Chapter XI: Part 11

_Ibid._, II., p. 460.

Footnote 366:

Foxcroft’s _Life of Gilbert Burnet_, I., p. lvii.

Footnote 367:

Foxcroft’s _Life of Gilbert Burnet_, I., p. lix.

Footnote 368:

Beaven’s _Aldermen of the City of London_, II., pp. 109, 186.

Footnote 369:

Lipscombe’s _History of Buckinghamshire_, II., p. 222.

Footnote 370:

G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Peerage_.

Footnote 371:

See p. 56.

Footnote 372:

See p. 74.

Footnote 373:

Campbell’s _Lives of the Lord Chancellors_, IV., p. 560.

Footnote 374:

Wheatley and Cunningham (_London Past and Present_, III., p. 137),
mentioning his residence, which they wrongly identify with Nos. 55–56,
say: “Here on October 18, 1740, the young Joshua Reynolds came to him
as a house pupil and remained under his roof till July, 1743.” Leslie,
in his _Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds_, also states that this occurred
at Hudson’s house in Great Queen Street. The ratebooks, however, show
quite clearly that in 1740–42, “Vanblew,” was in occupation, and that
from 1743 to 1745 the house was empty. The first year in which Hudson
is shown as the occupier is 1746. Reynolds’ residence with Hudson,
therefore, must have terminated before the latter had moved to the
house in Great Queen Street.

Footnote 375:

The entry “_Geo._ Hudson” in the issue of the ratebook for this year
is probably a mistake.

Footnote 376:

_The Dictionary of National Biography_ states that Worlidge settled in
Great Queen Street in 1763, and the fact that Hudson’s name appears in
the 1764 ratebook is not conclusive against this. On the other hand, a
deed dated 9th May, 1764, mentions the house as being then in the
occupation of Hudson (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1764, II., 491).

Footnote 377:

The parish ratebook for 1764 shows Hudson still in occupation of the
house, but he had apparently built his house at Twickenham before
this. “In 1762 Reynolds dined one Saturday with his old master,
Hudson, at ‘Twitenham,’ where he had built a house in the meadows”
(Leslie’s _Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds_, I., p. 213).

Footnote 378:

A deed of 16th November, 1774, refers to the house as “formerly in the
tenure of Mr. Hudson, painter, and late in that of Mr. Worlidge”
(_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1775, II., 122).

Footnote 379:

_Dictionary of National Biography._

Footnote 380:

_Memoirs of Mrs. Robinson_, ed. by M. E. Robinson, I., pp. 74–5.

Footnote 381:

_Memoirs of Mrs. Robinson_, I., p. 94.

Footnote 382:

See p. 60.

Footnote 383:

_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1638–9, p. 630.

Footnote 384:

G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Peerage_.

Footnote 385:

Letter, dated 16th May, 1631, from Thomas Case ... to Edward, Viscount
Conway, _etc._, “at his house in Drury Lane” (_Calendar State Papers,
Domestic_, 1631–3, p. 45).

Footnote 386:

_Recovery Roll, Common Pleas_, 21 Chas. I., Mich., rot. x (251).

Footnote 387:

G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Peerage_.

Footnote 388:

Possibly Lord Wharton was the actual occupant of the house at the
time.

Footnote 389:

_Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of Portland’s MSS._, Vol. III., p.
291.

Footnote 390:

_Calendar State Papers, Domestic, Addenda_, 1660–70, p. 701.

Footnote 391:

_Ibid._, pp. 712–3.

Footnote 392:

_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1667, p. 535.

Footnote 393:

_Ibid._, 1667–8, p. 259.

Footnote 394:

_Ibid._, 1668–9, p. 223.

Footnote 395:

Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and 1st Earl of Orrery (1621–1679)
rendered great service to the Parliamentarians in Ireland, but
afterwards realising that Richard Cromwell’s cause was hopeless, he
combined with Sir Charles Coote to secure Ireland for Charles II. He
was also a dramatist of some repute.

Footnote 396:

_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1668–9, p. 502.

Footnote 397:

_Ibid._, 1668–9, p. 567.

Footnote 398:

_Ibid._, 1670, p. 111.

Footnote 399:

A less known contemporary account is the following: “Wednesday night
last ... some mischievous persons to dishonour my Lord Chancellour
crept through a window of his house in Queen Street and stole the mace
and the two purses, but by good chance could not find the seal. There
was upon the table a great silver standish, and a thousand guineyes in
a cabinet, as they report, but nothing of them touched, the design
being upon another score than bare robbery” (Letter, dated 8th
February, 1676–7, from Edward Smith to Lord Rous, _Historical MSS.
Commission, Rutland MSS._, XII. Report, App. V., p. 37).

The entry in the Middlesex Sessions Records concerning the event is as
follows: “7 February, 29 Charles II.—True Bill that, at St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, Co. Midd., in the night between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.
of the said day, Thomas Sadler _alias_ Clarke, William Johnson _alias_
Trueman and Thomas Reneger, all three late of the said parish,
laborers, broke burglariously into the dwelling house of Heneage Lord
Finch the Lord Chancellor of the said Lord the King and then and there
stole and carried off a silver mace gilt gold worth one hundred pounds
and two velvet purses imbroydered with gold and silver and sett with
pearles, worth forty pounds, of the goods and chattels of the said
Lord the King. Found ‘Guilty,’ all three burglars were sentenced to be
‘hanged.’” (_Middlesex Sessions Records_, IV., p. 75).

Footnote 400:

_Dictionary of National Biography._

Footnote 401:

Roger North’s _Autobiography_, p. 165.

Footnote 402:

“After we came to London, we were to wait on the Lord Jeffreys, who
had the Seal, to congratulate and offer him all the service we could
do, and to receive his commands touching the house in Queen Street
where the Lord Keeper lived, and it was so proceeded that he took the
house” (Roger North’s _Autobiography_, p. 195).

Footnote 403:

H. B. Irving’s _Judge Jeffreys_, p. 332.

Footnote 404:

7 and 8 Will. III., cap. 27 (sessional number, 53).

Footnote 405:

Then resident next door, see pp. 73–4. She was Ursula, widow of Edward
Conway, first Earl of Conway.

Footnote 406:

See _e.g._, Indenture of lease, dated 18th November, 1743, between
Francis Paddey and Jas. Mallors (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1743,
III., 453).

Footnote 407:

The vestry minutes for 1712 also refer to the house under this title:
“That a proper place for the site of a new parish church, and a house
for a minister, would be at the great house in Great Queen Street,
commonly called by the name of the Land Bank” (Parton’s _Hospital and
Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 291).

