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At Brentford is a charity school for twenty-one boys and twelve girls.

The bridge here is of considerable antiquity; for it appears that a toll, so early as the reign of Edward I. was exacted upon all cattle and merchandize," in aid of the bridge of BRAYNFORD, for three years:" Jews, both male and female, on horseback, paid 1d.; on foot, one halfpenny; other passengers were exempted.

The Grand Junction Canal enters the river Thames, near Foot Ferry. There are very few manufactories at Brentford; the principal are some turpentine works, and mills for corn and starch.

TURNHAM GREEN, is a hamlet situated on the western road, five miles from London, in the parish of Chiswick. Here is the villa of the late lord Heathfield; the new-built house of James Armstrong, Esq.; and the residence of the late J. Griffiths, Esq. proprietor and editor of the Monthly Review.

At this place, in 1731, an urn was dug up, filled with Roman coins. It was the opinion of Dr. Stukeley, that the Roman road from Regnum, passed from Staines through Brentford (which was a manse between that place and London) to Turnham Green; whence over Stanford Bridge, so called from that circumstance, and into the Acton road, it crossed the Watling Street, at Tyburn.

The earl of Essex assembled his forces on this green, after the battle of Brentford, where he was joined by the city trained bands. Sir William Waller, also, mustered his forces here in 1643, when he was ordered to go to the relief of the lord-general's army after the battle of Newbury.

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CHISWICK,

CHISWICK, a village on the bank of the Thames, is about five miles from the metropolis, and is mentioned in various records of he time of Henry III, by the name of CHESEWICKE.

It contains two manors, both belonging to the cathedral church of St. Paul. The manor of SUTTON, is the dean's peculiar. Mr. Lysous has translated from Latin, a curious and minute survey of all the manors belonging to that church at the commencement of the thirteenth century, and mentioned several services of the tenants at Chiswick as follows:

"Gilbert, son of Nicholas, holds three virgates of land, to which his grandfather, Gilbert, was admitted by Theodoric, a former lessee, and for which he now pays 30s. per annum, and is subject to the following services, viz. He must plough two acres of the demesne lands in winter, and two in Lent; and sow the lord's seed, which he is to receive at the manor house, and to carry into the field; he must harrow also the land abovementioned; he must find two mowers, who are to have their provisions from the lord of the manor; and two men to carry hay, who must be fed at his own cost. Two men one day, and two men a second day to weed the corn-(these men to be provided with one meal a day by the lord.) He must find also two carts, or one waggon to carry hay; and three men for each of the reap days. He must find two men for one day, to thresh the rent corn, to be carried to London-(the men to have one meal a day at the lord's cost); and to provide two sacks for each rent. He must carry dung from the manor house two days, each day with two carts-(the workmen to be allowed provisions by the lord.) He must bring four cart loads of fuel from the wood, finding provisions for the men at his own cost. He must render moreover, annually, two hens and twenty eggs.

"William, son of Thurstan, holds one virgate at the rent of 6s. 2d. He is to mow also one day for the lord of the manor, being allowed his provisions; and to send all

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his labourers to the reap days; the lord allowing them victuals and ale.

"Another tenant was to shear the lord's sheep and lambs, and to cut his pease. Some were to pay a reut called malt-silver, for the privilege of making malt, being 5d. 3d. or some small sum; others a rent called "Wardpeni," generally 2d. being a payment made to the sheriffs, for the defence of castles; and others a small sum, e. g. 10d. called "the gift," being a payment to the lord under the name of "a free gift."

In 1676, the lease came into the hands of Thomas earl of Fauconberg, whose grand nephew, Thomas Fowler, viscount Fauconberg, assigned it, in 1727, to Richard earl of Burlington, and now belongs to the duke of Devonshire. The present manor house was partly rebuilt by the late Thomas King, Esq.

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The prebendal manor of Chiswick was held, in 1570, by Dr. Gabriel Goodman, dean of Westminster; who granted a lease of the manor, with about one hundred and forty acres of demesne lands, in trust, for ninety-nine years, to William Walter and George Burden, that they should within two years convey the farm to the church of Westminster. In this lease it was stipulated that the lessee "should erect additional buildings adjoining to the manor house, sufficient for the accommodation of one of the prebendaries of Westminster, the master of the school, the usher, forty boys, and proper attendants, who should retire thither in time of sickness, or at other seasons when the dean and chapter should think proper;" and to this day a piece of ground is reserved (in the lease to the sublessee) as a play place for the scholars, though it is not known that the school was ever removed to Chiswick since the time of Dr. Busby, who resided here with some of his scholars, in 1657; and when the house was in the tenure of Robert Berry, Esq. the names of the celebrated earl of Halifax, Dryden, and many other of the doctor's pupils, were to be seen on the walls. In 1725, the College House, as it is called, was inhabited by Dr. John Friend, master

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