 
 a widow lady, Mrs. Pope, lived here, with her daughters, 
 one of which latter became, in 1821, the wife of the Most 
 Rev. Richard Whately, D.D., Lord Archbishop of 
 Dublin. After these tenants the family of Mr. James 
 Foy, occupied it. Mr. Foy died in 1837, his widow 
 in 1850, and his eldest daughter, surviving until the 
 age of eighty- two, was buried on March ist, 1872, in 
 the old cemetery in the London Road, a faculty for 
 that purpose being in the possession of the family. 
 
 NORTH END HOUSE, the residence of Mr. Henry 
 George Bohn, has been formed out of two houses 
 which stood originally back to back. Amongst the 
 occupants of the smaller of the two may be mentioned 
 Mrs. Burt, widow of the Rev. Robert Burt, LL.B., 
 vicar of the parish, Miss Gascoyne, and Mr. Hardman ; 
 and of the larger, Edward Hawke Locker, secretary to 
 Greenwich Hospital, author of A Tour in Spain with 
 Lord John Russell in 1813; The Greenwich Naval 
 Gallery; and other works. He was the great friend 
 of David Wilkie, who spent much of his time here. 
 Another occupant was General Ord, whose first wife 
 was a daughter of Mr. Beckford, of Fonthill, and his 
 second, a daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. 
 
 Mr. Bohn's art collection is of national celebrity ; 
 its interest and value are almost unrivalled. It is the 
 most varied and extensive of any collection made by 
 
NORTH END HOUSE. 371 
 
 an amateur since Mr. Ralph Bernal ; and it exceeds 
 Mr. Denial's in number, if not in value. To 
 attempt to enter into details concerning it would be 
 wholly impossible, and even if possible, inconsistent 
 with the limits of the present work. The pictures 
 include specimens of the works of very many English 
 and foreign masters of celebrity, especially those of 
 the early German, Flemish, and Italian schools ; 
 the collection of porcelain is unique : besides which 
 are innumerable articles of vertu of the rarest kind, 
 including a quantity of ancient English and foreign plate. 
 
 Mr. Bohn received the Fine Arts' Club, and the 
 Philo-Biblon Club, on June lyth, 1871, and provided for 
 the visitors (who numbered about eight hundred) on 
 that occasion a slight sketch of the arrangement of 
 his rooms and their contents. From this it will be 
 convenient, in default of any more minute description, 
 to make a few extracts, suggestive of the character of 
 the collection. 
 
 Among the pictures are : " The Adoration of the 
 Magi," painted in distemper by Lucas van Leyden, 
 1513; a domestic interior by Greuze ; a drawing in 
 body colours by Watteau ; " The Virgin, Child, and 
 S. John," attributed to Raphael ; a large picture of 
 the " Crucifixion," by Lucas van Leyden, in which 
 the court of Maximilian is introduced (considered one 
 of the finest examples of this master in England) ; 
 " The Death of Lucretia," by Francesco Furini (called 
 by Lanzi the Guido of the Florentine School). There 
 are also pictures by Wouwerman, Jan Miel, Verbceck- 
 hoven, Cantarini, Sassoferrato, Blaerenberghe, Velas- 
 quez, Vandyck, Esaias Vandevelde, Vinckenboom, 
 
372 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Steenwyck, Peter Neefs, Van Goyen, Morgenstern, 
 Masaccio, Albert Durer, Memling, Fra Angelico, 
 Giorgione, Pierino del Vaga, Canaletti, Zuccarelli, 
 Janet, Le Nain, Van Huysum, Rachel Ruysch, Quentin 
 Matsys, John and Andrew Both, Poelemburg, Van der 
 Werf, Breemberg, Van Uden,Ant. Caracci, Ommeganck, 
 Breughel, Peter Gheysels, Fr. and Wm. Mieris, 
 Teniers, Battoni, Ostade, Martin Schoen, Loutherbourg, 
 Van Balen, John Van Eyck, Mabuse, Taddeo Gaddi, 
 Fra Filippo Lippi, Murillo, Van der Heyden, Holbein, 
 Zuccaro, Elsheimer, Lucas Cranach, A. Vandevelde, 
 Carlo Maratti, Gerard Douw, Eglon van der Neer, 
 Hackert, Moucheron, Van Loo, Slingelandt, Watteau, 
 Lancret, Pater, Guard! ; and of the English school, 
 by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Morland, Gains- 
 borough, Constable, Stark, John (called Old) Crome, 
 Blake, Hogarth, J. M. W. Turner, Benjamin West, 
 Stothard, Nasmyth, Sidney Cooper, Edward W. Cooke, 
 and Frith's original sketch of his portrait of Charles 
 Dickens. Among the miniatures and enamels worthy 
 of particular mention are : Henry Bone's enamels of 
 the Court of Charles II. ; six large miniature portraits 
 of Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, Edward VI., &c., on 
 copper, in ancient ivory frames, set with carbuncles ; 
 Sir William Ross's fine miniature of the Royal 
 children, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, and Prince 
 Arthur; also a miniature by the same artist called 
 " Sisterly Affection ; " Enamel portraits of Byron, Scott, 
 and Moore, by Essex ; a very large Munich enamel of 
 the Soult Murillo (the glorious picture of the Assump- 
 tion now in the Louvre gallery) ; a series of forty minia- 
 ture portraits of the kings of England, from Egbert to 
 
MR. BOHWS ART COLLECTION. 373 
 
 William III., painted on ivory by George Vertue. 
 Besides those mentioned are some fine Limoges, 
 Cloisonne, Venetian, Chinese, Dresden, and Battersea 
 Enamels, and upwards of a thousand French, German, 
 and English miniatures of the smaller kind, including 
 some by Oliver, Cooper, Milliard, Petitot, Bordier, 
 Isabey, Augustine, Hall, Zinck, Boit, Cosway, Henry 
 Bone, Ross, &c. 
 
 Among the glass, porcelain, and pottery are choice 
 specimens of Venetian glass, rock crystal, Bohemian 
 and German engraved glass, Majolica and Rhodian 
 dishes ; Persian, Turkish, and Japanese pottery and 
 porcelain ; Delft, Luxembourg, Nevers, Rouen, 
 Marseilles, Moustiers, German, Italian, Fulham, 
 Lambeth, and other Faience; Sevres, Vienna, Dresden, 
 Berlin, Italian, Tournay, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, 
 Russian, Oriental, and other porcelain ; Chelsea, 
 Worcester, Derby, Bristol, Bow, Swansea, Lowestoft 
 Plymouth, Salopian, and other English porcelain and 
 pottery ; French porcelain of every kind, from the early 
 " pate tendre " period of Saint Cloud and Chantilly to 
 the more recent manufactures ; Roman and Greek 
 glass ; Ancient pottery, including Etruscan, Roman, 
 Mexican, Peruvian, Spanish, German, English, &c. ; 
 a large collection of early Dresden, Capo di Monte, 
 Berlin, Carl Theodore, Vienna, Hochst, and other 
 figures ; Faience and metal tankards ; Wedgwood 
 specimens of every date ; Palissy ware, including a fine 
 large " Fontaine Rustique ; " a fine specimen of Rouen 
 Faience, being a tureen in the form of a turkey. 
 
 A large case filled with early Italian, German, and 
 other Ivories, including several by Fiamingo. 
 
374 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Wood carvings attributed to Albert Dtirer, Holbein, 
 and others. 
 
 And amongst the objects to which especial 
 attention was directed were 
 
 Chippendale carvings, including a large pair of 
 Girandoles. 
 
 A pair of mechanical singing birds, in a large 
 cage, with playing glass fountain, &c., formerly exhibited 
 at Weeks's Museum. 
 
 Several Gobelin chairs. 
 
 A four-leaf folding screen, decorated by the late 
 Dowager Duchess of Northumberland.* 
 
 A polyptich, in the form of a book, containing 
 eight fine paintings of scriptural subjects, on copper, 
 by Rottenhamer, (from the Denon collection). 
 
 A small full length terra-cotta figure of the late 
 Prince Metternich, modelled on his own estate, and 
 presented by himself, just before his death, in memory, 
 (as I am informed), of his pleasant school-days with 
 Mr. H. G. Bohn's father. 
 
 In the early morning of April 2oth, 1870, Mr. 
 Bohn's residence was broken into, and property, con- 
 sisting mainly of silver plate and bijouterie, in value 
 at least i,ooo/. was carried off. Amongst the articles 
 stolen were a large silver box, engraved by Hogarth, 
 surrounded with raised figures, representing the members 
 of the Shere Lane Club, and his Modern Midnight 
 Conversation embossed on the top, dated 1735; 
 several large and small mediaeval tankards and covers ; 
 a small mediaeval altar-piece with painted miniature, 
 
 * Her Grace made this screen for the fancy bazaar held at Riversdale in aid of 
 the new Parochial School Buildings in the Arragon Road, referred to on p. 154. 
 
MONTPELIER ROW. 375 
 
 set with diamonds ; an ancient enamelled gold watch 
 with mechanical works on face, and a portrait of Marie 
 Antoinette represented spinning ; two ancient silver 
 watches, one with the name of John Dryden ; a small 
 ivory dyptich, set with crystals, &c. Of this loss, which 
 was irreparable, nothing was recovered, excepting a 
 few trifles found buried in a market garden between 
 North End House and Twickenham Railway Station. 
 Besides Mr. Bohn's reputation as an authority 
 concerning works of art, he perpetuates the literary 
 fame of the village by his own works, which are 
 numerous and valuable, by his labours as an editor 
 of books on various subjects and in many languages, 
 and conspicuously by the way in which he has promoted 
 the diffusion of literature of the highest class, having 
 placed, by means of his renowned " Libraries," many 
 of the best works in almost every department of litera- 
 ture within the easy reach of all classes of readers. 
 
 MONTPELIER Row, which contains about twenty- 
 four houses, intersected, about two thirds of the way 
 down, by Twickenham Chapel, has frequently supplied 
 residences to persons and families of distinction, some 
 few of which may here be mentioned. The row runs 
 at right angles to the river on the south side of the 
 Richmond Road from exactly opposite North End 
 House to South End House at its lower termination. 
 
 No. i is now occupied by the Rev. Robert 
 Gascoyne Burt, M.A., a son of the vicar above 
 referred to ; and before him by Miss Gascoyne. At the 
 end of the last century Captain Charles Hamilton 
 inhabited No. 12. No. 14, where Captain R. Sydney 
 
376 MEMORIALS OP TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Smith, R.N., now lives, belonged to, and was 
 occupied by, the late Mr. Joseph Skelton, the talented 
 line engraver and the illustrator of Oxonia Antigua 
 Restaurata, and Meyrick ' s Ancient Armour. In the 
 middle of the last century Lady Bridgett Osborne 
 lived in No. 16, a house which, till his death in 1867, 
 was occupied by Mr. Ephraim Gompertz, subsequently 
 by his widow, who survived him four years, and now 
 by the Rev. J. B. Mayor, M.A., formerly fellow of 
 S. John's College, Cambridge, Professor of Classical 
 Languages and Literature at King's College, 
 London. The house next to the chapel, on the north 
 side, now occupied by Captain Antrobus, has often been 
 tenanted by ministers of the chapel, amongst them by 
 the Rev. Dr. Clarke. This " Chapel House," or as 
 it is now called " Holyrood House," recently vacated 
 by the Rev. C. B. Reid, was in the year 1850 the 
 residence of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate ; and 
 still longer ago, it was that of Captain de Starck, 
 a descendant of Sir Chaloner Ogle whose monu- 
 ment is in the north gallery of the parish church. 
 The Rev. Jeremiah Seed, when Minister of Mont- 
 pelier Chapel, lived in No. 19, and towards the close 
 of the last century Governor Bouchier lived in No. 21. 
 The Rev. Henry Parish, D.C.L., formerly a chaplain 
 in India, a much more recent minister of the chapel, 
 has only lately vacated the last house but one, in which 
 he had lived for many years : a former occupant was 
 Mr. Tolfrey, an eminent Oriental scholar, to whom 
 was entrusted the education of two Cingalese princes. 
 In one of these smaller houses lived, years ago, two 
 Miss Pouletts, the belles of Twickenham in their day. 
 
SANDYCOMB LODGE. AILSA PARK VILLAS. 377 
 
 Another was occupied by Mrs. de Berniere, a sister of 
 the late Dr. Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury, and 
 her two daughters. In South End House, Mr. E. W. 
 Wingrove's, or in houses in its immediate vicinity, have 
 lived Lady Bruce, Lady Buchan, Earl Macclesfield, 
 Lady Stowell, Lord Hilsborough, Mr. Sergeant, Mr. 
 Budgen, Mrs. Clayton, Mrs. Mazzinghi, and others. 
 
 SANDYCOMB LODGE, near the entrance to Twicken- 
 ham Park, is famous as having been for some years 
 the residence of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. ; "whence he 
 rejoiced in being able to see the house of Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds on the hill." He painted the scene, and 
 traces of his studies here, following as he then did the 
 congenial creations of Claude and Vandevelde, are 
 conspicuous in some other of his works, or, if we must 
 quote Mr. Ruskin, " have manifested themselves in 
 many vulgarities in his composition pictures, vulgarities, 
 which may perhaps be best expressed by the general 
 term, ' Twickenham classicism/ as consisting princi- 
 pally in conceptions of ancient and of rural life, such as 
 have influenced the erection of most of our suburban 
 villas." * Many, however, will entertain a different 
 opinion from that of the eminent art critic, and will 
 appreciate both the quiet peaceful English scenery 
 to be found in Twickenham, and Turner's represen- 
 tations of it more highly than Ruskin does. 
 
 A very ugly row of small houses, on the road to 
 Isleworth, just beyond the Railway-bridge, called AILSA 
 PARK VILLAS, possesses a peculiar interest from the fact 
 
 * FrascSs Magazine, July, 1860, p. 101. 
 
378 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 that the second of them was the summer residence of 
 Charles Dickens in the year 1838. Mr. John Forster, 
 (to whose courtesy I owe it that I am able to make this 
 identification) in his delightful life of the great novelist 
 and humourist, describes the company which clustered 
 round " the one bright particular star : " 
 
 "There," he says, "with Talfourd and with Thackeray and 
 Jerrold we had many friendly days . . . and the social charm of Maclise 
 was seldom wanting. . . . Edwin Landseer, all the world's favourite, 
 and the excellent Stanfield, came a few months later . . . another 
 painter-friend was George Cattermole ... A friend . . . especially 
 welcome, too, was the novelist Mr. Ainsworth, who shared with us 
 incessantly for the three following years in the companionship which 
 began at his house . . . Frederick Dickens . . . passed much time in 
 his brother's home, and another familiar face was . . . Mr. Mitton, 
 through whom there was introduction of the relatives of a friend and 
 partner Mr. Smithson, the gentleman connected with Yorkshire, 
 mentioned in his preface to Nickleby, who became very intimate in 
 his house. These, his father and mother and their two younger sons, 
 with members of his wife's family, and his married sisters and their 
 husbands, Mr. and Mrs. Burnett and Mr. and Mrs. Austin, are figures 
 that all associate themselves prominently with the days of Doughty 
 Street and the cottages of Twickenham and Petersham" (where 
 Dickens spent the next summer in Elm Cottage, now Mrs. W. 
 Ashford's,) "as remembered by me in the summers of 1838 
 and 1839." 
 
 Mr. Forster adds an amusing note regarding a 
 balloon-club for the children which was instituted at 
 Twickenham, of which he appears to have been elected 
 the president on condition of supplying all the balloons, 
 a condition which he seems to have so insufficiently 
 complied with as to bring down upon himself a 
 vote of censure from the honorary secretary, Charles 
 Dickens. 4 " 
 
 Another of these villas AILSA PARK LODGE is 
 
 * The Life of Charles Dickens, vol. i. pp. 157159. 
 
AILSA PARK LODGE. 379 
 
 now the residence of Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, F.R.G.S., 
 late first assistant political .resident at Aden, to whom 
 was entrusted the charge of the British Mission to 
 Abyssinia. Mr. Rassam received orders to convey to 
 King Theodore a letter from her Majesty, the delivery 
 of which was expected to procure the liberation of Consul 
 Cameron and other British subjects then in captivity. 
 This anticipation failed of fulfilment, and eventually 
 Mr. Rassam was himself incarcerated ; and these cir- 
 cumstances led to the invasion of Abyssinia under 
 Sir Robert Napier, in 1868. Mr. Rassam's "prudence, 
 discretion and good management," as was testified to 
 him by Lord Stanley, then Secretary of State for 
 Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the British Government, 
 " tended greatly to preserve the lives and thus to insure 
 the ultimate release of the captives." 
 
380 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 WHITTON. 
 
 THE HAMLET " KNELLER HALL " WHITTON PARK AND WHITTON 
 PLACE OTHER RESIDENTS COLONEL ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL'S 
 HOUSE OTHER ILLUSTRIOUS INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH, 
 WHOSE DWELLINGS CANNOT NOW BE IDENTIFIED. 
 
 THE hamlet of WHITTON in the Parish of Twicken- 
 ham possesses, in proportion to its size, an equal degree 
 of interest with the village with which it is connected. 
 Ironside speaks of it thus : 
 
 Whitton y or, as was formerly written, Whittne and 
 Wittne, 
 
 Is situate about a mile and a half from Twickenham, and on the 
 edge of Hounslow Heath. By the Isleworth Survey, anno 1635, there 
 appear to have been several warrens planted by Sir Robert Brett, Knt., 
 Sir Simond Harvey, Knt, and Sir Humphry Line; also, another 
 planted, and a capital house begun, by a Mr. Gromesditch, and after- 
 wards finished by Sir Humphry Line, Knt. It appears to be called 
 the warren house in the Survey ; and the land is said to be very stony ; 
 the country a dead flat. 
 
 A small stream of water runs through it, called Burkett's Brook ; 
 over which is an ancient bridge, called Whittne Bridge. This brook 
 comes from the Uxbridge river, passes under Twickenham Bridge to 
 Isleworth, where it empties itself into the River Thames. 
 
