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guished as a man of active benevolence, lies buried in the church of Hanwell.

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That excellent institution, the Marine Society, owes its existence to the exertions of Mr. Hanway, whose life was one long-continued wish and exertion for the amelioration of the condition of his fellow-creatures. Han'well boasts, moreover, a living philanthropist in the person of Dr. Connolly, director of the Asylum for Pauper Lunatics of the County of Middlesex, under whose care the system of personal restraint and coercion hitherto adopted towards those unfortunates has been abolished with triumphant

success.

A short distance north of Hanwell, also on the Brent, is Greenford Magna, a little village about nine miles from Hyde Park Corner.

Edward Terry, who was presented to the vicarage in 1629, accompanied Sir Thomas Roe on his embassy to the Great Mogul, in the reign of James the First. An account of his voyage was published, abounding in interesting and curious observations. Mr. Terry was the author also of a Character of Charles the Second, and several sermons.

Greenford Parva, or Perivale, is bounded by Greenford Magna, Ealing, and Harrow, and is called by Norden, " Perivale, more truly Purevale," in allusion to the fertility of the valley in which it is situated.

Here lies buried Dr. Philip Fletcher, Dean of Kildare, brother of a bishop of that see; he was author of a poem called "Truth at Court," in which, if as Waller says, poets succeed better in fiction than in truth, Dr. Fletcher had ample scope for the imaginative faculty: to the Dean is attributed

another short poem, called "Nature and Fortune," printed in Dodsley's celebrated Collection.

SOUTHALL, a hamlet of the parish of Norwood, within the Earl of Jersey's manor of Hayes, is the next station, but contains nothing worthy of notice. The Queen's stag-hounds meet here usually once in the season, when the concourse of sportsmen from London is prodigious.

OSTERLEY PARK, between Southall and Hounslow, to the left, a magnificent seat of the Earl of Jersey, was enclosed by Sir Thomas Gresham.

"After Sir Thomas Gresham had enclosed the park at Osterley, he began to rebuild the manor-house, but it was not completed till the year 1577. Norden, whose Survey was first published in 1596 (the year in which Lady Gresham died), says, "Osterley, the house nowe of the Lady Gresham's, a faire and stately building of bricke, erected by Sir Thomas Gresham, knight, citizen and merchant adventurer of London. It standeth in a parke, by him also impaled, well wooded, and garnished with manie faire ponds, which afforded not only fish and fowle, as swanes and other wild fowle, but also great use for milles, as paper-milles, oyle-milles, and corn-milles, all of which are now decayed—a corn-mill excepted. In the same parke was a very faire heronry, for the increase and preservation whereof sundrie allurements were devised and set up, fallen all to ruine."

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In the year 1578, Queen Elizabeth visited Osterley, where Sir Thomas Gresham entertained Her Majesty in a very magnificent manner. Devises of Warre," and a "Play at Asterly, her Highness being at Sir Thomas Gresham's," is the title of a pamphlet by Churchyard, not now known to be extant.

Fuller tells a story of the Queen's visit to Osterley, which, though well known, should not be omitted:

Her Majesty having given it as her opinion that the court before the house would look better divided by a wall, Sir Thomas Gresham in the night sent for workmen to London, who so speedily and so silently performed their task that before morning the wall was finished, to the great surprise of the Queen and her courtiers; one of whom, however observed, that it was no wonder that he who could build a 'Change could so soon change a building.

Soon after Lady Gresham's death, Lord Chief Justice Coke, the AttorneyGeneral, was an inhabitant of Osterley.

George Earl of Desmond, and his Countess, who was one of the coheirs to the estate, resided at Osterley several years. A remarkable story is told of this couple in the Strafford Letters, a book that abounds with curious anecdote :-"Young Desmond," says Mr. Gerrard, writing to Lord Wentworth, "who married one of the co-heirs of Sir Michael Stanhope, came one morning to York House, where his wife had long lived with the Duchess during his two years' absence beyond sea, and hurried her away, half undressed, much against her will, into a coach, and so carried her away into Leicestershire. At Brickhill he lodged, when she in the night put herself in milk-maid's clothes, and had like to make her escape, but was discovered. Madam Christian, whom your Lordship knows, said that my Lord of Desmond was the first that ever she heard of that ran away with his own wife." Lady Desmond's adventure was in 1635. It was about four years after that she and the Earl came to Osterley, where she bore him a numerous family. Sir William Waller, the celebrated Parliamentary General, a man whose integrity is said to have commanded the esteem of all parties, became an inhabitant of Osterley soon after the Desmond family quitted it, and continued there till his death, which happened in 1668. His daughter Anne was married in Osterley Chapel to Sir Philip Harcourt, ancestor of the present Lord Harcourt. Dr. Nicholas Barbon, a subsequent possessor of Osterley, and a great projector, published a treatise on the expediency of coining money lighter, in answer to Mr. Locke.

