On the west of the rivulet, which here divides St. George’s parish from St. Margaret’s and Chelsea, the hamlet stands partly in those and partly in Kensington parish. St. Margaret’s stretches from William Street, behind Lowndes Terrace, across the top of Sloane Street, behind Brompton Road, continuing the line behind Arthur Street to the bottom of Ennismore Mews, where, abutting on the north wall of Brompton Churchyard, it strikes off in a north-west direction and crosses the Kensington Road just below Hyde Park Terrace, whence it runs along the road into the town, and, including a few houses on the north side of High Street, it enters the Royal Gardens, including a considerable portion thereof, and the whole of the palace, within its boundary; it joins Paddington at a point on the Uxbridge Road, and thence returns through the Serpentine to Knightsbridge. The parish officers of St. Margaret alone beat the bounds now, and they appear always to have been strict in this duty, which, from some entries in their books, one would consider to have been a little festive occasionally:— 1595. Item, paid for bread, drink, £7 10s. 0d. cheese, fish, cream, and other victuals, when the worshipfull of the parish, and very many others of the poorer sort, went the perambulation to Kensington, in this hard and dere time of all things, as may appear by a bill of particulars 1597. Item, for the charges of diet at £6 8s. 8d. Kensington for the perambulacion of the parish, being a yere of great scarcity and deerness 1642. Item, spent at Knightsbridge, £2 19s. 9d. when divers of the burgesses and vestriemen of this parish went the perambulation 1668. Item, expended at a £26 13s. 4d. perambulation this yeare at Knightsbridge Henry VIII.’s corpse passed through Knightsbridge for interment at Windsor. In the St. Margaret’s books is the following entry:— 1547. Paid to the poor men that did bere £0 3s. 0d. the copis and other necessaries to Knightsbridge, when that King Henry the Eighth was brought to his burial to Wynsor, and to the man that did ring the bells