Survey of London, Volume 05 (of 14), the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, part 2

by William Edward Riley; George Laurence Gomme

INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES.

• Abercorn, James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of, [102]
• Adam Brothers, [151]
• Alan, [107]
• Aldewych, [23], [107]
• Aldewych (Oldwych) Close, [34], [35], [37], [42], [43], [93], [94], [100], [125]
• Aldewych Cross, [23]
• Alfred Place, [186]
• Allen, John, [3]n
• Allen, Thomas, [108]
• Allington, Lady, [102]
• Allington, Lord, [102]n
• All Saints’ Church, West Street, [115]–116
• Almshouses in Monmouth Street, [138]
• Alsopp, Henry, [18]
• Ampthill, Henry, [109]
• Ampthill, John, [109]n
• Angel, The, [122], [125]
• Angell, Robert, [13], [14]
• Antelope Inn, [3]
• Apsley, Henry, Lord (afterwards Earl Bathurst), [149]
• Apsley, John, [6], [8]n
• Apsley, Peter, [6], [7]
• Archer, J. W., [45], [48], [105]
• Ardowin, John, [115]
• Arne, Thomas, [89]
• Arne, Thomas Augustine, [89]
• Arthur, John, [92]
• Arthur Street, [145]
• Arundell, Thomas Howard, Earl of, [44]
• Arundell, Thomas, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, [50]
• Ashburnham, Francis, [119]n
• Ashley, Sir Anthony, [7], [9]n
• Ashley, James, [76], [77]
• Ashley, Mrs. (formerly Worlidge), [77]
• Ashlin Place (formerly Paviors Alley), [106], [108]
• Aspin, William, [89]
• Aston, Coston, [56]
• Aubigny, Seigneurs d’ (See Stuart.)
• Auchinleck, Alexander Boswell, Lord, [57]
• Aynscombe, Lily, [84]
• Back garden, Weld Street, [95]n
• Bacon, Sir Nicholas, [186], [187]
• Bacon’s Hotel, Great Queen Street, [84]
• Bagford, John, [38], [44]
• Baguley, Mr., [86], [87]
• Bailey, Anthony, [3]n, [9]n
• Bailey, E. H., [62]
• Bailey, Jas., [164], [167]
• Bailie, Jas., [179]
• Bainbridge (Baynbrigge), Jane, [145]n
• Bainbridge, Henry, [145]
• Bainbridge Street, [145]
• Baines, —, [84]
• Baker, Ric., [103]n
• Baker, William, [139]
• Baltimore (Battimore), Lord, [95], [96]
• Baltimore, Lady, [96]
• Banks, Sir John, [7]
• Banks, Sir Ralph, [7], [8]
• Bannister, John, [104]
• Banqueting Hall, Freemasons’ Tavern, [63]
• Banson, —, [66]
• Baptist Chapel, Little Wild Street, [99]
• Barber, Ann, [110]
• Barber, Thomas, [110]
• Barber, William, [110]
• Barbor (alias Grigge), John, [145]
• Barker, John Raymond, [180]
• Barker, Thos., [7]n
• Barkstead, John, [120]
• Barnard, William, [11]n
• Barnett, Thomas, [28]n
• Barnfather, John, [133]
• Barnfather, Mary, [134]
• Barnfather, Robert, [134]
• Baron, John, [125]
• Barrington, Sir Thos., [39]
• Bath, Countess of, [75]
• Bathurst, Henry, 2nd Earl of, [149]
• Baxter, Nathaniel, [139]
• Bear, The, Broad Street, [19], [107], [108], [125]
• Bear Brewhouse, [108]n
• Bear (Bere) Close, [19], [20], [21], [29]n, [30]n, [125]
• Bear Croft, [19]
• Beauclerk, Lady Diana, [149]
• Beauclerk, Lord Sydney, [149]
• Beauclerk, Hon. Topham, [149]
• Beaufort, Henry, Duke of, [75]n
• Beaufort House, Chelsea, [53]
• Beavor, Edward, [75]
• Beavor, Rhoda (formerly Webb), [75]
• Bedford, Dukes of, [126]
• Bedford, Francis Russell, Earl of, [23]n, [51]n
• Bedford, Gertrude, Duchess of, [149], [188]
• Bedford, Herbrand Arthur, 11th Duke of, [147], [148], [149], [150], [151]n, [162], [163]n
• Bedford, John, 4th Duke of, [149]
• Bedford Square, [147], [150]–184
• Bedloe, Mr., [97]n
• Belasyse, Ann, Lady (formerly Lady Ann Powlet), [137]
• Belasyse, Ann, Lady (daughter of Sir Robert Crane), [137]
• Belasyse, Frances, [137]
• Belasyse, Sir Henry, [137]
• Belasyse, Hon. Isabella, [55]
• Belasyse, Jane, Lady, [137]
• Belasyse, John, Baron Belasyse, [47], [55], [65], [137]
• Bell, William, [19]n
• Bellamont, Richard Coote, 4th Earl, [56], [76]
• Bellamont, Countess (formerly Lady Oxenden), [76]
• Belton Street, [103], [105], [111]
• Bennet, Samuel, [110]
• Bennet’s Garden (The Bowl property), [112]
• Berkeley, Elizabeth, dowager Lady, [92]
• Berkstead, Col., [60]n
• Bertie, Hon. Robert, [136]
• Bethell, Zachery, [119]n, [122]n
• Betterton Street, [103], [104]
• Bevan, —, [182]
• Bierly, William. (See Byerly)
• Bigg, John, [39]n
• Bigg, Walter, [120]n
• Bishop, John, [3]n
• Bishopp, Samuel, [3]n
• Black Bear Inn, [107]
• Black Bear Yard, [108]
• Black Lamb, [110], [111]
• Blacksmith’s forge, [144]
• Blackwell, Jonathan, [74]
• Blackwell, Rev. Thos., [115]n
• Blague, Mary, [16]n
• Blisset, Joseph, [70]
• Blomeson, John, [126]
• Bloomsbury Great Close, [125]n, [187]
• Blount, Charles (afterwards Earl of Devonshire), [126]n
• Blount (Blunt), Sir James. (See Mountjoy.)
