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queen Elizabeth was used often to repose under it. Dul wich is thus celebrated by the Æsculapian bard :

Or lose the world amid the silvan wilds

Of Dulwich, yet by barbarous arts unspoil'd.

The seat of the late lord Thurlow, called KNIGHT's HILL, lies in the parish of Lambeth, between Dulwich and Norwood. When his lordship purchased this estate of the duke of St. Alban's, there was only a farm-house upon it, which he new-fronted; building, at the same time, some additional apartments. His lordship afterwards took the whole down, and erected the present mansion, in a plain and simple style, under the direction of the late Mr. Holland, architect of Drury Lane Theatre. This house is the first that was finished throughout with the new invented cone flooring. The upper stories exhibit delightful views over Kent, Surrey, and the metropolis; and the Thames is discernible, in various parts, from Chelsea to Gravesend.

PECKHAM, another hamlet of the parish of Camberwell, lies in the road to Greenwich. According to Domesday Book, it antiently belonged to Battersea, and the manor, which had been held by Alfred of Harold, was granted by William the Conqueror to his half-brother, Odo, bishop of Baieux, and held under him by the bishop of Lisieux. This was afterwards divided into the two manors of Bredinghurst and Basynges. They seem, however, to have been latterly consolidated and sold by Edward Eversfield, who had married the heiress of the family of Muschamp, to Sir Thomas Bond, in 1672. This gentleman rebuilt the manor house in a very handsome stile, but having been deeply engaged in the pernicious schemes of James II. he was obliged to leave the kingdom with his infatuated sovereign; and it was with great difficulty that the populace were hindered from destroying his mansion.

His son Sir Henry Bond, alienated the premises to Sir Thomas Trevor, afterwards lord chief justice, and a peer. Lord Trevor made it his occasional residence, and after his death it was purchased by various proprietors, and held of the king, as of his castle of Dover.

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