Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . great secrecy, or secret for fourteenyears, being appended to the names. Mr. Davis,i in his Memorials of Knightsbridge, was the first 24 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Knightibridge. to exhume from this document the name of theadventuress, Mrs. ALary Ayhss, whom Sir SamuelAlorland married as his fourth wife, in 1687. Thereaders of Pepys will remember how patheticallyIMorland wrote, eighteen days after the wedding,that, when he had expected to marry an heiress, Iwas, about a fortnight since, led as a fool to thestocks, and marr
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . great secrecy, or secret for fourteenyears, being appended to the names. Mr. Davis,i in his Memorials of Knightsbridge, was the first 24 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Knightibridge. to exhume from this document the name of theadventuress, Mrs. ALary Ayhss, whom Sir SamuelAlorland married as his fourth wife, in 1687. Thereaders of Pepys will remember how patheticallyIMorland wrote, eighteen days after the wedding,that, when he had expected to marry an heiress, Iwas, about a fortnight since, led as a fool to thestocks, and married a coachmans daughter notworth a shilling. In 1699, an entry mentions one before her marriage as Lady Mary Tudor; andlastly, the great Sir Robert Walpole, to a daughterof the Lord ]\Layor of London, by whom hebecame the father of Horace Walpole. Many ofthe marriages here solemnised were runawaymatches, and, as such, are marked in the registerswith the words private and secresy. Of the barracks at Knightsbridge, facing thePark, usually occupied by one of the regiments of. THE WHITE HART, KNIGHTSBRIDGE, 182O. Storey at y Park Gate. This worthy it was whogave his name to what is now known as StoreysGate. He was keeper of the aviary to Charles II.,whence was derived the name of the BirdcageUalk. In the same year, Cornelius Van der Velde,limner, was married here to Bernada Van derHagen. This was a brother of the famous WilliamVan der Velde, the elder, and himself a painter ofnautical pictures, in the employment of Charles those who were married here, witli moreor less of secrecy or privacy, not mentioned in theabove extract, were Sir John Lenthall, son of theSpeaker of the House of Commons under Cromwell;the widow of the second Earl of Derwentwater—this lady was the youngest natural daughter ofCharles II., by the actress, Mrs. Davis, known the Guards, there is litde to say, except that theyare badly placed, and an eyesore to the neigh-bourhood. They consist of a range
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