with inscriptions, for Mr. Palmer, who gave a meadow in Kentish Town to the use of the poor of this place; and John Beauchamp, Esq. who founded the middle aisle in the church.

James Ravenscroft, Esq. founded an almshouse of brick, called Jesus Hospital, in the street called Wood Street, in High Barnet, for six poor widows, and gave houses and lands in Shoreditch, London, to the value of almost 401. per annum, of which 10. is to repair the chapel in Barnet, and the rest for the support of the women; except 20s. per annum to entertain the governors, who are appointed to elect the women, and receive the rents.

In the same street, a free school of brick, was crected by queen Elizabeth, for a master and usher; she endowed it. with 7. per annum; John Owen, alderman of London, added sl. per annum more, towards the maintenance of the school, to be paid by the Fishmongers Company in London; they appointed twenty-four governors, to chuse the master and usher, who were to teach nine children gratis, and all the rest of the parish for a crown a quarter.

At the twelve mile stone beyond the town, stands a high pillar, erected as a memento of the battle fought on that spot, on the 14th of April, 1471, between king Edward IV. and the earl of Warwick, in which the earl was slain, with many of the prime nobility, and ten thousand men *. It may be truly said, that this victory placed Edward firmly on the throne, though another battle was afterwards fought at Tewkesbury, in which the queen and her son were taken prisoners, which was soon followed by the murder of that young prince and his father, (Henry VI.) The queen was

*It is dreadful to recollect the immense slaughter which the quarrels of the houses of York and Lancaster, occasioned. According to the most authentic accounts it appears that there were killed two kings, one prince, -ten dukes, two marquisses, twenty-one earls, twenty-seven lords, two viscounts, one lord prior, one judge, many gentry, and eighty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-eight men!

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spared, and ended her days in France, being ransomed for fifty thousand crowns by Louis XI. The inseription on the pillar is as follows:

Here was
Fought the
Famous Battle

Between Edward

the 4th. and the
Earl of Warwick,
April the 14th,
Anno 1471,

In which the Earl

Was defeated

And slain.

Here the road divides, the right hand to York, and the left to Liverpool: hence to St. Alban's, ten miles; fourteen to Hertford, nine to Hatfield, and ten to Watford. This town is a great thoroughfare, and is governed by a magistrate, high constable, and petty officers; and a courtleet is held at Easter. The market is on Monday; and the fairs on July 24 and 25, for toys; September 4, 5, and 6, for horses, cows, sheep, and cheese; and October 18 and 19, for English, Welch, and Scotch, cattle. This parish has a very large common right; the town and country around is very healthy and fruitful, and is famous for good hay, which is sent to the London markets. At Barnet are horse races in September.

East Barnet, a village near Whetstone, was formerly Plates much frequented on account of its medicinal spring, on the 89 neighbouring common. The mineral water, of a laxative Firm quality, was in much repute, and has lately been inclosed, Barnet and a pump erected, at the expence of the neighbouring un gentlemen of the county of Herts. The spring has also undergone examination, and the average of its solid contents estimated, by evaporation, by Mr. Goodwin, of Hampstead, who recommends the Highwood Hill chalybeate water and the water of this spring to be frequently drank conjointly. MOUNT

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MOUNT PLEASANT, in this parish, was the residence of Elias Ashmole, Esq. the famous antiquary; of the late Mr. Justice Ashurst; and now of William Wroughton, Esq.

Within the church, among many other memorials for the dead, is a monument for major-general Prevost, who signalized himself during the American war; he died in 1786.

HADLEY, is a pleasant village, in the county of Middlesex, adjoining to Barnet, and is chiefly inhabited by gentry. The church is a very antient edifice, and is supposed to stand on the highest ground of any church in England; it has a beacon on the top of the tower. From the churchyard and around it, are fine prospects over Enfield Chase, the river Thames, and the county of Essex.

Here are six almshouses with suitable allowances.

There being nothing particular to detain us at NORTHALL, we proceed to CHESTREHUNT, CHESTON, or CHESHUNT, Supposed to be so called from the chesnut trees with which it formerly abounded; this parish is situated on the eastern boundary of Hertfordshire, twelve miles from London; and is bounded by the parish of Enfield, the same line dividing the counties and the parishes; Northall, Hatfield, Wormley, Waltham Holy-cross*, Holyfield, and Nazing.

Domesday Book records, that "Earl Alan holds Cestrehunt in the hundred of Hertford; it is rated at twenty hides. The arable is three and thirty plow-lands, in demesne ten hides; there are one and forty villaines with the priest, and twelve bordars, having seventeen plow-lands; there are ten merchants who pay ten shillings for rent; eight cottagers and six servants, and one mill of ten shillings rent; for the stream of water sixteen pence; meadow, three and

*It is divided from Waltham Holy-cross by the river Lea, which forming two channels at that part, has given rise to a litigation between the inhabitants of the two parishes, that has continued several centuries; each party claiming a valuable tract of marsh between the streams, and each asserting that to be the original river, which affords them the greatest extent of territory. Independent of this undecided dominion, which has sometimes been attacked, and defended by the weapons of the law, and at others by personal prowess; the parish of Cheshunt is very extensive; being estimated at thirty miles in circumference.-Ellis's Campagna of London.

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