ed thoroughfare. Any one turning to the left at the bottom of
Scotland-road, and going to Bevington-Bush will see, in those old houses
on the right hand, of what Liverpool, in my young days, was composed.
Very few specimens of the old town houses are now remaining, so speedily
do they become modernized and altered. I like those quaint old buildings
although they were not very comfortable within, from their narrow windows
and low ceilings, but there has been a great deal of mirth and jollity in
some of those old low-roofed houses in the town, in our great
privateering and slave-dealing times.

I have often heard old people talk about _their_ "Recollections" of the
town. I have heard them speak of Clayton-square being laid out in the
memorable year of 1745. Mrs. or Madame Clayton to whose family this part
of the town chiefly belonged, was the daughter of Mr. Clayton who was
Mayor in 1689, and who represented the town in parliament for eight
sessions. Madame Clayton's house stood near Cases-street. Her garden
was said to have been the best kept and most productive in the town. It
was this lady who started the first private carriage in Liverpool. I
have heard it said that people used to stare at it, as if it was
something wonderful. The streets about Church-street are all called
after the old families. Parker-street was called after Mr. Parker, of
Cuerdon, who married Miss Ann Clayton. Their daughter Jane married one
of the Tarletons. Tarleton-street is named after Colonel Banastre
Tarleton. Banastre-street is named after him also. Houghton-street is
after the old Houghton family. Williamson-square was laid out in 1745 by
Mr. Williamson. Basnett-street was called after the Basnetts, at one
time a very influential family of old Liverpool; Leigh-street after the
Leighs; Cases-street after the Cases. Mr. Rose, who projected many
streets at the north end of the town on his extensive property, seems to
have adopted the poets' names to distinguish his thoroughfares, as in
Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Juvenal, Virgil, Dryden, Milton, Sawney (Alexander)
Pope-street, etc. Meadows-street, Scotland-road, was named after Mr.
William Meadows, who married six wives. His first wife lived two years.
He next married Peggy Robinson, who lived twenty years, and bore him
children; after being a widower a month, he again married. This wife
lived two years. After remaining a widower seven weeks, he married his
fourth wife, who lived