[36] Howitt’s ‘Northern Heights of London.’
[37] Morden’s Map of Middlesex, 1593, shows this road, which skirts the Fleet for a short distance in the neighbourhood of old St. Pancras, and runs up Tottenhall or Tottenham Court Road, passing by Lower Chalcot and Upper Chalcot to Pond Street.
[38] Burnet’s ‘History of his own Times.’
[39] See Macaulay’s ‘Essays.’
[40] Steele had his office at the Cockpit, in Whitehall. He held the post of Gazetteer and Commissioner of Stamps.
[41] There has been a question as to the burial-place of Steele, which the following note, kindly forwarded me through a friend, sets at rest: ‘Sir R. Steele was buried in the church at Carmarthen, and only in August, 1876, was there a memorial tablet placed over his remains by a gentleman of the name of Davies. It bears the inscription:
‘“Sir Richd. Steele, Knight,
Author, Essayist, and first chief promoter of the periodical press
of England.
Born in Dublin, March 12, 1671.
Buried in this church, and below this tablet.”’
[42] ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors.’
[43] ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors.’
[44] A contributor to Baines’ ‘Records of Hampstead’ states: ‘Under an old thorn-tree, near the house, on the north side of the avenue, there was within the memory of living people a dipping-well for public use.’ Is this, I wonder, the small fountain of delicious water, the footpath to which from the High Street Lord Rosslyn tried to stop? But, though on the Woolsack, he failed to do so. The case appeared in a Times newspaper of 1878.