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The following gives the title and description of the map .—
'Part the first/ of the/ General Survey of England and Wales/ contain-
ing the whole of/ Essex/ and a portion of the adjoining Counties/ Done by
the/ Surveyors of His Majesty's Ordnance under the direction of/ Lt.-Col.
Mudge, oil the Royal Artillery, F.R.S. Published April 18, 1805, by
Lt.-Col. Mudge, Tower.'
"The size of this map is in width 72 incises and in height 471/2 inches ;
while the scale is one inch to the mile. The portion of the adjoining coun-
ties includes—on the north, Bassingbourne (Royston), Herts, to Orford Ness,
Suffolk ; on the south, Sydenham, to the Isle of Grain, Kent ; on the
west, Dulwich Wood, through Stoke Newington, Middlesex, to Bassing-
bourne."
Fairmead Lodge.—As pendant to a note on this subject which appeared
a year or two ago (E. N. Vol. viii. 1894, pp. 158-9) the following extract from
a review of the new edition of Lord Byron's Works (f. Murray, 1898), may
not be unwelcome. Speaking of the notes by the Editor, a reviewer in the
Standard, April 20th, 1898, says :—' Here is another note on a bygone man of
letters, whom Byron ranks with Gifford and MacNeil, as superior to Scott
and Wordsworth :—
"William Sotheby (1757-1833) began life as a Cavalry officer, but being
a man of fortune, sold out of the Army and devoted himself to literature, and
to the patronage of men of letters. His translation of the ' Oberon ' appeared
in 1798, and of the ' Georgics ' in 1800. ' Saul ' was published in 1807. When
Byron was in Venice, he conceived a dislike to Sotheby, in the belief that he
had made an anonymous attack on some of his works; but, later, his verdict
was, ' a good man, rhymes well (if not wisely); but is a bore (' Diary,' 1821 ;
' Works,' p. 509, note). ' He is the solemn antique man of rhyme' (' Beppo,'
st. lxii.), and the ' Botherby ' of ' The Blues '; and in ' Don Juan,' Canto I. st.
cxvi., we read—
" ' Thou shalt not covet Mr. Sotheby's house
His Pegasus nor anything that's his.' "
Sotheby was an elegant litterateur, one of the frequenters of Murray's
parlour, a worthy companion of the "wits," but with no pretensions to the
character of a true poet."—W. C. Waller, F.S.A., Loughton.
[We are sorry to say that the existence of what remains of Fairmead Lodge
is now threatened, owing to the bad state of the structure. The outbuildings.
&c, have already been removed, and the garden-ground levelled and thrown
into the forest. Rumours are current that the Conservators have decided to
wholly remove the building, but the only official information is that given in the
Report of the Epping Forest Committee for 1897, to the following effect:—" Fair-
mead Lodge and about eleven acres of land were acquired by the Conserva-
tors in the year 1882, in exchange for outlying portions of the Forest. The
property was then in the occupation of Mr. Edward Bartholomew. Having
regard to the fact that he had been occupier for many years, and catered for
Sunday Schools and other excursionists, we deemed it advisable to make an
arrangement with him by which he became our tenant of the house and about
21/2 acres of land only, at a rent of £63 per annum, the remainder of the land
being thrown into the Forest. The house is very old, and its condition
gradually became very dilapidated, but we were reluctant to disturb Mr.