• Blumsberrie Fieldes, [110]n
• Blyke, Ric., [75]n
• Blythe, Arthur, [110]n, [111]n
• Blythe, Thomas, [110]
• Boak, —, [66]
• Boak, Ann, [66], [67]n
• Boak, E., [66]
• Bochier, Thomas, [3]n
• Boddington, John, [169]
• Bol, Ferdinand, [55]
• Boldero, John, [184]
• Boldero, Mrs., [184]
• Bolingbroke, Lord, [149]
• Bolton, Charles Powlett, 2nd Duke of, [65]
• Bonomi, —, [151]
• Booker, Mr., [12]
• Booth, Rev. Chas., [11]
• Bootle, Mrs., [169]
• Borde, Doctor, [119], [125]
• Boreman, Robert, [139]
• Borrett, Edw., [70]
• Bosomysynne, [23]n
• Boswell, Alexander, Lord Auchinleck, [57]
• Boswell, Jas., [57]
• Boswell, John, [121]
• Boteler, Sir Robert, [137]
• Bothwell, Lord, [6]n
• Bothwell House, [6]n
• Bottomley, Joseph, [44]n, [46]
• Boundary of parish, [1]–2
• Bowen, —, [57]
• Bower, J., [84]
• Bowes, Robert, [28]
• Bowes, William, [144]
• Bowl, The, [110], [111], [112]n
• Bowl Yard, [111]
• Bowne, Madame, [56]
• Boyle, Roger, 1st Earl of Orrery, [79]
• Bradley, James, [76]
• Bradshaw, Mr., [91]
• Braithwait, Mr., [18]
• Bramston, Sir John, [145]n
• Bransby, Robert, [79]
• Braynsgrave, William, [20]
• Brereton, W., [56]
• Brett, Richard, [21], [42], [43]
• Brewer, Thomas, [46]n, [50]
• Bringhurst, Anne, [121]n
• Bringhurst, Isaac, [118]n, [119], [121]
• Briscowe, James, [20]n, [24]n, [107]
• Briscowe, Joan (née Wise), [107], [119]
• Bristol, George Digby, 2nd Earl of, [52], [54]
• Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, [23]n, [47]n, [50], [51]
• Bristol House (Nos. 55 and 56, Great Queen Street), [42]–58, [59], [60], [63], [65]
• Bristow, John, [149]
• Bristowe, Jas., [119]
• British Lying-In Hospital, [103]
• Broad Street, [101], [106]–111
• Brock (Brooke), Thos., [92]
• Bromeley, Robert, [108]
• Bromley, Sir John. (See Brownlow.)
• Brooke, Catherine, Lady, [51]
• Brooke, Robert Greville, 2nd Baron, [51]n
• Brooks, Mr., [61]
• Broome, Peter, [7]n
• Broomwhoerwood, Thomas, [11]
• Brown and Barrow, Messrs., [63]
• Browne, Henry, [47], [48]
• Browne, Henry, 5th Viscount Montagu, [65]
• Browne, Isaac Hawkins (father and son), [84], [85]
• Browne, Robert, [126]
• Browne, Thomas, [126]
• Browne, Tom, [68]
• Brownlow (Bromley), Sir John, [102], [112]
• Brownlow, Sir John, [103], [105]
• Brownlow, Sir Richard, [103]
• Brownlow Street, [103]
• Brownlow Street Lying-In Hospital, [103]
• Brudenell, Anne, Countess of Cardigan, [90]
• Brudenell, Robert, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, [90]
• Buck, George, [28]
• Buck, John, [7]
• Buck, Margaret, [6], [7]
• Buck, Matthew, [20], [24]
• Buckeridge, Edmund, [145]n
• Buckeridge, Nicholas, [145]n
• Buckeridge, Sara, [145]n
• Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of, [91]n
• Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of, [91]n
• Buckingham, Katherine, Duchess of, [91]n
• Buckingham and Normanby, John Sheffield, Duke of, [74]
• Bucknall Street, [145]
• Buckner, John, (afterwards Bishop of Chichester), [138], [139]
• Buckridge Street, [145]
• Burges, Thos., [87], [92]
• Burgh, Ulick de. (See Clanricarde).
• Burghe, Edw., [59]n, [60]n, [67]n
• Burn, Thomas, [167]
• Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, [75]
• Burnett, —, [71]
• Burrage, Thomas, [21]
• Burton, Thomas, [27], [29], [30], [31]n, [32], [35]n, [37]
• Burton, Thomas, [11]
• Burton, Walter, [29], [30], [31], [35], [40]
• Burton and Co., [11]
• Burton Lazars, [24], [27], [117]–126
• Byerly (Bierly), William, [6], [8]n, [94]
• Byng, Ed., [65]n
• Byrcke, — Esq., [119]
• Byrn, Wm., [71]
• Calley (Cawley), Sir W., [42], [93]
• Cantelowe Close, [187], [188]
• Cardigan, Anne, Countess of, [90]
• Cardigan, Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of, [90]
• Carew, Anne, [6], [7]
• Carew, George, Dean of Windsor, [6]n
• Carew, Sir George, Baron Carew of Clopton and Earl of Totnes, [6]
• Carew, Lady Martha, [125]
• Carew, Peter, [6]
• Carew, Thomas, [119], [122], [125]
• Carew, Sir Wymonde, [119], [122], [125], [127]
• Carlisle, Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of, [92]
• Carlisle, Edward Howard, 2nd Earl of, [92]
• Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of, [19]
• Carnwath, Robert Dalyell, Earl of, [43]
• Carpenter, John, [186], [187]
• Carter, Benjamin, [120]
• Carter, Rev. Philip, [59]n, [70]
• Cartwright, William, [74]n
• Cary, Lord, [101]n
• Case, Thomas, [78]n
• Castell, Samuel, [179]
• Castle Street, [112]n, [113], [114]
• Castlehaven, Countess of, [102]
• Catton, Charles (Senior), [11], [12]
• Catton, Charles (Junior), [12]
• Cavendish, Lord Charles, [162]
• Cavendish, Hon. Henry, [162]
• Cavendish, Hon. John, [162]
• Cavendish, William, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, [54]
• Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, [36]
• Chaloner, Joan, Lady (widow of Sir Thomas Legh), [124], [126]
• Chaloner, Sir Thomas, [126]n
• Chamberlain, Dr., [82]
• Chamberlain’s Stable, [5]n
• Chandler, Nathaniel, [29]n
• Chandler, Samuel, [29]n
• Chandos, Henry, Duke of, [75]n
• Chapman, George, [135]
• Charing Cross Road, [118], [119]
• Charles I., [13]
• Charles Street (now Macklin Street), [30]
• Chaworth, Lady, [91], [92]
• Chaworth, Patricius, 3rd Viscount, [91]
• Cheek, Phineas, [11]
• Cheeke, —, [70]
• Chequer, The, Broad Street, [125]
• Chichester, John Buckner, Bishop of, [138], [139]
• Chippendale, Thomas, [58], [67]n
• Chippendale, William, [57], [58]
• Christmas, John, [23]n
• Christmas, William, [23]
• Christmasse estate, [30]n
• Church of All Saints, West Street, [115]–116
• Church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, [127]–140
• Church Close (Williamsfeild), [144]n, [145]
• Church Lane, [145]
• Church Street, [145]
• City of London, Corporation of, [16], [186], [187]
• City of London School, [187]
• Clanricarde, Marquess of, 2nd Earl of St. Albans, [46], [47], [50], [59]