In the early part of the eighteenth century, Osterley became the property of Sir Francis Child, a citizen of great opulence and eminence. He represented the city of London in parliament, and was Lord Mayor, as was his son, Sir Francis.

Osterley House was rebuilt by Francis Child, Esq., about the year 1760. In the front, where was formerly a square court, is now a spacious portico supported by twelve columns of the Ionic order. The ancient ground-plan was for the most part preserved, and the turrets remain, having been newly cased. The house from east to west is one hundred and forty feet in length, and from north to south one hundred and seventeen. The inside, which is fitted up with taste and magnificence, was finished by the late Robert Child, Esq., who succeeded to his brother's estates. The staircase is ornamented with a fine painting, by Rubens, of the apotheosis of William the First, Prince of Orange, brought from Holland by Sir Francis Child. The most

remarkable of the rooms are, a noble gallery one hundred and thirty feet in length, containing a good collection of pictures by the old masters, and some valuable portraits; the state bed-rooms,-very magnificently furnished; and a drawing-room, hung with beautiful Gobelins tapestry. The library contains a large and valuable collection of books, of which there is a printed catalogue drawn up by Dr. Morell.

The house stands in the centre of a park containing about three hundred and fifty acres. In the garden was a menagerie, containing a large collection of rare birds, which were dispersed after the death of Lady Ducie.

Coloured prints of a hundred rare and curious birds from the Menagerie at Osterley, in two volumes, with.descriptions, were published, in 1794, by William Hayes, of Southall.

At Smallberry-green, in Heston parish, Sir Joseph Banks, the celebrated circumnavigator and naturalist, had his residence.

HOUNSLOW, being in part a hamlet of Heston parish, may be noticed in this division of our subject. In a Parliamentary Survey, taken in 1650, the town of Hounslow is stated to have contained one hundred and twenty houses, most of them inns and ale-houses depending upon travellers. Here was formerly a priory, belonging to the brethren of the Holy Trinity, whose peculiar office it was to solicit alms from the faithful for the redemption of captives.

The only remaining part of the priory is the chapel, which contains a monument to the memory of Whitelock Bulstrode, to whose family appertained the manor of Hounslow.

Upon Hounslow Heath, once formidable to wayfarers, from the number of highwaymen who used to infest the place, there are traces, according to Doctor Stukely, of Roman encampments.

During several eventful periods in our history, the Heath has been occupied by armies: Fairfax's army was reviewed here. "There were present the Earls of Northumberland, Salisbury, and Kent; Lord Grey of Wark, Lord Howard of Escrick, Wharton, Say and Sele, Mulgrave, and others; the Speaker of the House of Commons, and about one hundred members. The general, accompanied by the said Lords and Commons, rode through the army from regiment to regiment, and were received with great acclamations." Having viewed the army, they took leave of the general, and some went to the Earl of Northumberland's, at Syon, and others to the Lord Say and

Sele's, at Hanwell. After the review, the army was quartered at Hounslow and the surrounding villages.

In the year 1681, King James the Second encamped his army upon Hounslow Heath. Dalrymple, in his Memoirs, mentions King James's intended measure of establishing and regulating a perpetual encampment of twelve hundred men upon Hounslow Heath, as a means of rendering himself independent of his Parliament.

"He caressed," says Dalrymple, "his officers, he flattered his soldiers, and in the plenitude of his joy, he could not refrain from carrying the queen and princess to dine in the camp, and from descanting in his letters to the Prince of Orange on the beauty of his troops, not without a secret pleasure from the reflection that his exultation could give no pleasure to the prince."

CRANFORD is a short distance to the left of the line of railway, as we proceed from Hanwell to West Drayton; the church is about a mile north of the Bath road, and about thirteen miles from London.

The parish is bounded by Hayes and Norwood on the north; by Heston on the east; on the west by Harlington, and on the south by Bedfont.

Dr. Fuller, the historian, has a monument in the church of Cranford. The learned historian was son of the Reverend Thomas Fuller, of Aldwincle, in Northamptonshire, at which place he was born in 1608. At twelve years of age he was sent to Queen's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Master of Arts. In 1631, being then of Sidney College, he published his first work, a poem of David's crime and repentance. Upon his entrance into holy orders, he became a very popular preacher. His first preferment was a prebend of Salisbury; he was presented to the rectory of Broad Windsor, in Dorsetshire, and was appointed lecturer at the Savoy. Having distinguished himself in the early part of the civil wars by the then illtimed loyalty of his discourses, he found it expedient to quit London, and seek an asylum at Oxford, where the king then was. Soon after this he became chaplain to Lord Hopton, and was in Basingstoke during its first siege by Sir William Waller. The rectory of Waltham Abbey he afterwards obtained through the interest of the Earl of Carlisle, and soon after Lord Berkeley gave him that of Cranford,—his last preferment.

The principal works of Dr. Fuller are the "Worthies of England,” "Church History," "History of the Holy War," "Pisgah Sight of Palestine," "Abel Redivivus;" "A History of Reformers, Bishops, and Martyrs ;"

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