[65] A great man, and student of Swedenborg.
[66] In 1461 we find the Abbot and Convent of Westminster instituting John Barton to the Rectory of Hendon cum capella de Hamsted eidum annexa.—Park.
In the time of Edward VI., the curacy of Hampstead was valued at £10 per annum; but up till that time the inhabitants chiefly consisted of laundresses and their families.
[67] Park’s ‘History.’
[68] He built St. Giles’s Church.
[69] For a portrait of Harrison, see the European Magazine, October, 1789.
[70] I regret that on my recent visit to the churchyard I found this description no longer true. An air of neglect, very painful to one who remembers its appearance thirty years ago, pervades it now; and all the neatness and care seems to be transferred to the newer portion of the graveyard on the opposite side of the church.
[71] On the last occasion of my visiting the graveyard (1896), I could not find this tomb.
[72] Copied for me by Mrs. Godfrey Turner.
[73] The toll is still exacted. Several attempts have been made by the parish authorities to extinguish the right, but they have never come to terms with the successor of Miss Sullivan (1899).—G. W. P.