TThe two most ancient roads in the parish, there
can be little doubt, were the Lower and Upper
Streets; the former of which was the original high-
way through Iseldone, and the latter a track from it
to Tolentone, or Highbury.
And to the British
period we may also confidently refer the origin otsome
ccnmunication between the Isel-don and Lun-don of
that era ; a ccnnmunication upon which, in after times,
the Romans might commence their grand northern
miUtary way, the Ermin Street,
In numerous in-
stances, the Roman roads were constructed upon the
lines of more ancient British tracks. The Ermin
Street, it has been conunonly supposed by anti-
quaries, left London by Cripplegate 
; and some have
imagined that it took the way of the present high
road through Islington towards Highbury.
But Mr.
Nelson more plausibly conjectured its route, after in-
tersecting Aide Street (the Old Street of our times),
to haye been *^ along the ancient bridle-way leading
from Brick Lane, and, crossing the City Road,*' 
thence proceeding by the eastern side of the vil-
lage.** Its track, as connected with Islington, would,
according to this description, appear to have been that
now marked by Frog Lane, which runs from the bot-
tom of Britannia Row
into the Lower Road by the end
of Rotherfield Street. The line it then took, in order
to " pass by Highbury and Hornsey Wood,
and con-
tiniie by way of the Green Lanes towards Enfield,"
Mr. Nelson does not attempt to determine. Indeed ,
as he yeiy properly adds, '' after all that can be said
as to the course of the Roman military ways in this
country, a great deal must be left in doubt, or
founded on conjecture; in this sentiment agreeing
with the learned author of the *' Britannia Romana,"*
who, after enumerating the various speculations of
preceding writers as to the direction of this celebrated
road, modestly concludes with — " I shall leave eveiy
man to his own opinion *."
The road connecting Islington with London, next
in antiquity to the Ermin Street, was undoubtedly
St. John's Street Road, 
which became of consequence
at an early Norman period, owing to its convenience
as a way from the priories of St. Bartholomew in
Smithfield, and St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell,
to their respective possessions in this parish. In the
reign of Richard II.
(about A.D. 1380,) a patent
was granted for *' pavage for the highway from Smith-
field Bars to 6ore*s Place, Iseldon :" the record is
* With reference to the " ancient bridleway," spoken of by Mr. Nel-
son, we are also told that it " used formerly to be much frequented by
trayellers, pack-horses," &c. ; and that " some years ago a toll was
collected upon it for the Highgate and Hampstead Trust, but persons
now pass that way on horseback toll-free to the City. — ^The right of
way by this road, over the west end of the Prebend-JSeld to Frog Lane
,
was, some years since, a matter of contest between the occupier of the
field and Mr. Aubert, of Highbury.
The latter gjentleman, on this
occasion, caused a gate to be cut down, which had been put up by the
former to prevent horses passing over. The way has since continued
open, and the right undisputed."
still extant in the Tower of London. And by the
tone that Stow wrote his well-known "Survey" of
the metropolis, which first appeared in 1598, " many
£ure houses," it seems, had been " builded by the
highway leading from the priory of St. John's towards
Is£ij>on/'
GotweU Road constituted the way to Islington from
the CSty outlet by Alders-gate. Strype's Survey makes
the following curious mention of this road, and of our
ancient town. " Beyond Aldersgate Bars, leaving
the Charter-house on the left hand, stretches up to-
wards IsELDON, commonly called Islington, a countiy
town hard by, which in the former age was esteemed
to be so pleasantly seated, that, in 1581, 
Queen
Elizabeth (in one of the twelve days) on an evening
rode that way to take the air, where, near the town,
she was environed with a number of begging rogues,
(as beggars usually haunt such places), which gave the 
Queen much disturbance.
