Note 95 — A BOOK FOR A RAINY DAY
Reading edition
Rockhoult, or Rockholt House, was at Leyton, in Essex, and was “for a short period an auxiliary place of amusement for the Summer to the established Theatres” (Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1814). It was opened about 1742, and was apparently regarded as “the place to spend a happy day.” A ballad to “Delia” exclaimed—
“Delia, in whose form we trace All that can a virgin grace, Hark where pleasure, blithe as May, Bids us to Rockholt haste away.”