. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. e eminent commentator him-self. In this house, could we but make its walls voluble, wemight write the annals of bench and bar. It stands amid thefrailer structures stanch as the Constitution, while its old-time,learned inhabitant has long since obeyed the summons of theSupreme Court of last resort, where there is no more conflictof laws. Ash Street is the name now given to the old highway lead-ing to the rivers side, v^here formerly existed an eminenceknown as Windmill Hill, later the site of Brattles bathing-house, from which the way was known as B
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. e eminent commentator him-self. In this house, could we but make its walls voluble, wemight write the annals of bench and bar. It stands amid thefrailer structures stanch as the Constitution, while its old-time,learned inhabitant has long since obeyed the summons of theSupreme Court of last resort, where there is no more conflictof laws. Ash Street is the name now given to the old highway lead-ing to the rivers side, v^here formerly existed an eminenceknown as Windmill Hill, later the site of Brattles bathing-house, from which the way was known as Bath Lane. Themill is mentioned as standing in 1719, and, in all probability,occupied the same ground as the earlier mill of the first plant-ers, removed in 1632 to Boston, because it would not grindbut with a westerly wind. The firm ground extends herequite to the river, so that boats freighted with corn couldunload at the mill. Down this lane of yore trudged many aweary rustic wHth his grist for the mill. * Judge Storys Memoir, by his CAMBRIDGE COMMON AND LANDMARKS. 285
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