Footnote 408:

He wrote several medical books, as well as a _Narrative of the Birth
of the Prince of Wales_. He had been summoned to attend the
confinement of James II.’s queen, but was away from London and arrived
too late.

Footnote 409:

Subscriptions were to be paid at Mercers’ Hall and Exeter Change
(_London Gazette_, May 28th–June 1st, 1696), and Dr. Chamberlain’s
office was, at any rate, at first in New Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn
(_Ibid._, June 20th–23rd, 1696).

Footnote 410:

“The trustees of the Land Bank, late at Exeter Change (now removed to
the Three Anchors, over against Salisbury Court in Fleet Street) do
give notice, that on the 11th day of February next they will make a
dividend to such persons as are Heads of classes to whom transfers are
made” (_The Post Boy_, January 25th–27th, 1697–8).

Footnote 411:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 412:

See pp. 60–61, 63.

Footnote 413:

_Survey of London_, Vol. III., p. 98.

Footnote 414:

Confirmation of his residence in Great Queen Street about 1794 is
found by the mention of “Thos. Leverton of Great Queen Street” in a
deed of 29th September, 1795 (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1795,
VI., 211).

Footnote 415:

Mrs. Piozzi’s _Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson_ (1786), p. 173.

Footnote 416:

Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_, 5th April, 1775.

Footnote 417:

Obituary notice in _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 88, part ii., 179.

Footnote 418:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 419:

Indenture of 19th July, 1798 (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1798,
III., 185), referring to the sites of Nos. 67 and 68, recites the
lease so far as it concerns those sites. The recital also refers to
other ground dealt with by the lease, and this was almost certainly
the site of No. 66, which it is known was also a Mills house, the
eastern boundary of Conway House being described as “the messuage of
Peter Mills, bricklayer, now in the tenure of the Countess of Essex.”
(_Recovery Roll_ (_Common Pleas_), 17 Chas. I., Hilary (236).)

Footnote 420:

Peter Mills died in 1670, then being resident in Little St.
Bartholomew’s. (_Somerset House Wills, Penn_, 147.)

Footnote 421:

There is a clause referring to “such messuages and buildings as then
were or afterwards should be erected thereon,” which is quite
indefinite, but if there had been any houses the names of the
occupiers would almost certainly have been given. The _Finalis
Concordia_ relating to the transaction does not mention houses, but
only half a rood of pasture.

Footnote 422:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 290.

Footnote 423:

The occupier of No. 68 seems to have persisted later than 1709 (see
below). Moreover, the assessable value of No. 67 drops from £40 in
1703 to £25 in 1715 (the next record), a fact which seems to point to
the curtailment of the property due to the erection of the chapel.

Footnote 424:

Baguley’s _The True State of the Case_.

Footnote 425:

On 3rd September, 1728, Thos. Burges sold to Thos. Parnell and Wm.
Page certain houses (one of which was certainly No. 68), and “all that
building or chappell, together with all and singular the pews, seats,
gallereyes and other rights and privileges thereunto belonging.”
(_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1728, I., 251).

Footnote 426:

_A Sermon preached at Queen Street Chapel and St. Paul’s, Covent
Garden, on ... the day appointed for a general fast._

Footnote 427:

He was certainly in possession on 19th June, 1758, for on that date he
mortgaged the whole of the property to William Ferrand (_Middlesex
Registry Memorials_, 1758, III., 4).

Footnote 428:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1798, III., 185.

Footnote 429:

_Blemundsbury_, p. 397.

Footnote 430:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1815, III., 227.

Footnote 431:

“The new Methodist Chapel erected on the south side of Great Queen
Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was opened yesterday morning. It is a
spacious, handsome building, and will accommodate a larger
congregation than most of our churches. It has a range of two
galleries on each side. The altar is an appropriate and beautiful
piece of architecture.” (_Morning Herald_, 26th September, 1817).

Footnote 432:

Heckethorn’s _Lincoln’s Inn Fields_, p. 183.

Footnote 433:

See p. 61.

Footnote 434:

G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Peerage_.

Footnote 435:

A much mutilated Hearth Tax Roll, dating apparently from some time
between 1666 and 1672, shows “Geo. Porter, Esq.,” residing on the
south side of Great Queen Street, but it cannot be proved that the
entry refers to the same house.

Footnote 436:

_Dictionary of National Biography._

Footnote 437:

_Survey of London_, Vol. IV., p. 81.

Footnote 438:

Burke’s _Extinct Peerage_. Knighted, 7th August, 1624 (Shaw’s _Knights
of England_, II., p. 186).

Footnote 439:

_Peerage of England_, 1710 (2nd edn.), p. 232.

Footnote 440:

See _Survey of London_, III., p. 53.

Footnote 441:

Probably the “Ashburnham Froude” who is shown in joint occupation with
Burges of No. 68 in 1723 (see p. 92).

Footnote 442:

Francis Const (1751–1839), legal writer. “Wrote some epilogues and
prologues, and numbered among his convivial companions Henderson, John
Kemble, Stephen Storace, Twiss, Porson, Dr. Burney and Sheridan.”
(_Dic. Nat. Biog._).

Footnote 443:

“Yesterday was married by the Rev. Mr. Francklin at his chapel near
Russel Street, Bloomsbury, David Garrick, Esq., to Eva Maria
Violetti.” (_General Advertiser_, 23rd June, 1749). Fitzgerald (_Life
of David Garrick_, p. 126) wrongly says: “at the _church in_ Russell
Street, Bloomsbury.” The statement of Mrs. Parsons (_Garrick and his
Circle_, p. 143) that it was “at Dr. Francklin’s Chapel in Queen
Street (the modern Museum Street)” is based on unknown, but possibly
quite good, evidence.

Footnote 444:

_Dictionary of National Biography._

Footnote 445:

_The Dictionary of National Biography_ states that her death also took
place in Great Queen Street. It is difficult to reconcile this with
the fact that the parish ratebook for 1795 shows that Francis Const
took up his residence in the house in the course of that year. She
was, however, certainly resident there on 4 June, 1795, the date of
her will.

Footnote 446:

Burke’s _Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland_, III., p. 402.

Footnote 447:

_Historical MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Rutland_, IV., p. 545.

Footnote 448:

“The style of Lord Ros of Roos continued to be still used (wrongfully)
by the Earls of Rutland, as, indeed, it was until a much later period,
and the well-known divorce of John Manners ... was granted to him ...
under the designation of Lord Roos, to which he was _not_ entitled.”
(G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Peerage_.)

