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Bacon is said to have found a temporary retreat at Parson's Green, Fulham; but the character of the Green has greatly changed of late years (see RICHARDSON), and neither the biographers of Bacon nor the local historians give any decided information as to the positive site of his Fulham home.

Middlesex,

When the great Lord Bacon fell into disgrace, and was forbidden to appear at Court, he procured a license, dated September 13, 1621, to retire for six weeks to the house of his Brayley's friend, Sir John Vaughan, at Parson's Green, who London and probably resided in the house now [1816] occupied vol. v. by Mr. Maxwell as a boarding-school, a spacious mansion, built in that style of architecture which prevailed at the commencement of the reign of James I.

Bacon died at the house of the Earl of Arundel, at Highgate, April 9, 1626, and was buried in St. Michael's Church, within the precincts of old Verulam.

Lives.

The cause of his lordship's death was trying an experiment as he was taking aire in the coach of Dr. Witherborne, a Aubrey's Scotchman, physitian to the King. Towards Highgate snow lay on the ground, and it came into my lord's thoughts why flesh might not be preserved in snow as in salt. They were resolved they would try the experiment. Presently they alighted out of the coach, and went into a poore woman's house at the bottom of Highgate Hill, and bought a hen, and made her exenterate, and then stuffed the bodie with snow, and my lord did help to doe it himself. The snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so ill that he could not return to his lodgings (I suppose then at Gray's Inn), but went to the Earl of Arundel's house at Highgate, where they put him into a good bed, warmed with a panne; but it was a dampe bed that had not been layn in for about a year before, which gave him such a colde that in two or three days he died of suffocation.

Arundel House stood on the slope of Highgate Hill. It is known to have been occupied as a school in its later days,

and according to Thorne, in his 'Hand-Book of the Environs of London,' it was pulled down in 1825; but neither Thorne nor any other writers upon the subject have been able to discover its exact position.

Eliza Meteyard's Hallowed Spots of Ancient London, chap. iv.

No account of the site of Lord Arundel's house at Highgate has been preserved. To clear up this point, Mr. Montague made many inquiries, though to no purpose. We have likewise sought in vain. It is supposed, however, to have been the most considerable house in the parish.

JOANNA BAILLIE.

1762-1851.

THE HE Baillies came to London in 1791, when they lived in Great Windmill Street, Piccadilly, in the house of their brother, Dr. Matthew Baillie, who took possession of it after the death of their uncle, the famous Dr. Hunter. It was a large, square, double house, on the east side, standing back from the street, and was numbered 16 in 1885.18

In 1802 they went to Red Lion Hill, Hampstead, and on the death of their mother, in 1806, they took Bolton House, at Hampstead, where they spent the remainder of their uneventful lives, and where at the end of half a century they died. Bolton House, still standing in 1885, was a quiet, picturesque, old-fashioned mansion, on the top of Windmill Hill, built of red brick and three stories in height. It was the centre house of a row of three companion buildings, facing the Holly Bush Inn, and at the end of the street called Holly Hill.

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