[300] Allen (_History of Lambeth_, 319) states that the Apollo Gardens were suppressed about 1791, but this is certainly erroneous, as the gardens were frequently advertised in 1792. Kearsley’s _Strangers’ Guide to London_ (1793?) mentions the place as “the resort of company in the evenings,” and says that music was occasionally performed there. The Temple of Apollo was described about 1796–7 in _A Modern Sabbath_ as already becoming ruinous, and it is there stated that Claggett, the proprietor, had become bankrupt. A newspaper paragraph of December 1796 refers to a field opposite the Asylum, close by “the ditch that encircles that place of late infamous resort, the Apollo Gardens.” [301] This was probably the orchestra that seems to have stood in the centre of the gardens and not that in the concert room. [302] Cp. a token of 1651 (“At the Dogg and Ducke in Southwarke,” type, Spaniel with Duck in mouth) in Boyne’s _Trade Tokens_, ed. Williamson, p. 1022, there assigned to The Dog and Duck in Deadman’s Place, Southwark, by Mr. Philip Norman, who, however, suggests the possibility of its belonging to the Dog and Duck in St. George’s Fields. A specimen is in the British Museum. [303] The ponds are marked in Rocque’s Map, _circ._ 1745. The duck-hunting probably took place at an early period, not later than _circ._ 1750. [304] Newspaper cutting of 1731 (W. Coll.): see also _The Country Journal or the Craftsman_ for 12 Aug. 1732; also 26 Aug. 1732. [305] Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, 10 July, 1771, Letter viii. in Johnson’s _Works_ (ed. Murphy), xii. 338. [306] A specimen in British Museum (from Miss Banks’s Coll.). Silver, size 1·25 inch; _Obverse_: _Lazarius Riverius.--Non omnibus dormio.--Miseris succurrere disco_. Bearded head of Rivière, to left; beneath head, the number “18” incised. _Reverse_: _The original Spaw in St. George’s Fields so memorable in the Plague, 1665.--For the proprieters_ (sic) _T. Townshend Alchemist to his Majesty, 1760._ Another specimen described in C. A. Rudolph’s _Numismata_ (relating to medical men), 1862, p. 45, has the words “Robert Baker, Esq., Twickenham,” evidently the subscriber’s name, engraved on the edge. [307] The water continued to be advertised in newspapers of 1771–1779. Hedger afterwards put in his nephew Mills (or Miles) to conduct the house which is said to have yielded Hedger £1,000 a year, but evidently himself remained the moving spirit. [308] On the “Maid of the Oaks,” see Baker’s _Biog. Dram._ [309] The Dog and Duck may have been more respectably conducted for a time. On 28 May, 1792, a charity dinner of the Parish of St. Thomas, Southwark, was held there (engraved invitation ticket in W. Coll.). [310] The Dog and Duck and the Apollo Gardens were for a time within the Rules of the King’s Bench Debtors’ Prison (De Castro’s _Memoirs_, pp. 126, 134).