Whereupon Mr. Stone,
one of her footmen, came in all haste to the Lord
Mayor, and to Fleetwood, the Recorder, and told
them the same. The same night did the Recorder
send out warrants into the same quarters, and into
Westminster, and the Dutchy ; and in the morning
he went out himself, and took that day seventy-four
rogues, whereof some were blind, and yet great
usurers, and very rich. Upon Twelfth-day the Re-
corder met the Governor of Bridewell ; and they ex-
amined together all the abovesaid seventy-four rogues,
and gave them substantial payment, and the strongest
they bestowed in the milne, and the lighters : the rest
were dismissed^ with a promise of double pajrment if
they were met with again '•"
Thomas Falconer, then Lord Mayor, '* caused the wall
of the City to bee broken towards the Moore field, and
builded the postern called Moore Gate, for ease of the
citizens to walke that way upon causeys towards Isel-
DON and HoxTON." The " causey towards Iseldon"
was that which led from Moorgate to what used to be
called the " Dog-house Bar," being a toll-gate near
the end of Old Street, so named from its contiguity
to the house where the City hounds were kept, at a
time when to hunt in the " Forest of Middlesex" was
still a £Etvourite amusement with the corporation. The
road which took the place of the ** causey," was not
continued beyond the Dog-house Bar till the year
1761, when that excellent modern avenue, the City
Road, having been carried over the intervening fields,
was opened to the public, pursuant to an Act of Par-
liament passed five years previously. — ^But works so
recent as the last-mentioned, are scarce within the
sphere of our present remarks.
A very ancient way was that formerly called Long-
wich Lane 9 now Maiden Lane;
relative to which, and
to the formation of the road over Highgate Hill,
(partly in our parish), we find the following informa-
tion in the ** Speculum Britanniae" of Norden. " The
old and auncient highwaie to High Bemet, from Port
1 Surv.ofLond. 11.59.
Poole, now Grray's Inn, as also fix>m Clerkenwell, was
through a lane on the East of Pancras Church, called
Longufich' Lane; from thence leaving Highgate on
the West, it passed through TalUngione Lane^ and
80 to Crouch-ende ; and thence, through a parke,
called Hamsey Great Parke, to Muswell Hill, to
Coanie Hatch, Fryame Bamet, and so to Whetstone.
This auncient highwaie was refused of wayfiEming men
and earners, by reason of the deepness and dirtie pas-
sage in the winter season. In regaxde whereof, it was
agreed betweene the Bishop of London and the
Countrie, that a newe waie shoulde be laide forth
through the said Bishop's parke, bq;inning at High-
gate HiU, to leade (as now is accustomed) directly to
Whetstone : for which newe waie all cartes, carriers,
packmen, and such like travellers, yeelde a certain
tole unto the Bishop of London, which is now formed
at 40/. per annum ; and for that purpose was the gate
erected on the hill, that through the same all travel-
lers shotdde passe, and be the more aptly staide for
the same tole." According to Camden's account, this
road must have been opened upwards of 500 years \
The Bishop of London continues to receive the profits
of the tolls, which, at this period, of course, produce
a much larger sum. The old gateway was taken
down, and the thorough&re vridened, at the joint
expense of the Islington and Whetstone Trust, in
1769. The road described as leading to Tallingdone
Lane, *' leaving Highgate on the west," must have
branched off east about one-third of the way up the
^ Britaniu p. 309.
IS GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW.
present Maiden Lane^ probably by the Tile-kilns near
Copenhagen House, and have then fallen into Hag^
hush Lane^ which has eveiy appearance of an ancient
road : thus proceeding by Tallingdone Lane, the hill
of Highgate would be wholly avoided. Tallingdone
Lane itself was what is now called Du VaVs^ and ori-
ginally Tolentone Lane ; being the road from the old
manor-house, named Tolentone House, towards Is-
lington on the one hand, and to Crouch-End and
Homsey on the other. This too must have been the
only road in early times to Highgate from Islington ;
the route over the hollow way between not having ex-
isted till a pious hermit, who dwelt on the top of the
hill, dug gravel from the height, (where is now the
pond), and constructed a causeway therewith : " a
two-handed charity," as said Dr. Fuller, " providing
water on the hill, where it was wanting, and cleanness
in the valley, which before, especially in winter, was
passed with great difficulty.*'
The Back Road (now Liverpool Road) leading
from Islington turnpike to HoUoway, and uniting
with the road to the same place from the Upper Street
at the spot called Ring Cross, (probably from a cross
there standing in the Catholic times ;) Hopping Lane,
leading from the Upper Street to Ball's Pond Gate,
and its continuation thence to Kingsland Green ; tlie
road from Ball's Pond to Newington Green ; the
old way to Homsey Lane from the Green Lanes,
(formerly carried under now over the New River,) by
Stroud Ghreen ; and a cross road from Stroud Green
to Tallingdone, or Du Val's Lane, called Heame Lane;
together with Hagbush Lane, before mentioned ; — are
GSK£RAL HISTORICAL VIEW. 13
all ways more or less ancient, with the origin and
fonnation of which we of the present times are wholly
unacquainted.
