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away the Ground and Building with him ; which was all 

 the Answer I could have from him. And the very next 

 Day he went into White-hall, and had the Jesuit Petre's 

 Lodging, where he lay till that Tuesday Morning King 

 James first Abdicated, and went away with Sir Edward 

 Hales : the said Lord Chancellor should have gone with 

 them, but they drop'd him, so that Morning finding them 

 to be gone, he was fain to shift for himself, and to fly with 

 a Servant, or at most Two, with him, and soon after taken 

 and sent to the Tower, where he since Died, 



"But when I first began their to Build, I found that 

 idle piece of Ground in the possession of Mr. John Webb 

 his Majesties Fowl-Keeper, and he told me, he had a 

 Grant of it from King Charles the Second during his 

 Life ; whereupon I took a great part of that Ground of 

 him, and paid him my Agreement, (till Sir Edward 

 Hales got it of the King, and refus'd payment,) with an 

 intention, that it should be Garden-Ground, not only to 

 my House, but to the Houses adjoining, and I did Lett it 

 to the several Houses accordingly; to the Right Honour- 

 able the Countess Dowager of Plymouth the Ground that 

 joind to the back part of her House for Ten Pounds per 

 Annum, (witness her Steward Mr. Bladen,) which she 

 paid me justlj', till I was cast into Prison by Adiel Mill. 

 The Right Honourable the Earl of Scarsdale would not 

 come into his House, till I had my Rent of his Landlord, 

 one Mr. Banks a Carpenter, for the Garden-Ground ad- 

 joining to his House, for which the said Banks paid me 

 to the time his Honour came into the said House at the 

 Rate of Ten Pounds per Annum. I also Agreed with his 

 Honour for Ten Pounds per annum; my Witnesses are 

 John Hales, Esq., of the Temple, the said Banks, and his 

 Lordship's Attorney, whose Name I have forgot; his 

 Lordship has had quiet possession, but he never paid me 

 Rent, for what reason his Honour best knows. Unto the 

 said Sir Edward Hales that went away with King James, 

 I Lett the Ground that join'd to the back part of his 

 House for Ten Pounds per Annum; Witness Obediah 

 Walker, then Master of University-College, Oxon, and 

 Adiel Mill, (of whom I shall have cause anon to speak) : 

 the said Sir Edward Hales paid me one half Year's Rent, 

 and would pay me no more, tho' they all took the Ground 

 of me for the full time that they Liv'd in their Houses, 

 provided they had no disturbance, the which they had 

 not. 



This Sir Edward Hales hearing that the Chancellor 

 had a promise from King James of this Ground, and that 

 he was to Grant it me, he Acquaints King James, that 

 the Chancellor Beg'd that Ground of him, not for himself, 

 but his Landlord, and that it would be an Injury to the 

 said Hales his House, being on the said rearing of Build- 

 ings, prevail'd with the King, he being a greater Fa- 

 vourite than the Chancellor, to break his Promise with 

 the Chancellor, and to give him the said Sir Edward 

 Hales the Ground, not only on the back side of his 

 House, but the next House also; which the King did. 

 Upon which he fell a Building up against his Neighbour's 

 House, and in part spoil'd that, to the great prejudice of 

 his Neighbour. The Chancellor by this broke his Agree- 

 ment with me, and although upon my taking of the said 

 Ground of the said Webb aforesaid, and had divided the 

 said Garden-Ground, by Building Brick-walls, to each 

 House, they do so Enjoy it, yet the said Sir Edward 

 Hales, and some others, never paid me one Farthing for 

 it; I do confess, the Countess Dowager of Plymouth 

 Built her own Wall ; I also Built that new Wall adjoin- 

 ing to Storey's House, on the back side of Princes-Court, 

 and also took care to fill up all low Grounds in that part 

 of St. James's-Park, between the Bird -Cages and that 

 Range of Buildings in Duke -street, whose Back-Front is 

 towards the said Park, where the Water in Moist-weather 

 Stagnated, and was the cause of Fogs and Mists, with 



Garden-Mould, and Sowd it with Hay-Seed, so that 

 thereby that part of the Park is as clear from Fogs, and 

 as Healthy, as any other part of the said Park, for all 

 which I was not paid one Farthing. I also at my own 

 Cost Cleans'd a great 'part 'of the Common-Shoars, not 

 only about the said Park,' but Westminster also, and 

 Rais'd low Grounds, and Laid out about Twelve Thousand 

 Pounds in Buildings, whereby 1 have made Westminster 

 as Healthy a place, as any other parts about London, and 

 as Commodious for Gentry to Live in, which has brought 

 a Considerable Trade to that part of the Town. Among 

 other Buildings, I Built Stables for about Three Hundred 

 Horses, and Coach-Houses, the best about Town; and 

 although Prince George's Pads, &c.,'were on the Ground, 

 yet when His Majesty King William came first to Lon- 

 don, which was in December, 1688, all his Coaches and 

 Horses were brought into my Stables and Coach-Houses, 

 and His Grooms and their Wives and Children had Lodg- 

 ings, and other Conveniences, till King James' Horses and 

 Coaches were remov'd from the Muse, which was about 

 April following; about which time I Lett that great 

 House, in which the late Lord Chancellor Jefferies Liv'd, 

 to the Three Dutch Embassadors which came out of 

 Holland to Congratulate Their Majesties Happy Acces- 

 sion to the Crown, after the Rate of Seven Hundred and 

 Twenty Pound per Annum. The Agreement I made, 

 was with one Mr. John Arnold, a Dutch-Man, their 

 Secretary. Witness to the said Agreement were Mr. 

 Ridgley, (in whose House in the Pail-Mall the said Em- 

 bassadors Lay Incognito,) and into whose hands, after our 

 Signing and Sealing, we intrusted the said Contract to be 

 kept on the behalf of us both ; as it can be Testified by 

 on Mr. Johnson a Coach-Man in Hedge-Lane near the 

 Muse, who was the other Witness to it. But this said 

 Ridgley, after my being thrown into Prison by Adiel 

 Mill, did break his Trust, and deliver up into the Hands 

 of my Adversary Mill this my Contract, to the Ruin of 

 me and my Family. What the said Ridgley, and Arnold, 

 had of my Adversary Mill for this Breach of Trust, be- 

 sides Fish-Dinners, they best know, I leave the World to 

 judg. I am satisfied in my Conscience that Mills gave 

 them Guineas, a considerable quantity, besides a Present 

 of Dr. Vossius Letters, Printed by him, to .... I am 

 inform'd, that the Embassador's Porter had Ten Guineas, 

 besides Bottles of Wine, and Neats Tongues, for his good 

 will in delivering the Keys of the said House to the said 

 Mill, whilst the said Embassadors were in the said House, 

 and the said Mill kept the said Keys one Night, and sent 

 them to the said Porter next Day, with some more Bottles 

 of Wine, that so he might have Friendship with the said 

 Porter, who was Angry with the said Mill for carrying 

 away the Keys. The Porter and Mill's Man, (whom he 

 had left in the House that Night, expecting the Embas- 

 sadors would have been gone the next Morning, which 

 they did not,) had Fought a severe Battle." 



FOLK LORE. 



" Riding the Hatch." — A countryman, retailing 

 some bit of scandal about an unco guid neighbour, 

 a member of a cburch remarkable for the austerity 

 of its professions, remarks, " He ought to be made 

 to ride the hatch." To which his companion sar- 

 castically replies, " If the whole boiling of 'em 

 were made to ride the hatch, I'll wage that more 

 would fall outwards than inwards." 



The mode of punishment referred to, which is 

 not to be confounded with the popular exposure 



