, built by the celebrated earl of that name, in the reign of George II. It is a very elegant structure; the stone colonnades leading from the wings being extremely beautiful. The windows in the floor are square headed, with alternate arched and angular pediments. Over the doorway is an arched pediment broken to admit the family arms. The staircase once belonged to the magnificent mansion of the late duke of Chandos, at Canons. At the back of the house is a large piece of ground well laid out as a garden.

Facing , , on the east side is a chapel of ease to , . It is a plain brick building, with a low stone portico; above this a square clumsy tower, surmounted with an equally clumsy octagon brick spire stuccoed. The interior is nearly without ornament.

We will now finally quit this part of , by a brief notice of Tyburn.

The manor of Tyburn contained hides of land belonging to the convent of Barking, to which it was granted by the crown at the conquest. Having passed through various hands, part of it was given by William, marquis of Berkeley, to sir Reginald Bray, prime minister to Henry VIII.; the other portions belonged to lord Bergavenny, the earl of Derby, and the earl of Surrey.

In the year , queen Elizabeth granted a lease of it to Edward Forest, for years, at the annual rent of

The whole manor and its appurtenances was granted to the same family by James I. for the sum of In the year it was purchased by John Austin, esq. (afterwards sir John Austin,) by John Holles, duke of Newcastle, whose only daughter and heir married Edward Harley, earl of Oxford and Mortimer.

The manor now belongs to the duke of Portland.

Mr. Pennant observes, that Tyburn, in the time of Edward III when the gentle Mortimer finished his days here, was called . The latter name did not come from and , from the ancient manner of capital punishments, but from , the Saxon word for a brook, which gave name to the manor before the conquest.

Here was also a village and a church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, which decaying, was succeeded by that of Marybone.

The brook of Tyburn, which is now dried up, was so copious in the year , that it furnished conduits for supplying the city with water.

The lord mayor and aldermen used to repair to a building, called the City Banquetting-house, on the north side of , on horseback, attended by their ladies in waggons, to inspect the conduits, and then to partake of their banquet.

In , Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I. was enjoined by her priests to walk to Tyburn by way of penance. Her offence is not mentioned, but Charles was so disgusted at this insolence, that it is said he soon after sent them, and all her majesty's French servants, out of the kingdom.

Returning to we will proceed westward. The White Horse Cellar has long been celebrated as a place from whence numerous coaches to all parts of the west of England start daily.

At the corner of , but in , stands

[] Lysons' Env. of London, iii. p. 247.