 This brook is the River Crane. 
 Whitton was a notorious resort for the highwaymen 
 who in old days infested Hounslow Heath. Horace 
 
KNELLER HALL. 381 
 
 Walpole mentions a gentleman named Digby being 
 robbed here at one o'clock at noon. A footpad, after 
 his death, having attained unenviable celebrity, lay in 
 state here. An old farm in the hamlet was the place 
 of the capture of the Rev. Dr. Dodd, the celebrated 
 preacher, and tutor to Lord Chesterfield, who, in 1777, 
 was hung for forgery. * 
 
 KNELLER HALL. The chief house of interest and 
 importance in Whitton is " Kneller Hall," named after 
 its builder and first occupant, Sir Godfrey Kneller, who 
 called it in his lifetime, " Whitton House." It was 
 commenced in 1709 and finished in 1711, and made by 
 the celebrated painter his constant summer residence. 
 The hall and staircase were painted by La Guerre, 
 under the direction and with the occasional assistance 
 of Sir Godfrey. A slight sketch of Sir Godfrey has been 
 given elsewhere ; t a fact or two more can here be added. 
 
 * In one of the memoranda which have been kindly communicated to me, 
 Whitton is stated to have been the scene of the interview between Helen Walker, 
 immortalized by Sir Walter Scott as " Jeanie Deans," and the Duke of Argyle. 
 It is an unpleasant necessity to have to reject this statement, because the Duke so 
 graphically introduced into The Heart of Midlothian was John, Duke of Argyle and 
 Greenwich, whereas the Whitton resident was Archibald, his brother, who succeeded, 
 in 1745, to the title. Twickenham, nevertheless, is not wholly disconnected with the 
 story, for Twickenham Meads form the chief feature in the view which Richmond 
 Hill commands, "the unrivalled landscape " described as " a huge sea of verdure, 
 with crossing and intersecting promontories of massive and tufted groves, tenanted 
 by numberless flocks and herds which seemed to wander unrestrained and 
 unbounded through the rich pastures" where "the Thames, here turreted with 
 villas and there garlanded with forests, moved on slowly and placidly, like the 
 mighty monarch of the scene, to whom all other beauties were but accessories," 
 bearing "on his bosom an hundred barks and skiffs whose white sails and gaily 
 fluttering pennons gave life to the whole." It is a Twickenham resident, Lady 
 Suffolk, who is described as Queen Caroline's companion during the interview in 
 Richmond Park, when Jeanie so simply and touchingly urged her suit in her 
 sister's behalf. Duke John of Argyll, it will be remembered, was born at Ham 
 House. 
 
 t Page 64. 
 
382 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 To one honour he attained which other of his contem- 
 porary celebrities did not namely, that of church- 
 warden of the parish ; he was also Justice of the peace. 
 In the latter capacity he distinguished himself by several 
 very remarkable judgments, of which the following are 
 preserved. A soldier, who was brought before him 
 detected in the act of stealing a joint of meat, pleaded, 
 in extenuation of his offence, that the exposure of the 
 luxury was more than he could resist. The argu- 
 ment convinced the worthy magistrate completely. He 
 at once discharged the wretched thief, and severely 
 reprimanded the astounded butcher for unduly putting 
 temptation in his fellow's way. " I think," says Pope, 
 with this circumstance mischievously in his recollec- 
 tion, 
 
 I think Sir Godfrey should decide the suit, 
 Who sent the thief (that stole the cash) away, 
 And punished him that put it in his way. 
 
 On a question arising as to which of two parishes a 
 pauper belonged, Sir Godfrey would hear no evidence, 
 but assigned him to the richer at once. In his great 
 humanity he refused to distrain upon a man who had 
 nothing but his furniture to pay with ; and once, seeing 
 a constable draw near his house at the head of a 
 number of people, he recommended them, instead of 
 coming to him, to adjourn to the nearest alehouse and 
 " make it up." 
 
 He was a man of inordinate vanity : " he bragged 
 more, spelt worse, and painted better than any artist of his 
 day." No flattery was too gross for his acceptance. 
 When he was asked to supply his portrait to a collection 
 made at Florence, he painted himself in full dress, 
 
SSI? GODFREY KNELLER, 383 
 
 adorned with his diamond ring and gold chain, and in 
 the background his villa at Whitton. His portrait 
 presented to the Kit-cat Club is similarly adorned. Pope 
 always ready to be ironical, complimented him once on the 
 superiority of his works to those of Nature, and regretted 
 his absence at the creation. " Really," replied the 
 artist, with a significant look at the misshapen little 
 creature beside him, " I should have made some things 
 better." 
 
 " Pope was with Kneller one day when his nephew, 
 a Guinea trader, came in. ' Nephew,' said Sir Godfrey, 
 1 you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men 
 in the world.' ' I don't know how great you may be/ 
 said the Guinea man, ' but I don't like your looks. I 
 have often bought a man much better than both of you 
 together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas/ " * 
 
 Almost with his last breath Kneller wished that 
 God would let him stay at Whitton ; and by his own 
 desire, he lies with " the fools " of Twickenham, rather 
 than with those at Westminster. 
 
 Kneller, who died in 1723, and Lady Kneller, who 
 survived him just six years, were succeeded in the 
 occupation of their house first by Mr. Ride, and then 
 in 1758, by Sir Samuel Prime, who was born in 1701 
 and educated at S. John's College, Cambridge, where 
 he graduated B.A. in 1720. He was called to the bar 
 in 1736 by the Benchers of the Middle Temple, and 
 was made a King's Serjeant in 1738. His wife, whom 
 he married on August 23rd, 1748, was daughter of 
 Mr. E. Wilmot, of Banstead, Surrey, and widow of 
 Mr. John Sheppard, of Compsey Ash. He died early 
 
 * Spence's Anecdotes, quoted in Thackeray's English Humourists" POPE." 
 
384 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 in 1777, in his 76th year. Although possessed of great 
 good nature, as an advocate Prime is described as 
 insufferably dull, and wearisome beyond comparison. 
 Once when on circuit he argued in an action of ejectment 
 for three hours. The day was sultry, the court crowded, 
 and a boy, who had secreted himself on some beams 
 in the roof of the court, the better from an eminence to 
 watch the proceedings, tumbled off from sheer exhaus- 
 tion ; for having thus nearly caused manslaughter 
 in a diminutive degree the learned Serjeant was tried 
 at the circuit table and fined three dozen of wine. He 
 was also utterly without any sense of humour. Visiting 
 on one occasion his friend Dr. Barnard, Head Master 
 of Eton, in company with Batty, the eminent physician, 
 an old Etonian and a Twickenham neighbour, Batty 
 misbehaved himself in some way and was reproved by 
 Barnard, in schoolmaster fashion, on which Prime 
 expressed an opinion that Batty's age had put him out 
 of Barnard's control, and observed also that he was 
 wearing no collegiate dress. The latter said that his 
 reproof was only administered out of a custom he 
 
 .had by way of keeping his hand in. "Oh," res- 
 ponded Prime, " it was facetious, was it ? Oh yes, 
 I see, and excellent of the kind." Nature had 
 favoured him with a fine nose, the only fault of 
 which was its disproportion to his other features. 
 One day he fell off his horse ; a rustic came to his 
 rescue, and, whilst asking if he were hurt, stopped 
 short in the inquiry, remarking, tf I zee, zur, yer 
 
 ploughshare saved ye." * The remembrance of Sir 
 Samuel indelibly impressed Miss Hawkins's juvenile 
 
 * See Woolrych's Anecdotes of Eminen t Kings' Counsel, Sir S. Prime passim. 
 
SIR SAMUEL PRIME. 385 
 
 mind. His antique costume light brown in summer, 
 snuff-coloured in winter and voluminous wig, his 
 sonorous voice and slow utterance, his neat linen and 
 strong partiality for scent, above all, his appearance in 
 his " Nisi Prius " robes, are commemorated by her 
 with entertaining particularity. She has preserved of 
 him, too (Anecdotes, vol. i. pp. 56, 57), an interesting 
 panegyric from the pen of her brother Henry. Lady 
 Prime also obtains much praise, in spite of her penchant 
 for pears in unduly large quantities and a preference 
 for early dinner. 
 
 Sir Samuel was succeeded in his residence by his 
 son, Samuel Prime, Esq., who perpetuated his father's 
 reputation for generosity and hospitality, and linked a 
 more modernized state of society to the age which was 
 passing away. At his too early death, Kneller Hall was 
 sold, for the sake of his family, which was numerous. 
 Its next occupant was the Rev. Mr. Fisher. He 
 was followed by Mr. Calvert, who married, when 
 considerably advanced in years, a very beautiful and 
 youthful daughter of Sir J. Rowley. Mr. Calvert's 
 " modesty " is caustically commented on by Mr. Brewer 
 in his History of Middlesex, on account of his refusal to 
 permit his mansion to be inspected, with a view to a 
 description of it being published. He considerably 
 enlarged the original structure under the superinten- 
 dence of Mr. Philip Hardwick. 
 
 In 1847 Kneller Hall was purchased by the Com- 
 mittee of the Council of Education, for the training of 
 schoolmasters for the education of pauper and criminal 
 children, the idea having been borrowed from Pestalozzi's 
 work in Germany. Dr. Frederick Temple, now Bishop 
 
 25 
 
386 MEMORIALS Of TWICKENHAM. 
 
 of Exeter, was placed at the Head of the Training 
 School with the title of Principal. The house was 
 further enlarged and redecorated by Mr. George Mair, 
 who arranged the front after the style of Woollaston 
 Hall. 
 
 In 1856 the establishment passed into the hands of 
 the War Department, and on March 3rd, 1857, the 
 present Military Music School was opened under the 
 direction of Colonel Whitmore, who is still Commandant 
 of the establishment. 
 
 The Institution had its origin in a want, long felt 
 throughout the army, of better trained musicians in the 
 bands ; and from this school the military bands of the 
 country are now, to their great advantage, largely 
 supplied. The school is in four divisions : 
 
 1. Elementary classes and reed instrument in- 
 struction. 
 
 2. Theoretical classes and ditto. 
 
 3. Tenor brass instrument instruction. 
 
 4. Bass ditto. 
 
 The reveille is at .6 A.M. : morning parade at 7 : 
 breakfast at 8 ; parade for school at 8.40 : parade after 
 school at 12.30 P.M. : dinner at i : parade for school at 
 1.40 : parade after school at 4.30 : evening meal at 
 5.30 : tattoo at 8.30. 
 
 A large room within the building serves as a chapel. 
 It has recently been renovated and decorated with 
 much care and taste. Choral service is performed here 
 every Sunday at noon. The Vicar of Whitton at 
 present acts as chaplain. 
 
 The house has, owing to its various additions, repairs, 
 and redecorations, been almost entirely rebuilt since Sir 
 
WHITTON PARK AND WHITTON PLACE. 387 
 
 Godfrey Kneller's time. Its grounds were much extended 
 by Mr. Prime, and to him is due the credit of making 
 it the conspicuous object which it forms in the sur- 
 rounding neighbourhood ; he took down the high walls 
 which partially hid it, and removed several old houses 
 which stood in front of it on the opposite side of 
 the road. 
 
 WHITTON PARK AND WHITTON PLACE. Whitton 
 Place was built early in the last century by the Right 
 Hon. Archibald, Lord I slay, afterwards Duke of Argyll, 
 who planted here a great number of exotics and forest 
 trees, particularly a great number about fifty of 
 cedars of Lebanon, which were raised from seed in 
 the year 1725, and are now some of the finest in 
 the kingdom. The whole of the Duke of Argyll's 
 property in this neighbourhood was purchased by 
 George Gostling, Esq., who divided the pleasure- 
 grounds and sold the mansion, with a small portion of 
 the grounds, to Sir William Chambers, the eminent 
 architect who succeeded in reputation Sir Christopher 
 Wren. Sir William was born at Stockholm, of Scotch 
 parentage ; he began life as a supercargo and made a 
 voyage to China, but soon devoted his whole attention 
 to his favourite pursuits. He instructed the then 
 Prince of Wales in drawing, and the King appointed 
 him " Surveyor of H.M.'s Works," in which capacity 
 he designed the gardens at Kew, and many public 
 buildings, conspicuous amongst which is Somerset 
 House in the Strand, and became the founder of 
 the department of Public Works, which has now grown 
 into an important department of the Government. He 
 
388 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM, 
 
 was the author of A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening 
 He much improved the house and decorated the gardens 
 with statues, temples, and other buildings. After his 
 death, which happened in 1 796, the estate was bought 
 back again by Mr. Gostling's representatives. This 
 gentleman built an excellent house for himself, on the 
 site of the Duke of Argyll's "green-house," according 
 to Ironside, or, as other authorities say, by altering, 
 enlarging, and adapting to that purpose the Duke's 
 spacious conservatory. His son and successor in this 
 house, George Gostling, Esq., Proctor to the Ad- 
 miralty, greatly improved it. 
 
 It now forms, (says Mr. Brewer, from whom this account is 
 taken),* one of the most pleasing ornaments of this neighbourhood ; 
 in which the natural scenery is so flat, that the finest touches of 
 art are necessary to the production of any resemblance of beauty. 
 The house is of moderate and pleasing proportions. The chief 
 entrance is by a tasteful colonnade. The elevation finishes with an 
 angular pediment, on the tympanum of which is a bas-relief after 
 the antique, representing the destruction of the Titans by Jupiter. 
 This work was executed by George Deare, an artist of much promise, 
 but who died young. The gardens are finely umbrageous and well 
 adorned by water. In a retired part of the grounds, on a spot artificially 
 elevated, is a lofty tower composed of brick, which is an object of 
 considerable ornament and commands extensive prospects. This was 
 built by the Duke of Argyle, who was much attached to the study of 
 astronomy. 
 
 The house thus described is " WHITTON PARK." 
 After Sir William Chambers, Sir Benjamin Hob- 
 house, M.P., resided in Whitton Place. His eldest 
 son became Lord Broughton ; one of his daughters 
 married Bishop Spencer of Madras, and another the 
 Count Brancaglioni, one of the Pope's bodyguard. 
 
 * History of Middlesex, v. p. 432. 
 
OTHER INHABITANTS. 389 
 
 The Rev. Augustus Gostling, LL.D., coming into 
 possession of Whitton Park, took down Whitton Place 
 when Sir Benjamin Hobhouse vacated it in the year 
 1847, an d added its grounds to those surrounding his 
 own residence. Whitton Place stood on the ground 
 which is now nearly opposite to the west end of the 
 church. Since Dr. Gostling's death, his sisters have 
 occupied the Park ; one of them still survives and 
 with her nephew by marriage, C. E. Murray, Esq., 
 Colonel of the ;th (S. W. Middlesex) Administrative 
 Battalion of Rifle Volunteers, and Justice of the Peace 
 for the county, is the present resident. 
 
 Ironside mentions the existence in his time of a 
 good house and garden belonging to Colonel Archibald 
 Campbell, a near relation to the late Duke Archibald, 
 where there was a considerable plantation of Scotch fir 
 and other trees : also, near Mr. Prime's, two good 
 houses, one the residence of Mr. Thomas Annesley, 
 (which he thinks was the house built by Sir Humphrey 
 Line), and the other of Mr. Edward Hill, proprietor 
 of the gunpowder works on Hounslow Heath. 
 
 At the time of the Isleworth Survey Sir John 
 Suckling was living at Whitton. The rate books also 
 mention as Whitton residents, (probably occupying 
 ancient houses on the sites of some of the more modern 
 ones, or in others now destroyed, but which at this 
 distance of time cannot be accurately identified,) the 
 following : Lord Bellasis, 1680 ; Lord Falkland, 1688 ; 
 Lord Ross, 1696; Lord Dunbar, 1701; "The Right 
 Hon. Lord Duke of Quinsbrough," 1711; Counsellor 
 
390 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 Pigott, the lawyer immortalized by Pope in his epitaph 
 in the south gallery of the church, 1712; Earl Shel- 
 burne, 1762, and many others, 
 
 Many other illustrious persons have lived in the 
 parish whose places of residence cannot be precisely 
 ascertained. Some of their names occur in the extracts 
 from the parish registers. The following may also be 
 mentioned : William Lenthall, M.P. for Woodstock, 
 of which place he was Recorder ; and Speaker of 
 the famous Long Parliament. " A lawyer of some 
 character," says Hume, "but not sufficiently qualified 
 for so high and difficult an office." His fame rests 
 mainly on his celebrated answer to the King on the 
 occasion of his coming to the House in person to arrest 
 the Five Members. Not seeing them in their places, 
 Charles demanded of the Speaker whether any of them 
 were in the House. Lenthall, falling on his knee, 
 prudently replied : " I have, sir, neither eyes to see, 
 nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is 
 pleased to direct me, whose servant I am, and I humbly 
 ask pardon that I cannot give any other answer to what 
 your Majesty is pleased to demand of me." At first 
 he belonged to the King's Party, but afterwards joined 
 the Parliament who made him Master of the Rolls in 
 1643, and for a year-and-a-half he was one of the 
 commissioners of the Great Seal. He presided at 
 the trial of King Charles I., and sat as one of Crom- 
 well's lords. At the Restoration he was excepted 
 from the Indemnity Bill but finally obtained the 
 
 * Whitlock, p. 50. Hume, vol. 6, p. 429. 
 
OTHER INHABITANTS. 391 
 
 King's pardon. There are also found in the rate 
 books the names of Robert Boyle (1651), the eminent 
 scholar and philosopher who founded the lectures which 
 are known by his name : he was the fifth son of the 
 great Earl of Cork, and died in 1691 ; the Countess of 
 Macclesfield, the mother of the talented but unfortunate 
 Richard Savage, the poet; Edward Stillingfleet, D.D., 
 Dean of S. Paul's, and afterwards Bishop of Worcester, 
 1689; Lord George Germaine; and the Earl of Bute, 
 1748. 
 
392 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 
 
 HEATHROW, AN ENDSHIP OF TWICKENHAM IN OLD TIME FAIRS 
 MANUFACTURES PRICE OF LAND FUEL CARRIAGE OF 
 GOODS RICHMOND BRIDGE TWICKENHAM BRIDGE, &c. 
 HIGH TIDES SEVERE FROSTS TWICKENHAM AYTE COM- 
 PARATIVE SCALE OF PRICES OF PROVISIONS AND LABOUR IN 
 THE YEARS 1730, 1780 AND 1872. 
 
