At the back of the British Museum, once called Southampton
Fields. The tradition is that two brothers, in the Duke of Monmouth's
rebellion, took different sides and engaged each other in fight. Both
were killed, and forty impressions of their feet remained on the field
for many years, where no grass would grow. The encounter took place at
the extreme north-east of Upper Montague Street. The Misses Porter
wrote a novel on the subject, and the Messrs. Mayhew a melodrama.
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