Bat though the roads of former days in and ahout
this pariah were thus numerous, it must not be sup-
posed that they would bear comparison, in point of
conyenience for traffic, either with themselyes in their
existing state, or with the many newer cuts that now
intersect and radiate fix>m them. The preamble to
the Act of Parliament, passed not longer back than
1714, for erecting turnpikes on the ways in and near
Islington, Highgate, &c«, stated them to be '' very
ruinous, and almost impassable for the space of five
months in the year.** Even sixty years since, they
were still in such a state, as we, in these days, should
consider utterly disgracefuL In the winter season,
and after nightfall, they were absolutely dangerous,
from want of repair, the absence of lights, and the
marauders who in consequence infested them. Rob-
beries were committed in the very heart of the village ;
it being not uncommon for both jcarriage and foot
passengers to be stopped in the most daring manner.
And persons journeying to London, who had safely
arrived at any inn in the place, seldom ventured, if
darkness were approaching, to proceed farther until
morning. ** On the other hand, persons walking
firom the city to Islington in the evening, waited
near the end of St. John's Street, in what is now
termed Northampton Street, (but was then a rural
avenue, planted with trees, called Wood's Close)
until a sufficient party had collected, who were then
14 GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW.
escorted by an anned patrole appointed for the pur-
pose V
The Manors into which Islington is divided, have
been abready said to be six in number; called, re-
spectively, the Prebend Manors and those of Highbury^
Canahbury^ Bamesbury^ St. John of Jerusalem^ and
ClerkenweU. We have named the Prebend Manor
first, not for its comparative importance, but its ap-
parent priority of origin.
William the Conqueror, in or about the year 1065,
restored to the Canons of St. Paul's certain estates of
which they had been unjustly deprived ; and among
them were nine ccissate of land in Iseldon, the same,
it is probable, with the four hides mentioned in
Domesday-book. Yet the present manor compre-
hends only about a hundred acres : being bounded by
a part of Highbury manor on the north ; by a small
detached portion of the same manor on the south ; by
the parochial boundary line (from Macclesfield Street,
City Road, to a little beyond the Rosemary Branch)
on the east ; and by the Lower Street (from Fisher
House to the Carved Red Lion) on the west. Origi-
nally, perhaps, it included nearly the whole of Canon-
bury, and the contiguous parts of Highbury and
Barnesbury manors, together with a portion even of
that of St. John of Jerusalem. Mr. Lysons thought
it probable, that the greater part of the clerical estate
fell into the hands of the Bemers family ; and they,
it is known, held not only the manor which takes
1 Hist. Clerkenwell, p. 33.
OBNERAL HISTORICAL VIEW. 15
name from them, but that of Canonbuiyj and are
supposed to have also possessed a share of that of
St John. Supposing Mr. Lysons right, therefore,
nothing can appear more likeij than that the St.
Paul's demesne, when it extended to between four
and five himdred acres, stretched over the various
localities described.
But, however this may have been, it is certain that
the ancient ecclesiastical property has shrunk into a
smaU manorial jurisdiction, to which no demesne is
now attached \ As the corps of one of the prebends
of St. Paul's, it is called, in old records, Iseldon extra
Lond(m. The prebendal stall in the cathedral is the
eleventh on the north side of the choir, and is in-
scribed, " Islington. In Convertendo Dom CaptJ*
It is rated in the King's books at 11/. lOs. 10c2., and
is taxed at eight marks. In 1649, when a survey was
taken of this manor by authority of the Parliament,
it was found that " the rents of assize due to the lord
of the said manno' by the several tenants, being copy-
holders of inheritance at fines certain," were, per
annum, 44. 14tf . M. There were " messuages, or tene-
ments, in all fourty-sixe; and ninety-eight acres of
pasture or meadow-ground, be it more or less." It
> The only land at present belonging to the Dean and Chapter of
St Paol'B, is the Broom Fields otherwise the Iveney or Even- Grove Field,
a tract of rather more than six acres, situate on the east side of the
Lower Road, within the boundary line of Highbury Manor. It was
let, about twelTe years since, on a building lease. A short time pre-
▼ioosly, the occupant paid a reserved rent of K St. 4d. to the dean and
chapter. It had been formerly paid in half-yearly sums of 11«. id.
with two capODBy or 6f. at Christmas. — MSS, Bib. Lands. Brit. Mus.
