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Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 by Various
page 10 of 67 (14%)

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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