Old Chelsea: A Summer-Day's Stroll

THE stroll described in these pages may be imagined to be taken during the summer of 1888: all the dates, descriptions, and references herein having been brought down to the pre...

All this rigidity in religion was but the natural stand of a strong character against the drift of the times and the current that was carrying crowds down with the king; and it...

On the corner of the little turning which leads to this house there stands a tavern called “The Nell Gwynne;” this, at the extreme western end of the parish, is matched by anoth...

Hortensia Mancini, the daughter of Cardinal Mazarin’s sister, had been married while very young to some Duke, who was allowed to assume the name of Mazarin on his marriage. A re...

Hans Sloane had come up to London, a young Irish student of medicine; and, frequenting the Botanical Gardens in Chelsea, just in view of this Manor House, he must often have loo...

“Four hundred years of memory are crowded into that dark old church, and the great flood of change beats round the walls, and shakes the door in vain, but never enters. The dead...

Chelsea, “direct connection with London,” 13; “Village of Palaces,” 17; “A quiet country village,” 18; ancient aspect, 19–23; causes of its early settlement, 20; earliest histor...