In 1811 it was repaired and improved at a cost to the ratepayers of £3,000. The first organ cost £500. Some financial extracts from the old parish books may be interesting and amusing— £ s. d. 1698 Paid the ringers for the King’s 00 06 08 coming home 1703 Paid for prayer books at general 00 3 06 thanksgiving 1704 Paid Mr. Jackson for a barrel of 00 15 00 beer for victory over French and Bavarians 1709 Paid ringers for forcing the French 00 13 04 lines 1712 Paid ringers when the Queen made 00 6 08 her speech for peace (N.B.) 1713 Paid ringers when the Peace came 00 6 08 over 1714 Paid ringers for the pious memory 00 13 04 of Queen Ann 1716 Ditto, when King George went 00 6 08 through the town Aug. 1 For a bonfire and Ringers 00 5 08 1683 Collection by order of the Bishop 03 12 06 for relief of poor of London 1693 Paid for a truss of straw for a 00 00 04 poor soldier Paid for maimed soldiers 00 06 00 1694 1 bushel of coals for a poor family 00 01 00 1711 Paid for French prisoners and a 00 01 00 woman at Wingsdale Barn 1727 Paid charity boys for blowing organ 00 16 00 bellows and ringing the saint’s bell for one whole year Paid Theef Ketchers enquiring who 00 09 00 robbed the Church Kensington was not at all a noted place until William III. ennobled it with his court and residence. Noel House, Kensington Goar, was built 1804. Kensington House about William Third’s time. Kensington Square in James Second’s reign, 1698. Church Street probably took its name from the church at the end, or from the house called Church House, which was occupied by the “poore of the sufferance.” Camden House was built by Sir Baptist Hickes, who possessed considerable property in the parish in 1612. Phillamore Place was built 1787, and in 1811 David Wilkie, Esq., R.A., resided here. His works the “Blind Fiddler,” “Rent Day,” “Village Holiday,” &c., will be remembered by all. Sir Isaac Newton, who by the way was never married, lived on Camden Hill. Here he died, March 20th, 1726–7, at the age of 84. His nephew wrote of him. “His whole life was one continued series of labour, patience, charity, generosity, temperance, piety, goodness and all other virtues without any mixture of vice whatever.” The Royal Palace of Kensington is situated in the parish of St. Margaret’s, Westminster.