[243] John Adams, teacher of mathematics, published _The Mathematician’s Companion_ (1796). “The following use was made of Hogarth’s plates of the Idle and Industrious Apprentices, by the late John Adams, of Edmonton, schoolmaster. The prints were framed and hung up in the schoolroom, and Adams, once a month, after reading a lecture upon their vicious and virtuous examples, rewarded those boys who had conducted themselves well, and caned those who had behaved ill” (Smith: _Nollekens_). [244] Samuel Ireland was father of William Henry Ireland, who forged Shakespearean MSS. and put forward the spurious play _Vortigern_. In his well-known _Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth_ he proves himself rather “a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles than a contributor of serviceable information” (Austin Dobson: _William Hogarth_: enlarged ed. 1898). This work must not be confused with John Ireland’s _Hogarth Illustrated_. [245] Perhaps it was an ordnance map mistake. “On the south side of Nag’s Head Lane, near Ponder’s End, is a deep well, probably the brick conduit noted in Ogilby’s roads 1698, and known by the name of Tim Ringer’s Well (King’s Ring Well, 2076 in the ordnance map), which was formerly considered infallible as a remedy for inflammation of the eyes” (Hodson and Ford: _History of Enfield_, 1873). [246] Durance, or Durants, was visited by James I. when it was the home of Sir Henry Wroth, to whom Ben Jonson wrote his lines-- “How blessed art thou, canst love the country, Wroth … And though so near the City and the Court, Art ta’en with neither’s vice or sport.” Wroth’s executors sold the manor to Sir Thomas Stringer, who married a daughter of Judge Jeffreys. [247] “But above all, I must not forget the Tulip Tree, the largest and biggest that ever was seen; there being but one more in Great Britain (as I am informed), and that at the Lord Peterborough’s. It blows with innumerable flowers in the months of June and July” (John Farmer: _History of Waltham Abbey_). [248] Known as Cheshunt House or the Great House. When Smith visited it in 1791, it had been much modernised. There is no evidence, says Thorne (_Environs of London_), that the o’er great Cardinal ever lived there. Ten years after Smith’s visit, the Rev. Charles Mayo pulled down the larger part of the building in order to repair the remainder. After his time it remained desolate and neglected. [249] Cornelius Janssen (1590-1665) is best remembered for his portrait of Milton as a boy, engraved in the first volume of Professor Masson’s Life of the poet. His original portrait of Sir Hugh Myddelton, now in the committee room of the Goldsmiths’ Hall, represents the great engineer with his left hand resting on a conch from which a stream of water gushes; over this are inscribed the words: “Fontes Fondinæ.” This portrait was presented to the Company by Lady Myddelton.