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Lamb. It was at Edmonton that John Gilpin 

 and his wife should have dined. A painting of 

 Gilpin's ride is fixed outside a public house in 

 the town, and the house is commonly known 

 as "Gilpin's Bell"; it is not "the Bell at 

 Edmonton " at which the Gilpin family were to 



BLEAK HALL. 



dine, but it is the house which was much fre- 

 quented by Charles Lamb. 



About a mile from Edmonton, by the Lea 

 side, stands Bleak Hall, the house to which 

 "Piscator" took his scholar "Venator," and which 

 was then " an honest alehouse where might be 

 found a cleanly room, lavendar in the windows, 

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