Hill-house

We are now on the very brow of the eminence, close to the Hill-house and its beautiful garden.

Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

After dinner the Commissioner and I left the company and walked in the garden at the Hill-house, which is very pleasant, and there talked of our businesses and matters of the navy.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

At noon to the Hill-house in Commissioner Pett's coach, and after seeing the guard-ships, to dinner, and after dining done to the Dock by coach, it raining hard, to see "The Prince" launched, which hath lain in the Dock in repairing these three years.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Callbook, and that and other things done, to the Hill-house, and there we eat something, and so by barge to Rochester, and there took coach hired for our passage to London, and Mrs. Allen, the clerk of the

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

At two o'clock to dinner to the Hill-house, and after dinner dispatched many people's business, and then to the yard again, and looked over Mr. Gregory's and Barrow's houses to see the matter of difference between them concerning an alteration that Barrow would make, which I shall report to the board, but both their houses very pretty, and deserve to be so, being well kept.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

So after a glass of wine, we to our barge, that was ready for me, to the Hill-house, where we soon went to bed, before we slept I telling upon discourse

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Thence walked to the Hill-house, being myself much dissatisfied, and more than

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

We took him with us to the Hill-house, and there we dined, and an officer or two with us.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

After an hour or two's discourse at the Hill-house before going to bed, I see him to his and he me to my chamber, he lying in the Treasurer's and I in the

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

At night walked home to the Hill-house, Mr. Barrow with me, talking of the faults of the yard, walking in the fields an hour or two, and so home to supper, and so

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668