Footnote 449:

On the death of the sixth Earl of Rutland, the Barony of Ros of
Hamlake expired, and the old Barony of Ros devolved upon his daughter,
Katherine, who married George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham. She
died in or before 1663, and was succeeded in the title (of Ros) by her
son George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham (Burke’s _Peerage_ and
G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Peerage_).

Footnote 450:

After his death she married Sir William Langhorn, Bt.

Footnote 451:

_Historical MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Rutland_, Vol. IV.

Footnote 452:

_Ibid._, II., p. 19.

Footnote 453:

The latter is probably for the whole of this period in respect of the
Chapel. In 1733 a separate entry is made for Burges and the Chapel.

Footnote 454:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 455:

See p. 42.

Footnote 456:

The licence was granted in 1630 (see p. 43).

Footnote 457:

This ran parallel to Great Queen Street, 197 feet distant therefrom.

Footnote 458:

The above particulars are taken from _Recovery Roll_, 9 Chas. I.
(Easter) (201). Rot. 23.

Footnote 459:

Indenture dated 9th August, 1633, between Geo. Gage and the Lady Alice
Dudley (_Close Roll_, 10 Chas. I. (2652)).

Footnote 460:

Then (under the indenture of 9th August, 1633, mentioned above)
charged with a rent of £150 a year, during the life of Lady Dudley
(_Chancery Proceedings_, Series II., 409–73).

Footnote 461:

See _Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 562–24. Suit of Sir Edw.
Stradling.

Footnote 462:

Such was the statement made by Weld in answer to the claim advanced by
Sir Edward Stradling, junr., grandson of the other Sir Edward, who,
however, suggested that the transaction was a mortgage containing a
proviso for redemption for £416. (_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_,
562–24).

Footnote 463:

Parton (_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 138)
mentions a tablet at one end of Wild Street, with an inscription
suggesting that the east side of the street was finished in 1653. This
fits in quite well with the above-mentioned facts.

Footnote 464:

It is mentioned as “the way ... leading on the back side of Drury Lane
from Princes Streete to Queene Streete” in Indenture of 13th August,
1629, between Richard Holford and Sir Edw. Stradling (_Close Roll_, 5
Chas. I. (2800)).

Footnote 465:

The date of the lease to Ittery (see p. 93).

Footnote 466:

Weld’s own name, though usually spelt with an “e” is also found in the
forms: Wild, Wield, Weild.

Footnote 467:

Indenture between Richard Holford and Edward Stratton (_Close Roll_,
1658 (3984)).

Footnote 468:

Weld having been ordered to build a wall to prevent back avenues to
his chapel, at his house, was in 1679 accused of having evaded the
order by leaving a door in the wall, “whereby there will be as free
access to the chapel as before.” (_Historical MSS. Commission, House
of Lords MSS._ App. to 11th Report, Part II., p. 127).

Footnote 469:

_Blemundsbury_, p. 384.

Footnote 470:

The lease was not held directly by the ambassadors; see particulars of
a mortgage of Weld House, 20 June, 1665, wherein was reserved a lease
made on 10 May, 1678, by Weld of the ambassador’s house to Augustine
Coronell for 10 years at a rent of £300. (_Chancery Proceedings,
Bridges_, 438–48).

Footnote 471:

Lands. Goods.
Lady Francis Weld and Mr. Humphrey Weld 2 10 0 2 0 0
Sir John Wray. 1 0 0 1 0 0

Footnote 472:

“John Corrance ... sheweth that ... Humphry Weld, of Weld Street,
esq., ... built these several messuages, viz. ... and two other
messuages scituate in Weld Street, with two coach houses, stables and
hay lofts over, being at the further end of a garden in his,
Humphry’s, possession, and by indenture of 17th May, 1665, demised
them to John, Lord St. John, of Basing, Earle of Wilts and Marquis of
Winchester, for twenty yeares, at a rent of £160; and also one other
house in Weld Street, which messuage with the use of a house of office
at the end of a garden of Weld’s called the Back garden, and the use
of a pumpe in a stable yard thereto adjoyning in common with his other
tenants by indenture of July 31st, 1671, Weld demised to Thomas
Hawker, of St. Giles, gentleman, for 11¼ years at a rent of £30.”
(_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 465–184).

Footnote 473:

See previous note.

Footnote 474:

Worsley’s residence was the last house but one in Great Queen Street,
and the premises held by him in Wild Street obviously backed on to his
residence.

Footnote 475:

_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 248.

Footnote 476:

It is impossible to make the entries in the Hearth Tax Rolls agree
with all the particulars of occupations given by Parton, and copies of
the deeds from which he quotes have not come to light in the course of
the investigations for this volume.

Footnote 477:

“Finding them, however, to be too numerous, they ventured to apprehend
only some few that stood outmost, and hurrying them away as fast as
they could, by the time they were well within my gates, the rest made
after them, attempted to break open my doors, fell upon the watchmen,
broke their halberts, flung brickbats and stones up against my house,
cried out: ‘This is the grand justice that hangs and quarters us all,
and caused Jones and Wright to be executed the last sessions,’ divided
themselves into two parties, sent one to beset the back lane behind my
garden, having information given them that I sent prisoners out that
way to avoid a rescue, and had not the Horse Guards opportunely fell
in upon them, as they lay battering before my house, it had not been
in my power to have prevented a further mischief.” (Letter from
Humphrey Weld to the Earl of Craven in _Calendar of State Papers,
Domestic_, 1671, pp. 241–2).

Footnote 478:

_Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of Portland’s MSS._, Report XIII.,
App. 1, 683.

Footnote 479:

He was certainly there in April of that year. “Letter for the French
Ambassador brought by a sea captain enclosed to Humphrey Wield, at his
house in Wield Street, London.” (_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_,
1673, p. 166).

Footnote 480:

For example: (i) 10 March 1676–7. Information of William Herriot that
“at Nieuport he met Captains Douglas and Ennys, who desired him to
make his address to the Spanish Ambassador at London, who lived at
Wild House.” (_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1677–8, p. 14);
(ii.) 29 March, 1679. Lord Clarendon reports that “in Mr. Weld’s
garden in a grotto are 27 chests of goods.... Mr. Bedloe present said
they belonged to Don Pedro de Ronquillio who was present at the search
and would not admit to have the letters perused.” (_Historical MSS.
Commission, House of Lords MSS._, App. to 11th Report, Part II., pp.
126–7); (iii.) 26 April, 1681. Evelyn records his visit to “Don Pietro
Ronquillio’s, the Spanish Ambassador, at Wild House”; (iv.) 9th
September, 1686. “The Spanish Ambassador made a bonfire at Wild House
last night and brought out wine for the mob, but the rabble overthrew
the bonfires, broke the cask of wine and broke the windows, and pulled
down some of the brick wall.” (_Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of
Portland’s MSS._, III., p. 397).

