tain upward of seventy acres, join lord Spencer's. M. de Calonne sold the estate, in September, 1792, for 15,0007. to earl Gower Sutherland.

Wimbledon Common is surrounded with seats of the nobility and gentry; particularly WIMBLEDON LODGE, built by Gerard de Visme, Esq. This is an elegant modern structure; the architecture of which is in the most chaste and beautiful stile; ornamented with emblems, &c. The grounds are also laid out with superior taste. On the west side are two good houses, in the occupation of the right honourable lord Melville, and the pretty villa of Abrahamt D'Aguelar, Esq. There are several other good houses on the Common; particularly those of John Horne Tooke, Esq. and Michael Bray, Esq.

The church, except the chancel, was rebuilt in 1788, in the Grecian style. The contributions of the inhabitants, on this occasion, were so liberal, that the whole was completed, without the necessity of recurring to parliament, or to a brief. Mr. Levi, then of Prospect Place, was one of the most considerable subscribers. Within the church are memorials of Sir Richard Wynne of Gwedir, Caernarvonshire; lord Wimbledon and his family; Sir Theodore Janssen. At one corner of the churchyard is a sepulchre of brick and stone, for the family of Benjamin Bond Hopkins, Esq. The entrance, which is on the outside of the churchyard, is by a flight of steps into a sunk area, fenced in by iron rails. In the churchyard is the tomb of John Hopkins, Esq. celebrated by Pope as Vulture Hopkins: he died in 1732.

At the south-west angle of Wimbledon Common, is a circular encampment with a single ditch, including a surface of seven acres; the trench very deep and perfect. Camden is of opinion, that this was the site of the battle, in 568, between Ceaulin, king of the West Saxons, and Ethelbert, king of Kent, in which the latter was defeated. On the same common, near the village, is a well, the water of which is never known to freeze. There are cop

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per mines in this parish; and manufactures of calico printing, and japan ware. The river Wandle runs through Wimbledon,

WANDSWORTH, a village in Surrey, five miles from London, situate in the road to Kingston, near the confluence of the. Wandle with the Thames, and between two hills, called East Hill and West Hill; on each of which are Extra several elegant houses. At the close of the last century ale! many French refugees settled here, and established a French 286 church, which is now used as a Methodist meeting house. The art of dying cloth has been practised at this place for more than a century. There are likewise several considerable manufactories, one for bolting cloth; iron mills*; the calico printing manufactories; manufactory for printing kerseymeres; for whitening and pressing stuffs; linseed oil and white lead mills; oil millst; vinegar works; and distilleries. An iron rail way to Croydon is completed.

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*At these mills are cast shot, shells, cannon, and other implements of war; in another part of it the wrought iron is manufactured, and the great effect of mechanic power is exemplified in all their operations; in the splitting of iron bars of prodigious length; in a pair of shears which will cut asunder pieces of iron more than two inches in thickness; and in the working of a hammer, which weighs from five hundred and a half to six hundred pounds; the timbers employed are of an enormous size, and the wonderful powers of all the elements are here made subservient in the production of various tools and implements necessary for man in the arts of war and peace.

+ The first operation is that of grinding the linseed under large stones, during which the seed is wetted, in order to prevent its discharging the oil; it is then dried over a furnace in an iron pan, after which it is poured into long bags, closed up in leathern cases; these are inserted perpendicularly between wedges, which are driven down by upright shafts, thrown up by an horizontal one, and then suffered to fall by their own weight; after which the seed is taken out, again ground, and passes through the whole operation as before; the oil running off through small pipes into a receptacle under the floor, and the refuse of the seed is sold to the graziers for the purpose of fattening sheep and oxen. The concern is of so profitable a nature, that the last mentioned article is said to defray the whole expence of the operation. The wholesomeness of the flesh of cattle which are thus fed, may perhaps be doubted, as it is

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The tower of the 'church is antient; but the church itself is a modern edifice. Beside the small cemetery contiguous to this, there is a more spacious one on East Hill.

In Wandworth,, is a Quaker's meeting house, and two schools for children of that persuasion; at one of which, that excellent citizen, senator, and magistrate, Sir John Barnard, received his education.

In GARRAT LANE, between this village and Tooting, is occasionally a mock election, after every parliamentary election, to which Mr. Foote's dramatic piece of "The Mayor of Garrat," has given celebrity *.

BATTERSEA, or PATRICK'S-EA, is situated on the banks of the Thames, four miles from London. The manor, with the advowson, were granted by king Stephen to the abbot and convent of Westminster, who had a perpetual vicar. They came into the hands of the crown at the Dissolution, and remained till Charles I. granted them to Sir Oliver

known to effect the milk of cows, by giving it a rank and filthy taste, notwithstanding which the cowkeepers about London sometimes use it to fatten cattle they mean to dispose of. The seed is said to be imported chiefly from France. A quartern of seed produces from twenty to twenty-three gallons of oil.

*The origin of the mayor and members of Garrat was thus:-About sixty years since, several persons who lived near that part of Wandsworth which adjoins to Garrat Lane, had formed a kind of club, not merely to eat and drink, but to concert measures for removing the encroachments made on that part of the common, and to prevent any others being made for the future. As the members were most of them persons in low circumstances, they agreed at every meeting to contribute a trifle, in order to make up a purse for the defence of their collective rights. When a sufficient sum of money was subscribed, they applied to a worthy attorney in that neighbourhood, who brought an action against the incroachers in the name of the president (or, as they called him, the mayor) of the club. They gained their suit with costs; the incroachments were destroyed; and ever after, the president, who lived many years, was called "The Mayor of Garrat." This event happening at the time of a general election, the ceremony, upon every new parliament, of choosing out-door members for the borough of Garrat, has been constantly kept up, and is still continued, to the great emolument of all the publicans at Wandsworth, who annually subscribe to all the incidental expences attending this mock election!