• Clanricarde House, Great Queen Street, [37], [50]
• Clare, John Holles, 1st Earl of, [100], [188]
• Clarendon, Lord, [97]n
• Clarke, John (Rector), [139]
• Clarke, John, [32]n
• Clarke, Mrs. Mary, [84]
• Clarke (alias Sadler), Thomas, [80]
• Clements, Thomas, [3]n
• Clerke, Katherine (alias Smyth), [24]
• Cleveland, Duchess of, [53]n
• Clifton, Gervase, Lord, [101]n
• Clifton, Katherine, Duchess of Lennox, [101], [102]
• Clifton, Robert, [106], [109]
• Clive, Catherine (Kitty), [70], [71]
• Clive, George, [71]
• Clyff, Richard, [3]
• Coach Office, No. 55, Great Queen Street, [56]
• Coal Yard (afterwards Goldsmith Street), [21], [22]
• Cobham, Lord, [144]n
• Cock Alley, [108]
• Cock and Coffin, High Holborn, [3]n
• Cock and Pye Fields, [112]
• Cock and Pye Inn, Marshlands, [112]
• Cockerell, F. P., [63]
• Cockerell, Professor C. R., [63]
• Cockpit Side, [94]
• Cockshott (Cockeshute, Cockshoote), Richard, [20], [24]
• Coke, Edward, [148]
• Coke, John, [3]
• Coke, Sir Thomas, Lord Lovel, [148]
• Colchester, Richard, Lord (afterwards 4th Earl Rivers), [69], [70]
• Colchester, Thomas Darcy (afterwards Viscount), [67]
• Cole, Bassitt, [21]
• Cole, Francis, [9]n
• Cole, Salomon, [21]n
• Colleton, Sir John, [70]n
• Colleton, Sir Peter, [69]n
• Colleton (alias Johnson), Mrs. Elizabeth, [69], [70]
• Collins, William, [138]
• Colmanhedge Field, [123]
• Colman’s Hedge, [123]
• Cologan, John, [165]
• Column at Seven Dials, [113]–114
• Combe, Harvey Christian, [149]
• Complin, Mrs. Eleanor, [92]
• Compton, Sir Henry, [46]n, [47]n, [50]
• Con, Seignior, [67]
• Conduit Close, [123]
• Connaught Rooms, Freemasons’ Tavern, [55], [63]
• Const, Francis, [90], [91]n
• Constable, Dorothy, Lady, [51]n
• Constable, Sir William, [51]
• Conway, Anne, Lady, [78]
• Conway, Edward, 1st Viscount (Secretary), [30]
• Conway, Edward, 2nd Viscount, [59]n, [60], [71]n, [73]n, [78]
• Conway, Edward, 3rd Viscount, and 1st Earl of Conway, [37]n, [78], [82]n
• Conway, Francis Seymour, 5th Baron Conway, [61]n
• Conway, Popham Seymour, [78], [82]
• Conway, Ursula, Marchioness of Normanby, [82]
• Conway House, [46]n, [60], [63], [78]–83, [84]
• Cony, Sir William, [138]
• Cook, William, [6]
• Cooper, John, [71]
• Cooper, Thos., [71]
• Coote, Sir Charles, [79]
• Coote, Richard, 4th Earl Bellamont, [56], [76]
• Cope, Dame Dorothy, [126]n
• Cope, Isabella (afterwards Lady Rich), [126]
• Cope, Sir Edward, [119], [120]
• Cope, Sir Walter, [126]
• Cope (Rope), Master, [126]n
• Corben, J. F., [138]
• Cornwallis, Sir Charles, [16], [29], [31]
• Cornwallis, Francis, [18]
• Cornwallis, Sir William, [30]n
• Coronell, Augustine, [95]n
• Corrance, John, [95]n, [100]n
• Cotham, Philip, [3]n
• Cotton, Sir John, [51]
• Covert, Thomas, [88]
• Cowles Field, [147]
• Cowles Pasture, [147]
• Cowper, Sir John, [7], [9]n
• Cowper, John, [9]
• Cowper, Margaret, [9]
• Crace, John, [71]
• Crane, Sir Robert, [137]
• Cranigh (Crainck), Burrard (Burcharde, Buckharte), [5], [6]
• Craven, Earl of, [96]n
• Crewe, Master, [11]n
• Crews, Robert, [150]
• Crofts, John, [39]
• Cromwell, Thomas, [123]n
• Crook, Thos., [59]n
• Cross at Aldewych, [23]
• Cross Lane, [18]
• Cross Street (now Newton Street), [27]
• Crouch, Gilbt., [96]
• Crouton, John, [23]n, [144]n
• Crown, The, Broad Street, [109]
• Crown, The, Great Queen Street, [89]
• Crown, The, High Street, [125], [144]
• Crown Court, [106], [109]
• Cruce, John de, [23], [107]
• Curtis, William, [18]n
• Dalcona Close (Pursefield), [34]
• Dallison, Sir Chas., [8]n
• Dalyell, Sir Robert, Earl of Carnwath, [43]
• Dance, George (the younger), [187]
• Dandridge, Bartholomew, [56], [57]
• Daniell, William, [187]
• Darby, Mary (afterwards Robinson) (“Perdita”), [77]–78
• Darcy, Elizabeth (afterwards Lady Savage and Countess Rivers), [59], [67], [68], [73]n, [90]
• Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Chich, afterwards Earl Rivers, [67]
• Darell, Henry, [16], [17]
• Darrell, William, [94]
• Dashwood, Lady Anne, [76]
• Dashwood, Sir Samuel, [76]
• D’Aubigny, Seigneurs. (See Stuart).
• Davies, W. L., [138]
• Davis, —, [89], [92]
• Davison, Henry, [159]
• Dawes, Sir William, Archbishop of York, [110]n
• Dayrell’s Buildings, [16], [17]
• Deane, Jeremy, [38]n
• de Cruce, John, [23], [107]
• De la Chambre, John, [18]
• Denmark, Prince George of, [142]
• Denmark House, [67]
• Denmark Place, [121], [144]
• Denmark Street, [120], [121], [142]
• Densyle (Densyll), Master, [119], [125]
• Devereux, Robert, 3rd Earl of Essex, [88]
• Devil’s Gap, [36]n
• Devonshire, Charles Blount, Earl of, [126]n
• Devonshire, William, 3rd Duke of, [162]
• Devonshire, William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of, [54]
• Dickens, Col. Guy, [89]
• Dickenson, —, [83]
• Dickenson, —, [84]
• Dickey, William, [176]
• Digby, Lady Anne (afterwards Countess of Sunderland), [54]
• Digby, George, 2nd Earl of Bristol, [52], [54]
• Digby, Sir George, of Coleshill, [50]
• Digby, John, 1st Earl of Bristol, [23]n, [47]n, [50], [51]
• Digby, Hon. John, [51], [52]n
• Digby, Sir Kenelm, [42], [43], [93]
• Dilleage, Lord, [73]
• Dillingham, Gilbert, [139]
• Dive, Sir Lewis, [46]n, [50]
• Dodswell, Jonathan, [29]n
• Dorset, Earl of, [6], [19], [106]
• Doughty, Thomas, [5]
• Doughty, Thomas, Junior, [5]
• Douglas, Captain, [97]n
• Douglas, John, [173]
• Douglas, Sylvester, Baron Glenbervie, [172], [173]
• Downe, Earl of, [102], [106]
• Downes, Edward, [119]
• Downes, Francis, [119], [122], [126]
• Downes, John, [69]n
• Downes, Penelope (afterwards Countess Rivers), [69]n
• Downes, Robert, [119]
• Drake, Geo., [170]
• Drury House, [23]n, [34]
• Drury Lane (Aldewych), [23], [25], [30], [35], [107]
• Drury Lane. (See also Aldwych Close.)
• Duckett, William, [6]n
• Dudley, Alice, Lady, [93]n, [120], [121], [128], [129], [130], [135]
• Dudley, Sir John. (See Lisle).
