[285] _Amusements Serious and Comical_, part ii. “The Thames.” [286] Pepys (_Diary_, 13 April, 1668) jots down in his daily expenditure a shilling spent “in the Folly.” From the circumstance that he makes no special comment on the place it may perhaps be inferred that he was already acquainted with it from previous visits. [287] Tom D’Urfey, _A Touch of the Times_, 1719. [288] Walford, iii. 290, 291. [289] Walford’s statement (_Old and New London_, vi. 388) that they adjoined Cuper’s Gardens is not quite accurate. Four strips of land belonging to four different proprietors are marked in the map in Strype’s _Stow_ (1720) as lying between the Belvedere Gardens and Cuper’s Gardens. [290] The proprietor, William Hagley, issued a halfpenny token “at ye Restoration in St. George’s Feilds.” Boyne’s _Trade Tokens of the Seventeenth Century_, ed. Williamson, p. 1036, No. 357. [291] Advertisement in the _Country Journal or the Craftsman_, 31 March, 1733, where the celebrated “Purging Spring” and the Chalybeate Spring “lately discovered” are mentioned, “at Mr. Lewis’s, commonly called the Restauration Gardens in St. George’s Fields.” [292] The water was also to be obtained at a corkcutter’s under Exeter Change in the Strand. [293] Loudon’s _Arboretum et frut. Brit._ vol. i. p. 75. Nichols, _Parish of Lambeth_, p. 84, says “about the year 1777.” [294] _Notes and Queries_, 7th series, xi. p. 87 (communication from Lieut.-Col. Capel Coape). [295] This appears from the evidence brought forward in the prosecution of Grist; see _The Whitehall Evening Post_ for May 7 to May 10, 1796 (referring to May 7). [296] Newspapers cited by E. M. Borrajo in _Notes and Queries_, 7th ser. xi. 138. [297] “The English translator of Lamotte’s _Life_ says she fell from the leads of her house, nigh the Temple of Flora, endeavouring to escape seizure for debt, and was taken up so much hurt that she died in consequence. Another report runs that she was flung out of window.... Where the Temple of Flora was, or is, one knows not” (Carlyle, _Diamond Necklace_, note near end). The Temple of Flora alluded to was certainly in London, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the popular resort now described is the place in question. [298] At the period when the gardens were open “The Asylum” (_i.e._ Female Orphan Asylum) stood where Christ Church now stands. [299] Cp. Wilkinson, _Londina Illust._ vol. ii. “Pantheon Theatre.”