[289] Park calls him her second husband, which is wrong. See Pepys’ ‘Diary,’ vol. i., p. 6.
[290] See Lord Braybrooke’s ‘Notes to Pepys’ Diary,’ vol. iv.
[291] Not his son, as a recent writer on Belsize asserts.
[292] These gentlemen were German Lavie, James Abel, Thomas Roberts, and Thomas Forsyth, Esqs., of Hampstead.
‘And on each side the gate a grenadier;
Howe’er, they cannot speak, nor see, nor hear;
But why they’re posted there no mortal knows,
Unless it be to fright jackdaws and crows.’
A modern writer on the neighbourhood appears to have been misled by these lines into the supposition that the gates were guarded by living soldiers.