There is another fact also worthy of note: Holinshed, when speaking of the execution of the Earl of March, which took place in the reign of Edward the third, says, that in those days the place of execution was called “The Elmes,” but was known in his day by the name of “Tiborne.” At the present time enough of “Elms-lane” {9} remains, at Bayswater, to point out where the fatal Elm grew, and the gentle “Tiborne” ran. Dr. Stukeley, and other learned antiquarians, are of opinion that the Edgeware-road, and the Uxbridge-road, represent, very nearly, the sites of the ancient Roman roads. Now if the Tybourn was, in truth, the same stream as the Westbourn, the monks of Westminster had only to follow its course from the Thames till they came to the _second_ “broad military road” which crossed it, instead of stopping at the _first_ they met with, (_and the charter says nothing about the first or second_), and in their ascent up this stream, and descent by the road, they would have included not only their Manor of Chelsea, but the Manor of Paddington also. {10a} And if this reading of Edgar’s Charter was objected to by the Great Chamberlain of England, or any other powerful neighbouring lord, there was Edward’s Charter for Chelsea; {10b} and Dunstan’s for Paddington in reserve. But the exact time when the words “Et illud praediolum in Padingtune aecclesiae pradictae addidi,” {10c} first formed a portion of that “forged instrument in Latin” called Dunstan’s Charter; or when those who cultivated the soil in this neighbourhood had to adopt their new lord, and transfer their services from the palace to the convent, does not very plainly appear. Undoubtedly, “a little farm in Padintun” became every year, after the Conqueror’s survey, more and more desirable. These forged charters, as we shall presently see, could not, of themselves, secure the monks of Westminster their Paddington estate; and another expedient had to be resorted to. I have just now assumed that the inhabitants of Paddington were free settlers, or King’s cottagers. And although this was undoubtedly the case at first, yet by the time of the Conqueror’s survey they may have been under the _protection_ of some mean lord. And I believe the manor of Paddington subsequently created by the monks of Westminster, was at this time a portion of the manor of Tybourn. For besides the evidence already produced, to shew that Tybourn and Westbourn were synonymous terms; we find in a legal document, even so late as 1734, that “two messuages and six acres of land lying in the common field of Westboune,” and three other acres, also in the same common field, are described as being “parcel of the manor of Tyburn, and called Byard’s Watering Place.” {11}