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Notes.
KENNINGTON COMMON.
Kennington Common acquired an unenviable notoriety from being the place of execution for malefactors tried in this part of the county. "After the suppression of the rebellion in Scotland in 1745, many of the insurgents having been convicted of treason at Southwark, here suffered the sentence of the law" . "Seventeen officers of the rebel army were hanged, drawn, and quartered" on this spot.
Here too occurred the Chartist meeting, on the memorable 10th of April, 1848.
Many more notes might be added, but I fear lest this paper should already be too local to interest general readers. Suffice it to say, that Clayton Street, close to the Common, takes its name from the Clayton family; one member of which, Sir Robert Clayton, was sometime Master of the Drapers' Company, in whose Hall a fine portrait of him is preserved. Bowling Green Street derives its name from a bowling green which existed not very many years since. And White Hart Street from a field, which was so called certainly as early as 1785. On the Common was "a bridge called Merton Bridge, which formerly was repaired by the Canons of Merton Abbey, who had lands for that purpose."
W. SPARROW SIMPSON.
Kennington.
LIFE AND DEATH.
I have thrown together a few parallel passages for your pages, which may prove acceptable.
In the affecting story of Cleobis and Biton, as related by Herodotus, we read,--
--Herod., . i. 32.
The proverbs, "God takes those soonest whom He loveth best," and, "Whom the gods love die young," have been already illustrated in "N. & Q." . "I have learned from religion, that an early death has often been the reward of piety," said the Emperor Julian on his death-bed.
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