[160] Hone, _Every Day Book_, i. p. 860. Tomlins (_Islington_, 204, 205) discovered that in 1753 it was occupied by a currier, and supposes, therefore, that it was not a place of entertainment till after that date. The meeting of the Highbury Society there before 1740 seems however to bear out Hone’s assertion that Copenhagen House was already an inn in the first half of the eighteenth century. [161] Map in Gibson’s edition of Camden’s _Britannia_, 1695. [162] Hone, however, shows (_op. cit._ 860) that there is some reason for supposing that Copenhagen House was not in existence until after 1624. [163] On the Highbury Society, see note _infra_ under Highbury Barn. [164] The graphic account in Hone (_op. cit._ 862) is worth reading, though too long for quotation here. [165] Hazlitt’s memoir is published in the _Examiner_ for February 17, 1819; most of it is reprinted in Hone’s _Every Day Book_, i. 865, ff. [166] _Picture of London_, 1823 and 1829; Hone’s _Every Day Book_, i. 859, 870. [167] The hay-harvest is referred to in Nelson’s _Islington_, 1811, 74. A view of 1809, published by Cundee in the _Juvenile Tourist_, 1810, shows cockney visitors playing in the hay. [168] Plan in Lewis’s _Islington_. [169] J. Hollingshead’s _My Lifetime_, i. 13. The cricket ground was between Copenhagen House and Maiden Lane. [170] Tomlins, _Perambulation of Islington_, p. 205. [171] F. Miller, _St. Pancras_, 269. [172] Highbury Barn, _i.e._, the grange or farm of Highbury Manor, is mentioned by that name at an early period, and there are extant various leases of it of the fifteenth century, granted by the Prior and Convent of St. John of Jerusalem (_e.g._ “our certain grange, situate upon the site of our manor of Highbury called Highbury Barn”--see Tomlins’s _Perambulation of Islington_). The name Highbury Barn is, therefore, much older than the date of the incorporation of the large barn of Highbury Farm with the Highbury Tavern premises. [173] The site of the Prior’s house was occupied by a private residence called Highbury House built in 1781 and immediately opposite the Highbury Barn Tavern. [174] The Highbury Society, formed by Protestant Dissenters to commemorate the abandonment of the Schism Bill at the end of the reign of Anne, met at first at Copenhagen House, but about 1740 assembled at Highbury Barn. The members beguiled their pilgrimage from Moorfields to Highbury by bowling a ball of ivory at objects in their path. This society was dissolved about 1833.