No. 97%
16 GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW.
18 further recorded, that, " at the court4eet, the
tenants of the Manor of Canbury doe service :** and
** courts-haron and conrts-leet, fines and amercia-
ments of courts, fines upon descent or alienation \
waiftes, strayes, and felons* goods, and all other profits
and perquisites within the said manor, to the royaltie
thereof belonging or appertaining," are estimated,
<< commu'ibus annis," at IR, the before*mendoned
42. 14tf. 6d. being included. The Parliament disposed
of the manor to one of its tenants, Maurice Oething,
citizen of London, for 87 5L ' In Dugdale*s History
of St. Paul's', is a list of Prebendaries, commenc-
ing, at a date not named, with " Algar, the son of
Dereman/* — ^probably the Derman Lundonensis men-
tioned in Domesday Book, — ^and ending with (67th,)
Robert Nares, A.M. F.R.S. and F.A.S., collated in
1798, and Archdeacon of Stafford in 1799. The
intervening Prebendaries of most note, are the follow-
ing:—
5th. Jocelin, a native of Lombardy, Archdeacon of
Westminster, and Bishop of Sarum. He was sus-
pended, together with the Bishop of London and
other Bishops, in the cause of Thomas a Becket,
1170, and died in 1184, having first taken the habit
of a Cistertian monk.
6th« Robert Warelwast, Dean of Salisbury, and
Bishop of Exeter, 1150—55.
^ Six shilliDgs and eight pence for every messuage or tenement, and
the same for every acre of land.
" Parliamentary Surveys : St Paul's Cathedral.
* By Ellis : folio, 1818. p. 266.
GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW. 17
7th. John de Greenford, Dean of Chichesterj and
bishop of that see in 1 17S.
14ch« William de Havershnlli who was high in
&Toiir with Henry III. He was a Canon of St.
Paul's, and the king's treasurer, at his death in 1S5S.
15th. Fnlco LoveU; so great a pluralist, holding at
one time more than twenty benefices, that he refused
the bishopric of London in order that he might retain
them.
16th. Philip Lovell, Prebendary also of Caddington
Major, and of Wildland: afterwards king's clerk,
special counsellor, and treasurer. Falling into dis-
grace with the king, through his alleged mal-practices,
he died of grief at his church of Hamestable in 1S58.
SOtfa. William de Montford, Dean of St. Paul's,
Archdeacon of Salop, and incumbent of seven recto-
ries ! He died suddenly in the king's chamber, in 1 S94.
SSd. Kalph de Baldock, Prebendary also of Holbom
and of Newington : Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1274;
Dean of St. Paul's, 12£Nt ; Bishop of London, 1S04 ;
and, for a short time, Lord Chancellor of England.
24th« Richard de Newport, Archdeacon of Middle-
sex, 1304*; Dean of St. Paul's, 1314; Bishop of
Londcm, 1317 \
5Sd. Richard Fletcher, D.D., 1672; afterwards
Dean of Peterborough : father of John Fletcher, the
dramatic poet. He was with Mary, Queen of Scots,
when she suffered death at Fotheringay castle in
> Dugdale places Richard de Newport 23d., and Ralph de Baldock
96ith, oo his lUt: tet acomparuon of dates will shew the above order,
which agrees with Neweourt's Repertorium, to be the most correct.
C
18 GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW.
1686, and disturbed her last moments by his persua-
sions to renounce her religion. In 1589 he was made
Bishop of Bristol, and, about the same time. Bishop
Almoner ; thence he was translated to Worcester in
1593, and to London in 1594. He fell under the
displeasure of Queen Elizabeth, by marzying a second
wife ; being forbidden to approach her majesty for a
year, and suspended firom his episcopal functions for
six months. His disgrace is supposed to have shortened
his life. He died sitting in his chair, smoking tobacco,
June 15, 1596, and was buried in his own cathedraL
eist. Edward Stillingfleet, D.D., 1666-7; Arch-
deacon of London, 1676 ; Dean of St Paul's, 1677 ;
Bishop of Worcester, 1689. He was justly distin-
guished for his writings, especially the ** Origines
SacrsB, or, a Rational Account of the Grounds of
Natural and Revealed Religion,** a work which con-
tinues to be held in the highest estimation. He died
March 27, 1699.