 IN addition to Whitton, Ironside mentions another 
 " endship " of the parish of Twickenham called 
 HEATHROW or HETHROW, which must have consisted 
 of a very small collection of houses somewhere on the 
 banks of the Thames, now quite forgotten. It seems 
 possible that some cluster of cottages on the Tedding- 
 ton road, which have disappeared long since, may have 
 received this name. There was at this place " a very 
 considerable fishery for lamperns, a small kind of 
 lampreys, which are used as baits by the English and 
 Dutch in the cod and turbot fishery. Large quantities 
 are fetched by the Hollanders from the Thames, where 
 they are chiefly caught, between Brentford and King- 
 ston, and in larger quantities at Twickenham. During 
 the demand for the fisheries, from November to June, 
 the usual price is 6s. per hogshead. Afterwards they 
 are sold for as many pence." This fishery has failed 
 
FAIRS AND MANUFACTURES. 393 
 
 considerably during the last few years. The price 
 obtained for lamperns now is from 2/. to 3/. per 
 thousand. 
 
 Considerable interest attaches to certain other local 
 memoranda mentioned by Ironside treating of subjects 
 which must not be omitted. 
 
 " Two fairs," he says, " were formerly kept here, 
 the one qn Michaelmas Day, the other on Holy 
 Thursday ; but they have been for some years suppressed 
 by the magistrates." The fair on Ascension Day was 
 afterwards revived, and it was held on the Green till 
 the year 1869, when the Local Board prohibited it. 
 A field near the Green has been since used for the 
 purpose. 
 
 " The only manufacture carried on here is that of 
 lint-seed oil, by Charles Barrow, Esq., which is very 
 considerable, great quantities being sent every week to 
 London ; also the oil-cakes for feeding of cattle. This 
 manufacture is now carried on in a more extensive 
 manner by Thomas Winsloe, Esq." 
 
 There is no such manufacture now ; the only one 
 of any special importance being that of gunpowder, 
 carried on by Messrs. Curtis and Harvey at their mills 
 in the district of Whitton, about mid-way between 
 Twickenham and Hounslow. Former proprietors of 
 these mills were Mr. Hill and, after him, Mr. Butts. 
 They are (and Mr. Winslow's were) situated on the 
 small river Crane, which, rising near Harrow, falls into 
 the Thames at Isleworth. The stream was augmented 
 by an artificial cut from the Colne, formerly made by 
 the abbess and convent of Sion for the convenience of 
 their water-mills. 
 
394 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 " The quantity of waste land in the parish is very 
 considerable, and amounts to some hundreds of acres, 
 stretching away towards Hanworth, Heston, Hampton, 
 &c. By the Sion Survey of the hundred, taken anno 
 1635, the waste land was computed at 694 #. 3 r. This 
 waste land has subsequently been greatly redeemed by 
 numerous market-gardens, which are now being daily 
 diminished both in numbers and extent by the great 
 increase of building in the parish. 
 
 " Land in general bears a great price here, and has 
 been frequently sold for more than ioo/. per acre, and lets 
 at the rate of 3/. los. and 4/. \s. per acre per annum." 
 
 The first part of the latter paragraph is equally 
 true now, and the price of land may be multiplied by 
 ten, a thousand pounds an acre being by no means a 
 rare price for land in situations favourable for building. 
 
 The next sentence also holds good still. " Houses, 
 particularly those situate near to the Thames, are high 
 rented, and when sold bear a high price, and in these 
 delightful and desirable situations are very seldom 
 empty." 
 
 " The principal fuel used is coal. The poor burn 
 the furze and peat that grows on the common, as also 
 turf, which last is usually sold at is. per thousand, and 
 peat at 4^. per load of a thousand." The poor lost this 
 privilege when the common was enclosed ; a claim, 
 however, is recognized to their share in certain portions 
 of the charity money derived from this circumstance : 
 and at this present time some gifts at Christmas are 
 distributed by the vicar and churchwardens without 
 much consideration of desert or need, being regarded 
 rather in the light of a just compensation. 
 
BRIDGES. 395 
 
 " There are six teams kept in this parish. The 
 price of goods by land carriage is is. 8^. per cwt., or 
 i/. i os. per ton, and by water at is. ^d. per cwt., or i/. 
 per ton. The high roads through this village lead to 
 Kingston, Hampton, Hampton Court, Staines, Chertsey, 
 Hounslow, &c." This sentence contrasts strangely 
 with present circumstances, when Twickenham has a 
 railway station, and is the centre of branch lines which 
 closely unite it with all the neighbouring places. 
 
 The next subject touched upon by Ironside is 
 Richmond Bridge. On the 23rd of August, 1774, the 
 first stone of a bridge across the Thames from Twicken- 
 ham to Richmond, " under the direction of that cele- 
 brated architect Mr. Payne," was laid by the Hon. 
 Henry Hobart. It is a handsome structure of Port- 
 land stone, and consists of five arches, besides several 
 smaller ones on the Middlesex side, with a stone balus- 
 trade at the top. The centre arch is 60 ft. high and 
 25 ft. wide. Its length, exclusive of the causeways at 
 each end, is 300 ft. The bridge was finished in 1777, 
 at a cost of about 26,ooo/., which sum was raised by 
 annuities on lives at ioo/. each. The tolls were 
 originally levied in the same way as those of Kew, 
 Putney, and Hampton Court, and they produced 
 i,3OO/. a year. Subsequently they were collected only 
 on Sundays, and of late years the bridge has been 
 entirely free. The great fault in the structure is the 
 steepness of the ascent and consequent suddenness of 
 the descent of the road. 
 
 Ironside also mentions Twickenham Bridge, as that 
 on the Isleworth Road over the river Crane is called. 
 He says that it had been rebuilt twice since the year 
 
396 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 1 763. The original bridge was " very antient and of 
 brick and stone," the first of the newer bridges " con- 
 sisted of one large arch, and so high as frequently to 
 endanger carriages in going over it, and so badly con- 
 structed as to occasion its giving way from its 
 foundation." It was " obliged to be taken down and a 
 new one erected (under the eye of Mr. Payne) con- 
 sisting of two brick arches, and two smaller at the end. 
 It is substantially built, of an easy ascent and guarded 
 by stout railing of wood." Its approach on the south 
 side is now rendered nearly level by the long railway 
 bridge which joins it, towards which the whole of the 
 road has been considerably but gradually raised. 
 
 The bridge over the stream which divides the 
 parishes of Twickenham and Isle worth, called Ivy 
 Bridge, but the proper name of which is Mother Iveys 
 Bridge, is noticed in the Isleworth Survey. 
 
 Ironside also says that "the i2th of March, 1774, 
 was memorable for a remarkably high flood the like of 
 which had not been remembered for seventy years." 
 Its height is marked on a piece of white marble let into 
 the wall, at the corner of the vicarage garden next 
 the river, placed there at the expense of J. A. Hindley 
 Esq., with the following inscription : 
 
 March the 12, 1774. The (Water?) came rising up to this mark. 
 
 And " this mark " is upwards of ten feet above the 
 level of high water. 
 
 Miss Hawkins says (Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 157) that 
 this flood was caused by the bursting of the artificial 
 lake in Windsor Great Park, called Virginia Water. A 
 like height has never since been reached. At the 
 
TIDES AND FROSTS. 397 
 
 commencement of the year 1822 the river, from no 
 assignable cause, rose and continued for many days so 
 swollen, as to be within one foot of it. The highest 
 floods remembered in recent times were those o'n or 
 about the i8th of November, 1852, the day of the 
 Duke of Wellington's funeral. 
 
 The historian commemorated the year 1788 on 
 account of an extremely hard frost, which lasted nine 
 weeks ; and which exceeded in severity that of the 
 years 1739-40. 
 
 The Thames was frozen over from Oxford to Gravesend. At and 
 about Twickenham the ice was so thick that people walked daily on 
 it as on the high road, and carts loaded passed from side to side. 
 When the thaw came, which was sudden, and with a great noise 
 occasioned by the separation of the ice, it threw it over all the 
 adjacent gardens and grounds, and in many places 100 feet from the 
 river, in pieces of a ton weight, and upwards of two feet in thickness. 
 Both sides of the river had the appearance of a very rocky shore, as 
 far as the eye could reach, and looked very awful. 
 
 The river was also completely frozen over in the 
 years 1814, 1829-30, and 1855. 
 
 The beautiful island called Twickenham Ayte, or 
 Eel Pie Island, is deservedly a favourite resort for 
 visitors and excursionists. The old house, marked on 
 Ironside's map as occupied by Mr. Horn, was taken 
 down in 1830, and the present inn erected subsequently. 
 The island is somewhat more than two acres in extent : 
 the Isleworth Survey speaks of it as " the Bowling 
 Alley." 
 
 Ironside, at the close of his history, gives two com- 
 parative lists of the prices of provisions and labour in 
 his own time and fifty years previously. It may be 
 interesting to compare them with the prices of the 
 
398 
 
 MEMORIALS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 present day, and for this reason I have inserted them ; 
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CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 399 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 The Churchwardens of the parish of Twickenham from the 
 year 1606 to the present time.* 
 
 1606. William Reynolds. 
 Robert Crofton. 
 John Nowers. (?) 
 
 1607. Christopher Udall. 
 Jeremie Homes. 
 Nicolas Savage. 
 
 1608. George Tettersall. 
 John Burbidge. 
 Cuthbert Craford. 
 
 1609. Richard Andrewes. 
 Simon Springall. 
 William Aburne, 
 
 (Eburne.) 
 
 1610. William Collins. 
 Thomas Crofton. 
 John Bayly. 
 
 1611. Robert Bartlett. 
 Edward Cole. 
 Edward Reeve. 
 
 1612. Henry Becket. 
 Richard Cutlow. 
 Robert White. 
 
 1613. Henry Abrahams. 
 Edward Wethered. 
 Bartholomew Stevens. 
 
 1614. Edward Banester. 
 Thomas Jarvis. 
 
 1615. Thomas Jarvis. 
 Matthew Barker 
 
 1616. Christopher Udall. 
 Edward West. 
 
 1617. Richard Andrew. 
 John Piggott. 
 John North. 
 
 1618. William Collins. 
 John Nunn. 
 Thomas Crofton. 
 
 1619. William Chandler. 
 
 * The oldest book in the possession of the parish, which contains records of 
 those who have served the office of churchwarden, with their respective accounts, 
 is unfortunately in a most dilapidated condition ; some names are completely torn 
 out of it, while others are written in so old a hand as to be scarcely legible. I 
 have put a note of interrogation after names of the interpretation of which I 
 feel very doubtful. v 
 
400 CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 1619. Solomon Rythe. 
 Henry Saunders. 
 
 1620. Robert Smethwick (?). 
 John Burbage. 
 
 1621. Richard Eaton (Ettern). 
 Nicolas Savage. 
 
 1622. Henry Ebborn (Eburne). 
 William Baker. 
 
 1623. Robert White. 
 William Collins. 
 
 1624. Richard Groome. 
 Robert Bartlett. 
 
 1625. William Eburne. 
 John Crofton. 
 
 1626. Thomas Jarvis. 
 John Gildon. 
 
 1627. Robert Rolf. 
 Thomas Cole. 
 
 1628. (The first name is torn out 
 
 of the book). 
 John Williams. 
 
 1629. Richard Andrew. 
 Richard Clarke. 
 Edward Reeve. 
 
 1630. Henry Eburne. 
 Nicolas Savage. 
 
 1631. Christopher Udall. 
 Edward Banister. 
 
 1632. John Nunne. 
 Collins Groome. 
 
 1633. Matthew Barker. 
 Edward West. 
 
 1634. Jasper (?) Thornton. 
 John Reeve (?). 
 
 1635. Jasper (?) Thornton. 
 William Collins. 
 John Cole. 
 
 1636. Richard Nelham. 
 John Burbidge. 
 Ralph Reeve. 
 
 1637. Henry Cowes. 
 Robert Pasmore. 
 
 1638. John Williams. 
 
 1638. William Baker. 
 
 1639. William Downes. 
 Robert Bartlett. 
 
 1640. Henry Edmondes. 
 Christopher Curtis. 
 
 1641. Henry Edmondes. 
 Christopher Curtis. 
 
 1642. Michael Holman. 
 Hugh Pierce. 
 
 1643. James Trott. 
 Henry Cowes. 
 
 1644. William Rashleigh 
 
 (Rashley). 
 Edward Reeve. 
 
 1645. William Maddox. 
 Richard Moore. 
 
 1646. Robert Bartlett, junior. 
 Richard Raynor. 
 
 1647. Thomas Rowe. 
 Richard White. 
 
 1648. Richard Andrewes. 
 Thomas Elkington. 
 
 1649. Thomas Cole. 
 John West. 
 
 1650. Thomas Cole. 
 John West. 
 
 1651. William Parker. 
 William Baker. 
 
 1652. George Southam, who died 
 
 during his term of office, 
 and was succeeded by 
 
 Richard Raynor. 
 
 Richard Clarkson. 
 
 1653. Nathaniel Hammond. 
 George Baker. 
 
 1654. Henry Malcom. 
 William Prickett(Piggott). 
 
 1655. Richard Moore. 
 Richard Clarke, junior. 
 
 1656. Samuel Blackwell. 
 Richard Ell. 
 Richard Webb. 
 
 1657. Samuel Blackwell. 
 
CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 401 
 
 1657. Hugh Pearce (Pierce). 
 
 1675. Jhn Williams. 
 
 1658. Samuel Blackwell. 
 
 John Antill. 
 
 Hugh Pearce (Pierce). 
 
 1676. John Williams. 
 
 1659. Charles Pittcarne. 
 
 John Stevens. 
 
 Joseph Ashe (" Esq."). 
 
 1677. John Bartlett (V). 
 
 1660. Charles Pittcarne. 
 
 Robert Stanley (P). 
 
 Joseph Ashe. 
 
 1678. Robert Stanley (V). 
 
 1 66 1. Richard Holman. 
 
 John Bartlett (P). 
 
 Henry Poulton. 
 
 1679. Richard Baker. 
 
 Sir Joseph Ashe. 
 
 Ralph Blower. 
 
 1662. Nathaniel Hammond. 
 
 1680. Thomas Shellberry (V). 
 
 Samuel Childs. 
 
 Richard Baker (P). 
 
 John Williams. 
 
 1 68 1. Richard Holman (V.) 
 
 1663. Martin White. 
 
 Thomas Shellbery (P). 
 
 John Hathaway. 
 
 1682. Richard Holman (V). 
 
 1664. Nicholas Nicolls, chosen 
 
 John Dove (P). 
 
 by y e Doctor.* 
 
 1683. Edward Rumball. 
 
 William Cole, by y e Parish. 
 
 John Rogers. 
 
 1665. John Steevens (P). 
 
 1684. John Rogers (P). 
 
 William Cole (V). 
 
 John Pevye (V). 
 
 1666. George Bartlett t (V). 
 
 1685. Richard Foote. 
 
 Thomas Parker (P). 
 
 John Martin. 
 
 1667. Richard Clarke (V). 
 
 1686. John Lakins. 
 
 John Gildon (P). 
 
 Henry Wyatt. 
 
 1668. Richard Clarke (V). 
 
 1687. John Towe. 
 
 John Gildon (P). 
 
 John Buckland. 
 
 1669. John West (V). 
 
 1688. James Cole. 
 
 Richard Moore (P). 
 
 Robert West. 
 
 1670. John West (V). 
 
 1689. Richard Dawson. 
 
 Richard Moore (P). 
 
 Thomas Moore. 
 
 1671 John Dove (V). 
 
 1690. William Cooke (V). 
 
 Henry Pasmore (P). 
 
 Thomas Moore (P). 
 
 1672. William Stocker (V). 
 
 1691. William Cooke (V). 
 
 Joseph Brightridge (P). 
 
 Thomas Crips (P). 
 
 1673. Maudlin White. 
 
 1692. Thomas Crips. 
 
 Joseph Brightridge. 
 
 Thomas Rogers. 
 
 1674. John Dove (P.) 
 
 1693. Alexander Dyamond. 
 
 Thomas Cole (V). 
 
 Robert Moore. 
 
 * This phrase is frequently used to express the Vicar's choice of chui-chwarden. 
 Very often no distinction is made in the vestry records between the minister's 
 nominee and that of the parish ; where, however, they can be ascertained, I have 
 marked them in this list by the initials V. and P. 
 
 t See the Minutes of Vestry, p. 193. 
 
 26 
 
402 CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 1694. Edmond Robbins. 
 
 1709. 
 
 Paul Mansfeild. 
 
 Richard Parsons. 
 
 
 Robert Taylor. 
 
 1695. Richard Parsons. 
 
 1710. 
 
 Robert Taylor. 
 
 Peter Redknap. 
 
 
 Thomas Beadell, or Biddle. 
 
 1696. William Baker Senr. 
 
 1711. 
 
 Thomas Beadell, or Biddle. 
 
 Richard Gray. 
 
 
 Benjamin Redknap. 
 
 1697. William Hierons. 
 
 1712. 
 
 John Singer. 
 
 Thomas Cole. 
 
 
 William Beck. 
 
 1698. Daniel Redford. 
 
 1713- 
 
 Sir James Ashe,|| bart. (V). 
 
 Richard Bushnell. 
 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller, kt. 
 
 1699.* John Bartlett Senr. 
 
 
 (P) 
 
 * Richard Baker. 
 
 1714. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller, kt. 
 
 Daniel Redford 
 
 
 Thomas Vernon. 
 
 Richard Bushnell. 
 
 1715- 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller, kt. 
 
 1700. Timothy Child. 
 
 
 (V). 
 
 Adam Posterne. 
 
 
 Thomas Vernon (P). 
 
 1701. Timothy Child. 
 
 1716. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller, 
 
 Adam Posterne. 
 
 
 barronett. 
 
 1702. Thomas Jackson. 
 
 
 Thomas Vernon. 
 
 Edward Stevens. 
 
 
 Sir George Matthew. 
 
 1703. Edward Stevens. 
 
 
 Hamon L' Estrange. 
 
 Thomas Jackson. 
 
 1717. 
 
 Sir George Matthew. 
 
 1704. Thomas Jackson. 
 
 
 Hamon L'Estrange. 
 
 Isaac Pevey. 
 
 1718. 
 
 Thomas Gray (V). 
 
 Thomas Beadell. 
 
 
 John Newman (P), 
 
 1705.1 Richard Foote. 
 
 1719. 
 
 Thomas Gray. 
 
 Richard Dawson. 
 
 
 Benjamin Shove. 
 
 17064 Richard Parsons. 
 
 1720. 
 
