[155b] Lysons, on the authority of the parish books, states that a Sir Michael Wharton was living at Parson’s Green, anno 1654.
[159] The ground has been recently levelled.
[160] L. E. L.
[171] Died, 1858.
[188a] He died there in 1813.
[188b] Since this sketch was made, the gateway, with the coat of arms over it, has been removed, and a battlemented and Gothic entrance, more in accordance, perhaps, with the architecture of both church and mansion, has been erected in its stead.
[196] Died 20th October, 1777, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
[213] Copied from a picture in oil in the possession of George Bunnett, Esq., of Fulham.
[218] John, the fifth Marquis of Winchester, sustained a siege in his seat at Basing from August, 1643 to 16th October, 1645, when the place was taken by storm and burned to the ground, “money, jewels, and household stuff” being found therein to the value of £200,000, among which was a rich bed worth £14,000.
[227] Now in the South Kensington Museum.