• Dudley, Sir Robert, [135]
• Dudley Court, [121]
• Duke Street (afterwards Sardinia Street), [100]
• Dummer, Thos., [66]
• Dunbar, Mary, Viscountess, [137]
• Dunn, George E., [132]
• Dyott, Jane, [145]n
• Dyott, Simon, [145]n
• Dyott Street, [145]
• Dysart, Countess of, [102]n
• Dyxson, Thomas, [3]
• Eagle and Child, High Holborn, [3]n
• Earl Street, [113]
• Eaton, Madame, [92]
• Edlyn, Edmund, [31]n, [32]
• Edmonds, Jane, [29]
• Edwards, Thomas, [134]
• Eldon, John Scott, 1st Earl of, [155]
• Elliott, Magdalen, [88]
• Ellys, Thos., [3]n
• Elm Field, [23]n, [101], [112]n
• Elmes, Anthony, [29], [108]n
• Emmanuel College, Cambridge, [5]
• Endell Street, Nos. 23 and 25, [105]
• Ennys, Captain, [97]n
• Essex, Elizabeth Paulet, Countess of, [61], [72], [86]n, [88]
• Essex, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of, [88]
• Evans, Galfridus, [139]
• Evelyn, George, [31]n
• Evelyn, John, [12], [53], [113]
• Everard, Rev. Chas., [11]
• Everard, Wm., [11]
• Eversley, Charles, Viscount, [160]
• Exchequer Office, [113]
• Exeter, Countess of, [96]
• Fairfax, Dorothy (afterwards Lady Constable), [51]n
• Fairfax, Ferdinando, 2nd Lord, [51], [52]
• Fairfax, Thomas, 1st Lord, [51]n
• Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Baron, [51]
• Falcon (Falcon and Greyhound), High Holborn, [10], [13], [14], [15]
• Falconer, Elizabeth, [89], [92]
• Fanshawe, J., [83]
• Farmer, Thomas, [18]
• Farmhouse in rear of No. 196, Tottenham Court Road, [188]
• Farnham, John, [5]
• Fauconberg, Thomas, 1st Lord, [55]n, [137]
• Faulkner, Miss, [89]
• Fawlcon Yard, [15]n
• Feathers Court, High Holborn, [8]
• Feltham, manor and messuages in, [123], [124]
• Fenowillet, Peter, [115]
• Ferrand, William, [87]n
• Ferrers, Washington, Earl, [75]n
• Fielding, Henry, [71]
• Finch, Heneage, 1st Earl of Nottingham, [79]
• Finch, Sir Heneage, [79]
• Finch, Sir Henry, [78]
• Finch, Sir John, [79]
• Fire at Freemasons’ Hall, [62]
• Firmin (Firman), William, [8]
• Fisher, Cuthbert, [169]
• Fisher, Sir Edward, [119]n
• Fisher, Sir Thomas, [21]n
• Fisher, Thos., [3]n
• Flaxman, John, [151]
• Flitcroft, Henry, [130], [131], [132]
• Flood, John, [119]n, [122]n
• Flood, William, [119]n, [122]n
• Flood. (See also Lloyd.)
• Florence, Henry L., [63]
• Flower, Geo., [9]
• Floyd (Flood), Robert. (See Lloyd.)
• Fonseca, Don Manuel, [37]n
• Foote, Anne, [109]n
• Foote, James, [109]n
• Foote, Robert, [109]n
• Foote, Thomas, [109]n
• Forrester, Mary, [90]
• Fort, Edward, [37]n
• Fortescue, John, [10], [11]n
• Fortescue, Sir John, [23]n
• Fortescue Lane (alias Drury Lane), [23]n
• Foster, Henry, [34]n
• Foster, Margaret, [34]n
• Fotherly, John, [27]n, [29], [31]
• Foxcroft, Isaac, [97], [99]n
• Francis, Matthew, [101]n
• Francklin, Richard, [90]
• Francklyn, Mrs., [87], [90]–91
• Francklyn, Rev. Thomas, [87], [89], [90]
• Freeman, Sir Ralph, [47]n, [50]n
• Freeman, W. G., [70]
• Freemasons, Trustees for, [73]n, [75]
• Freemasons’ Hall and Tavern, [47], [55], [59]–84
• French Ambassador, [96], [97]
• Froude, Mr., [90]
• Froude, Ashburnham, [90]n, [92]
• Gage, George, [93]
• Galloway, Thomas, [82]
• Gallows, [144]
• Gally, Henry, [139]
• Gandy, J. M., [63]
• Garnault, —, [71]
• Garrett, Frauncis, [107]n
• Garrick, David, [67], [90]
• Gate House (near Broad Street), [110]
• Gate House (Great Gate) St. Giles’s Hospital, [118], [121], [125], [145]
• Gate Street, [5], [10]
• Gate Tavern, High Holborn, [15]
• Gatteker, Thos., [185]
• Gaussen, Samuel, [182]
• Gentleman, George, [8]n
• George, Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV.), [78]
• George, The, Broad Street, [125]
• George, The, High Holborn, [8]
• Gerard, Frances (née Godman), [21], [107]
• Gerard, Francis, [21], [107]n
• Gerard, Philip, [21]n
• Gerbier, —, [44], [45]
• Gerrard, Sir Thomas, [6]
• Gibbert, Mr., [13], [14]
• Gibbons, Walter, [28]
• Gibbs, Tristram, [120]
• Giffard, John, [10]
• Gifford, Dr. Andrew, [94]
• Gifford, Philip, [126]
• Gilbertson, Rev. Lewis, [153]n, [169]
• Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, [172], [173]
• Gloucester, Duke of, [75]
• Glynn, John, [183]
• Goddard, Alexander, [3]n
• Godfrey, Jno., [172]
• Godman (afterwards Gerard), Frances, [21], [107]
• Godman, Olive, [21], [107]
• Godman, Thos., [21]n
• Goldsborough, Edward, [7]
• Goldsborough, Grace, [8]
• Goldsborough, Robert, [8]
• Goldsborough, William, [7]
• Goldsmith Street, [18]–22
• Goodman, George, [15]n
• Goodyer, Lady Dinely, [56]
• Goring, George, Earl of Norwich, [88]
• Gosling, Geo., [153]
• Gower, John, 1st Earl of, [149]
• Gower, Lady, [70]n
• Gower Street, [185]
• Granby, John Manners, Marquess of, [91]
• Grange, Sir John, [125]n
• Grape Street (formerly Vine Street), [124]
• Graunge, John, [119], [122]
• Gray and Davidson, Messrs., [132]
• Grayhound. (See Greyhound.)
• Great Close of Bloomsbury, [125]n, [186]
• Great Gate, St. Giles’ Hospital. (See Gatehouse.)
