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Vauxhallen börjas, min bror,
Mängden är talrik och stor;
Fladdrande lockar,
Mångfärgade vippor;
Fröknar i flockar,
Vestaler i knippor;
Jämnlikhet, qvalm och musik,
Glacer, förkylning, hectik,
Frillor och Fruar och fri republik.
(1796; tonsatt av Åhlström.)
Enligt noten till dikten i Sveriges litteratur, del 4 (1963), s. 155, var Vauxhallen i Stockholm en förlustelselokal i Kungsträdgården med musik, dans och servering, inrättad i slutet av 1700-talet till förmån för livgardets barnhus; däremot, vilket nedanstående citat klargör, stämmer inte fortsättningen av noten, där det hävdas att namnet [är] efter Vaux, en person som inrättade en dylik nöjeslokal i London.
Ur Encyclopedia Britannica kan följande inhämtas: VAUXHALL, a district on the south bank of the river Thames, in London, England, included in the metropolitan borough of Lambeth. The manor was held by Falkes de Breaute (whence the name, falkes Hall) in the time of John and Henry III. About 1661 public gardens were laid out here, known as the New Spring Garden, and later as Spring Gardens, but more familiar under the title of Vauxhall Gardens. They soon became the favorite fashionable resort of the metropolis; but as a place of general entertainment they underwent great development from 1732 under the management of Jonathan Tyers (d. 1767) and his sons Thomas and Jonathan. In 1832, with the approval of George IV., who frequented the gardens before his accession, the epithet Royal was added to their title. By the middle of the igth century, however, Vauxhall had lost its high reputation; in 1859 the gardens were finally closed, and the site was quickly built over.
En ytterligare komplettering till detta: The first references to Vauxhall occur in the region of King John when the De Redvers family, the Earls of Devon, held the land. In 1216 the widow of Baldwin de Redvers, Margaret, was forced to marry a notorious Gascon mercenary named Falkes de Breaut?. Falkes came from humble origins but through a number of successful military adventures he rose to become the Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1211. Later he was to become one of King John's evil counsellors. Falkes gained possession of some of the land and built a hall, which became known as Falkes Hall. Subsequently the hall and the surrounding area has been known at various times as Fulke's Hall, Faukeshall, Fawkyhall, Foxhall, Faux Well, and eventually Vauxhall (
www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk/Vauxhall.html).
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