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CKENHAM, a village in Middlesex, two miles from Uxbridge. In this place is Swakely Houfe, the feat of the Rev. Mr. Clarke.

JESSOP's WELL, a fulphureous fpring, of the fame kind as that of Harrogate, in Yorkshire, is four miles from Epfom.

ILFORD, Great and little, two villages in Effex, in the parish of Barking, where are fome agreeable houses. They are fituated on each fide of the river Roding, between Barking and Wanted. Here is Highland Haufe, late the elegant feat of Mr. Lempriere, but recently purchafed by Mr. Currie. As it is built of ftone, it forms a fine termination of a vifta from the back front of Wanfted Houfe. See Valentine Houfe.

INGATESTONE, a market town, 23 M. F. L. on the road to Harwich. Here is the ancient family feat of Lord Petre, to whofe ancestor, Sir William Petre, this manor was granted, at the Diffolution. Part of the houfe is pulled down; the reft is inhabited by the fleward, and fome Roman Catholic families dependent upon his lordfhip. The town confifts of one firest, the north fide of which, and half of the fouth fide, are in the parish of Fryerning. In the church are fome stately monuments of the Petre family.

INGRESS, at Swanfcombe, in Kent, 19 M. F. L. is the elegant villa of Mr. Roebuck, which commands a view of the Thames.

ISLE OF DOGS, a part of Poplar Marth. When our Sovereigns had a palace at Greswich, they used it as a hunting feat, and, it is faid, kept the kennels of their hounds in this marfh. The hounds frequently making a

*Sir William Petre founded eight fell whips at Oxford, called the Petrean Fellowships, and erected en almihoufe at Ingatestone for twenty pour perfons.

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great noife, the feamen called the place the Ifle of Dogs, though it is neither an island, nor a peninfula.

ISLEWORTH, a village in Middlefex, on the Thames, oppofite Richmond, S M. F. L. The church is a modern structure; and a venerable tower, covered with ivy, which belonged to the former church, is ftill preferved. See Sion Houfe and Sion Hill.

ISLINGTON, a confiderable village, N. of London, to which it is now united. It is an extenfive parifh and contains, befide the village, the hamlet of Holloway, Kingfland Green, and part of Newington Green. The parish church, erected in 1754, is a neat brick ftru&ture, with a fpire, quoins, cornices, and architraves of Portland ftone. The height, from the ground to the top of the vane, 164 feet. The length of the church is 108 feet, and the breadth fixty. Its roof is fupported without pillars; and the infide is adorned with elegant fimplicity. The whole expence of it, including the organ, &c. was 7340l. In 1787, this church underwent confiderable repairs. To ftrengthen the tower, three tiers of iron chains were placed across it, in different directions; and an electric conductor was likewife placed from the ground to the top of the ball. The fcaffolding was of wicker-work, framed upon a very curious plan round the fteeple, by Mr. Birch, a basket-maker of St. Alban's, who had before contrived a fimilar work for the repairs of the fpire of the Abbey church in that town. He engaged to erect this fcaffold, for 20l. and the privilege of fhewing it at fixpence each perfon, which amounted to a confiderable fum. An old building in Canonbury-Field, is called Queen Elizabeth's Lodge.* But a more ancient edifice is the Crown Public House, in the Lower Street. In

* Strype records the following curious anecdote: Beyond Alderf gate Bars, leaving the Chaiter Houfe on the left hand, ftretches up to ward Ifeldon, commonly called Ilington, a country-town hard by;" which, in the former age, was efteemed to be fo pleafantly feated, that in 1581, Queen Elizabeth, on an evening, rode out that way to take the air; where, near the town, fhe was invironed with a number of begging rogues, which gave the Queen much disturbance. Whereupon Mr. Stone, one of her footmen, came in all hafte to the Lord Mayor and to Fleetwood, the Recorder, and told them the fame. The fame night did the Recorder send out warrants into the fame quarters, and

In this houfe, among other decorations on painted glass, which are apparently of the reign of Henry VII, is an original portrait of Elizabeth, the Queen of that Monarch, fuppofed to have been painted in 1487 † In the fields, to the N. W. of the White Conduit House and Tea Gardens, is a large inclofure, called the Reed Mote, or Six-acre field, fuppofed to have been a Roman camp. On the S. W. fide of Iflington, is a fine refervoir, called New River Head, which confifts of a large bafon, into which the New River enters: part of the water is thence conveyed by pipes to London, while another part is thrown by an engine through other pipes, to a refervoir, which lies much higher, in order to fupply the highest parts of London. Near the New River Head, is a fpring of chalybeate water, in a pleafant garden, called New Tunbridge Wells, to which many people refort. Clofe by it is Sadlers Wells, long noted for its exhibitions of rope-dancing, tumbling, pantomine, &c. To the N. of Iflington is Highbury Place, which fronts the fine hills of Highgate and Hampftead. Higher ftill is Highbury Terrace, which commands a beautiful profpect. Near this is the neat villa, paddock, and pleasure grounds of Alexander Aubert, efq. who has erected near the house, a lofty and fpacious obfervatory, furnished with a complete collection of astronomical inftruments. On the fite of thefe premifes was a moated spot, called Jack Straw's Castle, on which stood the manfion of the Priors of the order of St. John of Jerufalem, and which, according to fome, was, in the reign of Richard II, the refidence of Sir Robert Hales, who efcaped thence to the Tower, from the fury of the Rebels under Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, but was beheaded by them there, together with Archbi fhop Sudbury. Near this is a noted tavern and tea-gardens, called Highbury Barn. At the entrance of the