Footnote 481:

See _Petition and Appeal of Ralph Lister_, MSS. of House of Lords, New
Series, IV., pp. 274–5.

Footnote 482:

21st December, 1693. “The Spanish Ambassador has taken a house in the
Old Spring Garden, where the Duke of Norfolk lately lived, and has, in
a manner, fitted up his chapel. Notice was sent to his Excellency that
for some reasons a Romish chapel could not be permitted within the
verge of the Court, so he is removing back to Weld House.” (_Calendar
of State Papers, Domestic_, 1693, p. 433).

“Weld House is to be Lett, containing 33 Rooms, Garrets and Cellars,
with other suitable conveniences, in Weld Street near L.I. Fields.
Enquire at Weld House, or at Marybone House.” (_London Gazette_, Sep.
13–17, 1694).

Footnote 483:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 484:

Indenture between Isaac Foxcroft and others _and_ Hugh Jones (in
possession of the London County Council).

Footnote 485:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 486:

_Close Roll_, 5 Chas. I. (2800)—Indenture between Richard Holford and
Sir Edward Stradling, reciting the earlier indenture.

Footnote 487:

See p. 93.

Footnote 488:

_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 465–184. Plea of John Corrance.

Footnote 489:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 490:

_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 32 Eliz., Hilary.

Footnote 491:

_Ibid._, 21 Jas. I., Easter.

Footnote 492:

Recited in Indenture between Matthew Francis and Symond Harborne, in
the possession of the London County Council.

Footnote 493:

Lease by the Rt. Hon. Lord Cary to William Loringe, in the possession
of the London County Council.

Footnote 494:

See p. 112.

Footnote 495:

Katherine Clifton, only daughter and heiress of Gervase, Lord Clifton
of Leighton Bromswold.

Footnote 496:

_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1623–5, p. 488; 1627–8, p. 10;
1628–9, p. 359; 1629–31, p. 38.

Footnote 497:

_Ibid._, 1628–9, p. 369.

Footnote 498:

_Somerset House Wills, Harvey_, 6 (Proved 15th January, 1638–9).

Footnote 499:

Lady Elizabeth Cust’s _The Brownlows of Belton_ (_Records of the Cust
Family_ Series), II., p. 61.

Footnote 500:

This is not quite certain, but there does not seem much doubt that the
entry refers to Lennox House.

Footnote 501:

The two portions were subsequently assessed for the Hearth Tax at 26
and 11 hearths respectively. The whole house was therefore comparable
in size with Bristol House, assessed at 40 hearths.

Footnote 502:

The Countess of Dysart writes from “Lady Allington’s house, Drury
Lane,” on 22nd August, 1667 (_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1667,
p. 409), and in November, 1668 or 1669, Lord Allington refers to his
mother’s house in Drury Lane (_Ibid._, 1668–9, p. 55). Lady Allington
was succeeded in this house by Lady Ivey (_Hearth Tax Roll_ for 1675).

Footnote 503:

_Somerset House Wills, Batt_, 136. (Proved, with 39 codicils, 28th
June, 1680).

Footnote 504:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1716, III., 24.

Footnote 505:

Parton states that Brownlow Street appears in the parish books in
1685.

Footnote 506:

Indenture of 28th April, 1722, between Gilbert Umfreville and Chas.
Umfreville _and_ Ric. Baker (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1722,
VI., 85).

Footnote 507:

See p. 105.

Footnote 508:

Grey’s _St. Giles’s of the Lepers_, pp. 114–5.

Footnote 509:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 510:

See p. 103.

Footnote 511:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 125.

Footnote 512:

The ratebooks from 1730 (earliest extant) to 1746 show “Daniel Hahn,”
possibly a more correct form of the name, at this house.

Footnote 513:

Indenture dated 27th May, 1728, between Peter Walter and Nicholas
Lovell (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1728, VI., 15).

Footnote 514:

Grey’s _St. Giles’s of the Lepers_, p. 116.

Footnote 515:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 516:

_Close Roll_, 12 William III. (4863)—Indenture between (1) Mary
Rawlinson, (2) Giles Powell and (3) Jeremiah Ridge.

Footnote 517:

See p. 109.

Footnote 518:

See p. 112.

Footnote 519:

_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 29, p. 424.

Footnote 520:

_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1611–18, p. 551.

Footnote 521:

_Ibid._, p. 555.

Footnote 522:

_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 29, p. 484.

Footnote 523:

_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 46, p. 274.

Footnote 524:

It is just possible that a later reference to the spring is to be
found in the petition dated 7th July, 1637, of the inhabitants of the
Old Town of St. Giles, “complayning of y^e stopping up of a fair large
and open well in y^e said towne; being of great use and comfort to y^e
pet^{ers} who now find y^e want thereof in these times of contagion,
y^e same being continued to bee stopped up as aforesaid, by y^e now
landlord Frauncis Garrett.” (_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 48, p.
105).

Footnote 525:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 114.

Footnote 526:

_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz. (742).

Footnote 527:

_Close Roll_, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture between Jas. Briscowe, Joan
his wife and John Wise _and_ Jas. Mascall.

Footnote 528:

_Close Roll_, 11 Chas. I. (3057).—Indenture between Thos. and Olive
Godman and Francis and Frances Gerard.

Footnote 529:

Property on the east side of Drury Lane and on the north side of Broad
Street is mixed up with this, and it is not possible entirely to
separate them.

Footnote 530:

“... abutting east on a court called Ragged Staffe Court (which court
was heretofore in the possession of John Vavasour.” (_Close Roll_, 12
William III. (4863)—Indenture between Mary Rawlinson, etc., cited
above).

Footnote 531:

Parton’s statement that the two were identical (_Hospital and Parish
of St. Giles_, p. 127) is incorrect. The Hearth Tax Rolls mention
both, and both are clearly shown in the map accompanying Strype’s
edition of Stow (Plate 5).

Footnote 532:

He died in 1585 (_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, Series II., Vol. 208
(173).)

Footnote 533:

John Vavasour’s will (_Somerset House Wills, Winderbanck_, 65), was
proved on 18th June, 1608.

Footnote 534:

_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz., (749).

Footnote 535:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1723, V., 181–2.

Footnote 536:

On 16th January, 1717–8, Edward Theedham leased to Chas. Hall and Ant.
Elmes _The Bear_ Brewhouse, in St. Giles (_Middlesex Registry
Memorials_, 1717, IV., 263).

Footnote 537:

Ancient tavern signs were nearly always “on the hoop,” which seems to
have originated “in the highly ornamented bush or crown, which
latterly was made of hoops covered with evergreens.” (Larwood and
Hotton, _History of Signboards_, p. 504.)