 Benjamin Shove. 
 
 John Hierons. 
 
 
 Richard Silvester. 
 
 i7o7. Richard Parsons. 
 
 1721. 
 
 Benjamin Shove. 
 
 John Hierons. 
 
 
 Richard Silvester. 
 
 John Bartlett, the younger. 
 
 1722. 
 
 Richard Silvester. 
 
 1708. John Bartlett. 
 
 
 Joseph Fitzwater. 
 
 Paul Mansfeild. 
 
 1723- 
 
 Edward Reeves. 
 
 * These wardens were elected on Easter Monday (April loth, 1699) according 
 to custom, but at a vestry held that day week they expressed a wish not to serve, 
 as each had filled the office twice previously : the Vicar and vestry then re-elected 
 the wardens of the year before. 
 
 f These gentlemen undertook the office of churchwarden and that of overseer 
 as well, " for the benefit and ease of the parishioners." 
 
 } " For the further benefit and ease of the parishioners." 
 <e For a continuance of a benefit, and ease of the parishioners." 
 || Sir James Ashe appears to have declined office : his place was filled by Thomas 
 Vernon, Esq. 
 
CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 403 
 
 1723. Joseph Fitzwater. 
 
 1724. Edward Reeves. 
 Richard Wheatley. 
 
 1725. Richard Wheatley. 
 Henry Pasmore. 
 
 1726. Henry Pasmore. 
 Thomas Morris. 
 
 1727. Thomas Morris. 
 William Hammond. 
 
 1728. Robert Parsons. 
 William Hammond. 
 
 1729. Robert Parsons. 
 Simon Reeves. 
 
 1730. William Blaklock. 
 Francis Vincent. 
 
 1731. William Blaklock. 
 Francis Vincent. 
 
 1732. William Hutchins. 
 John Moore. 
 
 1733. William Hutchins. 
 John Moore. 
 
 1734. Robert Holmes. 
 Samuel Goodwin. 
 
 1735. Robert Holmes. 
 John Dimmock. 
 
 1736. John Dimmock. 
 John Simkin. 
 
 1737. John Simkin. 
 Timothy Child. 
 
 1738. Timothy Child. 
 Samuel Pagett. 
 
 1739. Samuel Pagett. 
 Thomas Goodwin. 
 
 1740. Thomas Goodwin. 
 John Singer. 
 
 1741. John Singer. 
 Thomas Ashe. 
 
 1742. Thomas Ashe. 
 Samuel Harvey. 
 
 1743. Samuel Harvey. 
 William Swain. 
 
 1744. William Swain. 
 James Marshall. 
 
 1745. Edward Pasmore (V). 
 Stephen Cole (P). 
 
 1746. Edward Pasmore (V). 
 Stephen Cole (P). 
 
 1747. Stephen Cole (V). 
 Richard Lovell Bad cock 
 
 (p). 
 
 1748. Joshua Spiers (V). 
 Stephen Cole (P). 
 
 1 749- Joshua Spiers (P). 
 
 John Marsh (V). 
 I 75- James Whitchurch (V) 
 
 John Marsh (P). 
 
 1751. James Whitchurch (P). 
 William Rider (V). 
 
 1752. William Rider (P). 
 Harry Waller (V). 
 
 1753. Harry Waller (P). 
 Thomas Fox (V). 
 
 1754. Thomas Fox (P). 
 Thomas Clark (V). 
 
 1755. William Lister (V). 
 John Archambo (P). 
 
 *756. John Archambo (V). 
 Henry Thompson (P). 
 
 1757. Stephen Cole (V). 
 John Haverfield (P). 
 
 1758. John Haverfield (V). 
 Edward Eastman (P). 
 
 1759. Edward Eastman (V). 
 James Wood (P). 
 
 1760. James Wood (V). 
 Joshua Anstall (P). 
 
 1761. Joshua Anstall (V). 
 John Goodwin (P). 
 
 1762. John Goodwin (V). 
 Lancelot Ride (P). 
 
 1763. Lancelot Ride (V). 
 John Jordan (P). 
 
 1764. John Jordan (V). 
 John Gale (P). 
 
 1765. John Gale (V). 
 Robert Holmes (P). 
 
 
4 o 4 CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 1766. Robert Holmes (V). 
 John Haynes (P). 
 
 1767. John Haynes (V). 
 Thomas Dean (P). 
 
 1768. Thomas Dean (V). 
 Thomas Clark (P.) 
 
 1769. Thomas Clark (V). 
 Charles Pavey (P). 
 
 1770. Charles Pavey (V). 
 Alexander Ballantine (P). 
 
 1771. Alexander Ballantine (V). 
 Thomas Nettlefold (P). 
 
 1772. Thomas Nettlefold (V). 
 John Stonely (P). 
 
 *n?>> John Stonely (V). 
 
 William Hotham (P). 
 
 1774. William Hotham (V). 
 Edward Newman (P). 
 
 1775. Edward Newman (V). 
 Richard Older (P). 
 
 1776. Richard Older (V). 
 Charles Barrow (P). 
 
 1777. Charles Barrow (V). 
 Robert Hudson (P). 
 
 1778. Robert Hudson (V). 
 William Nettleship (P). 
 
 1779. William Nettleship (V). 
 Alexander Hogg (P). 
 
 1780. Alexander Hogg (V). 
 Edward Chapman (P). 
 
 1781. Edward Chapman (V). 
 William Heckford (P). 
 
 1782. William Heckford (V). 
 Simon Reeves (P). 
 
 1783. Simon Reeves (V). 
 Joseph Holmes (P). 
 
 1784. Joseph Holmes (V). 
 Joseph Harris (P). 
 
 1785. Joseph Harris (V). 
 Edward West (P). 
 
 1786. Edward West (V). 
 Henry Turner (P). 
 
 1787. Henry Turner (V). 
 
 1787. John Hudson (P). 
 
 1788. John Hudson (V). 
 William Stalling (P). 
 
 1789. William Stalling (V). 
 John Hadland (P). 
 
 1790. John Hadland (V). 
 John Ayliffe (P). 
 
 1791. J ohn Ayliffe (V) . 
 Ewen Carter (P). 
 
 1792. Ewen Carter (V). 
 Francis Scurr (P). 
 
 1793. Francis Scurr (V). 
 John Price (P). 
 
 1794. John Price (V). 
 John Newell (P). 
 
 J 795- J onn Newell (V). 
 
 George Ewington (P). 
 
 1796. George Ewington (V). 
 Charles Simonds (P). 
 
 1797. Charles Simonds (V). 
 William Benson (P). 
 
 1798. William Benson (V). 
 Edward Chapman, junior 
 
 (p)- 
 
 1799. Edward Chapman, junior, 
 
 (V). 
 Samuel Davies (P). 
 
 1800. Samuel Davies (V). 
 Joseph Bell (P). 
 
 1801. Joseph Bell (V). 
 William Baker (P). 
 
 1802. William Baker (V). 
 Zacharias Allnutt (P). 
 
 1803. John Newell (V). 
 Zacharias Allnutt (P). 
 
 1804. John Newell (V). 
 Joseph Bell (P). 
 
 1805. Joshua Chapman (V). 
 Joseph Bell (P). 
 
 1806. Henry Turner, senior (V). 
 Joseph Bell (P). 
 
 1807. Henry Turner (V). 
 Edward West (P). 
 
CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 405 
 
 1808. Edward West (V). 
 
 1826. 
 
 Edward Toone (P). 
 
 Christopher Turner (P). 
 
 1827. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1809. Edward West (V). 
 
 
 Edward Toone (P). 
 
 Christopher Turner (P). 
 
 1828. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1 8 10. William Withers (V). 
 
 
 John Mason (P). 
 
 Thomas Scurr (P). 
 
 1829. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1811. William Withers (V). 
 
 
 Thomas Bowyer (P). 
 
 William Messenger (P). 
 
 1830. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1812. John Newell (V). 
 
 
 Edward Merry (P). 
 
 William Tolley (P). 
 
 1831. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1813. Henry Brown (V). 
 
 
 William Stubbing (P). 
 
 James Davies (P). 
 
 1832. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1814. George Robert Holmes 
 
 
 John Tapps* (P). 
 
 (V). 
 
 
 John May (P). 
 
 Samuel Davies (P). 
 
 i833. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1815. John Neels (V). 
 
 
 John May (P), 
 
 John Price (P). 
 
 1834. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1816. Richard Ancell (V). 
 
 
 Edmund Humphreys (P). 
 
 William Haynes (P). 
 
 1835- 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1817. William Enticknap (V). 
 
 
 John Goodchild (P). 
 
 William Rummell (P). 
 
 1836. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1818. John Newell (V). 
 
 
 George Smith (P). 
 
 William Rummell (P). 
 
 1837- 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1819. William Rummell (V). 
 
 
 James Chamberlaine (P). 
 
 William Haines (P). 
 
 1838. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 1820. William Rummell (V). 
 
 
 George Augustus Oliver 
 
 William Haines (P). 
 
 
 (P). 
 
 1821. William Rummell (V). 
 
 1839. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 William Haines (P). 
 
 
 David Crole (P). 
 
 1822. William Rummell (V). 
 
 1840. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 William Haines (P). 
 
 
 David Crole (P). 
 
 1823. William Rummell (V). 
 
 1841. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 William Haines (P). 
 
 
 William Withers (P). 
 
 1824. Edward Brazier (V). 
 
 1842. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 John Haddock (P). 
 
 
 William Withers (P). 
 
 1825. William Rummell (V). 
 
 1843. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 Samuel Davies (P). 
 
 
 John Page (P). 
 
 1826. William Rummell (V). 
 
 1844. 
 
 William Rummell (V). 
 
 * The parish appealed to the vicar, Mr. Proby, to make a new appointment, as 
 they considered Mr. Rummell to have been very careless in the collection of the 
 rates. The appeal was not responded to. The appointment of Mr. Tapps was 
 found to be informal and Mr. John May was chosen in his place. 
 
406 CHURCHWARDENS OF TWICKENHAM. 
 
 1844. John Page (P). 
 
 1859. 
 
 George Powell (V). 
 
 1845. William Rummell (V). 
 
 
 William Withers (P). 
 
 John Page (P). 
 
 1860. 
 
 George Powell (V). 
 
 1846. William Rummell (V). 
 
 
 William Withers (P). 
 
 George Powell (P). 
 
 1861. 
 
 George Powell (V). 
 
 1847. William Rummell (V). 
 
 
 William Withers (P). 
 
 George Powell (P). 
 
 1862. 
 
 George Powell (V). 
 
 1848. Thomas Bowyer (V). 
 
 
 Richard Woodley Barrows 
 
 George Powell (P). 
 
 
 (P). 
 
 1849. Thomas Bowyer (V). 
 
 1863. 
 
 George Powell (V). 
 
 Thomas Robert Holmes 
 
 
 Richard Woodley Burrows 
 
 (p). 
 
 
 (p). 
 
 1850. Thomas Bowyer (V). 
 
 1864. 
 
 Richard Woodley Burrows 
 
 John Matthew Stedwell 
 
 
 (V). 
 
 (p). 
 
 
 William Bayliss (P). 
 
 1851. Edward Merry (V). 
 
 1865. 
 
 Richard Woodley Burrows 
 
 Henry Stevens Redknap 
 
 
 (V). 
 
 (P)- 
 
 
 William Bayliss (P). 
 
 1852. Edward Merry (V). 
 
 1866. 
 
 Richard Woodley Burrows 
 
 Henry Stevens Redknap 
 
 
 (V). 
 
 (p)- 
 
 
 William Bayliss (P). 
 
 1853. Charles Manship Corben 
 
 1867. 
 
 Richard Woodley Burrows 
 
 (V). 
 
 
 (V). 
 
 John Bowyer (P). 
 
 
 Henry Goswell* (P). 
 
 1854. William Goswell (V). 
 
 1868. 
 
 George Booth (V). 
 
 John Bowyer (P). 
 
 
 Edward Humphreys (P). 
 
 1855. William Goswell (V). 
 
 1869. 
 
 George Booth (V). 
 
 Edward Saunders (P). 
 
 
 John Bowyer (P). 
 
 1856. George Powell (V). 
 
 1870. 
 
 George Booth (V). 
 
 Frederick Bowyer (P). 
 
 
 Gustavus Boudry (P). 
 
 1857. George Powell (V). 
 
 1871. 
 
 Gustavus Boudry (V). 
 
 William Daniel Merry (P). 
 
 
 Richard Clarke (P). 
 
 1858. George Powell (V). 
 
 1872. 
 
 Gustavus Boudry (V). 
 
 William Daniel Merry (P). 
 
 
 Richard Clarke (P). 
 
 * Mr. Goswell died before his term of office had expired. 
 
( 40? ) 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 Table of the Elections, or Appointments, to Christ's 
 Hospital, made by the Vestry of the Parish of Twicken- 
 ham, extracted from the Vestry Books. The names of 
 Children elected as " Founders' Kin " are printed in 
 italics. 
 
 1728. 
 
 March 31. 
 June 23. 
 Oct. 1 6. 
 
 1740. Oct. 26. 
 
 1742. April ii. 
 
 1743. March 13. 
 1 7 44. April i . 
 
 May 6. 
 
 1745. March 24. 
 
 1746. 9. 
 1747- 
 
 1749- 5- 
 
 1750. April 8. 
 
 Thomas Fletcher. 
 Walter Rickels. 
 Edward Adams. 
 John Roseblade. 
 Daniel Langley. 
 James Brown. 
 Henry Dyde. 
 John Simmerall. 
 Mary Close. 
 Joseph Cole. 
 Thomas Taylor. 
 Elizabeth Stanley. 
 Benjamin Reading. 
 
 This child, although elected by the Vestry, seems not to 
 have been admitted. He appears as a candidate a second 
 time, on March 24th, 1745, and was rejected on account of 
 a "claim child" being preferred. 
 
 Thomas Beard. 
 Charles Philips. 
 
 First "claim-child." Relationship admitted. 
 
 West Beard, of the Parish of Hampton. 
 Charles Buss. 
 William Barker. 
 William Brazier. 
 William Blagrove. 
 
4o8 
 
 ELECTIONS TO CHRISTS HOSPITAL. 
 
 1750. April 28. 
 1753- 8. 
 
 1754- 
 
 ,5 7- 
 
 1755- 
 
 March 30. 
 
 1756. 
 
 28. 
 
 175^. 
 
 26. 
 
 1761. 
 
 5> 22. 
 
 1762. 
 
 April 1 8. 
 
 1763. 
 
 17- 
 
 1764. 
 
 March 25. 
 
 n 
 
 Dec. 1 6. 
 
 1765- 
 
 Jan. 6. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 17. 
 
 1767. 
 
 May 31. 
 
 M 
 
 Oct. 1 8. 
 
 1768. 
 
 March 6. 
 
 
 
 May i. 
 
 1773- 
 
 May 2. 
 
 
 
 Aug. i. 
 
 
 
 Oct. 10. 
 
 1777. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 
 1779. 
 
 Sept. 19. 
 
 55 
 
 Oct. 10. 
 
 1780. 
 
 March 26. 
 
 55 
 
 Oct. 15. 
 
 1785. 
 
 March 9. 
 
 
 
 July 5- 
 
 
 
 26. 
 
 55 
 
 Dec. 19. 
 
 1786. 
 
 June 27. 
 
 1790. 
 
 May 25. 
 
 1791. 
 
 March 8. 
 
 Ann Gill. 
 John Hollis. 
 
 The Vestry at this time ordered that fourteen days 
 notice should be given of an election, and that the names, 
 and ages of candidates, and the names of their parents 
 should be submitted a week before the appointed day to 
 the Vicar. 
 
 John Dennis. 
 Mary Ford. 
 George Mathews. 
 John Cole. 
 Thomas Lloyd. 
 Hugh Parkhurst. 
 John Farr. 
 Sarah Beedle. 
 Benjamin Taylor. 
 Richard Herbert. 
 William Alexander. 
 Hannah Harvey. 
 Henry Burns. 
 Edward Smith. 
 William Bridgwater. 
 George Hayter. 
 Thomas Williamson. 
 Thomas Chitty. 
 Elizabeth Harvey. 
 John Hume. 
 Elizabeth Johnson 
 Alexander Gayter. 
 
 Subsequently expelled, see minutes of Vestry, Sept. 19, 
 1779. 
 
 Philip Dixon. 
 John Legg Warren. 
 Enos Redknap. 
 John Moneratt. 
 Thomas Lander. 
 Betty Wright. 
 John Ford. 
 Thomas Culver. 
 John Henry Kirby. 
 John Riminton. 
 John Webb. 
 Sarah Mortimore. 
 Lucy Kirby. 
 William Seymour. 
 
ELECTIONS TO CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. 
 
 409 
 
 1791. May 4. 
 
 'June 6. 
 
 1793. !jan. 23. 
 
 1796. ,'April 25. 
 
 1797. 'Aug. 3. 
 
 Dec. 5. 
 21. 
 i Poo. Nov. 3. 
 
 1802. March 23. 
 
 1803. Oct. 5. 
 
 1804. Feb. 27. 
 Sept. 17. 
 
 1807. 
 
 July 1 6. 
 
 1809. 
 
 Aug. 15. 
 
 M 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 
 1810. 
 
 March 20. 
 
 M 
 
 July 10. 
 
 1811. 
 
 Oct. 24. 
 
 1812. 
 
 March 26. 
 
 1814. 
 
 Sept. 12. 
 
 1815- 
 
 July 24. 
 
 1816. 
 
 Feb. 5. 
 
 
 
 May 22. 
 
 1817. 
 
 March 28. 
 
 1818. 
 
 June 30. 
 
 
 
 July 21. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Feb. 25. 
 
 1820. 
 
 Aug. 24. 
 
 1821. Feb. i. 
 
 1822. March 21. 
 
 1823. Jan. 16. 
 
 1824. April 29. 
 
 Thomas Longhurst. 
 Benjamin Cole. 
 Thomas Nettlefield. 
 Edward Chapman. 
 Mary Home. 
 
 After several adjournments on account of a claim of 
 relationship, on the part of another child, on which opinion 
 of counsel was taken, and the claim finally rejected. 
 
 John Tutton. 
 William Howard. 
 Edmund Lamb. 
 Henry Hart, by votes.* 
 Mary Ann Chalk. 
 William Withall. 
 Thomas Hall, by votes. 
 