The present Prebendary is the Rev. William Hale
Hale, M. A., Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of
London, and Preacher at the Charter-House : collated
in 1829. He succeeded the Rev. Archdeacon Nares,
and is author of ** An Essay on the Suppoied Existence
of a Quadripartite and Tripartite Division of Tithes
in England, for maintaining the Clergy, the Poor,
and the Fabric of the Church," '' A Method of Pre-
paration for Confirmation,'* &c.
The Manor of Tolentone, at this time called
that of Highbury, otherwise Newington Barrow,
long preserved a memorial of its first appellation, it
was noticed, in Tallinffdanef now Du Val's Lane;
OBNKRAL HISTORICAL VIEW. 19
as it yet does in the modern erections styled Tolling*
ton Park, on the east side of the same lane. It con-
siBts of two detached parts ; of which the northern,
and by fiur the laiqgest, stretches down from the parish
bouidary near Homsey Lane, to the manor of Canon*
bury at Hopping Lane, and to an irregular line of
junction with the prebend manor, of which the me-
dium point may be the lower end of King Street. Its
eastern boundary is that of the parish, from the Rose-
mary Branch to Mount Pleasant, beyond Stroud
Green ; its western, the whole of Du Val's Lane, the
road leading thence to the bottom of Highbuiy Place
and Hopping Lane, and the Lower Road and Street
as fiir as f^her House. The southern part, in size
so comparatively insignificant, is bounded by the high-
way from the Carved Red Lion to the Blue-coat Boy^
(Sty Road; by the parish boundary from the Blue-
coat Boy to the City Gardens; and from the City
Gardens by the old Bridle-way, and the lank leading
thenoe (called River Lane) to the back of the Carved
lion. It will be readily supposed that it was the
larger, or upper part, that bote the Domesday-book
appellative of Tolbntoke.
But many centuries have elapsed since any portion
of this manor was distinguidied by that ancient name.
Within two hundred years from the Conquest, the
original manorial seat of Tolentone was abandoned^
and suffered to fall into decay; a new manor-house
baring been erected, and called, with reference to the
ate of the former one, Hioh-bury. From that pe-
riod, the old house is only occasionally mentioned, in
ancient records, as ** The Lower Place ;" while the
c3
90 GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW.
manor itself began to be styled, from the new site,
that of HiQHBURYi or Newington-Barrow. The
signification of Nbwington, no doubt, was the same
as of the modem words new town: and buty, and
barrow, it is probable, were alike derived from burgh,
more anciently burgtu, the low Latin for a fortified
place, or other defensive position* It has been fiirther
conjectured, that the appellation ** barrow,** points to
the original occupation of the spot by a summer camp
of the Roman garrison of London, supposed to have
existed at Highbury, and which would naturally be
placed upon, or contiguous to, the line of their Er-
min Street. Again, it has been derived from the
earliest recorded possessor of the manor, the Lady
Alicia de Barowe ; though it would have been equaUy
accordant with the custom of the times, for the lady
to have taken name from the estate, as the estate from
the lady.
Alice, or Alicia de Barowe, in the year 1271, gave
the entire lordship of Highbury and Newton to the
Priory of St. John of Jerusalem ^ ; in other words, to
the proud military-religious fraternity, whose chief
seat was where St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, to
this day marks the grand court of their conventual
buildings. They had before obtained very considerable
possessions in Islington* The Lords-Priors made the
manor-house here their rejiige, or countiy-seat ; and
probably added greatly both to its size and splendour,
as the site was long afterwards traditionally called
Highbury Ccutle. But evil days were in reserve for
> Dugdale. Monast. IL 543.
GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW. 21
the haughty Knights of St. John ; as began to appear
within rather more than a century from the date of
Lady de Barowe's donation. A.D. 1381 , the discon-
tents of the people being inflamed to desperation by
the impolitic measures of their rulers, the celebrated
insuirection conducted by Wat Tyler broke forth,
and was attended by most disastrous consequences to
this wealthy and powerful order, to whom, indeed,
the mob avowed their special hatred. An impiense
assembly attacked and fired the great priory in St.
