[175] The younger Willoughby was certainly proprietor in 1792 and later, and Lewis says he succeeded his father on the death of the latter in December 1785. In May 1789 Highbury House (Nichols, _Canonbury_, p. 31, note) opposite the Tavern was sold by auction, as were also Highbury Tea House with gardens and bowling-green and two good messuages adjoining, together with many fields in the neighbourhood. This sale does not, however, necessarily imply any change in the management of Highbury Barn, which may at that time have been only rented by Willoughby from the owner of Highbury House and the adjoining property. [176] A few years previous to 1811 Willoughby cultivated at one end of the gardens a small plantation of hops, and afterwards erected a brewery on the premises. Highbury Barn was sometimes called “Willoughby’s Tea Gardens” (_Picture of London_, 1802). [177] Lysons, Nelson and Lewis all identify the moated house called in the Survey of 1611 “The Devil’s House” or the “Lower House” with the old Tallington or Tollington Manor House. In the survey of the roads of Islington (Nelson’s _Islington_, p. 20), however, both Tallington House and Devil’s House are separately marked, the two being divided by Heame Lane, a lane running at right angles to Tallington (Devil’s) Lane. This Tallington House must therefore have been an eighteenth-century residence and not the old Manor House. [178] Nelson (_Islington_), writing about 1811, says that about thirty or forty years before his time (1776?) the landlord’s name was Fawcett. [179] This seems to be implied by Nelson (_Islington_, 1811), who says that in his time the old “house had been fitted up in the modern taste.” [180] Lewis’s _Islington_, 1841, mentions the house as still existing, and it is described as still standing in Tomlins’s _Perambulation of Islington_, a work published in 1858, but in part written nine years before the date of publication. [181] Tea-drinking on Sunday at Little Hornsey is mentioned in the _Connoisseur_, No. 68, May 15, 1755, and Hornsey Wood is referred to in _The Idler_, No. 15, July 1758, in a way which implies that its reputation as a place of Sunday recreation was already well established. It appears from a passage in _Low Life_, referred to in the next note, that in or before 1764 the sign of the tavern was The Horns. The place was, however, usually known as Hornsey Wood House, and in its latest days as Hornsey Wood Tavern. [182] _Low Life_ (1764), p. 46. [183] Mr. Rose, the “citizen at Vauxhall,” described in the _Connoisseur_, May 1755, No. 68, used to grumble when his wife and daughters went “to Little Hornsey to drink tea.” [184] Newspaper cutting, 1753 (W. Coll.). [185] See Boyne’s _Trade Tokens_, ed. Williamson, ii. p. 818. This token is undated. The only dated token of Hampstead is one of 1670. [186] The “Mirmillo” of Garth’s _Dispensary_.