[66] In 1461 we find the Abbot and Convent of Westminster instituting John Barton to the Rectory of Hendon _cum capella de Hamsted_ eidum annexa.—PARK. In the time of Edward VI., the curacy of Hampstead was valued at £10 per annum; but up till that time the inhabitants chiefly consisted of laundresses and their families. [67] Park’s ‘History.’ [68] He built St. Giles’s Church. [69] For a portrait of Harrison, see the _European Magazine_, October, 1789. [70] I regret that on my recent visit to the churchyard I found this description no longer true. An air of neglect, very painful to one who remembers its appearance thirty years ago, pervades it now; and all the neatness and care seems to be transferred to the newer portion of the graveyard on the opposite side of the church. [71] On the last occasion of my visiting the graveyard (1896), I could not find this tomb. [72] Copied for me by Mrs. Godfrey Turner. [73] The toll is still exacted. Several attempts have been made by the parish authorities to extinguish the right, but they have never come to terms with the successor of Miss Sullivan (1899).—G. W. P. [74] The church now St. John’s. Rebuilt in 1745. [75] Lysons, ‘Environs of London.’ [76] The Rev. Samuel White, at that time resident at Frognal. [77] ‘At the above date Hampstead, with many other parishes, took advantage of a statute passed in the reign of George I., which, with the consent of the major part of the parishioners, empowered the churchwardens and overseers of parishes to purchase or hire any house in the parish, or to contract with any person to lodge and keep and employ the poor ... hiring them, in fact, to contractors. The system, for a while, appeared to work well, but after a time ceased to be useful.’—HOWITT, ‘Northern Heights.’ [78] It was he who built the magnificent Chesterfield House, Mayfair. [79] Park, p. 342. [80] Obituary, _European Magazine_, 1804. Haydn says 1805, which is wrong. [81] Howitt, ‘Northern Heights of London.’ [82] Every ticket was sold before the drawing took place. [83] Obituary, _European Magazine_, of this month and year. Haydn says 1805. [84] Fenton House has had many tenants in modern times, amongst them the Honourable Miss Murrays and the Baroness Grey. It has been called the Clock House, a resident, some thirty years ago, having placed a sham dial-plate on the front of the entrance porch. [85] Park, the historian of Hampstead, so often referred to in these pages.—C. W. [86] I have a clinging impression that much of the ‘Vanity of Human Wishes’ was composed in Greenwich Park without being committed to paper, but I cannot refer now.—Note by C. A. Ward, Esq. [87] Mrs. Desmoulins had lived with Mrs. Johnson for some before her marriage with the Doctor.