With the shabby tide of progress,'? streets are rapidly increasing along the Fulham Road, which a short time ago ran entirely through nursery-grounds. The famous Brompton Park Nursery lasted from the time of James II, to that of the Exhibition of 1851.2 Evelyn describes ‘its noble assembly of trees, evergreens, &c.' The Brompton Stock is a memorial of its celebrity.

On the right are The Boltons, where forty years ago six brace of partridges used to rise in a morning, now regularly laid out with villas, much frequented by artists.

Gloucester Road, Brompton, commemorates Gloucester Lodge, the residence of Maria, Duchess of Gloucester. Its gardens had six acres.

It was sold by her daughter, Princess Sophia, to Mr. Canning, and pulled down in 1852.

The road leads through Walham Green to Fulham, which, though four miles from Hyde Park Corner, requires a cursory mention here as the home of the Bishops of London.

Fulham, which, according to Camden, means the place of fowles,' but, according to most authorities, 'the place of dirt,' is a pretty antiquated village with a stone bridge over the Thames. The Inn of the Golden Lion existed in the time of Henry VII., and was for some time the residence of Bishop Bonner. At another tavern, the King's Arms, the Fire of London was annually commemorated on September 1, in honour of its having given refuge to a number of city fugitives. The interesting Church of All Saints, which stood near the river, was destroyed by the Rev. F. Fisher in 1880. It contained a great number of valuable monuments, of which most are transferred to the modern church. Amongst them we should especially look for that of John, Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon, father of the great Earl of Peterborough, ob. 1675, by Bushnell, sculptor of the figures on Temple Bar, with a statue by Bird ; the noble monument by Gibbons to Dorothy Hyliard, 1695, wife of Sir W. Clarke, Secretary at War to Charles II., and afterwards of Samuel Barrow, physician to the same, author of the Latin verses prefixed to ‘Paradise Lost;' the simple altar-tomb of Sir William Butts, 1545, the physician to Henry VIII., mentioned by Shak. speare; the quaint monument of Margaret, wife of Sir Peter Legh of Lyme, 1603, and her two babies; the mural monuments of Thomas Carlos, 1665, son of the Colonel Careless who hid Charles II. in the oak, and was allowed to change his name to Carlos as a reward; of Thomas Smith, Master of Requests to James I., 1609; of Bishop Gibson, 1748 ; Bishop Porteous, 1808 ; and Bishop Blomfield, 1857. An admirable Flemish brass commemorates Margaret Swanders, 1529. In the churchyard are the monuments of Sir Francis Child, 1713, and of Theodore Hook, 1841. On the eastern side of the new church are the tombs of a number of the bishops (beginning at the church wall) ---Lowth, 1787 ; Terrick, 1777 ; Randolph, 1813; Gibson, 1748 ; Sherlock, 1761; Compton, 1713 ; Hayter, 1762; Robinson, 1723. Near the tomb of his patron,

1 Miss Thackeray.

2 The Builder, September 4, 1875.

Bishop Compton, lies Richard Fiddes, author of the Life of Cardinal Wolsey. In the grave of Bishop Lowth rests his friend Wilson, Bishop of Bristol, 1792.

A drive through an avenue, or (from the church) a raised causeway called 'the Bishop's Walk,' leads to Fulham Palace, the ancient manor house of the Bishops of London. A gateway is the approach to a quaint picturesque courtyard surrounded by low buildings of red and black bricks, erected by Bishop Fitzjames in the reign of Henry VII. The interior of the palace is unimportant, though the Library contains a number of episcopal portraits, including that of Bishop Ridley, whose four years' residence here is one of the most

interesting periods in the history of the palace. Under his hospitable roof, the mother and sister of his predecessor, Bonner, continued to reside, ever-welcome guests at his table, where the place of honour was always reserved for 'our mother, Bonner.' The palace gardens were filled with rare shrubs by Bishop Grindal, who was a great gardener; they still contain a very fine cork tree. A picturesque garden gateway bears the arms of Bishop Fitzjames. The Chapeī, in the garden, was built by Butterfield for Bishop Tait, 1867

In the water-meadows and on the river - banks near Fulham Palace may be recognised many of the familiar subjects in the pictures of De. Wint and Thomas Girtin, who repeated them over and over again. In ascending the river to Fulham a perfect gallery of De Wints is seen.

Near the Palace was Craven Cottage, much admired when it was built by Lady Craven, afterwards Margravine of Anspach. About 1843 it was, for a time, the residence of Bulwer Lytton. The cottage was almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1888. At Parson's Green, a hamlet of Fulham, lived Lord Mordaunt, whose tomb is in the church, and his son, the famous Earl of Peterborough. Peterborough House has been rebuilt. It came to the Earl of Peterborough in 1679 on the death of his mother, co-heiress of Thomas Carey, younger son of the Earl of Monmouth. On the same side of the green Samuel Richardson lived from 1755 to his death in 1761.

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