{96} The exact yearly rent paid by the Great Western Railway Company to the Bishop and his lessees, is £2366 2_s._ 1_d._ Vide Parliamentary Paper, No. 664. 1850. {103a} I have stated 1829, for in 1729 the Turnpike-rate was standing at the junction of the old Roman roads; that is, at the end of Park-lane. {103b} “Return of the number of District Surveyors appointed under the Metropolitan Building Act, and amount of their fees.” By this return I find that the fees received by the District Surveyor of Paddington, for five years, 1838 to 1842 inclusive, amounted to £4,261! _Parliamentary Paper_, 1843. {104a} Page cliii of this Report. {104b} While the workmen were digging the gravel out of “Craven Gardens,” I saw an old well which lay beside their excavation, the bottom of which did not appear to have been ten feet from the surface. I also remember that there was a pond close to this spot, at the corner of the Pest-house Field, which was not so deep as this well, but which was not dry even in the hottest summer. {105} Vide _Household Words_, _No._ 142, for a most powerful picture of the present condition of the common sewers. {106} One of the great reformers of the sixteenth century—_Luther_—said “The Christian must be obedient to the commands of the Government, even though it wrongs him, skinning and fleecing him.” And again he says, “Christians, whilst preparing for the eternal life, will remain in political things always stupid sheep, (Schaafe und Schoepse), they will never get beyond nonsense in the affairs of state.” German reformers of the nineteenth century see the effect these opinions have had on the world, and they reject these dogmas of their venerable reformer with the contempt they so well merit. Vide “_The Reformation of the Nineteenth Century_,” by Johannes Ronge, Part I. page 19. Deutsch and Co., Fleet-street, and Oswald and Covers, Cross-street, Manchester. {111} The English Language, 3rd edition, page 286. {113} Saxons in England, vol. i. page 36. {114a} “William (son of Ansculfe) holds Abincebourne—Abinger. The same William holds Padindene. Huscarle held it of King Edward. At that time it was rated for four hides; now for three. Hugh, William’s man, holds three hides.” In Abinger parish there were three manors—Abinger; Paddington-Pembroke; and Paddington, otherwise Paddindean, sometimes styled from a former owner, Paddington Bray. There was also another manor of “Padinden” in Lingfield parish in this county. Vide _Manning and Bray’s History of Surrey_, vol. ii. page 136 and 347.