John's Square, '' causing it to bume the space of
seven dayes after ;** while another party, estimated by
Holinshed at twenty thousand strong, ^'tooke in
hand to ruinate" the Prior's country-seat, and marched
to Highbury. The mansion was of such strength and
solidity, that they were obliged by manual labour to
demolish many parts which the fire could not con-
sume. Ere their arrival, the Lord Prior (Sir Robert
Hales) had taken refuge in the Tower : but, acquiring
possession of that fortress also, the rebels beheaded
him, together with the Archbishop of Canterbury,
and others, on the adjoining hill. The leader of the
detachment which proceeded to Highbury was one
Jack Straw f and from him the late Highbury Castle
was called, in derision, Jack Straw's Castle, an ap-
pellation which the site retains to this day \ When
the ascendancy of lawful authority liad been restored,
the King bestowed titles of honour upon several of
> In Bishop Oibaon's edition of Camden's Britannia, foL 1695,
p. 3S7, a number of plants are described as growing about Jack
Strom's CoMite, near Islikotom : and in Ogilby's " Itinerarium An-
(^" 1008, the site is called by that name.-
92 GENERAL HISTORICAL VIEW.
his staunches t adherents; and, among the rest, " upon
the sand-hill towards Iseldonne, were created the
Earles Marshal) and Pembroke ^'*
Whether or not Highbury Castle was restored by
the Knights to its pristine grandeur, or whether .it
ever again arose from its ashes, is unknown ; but we
have it on record that the Priory was not entirely re-
built until the year 1504, when the finishing hand
was put to it by Prior Docwra. His successor. Sir
William Weston, witnessed the destruction of his
own, together with most of the other monastic estab-
lishments in England, at the fiiat of the despotic
Henry V III. ; when all this Priory's possessions being
seized by the King, the manor of Highbury was be-
stowed upon Thomas Cromwell, afterwards Earl of
Essex ; upon whose attainder and death, in 1540, it
reverted to the crown. We find it vested in the Lady
(afterwards Queen) Mary, during the life-time of Ed-
ward VI. : also that Queen Elizabeth granted leases,
to various persons, of the site of the manor, the de-
mesne lands, and the profits of the manorial courts.
James I. bestowed Highbury upon his eldest son,
Henry, Prince of Wales ; by whose orders a survey
and plan of the manor were executed, which are still
in the possession of its owners. The title of the plan
is, *' The Plot of the Mannor of Newington Barrowe,
parcel of the possessions of the High and Mighty
Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, Duke of ComewaU,
and Earle of Chester, &c. taken in July, 1611,
by Rocke Churche." The detached part of the
> Howe*8 Chronicle.
OENERAL HISTORICAL VlfiW. 23
manor, at the south end of the parish, is not laid
down, tkough described in the survey: probably
it was the subject of a separate delineation, now
lost. Highbury Wood appears a little to the north
of where the mansion had formerly stood ; as, yet
more northward, does IMtle St. John*s Wood; both
which must be viewed as memorials of ancient To-
LEMTONB. Both are also mentioned in the survey;
which describes the premises as consisting of one yard,
or dose, where anciently was a castle, or mansion-
house, called Highbury Castle. The surveyors added,
that ** there had been a capital mansion, as they had
heard, standing within a mote yet remaining ; but the
house was decaied beyond the memory of man.*' The
DeviFs House;* in DeviFs (Du Yal's) Lane,** is also
spoken of as an old house, called in ancient writings
•* The Lower Place," enclosed by " a mote, and a
little orchard within.** Another survey, in the Aug-
mentation Office, taken in the year 1650, by order of
Commissioners appointed imder the Commonwealth,
shows " Hibery Wood,'* and " Little St. John's
Wood," to have been then standing: the former is
stated to contain forty-three acres, two roods, sixteen
perches; and the latter thirty-five acres: 371 trees
are certified as at that time growing, of which the
value is estimated at 148/. 8i. In the following year,
the Parliament sold both woods to Henry Mildmay,
of Wansted, Essex, Esq. and Richard Clutterbuck, of
London, merchant, for 3S72. 6s. M. : and firom that
time, the trees appearing to have been immediately
cut down, all traces have vanished of the ancient forest
honours of Tolentone, or Highbury.
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