IX. TO MUSWELL-HILL. 133 



village of Muswell-hill, situated at a short 

 distance from the mansion of their friend. 

 This village, their father informed them, 

 derived its name from a well on the hill, 

 where formerly the fraternity of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, in Clerkenwell, had a dairy and 

 large farm. 



Here they erected a chapel, the site of 

 which he pointed out to them, for the 

 accommodation of some nuns, and which 

 was decorated with an image of our lady of 

 Muswell. 



These nuns were entrusted with the sole 

 management of this dairy ; and it is some- 

 what singular that though this institution, 

 and even the remembrance of it have nearly 

 passed away, yet the well and adjacent farm 

 still belong to the parish of St. James's, 

 Clerkenwell. 



The water of this spring, at the period of 

 which I am speaking, was deemed a miracu- 

 lous cure for scrophulous and cutaneous 

 disorders, on which account, it was much 



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