282 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 



The students must certainly have aimed at keeping 

 their gardens from the vulgar gaze, and showed their 

 displeasure at some one who had built a house with 

 windows overlooking the Garden in 1632 in an uproarious 

 manner. They flung brickbats at the offending window 

 until " one out of the house discharged haile shot upon 

 Mr. Attornie's Sonne's face, which though by good chance 

 it missed his eyes yet it pitifully mangled his visage." 



Old maps of the gardens show a wall dividing the 

 large upper garden from the smaller, but by 1772 the 

 partition had disappeared. It was doubtless unnecessary 

 when the terrace was made and the rabbits done away 

 with. 



The 1658 map with the wall in it shows the upper 

 garden intersected by four paths, and an avenue of trees 

 round three sides, and the small garden with a single row 

 of trees round it divided into two large grass plots. 

 The lovely shady avenue below the terrace in the large 

 garden has still a great charm, and although not so 

 extensive as it once was, the great green-sward and walks 

 seem very spacious in these days of crowding. The 

 terrace overlooking Lincoln's Inn Fields, with the broad 

 walk and border of suitable old-fashioned herbaceous 

 plants, has great attractions. The view from here must 

 have improved since the days when the Fields were a 

 wild-looking place of evil repute, and the scene of bloody 

 executions. In the lonely darkness below the terrace wall, 

 deeds of violence were only too common. 



"Though thou are tempted by the linkman's call, 

 Yet trust him not along the lonely wall. 

 In the mid-way he'll quench the flaming brand, 

 And share the booty with the pilfering band." 



—Gay. 