 In the year 1806 several vestries were held for the con- 
 sideration and discussion of a contemplated new act of 
 Parliament for the regulation of Christ's Hospital, which 
 was passed, the vestry assenting to it. And the first child 
 elected under it was, 
 
 Thomas Barnes. 
 John Redknap Undy. 
 William Messenger. 
 Elizabeth Longhurst. 
 Charles Bridges. 
 Martha Messenger, by votes. 
 George Redknap. 
 Thomas Theak. 
 John Chapman. 
 Thomas Watts. 
 James Bowyer. 
 Emma Feaney. 
 Walter Thomas Perry. 
 William Searle, by votes. 
 Walter Shephard, by votes. 
 Joseph White, by votes. 
 
 The vestry ordered, January 5, 1821, that a list of 
 elections should be made and entered on the minutes. 
 This order was never carried out. 
 
 Walter Watson. 
 Caroline Rogers. 
 John Tapps, by votes. 
 George Dobson, by votes. 
 
 * I have added the words, "by votes," when the election was contested 
 either by a division in vestry or by a subsequent poll of the parish. 
 
410 
 
 ELECTIONS TO CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. 
 
 1825. June 23. William Ayliffe, by votes. 
 July 28. Henry Harris, by votes. 
 
 1826. March 23. James Croxon Lupton, by votes. 
 
 1827. April 26. James Josiah Gold, by votes. 
 
 1828. July i. Edmund Ewington, by votes. 
 Oct. 23. Eliza Todd, by votes. 
 
 In this year the opinion of counsel was taken as to the 
 proper mode of conducting elections, and the following 
 points were affirmed by W. E. Taunton : 
 
 I. Proceedings to be in accordance with 58 George III. 
 II. Non-resident rate-payers entitled to vote. 
 III. Women not to take part in the proceedings. 
 
 1289. Aug. 13. John Charles Litchfield, by votes. 
 
 1831. Jan. 27. William Begent, by votes. 
 
 1832. Feb. 29. Charles Edward Pendry, by votes. 
 
 1833. Sept. 26. George William Needham Lamb, by votes. 
 
 1834. March 20. Frederick Charlesworth, by votes. 
 
 1835. J an - 22 - Samuel Mesley, by votes. 
 
 July 23. Mary Ann Curtis, by votes. 
 
 Nov. 19. George Frederick Gooch, by votes. 
 
 In the year 1836 a committee of vestry was appointed 
 to ascertain whether the number of children might be in- 
 creased in proportion to the increased value of the 
 property. 
 
 Robert Ealy Fisher, by votes. 
 
 1837- 
 1838. 
 
 July 13- 
 March 8. N 
 April 19. 
 26. 
 May 10. 
 
 Edward Harbor, merely proposed and seconded. 
 
 A boy named George Morton was on the first occasion 
 legally elected by votes, but, on appeal to Christ's Hospital, 
 Edward Harbor was substituted, although none of the 
 forms of election had been complied with. A committee 
 of vestry, appointed to investigate his alleged relationship 
 to the founders, traced it to his grandfather and then 
 admitted the earlier steps of his pedigree, on the authority 
 of the Hospital; which, Mr. Master observes was the 
 more remarkable because Mr. Trollope, the clerk of the 
 Governors, in a letter to him, dated October 25, 1862, 
 says, " I have no other documentary evidence relating 
 to the claim of the Harbor family than copies of the 
 minutes of vestry above referred to." 
 
 1840. April 1 6. John Harbor, merely proposed and seconded. 
 May 14. James Burchett, by votes. 
 
 1841. Aug. 5. Thomas Hamblen, by votes. 
 
 1842. March 10. William Jackson, by votes. 
 
 1843. J an - 2 6. Grace Elizabeth Missen, proposed and seconded. 
 
 1844. Feb. 22. William Withers, by votes. 
 
 ,, March 14. Walter Turner, proposed and seconded. 
 
ELECTIONS TO CHRISTS HOSPITAL. 
 
 411 
 
 1846. 
 
 1847. 
 
 >> 
 
 1849. 
 1850. 
 1851. 
 1852. 
 
 1853- 
 
 11 
 
 1854. 
 1856. 
 
 1857- 
 
 1859. 
 1860. 
 
 11 
 1861. 
 
 Jan. 29.' 
 Feb. 12. 
 March 12. 
 April 1 6., 
 
 May 7. 
 May 27. 
 Sept. 1 6. 
 Oct. 4. 
 Jan. 3. 
 Nov. 20. 
 July 29. 
 June 2. 
 Dec. 29. 
 March 16. 
 March 20. 
 
 April 17. 
 Feb. 19. 
 Sept. 24. 
 
 William Pope. 
 
 The vestry was adjourned to give time for production 
 of evidence in support of Pope's claim. Thomas Beale 
 was elected by show of hands and no poll was demanded 
 for Pope. Nevertheless, on reference to Christ's Hospital, 
 the vestry was directed to cancel Beale's election, which 
 they did, and Pope was admitted. 
 
 Thomas Pope, proposed and seconded. 
 
 Thomas Beale, proposed and seconded. 
 
 George Robert Warner. 
 
 Anne Joyce Allnut, by votes. 
 
 fames Harbor, proposed and seconded. 
 
 John Thomas Ayliffe, proposed and seconded. 
 
 John Gotelee. 
 
 Henry Dart, by votes. 
 
 George James Chamberlain, by votes. 
 
 Josiah Harbor. 
 
 Alfred George Greenhill. 
 
 Three other candidates were duly proposed and 
 seconded, but Greenhill was returned without opposition ; 
 although nothing was known of his parents, who were non- 
 resident. A remonstrance was made to the Hospital 
 without effect. 
 
 Elizabeth Pope. 
 Sarah Cox, by votes. 
 Henry Hunsden Greenhill. 
 
 A boy named Woolford was duly proposed and seconded, 
 and Greenhill was at first rejected by the vestry on account 
 of his parents non-residence, but the Hospital insisted upon 
 his claim being admitted. 
 
 William Edward Pankhurst. 
 Richard Court, by votes. 
 Thomas William Chesswas. 
 
 James Henry Freshwater, by votes. 
 
 A boy named Henry James Harrison, claiming on the 
 score of consanguinity, proposed and seconded. Show ot 
 hands against him. No poll demanded. No evidence 
 presented to the vestry. Opinion of Sir Roundel! Palmer, 
 Solicitor General, taken by the vestry, decisive upon three 
 points, viz. : 
 
 I. The power of determining evidence is in the vestry. 
 II. The proper forms of election must be complied 
 with even though the child be related to the 
 founders. 
 III. Documentary evidence may be required. 
 
 Upon receipt of this opinion the Hospital admitted 
 Freshwater. 
 
412 ELECTIONS TO CHRISTS HOSPITAL. 
 
 1862. July 17. Gertrude Eleanor Redknap, by votes. 
 
 1863. Jan. 22. Eliza Harbor. 
 
 The vestry memorialized the Governors to apply to the 
 Court of Chancery for a scheme to regulate future elections, 
 and to relieve them from the difficulty of deciding upon the 
 amount of evidence to be required of claimants on the score 
 of consanguinity, and the Governors acceded to their request. 
 It was determined that this candidate who possessed rela- 
 tionship should be elected, but that no acknowledgment of 
 preference on that ground should be made. 
 
 1864. May 3. George Jonathan Pope. 
 
 Thomas William Whitaker. 
 
 Elected as parish children although claims of con- 
 sanguinity were put in by both. 
 
 1866. Nov. 15. Mathew Henry Harbor. 
 
 1867. July n. Frederick William Monk. 
 Sept. 29. Charles Frederick Cross. 
 
 1868. July 2. Ann Turner. 
 
 1869. March 4. John William Pope. 
 
 A scheme as to the claims of children claiming to be 
 admitted to Christ's Hospital as Founders' kin, confirmed 
 by an order of Vice Chancellor Sir Richard Malins, 
 establishes the following points : 
 
 I. The mode in which claims are to be determined. 
 
 1. Claims are to be determined in vestry. 
 
 2. If two claimants, majority to decide. 
 
 II. The general character and extent of the evidence by 
 which the claims ought to be supported. 
 
 3. By legal evidence of pedigree or reputation. 
 
 4. Pedigree to commence with any ancestor who 
 has been elected. 
 
 5. Or with a common ancestor of a claimant or a 
 child elected. 
 
 6. Relationship with ancestor or common ancestor 
 may be disputed. 
 
 7. Evidence to be by declaration. 
 
 III. Regulations for the election and presentation of 
 claimants. 
 
 8. Ten days' notice of vacancy and of meeting to 
 be given on the church door. 
 
 9. Statement of claim and evidence to be left three, 
 days before meeting. 
 
 10. Notice of objection under Rule 6 to be given at 
 meeting Meeting to be adjourned Objection 
 to be determined at adjourned meeting. 
 
 11. Entries of claims, evidence and resolutions, to 
 be made and transmitted to Christ's Hospital, 
 Such entries to be evidence. 
 
 12. Claimants to be children of parishioners and 
 subject to the general regulations of the 
 
 Hospital. 
 
 Aug. 25. Louisa Alice Cross. 
 
 1871. Feb. 6. Edward Albert Filby, by votes. 
 
 1872. April 30. William Henry Hicks, by votes. 
 
( 413 ) 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 A Statement of the Parish Property, showing its Value at the 
 Present Time, June, 1872. 
 
 I. General Charities. 
 
 I. FUNDED PROPERTY: stock ^ 
 
 Annual Income. 
 
 *LordOrford 528 4 4] s. d. 
 
 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Mrs. Cole 166 13 4 V 964 17 8 
 
 28 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 G. Gostling, Esq. 270 o o ) 
 
 
 
 
 * Madame Artault 308 211) 
 Mrs. Love 65 12 10 J 373 5 
 
 ii 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 Lewis Owen 100 o o 
 
 3 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 " Harvey and Greville " 308 i 9 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 Almshouse Fund 269 i i 
 
 8 
 
 i 
 
 2 
 
 Burial Ground (R. Moore's Gift) 1,483 8 10 
 
 44 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Miss Beauchamp 150 o o 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Miss Nicholson 68 7 9 
 
 2 
 
 o 
 
 II 
 
 Fryer 105 o o 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 O 
 
 Mrs. Gostling 326 o 9 
 
 9 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 4,M8 13 7 
 
 123 
 
 14 
 
 i 
 
 II. LAND : Twickenham Ayte 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 (rent charge) 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 Bull Land 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 Church-house and cottages 
 
 *s 
 
 4 
 
 o 
 
 Glebe 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 Ivy Close 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 Land at Whitton 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 Lym Mead 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 Ferry Mead 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 
 
 Poulton's gift 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 The Green and the Workhouse 
 
 
 
 
 Allotment 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 More Mead 
 
 35 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 f Total annual value ^ 
 
 >3'4 
 
 18 
 
 _ _ 
 
 7 
 
 = 
 
 * The brackets simply denote that the charities so connected are invested under 
 the same trust. 
 
 f From some of these items property tax has to be deducted. 
 
414 PARISH PROPERTY. 
 
 II. Charities belonging to the Parochial Schools. 
 I. FUNDED PROPERTY : 
 
 *> * 
 School Stock . . 1,000 o o 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 S. 
 
 o 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 Stafford Briscoe, Esq 120 o o 
 
 z 
 
 12 
 
 n 
 
 Railway Fund 360 16 6 
 
 IO 
 
 16 
 
 o 
 
 Marchioness of Tweedale 7000 
 
 2 
 
 ?, 
 
 
 
 Richard Tollemache Esq. 200 o o 
 
 6 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 II. LAND : South field, gift of R. Holman, (usually)* 
 Ground rent of house on Twickenham 
 Common, gift of R. Moore 
 
 52 
 
 10 
 12 
 
 IO 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 More Mead, part of, called Bandy Close 
 School Allotment 
 
 26 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 n 
 
 
 
 
 
 f Total annual value ^103 19 o 
 
 ADDITIONAL GIFTS : 
 
 ' d. s. d. 
 
 School Connecting Fund i>oc>5 187 30 3 6 
 
 CanonChampagne's Gift for school 
 
 prizes 125 o o 3 15 o 
 
 * The sum quoted has been up to the last year the usual rent of South field. It 
 is in contemplation at the present time to let it on a long building lease, 
 f From some of these items property tax has to be deducted. 
 
INDEX 
 
 A. 
 
 Abdy, Sir Wm., 231 
 
 Abyssinia, Invasion of, 379 
 
 Adams, E., 165, 197 
 
 Addison, 266 ; Letter of to Craggs, 257 ; 
 
 Letter of Pope to, 266 
 Address to the Crown, 206; To the 
 
 Government, 207 
 Affection, W., 54 
 After, Rev. J., 109 
 Agar, Hon. E. A., 77 
 Ailsa, Marquis of, 233 ; Park Villas, 
 
 377 ; Lodge, 378 
 Aird, Mr., 290 
 Albemarle, Earl of, 231 
 Alexander, B., 60 
 Allanson, Mrs., 255 
 Alms at Communion, Strange use made 
 
 of, 195 
 Almshouses, 157, &c., 205 ; New rules 
 
 concerning, 159 
 Alteration of Church, 32, 33 
 Amherst, Nicholas, 67 
 Amyand, T., 57 ; House, 368 ; Mrs. 
 
 Eras., 368 ; Thos., 368 
 Ancell, R., 134, 33& 
 Anne, Queen, 219 
 Annesley, Mr. Thos., 389 
 Antrobus, Capt, 376 
 Archambo, P., 70; J., 70, 250; Mrs., 
 
 71 
 
 Argyll, Duke of, 387; Duchess of, 
 
 338 
 
 Arragon House, 13-15; Road, Schools 
 in, 154; Tower, 15 
 
 Artault, Mrs., 181 
 
 Ashbroke, Viscountess, 249 
 
 Ashe, Sir Joseph, 48, 62, 63, 84, 183, 
 
 184, 193, 195, 236 ; Joseph, 63, 64 ; 
 
 Sir James, 64, 198; Lady Mary, 
 
 64, 249 ; Katharine, 64 ; Mary, 64 ; 
 
 Frances, 64 ; Martha, 64 
 Ashford, W. K., 60, 91 ; E. B., 367 
 Ashton, F., 356 
 Aspens at Orleans House, 5 
 Athelard, Abp., 9 
 Atterbury, E., 78 ; Bp., 273, 281 
 Austin, Mrs. C., 183 
 Average of Baptisms, Marriages and 
 
 Burials, 45 
 Ayte, Twickenham, 162, 204, 397 
 
 B. 
 
 Bachelors, The, 334 
 
 Backwell, Barnaby, 261 
 
 Bacon, Sir Francis, 227 ; Letter of, 228 ; 
 Country life of, 228 
 
 Bailey, Mr., 233 
 
 Baker, Mary, 47 ; W., 64, 293 ; Rob., 
 73; Mrs. J., 100 ; Mrs. E., 68; 
 Conveyance of pew to, 25 ; G., 183 ; 
 Rev. R., 127 
 
 Balfour, Rev. James, 362 
 
 Balloon Club, 378 
 
 Bamfield, Sir C. W., 247 
 
 Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, Ex- 
 tracts from Registers of, 46-82 
 
 Baptist Chapel, 145 
 
 Barnard, Geo., 261, 262 ; Col., 262 ; 
 Wm., 343; Dr., 384 
 
416 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Barnewell, Mr., 355 
 
 Barnwall, Hon. T., 60 
 
 Barrett, Mrs. A., 184 
 
 Barrow, Ch., 393 
 
 Barrow, Mrs., 68 
 
 Barry, A. A. D. S., 79, 88 
 
 Bartlet, R., 164, 187 
 
 Basevi, Mr., 130 
 
 Basset, Sir Fras., 293 
 
 Bath House, 363 
 
 Bath, Lady, 244 
 
 Batty, Dr. W., 52, 259, 384 
 
 Beach, Mary, 66, 103 
 
 Beadle, the Parish, 200, 201, 204 
 
 Beagly, T., 150 
 
 Beauchamp, Miss, Pew belonging to, 27, 
 28, 29; Charity of, 182; Misses, 
 windows in memory of, 35, 36 
 Beauchamp, Mr., 256 
 Beauclerk, Lady D., 58, 245 ; Closet, at 
 
 Strawberry Hill, 325 
 Beckett, H., 167 
 Bedford, Earl of, 197 
 Bedford, Lucy Countess of, 47, 229 
 Bell, Rev. Dr., 332 
 Bellairs, Rev. H., 59 
 Bellasis, Lord, 389 
 Bellis, Lady, 64 
 Bell-ringing, 112, 194, 198 
 Bells, 40, 41, 196, 198 
 Bentham, Rev. Dr., 71 
 Berkeley, Sir W., 62 ; Coffin of, 37 ; 
 Lord John, 62, 96, 230 ; Lord Charles, 
 
 63 ; Wm., 63 ; Lord J., 63 ; Mary, 
 
 64 ; Martha, 68, 100 ; Christiana, 64, 
 1 66 ; Lady, 64 ; Mrs., 68 ; Lionel, 
 68, 248; M., 70; Francis, 71 
 
 Bernal, Ralph, 371 
 
 Berry, Misses, 330 ; Epitaph to, 333 ; 
 
 Mr., 330; Works of Miss, 332 
 Bertie, Lord, 213 
 Bevan, H., 32, 240; Rev. T., 133, 135, 
 
 137, 340 
 Birch, Mrs., 338 
 Birkhead, E., 183, 192 
 Bishop, Mr., 240 ; Mr. and Mrs., 262 
 Blair, L., 76, 91, 255 
 Blake, C., 71 ; Mr. J., 262 
 Blakeney, Lady M., 79, 105 ; Sir E., 
 
 80, 105, 255 
 Blicke, J., 73 J C- T., 78, 89 ; J. and 
 
 C., 89 
 
 Blount [Blunt], Lady, 148; Martha, 
 
 265, 277 ; Sir T. Pope, 49, 198 
 Body, Rev. R., 107 
 Boehm, Mrs., 69; C., 70, 102 
 Bohn, H. G., 370; Art collection of, 
 
 370, et seq. 
 
