[178] These fields are now covered with houses. [179] Mrs. Barbauld’s ‘Richardson’s Correspondence.’ [180] I believe the elm has been preserved, but the house has been removed. [181] Mr. Le Breton, who heard him, says it was the first large elm-tree on the Heath. [182] The Park, Brussels. [183] Said to have been one of the most reliable of Charles Kean’s stock pieces. [184] Leigh Hunt and his brother had been condemned to two years’ imprisonment each, and a fine of £1,000, for having, as he ludicrously phrases it, contrasted the _Morning Post’s_ description of the Regent as an Adonis in appearance, and the Mæcenas of his age, with the old real, fat state of the case, and for having said that H.R.H. had lived for fifty years without doing anything to deserve the admiration of his contemporaries or the gratitude of posterity. [185] A tradition of the inhabitants of the cottage when I saw it. [186] These lines do not appear in ‘Sleep and Poetry,’ in Moxon’s edition in the Pocket Series. [187] Old John Cleave, the publisher, and friend of Douglas Jerrold and William Linton, who visited Leigh Hunt in his Surrey cage, told me that not only were the walls covered with a rose-patterned paper, but that the poet had trained living roses on them. [188] _Vide_ Mary Cowden Clarke. [189] Millfield Lane is said to be a very ancient road. This was the road traversed by the mounted messenger in 1780 who was despatched for the military, while the would-be wreckers of Lord Mansfield’s house were being regaled by the landlord of the Spaniards Inn. [190] A fungus so called. [191] Hammond’s house was in Elm Row. [192] Some persons have asserted that Lord Byron was one of Leigh Hunt’s visitors in the Vale of Health, but Hunt himself tells us that though Lord Byron visited him in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, he did not afterwards. His interviews with Lord Byron took place at his lordship’s town-house. [193] In the garden of which her three-year-old son celebrated his mother’s birthday by eating laburnum seeds, which nearly killed him. [194] Those who have had experience of forestry consider the mighty beeches and oaks in Caen Wood to be the real descendants of the primeval giants of the old Forest of Middlesex. [195] Lloyd’s ‘Caen Wood and its Associations.’ A lecture. [196] State Calendars of Charles I. and II., April 24, 1630, and September 21, 1660. [197] There is a tradition that the ponds were enlarged, if not made, by the Monks (Lloyd). [198] The old mill has still a local tradition in Millfield Lane, by which it was approached from the hamlet of Green Street, Kentish Town (_ibid._). [199] Haydn. [200] The South Sea Scheme, thus called. [201] Lloyd. [202] It was Lord Bute who granted Dr. Johnson a literary pension of £300 a year. [203] Here are all the letters—Kaen, Caen.