[132] There are advertisements of the Adam and Eve issued (at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century?) by G. Swinnerton, Junr. and Co., and by George Lambert (quoted in Walford, vol. v. p. 338). The _Picture of London_, 1805, mentions the Adam and Eve Tea-gardens, bowling-green, &c., but the conversion of the gardens into the cemetery (authorised by Act of Parliament in 1803) appears to have been already carried out in 1804. [133] There is a mention of the inn in 1725: the Assembly Rooms were certainly in existence in 1750, and perhaps at an earlier date. The original sign of the inn appears to have been the Black Bull; see _Notes and Queries_, 1st ser. viii. p. 293; W. Elliot’s _Some Account of Kentish Town_ (1821), p. 65. [134] The new or altered building contained the circular structure shown in so many views of the place. [135] The White Conduit meadow long continued in use as a cricket ground. About 1784 and subsequently a club composed of gentlemen and men of rank played its matches there. Among the players were the Duke of Dorset, Lord Winchilsea, Lord Talbot, Col. Tarleton, and Thomas Lord, who afterwards established the Marylebone Cricket Club. [136] A poem by W. W[oty] printed in the _London Chronicle_, 1760, vol. vii. p. 531. [137] “White Conduit Loaves” was a London cry till about 1825. [138] Forster’s _Life of Goldsmith_; cp. Goldsmith’s _Citizen of the World_, Letter 122. [139] “An Awkward Position,” a painting by A. Solomon, depicts the situation. This was exhibited in the Royal Academy, and reproduced in the _Illustrated London News_, 14 June, 1851. [140] Ashton, _The Fleet_, p. 66. [141] Bartholomew sold his interest in White Conduit House 25 March, 1795. [142] About 1772 these performances were prohibited on Sundays. [143] See a bill in the London Sections Collection, Guildhall Library, and cp. Rogers’s _Views of Pleasure Gardens of London_, p. 55; also G. Cruikshank’s Ivan Ivanitz Chabert, a print published 13 March, 1818. Hone’s _Every Day Book_, ii. p. 771, ff. [144] Born 1769, died 1838. [145] Till May of 1829 the old building was still standing. [146] Hone’s _Every Day Book_, ii. p. 1204. [147] Cp. the White Conduit concert described in the _Sketches by Boz_ (“The Mistaken Milliner,” cap. viii.). [148] The _Variety Stage_, by Stuart and Park, p. 8; 103. [149] The place appears to be referred to as early as 1633 as “the bowling place in Islington Fields” (Pinks, p. 710). [150] Mrs. Dobney died at about the age of ninety on 15 March, 1760. [151] Pinks states that Price had been starring at the Three Hats, Islington, prior to his performance at Dobney’s in 1767 (cp. _Memoirs of J. de Castro_ (1824), p. 29, who says that Price, Thomas Johnson, and old Sampson exhibited at the Three Hats). This may have been the case, though from 1758 to the spring of 1767, Thomas Johnson was certainly the chief equestrian performer at the “Three Hats.”