The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge by Henry George Davis Charles Davis

Author:Henry George Davis, Charles Davis, [Henry George Davis, Charles Davis,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783752340624
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Publisher: Outlook Verlag
Published: 2020-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

That enjoyable chronicler, Pepys, too, I fancy alludes to Spring Gardens in the following entry in his “Diary.” It must be premised that the hearty clerk of the Admiralty had been to Kensington, and there, as was frequently his wont, had had what he innocently and amusingly terms a “frolic”:—

“June 16, 1664. I lay in my drawers, and stockings, and waistcoat till five of the clock, and so up, and being well pleased with our frolic, walked to Knightsbridge, and there ate a mess of cream, and so to St. James’,” &c.

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