• Great Portland Street, No. 122 (formerly 47), [58]
• Great Queen Street (Queen Street), [11]n, [14], [34], [92], [149]
• Great Queen Street Chapel, [86]–92
• Great Russell Street, Thanet House, [147]–149
• Great St. Andrew Street, [113]
• Great Turnstile, [3]
• Great Wardrobe, Nos. 57–58, Great Queen Street, [66]
• Great White Lion Street, [114]
• Great Wild Street (Wild Street), [34], [93]–97
• Green, Chas., [83]
• Green, Thomas, [176]
• Green Dragon Yard, High Holborn, [18]
• Greene Dragon, The, [18]
• Greene, Thomas, [13], [14]
• Gregg, Henry, [178]
• Gregory, Edmond, [5]n
• Greville, Fulk, [51]
• Greville, Robert, 2nd Baron Brooke, [51]n
• Grey, Humfrey (Humphrey), [35]
• Grey, Thomas, 2nd Earl of Stamford, [65]
• Grey, Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, [65]
• Grey, William, Lord, 6th Baron North, [70]
• Grey of Wark, William, Lord, [70]
• Greyhound Inn, Broad Street, [101], [108], [109], [125]
• Greyhound Close, [108]
• Greyhound Court, [109]
• Gridiron, High Holborn, [3]n
• Grigge (alias Barbor), John, [145]
• Grove, Thos., [67]n
• Grover, Thomas, [18], [30]n
• Guerin, Peter, [39]n
• Guildford, Lord North, 2nd Earl of, [173]
• Guilford, Francis North, 1st Baron, [79], [80]
• Gwilliam, Thomas, [29]n
• Gyles’ Court, [108]
• Gyles, William, [108]
• Hahn, Daniel, [105]n
• Haley, William, [139]
• Hall, Charles, [29], [108]n
• Hallam, Adam, [90]
• Hallifax, Rev. Jas., [73]n, [75]n
• Halton, Lord, [56]
• Hamilton, Rev. Frederick, [166]
• Hamilton, James, 2nd Earl of Abercorn, [102]
• Hamilton, James, Lord Paisley, [102]
• Hamilton, William, [11]
• Hamlyn, Mistress Margaret, [110]
• Hammond, George, [138]
• Hammond, George Aust., [138]
• Hammond, John, [138]
• Hammond, Mrs. P., [138]
• Hankey, Thos., [166]
• Hanney, Sir Samuel, [172]
• Hannott, Anthony, [28]n
• Hanson, John, [54]n
• Hanson, Thomas, [108]
• Harboard, Sir Charles, [54]n
• Harborne, Symond, [101]n
• Harding, Margaret, [138]
• Harding, William, [138]
• Harley, Sir Edward, [79]
• Harman, John, [120]n
• Harris, Richard, [30]
• Harris, Robert, [3]n
• Harris, Thos., [126]
• Harrison, George, [20], [24]n, [107]
• Harrison, George, [145]
• Harrow, The, High Holborn, [18]
• Harrow Alley, [18]
• Hartopp, Lady, [91]
• Hartopp, Sir Thomas, [91]
• Hartopp, Sir William, [91]
• Hartoppe, William, [32]n
• Harvey, Sir Nicolas, [6]n
• Harwell, Henry, [6]n
• Hatton Garden, No. 13, [78]
• Hawford, Elizabeth, [134]
• Hawford, John (father and son), [134]
• Hawford, William, [134]
• Hawker, Thomas, [95]n, [96]
• Hawkins, Abraham, [109]n
• Hawkins, Anthony Hope, [177]
• Hawkins, Jane, [110]n
• Hawkins, John, [109]n
• Hawley, Nicholas, [14]
• Hawte, Sir William, [188]n
• Hayward, Sir Roland, [186]
• Hell Gate, [36]n
• Hellier, Samuel, [29]
• Henderson, John, [66], [67]n
• Henrietta Maria, Queen, Statue of, [44], [59], [60], [61], [71]–77
• Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, [37]
• Herbert, Sir William, Earl of Pembroke, [119]
• Heron, Henry, [5], [7]
• Heron, Richard, [149]
• Herriot, William, [97]n
• Heston, manor and messuages in, [123]
• Hewitt, Matthew, [39]
• Heywood, Wm., [139]
• Hibbart, Thos., [164]
• Hibbert, Thos., [178]
• Higgons, Thomas, [88]
• Higgs, John, [22]n
• High Holborn, [3]–9, [13]–17, [23]–26
• High Street, St. Giles, [118], [144]
• Hill, Eliz., [70]
• Hill, Joseph, [84]
• Hippisley, Sir John, [29]n
• Hoare, Chas., [56]
• Hoare, Widow, [56]
• Hobbes, Thomas, [54]
• Hog Lane, [112], [118]n, [119]
• Hogarth Room, Freemasons’ Tavern, [63]
• Holborn Place, [8]
• Holborn Public Library, [18], [20]n, [114]
• Holborn Restaurant, [16]
• Holborn Station, [15]
• Holden, Nicholas, [122]n
• Holdmay, Robert, [56]
• Holford, Henry, [34], [35], [36]n, [40]n, [42], [93], [100]
• Holford, Jane, [35]n, [37]n, [40]n
• Holford, Richard, [34]n, [35]n, [37]n, [40], [42], [94]n, [100]n, [137]
• Holland, Henry Rich, 1st Earl of, [88]
• Holles, John, Duke of Newcastle, [188]
• Holles, John, 1st Earl of Clare, [100], [188]
• Holles, Sir William, [188]n
• Holles, Thomas Pelham. (See Pelham-Holles).
• Hollinghurst, Elizabeth (formerly Tompson), [8]
• Hollys, Sir William, [34]
• Holme, Daniel, [105]
• Holme’s Bagnio, [105]
• Holt, Rowland, [75]n
• Holt, William, [120]
• Hone, Matthew, [70]
• Hooker, John, [120]n
• Hoole, John, [57], [67]n
• Hooper, Benjamin, [28]
• Hooper, Sarah, [28]
• Hooper, William, [28], [29]
• Horn, Wm., [23]n, [144]n
• Horne, Thomas, [112]
• Horseman, Richd., [29]n, [31]n
• Hospital of Burton Lazars. (See Burton Lazars.)
• Hospital of St. Giles. (See St. Giles, Hospital of.)
• Hosyer, William, [24], [125]
• Howard, Catherine, [72]
• Howard, Charles, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, [92]
• Howard, Edward, Viscount Morpeth, [92]
• Howard, Henry, 7th Duke of Norfolk, [55]
• Howard, Col. Thos., [68]
• Howard, Thomas, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, [124]n
• Huckle, Godfrey Kneller, [56]
• Huddleston, Henry, [14]
• Hudson, George, [76], [77]n
• Hudson, Thomas, [67]n, [74], [76]–77
• Hugh, the Smith, [107]
• Hughes, [71]
• Hughes, John, [71]
• Huguenots’ Chapel, [115]
• Hunt, John, [186]
• Hunt, Stephen, [90]
• Hunter, John, [183]
• Hurlestone, Henry, [3]n
• Hutchins, Wm., [84]
• Hye, Henrye, [119]
• Iley, Thos., [76]
• Inchiquin, Murrough O’Brien, 1st Earl of, [69]
• Inchiquin, William O’Brien, 2nd Earl of, [69]
• Inns of Court Hotel, High Holborn, [8]
• Ittery, John, [42], [93], [94]n, [100]
• Ives, Anthony, [24]
• Ivey, Lady, [102]n
• Jackson, [71]
• Jackson, Mrs., [175]
• Jackson, Jas., [175]
• Jackson, John, [66]
• Jackson, T. S., [178]
• James, Madd., [96]
• James, Mary, [96]
• Jeffreys, George, 1st Baron Jeffreys, [81]
• Jennens, William, [113]n
• John de Cruce, [23], [107]
• John de Fonte the Elder, [23]n
• John of Good Memory, [23]n
• Johnson, Mrs. Barbra, [83]
• Johnson, Francis, [9]
• Johnson, Frederick, [9]n
• Johnson, John, [3]n, [9]n
• Johnson, John, [83]
• Johnson, Robert, [110]
• Johnson, Samuel, [57], [71], [85], [149]
• Johnson (alias Colleton), Mrs. Elizabeth, [69], [70]
• Johnson (alias Trueman), William, [80]n
• Jones, Ed., [57]
• Jones, Henry, and Sons, [133]
• Jones, Hugh, [24]
• Jones, Hugh, [99]n
• Jones, Inigo, [44], [136]
• Jones, John, [37]n
• Jones, William, [76]
• Jordayne, Thos., [24]n
• Joye, James, [112], [115]n
• Juxon, William, [65]n
• Kauffmann, Angelica, [151], [152], [153], [163], [169], [176]
• Keeley Street (formerly Little Wild Street), [99]
• Kekewitch, Robert, [11]
• Kemble Street, [34], [35]
• Kendricke, James, [113]
• Kendricke’s Yard, [141]
• Kensington, Henry Rich, Baron, [88]
• Kensington, Robert Rich, Baron, [88]
• Keroualle, Mdlle. de (afterwards Duchess of Portsmouth), [54]
• Killigrew, Elizabeth, [40]n
• King, Joseph, [31]
• King’s Gate, [21]n
• Kingsgate Street, [36]
• King’s Head, The, Broad Street, [125]
• King’s Head Inn, High Holborn, [15]
• Kingston (Kyngston), Edward, [20]n, [24]n, [122]n
• King Street (now Neal Street), [112], [113]
• King Street (now Shelton Street), [27], [30]–31
• Kingsway Theatre, [31]n
• Knapton, Samuel, [39]
• Knapton, Susan, [39]
• Kneller, Sir Godfrey, [47]n, [54]n, [55], [56]n, [65]n, [66]
• Kneller, Godfrey, the younger (Godfrey Kneller Huckle), [56]
• Kneller, G. J., [59]n
• Kneller, John, [56], [67]n
• Kneller, Sophia, [59]n
• Kniveton, Lady Frances, [135]
• Kniveton, Sir Gilbert, [135]
• Kyngston, Edward. (See Kingston.)