Footnote 538:

_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 237.

Footnote 539:

_Close Roll_, 31 Chas. II. (4527).

Footnote 540:

_Sewer Rate Book_ for that year.

Footnote 541:

_Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 320.

Footnote 542:

_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz. (742).

Footnote 543:

On 27th March, 1573, Henry Amptill and Roger Mascall, brewers, were
convicted of having set at large certain suspected persons, whom
William Westone, a “hedborowe” of St. Giles, had taken in a certain
tenement of the said Henry Amptill and had imprisoned. (_Middlesex
County Records, Sessions Rolls_, I., p. 82).

Footnote 544:

In 1621, John Ampthill was granted leave to alienate 5 messuages, 11
cottages and 4 gardens to Anne, Robert, James and Thomas Foote
(_Patent Roll_, 19 Jas. I. (2263)); in 1614 he sold 3 houses to
Richard Windell (_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 12 Jas I., Mich.), whose
grandson in 1630 parted with them to Abraham Hawkins (_Close Roll_, 6
Chas. I. (2823)); and in 1625 he obtained leave to alienate 14
messauges to John and Abraham Hawkins. On the death of Abraham in
1645, he was still in possession of 14 messuages in St. Giles
(_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, 2nd Series, 707 (41).)

Footnote 545:

The Hawkins property seems to have descended to Sir William Dawes,
Archbishop of York, whose mother was Jane Hawkins. By a deed of 1726
(_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1726, IV., 389) Jane Lewis sold the
remainder of a lease granted by Sir William, and comprising _inter
alia_ a house which by reference to the ratebooks can be shown to be
the second westwards from Lamb Alley.

Footnote 546:

_Close Roll_, 7 Chas. I. (2895).

Footnote 547:

_Close Roll_, 1655 (3866).

Footnote 548:

On 3rd December, 1603, William Barber, of St. Giles, gardener, was
convicted, with others, of throwing filth and dung near the highway in
a certain close called “Blumsberrie fieldes.” (_Middlesex County
Records, Sessions Rolls_, II., p. 4).

Footnote 549:

_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 32 Eliz., Easter.

Footnote 550:

_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 319.

Footnote 551:

Sale by Arthur Blythe to William Wigg and Thomas Whitfield, in trust
for John Smallbone, dated 1680, and quoted by Parton (_op. cit._) p.
126.

Footnote 552:

See p. 106.

Footnote 553:

_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 125.

Footnote 554:

_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 113. Newlands was actually in
the parish of St. Marylebone (see p. 125).

Footnote 555:

_Blemundsbury_, p. 308.

Footnote 556:

“Maslyn’s Pond” and “Maslyn Fields” are mentioned in the parish books
in 1644 and 1656 (Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, pp.
270–1).

Footnote 557:

See p. 101.

Footnote 558:

See Sale by Arthur Blythe to Wigg and Whitfield, quoted by Parton
(_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 126).

Footnote 559:

Kingsford’s edition, II., p. 91.

Footnote 560:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 561:

See p. 123. The Close had a reputed area of 10 acres (See _e.g._,
_Rents of Henry VIII. in London and the Suburbs_, 35 Henry VIII.
(Rentals and Surveys, General Series), Roll 452).

Footnote 562:

_Parliamentary Survey_ (Augmentation Office), Middlesex, 24.

Footnote 563:

_I.e._, the field called Long Acre or Elm Field, lying between Castle
Street and the street called Long Acre.

Footnote 564:

Obviously a mistake for “south”; Castle Street is the thoroughfare
meant.

Footnote 565:

Monmouth Street, now Shaftesbury Avenue, and West Street.

Footnote 566:

_I.e._, _The Bowl_ property, see p. 110.

Footnote 567:

Sir John Brownlow. The same variation occurs in the Hearth Tax Rolls.

Footnote 568:

_Close Roll_, 2 Geo. II. (5363).

Footnote 569:

_Endowed Charities, County of London_, Vol. V., p. 946.

Footnote 570:

_Patent Roll_, 24 Charles II. (3137).

Footnote 571:

The existence of a “Tower Street” between King Street and White Lion
Street is impossible. A portion of the close was in 1690 used as a
laystall (_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1689–90, p. 389).

Footnote 572:

_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 36–47. Suit of Jas. Kendricke.

Footnote 573:

_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 614–105. Suit of William Jennens.

Footnote 574:

There are records _inter alia of_ (_a_) four houses built in Great St.
Andrew Street, between Michaelmas, 1693, and August, 1694 (_Middlesex
Registry Memorials_, 1734, V., 266), and (_b_) houses built in
Monmouth Street and Little Earl Street in July, 1693, and October,
1694 (_Chancery Decree Roll_, 1933. Suit of William Lloyd).

Footnote 575:

The leases of many of the houses erected on the south-west of the
close do not seem to have been granted before 1708–9.

Footnote 576:

_Notes and Queries_, 11th Series, VIII., pp. 182–3.

Footnote 577:

The plan is probably a little later than 1691 (the date assigned to
it), for, as has been shown, Neale did not obtain his lease until
1693.

Footnote 578:

Wheatley and Cunningham’s _London Past and Present_, III., p. 234.

Footnote 579:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 580:

Recited in Indenture of 25th October, 1728, between Jas. Joye (1),
Oliver Martin and Thos. Russell (2) and Rev. Thos. Blackwell (3)
(_Close Roll_, 2 Geo. II. (5364)).

Footnote 581:

Much of the above information is taken from Emily Dibdin’s _Seven
Dials Mission: the story of the old Huguenot Church of All Saints,
West Street_.

Footnote 582:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 583:

It should be mentioned, however, that in a petition, probably
belonging to the year 1354, the Mayor and Commonalty of London claimed
that the Hospital had been founded by a citizen of London suffering
from leprosy. (_Calendar of Letterbooks of the City of London_,
Letterbook G., p. 27).

Footnote 584:

Parton (_History of the Hospital and Parish of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 1) and, following him, Dugdale (_Monasticon_
VII., p. 635) give the date of the Hospital’s foundation as 1101. This
is certainly wrong. Parton’s authority was an entry in Leland’s
_Collectanea_, I., p. 418 (2nd edn.), which under the date 1101
mentions several events, (i.) Henry’s marriage with Maud, (ii.) his
appointment of a military guard for his brother Robert who was in
prison, (iii.) Maud’s foundation of the Hospital of St. Giles. The
next entry is dated 1109. The date 1101 is obviously only intended to
cover (i.) (which took place strictly speaking in 1100), for Robert
was not taken prisoner until the battle of Tinchebray in 1106. The
passage therefore would seem to suggest a date between 1106 and 1109
for the foundation of St. Giles.

