[94] Park, ‘History of Hampstead.’
[95] The first charity school was established in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 1688.
[96] Henry James, Harper’s Magazine, September, 1897.
[97] At one period Miss Jane Porter occupied Grove House.
[98] Constable painted it, and subsequently exhibited his picture, ‘A Romantic House, Hampstead.’
[99] Hone, of the ‘Table-Book,’ has given an account of Thompson.
[100] It was said that Soho Square and many streets in its neighbourhood belonged to him.
[101] A Jacobean porch said to have belonged to an old Shropshire manor-house.
[102] I believe Thompson did bequeath to the Queen a beautiful bedstead of ivory or some costly material.—C. A. Ward.
[103] Vide Howitt’s ‘Northern Heights.’