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He is a thoroughly genuine man, of kind heart and true affections, a gentleman of taste and refinement, and full of humor. On the Saturday after our return to Blackheath, we went to about which, as I have already recorded a visit to it, I need say little here.
The two left London on their tricycle late in August, and had the finest weather in which to cross historic Blackheath and look up the picturesque wharves in Gravesend. Hop-pickers filled the roads and offered many a subject for the artist's pencil. "We rode on with light hearts," recounts the fair wheelwoman.
A damsel named Tyler, daughter of Wat the Tyler, was so badly treated by the assessor that her father struck the officer dead with his hammer, in 1381, and placed himself at the head of a revolt, numbering one hundred thousand people, who collected on Blackheath. Jack Straw and Rev. John Ball also aided in the convention.
These the English people so much respect that they will not suffer them to be opened, or even levelled. Just without the park lies Blackheath, a large expanse of common, full a mile wide, and more than that long, I should say.
Make mine and Lady Chesterfield's compliments to Comte et Comtesse Flemming; and so, 'Dieu vous aye en sa sainte garde'! BLACKHEATH, September 14, 1764
How shameful that there should be no local memorial of this incident, as beautiful and touching a passage as can be cited out of any human life! III. The English Vanity Fair One summer we found a particularly delightful abode in one of the oases that have grown up on the wide waste of Blackheath.
Steeped in selfishness, impotent for faithful attachment and manly enduring love had it not survived remorse, was it not accustomed to desertion?" For a time the outcast Princess, with her infant daughter, led a retired life amid the peace and beauty of Blackheath, where she lived as simply as any bourgeoise, playing the "lady bountiful" to the poor among her neighbours.
He had a real interest both in history and literature, and he wrote fairly enough. One of the most curious figures among the historians of this century was Henry Thomas Buckle, who was born near Blackheath in 1823, and privately educated.
What shall he do next, with the three hundred and fourscore thousand men now actually at work upon him? He will do all that man can do, but at last 'il faut succomber'. Remember to think yourself less well than you are, in order to be quite so; be very regular, rather longer than you need; and then there will be no danger of a relapse. God bless you. BLACKHEATH, September 5, 1758
Immediately, all that W. and S.W. division of London began to slide away at a pace so lively, that I was over the river, and past the Old Kent Road, and out on Blackheath, and even ascending Shooter's Hill, before I had had time to look about me in the carriage, like a collected traveller.
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