[161] Map in Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, 1695.
[162] Hone, however, shows (op. cit. 860) that there is some reason for supposing that Copenhagen House was not in existence until after 1624.
[163] On the Highbury Society, see note infra under Highbury Barn.
[164] The graphic account in Hone (op. cit. 862) is worth reading, though too long for quotation here.
[165] Hazlitt’s memoir is published in the Examiner for February 17, 1819; most of it is reprinted in Hone’s Every Day Book, i. 865, ff.
[166] Picture of London, 1823 and 1829; Hone’s Every Day Book, i. 859, 870.
[167] The hay-harvest is referred to in Nelson’s Islington, 1811, 74. A view of 1809, published by Cundee in the Juvenile Tourist, 1810, shows cockney visitors playing in the hay.
[168] Plan in Lewis’s Islington.
[169] J. Hollingshead’s My Lifetime, i. 13. The cricket ground was between Copenhagen House and Maiden Lane.
[170] Tomlins, Perambulation of Islington, p. 205.