London was easily accessible by road and by the river which bounded his lawn.

His waterman appears to have been one of the regular members of his household.

There he had every opportunity for the indulgence of his favourite tastes.

The villa was on one of the loveliest reaches of the Thames, not yet polluted by the encroachments of London.

The house itself was destroyed in the beginning of this century; and the garden (if we may trust Horace Walpole) had been previously spoilt.