[124] Park.
[125] Edward Coxe.
[126] Mr. Steevens left the greater part of his property to his niece, Miss Steevens, who died at Hampstead.
[127] Locally memorable as the last person who wore a pigtail at Hampstead.
[128] Park.
[129] C. Deane was another artist who loved and painted Hampstead Heath. He exhibited a scene from Hampstead at the British Gallery in 1823—a most perfect representation of local scenery. I owe this note to an odd number of the Literary Gazette.
[130] Alfred Edward Chalon proposed to give, in 1859, to the inhabitants of Hampstead his own large collection of sketches, and his brother’s unsold works, and some endowment to uphold the collection, if they would provide suitable premises; but it fell through by their default, and he died on October 3, 1860.
[131] Varley was very chary of drawing horoscopes. He was often terrifically right.
[132] ‘A copy of the ancient customs used in the Manor of Hampstead was made, February 14, 1753, from a paper found by Mr. Tims at Jack Straw’s Castle, where several of the bailiffs of the manor had lived, and, from the style of the writing, appeared to have been written eighty or ninety years before.’—Baines, ‘Records of Hampstead.’
[133] ‘Pickwick Papers.’