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Excerpt from The Home Counties Magazine, Vol. 7: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey, and Kent The Lodge before the catastrophe of 1649 seems to have been the habitation of the ranger Or keeper of the Little Park, which by the document above quoted we learn to have contained 349 acres. AS part of the manor of Richmond it had been settled by Charles I. On his Queen, and at the Restoration she recovered it, but in the meantime William Brome, gent. Of London had been the pur chaser from the Commissioners of Parliament. Lysons also found that for some time the Lodge, described as a very pleasant seat and habitation for a private gentleman, was in possession of Sir Thomas Jarvis or Jervoyse. In 1694 William III. Granted a lease of the Lodge, with the stewardship of the manor, to John Latton of Esher Place, and in 1707 Queen Anne gave a lease of it for three lives to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde. The Duke being more than a private gentleman probably thought the house unequal to his position, so he pulled it down and rebuilt it, presumably, in the form seen in the engraving now reproduced. We have a descrip tion of the place the more interesting from its being in the present, tense, and as seen by the living eyes of John Macky in 1714. He thus refers to it in a Journey through England (2nd cd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of s