learned physician and naturalist. Here died the excellent citizen of London, and patriot, Sir John Barnard, in honourable retirement, 1764. On the north-east corner of the common, is a new church, erected in 1776, at the expence of 11,000l. but neither in the church itself, nor in the ground, inclosed around it, are any interments suffered. Of the old church only one aisle remains; in which the funeral service is performed, when there are any interments in the adjoining cemetery. The manor house, now a boarding school for young ladies, is situated near this spot, and is rendered conspicuous by a curious octagonal tower. The next parish to Clapham, in the road to Epsom, is TOOTING; it had formerly the addition of Graveney, or Gravenelle, from Richard de Gravenelle, one of its lords. This parish is sometimes called Lower Tooting, to distinguish it from a part of Streatham parish, called Upper Tooting, and Tooting Bec, both of which were in this parish before the bishop of Baieux laid hands upon them. The village consists of two streets, which run the one out of the other in the shape of an L. There were antiently three manors in Tooting, two of which were in after-times united and thrown into Streatham parish; the third manor was, at the survey, held by Haimo, sheriff of Surrey, from the abbey of Chertsey. The other two manors were, in the time of king William, held by the abbies of Westminster and Bec, which, in process of time, came both to Bec, and gave rise to the name of Tooting Bec, which that part of Streatham bears which was taken from Tooting. The part which Westminster held was, in king Edward the Confessor's time, the estate of Swane, of whom Waltheof had it; and he sold it to Alnod, a native of London, who bestowed it upon the church of Westminster for the health of his soul. Tooting Graveney, through various possessors, was alienated by one of the Maynard family to Sir James Bateman, alderman and lord mayor of London; it is at present be. longing to Morgan Rice, Esq. The |