• Lacey, Jas., [83]
• Lacost, John, [29]n
• Lamb Alley, [110]
• Lamb, Peniston, [108]
• Lambe, Henry, [110]
• Lambe, John, [110]
• Land Bank (Land Credit Office), [82]
• Lande, —, [159]
• Lane, Byzantia (afterwards Cartwright), [74]
• Lane, Mistress Elinor, [15]
• Lane, Elizabeth, [74]
• Lane, Mary (afterwards Countess of Macclesfield), [74], [76]
• Lane, Ralph, [74], [89]
• Lane, Robert, [74]
• Lane, William, Junior, [4], [5], [14], [15]n
• Lane, The, [125]
• Langhorn, Sir William, [91]n
• Langhorne, Richard, [52]n
• Langston, Jas., [157]
• Langston, Mrs., [157]
• Larchin, John, [9]
• Larchin, Mary, [9]
• Lavell, Miss, [56]
• Lawrence, Edmund, [110]
• Lawrence Street, [145]
• Layton, Richard, [123]n
• Le Blanc, Sir Simon, [175]
• Lee, Jas., [171]
• Lee, John, [14]
• Lee, Robt. Cooper, [171]
• Lefevre, Chas. Shaw, [159], [160]
• Lefevre, Helena (afterwards Shaw Lefevre), [160]
• Lefevre, John, [159], [160]
• Legh, Joan, Lady (afterwards Chaloner), [124], [126]
• Legh, Katherine. (See Mountjoy, Lady).
• Legh, Sir Thomas, [34], [124], [126]
• Leicester, Countess of, [148]
• Leicester, Thomas Coke, Lord Lovel (afterwards Earl of), [148]
• Leigh, Hon. Charles, [135]
• Leivez (Leviez), Charles, [56]
• Lennox, Esmé Stuart, Duke of, [72], [101]
• Lennox House, [101], [106]
• Lennox, Katherine Clifton, Duchess of, [101], [102]
• Lenthall, William, [97]
• Lepers, Hospital for, [117]–126
• L’Estrange, Sir Roger, [136]
• Leverton, Lancelot, [163]
• Leverton, Thomas, [83], [84], [85], [150], [151], [152], [163]
• Leverton, William, [138]
• Leviez (Leivez), Charles, [56]
• Lewis, Jane, [110]n
• Lewknor, Sir Lewis, [30]
• Lewknor’s (Lutenor, Newtenor) Lane (now Macklin Street), [27]–30
• Lich Gate in St. Giles’ Churchyard, [138]
• Lightfoot, Richard, [144]
• Lindsey, 1st Earl of, [136]
• Lindsey House, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [45]n
• Linley, Elizabeth Ann (afterwards Mrs. Sheridan), [66]
• Lisle, Sir John Dudley, Viscount, [118], [122], [124], [125], [145]
• Lister, Agnes (afterwards Lady Hartopp), [91]
• Lister, Sir Martin, [91]
• Little, Dr. W., [133]
• Little Denmark Street, [119]
• Little Earl Street, [113], [114]
• Little Queen Street, [14], [16], [37]
• Littleton, Sir Thomas, [75]
• Little Turnstile, [4], [5], [19]n
• Little White Lion Street, [114]
• Little Wild Street, No. 16, [99]
• Livingstone, Sir James (afterwards Earl of Newburgh), [72]n
• Lloyd, Elizabeth (afterwards Saywell), [119]–120
• Lloyd (Floyd or Flood), Robert, [118]n, [119], [120]n, [121]n, [122]
• Lloyd, William, [113]n
• Lloyd. (See also Flood.)
• Lloyd’s Court, [119], [120]
• London, Corporation of City of, [16], [186], [187]
• London Museum, [39]
• Long Acre (Field), [112]
• Loringe, William, [101]n
• Loughborough, Alexander Wedderburn, Lord, [155]
• Love, —, [138], [139]
• Loveday, Henry, [145]n
• Lovel, Sir Thomas Coke, Lord, [148]
• Lovell, Chas., [21]n
• Lovell, Nicholas, [105]n
• Lucas, John, [73]n
• Lumber Court, [114]
• Lumley, Sir Martin (of Bardfield Magna, Essex), [39]
• Lumley or Lomley, Sir Martin, (Lord Mayor), [39]
• Lushington, William, [183]
• Lutenor Street. (See Lewknor’s Lane.)
• Lyde, —, [159]
• Lyde, Sir Lionel, [153]
• Lying-In Hospital, Brownlow Street, [103]
• Mabb, Edward, [60]n
• Macclesfield, George Parker, 2nd Earl of, [74], [76]
• Macclesfield, Mary, Countess of, [74], [76]
• Mace, William, [188]
• McGee, Jas., [56]
• Macklin Street (formerly Lewknor’s Lane and Charles Street), [18], [27]–30
• Magnus, Master, [125], [145]
• Maidenhead, The, Dyott Street, [125], [145]
• Majendie, Rev. Dr., [143]
• Mallard, —, [83]
• Mallors, Jas., [59]n, [60]n, [70]n, [82]n
• Manners, Grace, (afterwards Lady Chaworth), [91]–92
• Manners, John, Marquess of Granby and Duke of Rutland (Lord Roos), [80]n, [91]–92
• Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, [149]
• Mansion House, St. Giles’ Hospital, [118]
• March, Esmé Stuart, Earl of (afterwards Duke of Lennox), [72], [101]
• Market, proposed, in High Holborn, [16]
• Markham, Sir John, [11]
• Markmasons’ Hall, [84]
• Marlborough, 2nd Duke of, [149]
• Marshlands (Masslings, Maslyn), [101], [106], [110]–111, [112]–114, [123]
• Martin, Joseph, [11]
• Martin, Oliver, [115]n
• Martin, Ralph, [28]
• Marvell, Andrew, [134]
• Mascall, Anne (afterwards Vavasour), [20]
• Mascall, James, [20], [24]n, [107], [108], [126]n
• Mascall, Roger, [109]n
• Maslyn Fields (See Marshlands.)