 Bolingbroke, Lord, 272, 273, 274, 281, 
 Booth, Rev. P., 113 ; Geo., 360 
 Bossi, Marquis de, 60 
 Bos well, Account of R. O. Cambridge 
 
 by, 237 
 Boucher [Bouchier], Thomas, 49, 69, 
 
 354; Mrs., 168 ; Gov., 376 
 Bousfield, Ben., 354 
 Bowyer, J., 185 
 Boyle, Robt., 391 
 Boys' School, 146 
 Bradbury, Ben., 342 
 Bradford, Earl of, 184, 254 
 Bradshaw, Rev. W., 108 
 Bread riots, &c., 203 
 Brent, Timothy, 246 
 Breton, A., 75 
 
 Brewer, Mr., his strictures on Lady 
 Howe, 288 ; And on Mr. Calvert, 385 
 Briggs, Mr., 355 
 Briscoe, J. I., 53, 294; Stafford, 28, 
 
 57, 73, 105, 149, 184, 294 
 Brittell, Mary, 77 
 Brook House, 367 
 Brooks, J. T., 59 
 Brooman, R. A., 367 
 Brougham, Lord, Charity inquiry insti- 
 tuted by, see Charities passim 
 Browell, Rev. J., 128 
 Brown, Rev. W., 106 
 Browne, Lady, 248 
 Bruce, Lady, 377 
 Brudnall, Lord Francis, 49 
 Buchan, Lady, 377 
 Buckinghamshire, Earl of, 52, 243 
 Buckmaster, Rev. T., 109 
 Buckworth, Lady, 70, 100 
 Budd, Mr., 233 
 
 Budgen, Mrs., 255 ; Thos., 360, 377 
 Bull Land, Twickenham, 164, 187 ; 
 Whitton, 165, 197 ; First mentioned, 
 186 
 
 Burdett, W. J., 55, 78, 87, 358 
 Burgess, Rev. R., 60 
 Burial Board, 207 
 Burial grounds, 42, 43 
 
INDEX. 
 
 417 
 
 Burne, Mrs., 184 
 
 Burnett, R., 77, 88 
 
 Burrough, Rev. J., 126 
 
 Burrows, R. W., 368 
 
 Burt, Rev. R., 53, 73, 105, 122 ; Rev. 
 R - G., 53, 375 5 Mrs., 370 
 
 Burton Lodge, 343 
 
 Burton, R., 83 
 
 Bush, Mary, 168 
 
 Bute, Earl of, 391 
 
 Butler, Mrs. E., 104 ; Hon. Mrs., 261 
 
 Butts, Mr., 393 
 
 B y n g> John, first Earl of Strafford, 54 ; 
 Hon. & Rev. F. E. C, 132, 133, 
 137; G. S., second Earl of Straf- 
 ford, 54, 133 ; Miss Fanny, 249 ; Miss 
 Caroline, 78, 249 
 
 Byron [Biron], Lady F., 69 ; Hon. W., 
 70 ; Hon. C, 71 ; Admiral John, 72 ; 
 Hon. H. G., 73 
 
 Byseleigh, Rev. W., 107 
 
 C. 
 
 Cadogan, Earl of, 60 
 Calvert, Mr., 385 [236 
 
 Cambridge House, 236 ; By whom built, 
 Cambridge, R. O., 52, 70, 75, 95, 236; 
 Death of, 238 ; Catherine, 71 ; Mary, 
 75; Charlotte, 77; the Yen. G. O., 
 52, 78, 95, 130, 133, 144, 240 
 Campbell, Col. C., 53; W. F., 60; 
 Col. A., 389 [337 
 
 Camps on Hounslow Heath, 63, 336, 
 Canham's Nursery Ground, 6, 354 
 Cardigan, Lord and Lady, 260 
 Carmichael, F. G., 58, 78, 259 
 Carnarvon, Marquis of, 295 
 Caroline, Queen of George II., 213, 
 
 of George IV., 220 
 Carpenters' Almshouses, 339 
 Carr, Capt. T., 51 ; Rev. Robert, 68, 
 125, 292 ; Lieut. J., 70; Rev. J. A., 
 77, 84, 127; Rev. Robartes, 126; 
 Rev. Colston, 127, 367; Moreton, 353 
 Castlecomer, Lady F., 28 
 " Castle of Otranto," Origin of the, 304 
 Catherine of Arragon, 1 3 ; of Braganza, 
 
 13 ; Parr, 14 
 
 Catherlough, Countess of, 256 
 Cavendish, Lord F., 230 
 
 Cawdor, Lord, 261 
 Cedars, 5, 235 
 Cemetery, Parochial, 43 
 Ceolnoth, Abp., 10 
 Chafy, Rev. W., D.D., 59 
 Chambers, W., 69 ; Sir Wm., 387 
 Chamness, J., 155, 250 
 Champagne, Rev. G., 123, 151 
 Chandos, Duke of, 295 
 Chantrey, SirF., 58, 358 
 Chapel House, 376 
 
 Chapel, Montpelier, 143 ; Wesleyan, 
 145 ; Baptist, 145 ; Congregational, 
 
 Charities, 156, et seq. [145 
 
 Charity Lands, Allotment, 148, 166, 
 177 > Reward for discovery of un- 
 known, 203 ; Funds, discussion 
 about, 204, 205 
 
 Charleville, Lady, 233 
 
 Chatterton, Walpole's relations with, 307 
 
 Chauncy, T., 49 
 
 Chauvigny, Mons., 259 
 
 Chaworth, Sir R., 56 
 
 Chenevix, Mrs., 295 
 
 Chesterfield, Lord, 69 
 
 Childs, Mr., 292 
 
 Chinery, G. W., 15 
 
 Cholmondeley, Earl of, 247 
 
 Chownes, Miss, 360 
 
 Christmas Gifts, 394 [369 
 
 Christolphe, King, of S. Domingo, 
 
 Christ's Hospital, 1 78 ; First Election 
 to, 200 ; List of Elections, Appendix 
 
 Church, H., 76, 86 [B, 407 
 
 Church Houses, 1 60 
 
 Church, original, 19, 20 ; Rebuilt, 20 ; 
 Rates towards rebuilding, 199 ; Sub- 
 scriptions, 200 ; Tower, bread thrown 
 from, 174; repaired, 202 ; Dimen- 
 sions of, 21 ; Conveyances of pews, 
 &c., in, 21, 199 ; copy of form for, 25 ; 
 Subscription deed for rebuilding, 22 ; 
 Bishop's faculty for rebuilding, 23, 24, 
 25 ; Proposal to repair, 198 ; repew, 
 206 ; Restored, 33 ; Bishop's faculty 
 for alteration of, 33, 34 ; Memorial 
 windows in, 34, 35, 36; Monumental 
 inscriptions in, 83, et seq. ; Chandeliers 
 in, 35 ; Clergy, of the, 106, et seq. ; 
 Clock, 197, 203 ; Trustees to rebuild, 
 198 ; Commission for reallotting pews 
 in, 38 ; Organ in, 38 ; Font, 38 ; In- 
 27 
 
INDEX. 
 
 ternal decoration of in 1872, 38, 39, 
 40 ; Pulpit, 202 ; Registers, 44 ; Ex- 
 tracts from, 46 82 
 Churchwardens, List of, from 1606, 
 
 Appendix A, 399 ; Extracts from 
 accounts of, 86, et seq. 
 Churchyard, enlargements of, 42 ; First 
 
 additional, 42, 202, 204 ; Second 
 
 additional, 43, 206 
 Gibber, Colley, 295 
 Clare, Lord, 284 
 Clarendon, Lord, 218; Pew belonging 
 
 to, 193 
 Clark, Mr. and Mrs., Window in 
 
 memory of, 36 ; Alfred, 256 ; Chas. 
 
 C., 360 
 
 Clarke, Rev. J., 143, 376 
 Clavering, Rev. J., 108 
 Clay, Sir Wm., M.P., 136, 345 ; Lady, 
 Clayton, Mrs., 377 [136 
 
 Cleaver, Archbishop, 219 
 Clies, J., 58 [75. 90 
 
 Clifden, Lord, 37, 78, 355,368; Lady, 
 Climate, 4 
 Clive, Mrs. C., 71, 245, 248, 328 ; 
 
 Death of, 329; Walpole's inscription 
 
 to, 328 ; Epitaph on, 103 
 Clothworkers' Company, 178 
 Cobbett, Rev. R. S., 128 
 Cochrane, Hon. B., 59 
 Cochrane, Lord, 55 
 Colby, Rev. E. R., 128 
 Cole, H., 55, 66, 86 ; Mary, 66 ; Mrs. 
 
 H., 100 ; T. R., 144; Stephen, 19, 
 
 51, 67, 73, 104, 195, 363, 366; 
 
 Thomas, 366 ; S. T., 53, 54, 78, 
 
 363 ; G. B., 60, 366, 367 ; Leonard, 
 
 67; Katherine, 73; C, 74; S., 76; 
 
 W. F., 77; S., jun., 52 ; James, 64 ; 
 
 Frances, 68; Mrs., 68; C. H., 73; 
 
 Elizabeth, 155, 176, 256 
 Collinson, Mr., 338 
 Colne Lodge, 340 ; House, 343 ; Cot- 
 tage, 367 
 Committee for erecting Trinity Church, 
 
 130 ; for erecting Whitton Church, 
 Common, The, 335 [139 
 
 Common pasture owned by Knights 
 
 Templars, II 
 Communion, Attendance at, in old 
 
 time, 1 88 ; Plate, 7, 40 ; loans of, 
 
 1 88 ; inventory of, 204 
 
 Comyns, V., 68 
 
 Conolly, Lady Ann, 249, 358 
 
 Constable, Parish, 194, 196 
 
 Conventual establishment, 16 
 
 Cooke, Hon. Capt, 50 
 
 Copthall, 356 
 
 Corben, Mrs., Window in memory of, 
 
 35 
 
 Corbet, Bishop Richard, 6, 366 
 Costard, Rev. George, 121 
 Cotterell, Sir C., 50, 64 
 Coulson, Rev. T. B., 128 
 Court, J., 73 
 Coventry, Lady, 338 
 Cowley, Lord, 261 
 Cox, Hon. Mrs. A., 67 ; G. R., 356 
 Craggs, James, 257 ; Death and burial 
 
 of, 257 ; Pope's epitaph on, 258 
 Crane, River, 380, 393 
 Crookshanks, Mrs. E., 67 ; J., 67 ; J., 
 
 74 
 
 Cross Deep, 261 ; Lodge, 261 ; House, 
 Crosses on Vicarage wall, 16 [294 
 
 Curate presiding at vestry, 206 
 Curates of the parish, 124, et seq. 
 Curtis and Harvey, Messrs., 393 
 
 D. 
 
 Damer, Hon. Mrs. Anne, 220, 326 ; 
 Mrs. L. D., 255 
 
 D'Aranda, Rev. P., 127 
 
 Date of erection of Church, 19 
 
 D'Aumale, Duchesse, opens the new 
 schools, 154; Due, 215; Art collec- 
 tion of, 215 ; Library of, 21 6. 
 
 Davenport, John, 339 
 
 Davies, Mrs. Jane, 212 
 
 Davis, John, 344 
 
 De Berniere, Mrs., 377 
 
 De Crespigny, Lady, 255 
 
 De Front, Countess, 356 
 
 De Glastonbury, Rev. W., 107 
 
 Dejoinville, Prince, 250 
 
 De Newbald, Rev. H., 106 
 
 De Paris, Comte, 221 ; death of the 
 father of, 221 
 
 De Shires, Rev. M., 106 
 
 De Starck, A. A. M., 76; J. D., 78; 
 Capt. , 94, 376 
 
 De Swacliffe, Rev. R., 106 
 
INDEX. 
 
 419 
 
 De Vericour, Raymond, 362 
 
 De Villiars, H., 72 
 
 Demainbray, Rev. F., 127 
 
 Denbigh, Countess of, 248 
 
 Dent, D., 57 
 
 Derivation of the word Twickenham, 
 
 7,8 
 
 Description of Village in early times, 10 
 Dial House, 252 
 Diamond, Dr. Hugh-M. 346 
 Dickason, Mr., 345 
 Dickens, Charles, 378 ; Extract from 
 
 Forster's Life of, 378 
 Dikar, Rev. R., 108 
 Disturnell, Rev. J., 126 
 Dodd, Rev. Dr., 381 
 Donne, Dr. John, 259 
 Donnithorne, E. J., 78 ; Memorial 
 
 window in memory of, 141 ; E. H., 
 
 148, 343 
 D'Orleans, Louis Philippe Due., 55, 
 
 214, 370 ; Fran9oise Louise Caroline, 
 Dover, Lord, 78 [55 
 
 D'Oyley, Mrs., 358 
 Douglas, Mrs., 358 
 Drogheda, Countess of, 67, 101 
 Drummond, G. H., 261 
 Dryden and Pope compared, 283 
 Dryden's Epitaph on Lady F. Whitmore, 
 Duane, Matthew, 258 [92 
 
 Dudley and Ward, Lady, 75 
 Dufaure, M., 345 
 Duffis, Lord, 49 
 Dunbar, Lord, 389 
 Dunmore, Countess of, 342 
 Dupuis, Capt., 50 
 Du Quesne, Marquis, 50 
 Durand, Gen., 70 
 Durnford, Lt.-Col., 343 
 Durnford, Mrs., 134 
 Dutton, Miss, 362 
 Du Val, Rev. P., 123 
 Dyson, J., 248 
 
 E. 
 
 Eadon, T., 63 
 
 Eadred, King, charter of, 10 
 
 Edgecumbe, Lord, 57 
 
 Edis, R. \V., 39, 185, 396 
 
 Edmund, King, surrenders manor, 10 
 
 Edward VI., King, gives living of 
 
 Twickenham to D. and C. of Windsor, 
 
 18 
 
 Edwards, Mr., 353 
 Eel Pie Island, see Twickenham Ayte 
 Elections to Christ's Hospital, Appendix 
 
 B, 407 
 
 Elgin, Lady, 76, 255 
 Ellis[s], C. A., 76, 90 ; Hon. C. A. H. 
 
 A., 78; Rt. Hon. Welbore, 78, 285 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 228 
 English, Rev. W., 107 
 Epitaphs in Parish Church, 83, et seq. ; 
 
 in Trinity Church, 134 
 Epitaph said to be in Twickenham 
 
 churchyard, 105 ; on the Miss Berry s, 
 
 333 ; on Craggs, 258 ; on Kneller, 
 
 65 ; on Whitehead, 342 
 Erskine, Lady J., 56 ; H. A. S., 73 
 Espinasse, Col. H. W., 34, 54, 58, 78, 
 
 91, 363, 366; R., 59; Mrs., 78; 
 
 J.G.,-54, 75 
 
 Essex, Earl of, 226, 227 ; Lady, 230 
 Etymology of the name ' Twickenham, ' 
 
 7,8 
 Evelyn, J., 230 ; His account of the 
 
 Camp, 336 
 
 Extent of Twickenham Parish, 3 
 Extracts from Registers, 46 82 
 
 F. 
 
 Fairs at Twickenham, 393 
 
 Falkland, Lady, 247 ; Lord, 389 
 
 Fane, J. W., 60 
 
 Fellowes, Miss D., 344 
 
 Fenet, Sir John, 48 
 
 Ferrers, Countess of, 69, 104; Lord, 
 
 Ferry Mead, 163 [354 
 
 Ferry House, 250 
 
 Ferryside, 250 
 
 Fielding, Wm., 52 ; Hy., residence of, 
 
 358, 359 
 
 Fille, Rev. R., 106 
 
 Fish[e], J., 6 1 ; A., 61, 91 ; Sir T., 61 
 Fisher, C., 58; Mrs., 248; H. N., 
 
 249 ; Rev. Mr., 385 
 Fitz, Sir J., 61 
 
 Fitzherbert, Mrs., 244, 249, 338 
 Fletcher, Rev. H., 14, 77, 127 
 Folley, The, 369 
 
420 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Font in church, 38 
 
 Forbes, Miss, 370; Mrs., 249, 370 
 
 Ford, J., 73 
 
 Formosa Lodge, 221 
 
 Forster, John, 378 
 
 Fortescue House, 362 ; Lord, 362 ; Rt. 
 
 Hon. Chichester, 327 
 Foster, Sir W., 61 
 Foundlings, Burials of, 69 
 Fox, Admiral, 357 
 Foy, James, 370 
 Franklin, J., 296 
 Fraser, J. H., 58 
 Freake, C. J., 294, 355, 358 
 Fryer, J., 175 
 Fuel Land, 176 
 Fuller, Dr. Wm., 249 
 Fulwell Lodge, 345 
 
 G. 
 
 Gardens, 6 ; of Orleans House, 217 ; 
 Mr. Gostling's, 235 
 
 Gardiner, M., 70, 102; E., 70, 102; 
 T. G., 82, 251 ; Miss, 251 ; Col., 353 
 
 Gardner, Col., 28, 64, 68 
 
 Garrick, Epitaph by, on Whitehead. 342 
 
 Gascoyne, Miss, 375 
 
 Gay, John, 242, 273 
 
 Cell, Mrs., 256 
 
 Germaine, Lord Geo., 391 
 
 Gibbons, Hon. Capt. J., 50 
 
 Gifford Lodge, 338 
 
 Gilbert, Archbp., 58 
 
 Giles, Daniel, 245 
 
 Gilmore, T., 33, 63, 92 ; E., 64 
 
 Girls' School, 148 
 
 Gittins, Mr., 363 
 
 Glossop, Rev. G. G. P., 123, 369 ; 
 F. H. N., 368 
 
 Glossop, Rev. H., 144 
 
 Gloucester, Prince W. H., Duke of, 
 
 Gompertz, Mr. .,376 [212 
 
 Goodwyn, Rev. J., 108 
 
 Goodyear, Sir Hy., 229 
 
 Goole, Rev. T., .109 
 
 Gostling, F., 53; G., 53, 71, 98, 174, 
 293, 387, 388 ; Mrs. Anne, 74, 98, 
 181 ; Mary, 58; Sarah, 58; Sophia, 
 58 ; F., 233 ; Rev. Augustus, 389 
 
 Gothic Lodge, 344 
 
 Grange, The, 345 [222 
 
 Grattan, Henry, 221 ; Recollections of, 
 Gray, Capt. John, 67; Mrs., 69; 
 
 Robt, 73, 356 ; Bp. of Bristol, 356 ; 
 
 of Capetown, 356 ; Thomas, 307, 
 
 308, 313 
 
 Green, P., 69, 88; S., 70; Ben., 356 
 Green, The, 176, 336 
 Greene, Col. Godfrey, 356 
 Grenville, R., Earl Temple, 57 
 Greville, Hon. S., 157 
 Grey, Mrs., 68; John, 248 
 Griffiths, V., 367 
 Grimston, Rev. H., 122 
 Grosvenor House, 360 
 Grove Cottage, 369 ; House, 356 
 Grove, The, 256 
 Gunning, Gen., 338 
 Gunpowder Mills, 393 
 Gwatkin, Mr., 356 
 
 H. 
 
