stood the residence
of Samuel Richardson, who removed to Parson's Green from North End in
1755, and in this house his second wife, who survived him, died in
November, 1773, aged seventy-seven. Formerly the same house belonged to
Sir Edward Saunders, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1682. A
sketch of the house will be found in Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English
Literature. Drury Lodge, situated on the King's Road adjoining Parson's
Green, and immediately opposite the Malt House, formerly known as Ivy
Cottage, was built by Walsh Porter in the Gothic style, and is now the
residence of Mr. E. T. Smith, who has called the house after his theatre.
The name of the lane which runs down by the side of Drury Lodge has,
however, not been altered to _Drury_ Lane, but still retains its old
title of Broom Lane.

It is said that on the site of what is now called Drury Lodge, was
formerly a house, the residence of Oliver Cromwell, which was called the
_Old Red Ivy House_. Part of the old walls of that building form the
west side of the present cottage.

Proceeding forward from Purser's Cross on the main Fulham Road, where St.
Peter's Villa may be noticed as the residence of Madame Garcia in 1842,
about a quarter of a mile brings us to Munster House, which is supposed
to owe its name to Melesina Schulenberg, created by George II., in 1716,
Duchess of Munster. [Picture: Munster house (1844)] According to
Faulkner, it was also called _Mustow_ House--this was not improbably the
duchess's pronunciation; and he adds that tradition makes it a
hunting-seat of Charles II., and asserts that an extensive park was
attached to it; but Faulkner also tells us that Munster House "was during
the greater part of the seventeenth century, the _residence_ and property
of Sir William Powell, Bart., who founded the almshouses." How, after
this statement, Mr. Faulkner could have admitted the tradition, requires
some explanation, as he seems to have followed, without acknowledgment,
the particulars supplied to Lysons from authentic documents by Mr. Deere,
of the Auditor's Office, who appears merely to have informed that
gentleman, that among the title-deeds of this property there is one of
Sir Edward Powell's, dated 1640, and that Sir William Powell's will bears
date 1680. According to the same unquestionable records, Munster House
came from the Powells into the possession of Sir John Williams, Bart., of
Pengethly, Monmouthshire.

In 1795, Lys