Footnote 585:

_Survey of London_ (Kingsford’s edn.), II., p. 90.

Footnote 586:

_Historia Anglicana_, p. 176_b_.

Footnote 587:

Parton in his transcription of the document reads “forty” throughout,
and has been copied by everybody. It is, however, clearly
“quatuordecim” in all cases.

Footnote 588:

_Ancient Petitions_, E. 617.

Footnote 589:

_Ancient Petitions_, E. 617; 2448.

Footnote 590:

_Calendar of Letterbooks of the City of London_, Letterbook G., p. 28.

Footnote 591:

_Ibid._, p. 29.

Footnote 592:

_I.e._, 27 Edw. I. (_Calendar of Patent Rolls_, p. 404). It has been
generally assumed that the date was 1354, _i.e._, 27 Edw. III., no
doubt because Parton (_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, pp. 23, 26)
when translating the document relating to the suit between the Abbot
of St. Mary Graces and the Master of Burton Lazars gave the name of
the King as Edward the son of Edward, whereas the reading is clearly
“Edward the son of Henry.”

Footnote 593:

It really extended somewhat to the west of the eastern side of the
modern road, which has been formed by widening the ancient Hog Lane.

Footnote 594:

_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384).—Indenture, dated 19 March, 1617–8,
between Robert Lloyd and Isaac Bringhurst.

Footnote 595:

See p. 124.

Footnote 596:

_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, 3 Edward VI. (89).

Footnote 597:

_Close Roll_, 8 Elizabeth (722).

Footnote 598:

_Close Roll_, 8 James I. (2066)—Indenture, dated 20th February,
1610–11, between John Graunge and Robert Lloyd.

Footnote 599:

A sixth was sold in 1622 by John and William Flood to Zachery Bethel,
lying to the south of Sir Edward Fisher’s house, but this seems to
have only recently been built on land taken out of the four acres (see
p. 122).

Footnote 600:

_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384).

Footnote 601:

The reversion was then sold to Francis Ashburnham (_Close Roll_, 5
Charles I. (2800)—Indenture, dated 1st March, 1628–9, between John
Stafey and Isaac Bringhurst _and_ The Worshipful Francis Ashburnham).

Footnote 602:

_Endowed Charities_ (_County of London_), Vol. III. (1900), p. 348.

Footnote 603:

_Close Roll_, 10 James I. (2123)—Indenture between Robert Floyd _and_
William Holt and John Harman.

Footnote 604:

_Close Roll_, 1652 (3683)—Indenture between John Hooker and Walter
Bigg.

Footnote 605:

Letter dated 5th May, 1677, from Philip, Lord Wharton to Sir R. Verney
(_Historical MSS. Commission, Verney MSS._, App. to VII. Report, p.
469).

Footnote 606:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 117.

Footnote 607:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1727, VI., 138.

Footnote 608:

_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384)—Indenture between Robert Lloyd and
Isaac Bringhurst.

Footnote 609:

_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384).

Footnote 610:

_Close Roll_, 7 Charles I. (2895)—Indenture between Anne Bringhurst
and John Stafey _and_ the Lady Alice Dudley.

Footnote 611:

_Close Roll_, 10 Charles I. (3017).

Footnote 612:

_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 455–66.—Suit of John Boswell.

Footnote 613:

The boundaries are given as (E) tenement now in occupation of Nicholas
Holden; (W) churchyard; (N) Kilburn to Holborn Highway; (S) orchard of
Nicholas Holden (_Close Roll_, 9 Elizabeth (742)—Indenture between
Lord Mountjoy and Percival Rowland).

Footnote 614:

The boundaries are given as: (S) highway from St. Giles to
Knightsbridge; (W) a tenement late of Rowland Percival, and a close of
John Graunge; (N) highway through St. Giles to Uxbridge (_Close Roll_,
11 Elizabeth (797)—Indenture between Lord Mountjoy and Edward
Kyngston).

Footnote 615:

See p. 125.

Footnote 616:

_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Vol. 139 (134).

Footnote 617:

_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Vol. 384 (139).

Footnote 618:

_Recovery Roll_, 21 James I. Trinity.—Indenture between John and
William Flood, and Zachery Bethel.

Footnote 619:

_Somerset House Wills, Gee_, 159.

Footnote 620:

_Patent Roll_, 23 Charles II. (3125).

Footnote 621:

_Augmentation Office, Deed of Sale_, E. 19. The Master of Burton
Lazars apparently lost by the transaction, but from a letter, dated
1st April, 1535, written by Richard Layton to Cromwell, it would seem
that at one time there was a distinct prospect of his faring still
worse. “I sent for the Master of Burton Lazer as you desired,
advertising him of the King’s pleasure commanding him to be here by
Easter eve, and desire you to intercede for him with the King that he
might obtain other lands for his lands of St. Giles’s. He came, and I
have been with him divers times. I have persuaded him to put his sole
trust in you and that he shall not go to the King in anywise before
you bring him to His Grace. He is content to do so. When you wish that
I should bring him unto you to make further declaration to him of the
King’s pleasure, let me know.” (_Calendar of Letters of Henry VIII._,
26 H. VIII., p. 168).

Footnote 622:

These were in St. Anne’s, Soho.

Footnote 623:

After the Duke of Norfolk had heard that Legh was scheming to get the
mastership, he wrote that Legh was married, adding, “Alas! what pity
it were that such a vicious man should have the governance of that
honest house!” (_Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._, XII., i., p.
282).

Footnote 624:

_Patent Roll_, 28 Henry VIII. (671).

Footnote 625:

The whole of the above information is obtained from _Chancery Decree
Roll_ (1).

Footnote 626:

_Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to the City of
London_, ed. Geo. S. Fry, Part I., p. 62. Legh was buried in the old
church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and an illustration of his effigy
is given in Ellis’s _Antiquities of Shoreditch_. The following
inscription was underneath (Hatton’s _New View of London_, 1908):—

“Here under lye the Ashes and the Bones
Of Sir Tho. Leigh, that good and learned Knight,
Whose hasty Death, alas, the Godly still bemoan,
Tho his Soul always rejoice in God’s sight,
Great was his Wisdom, and greater was his Wit,
His Visage comely, with no sad Change dismay’d,
A Man in all Affairs a King to serve most fit,
Had not Death so soon his mortal Life betray’d.”

Footnote 627:

_Chancery Decree Roll_, No. 3.

Footnote 628:

_Close Roll_, 37 Henry VIII. (444).

