Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 by Various
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The "bare skeleton" sometimes wants "fleshing," and hence the following list of additions and corrections: 1. _Dobney's_, or, more correctly, _D'Aubigney's Bowling Green_, was a celebrated place of amusement "more than sixty years since." It is now occupied by a group of houses called _Dobney's Place_, near the bottom of Penton street, and almost opposite to the Belvidere Tavern and Tea Gardens. 2. _Bridge Street, Westminster._ The Long Wool-staple was on the site of this street. Henry VIII., in 1548, founded, "in the Long Wool-staple," St. Stephen's Hospital, for eight maimed soldiers, who had each a convenient room, and received an allowance of 5l. a year from the exchequer. It was removed in 1735, and eight almshouses rebuilt in St. Anne's Lane, bearing the inscription "Wool-staple Pensioners, 1741." In 1628, in the Overseer's books of St. Margaret's is rated in the Wool-staple "Orlando Gibbons ij d." 3. _Campden House, Kensington._ Built by Sir Baptist Hickes in 1612; pulled down about 1827. Nicholas Lechmere, the eminent lawyer, was residing here when he was created a peer. "Back in the dark, by Brompton Park, He turned up thro' the Gore, So slunk to _Campden House_ so high, All in his coach and four." Swift's Ballad of _Duke and no Duke_. |
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