 Haggard, W. H., 57, 368; J., 368 
 Hamilton, Rev. G., 68; Sir P., 71; 
 
 Duchess of, 338 ; Capt. Chas., 375 
 Hampton, B., 14 
 
 Hanworth Road, Houses on, 340, et seq. 
 Harberton, Viscountess, 246 
 Harborough, Lady, 360 
 Harcourt, W. Vernon, 294 
 Hardman, C. A., 355 ; Mr., 370 
 Hardinge, George, 247 
 Hare, Rev. T., 108 
 Hargrove, Mr., 356 
 Harriott, Col. T. G., 356 ; Mrs., 43, 
 Hartcliff, Rev. J., in [134 
 
 Harvie, [Harvey] M., 34, 63, 91, 157 
 Hatneld, Alexander, 53, 58, 78, 97 ; 
 
 A., jun., 73; M., 78, 363 
 Haverfield, J., 28 
 Hawes, Ben., 345 
 Hawkins, L. M., 78, 86, 251, 348; H., 
 
 78, 86, 348 ; Sir John, 346 ; Works 
 
 of, 347 ; Death and Burial of, 347 
 Hawtayne, Rev. W. G., 142 
 Hayne, Rev. W. B., 60 
 Haynes, J., 51, 70, 355 ; Mrs. E., 72 ; 
 
 M., 76; S., 78, 356 
 Heath House, 355 ; Road, 335 
 Heatham House, 365 
 
INDEX. 
 
 421 
 
 Heath-lane Lodge, 354 ; Gardens at, 
 Heathrow, 392 [354 
 
 Heckford, W., 74 
 Hemming, Rev. S., 57, 71, 143, 368 ; 
 
 Rev. S., jun., 58, 144, ; M., 73; 
 
 Rev. G., 144 
 Hewet, D., 67 
 Hewson, P., 82 
 Heydon, Rev. T., 107 
 Heyton, Rev. J., 109 
 Heze, Father della, 61 
 Hibberd, J., 227 
 Hibbert, , 102 
 
 Hickey, J., 74, 77, 184, 292; Gold- 
 smith's description of, 293 
 Hicksj , 102 
 High Shot House, 369 
 Highway Rate, Old form of, 193 
 Highway Robbery, compensation for, 
 
 195 ; Men, 380, 381 
 Hill, Spackman, 70; Lt. Thos., 73, 
 
 105, 359; E., 389; A., 393 
 Hilsborough, Lord, 377 
 Hindley, F. A., 28, 293, 396 
 Hobart, Hon. Hy., 395 
 Hobhouse, Sir B., 388 
 Hobson, Rev. W., no ; chooses his 
 
 churchwardens, 193 
 Hodges, Mrs., 367 
 Hodson, J. A., 75, 91 
 Hogarth paints Dr. Morell, 125 ; 
 
 Fielding, 359 
 
 Holborne, Vice-Admiral, 355 
 Holden, Miss, 293 
 Holland, Sir T., 56 
 Hollings worth, Mr., 183 
 Hollis, Lady, 66 
 Holly House, 359 
 Holman, M., 62, 101 
 Holman's, Richard, Gift, 147 
 Holyrood House, 376 
 Home, Countess of, 230 
 Horn, Mr., 396 
 Hough, Mrs., 369 
 
 Hounslow Heath, Camp on, 63, 336-7 
 Houses, Number of, 8, 9 
 Howard, Hon. P., 51; Lord Charles, 
 
 of Andover, 48; Henrietta, Countess 
 
 of Suffolk, 241 ; T., 56 
 Howe, Lord, 76 ; Lady, 76, 249 ; 
 
 Baroness, 287, 339 ; Her orangery, 
 Huddy, Mrs., 363 [345 
 
 Hudson, T., 70, 291 ; House of, 291 ; 
 
 Art Collection of, 292 
 Humble, Sir W., 64, 83, 257 ; Lady, 
 
 63, 68 
 
 Hutchinson, Rev. T., 124 
 Hutton, Rev. E., 128 
 Hyde, Hon. Lawrence, Lord, 63 
 
 Illustrated London News, remonstrance 
 
 in, 30 
 
 Ingram, T., 76, 89, 348 ; S. M., 77, 89 
 Ironside, R., passim, et 75, 104, 251 
 Islay, Lord, 183 
 Isleworth Sion, Manor of, 13 ; Rectory, 
 
 Manor of, 13 ; Survey, 4, 109, 223, 
 
 397 
 
 Ivy Close, 169 ; Lodge, 368 ; Bridge^ 
 396 
 
 J. 
 
 James II., King, hunting box of, 345 
 James, John, 20 ; Mrs., 353 
 Jeffries, Rev. H. C, 122, 202, 203 . 
 Jelf, Rev. R. W., D.D., 53; G., 60; 
 
 Sir J., 53 
 
 Jersey, Viscount, 55 
 
 Jervis, Mrs. Paxton, 261 
 
 Johnson, Dr., Derogatory speech con- 
 cerning himself, 238 ; Comparison 
 of Pope and Dryden, 283 ; A., 183 ; 
 Mr., 354 
 
 Johnstone [Johnston], James, 50, 67, 
 213; Caroline, 66; Frances, 66; 
 Rev. E., 67, 70, 125 ; Lady, 70, 213 
 
 K. 
 
 Kate, Sir G., 64 
 
 Keble, Rev. John, 55 
 
 Keck, Anthony, 254 
 
 Kent, J., Epitaph on, 104 
 
 Kerr, Lady M., 58 ; Lord F. H., 133 
 
 Kilmorey, Lord, 215, 294 
 
 King's Arms put up in Church, 202 
 
 Kingston, Lord, 338 ; Duke of, 348 
 
 King Street, houses in, 254-6 
 
 Kirby, Mr., 246 
 
 273 
 
422 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Kirgate, T., 75; His "Printer's La- 
 ment," 76 
 
 Kit-Cat Club, 348 
 
 Kneller Hall, 381 ; Hall and Staircase 
 at, 381 ; Training School at, 385 ; 
 Enlargement of, 386 ; Military Music 
 School at, 386 ; Chapel at, 386 
 
 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 20, 27, 64, 65, 66, 
 J 98, 349 ; Judgments of, 382 ; Inter- 
 ment of, 383 ; Lady, 66 ; Nephew of, 
 
 Knight, Mr., 61 ; J., 77 [383 
 
 Knollys, Rev. W. F. E., 137 
 
 Knowles, Rev. J., 124 
 
 Kyezor, L., 139, 207 
 
 Lacy, Rev. J., 126 
 
 Laing, Mr., 369 
 
 Lambard, Rev. H., 107 
 
 Laming, Mr., 293 
 
 Lamperns, Fishery for, 392 ; Price of, 
 
 Land, Price of, 394 [392 
 
 Lane, Lady Bridget, 247 
 
 Langhorne, T., 56 
 
 Langley, Batty, 49 ; Anne, 66 
 
 Laurel Lodge, 355 
 
 Lawley, Sir T., 61, 101 
 
 Lawn, The, 292 
 
 Lawry, Rev. S. S., 58 
 
 Leases of Manor granted by the Crown, 
 
 II 
 
 Lectern in the Parish Church, 35 
 Lee, Mrs. A., 102 
 Leicester, Sir J., 54 
 Lenthall, Wm., M.P., 390; Hume's 
 
 remark upon, 390 
 L'estrange, H., 66, 88 ; Mrs., 68 
 Leversage, Mrs., 183 
 Levett, Rev. R., 109 
 Levy, Edw., 345 
 Lewes, Sir T. F., 57 ; Sir G. C, 57 ; 
 
 Rev. Dr., 361 
 Limes, The, 368 
 Lind, Fras., 293 
 Line [Lynd], Sir Humphrey, 48, 236, 
 
 38o, 389 
 Lister, Sarah, 66, 70; C. f 70; Col., 
 
 70; W., 70; E., 71; Gen. H., 71, 
 
 367; D., 78; E., 78 
 Littledale, A., 88 
 Living, patrons of, 17 j Value of, 19 
 
 Local Board, Appointment of, 207, 
 
 Locker, E. Hawke, 370 
 
 Lodge, The, 339 
 
 Longevity of Inhabitants, 6 
 
 Lonsdale, Lord, 220 ; Burial of, 220 
 
 Lord of the Manor, 1 1 
 
 Louis Philippe, 214, 370 ; Letter of, 
 
 to Bishop of Llandaff, 214, 
 Love, Mrs. E., 174, 204 
 Lovibond, G. B. M., 60 
 Lowe, Susannah, 248 
 Lowth, Lord, 255 
 Lubbock, Sir John, 246 
 Lucas, Mr., 338 
 Lym Mead, 18, 161, 189 
 Lynd, Alexander, 48 
 Lysaght, Misses, 250; Vice-Admiral, 
 Lyttleton, J. P., 60 [355 
 
 M. 
 
 Macaulay, Lord, on Walpole, 305, 
 
 311 ; Account of Camp, 337 
 Macclesfield, Earl, 377 ; Countess of, 
 Macdaniel, Mary, 359 [391 
 
 Macdonald, R. G., 55 
 Mackenzie, J., 58; Sarah, 58; D. P., 
 
 59 ; Mrs., 258 
 
 Mackinnon, Lieut. -Col. L. D., 135, 355 
 Mackintosh, G. G., 256 
 Mackworth, Sir T., 49 
 Maddock, Rev. B., 128 
 Mahony, M. M., M.D., 79 
 Manchester, Earl of, 48, 61 ; Lady 
 
 Essex, Countess of, 61 ; Duchess of, 
 Manor House, Account of, 13 [233 
 Manor of Twickenham, 9, 10, n, 189; 
 
 Isleworth Sion, 13, 164; Isle worth 
 
 Rectory, 13 
 Marble Hill, 241 ; Plan of, 242 ; Swift's 
 
 description of, 242 
 Marble Hill, Little, 245 
 " Maria Wood," The, 332 
 Market Gardens, 6, 369 
 Markham, Lady B., 61, 86 
 Marlay [Marley], Lady C., 77; G., 
 
 77; Col. G., 77, 221 
 Marlborough, Fire at, 190 
 Marlow, Mr., 14 
 Marr, Charles, Earl of, 56 ; John, Earl 
 
 of, 56, 357 
 Marsh, Charles, 293 ; Library of, 294 
 
INDEX. 
 
 423 
 
 Martin, Rev. E., 120 ; C, 260 ; E. M., 
 
 Massey, Sir E., 49 [260 
 
 Master, Rev. G. S., 123 ; His descrip- 
 tion of the Parish Church, 31 ; of 
 Whitton Church, 140 ; Resigns 
 vicarage, 207 
 
 Matthews, R. H., 262 ; G., 262 
 
 May, J., 132, 292 
 
 Mayor, Mr., 343 ; Rev. J. B., 376 
 
 Mazzinghi, Mrs., 377 
 
 Meadowside Cottage, 246 
 
 Meggot, Rev. R., D.D., 63, in 
 
 Mellish, J. C., 77, 94 
 
 Memorial Windows in Parish Church, 
 34, 35, 36 ; In Trinity Church, 132 ; 
 In Whitton Church, 141 
 
 Memoranda in Registers, 46 
 
 Mendip, Lord, 261, 285 
 
 Merrett, Rd., 363 
 
 Middleton, Sir R., 56, 257 ; H., 63 
 
 Militia, Arms for, 193 
 
 Mills, G. G., 53; G. A. M., 73 ; Rev. 
 T., 128 
 
 Milman, Very Rev. Dr. , 333 
 
 Milnes, Monckton, Lines on the Miss 
 Berrys, 334 
 
 Mission Room and House, 185 
 
 Mitchell, C., 56 
 
 Monson, Lady, 261 
 
 Montague, Duke of, 247 ; Anthony, 
 Visct., 254 
 
 Montague, Lady M. W., 272, 348 ; 
 Admiration of Pope for, 349 ; Intro- 
 duction into England of Inoculation 
 by, 349 ; Letters of, 349 ; Retaliates 
 upon Pope, 251 ; Death of, 353 
 
 Montpelier Chapel, Erection of, 143 ; 
 Ministers and Proprietors of, 143-4 ; 
 School, 145 ; Row, 375 
 
 Montpensier, Duke of, 214 ; Death of, 
 214 
 
 Montrath [Mountrath], Earl of, 231 ; 
 Countess of, 184; Curious will of, 
 
 Montrose, Duke of, 246 [231 
 
 Monuments in Twickenham Church, 83 
 et seq. 
 
 Moore, Col., 53 ; Mrs. H., 249 ; Rev. 
 C. F., 59, 249; Richard, 171; 
 Robert, Gift to the Schools, 147 ; to 
 the Parish, 168 ; Gift to the Minister, 
 
 More Mead, 166 [180 
 
 Morier, R. B., 60 
 
 Morley, Mr., 289 
 
 Morrell, Rev. Dr., 125 
 
 Morrison, S. B., 70 
 
 Mortality, Average of in 1871, 7 
 
 Morton, C., M.D., 75, 104, 353; C., 
 
 Mount Lebanon, 249 [78 
 
 Moxon, T., 135, 339 
 
 Muncaster, Lord, 233 
 
 Murray, Lady M., 75, 293 ; Alexander, 
 
 215; Henry, 230; Lady V., 342; 
 
 Lady Ann, 255 ; Lady Augusta, 342 ; 
 
 Col. C. E., 389 
 Murthwaite, The Misses, 262 
 
 N. 
 
 Napier, Sir Geo., 250; Mr. and Mrs., 
 
 353 ; Lord, 378 
 Napleton, Rev. J., 127 
 Naval School, 233 
 Nepheune, Mrs., 361 
 Nesbitt, Mr., 355 
 Nettleship, Mr., 6, 369 
 Neville House, 366 
 Neville, Mrs. S., window in memory 
 
 of, 35 
 
 New Church and Parish, proposed, 142 
 
 Newland House, 369 
 
 Nicholls, J., 68 
 
 Nicholson, Miss, 182; Mr., 343; Dr., 
 
 Nicolls, Rev. Ff., 124, 188 [362 
 
 Nobbes, T., Esq., 262 
 
 Norris, Rev. J., 109 
 
 North-End House, 370 ; Art collection 
 and unique collection of china at, 
 370, et seq. ; Robbery at, 374 
 
 Northumberland, Duchess of, 250 
 
 Nott, Sir Thos. , 230 
 
 Noverre, A., 355 
 
 Nutt, J., 73 
 
 O. 
 
 Offa, King of Mercia, 9 
 Ogilby, Mrs., 260 
 Ogle, Sir C., 68, 93, 376 
 Old Church falls down, 20, 198 
 Oliver, Rev. R., 107 
 Onslow, G., 6 1 
 Orchard Lodge, 340 
 Ord, Gen., 370 
 
424 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Orders of Vestry, 186, et seq. 
 
 Ordnance Survey, 4 
 
 Orford, Earl of, see Horace Walpole 
 
 Organ in Church, 38, 205 
 
 Orleans House, Account of, 21 1 ; Leases 
 of, 211, 212; Gardens of, 213; Art 
 collection at, 215 ; Library at, 216 
 
 Orton, Mr., 250 
 
 Osbaldiston, Mrs., 260 
 
 Osborne, Lady Bridget, 376 
 
 Owen, Lewis, 1 70 ; Gift compensation 
 for, 205 
 
 P. 
 
 Palmer, Dr. .,361 
 
 Parish Church, 19-40 ; Goods, Inven- 
 tory of, in 1652, 190 ; Stock, Inven- 
 tory of, in 1664, 192 ; Bounds, 
 method of Beating, 232 ; Property, 
 present value of, Appendix C, 413 
 
 Parish, Rev. H., 144, 376 
 
 Park, Twickenham, 224; Monastery 
 at, 224 ; Leases of, 229, 230, 231 
 
 Parker,J., 58 
 
 Parochial Schools, 146, et seq 
 
 Patronage of the Living, 17 
 
 Patron Saint of Church, 19 
 
 Patterson, Sir H., 56 
 
 PaulJ. D.,54 
 
 Paxton, Rev. W., 143 
 
 Payne, Mr., 395, 396 
 
 Pechell, Col., 261 
 
 Peel, General J., 55, 245 
 
 Pembroke, Lady, 247 
 
 Pentecost, Rev. P., 107 
 
 Pepys, Samuel, 215, 249 
 
 Perigal, F., 70 
 
 Perkins, Sir W., 14 
 
 Ferryman's Gift, 161 
 
 Perryn House, 363 ; Museum at, 364 ; 
 Destruction by fire of Museum at, 
 
 365 
 
 Perryn [Perrin], R. G., 60; M., 70; 
 Lady M., 74; Sir R., 75, 96, 363; 
 Major J., 97; R. H., 364 
 
 Petre, Hon. Maria, 58 
 
 Pettingal, Rev. C., 353 
 
 Pews, Conveyance of, 25, 199 ; Rents, 
 172 ; Sale of, 200 ; History of Num- 
 bers 8 and 55, 25, 26, 27 
 
 Phelps, R. , 41 
 
 p ig[g]ot[t], N., 67, 390; Epitaph on 
 by Pope, 97 ; Charles, 68 ; N., 68 ; 
 Rev. R., 124 
 
 Pitkarne, Andrew, 48, 61, 211 
 
 Pitt, G. M., 52, 68, 213 
 
 Plunket, Mrs., 338 
 
 Pocock, G. E., 60 ; Lady, 70 ; Sir G. , 
 78,213; C. M.,78; E. 0.,99 
 
 Pocock, Sir G., 52, 73 
 
 Pointer, Rd. . 6 
 
 Pomeroy, Mrs., 361 
 
 Poole, Sir N., 61 
 
 Poor's Allotment, 172 
 
 Poor, Work provided for, 195 
 
 " Pop, A, upon Pope," 351 
 
 Pope, Alexander, 263 ; Birth and ante- 
 cedents of, 264 ; Works of, 265, 266, 
 267, 273, 274, 275, 276 ; Letter to 
 Edw. Blount by, 269 ; Accident to, 
 274 ; Illness, death, and burial of, 
 68, 277, 278 ; Personal description 
 of by Dr. Johnson, 280 ; Character 
 and companions of, 281 ; Skull of, 
 279 ; Compared with Dryden, 283 ; 
 Epitaph on Kneller by, 65 ; on Mr. 
 Pigott, 97 ; on James Craggs, 258 ; 
 Monument to, 93 ; Monument to 
 parents et sibi, 95 ; Death and burial 
 of mother of, 67, 275 ; Obelisk in- 
 scribed to, 275 ; Miss Jane, Epitaph 
 on Mrs. Clive by, 103; Mrs., 
 370 
 
 Pope's Grotto, 268; Contributors to de- 
 coration of, 270; Described by the 
 poet, 269272 ; Villa, 263 ; Descrip- 
 tion of, 268 ; Gardens at, 268 ; Sale 
 of, 284 ; Demolition of, 287 ; Present 
 so-called, 289 ; Willow, 235, 285 ; 
 Death of, 285 ; Lines on, 286 
 
 Population, 9 
 
 Porter, Miss, 261, 367, 368 
 
 Porteus, Bp., 58, 239 
 
 Poulett, Earl, 52, 259 ; Lady, 184 ; 
 Lodge, 259 ; The Misses, 376 
 
 Poulton, F., 61, 85, 194; S., 61, 172 
 T., 183; H., 183; J.,257 
 
 Powder mills, Loss of life at, 74 
 
 Prado, A., 184, 338; Mrs., 184 
 
 Prat, Rev. S., 113, 212 
 
 Pratt, Mr., 344 
 
 Prime, Sir Sam., 52, 58, 383; Lady 
 
INDEX. 
 
