The StJames's magazine and United Empire review . lous assembly. Bloom. I hope, Mr. Deputy, youll find her in good hands: coquetting atthe Wells with some Covent Garden beau ; or retired to piquet with some briskyoung Templar. The wells continued to be more or less a place of resort forinvalids, real and imaginary, down to the early part of the presentcentury; but the visit of George III. and the Court to Cheltenhamset the tide of fashion in a different direction. The chalybeatewaters of Hampstead soon after lost their medicinal reputation,and now merely serve to supply a public drinking fount
The StJames's magazine and United Empire review . lous assembly. Bloom. I hope, Mr. Deputy, youll find her in good hands: coquetting atthe Wells with some Covent Garden beau ; or retired to piquet with some briskyoung Templar. The wells continued to be more or less a place of resort forinvalids, real and imaginary, down to the early part of the presentcentury; but the visit of George III. and the Court to Cheltenhamset the tide of fashion in a different direction. The chalybeatewaters of Hampstead soon after lost their medicinal reputation,and now merely serve to supply a public drinking fountain in whatstill bears, as though in mockery, the name of Well Walk. But we must now pass across the fields, by way of the Ponds,^and skirting Caen Wood, to Highgate, which almost adjoins Hamp-stead on its eastern side. Around this spot, as around Hampstead,there are many houses which have an historic interest. Such areCaen Wood, the noble residence of Lord Mansfield, whither GuyFauxs comrades are said to have retreated upon the failure of their. CAEN WOOD. attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament; Cromwell House,once the home of Ireton; and Andrew Marvels house which oncebelonged to the rapacious Earl of Lauderdale; and Arundel House,once the suburban residence of the Earls of Arundel, and after-wards of the noble family of Cornwallis. The walls and timbers ofeach of these houses are redolent of the history of the seventeenthand eighteenth centuries, and associated with names which willnever die out of English history,—such as Arabella Stuart, Lord A ST110LL ROUND HAMPSTEAD AND HIGH GATE. 419 Bacon, and poor Nell Gwynne. In the Grove at Highgate, thehouse is still pointed out where Samuel Taylor Coleridge residedand died; and long will the pleasant walks round Highgate beconnected with his memory. The story of Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of Lon-don, is known to every one; but his connection with Highgatewill be a sufficient excuse for quoting from Mr. Howitts work
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