Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . idge ? Bayes : In Knightsbridge ? No, not if the innlcecper behis friends. The wood at Kyngesbrigg, of which we have i8 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Kiiightsbridge. spoken, and which modern topographers identifyAvith the spot where now stands Lowndes Square,may give us some ckie to the character of theneighbourhood six or seven hundred years doubt, it formed a portion of that forest withAvhich, as we learn from Fitz-Stephen, London wassurrounded on almost every side. It owned nolord, says Mr. Davis, and the few inhabi
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . idge ? Bayes : In Knightsbridge ? No, not if the innlcecper behis friends. The wood at Kyngesbrigg, of which we have i8 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Kiiightsbridge. spoken, and which modern topographers identifyAvith the spot where now stands Lowndes Square,may give us some ckie to the character of theneighbourhood six or seven hundred years doubt, it formed a portion of that forest withAvhich, as we learn from Fitz-Stephen, London wassurrounded on almost every side. It owned nolord, says Mr. Davis, and the few inhabitantsenjoyed free chase and other rights in it. It was every reason to believe, both from local tradition,and also from the helmets, swords, &c., whichfrom time to time have been dug up in the neigh-bourhood, that it was the scene of more than oneencounter between the Royal and Parliamentaryforces in the time of Charles I. Here, too, wasthe house occupied by the infamous LordHoward, of Escrick, by whose perjured evidenceso noble a patriot as Algernon Sidney was sent to. ?KING GARliEN, •WORLi/s END. {From a Draiii!^ ill Mr. Craces Collection.) disafforested by order of Henry III.; and in thereign of his son, Edward I., if we may trust , Knightsbridge was a manor belonging to theAbbey. To their lands here, inthe course of thenext half century or so, the monks added others atWestbourne, and both were jointly erected into amanor—that of Knightsbridge and Westbourne—a name still retained in legal documents. I\ adds that the whole of the isolated parts ofSt. Margarets [iarisli—including a part of Kensing-ton, its palace, and gardens—are included in thismanor. As we have already related, Knightsbridge wasthe last halting-place of Sir Thomas Wyatt andhis Kentish followers, before his foolish assault onLondon in the reign of Queen ^L^ry : and there is the block. Roger North,.in his Examen, tells usthat when the Rye House Plot became knoAA-n, theking commanded
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