 425 
 
 Susannah, 70, 383, 385; S.,73; Sam., 
 
 76, 102, 385 
 
 Pritchard, Mrs., 247 ; Mr., 361 
 Proby, Rev. Charles, 30, 79, 105, 123, 
 
 279; Window in memory of, 34 ; F., 
 
 78, 85 ; Miss, 369 
 
 Prosecutor appointed by the Parish, 199 
 Provisions, Price of, 398 
 Pulpit, New, 202 
 
 Queensbury, Duke of, 243 ; Duchess 
 
 of, 296 
 
 Quin, James, 262 ; Portrait of, 262 
 Quinsbrough, Rt. Hon. Lord Duke, 
 
 389 
 
 R. 
 
 Radnor, John Earl of, 69, 293 ; House, 
 
 293 [247 
 
 Ragman's Castle, 246 ; Origin of name, 
 Railway, L. & S. W., Petition in favour 
 
 of, 206 
 Ramsden, Capt., 55, 78, 368; J. G., 
 
 55> 368 ; Window in memory of, 36 
 Rassam, Hormuzd, 379 
 Rates excused to clergy, 203, 204 
 Rates, Value of, 9 
 Raynal, Abbe, 301 
 Reconciliation, Old mode of, 46 
 Redgrave, Sam., 338 
 Reeves, W., 62, 85 
 Registers, 44 ; Parish, lines on, 127 ; 
 
 Keeper of, appointed, 190 ; Extracts 
 
 from, 46 82 
 
 Reid, Rev. C. B., 376 [30 
 
 Remonstrance against altering church, 
 Removal of graves and monuments, 33, 
 Rent charge, Owners of, 13 [34 
 
 Reopening of church, 33 
 Richardson, Mr., 292 
 Richmond Bridge, 395 ; Cost of, 395 ; 
 
 Tolls levied on, 395 
 Richmond House, 254 
 Ride, Mr., 383 
 
 Rider, Win., 256 ; Miss Maria, 368 
 Rights of way, 170, 208 
 Ringers, Payments to, 186, et scq. passim 
 Riversdale, 261 
 
 Riverside, 248 
 
 Rochester, Duke of, 259 ; Lord, 12, 212 
 
 Roffey, G., 343 
 
 Rooke, Jas. , 56 
 
 Ross, Lord, 389 
 
 Roxburgh, Duchess of, 220, 255 
 
 Rudyerd, Sir B., 61 
 
 Rutland, Duke of, 51 
 
 S. 
 
 Sackville, Lord John, 295 
 
 Salmon, Rev. H. T., 128 
 
 Salvador, Fran., 339; S., 52 
 
 Sandoz, Mr., 14 
 
 Sandy comb Lodge, 377 
 
 Savage, Rich., 391 [353 
 
 Saville House, 348 ; Lady 353 ; Sir Geo. , 
 
 Schools, Funds of, 146, et seq. ; Old, 
 152, 191, 205 ; Curious answers 
 given in, 155 ; New, 153 ; Numbers 
 in new, 154 ; Rules concerning, 205 ; 
 Present value of property belonging 
 to, Appendix C, 414 
 
 Scoones, Rev. W. D., 128 
 
 Scott, Mr., 14, 293 
 
 Seed, Rev. J., 117, 125, 143, 376 
 
 Selby, R. Collingwood, 343 
 
 Sergeant, Mr., 377 
 
 Sexton, A woman appointed as, 204 
 
 Seymour, E., 50, 69, 104 
 
 Shackerly, Mr., 261 
 
 Shandayes, J., 50 
 
 Sharp, Major Jelf, 246, 248 
 
 Shaw, Sir R., 60 
 
 Shelborne, Countess of, 255 ; Earl, 390 
 
 Shelby, Rev. T., 66 
 
 Sheldon, Archbishop, 56 
 
 Sheridan, R. B., 234 
 
 Sherlock, Dr. T., 114 
 
 Shews Lane, 362 
 
 Shirley, Hon. Geo. , 354 ; House, 354 ; 
 Lady Fanny, 69, 354 
 
 Simmonds, Charles, 344 
 
 Simpson, Lady Anne, 366 
 
 Sion Row, 251 
 
 Situation of the Village, 3, 8 
 
 Skelton, Joseph, 376 
 
 Skipwith, Sir Thos., 357 
 
 Slaughter, S., 100 
 
 Slingsby, J., 73 
 
i 
 
 426 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Smith, Rev. J., 107 ; Capt. R. Sydney, 
 
 Smyth, Rev. V. B., 128, 142 [375 
 
 Soame, Rev. T., 109 
 
 Soil, 4 
 
 Southcote, Johanna, 345 ; Adherence to, 
 
 South End House, 377 [345 
 
 Spackman, Mrs., 70 ; J., 72, 184, 359 
 
 Sparre, Baron, 51 
 
 Spencer, Right Rev. G. T., 60 
 
 Spyres, J. , 360 
 
 St. George, Chevalier de, 196 
 
 St. John, Hon. F., 58 (see Bolingbroke) 
 
 St. Stephen's, 369 
 
 S. Valery, Prior and Monks of, Patrons 
 of the Living, 17 
 
 Stanhope, Sir C., 47 
 
 Stanhope, Sir Wm., 284 
 
 Stanley, Lord, tribute of to Mr. Rassam, 
 378 
 
 Stephens, Dr., 345 
 
 Stillingfleet, Bp. Edw., 391 
 
 Stonard [Stannard], Rev. T., 108 
 
 Strafford, Earl of, 249 (see Byng) 
 
 Strawberry Hill, 186, 196, 294 ; Shot, 
 2 95 > Origin of name of, 295 ; Wai- 
 pole's description of, 296 ; Printing 
 press at, 301 ; Enlargement of, 297 ; 
 Opinions upon, 297, 298 ; Account 
 of, 313 ; Picture Gallery at, 320 ; 
 Bell for cursing caterpillars at, 324 ; 
 Collection of antiquities at, 323, 
 et seq. ; Chapel at, 325 ; Present 
 owners of, 327 
 
 Strawberry Hill, Little, 328 
 
 Stocks, Parish, and Cage, 201 
 
 Stopford, Mrs., 255 
 
 Stowell, Lady, 376 
 
 Stretch, Rev. L. M., 127, 363 
 
 Stuart, Mr., 289 
 
 Subscription deed for rebuilding the 
 Church, 22 
 
 Suckling, Sir John, 47, 183, 389 
 
 Suffolk, Countess of, 241, 248 ; Wai- 
 pole's opinion of, 243 
 
 Sunday School, 149 
 
 Sunday trading condemned, 201 
 
 Survey of 1649, J 8 note 
 
 Sussex, Duke of, 342 ; Dissolution of the 
 marriage of, 342 
 
 Swainson, Mr., 6, 354 
 
 Swan Inn, 251 
 
 Swan, R., 184 
 
 Swanston, C. T., 360 
 
 Swayne, Mr., 249 
 
 Sydenham, J., 70, 251 
 
 Symmonds, John, Esq., 255 [143 
 
 Sympson, Rev. M., 67, 143 ; Rev. W., 
 
 Syon Monastery, by whom founded, 224 
 
 T. 
 
 Talbot, Col, 67 ; Bp., 295 
 
 Taylor, H., 73 ; Rev. Isaac, 137 
 
 Templars, Knights, II 
 
 Temple, Earl and Countess of, 57 ; 
 Right Rev. F., D.D., 133, 385 
 
 Tennyson, A. , 55, 376 
 
 Terrick, Right Rev. R., D.D., 120 
 
 Terry, T., M.D., 76,88 
 
 Thackeray, Opinion of the last lines of 
 the Dimciad, and of Pope, 283 
 
 Thackrah, G. , 205, 206 
 
 Thames, River, description of, 223 ; 
 High Floods of, 396 ; Remarkable 
 Frost on, 397 
 
 Thanksgiving days for the Restoration, 
 Collections on, 192 
 
 Theodore, King of Abyssinia, 379 
 
 Thornton, Rev. J., 108 
 
 "Three Tuns" Inn, 366 
 
 Thrupp, C. J., 250 
 
 Tithes, 13, 1 8 
 
 Todd, Mr., 233 
 
 Tolfrey, Mr., 376 
 
 Tollemache, Hon. A. G., 60 ; R., 152 ; 
 Hon. John, 220, 255 
 
 Toller, Rev. H., 138 
 
 Tompkins, Rev. W., 109 
 
 Torrington, Lord, 254 
 
 Totness, Countess of, 236 
 
 Tower, Church, repaired, 202 ; Bread 
 thrown from, 174 
 
 Townley, J., 58 
 
 Townsend, Col., 51, 66, 67 ; Rev. John 
 Tyler, 128, 250 ; Rev. G. F., 250 ; 
 Rev. Geo., 250 
 
 Trade, Sir John, 47 
 
 Trew, Mr., 367 
 
 Trinity Church, Twickenham Common, 
 129 ; Consecration of, 131 ; Endow- 
 ment of, 130 ; Enlarged and reconse- 
 crated, 131, 132 ; Windows in, 131, 
 132 ; Registers of, 132, 133 ; Schools 
 
INDEX. 
 
 427 
 
 in connection with, 133 ; Monumental 
 
 inscriptions in, 134 ; Clergy of, 137 ; 
 
 Curates of, 138 
 Trotter, Rev. N.. 126 
 Trumbull, Sir W., 265 
 Tryon, Lady M., 70, 104; Gen. W., 
 
 73, 104; Mrs. A., 77 
 Tubbs, Mrs., 356 
 Tufnell, F., 94 
 
 Tufton, Hon. Mrs., 184 ; Sir C., 49, 64 
 Tuite, Nicholas, Esq., 357 
 Turner, J. M. W., 377 ; Ruskin's 
 
 opinion of, 377 
 Tumour, Capt., 292 
 Tweedale, Marchioness of, 149, 184, 
 
 338 
 
 Twentyman, Rev. J., 360 
 Twickenham Ayte, 162, 397 ; Bridge, 
 
 395 ; Bull Land, 164, 186 ; Chapel, 
 
 (see Montpelier) ; House, 346 ; Park, 
 
 224 ; Weeping willows first planted 
 
 at, 235 ; School, 631 
 Twining [Twyning] , John, 58, 77, 98 ; 
 
 E., 76 ; Richard, 52, 77, 98 ; Rev. 
 
 James, 137 ; M., 75 ; C. B., 78 ; M. 
 
 A., 78 ; MissE., 252 ; Rev. T., 252 ; 
 
 Account of the family, 252 ; Mr. 
 
 Thomas Twining's museum, 364 
 Twogood, J., 50 
 
 Uxbridge, Lord, 261 
 
 V. 
 
 Vaillant, Paul, 348 
 
 Vaughan, Rev. J., 109 
 
 Vaults, Conveyance of, 27, 199 
 
 Vegetation, 5 
 
 Vermin, destruction of, paid for by 
 parish, 202 [67 
 
 Vernon, T., 41, 66, 231, 235 ; Mrs. J., 
 
 Vestry, minutes of, 186, et seq. ; Select, 
 1 86, 194 j Proposal for, negatived, 
 205 ; Clerk first appointed, 2OI 
 
 Veto, Lord Chancellor's, on appoint- 
 ment of churchwarden, 193 
 
 Vialls Rev. T., 59, 394 ; Mrs. 76 
 
 Vicarage, 253 
 
 Vicar's bread, 173 
 
 Vicar of Whitton, 142 
 
 Vicars of the Parish, List of, 106, 
 et seq. ; of Holy Trinity Church, 137 
 
 " Villa," derivation of the word, 234 
 
 Vinkenboom, David, View of Twicken- 
 ham Park, by, 229 
 
 W. 
 
 Wakeman, J., 229 
 
 Waldegrave, J. J., Earl of, 55, 59 ; 
 Lady Laura, 76 ; Frances Countess 
 of, 327 
 
 Walker, J., 52 
 
 Waller, Edw., 258; Sir T. Wathen, 
 287, 289 
 
 Wallop, Lord, 50 
 
 Walnut-tree House, 361 [15 
 
 Walnut-tree in garctens^of Manor House, 
 
 Walpole, Horace,(295' ; Early life of, 
 299 ; Friends of, 300 ; Works of, 302, 
 3 O 3 34 > Letter to Sir Horace 
 Mann, 284 ; Narrow escape of, 300 ; 
 Rank as an Author, 303 ; Letters of, 
 305 ; Relations of, with Chatterton, 
 307 ; becomes Earl of Orford, 308 ; 
 Personal appearance of, 308 ; Cha- 
 racter of, 311 ; Death of, 308; Art 
 Collection of at Strawberry Hill, 
 312327 
 
 Walter, SirJ., 14, 183 
 
 Walton, Isaac, 2 1 8, 229, 347 
 
 Waterland, Rev. D., D.D., 113, etseq. 
 
 Warburton, Bishop, his monument to 
 Pope, 93 ; Waterland mistaken for, 
 118 ; Introduction to Pope, 294 
 
 Warwick, Earl of, 234 ; Misses, 250 
 
 Watt, A., 58 
 
 Wayde, Rev. J., 124 
 
 Webb, Col., 260 
 
 Webster, Rev. W., 144 
 
 Weeks, C., 70 ; Mrs., 183 
 
 Wellesley House, 340 
 
 Wellesley, Marquis of, 244 
 
 Wentworth, Sir W., 67 [145 
 
 Wesleyan Methodists' Meeting house, 
 
 West, Mr. , 6 ; Mr. and Mrs. , benefac- 
 tion of, 177 ; Mrs., 178, 184 
 
 Westrow, T., 61, 101 
 
 Wharton, Duke of, 257 ; Pope's de- 
 scription of, 257 
 
428 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wheeler, Hon. A., 66 
 
 Whitchurch, J., 184, 219 
 
 White, E., 70; K., 61 ; Rev. J., 107 
 
 Whitehead, Paul, 340 ; Works of, 341 ; 
 Burial of, 341 ; Garrick's epitaph 
 on, 342 
 
 Whitehurst, Rev. T. B., 60 
 
 Whithall, J., 63 
 
 Whitmore, Mrs. F., 56 ; Lady F., 56, 
 63, 92, 100 ; Col., 386 
 
 Whittingham, A., 63 ; M., 64, 102 
 
 Whitton, 380 ; Former names of, 380 ; 
 Ironside's remarks upon, 380 ; Cedars 
 at, 387 ; Place, 387 ; Park, 388 ; 
 Brewer's account of, 388 ; Bull Land, 
 165,197; Church, 139; Committee for 
 building, 139; Consecration of, 140; 
 Mr. Master's description of, 140, 141 ; 
 Windows in, 140, 141 ; Special offer- 
 ings to, 141 ; Endowment of, 141 ; 
 Vicarage at, 142 ; Vicar of, 142 
 
 Whyte, Isabel, 44 
 
 Wilbraham, Roger, 77, 94, 366 
 
 Wilde, E. A., 355 
 
 Wildman, T., 74, 99 ; Geo., 76 ; Lady, 
 77, 92 ; S., 77, 99 
 
 Wilkie, Rev. J., 361 
 
 William of Wykeham, 17 ; Builds 
 church (?) 19 
 
 Williams, Rev. C., 64, 101, in, 184, 
 197 ; Mrs., 64, 101 ; Richard, M.D., 
 
 Willis, Rev. T., 1 10, 124, 188 [73 
 
 Willock, Sir Henry, 255 
 Wilmot, M. M. Eardley, 77, 97 
 Winchester College owns Living of 
 
 Twickenham, 17 ; Surrenders it to 
 
 Henry VIII., 18 
 Windsor, Dean and Canons of, own 
 
 Living, 1 8 
 
 Wingrove, E. W.,377 
 Winsloe, Thos., 393 
 Wise, Col., 340 
 
 Wood, Rev. T., 108 ; Alderman, 332 
 Woodhouse, Rev. R., 108 
 Woollnough, Rev. J. B. W., 128, 369 
 Woodward, Edw., 229 
 Workhouse allotment, 160; Erection of, 
 
 199 ; Bill of fare at, 200 ; Contract 
 
 for supplies at, 201 ; Whipping post, 
 
 203 
 
 Wright, Mr., 345 
 Wyatt [Wiatt], Mrs., 68 ; 101 
 Wycherley, 265 
 Wyndham, Joseph, 49, 51 ; John, 57, 
 
 68; MissM., 67 ; W., 49 
 Wynne, Lady, 250 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yearsley, Dr., 369 
 York House, 217; Lodge, 221 
 Young, Henry, Esq., 261 ; Thomas, 
 289 
 
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