in the year 1596," the Queen came to dinner to Enfield House, and had toils set up in the park, to shoot at bucks after dinner."

The manorial property of Worcesters was granted by Elizabeth, or by James I. to Sir Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury. By the Cecils the estate was alienated to Sir Nicholas Raynton, Alderman, and sometime Lord Mayor of London. It afterwards passed, in marriage, from the Raynton family to that of Wolstenholme; and was purchased, in 1799, by James Myer, Esq. the present proprietor.

In addition to the manor of Worcesters, Sir Nicholas Raynton purchased a contiguous house, described as some time Hugh Fortee's, which he rebuilt between the years 1629 and 1632. This structure (of which Inigo Jones is said to have been the architect) is still remaining, but was altered by the Wolstenholmes, according to the fashion of that age, about the year 1700. This mansion, now the residence of James Myers, Esq. is termed Forty Hall, and is a substantial family residence, placed on elevated ground and commanding pleasing prospects. The interior is adorned by the following among other wellchosen pictures :-A Holy Family by Rubens. The Saviour dead and supported by Mary, with attendant figures, by Annibal Caracci. This is supposed to be the small painting from which was afterwards executed the larger picture, now in the possession of the Earl of Carlisle. The Miraculous draught of Fishes, by David Teniers. Uriah bearing the fatal letter, a small but exquisite picture, by Albert Durer. The figure expresses an aggrieved but dignified acquiescence, which enforces commiseration. A good portrait of Sir Nicholas Raynton, who rebuilt the mansion. He is represented in his robes,

as Lord Mayor, at the age of 74. The date of 1643, is affixed

to

From whom is derived the term Forty-kill, applied to the rising ground immediately beyond Baker Street, Enfield. This swell of land is vulgarly termed Four-tree hill.

to this portrait, and it is believed to have been painted by Dobson, pupil of Vandyck.

The grounds attached to this residence are extensive, and finely ornamented with wood and water. At the distance of about one quarter of a mile from the house, in the neighbourhood of a stream which runs to Enfield Wash, are some ine qualities of surface which probably denote the site of Elsynge Hall, a mansion once thronged with the wise counsellors and gay courtiers of Queen Elizabeth's important era. Founda tions of building are often discovered at this place, on digging; and, in dry summers, when the grass suffers and the soil depends for moisture on subterranean resources, the outlines of an extensive fabric, as to the vestiges of its ground-plan, may be easily perceived.

On quitting these presumed memorials of Elizabeth's palace, and proceeding towards the church of Enfield through Baker Street, we find on the right hand a retired and handsome family-residence, long occupied by a celebrated antiquary, the late RICHARD GOUGH, ESQ. The father of this eminent writer, Harry Gough, Esq. of Perry-hall, M. P. a director of the East India Company, &c. purchased in the year 1723, an estate at Enfield, which was much improved by the son and successor.* Mr. Gough became possessed of this property on the decease of his mother, in 1774, and continued to reside at Enfield, with the interruption of the various journeys connected with his topographical pursuits, until the time of his lamented death, which took place on the 20th of February, 1809. His remains were buried in the church-yard of Wormley, Herts, in a vault built for that purpose on the south side of the chancel, not far 224 from

"To the property at Enfield" (writes Mr. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, Vol. VI. p. 310.) " he made considerable additions by purchase, particularly of a large additional garden, and of a field nearly adjoining, adorned with a long row of beautiful' chesnut trees, which, as he has often observed, were planted by his father, and were coæval with himself—and which he bought as full-grown timber."

from the altar. An epitaph in Latin, written by himself more than fifteen years before his decease, has been inscribed, in attention to his desire, on a plain marble tablet on the south -side of the chancel.

For a copious and excellent biographical account of this eminent scholar and antiquary, we refer the reader to the "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth century,"* the work of his attached and constant friend, John Nichols, Esq. F. S. A. We cannot, however, refrain from extracting some passages of that publication which bear a more immediate reference to the spot under notice, and which record a goodness of heart more truly estimable than the highest and brightest attainments of superior intellect. After describing, with the warm feelings of friendship and regret, the ease with which he descended from the severity of the scholar, and adorned by agreeable manners the domestic circle, Mr. Nichols observes that " there was another class of society to which, if possible, he was still more dear-the poor and the afflicted, to whom he was at all times a father, a protector, and a benefactor. The faithful domestic, when unable to continue his services, continued to receive his pay in the shape of an annuity, with additional comforts."

