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. 
