Conduit House, is a respectable place of entertainment, and is used as a tea garden and assembly house. The road from Pentonville, falls into the great north road, through Islington, at the Angel Inn, which road we shall pursue, taking in the villages, &c. for five miles on each side. ISLINGTON, antiently LELDON*, is about three miles two Extra. furlongs in length from north-west to south-east, two miles plates one furlong in breadth from cast to west, ten miles and a101 half in circumference, and contains about three thousand It is divided into seven liberties, named from the manors in which they are situated, viz. Lower St. John's of Jerusalem, Lower Barnsbury, Upper Barnsbury, Upper St. John's of Jerusalem, Highbury of Newington Barrow, Canonbury, and the Prebend liberty. It is a vicarage in the archdeaconry and diocese of London. To evince the state of this village upwards of two centu ries since, Strype's edition of Stow records the following anecdote: 66 Beyond these (Aldersgate) Bars, leaving the Charter House on the left hand, stretches up towards Iseldon, commonly called Islington, a country town hard by; which, in the former age, was esteemed to be so pleasantly seated, that, in the year 1581, queen Elizabeth, on an evening, rode out that way to take the air; where, near the town, she was environed with a number of begging rogues * The name of this place is purely antient British, Ishel, implying lower, and don, from iwyn, a fortified enclosure; thus Ishel-don, the lower fortification. In the fields to the north-west of White Conduit House, is a large enclosure, called the Reedmote, or Six-acre Field. This is supposed to late! have been a Roman camp; probably that of Suetonius Paulinus after his retreat from Loudon, and from which he sallied, and routed Boadicea. At the south-east corner is the site of a square moated mansion, commonly called Jack Straw's Castle, supposed to be the prætorium of this camp. But the same appellation was likewise given to another moa.ed site, near Highbury Barn. That a Roman road passed this way we have grear reason to believe; for from Old Ford we pass Mere, vulgarly Mare Street, Kingsland, Iseldon, Highbury, the Hollow-way, Roman Lane, over Hampstead Heath, through Hên-don, to Verulam, (as (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 afterward 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 abroad himself, and took that day seventy-four rogues, whereof some were blind, and yet great usurers and very rich. They were sent to Bridewell, and punished." The approach to this town is very picturesque; in the fore-ground are two handsome turnpike lodges; beyond these opens a broad handsome street, terminated by Islington Green and the church; forming altogether a fine tout ensemble. From Islington there are also the most pleasing prospects imaginable; the city of London, with most of its public edifices, on the one hand, together with Marybone, Paddington, Hampstead, Highgate (and the beautiful house of lord Southampton), Caen Wood, the seat of the earl of Mansfield, between Highgate and Hampstead, Kentish Town, Highbury Place, part of Hornsey, and to Muswell Hill, on the other, form such a combination of beauty as is rarely to be met with in any other village; but this will in all probability soon cease, from the present rapid progress of the builders, who are extending their works to every spot of unoccupied land between this place and the city of London. In this parish, in the road to Hoxton, is an extensive white-lead manufactory, formed by Samuel Walker and Co. very considerable iron masters at Marlborough, near Rotherham, in Yorkshise, who erected here, in 1786, a curious wind-mill, for the purpose of grinding lead, differing in two remarkable particulars from common windmills, viz. 1st, that the brick tower of it is crowned with a great wooden top, or cap, to which are affixed on one side the flyers, and on the opposite side a gallery, which serves as a great gnomon, if it may be so called, whereby the whole |