[187] The modern public-house in Well Walk called the Wells Tavern, though at one period, (before 1840) bearing the sign of the Green Man, is probably on the site of the original tavern. [188] Sion Chapel (the exact site of which is unknown) is of course distinct from the Episcopal Chapel into which the Great Room was converted in 1733. [189] Baker’s comedy, _Hampstead Heath_, London, 1706. [190] _The Country Journal, or the Craftsman_ for 16 October, 1736, has the notice:--“On Sunday between seven and eight in the evening one Mr. Thomas Lane, a farrier of Hampstead, going home from the Spaniards upon the Heath near the house called Mother Huff’s,” was attacked and robbed and stripped naked by three men who jumped out of the bushes. [191] Lysons’s _Magna Britannia_, vol. iii. 1724, p. 44. [192] This lady had made an earlier appearance at Cuper’s Gardens; _see_ Welsted’s _Epistle on False Fame_. [193] The spring at this time was adjacent to the Great Room, and was in this position, _i.e._ on the opposite side to the existing fountain, at any rate as late as 1806. [194] In Bickham’s _Musical Entertainer_ (1733, &c.). [195] _Evelina_ (1778), letter li. [196] The house, No. 17 in Well Walk, which is just behind the existing fountain, has a shallow well supposed to contain the source of the original spring. [197] MS. _History of Middlesex_, 1752, quoted by Park. [198] _A Modern Sabbath_, 1797, p. 53; see also Woodward’s _Eccentric Excursions_, 13. [199] Dickens, _Pickwick Papers_, cap. xlvi. [200] Cp. _The Idler_, No. 15, July 1758. [201] Lysons, _Environs_, ii. 527. [202] Evelyn (_Diary_, 2 June, 1676) describes the gardens as very large and woody, but ill kept. [203] _E.g._ “Galloway Races” in 1725 and 1729. [204] _Ambulator_, 1774; Dodsley’s _London_, 1761. [205] From the manuscript history of Middlesex quoted by Park (_Hampstead_), the spring would appear to have been discovered about 1742; the date on the reservoir containing the water was, however, 1714, and Walford (v. 245) states that the spring was known before 1600. But there is no evidence that Kilburn Wells was a place of entertainment earlier than about 1742, though the Bell tavern dated from about 1600. [206] Richard Owen Cambridge, _Dialogue between a master and his servant_ (1752). “Kupers” = Cuper’s Gardens, Lambeth. [207] _Picture of London_, 1802 and 1829. [208] Gibson, _View of the Gardens near London_, Dec. 1691. [209] Lord Ranelagh’s house remained standing till 1805, and was used in connexion with the Ranelagh entertainments. [210] Robinson lived at Prospect Place adjoining the gardens. He died on 3 March, 1777. [211] Cp. Walpole’s letter to Mann of 26 May, 1742: “The building and disposition of the gardens cost sixteen thousand pounds.” [212] Walpole to Mann, 26 May, 1742. [213] Walpole to Conway, 29 June, 1744. [214] Walpole to Montagu, 26 May, 1748. [215] Gray to Chute, July 1745 (Gray’s _Works_, ed. Gosse, ii. 125, ff.).