into Westminster and the Dutchy. And in the morning he went abroad himfelf, and took that day feventy-four rogues, whereof fome were blind, and yet great ufurers, and very rich. They were fent to Bridewell, and punished."

See Ellis's campagna of London, in which is an engraving of this portrait, coloured.

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town, but in the parish of St. James's Clerkenwell, are almfhoufes for ten widows, of the parish of Iflington, and a fchool for 25 boys of the famie parith, and that of Clerkenwell. In the Lower Street is an Independent meeting; near the Church is a Methodist chapel; at Highbury is a chapel for the Unitarians.

In this parish, in the road from Iflington to Hoxton> Town, is the white lead manufactory, of Samuel Walker and Co. of Mafborough, near Rotheram, in Yorkshire, who erected here, in 1786,a curious windmill, for the purpofe of grinding white lead, differing in two remarkable particulars from commen windmills, viz. 1ft, the brick tower of it is crowned with a great wooden top, or cap, to which are affixed on one fide the flyers, and on the other fide a gallery, which ferves to turn round the whole top at pleafure, fo as to bring the flyers into that direction which is moft convenient with respect to the wind; and 2dly, inftead of four, the ufual number of flyers, it is furnished with five. See Canonbury, King fland, Newington-Green, and Pentonville.

IVER, a village in Bucks, three miles from Uxbridge. At Shredding's Green, in this parish, is the feat of Thomas Colborne, efq. built by Sir John Vanbrugh, for the Dowager of Lord Mohun, who was killed in a duel that was likewife fatal to his antagonist James the second Duke of Hamilton.

*They were erected by Dame Alice Owen, and are under the government of the Brewers Company; from whofe records it appears, that they were founded by her, in confequence of a providential deliverance from death, in the reign of Queen Mary, when this part of Islington was all open fields and pasture land. It was then a frequent exercife for the archers to fhoot with their bows and arrows at butts; and this lady walking in the fields with her maid, and obferving a woman milking a eow, was defirous of trying to milk the cow herfelf, which fhe did; when, on leaving the cow, an arrow pierced the crown of her hat, (higher crowned hats being then in fashion) without doing her the leaft injury. In commemoration of this deliverance, the built the school and alinshoufes, about three years before her death. For many years, an arrow was fixed on the top of thefe houfes, which stand on the very fpot where this accident happened. KELVEDON

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Chipping Ongar, the elegant villa of John Wright efq. This charming fpot is decorated with all the beauties of rural fcenery, with rich and extenfive profpects, and from whence, in a clear day, part of London may be seen very diftinctly.

KEMPTON PARK, in the parish of Hanworth, in Middlefex, formerly the feat of the famous traveller Sir John Chardin, and now of Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart.

KENDAL'S HALL, the feat of William Phillimore, efq. 13 M. P. L. in the road from Edgware to St. Al

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KENNINGTON, one of the eight precincts of Lambeth. The manor belonged to Edward the Black Prince, to whom it is fuppofed Edward III had granted it. He refided here frequently, many of his acts being dated from Kennington. On his death it came to his fon, afterward Richard II, who refided here at the time of his grandfather's death, and afcended the throne in 1377; in which year, John Duke of Lancaster, having offended the citizens of London, a dangerous riot enfued, and the mob attacked his palace at the Savoy, whence he made his efcape by water to Kennington, where the Princess Dowager of Wales and the young King were, by whofe interceffion all differences between the Duke and the citizens were amicably adjusted. In 1396, the young Queen Ifabel, was conveyed, amid a prodigious concourfe of people from Kennington to the Tower. The lodging of that illuftrious Princefs at Kennington is a proof of the grandeur of the palace. At what period it was demolished was not known: but Henry IV was here, when the clergy complained to him of Sir John Oldcastle and his followers. Charles I, when Prince of Wales, occupied the fite of Kennington Palace, and ten acres of ground, formerly the palace garden, and continued to do fo till his acceffion to the throne. About the year 1626, the gardens and fite of the palace were let for the first time.