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plural) five times, and his ' Diary ' entries I Strype (Stow's ' Survey,' Book VI. 67),.
show that the name became applied to all as early as 1720, wrote of the luxuriant
the ground, then luxuriant gardens, now market -gardens attached to " the Neat
the streets of Pimlico west of Vauxhall Houses on the banks of the Thames
Bridge Road. Once Pepys had gone to (with no allusion, however, to the Manor
Chelsea to see the Lord Privy Seal, and by House, which probably had then disap-
mistake his coach not having waited, he peared) ; and the extension of these gardens
and his companion had to walk back to over all the ground between the Willow Walk
Westminster. Their way no doubt was now Warwick Street and the Thames
along the Chelsea Road, for by and by they may be traced in the maps of Faden (1785),
"came among some trees near the Neat Horwood (1795), Peter Potter (1815), &c..
Houses." Once he takes boat and goes by In later maps is seen the gradual efface -
river to " the Neat Houses over against ment of the gardens by the growth of
Fox Hall [Vauxhall]," to see a man dive. | Pimlico. W. L. RTJTTON.
Another time coming down the river from Barnes Elms, he lands and buys a melon, probably of the " monk " kind that Mas- singer had appreciated. Again in convivial I INSCRIPTIONS AT FLORENCE, mood after the play, he with his wife and (gee 10 s> ix . 224> 344> 443 x 24 , 223, 324.) Mistress Knipp went abroad by coach . _.
to the Neat Houses in the way to Chelsy ; I .. THE following inscriptions complete my
(To ~be continued.)
and there in a box in a tree sat and sang list of ^ose in the South-Eastern Section
and talked and eat." This surely was in of the old Protestant cemetery.
the gardens of the old Manor House, which, SIXTH Row.
or a remnant of it, was yet standing ; but 399. Erected by Daniel Price, Esq., to his mother
his last recorded visit was with Mercer and Margaret, w. of Stafford Price, Esq., of Hendon
Gayet by water "to one of the Neat Houses," House Midd., d. of William Davies, Esq., of
in t y he gardens apparently opposite Vauxhall. ^^^^^^^^^SS^
I have before referred to the plan of Montg., 9 June, 1776; ob. 13 Feb., 1844. 1723 made to show the advance of the Gros- 400. Constance Cecilia Bulkeley, Marquise de venor estate forty-seven years after its Bourbel Montpingon, ob. 9 Apr., 1838, a. 31. (In inception by the marriage of Sir Thomas * Gertrude Emma, 2nd d. of Marton Dal- Grosvenor with the heiress Mary Davis. rymp i e , Esq., of Fordel and Cleland in Scotland, If any part of Neyte Manor House yet stood, ob. 4 May, 1843, a. 36.
it, and certain fields adjoining including 402. Sarah Bruce, ob. 5 May, 1843. R.I. P. that marked as " the Balywick of Neat " 403- William Halls, ob 21 Mar 1844, a. 35. then belonged not to the Grosvenors, but 2 $, ^SeH fig""*' Exkadale ' Inverness > b - to " Mr. Stanley," whose name is yet pre- 40 5 Fanny, relict of Col. Richard Crewe, of the served in the locality by " Stanley Place."* Madras Army, ob. 13 Nov., 1846. Rocque's map of 1746 shows several build- 406. Sophia Roberts, late of Paddington, ob. ings on the old site marked as " the Neat 20 J n v A 1856 ' a - g 2 - ,
Houses " ; and close by is " Chelsea Bridge " inSLtion ""^ apparently Wlth Engllsh '
over the Canal, and communicating with 4 Q8. Charlotte Courtenay Johnson, ob. 4 Dec., " Avery [=Ebury] Farm " on the " Chelsea 1869, a. 70.
Road." Walford (' O. and N. London,' v. 43) 409. Mrs. Bennet, the mother of Mrs. Napier, by gives us a view (1750) of the wooden struc- w h se B .J2 she now heth. (See No. 443.) Ob. ture entitled "Jenny's Whim Bridge/' 13 ^^^
so called after some entertainment gardens Viscount Weymouth, and sister of the Rev. George which became famous about 1750, and Robbins, ob. 18 June, 1873.
were visited even by the exquisite Horace 411. Rev. George Robbins, Rector of Courteen- Walpole. These gardens, and the buildings hal > Nor than ts, form. Brit. Chaplain at Florence, included, occupiel the ground once coverfd TF$W$?? Er'ectdX ^ wKd by the Manor House and the Abbot s children.
gardens, " Jenny's Whim " being the 412. Clara, d. of Samuel and Sarah Lowe, ob. probable precursor of " The Monster " and 29 June, 1871.
its tea-gardens, of which Walford also gives L 412 ^ S u ar t h ^T 11 ' ob " 8 Sep " 186(5) ' a> 38 ' an interesting picture, date 1820. mce I Erected by her hiisb. _
then the house has been rebuilt.
- See Faulkner's 'Chelsea,' p. 57.
412&. George Henry Bengough, of the Ridge,
Glouc.,o6. 22 Oct., 1863, a. 37.
413. Mary, wid. of the Rev. A. H. Duthie, b.. 31 Dec., 1808 ; ob. 12 Feb., 1874. R.I. P.
