Some stray notes upon Slough and Upton, collected from various sources . heQuakers, standing apart from any town or village, atJordans, where a meeting is held once a year. Pursuing this road further, Chalfont St. Giles isreached, much visited by Americans and English toinspect the cottage in which Milton resided when hewrote Paradise Lost, and an account of whose arrivalthere is given in the Life of Thomas Elwood, theQuaker.* Hughenden, the seat of Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield ;Latimers, the ancient seat of the Cavendishes, andChenies, that of the Russells, are almost beyond a con-venient d
Some stray notes upon Slough and Upton, collected from various sources . heQuakers, standing apart from any town or village, atJordans, where a meeting is held once a year. Pursuing this road further, Chalfont St. Giles isreached, much visited by Americans and English toinspect the cottage in which Milton resided when hewrote Paradise Lost, and an account of whose arrivalthere is given in the Life of Thomas Elwood, theQuaker.* Hughenden, the seat of Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield ;Latimers, the ancient seat of the Cavendishes, andChenies, that of the Russells, are almost beyond a con-venient drive from Slough, as is also Agmondesham, * The writer is indebted to the kindness of Mr. Hissey for thepermission to use the sketch of Miltons cottage on the oppositepage. It is interesting to observe the variation between the sketchmade by Mr. Hissey in 1891 and those which appear in History, and in Wm. Howitts Homes of the Poets,published in 1847. A projecting portion of the Cottage has ap-parently been removed in later years, and an outbuilding z M m ^s W <X M m^^ m o o The Neighbourhood of Slough 51 now Amersham, where many martyrs were cruellyburnt in 152 i.* On the south-west side of Slough we come first toChalvey, a very dusty and unhappy-looking village,but its brook, which flows to the Thames through theplaying-fields, bears the repute of producing excel-lent eye-water : Oueen Anne and Queen Charlotteused to have the water brought up to Windsor Cippenham lies a little further on the same road,where are the remains of an ancient Danish camp,discoverable now only by the assistance of the Ordnancemap. Jacob Bryant, the antiquarian and mythologist(and a schoolfellow of Gray), resided at Cippen-ham. J Cippenham was in early days a place of considerableimportance, and was a royal residence of the MercianKings, and of the early monarchs of the Norman line,who frequently came here by river.§ On one occasion * Now it is no small praise to B
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