[273] I am told upon excellent authority that the house Constable lived in was taken down and rebuilt about six years ago; this house is now 44, Well Walk. [274] Sion Chapel. [275] Mr. G. W. Potter. [276] Now Tooley’s Farm. [277] Lintot. [278] Hogarth is said to have painted this picture at Hampstead. [279] Mrs. Delany was a Granville. [280] Richardson’s ‘Correspondence’ [281] ‘Gray was a little man of very ungainly appearance.’—HORACE WALPOLE. [282] The name of one of his poems. [283] ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors.’ [284] Wordsworth. [285] Charles and Mary Lamb were at this time living in Russell Street, over a brazier’s shop. [286] The fields commonly called the Conduit Fields lie under Fitzjohn’s Avenue, and a fountain at a corner of it represents the conduit. [287] Keats. [288] Brewer’s ‘Middlesex.’ [289] Park calls him her second husband, which is wrong. See Pepys’ ‘Diary,’ vol. i., p. 6. [290] See Lord Braybrooke’s ‘Notes to Pepys’ Diary,’ vol. iv. [291] Not his son, as a recent writer on Belsize asserts. [292] These gentlemen were German Lavie, James Abel, Thomas Roberts, and Thomas Forsyth, Esqs., of Hampstead. [293] ‘And on each side the gate a grenadier; Howe’er, they cannot speak, nor see, nor hear; But why they’re posted there no mortal knows, Unless it be to fright jackdaws and crows.’ A modern writer on the neighbourhood appears to have been misled by these lines into the supposition that the gates were guarded by living soldiers. [294] Belsize House stood at the bottom of the present avenue. One of the last inhabitants was old Mr. Martinez, of the famous firm of port-wine shippers, Martinez, Gassiot and Co, Mark Lane, about 1847.—C. A. Ward, Esq. [295] When Lysons wrote his ‘Environs of London,’ 1812, Belsize was a subrural place, the house modern. [296] There was a little stile in the lane, at the south-west corner of the estate, and this was the spot of the murder, just as Delarue was mounting it. [297] Letter of Lucy Aiken to Mrs. Mallett, Hampstead, September, 1845. [298] The Kilburne rises near West End, Hampstead, and passes through Kilburn to Bayswater, supplying the Serpentine River, Hyde Park; and in Park’s time it flowed through the fields to the Thames at Ranelagh. ‘In a note sewn into a copy of the “Speculum Britanniæ,” wrought by Travaile, and view of John Norden of Fulham, in the year 1596,’ the name is spelt three different ways—Kylburne, Keylbourne, Kulleburne (quoted from Baines’ ‘Records,’ etc.). [299] Great-uncles to the present Sir Charles Dilke. [300] The author of the ‘Saturday Half-Holiday Guide’ mentions a pure white variety of _Campanula rotundifolia_ growing on the Heath, but I never had the good fortune to meet with it. [301] All the plants enumerated in this catalogue have been found by the writer in the habitats indicated on Hampstead Heath.