[66] Malcolm’s _Manners and Customs of London_ (1811), p. 209. [67] Barras’s advertisement is quoted in Palmer’s _St. Pancras_, p. 310. [68] It was generally known as the Bowling Green House, but the sign of the inn appears to have been the Three Tuns, for in a plan of the new road from Paddington to Islington (_London Mag._ 1756), the place is marked as the Three Tuns Ale House and the Three Tuns Bowling Green. [69] Malcolm in _Gent. Mag._ 1813, pt. 2, pp. 427–429. The Bowling Green House is marked in Horwood’s Plan C, 1799; in a map of 1806 in Lambert’s _London_, vol. iv., and in Wallis’s plan of 1808. [70] Walford, v. 304, cites a newspaper advertisement of September 1718, announcing that “there is a strange and wonderful fruit growing at the Adam and Eve at Tottenham Court, called a Calabath, which is five feet and a half round, where any person may see the same gratis.” [71] Cunningham’s _Handbook of London_ (1850), “Tottenham Court Road”; _see also_ Paxton’s _History of St. Giles’ Hospital and Parish_ (cited in F. Miller’s _St. Pancras_, p. 161), where similar fines for drinking at Tottenham Court are recorded for the year 1644. [72] His first ascent was on 15 September, 1784. This was the first ascent in England, but it may be noted that Mr. J. Tytler had made an ascent from Edinburgh on 27 August, 1784. [73] The _Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser_, Saturday, 14 May, 1785. [74] See Horwood’s _Plan_, 1793. [75] See Wallis’s _Plan_, 1808. [76] Thus the grounds must at that time have covered the space now occupied by Eden Street and Seaton (formerly Henry) Street. [77] There may be some exaggeration in this description (based on Wilkinson), for in the _Picture of London_, 1802, p. 370, the Adam and Eve is enumerated among the tea-gardens frequented by the middle classes, and is described as somewhat similar to the Jew’s Harp, with a small organ in the room upstairs where tea, wine and punch are served. [78] Walford, v. 305. [79] Stow’s _Survey_, p. 7 (ed. Thoms). [80] At a depth of four feet was a bottom of “lettice” work under which the water was five feet deep. [81] Watts’s building operations do not appear to have been completed till about 1811 or later (cp. Hughson’s _London_, iv. (1811), p. 414). [82] Peerless Pool is mentioned in _The Picture of London_, 1829 (p. 370), as one of the principal public baths of London. Cunningham, _Handbook of London_, 1850, speaks of it as a then existing public bath. Mr. Hyde Clark writing in _Notes and Queries_ (7th Series, viii. 214, 215) for 14 September, 1889, says that “it continued to be used as a bath until comparatively late years.” I am informed that after the death of Joseph Watts, the Bath was carried on by his widow, Mrs. Watts, and by the sons, Thomas Watts of the British Museum and his brother. It seems to have been built over at some time between 1850 and 1860.