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Heston. Here was formerly a priory, which belonged to the brethren of the Holy Trinity, whose peculiar office it. was to solicit alms for the redemption of captives. The site of the priory, with the manor house adjoining the chapel, is the property of Mrs. Sophia Bulstrode. In the house are many portraits of the Bulstrode family.

Hounslow stands on the edge of the heath of the same name, on which are some powder mills on a branch of the river Coln. On this heath James II. formed an encampment, after the suppression of the duke of Monmouth's rebellion, in order the more effectually to enslave the nation; and here he first perceived the little dependence that he could have upon his army, by their rejoicings on receiving the news of the acquittal of the seven bishops, an event, at that period, most auspicious to the welfare of the country. The heath, containing about four thousand two hundred and ninety-three acres of land, was noted for the range of gibbets, which have been removed on account of the passage of the royal family this way to Windsor.

Hounslow Heath was proposed to be enclosed as early as 1546, and is supposed to be worth twenty shillings per acre, when enclosed.

NORWOOD, and its appendage SOUTHALL, both dependent on the parish of Hayes, have nothing particular to detain the tourists' notice, except that the former has a small chapel, exhibiting the architecture of various periods; the latter has a market and two fairs.

HANWELL, contains nothing worthy notice but the church and rectory, both seated on a gentle eminence. Extral The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a sinall neatles: structure of brick, forming an oblong square; and at the P115 west end is a turret with a cupola. It was rebuilt in 1782, by a subscription of 17657. to which the worthy rector, Dr. Glasse, now rector of Wansted, contributed 2001. The churchyard contains the revered remains of JONAS HANWAY, Esq. whose name, without any complimentary addition, is sufficiently explicatory for the information of after ages, respecting his benevolence and philanthropy.

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ACTON joins Hanwell, at the distance of five miles from London. The parish is supposed to have derived its namė from the quantity of oak timber it produced; ac, in the Saxon language, signifying an oak; and the hedge-rows still abound with that tree. Half a mile from East Acton, are three wells of mineral water, which, about the middle of the last century, were in repute for their medicinal virtues. The assembly room was then a place of fashionable resort;、 and the neighbouring hamlets of East Acton and Friar's Place were filled with persons of all ranks, who came to reside there during the summer season. These wells have long since lost their celebrity; fashion and novelty having given the preference to springs of the same nature, at a greater distance from the metropolis. The site of the wells is the property of the duke of Devonshire. At Acton Extra resided Francis Rous, one of Cromwell's peers; and, on the site of his house, now stands a modern mansion, called 1116 the Bank House, the property of Samuel Wegg, Esq. Richard Baxter, the non-conformist divine, resided also, many years, in a house near the church, where he constantly attended divine service, and sometimes preached; having a licence for so doing, " provided he uttered nothing against the doctrines of the Church of England." The great and good Sir Matthew Hale was his cotemporary at Acton, and intimate with him.

: Within the church are monuments to the memory of Catharine viscountess Conway, 1639, a very charitable person; Francis Rous; and Dr. Cobden.

Having gone the extent of this route towards London, we return for the space of two miles, and describe the village of EALING, situated near the Uxbridge road. The manor for time immemorial has belonged to the see of London; the demesne lands were leased under the name of Ealingbury, by bishop Bonner, to the protector Somerset, for a term of two hundred years. After the protector's attainder the whole came to the crown, and is now held under a renewed lease, in 1757, to Richard Long, Esq. by his two daughters

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