• Maslyn’s Pond, [111]n
• Massingberd, Henry, [11]n
• Masslings. (See Marshlands.)
• Masters, Alexander, [29]n
• Matthew, Geoffrey, [108]
• Matthew, Godfrey, [107]
• Matthew’s Stables, [108]
• Mattingnon, Wm., [56]
• Maud, Queen, [117], [127]
• Maynard, Mary, [145]n
• Maynard, William, [145]n
• Maynard Place, [145]
• Maynard Street, [145]
• Maynwaring, Roger, [139]
• Medlicott, Edmond, [18]
• Mee, Sarah, [29]
• Mello, Francisco de, [97]
• Mennes, Capt. John, [72]n
• Mery, John, [126]n
• Methodist Chapel. (See Great Queen Street Chapel.)
• Mickle, —, [57]
• Middle Row (Round Rents), Holborn, [125]
• Middle Yard, Great Queen Street, [46], [61], [86], [87]
• Miller, Gregory, [9]
• Miller, John, [8], [9]
• Miller, Luke, [28]
• Mills, Peter, [29]n, [31]n, [44], [60], [61], [86]
• Milner, Robert, [28]
• Moivre, Abraham de, [76]
• Monmouth, Duke of, [55]
• Monmouth Street, [112]n, [113], [138]
• Monro, Sir Alexander, [164]
• Montagu, Anne Wortley, [89]
• Montagu, Anthony Maria, 2nd Viscount, [73]
• Montagu, Anthony, 6th Viscount, [65]
• Montagu, Barbara, Viscountess, [65]
• Montagu, Edward, 1st Earl of Sandwich, [89]
• Montagu, Edward Wortley, [89]
• Montagu, Elizabeth, Lady, [73]
• Montagu, Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount, [73]
• Montagu, Francis, 4th Viscount, [65]
• Montagu, Henry Browne, 5th Viscount, [65]
• Montagu, John, Duke of, [66]
• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, [89]
• Montagu, Sydney Wortley, [89]
• Montgomery, Margaret, [57]
• Mordsley, W. H., [63]
• More, Thomas, [119]
• Moreland, Henry, [39]
• Moreton, John, [84]
• Morgan, Sir Anthony, [52]n
• Morgan, Nicholas, [112]
• Morpeth, Edward Howard, Viscount, [92]
• Morpeth, Elizabeth, Lady, [92]
• Morris, Mrs. Eliz., [83]
• Mosen, Sir Edward, [92]
• Mountjoy, Lady Katherine Legh, [5], [20], [34], [107], [108], [109], [118], [121], [122], [124], [125]n, [126], [144], [186]
• Mountjoy, Lord (Sir James Blount), [5], [20]n, [24]n, [34], [107], [108], [109], [122]n, [125]n, [126], [145], [186], [187]
• Mulberry Garden, [109]
• Mulgrave, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of, [73]
• Mulgrave, John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of, [73]–74
• Murray, William, 1st Earl of Mansfield, [149]
• Museum Street (formerly Bow Street), [29]
• Nash, J., [48]
• Nayler, John, [23]n, [144]n
• Nayler, Katherine, [23]n, [144]n
• Neal Street (formerly King Street), [111], [112], [113]
• Neale, Thomas, [113], [114]n
• Nelson, Samuel, [95], [96]
• Nettleton, Robert, [134]
• New Belton Street, [111]
• Newburgh, James, Earl of, [72]n
• Newcastle, Henry Fiennes Clinton, Duke of, [188]
• Newcastle, John Holles, Duke of, [188]
• Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, [188]
• Newcombe, Edmond, [8]
• New Compton Street, Nos. 14–16, [141]
• Newlands, [111], [125]
• Newman, Arthur, [5]n, [6]n, [10], [15]n
• Newnham, Geo. L., [172]
• New Oxford Street, [146]
• Newtenor Street, [30]
• Newton, Humfrey, [6]n, [10]n
• Newton, Joan, [9]n
• Newton, Thomas, [15]n
• Newton, William, [3]n, [6]n, [9]n, [10], [11]n, [38], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]n, [50], [59]n, [60], [86]
• Newton, William, Junior, [59]n
• Newton Street, [17], [18], [27]
• New Turnstile, [15]
• New Yard, Great Queen Street, [46], [47], [48]
• Norfolk, Henry Howard, 7th Duke of, [55]
• Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of, [124]n
• Norfolk House, St. James’s Square, [55]
• Normanby, John Sheffield, Marquess of, [73], [74]
• Normanby, Ursula, Marchioness of, [82]
• North, Catherine, [70]
• North, Charles, 5th Baron North and Lord Grey, [70]
• North, Dudley, 4th Baron, [80]
• North, Francis, 1st Baron Guilford, [79], [80]
• North, Frederick, Lord, 2nd Earl of Guilford, [173]
• North, Roger, [80]
• North, William, 6th Baron, [70]
• Northampton, Earl of, [11]n
• North Crescent, [186]
• Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of, [67], [71]–72
• Norton, Thos., [36]n
• Norwich, George Goring, Earl of, [88]
• Noseley, in Leicestershire, [111]
• “Noselings” (See Marshlands.)
• Nottingham, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of, [79]
• Noverre, Augustin, [71]
• O’Brien, Murrough, 6th Baron and 1st Earl of Inchiquin, [69]
• O’Brien, William, Lord, afterwards 2nd Earl of Inchiquin, [69]
• Offley, Robert, [9]n
• Olde White Hart. (See White Hart.)
• Oldwych Close. (See Aldwych Close.)
• Oniate, Conde de. (See Spanish Ambassador.)