Footnote 629:

This was in the parish of Edmonton, now Southgate.

Footnote 630:

On the north side of Broad Street, now in the parish of St. George,
Bloomsbury.

Footnote 631:

The Great Close of Bloomsbury and Wilkinson’s Close.

Footnote 632:

_I.e._, Middle Row (see _Close Roll_, 12 Elizabeth (832).—Indenture
between Lord and Lady Mountjoy and William Perye), formerly standing
just outside Holborn Bars.

Footnote 633:

These were in St. Marylebone. The Inquisition on the death of Sir John
Grange (1611) refers to “a close of land commonly known by the name of
Newlondes containing 24 acres, and ... all that parcel of land or lane
(“venelle”) near adjoining the aforesaid close ... situated within the
parish of Marylebone.” (_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Vol.
686 (113)).

Footnote 634:

Licence to alienate granted 6th July, 1546.

Footnote 635:

_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, 3 Edward VI. (89).

Footnote 636:

_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, 15 Elizabeth, Vol. 165, on Thomas Carew.

Footnote 637:

_Ibid._, 6 Elizabeth, Vol. 139.

Footnote 638:

_Ibid._, Series II. (49), Vol. 109.

Footnote 639:

Her second husband was Sir Thomas Chaloner.

Footnote 640:

According to the _Dictionary of National Biography_, he “spent the
fortune of his family in the pursuit of alchemy.”

Footnote 641:

The “Lorde Mountjoye and the Lady Katherine” are mentioned in a
mortgage by the former to John Mery, dated 1st February, 1556–7.
(_Close Roll_, 4 and 5, Philip and Mary (547)).

Footnote 642:

_Close Roll_, 7 Eliz. (695).

Footnote 643:

Considerable doubt seems to have existed on this point. Side by side
with assertions to the contrary, there are plain statements that the
mortgage _was_ redeemed (see _e.g._, _Chancery Decree Roll_, 54,
concerning a complaint by Jas. Mascall against Thomas Harrys and
others). Nevertheless it is quite certain that the statement in the
text is true, for (1) the recognisance accompanying the mortgage is
not cancelled; (2) Blount’s son Charles (afterwards Earl of
Devonshire) definitely stated that the manor was not redeemed
(_Chancery Proceedings_, Elizabeth B. 15–52), suit of Charles Blount;
(3) the steps by which the manor descended from the Brownes are known.

Footnote 644:

_Close Roll_, 21 Eliz. (1059); _Common Plea Roll_, 25 Eliz., Hilary,
4010; _Close Roll_, 34 Eliz. (1425). Parton (_Hospital and Parish of
St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 331) bridges over the gap between Blount
and Cope by the supposition that the manor came into the hands of the
last-named in consequence of a mortgage to one “Master Cope, citizen
of London.” But (1) the mortgage is not of the manor of St. Giles, and
(2) the proper reading is not “Cope” but “Rope.”

Footnote 645:

He was knighted on 20th April, 1603.

Footnote 646:

_Close Roll_, 14 Jas. I. (2308)—Indenture between Sir Henry Rich, Dame
Isabella, and Dame Dorothy Cope and Gifford _and_ Risley.

Footnote 647:

_Vestry Minutes_, 1624–1719.

Footnote 648:

See p. 1.

Footnote 649:

Newcourt, _op. cit._, p. 612.

Footnote 650:

The sketch given by Parton, _Hospital and Parish of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 54, is quite untrustworthy, and is in
conflict with the little that is known of the church. He gives no
authority for the sketch save that it was as “preserved in rude
delineations of it, made near the time.”

Footnote 651:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 56.

Footnote 652:

_Ibid._, pp. 191–2.

Footnote 653:

_Vestry Minutes_, 1624–1719, f. 4.

Footnote 654:

_A Mirrour of Christianity and a Miracle of Charity, etc._, by R. B.
[_i.e._, Robert Boreman], p. 121.

Footnote 655:

_A New View of London_ (1708), I., p. 259.

Footnote 656:

_Strype’s edition of Stow_, 1720, II., pp. 77_ff_. The greater portion
of what follows is taken from Strype’s description.

Footnote 657:

See illustrations on map in _Strype’s edition of Stow_ (Plate 5).

Footnote 658:

A list of Lady Dudley’s benefactions comprises the following: “She
gave to the Church of St. Giles, the greatest bell in the steeple; and
divers great pieces of massive plate; paved the chancel with marble,
built the fair blue gate at the entrance to the churchyard, and
purchased a fair house of £30 a year value for the perpetual
incumbent. She also gave the hangings for the choir, which cost £80
10s., 2 service books, embroidered in gold, £5; velvet altar cloth
with gold fringe £60; a cambric cloth to lay over it with a deep bone
lace £4 10s.; another fine damask cloth £3; 2 cushions for the altar,
richly embroidered with gold, £10; a Turkey carpet to lay before the
altar £6; a long screen to sever the chancel from the church, richly
carved and gilt, £200; a fair organ £100; the organ loft richly
wrought and gilt, and a tablet of the Ten Commandments, the Creed and
Lord’s Prayer, richly adorned, £80; the rails before the altar
curiously carved and gilt, £40.” (_Calendar of State Papers,
Domestic_, 1668–9, p. 176).

Footnote 659:

_Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, pp. 200–1.

Footnote 660:

4 Geo. I., cap. 14.

Footnote 661:

3 Geo. II., cap. 19.

Footnote 662:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 213.

Footnote 663:

Hatton’s _New View of London_ (1708), p. 262.

Footnote 664:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 224

Footnote 665:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, pp. 216–7.

Footnote 666:

_Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense_, p. 173.

Footnote 667:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 668:

See p. 123.

Footnote 669:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 670:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 117.

Footnote 671:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 672:

See p. 1.

Footnote 673:

_Close Roll_, 30 Henry VI.—Grant, dated 2nd April, 1452, by Jo.
Crouton and W. Horn to Jo. and Katherine Nayler.

Footnote 674:

To the east of Church Close.

Footnote 675:

_Close Roll_, 13 James I. (2275).

Footnote 676:

_History of London_, p. 1363.

Footnote 677:

_Tyburn Gallows_ (published by the London County Council), p. 16.

Footnote 678:

The gallows in St. Giles Fields erected for the execution of Lord
Cobham were obviously put up for that special purpose. There may, of
course, have been a manorial gallows, but no mention of such for St.
Giles occurs in the _Quo Warranto_ Rolls.

Footnote 679:

_Endowed Charities, County of London_, III., p. 350.

Footnote 680:

Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 228.

Footnote 681:

_Chancery Decree Roll_, No. 3.

