[33] _Daily Advertiser_, July 19, 1748: ‘To-morrow, the 20th inst., will be run for on Hampstead Course, a considerable sum, between two poneys, at the Castle on Hampstead Heath. There are great bets depending. The poneys will be rubbed down at the Castle aforesaid.’ In reference to this race we read: ‘On Wednesday a race was run on Hampstead Heath between a bay poney belonging to Lord Blessington, and a gray poney of Mr. Woods, of Jack Straw’s Castle, for a considerable sum of money, which was won by the former.’ [34] Horace Walpole’s Letters. [35] Hampstead, July, 1810. It is stated in the _Morning Post_ that the Hampstead Volunteers, who had been practising firing at a large target on the Heath, ‘had fired many excellent shots, some of which nearly entered the bull’s eye.’ They have improved upon this since then, as have also their firearms. [36] Howitt’s ‘Northern Heights of London.’ [37] Morden’s Map of Middlesex, 1593, shows this road, which skirts the Fleet for a short distance in the neighbourhood of old St. Pancras, and runs up Tottenhall or Tottenham Court Road, passing by Lower Chalcot and Upper Chalcot to Pond Street. [38] Burnet’s ‘History of his own Times.’ [39] See Macaulay’s ‘Essays.’ [40] Steele had his office at the Cockpit, in Whitehall. He held the post of Gazetteer and Commissioner of Stamps. [41] There has been a question as to the burial-place of Steele, which the following note, kindly forwarded me through a friend, sets at rest: ‘Sir R. Steele was buried in the church at Carmarthen, and only in August, 1876, was there a memorial tablet placed over his remains by a gentleman of the name of Davies. It bears the inscription: ‘“SIR RICHD. STEELE, KNIGHT, Author, Essayist, and first chief promoter of the periodical press of England. Born in Dublin, March 12, 1671. Buried in this church, and below this tablet.”’ [42] ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors.’ [43] ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors.’ [44] A contributor to Baines’ ‘Records of Hampstead’ states: ‘Under an old thorn-tree, near the house, on the north side of the avenue, there was within the memory of living people a dipping-well for public use.’ Is this, I wonder, the small fountain of delicious water, the footpath to which from the High Street Lord Rosslyn tried to stop? But, though on the Woolsack, he failed to do so. The case appeared in a _Times_ newspaper of 1878. [45] At the present (1899), only one of the beautiful trees is standing. [46] Subsequently Sir Rowland Hill resided at Bartrum Park, a little to the east of the green, on the same side of the way. [47] Where the small-pox sheds stood, the Hampstead Hospital for Fever and Small-pox stands now (1899). [48] There is an engraving of this house in Mr. Gardener’s collection, copied in Mr. Howitt’s ‘Northern Heights of London.’ [49] An engraving of this picture appeared in the _European Magazine_. [50] See Appendix.