In September 1837 the dwelling-house, spring and garden were put up to auction by their proprietor, a Mr. Salter. The next proprietor, William Lucas, finding that the celebrity of the waters had for a number of years past been confined chiefly to the neighbourhood, issued in 1840 a pamphlet and hand-bills in which the water was described as perfectly clear when fresh drawn, with a slightly bitter taste. It was composed of sulphate of soda and magnesia in large quantities, and of a little iron held in solution by carbonic acid. The waters were recommended as a universal medicine, being “actively purgative, mildly tonic and powerfully diuretic.” The Pump-room was opened at 5 a.m., and the price of admission was threepence, or one guinea a year. By this time the old garden had been considerably curtailed by the formation of St. Chad’s Place, and by letting out (1830) a portion as a timber yard. But it was more carefully kept, and a new and larger pump-room had been built in 1832. A fore-court adjoined the Gray’s Inn Road, and next to it were the dwelling-house and pump-room. Beyond them was the garden which on the north was joined by the backs of the houses in Cumberland Row, and on the south by the timber-yard. The pump-room was still in existence in 1860,[64] but was removed about that time during the operations for the new Metropolitan Railway. [Pinks’s _Clerkenwell_, pp. 504–506; Kearsley’s _Strangers’ Guide_ s.v. “Battlebridge”; Lysons’s _Environs_, iii. (1795), p. 381; Lambert’s _London_, iv. 295; Hughson’s _London_, vi. p. 366; _Gent. Mag._ 1813, pt. 2, p. 557; Cromwell’s _Islington_, p. 156, ff.; Hone’s _Every Day Book_, i. 322, ff.; E. Roffe’s _Perambulating Survey of St. Pancras_, p. 13; Palmer’s _St. Pancras_, p. 75; Clinch’s _Marylebone, and St. Pancras_; Ashton’s _The Fleet_, p. 49.] VIEWS. 1. St. Chad’s Well, a view from the garden. Water colour drawing by T. H. Shepherd, 1850. Crace, _Cat._ 583, No. 81. 2. Plan annexed to the auctioneer’s particulars and conditions of sale of St. Chad’s Well, 1837 (_see_ Pinks, p. 506). BOWLING GREEN HOUSE, NEAR THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL The Bowling Green House, a tavern with a large bowling green attached to it on the south, was situated at the back of the Foundling Hospital, and south of the New Road. A lane turning out of Gray’s Inn Lane led to it. It is first mentioned in 1676,[65] and it afterwards gained notoriety as a resort of gamesters. On a day in March, 1696, the house was suddenly surrounded by soldiers and constables, who seized and conveyed before a Justice of the Peace every person found on the premises. Some of the offenders had to pay a fine of forty shillings apiece.[66]