Footnote 682:

_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Middlesex, Vol. 200 (5).

Footnote 683:

Formerly on the east side of Dyott Street, just outside the parish
boundary.

Footnote 684:

_Close Roll_, 9 Elizabeth (742).

Footnote 685:

_Close Roll_, 8 Charles I. (2946).

Footnote 686:

_Close Roll_, 1649 (31). Indenture, dated 20th March, 1648–9, between
John Barber _als_ Grigg and Henry Baynbrigge.

Footnote 687:

_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 152.

Footnote 688:

Edmund Buckeridge and Henry Loveday _querentes_: and Jane Baynbrigge,
widow; William Maynard and Mary, his wife; Nicholas Buckeridge, and
Sara, his wife; and Simon Dyott and Jane, his wife, _deforciantes_; of
100 messuages, 200 cottages, 40 gardens and 10 acres of land in St.
Giles, Mary, Sara and Jane renounce for their heirs. It will be seen
that the property had grown, and it is known that Bainbridge had
purchased more (see _e.g._, purchase from Sir John Bramston and
others, _Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 1665, Trinity).

Footnote 689:

“The Rookery,” was a triangular space bounded by Bainbridge, George,
and High Streets; it was one dense mass of houses, through which
curved narrow tortuous lanes, from which again diverged close
courts—one great mass, as if the houses had originally been one block
of stone, eaten by slugs into numberless small chambers and connecting
passages. The lanes were thronged with loiterers; and stagnant
gutters, and piles of garbage and filth infested the air. In the
windows, wisps of straw, old hats, and lumps of bed-tick or brown
paper, alternated with shivered panes of broken glass, the walls were
the colour of bleached soot, and doors fell from their hinges and
worm-eaten posts. Many of the windows announced, “Lodgings at 3d. a
night,” where the wild wanderers from town to town held their nightly
revels.” (Timbs’ _Curiosities of London_ (1867), p. 378.)

Footnote 690:

Opened in 1847.

Footnote 691:

Except perhaps the extreme east.

Footnote 692:

Wheatley and Cunningham (_London, Past and Present_) give the date of
the street’s formation as approximately 1670.

Footnote 693:

_Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren_ (1823), p.
522.

Footnote 694:

Collins’s _Peerage of England_, 5th Edition, III., p. 328.

Footnote 695:

_Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren_, p. 522.

Footnote 696:

Burke’s _Peerage_.

Footnote 697:

_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 372.

Footnote 698:

_Dictionary of National Biography._

Footnote 699:

Walpole’s _Letters_ (Toynbee Edn.) XI., p. 52.

Footnote 700:

_Survey of London_, Vol. III., pp. 88–89.

Footnote 701:

Parish ratebooks.

Footnote 702:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 703:

Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

Footnote 704:

Richardson and Gill’s _London Houses from 1660 to 1820_, p. 67.

Footnote 705:

A. E. Richardson’s _Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain
and Ireland_.

Footnote 706:

_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
108.

Footnote 707:

Beresford Chancellor’s _History of the Squares of London_, pp. 202–10.

Footnote 708:

Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

Footnote 709:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, II., 409.

Footnote 710:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 711:

In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

Footnote 712:

_Painted Decoration—the Georgian Period_, by Ingleson C. Goodison
(_Architectural Review_, January, 1913).

Footnote 713:

Information kindly supplied by the Rev. Lewis Gilbertson, M.A., F.S.A.

Footnote 714:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 715:

In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

Footnote 716:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, II., 409.

Footnote 717:

_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
67.

Footnote 718:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 719:

In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

Footnote 720:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, IV., 505.

Footnote 721:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 722:

In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

Footnote 723:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, IV., 505.

Footnote 724:

See p. 153.

Footnote 725:

Boyle’s _Court Guide_, however, shows him at the house from 1796 to
1799.

Footnote 726:

_The Dictionary of National Biography_ says that it was at No. 11,
Bedford Square.

Footnote 727:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 728:

Partly in the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and partly in that of
St. George, Bloomsbury.

Footnote 729:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 730:

Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

Footnote 731:

See p. 151.

Footnote 732:

See pp. 84–5.

Footnote 733:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 734:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 735:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 736:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 737:

See p. 168.

Footnote 738:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 739:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 263.

Footnote 740:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 741:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1776, VI., 487.

Footnote 742:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 743:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1776, VI., 630.

Footnote 744:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 745:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, VI., 631.

Footnote 746:

_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
102.

Footnote 747:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 748:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, II., 314.

Footnote 749:

_Dictionary of National Biography._

Footnote 750:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 751:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 351.

Footnote 752:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 753:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 353.

Footnote 754:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 755:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 254.

Footnote 756:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 757:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 252.

Footnote 758:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 759:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 257.

Footnote 760:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 761:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, I., 637.

Footnote 762:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 763:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, II., 526.

Footnote 764:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 765:

In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

Footnote 766:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, I., 631.

Footnote 767:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 768:

Reproduced here.

Footnote 769:

See licence to alienate granted in _Patent Roll_, 9 Elizabeth (1038).

Footnote 770:

See p. 125.

Footnote 771:

See pardon for alienation granted in _Patent Roll_, 30 Elizabeth
(1321).

Footnote 772:

Information kindly supplied by the City of London Corporation.

Footnote 773:

A. E. Richardson’s _Monumental Classic Architecture_.

Footnote 774:

A copy is in the County Hall collection.

Footnote 775:

It was the last of several designs prepared for a Select Committee of
the House of Commons who engaged in deliberating on the improvements
to the Port, including a new London Bridge. The view shows two bridges
of six arches each, with a drawbridge in the centre intended for the
passage of ships. Between the bridges flights of steps lead down to
the river. The two large areas beyond the bridges are terminated by
crescents. The Monument stands in the chord of the northern crescent,
and a large obelisk in that of the southern.

Footnote 776:

_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, Chas. I. (765), 37.

Footnote 777:

John Holles, first Earl of Clare (1564?–1637).

Footnote 778:

It seems probable that the land in question (which, being partly in
St. Giles and partly in St. Pancras, was described sometimes as in one
parish, sometimes in the other) is identical with the land in St.
Pancras sold, together with Clement’s Inn, by Sir William Hawte to
William (afterwards Sir William) Holles, ancestor of the Earls of
Clare, in 1532 (_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 23 Henry VIII., Hil.).

Footnote 779:

The boundary between St. Giles and St. Pancras used to run through the
middle of the close.

Footnote 780:

_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1772, VI., 111.

Footnote 781:

_The Old Farm House in Tottenham Court Road_, by Ambrose Heal.

Footnote 782:

Reproduced here.

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