[254] This is precisely the language of Jonas Hanway, the traveller, and introducer of that useful article, the umbrella. This was also the favourite argument of the clergy, when preaching against the use of tea, as they also did against vaccination. [255] I am told by an old resident that as late as 1830 there was but one butcher’s shop in Hampstead. [256] A ridiculous custom, of which an account will be found in Hone’s ‘Table Book.’ [257] _Connoisseur._ [258] Quoted in ‘Hampstead and the Heath,’ which appeared in _Sharpe’s Magazine_ early in the sixties. [259] Twelve months later, 1736, Turpin rides on the Highgate road, wearing an open gold-laced hat, while his companion (who sometimes passes for his man) has a plain gold-laced hat. [260] He was Court painter to George II., and the translator of ‘Don Quixote.’ Sir Joshua Reynolds thought so little of his paintings that when asked where they were to be seen he replied, ‘In the garret.’ [261] Tried for bigamy, and found guilty, 1776. [262] The Duke of Grafton was Lord Chamberlain. [263] Mrs. Donnellan (the prefix Mrs. was then frequently applied to unmarried ladies) was the daughter of Chief Justice Donnellan, and sister to the Bishop, of Killala. Dr. Clayton married her sister, and gave his wife’s fortune to Mrs. Donnellan, who seems to have passed a great part of her life in England, making Hampstead a frequent place of residence. [264] The rich and beautiful Widow Pendarves married the Irish Dean Delany, 1732, to the great disgust of John Gay. See his letter to Swift in the correspondence of the latter. ‘As Dr. Delany hath taken away a fortune from us, I expect to be recommended in Ireland. If authors of godly books are entitled to such fortune, I desire you would recommend me as a moral one—I mean in Ireland, for that recommendation would not do in England’ (Swift’s Correspondence). [265] I have seen it stated that the burial-place of Pope is unknown. [266] Clergymen extolled ‘Clarissa’ in the pulpit, and Pope observed of ‘Pamela’ that it would do more good than all their sermons. [267] The _Daily Advertiser_, September 26, 1748. [268] William Moray, for robbing John Head, a farmer’s boy, of sixpence (_Universal Magazine_, February 15, 1775). [269] About nine o’clock on a July morning, Turpin was seen by two gentlemen who knew him, at Tottenham High Cross, mounted on a gray horse, with a boy behind as servant on a brown horse, with a black velvet cap and silver tassel. He rode through the town without molestation.—_Grub Street Journal_, 1736, No. 397. [270] Park’s ‘History of Hampstead,’ published when the author was little more than of age. [271] Mr. Baines, in his ‘Records of Hampstead,’ has remedied this oversight, and has given some interesting particulars of the young historian’s after-life. [272] Then the Green Man.