As one instance of his benevolent disposition the following circumstance is noticed; "Mr. Robert Barnevelt, who died Jan. 27, 1786, amongst other charitable bequests gave 100% a year in the short annuities, to be divided among ten poor men and women of Enfield not receiving alins from the parish. On the close of the short annuities in 1807, this source of bounty ceased, and Mr. Gough (though wholly unconnected with Mr. Barnevelt, but as a neighbour) humanely took up the business, and voluntarily gave the like sum to each of the annuitants; and by his will he has made provision that the annuities shall continue to be paid as long as one individual shall survive." Mr. Gough's mansion at Enfield is still occupied by his widow.

Literary Anecdotes, &c. Vol. VI.

widow. His extensive and valuable library (with the excep tion of the department of British topography, which he be queathed to the Bodleian Library) was sold, in pursuance of his own direction, by Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby, in the year

1810.

At PONDER'S END, a village situated about eight miles from London on the Cambridge-road, is a spacious building, termed Lincoln House. This mansion is supposed to derive its name from the family of Fiennes, Earls of Lincoln, who resided here from 1600 till 1612. There was lately some painted glass remaining in the windows, containing among other armorial bearings, the arms and quarterings of Howard, with a Viscount's coronet, and the inscription "Henry Howard, 1584." The whole of this glass is now removed, and the building has been newly-fronted; but the interior comprises several ancient decorated ceilings. Lincoln-house is at present in the occupation of Captain Whytock.

On the east side of the road, at Enfield Wash, is a humble tenement which requires passing notice from its connection with an event which once agitated the public mind to an unusual degree. It was in this dwelling that Elizabeth Canning was said to have been confined under very peculiar circumstances. The story possesses little interest at the present day, and the particulars are stated at full length in various publi ⚫cations of familiar occurrence; yet the reader may here be reminded of the outlines of this strange tale.

Elizabeth Canning, a servant girl about 18 years old, went, with the consent of her master, to visit a relation on Newyear's day, 1753. She did not return, nor was any thing heard concerning her, for 28 days, at the expiration of which time she went to her mother's house in an emaciated and wretched condition, and accounted for her long disappearance by say ing that, while returning home on the evening of New-year's day, she was attacked in Moorfields by two men, who robbed

her,

her, and then conveyed her by force to the house of a woman named Wells, on Enfield-wash. She asserted that she had been confined there till the day of her return, when she ef fected her escape by jumping out of a window; and that she had subsisted, during the whole of the time, on a few crusts of bread and a pitcher of water. In stating the articles of which she had been robbed, she accused an old woman of cutting away her stays and taking them from her; and, when carried to the house at Enfield-wash some days afterwards, she fixed this charge upon Mary Squires, a travelling gipsy then in the dwelling.

The two women, Squires and Wells, were accordingly taken into custody; and, on their trial at the Old Bailey, the former was condemned to be hanged. Many doubts, however, arose ás to the veracity of Canning's depositions, and inquiries took place which were laid before the King, who referred the case to the consideration of the Attorney and Solicitor-General. In the result, the gipsy received his Majesty's pardon, and Canning was brought to the bar in her turn, and was tried for wilful and corrupt perjury. The trial lasted seven days, and an alibi which had been set up by Mary Squires being proved by an extraordinary chain of evidence, Canning was found guilty, and was sentenced to transportation for seven years.

The circumstances of this case were rendered of popular interest by the air of mystery in which they were enveloped, but the impression made on the public mind appears to have been greatly more than commensurate, and was, indeed, a phenomenon in the annals of jurisprudence. Not less than thirty-six pamphlets were published, besides several prints. Canning's was the popular side of the question; but, as it would appear on cool investigation, this popular bias arose from the ordinary and natural prepossession in favour of the more helpless party, and of that which tells the first tale, rather than from the superior probability of her allegations. When reason failed to support those who advocated her cause,

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