• Opie, John, [83]
• Ord, Jas., [83]
• Orme, —, [138]
• Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of, [79]
• Owen, Thomas, [5]
• Oxenden, Lady (afterwards Countess Bellamont), [76]
• Paddy, Francis, [61]n, [82]n
• Page, Wm., [87]n
• Pain (Paign), Madame, [92]
• Pale Close (St. Giles’ Precinct), [122], [125]
• Pale Pingle, [13], [14], [24]n, [25], [29]n
• Palmer, Jno., [56]
• Paoli, —, [57]
• Parker, George, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, [74], [76]
• Parker, Geo. Lane, [73]n, [74]
• Parker, John, [42], [43]
• Parker, Mary, Lady (afterwards Countess of Macclesfield), [74], [76]
• Parker (Parcar), Philip, [31]–32
• Parker, William, [32]
• Parker Street, [16], [27], [29], [31], [32], [33]
• Parker’s Lane, [30], [31]
• Parnell, Thos., [87]n
• Parnther, Robt., [182]
• Parsons, Mrs. F. M., [67]n
• Partington, Mrs. Ann, [11]
• Partington, Elizabeth, [11]
• Partington, John, [11]
• Partridge Alley, [6]n, [7]
• Paston, Sir William, [51], [52]
• Paulet, Elizabeth (afterwards Countess of Essex), [61], [72], [86]n, [88]
• Paulet, Sir William, [88]
• Pavior’s Alley, [106], [108]
• Payne, R., [88]
• Pearson, John, [137]
• Peers, Robert, [177]
• Pelham-Holles, Thomas, Duke of Newcastle, [188]
• Pembroke, William Herbert, 1st Earl of, [119]
• Pembroke, William, 3rd Earl of, [30]n
• Pendrell, Richard, [138]
• Pennell, Margaret (afterwards Reede), [186]
• Pennington, Sir John, [67], [72]n
• Pennyston, Prescott, [8]
• Pennyston, Thomasin, [8]
• Pepys, Samuel, [12]
• Perceval, Sir Philip, [69]
• Percival, Rowland, [122]n
• Percy, Algernon, 10th Earl of Northumberland, [67], [71]–72
• Percy, Bishop, [57]
• “Perdita.” (Mary Robinson), [77]–78
• “Perepont, Jervas”, [11]
• Perrin, Henry, [11]
• Perry, Elizabeth, [89]
• Perryn, Sir Richard, [172]
• Persall, Sir William, [68]
• Pery, John, [109]
• Perye, William, [125]n
• Petre, Sir Francis, [68]
• Petre, Robert Edward, Lord, [75]n
• Pettit, John, [29]n
• Peters, Mrs., [186]
• Phillips, John, [7]
• Phillips Rents, [7]
• Pickering, Joseph, [84]
• Pierrepoint, Lady Anne, [91]
• Pierrepont, Lady Mary (afterwards Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), [89]
• Pillar at Seven Dials, [113]–114
• Pindar, Peter (Dr. Wolcot), [83]
• Piozzi, Mrs., [85]
• Plowden, —, [71]
• Plumer, John, [21]n
• Pole, —, [165]
• Pole, Peter, [180]
• Pollard, Eliz., [83]
• Polton, John de, [109]
• Pont, Mrs., [71]
• Pope, Thos., [83]
• Popham, Colonel Alexander, [73]
• Port of London, scheme for improving, [187]
• Porter, Endymion, [88]
• Porter, George, [88]
• Porter, Lady Diana (Ann), [88]
• Porter, T. C., [185]
• Portsmouth, Duchess of (formerly Mdlle. de Keroualle), [54]
• Portsmouth Street, No. 2, [46]
• Portuguese Embassy, [65]–66, [96], [97]
• Pound, St. Giles’, [144]
• Povey, Justinian, [12]
• Povey, Thomas, [11], [12]
• Powell, Giles, [106]n
• Powell, Richard, [36]n
• Powlet, Lady Ann (afterwards Belasyse), [137]
• Powlett, Charles, Earl of Wiltshire (afterwards Duke of Bolton), [65]
• Praed, Wm. Mackworth, [11]
• Prescott, Jeoffery, [35]n, [37]n, [40]n
• Princes Street, [10]
• Pritchard, —, [56]
• Pritchard, William, [90]
• Purcell, Dr. John, [142]
• Purse Field, [4], [6], [10], [24], [34]
• Purse Rents, [5], [7]
• Pynchon, John, [11]n
• “Pyramide de la Tremblade”, [115]
• Queen Anne Street West, [58]
• Queen Anne’s Bath, Endell Street, [105]
• Queen Anne’s Bounty, [76]
• Queen Anne’s Wardrobe, [45]n, [66]
• Queenhithe, [117]
• Queen’s Court, [60]
• Queen Street. (See Great Queen Street, Little Queen Street.)
• Quire, Matthew, [107]
• Radcliffe, Dr., [56]
• Radclyff, Thomas, [124]
• Raftor, William, [71]
• Ragged Staff Court, [108]
• Ralph, James, [131]
• Rawlinson, Mary, [106]n, [108]n
• Raye, Thomas, [60]n
• Raymond, Ch., [84]
• Raymond, John, [180]
• Raynbowe, Richard, [25]
• Raynseford, Thomas, [6], [7]
• Read, Jonathan, [3]n
• Reade, Richard, [14]
• Reading, Roger, [15]n
• Redditt, Nicholas, [38]n
• Reede, Margaret (late Margaret Pennell), [186]
• Reede, Richard, [186], [187]
• Reid, Andrew, [179]
• Reneger, Thomas, [80]n
• Reynolds, Joshua, [76]–77
• Rich, Sir Henry, [126]
• Rich, Henry, 1st Earl of Holland, Baron Kensington, [88]
• Rich, Robert, Baron Kensington, 5th Earl of Warwick, [88]
• Richard II., [23]
• Richard, Lewis, [10]n
• Richardes, Lewis, [40]n
• Richardson, C. J., [63]
• Richardson, Jas., [163]
• Richardson, Jonathan, [76]
• Richardson, W. Westbrook, [83]
• Richold, —, [83]
• Ride, Miss, [71]
• Ridge, Jeremiah, [106]n
• Risley, Thos., [126]
• Rivers, Arabella, Lady, [69]
• Rivers, Elizabeth Scroope (afterwards Countess), [68]
• Rivers, Elizabeth, Countess of (née Darcy), [59], [67]–68, [73]n, [90]
• Rivers, John Savage, 2nd Earl, [68]
• Rivers, Margaret, Lady (formerly Tryon), [69]
• Rivers, Mary, Countess Dowager, [68]n
• Rivers, Penelope, Lady, [69]
• Rivers, Richard, 4th Earl (“Tyburn Dick”), [69], [70]
• Rivers, Thomas Darcy, Baron Darcy of Chich (afterwards Earl), [67]
• Rivers, Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl, [68], [69]
• Rivers House, Great Queen Street, [59], [63], [67]
• Roberts, Thomas, [13], [14]
• Robins, Richard, [107]
• Robinson, Mr., [77]–78
• Robinson (née Darby), Mary (“Perdita”), [77]–78
• Rochford, Bessy, Countess of, [70]
• Rochford, Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of, [70]
• Rochford, William Henry, Earl of, [70]n
• Roger, son of Alan, [107]
• Ronquillio, Don Pedro de, [97]n
• Rookery, St. Giles, [145]–146
• Roos (Rous), Lord, [80]n, [91], [92]
• Rope, Master, [126]n
• Roper, Poyser, [39]
• Ros of Hamlake, Barony of, [91]n
• Ros of Roos, Barony of, [91]n
• Rose Inn, [27], [28], [123]
• Rose, tenement in Lewknor’s Lane, [28]
• Rose Field, [18], [20], [27]–32, [34]
• Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, [155]
• Round Rents (Middle Row), Holborn, [125]
• Rous. (See Roos.)
• Rowland, Percival, [122]n
• Rowlandson, William, [139]
• Rowley, —, [90]
• Royal, Mrs., [163]
• Rudd, Ric., [92]
• Rudd, Thos., [92]
• Russell, Francis, Earl of Bedford, [23]n, [51]n
• Russell, Lady Rachel, [126]
• Russell, Thos., [115]n
• Russell, William, Lord, [75]
• Rutland, Duchess of, [70]n
• Rutland, Earls of, [91]
• Rutland, John Manners, 9th Earl of. (See Roos.)
• Rymes, William, [3]n
• “Sacharissa” (Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland), [54]
• Sadler, Ric., [89]
• Sadler (alias Clarke), Thomas, [80]
• St. Albans, Earl of (Marquess of Clanricarde), [46], [47], [50], [59]
• St. Amond, Jas., [65]n
• St. Andrew Street, [113]
• St. Giles, Cripplegate, Charity Schools, [112]
• St. Giles-in-the-Fields Church, [127]–140
• St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Hospital of, [20], [23], [34], [107], [109], [111], [117]–126, [186]
• St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Rectors of, [87], [139]
• St. Giles’s Lane, [23]n, [35]n
• St. Giles’s Pound, [144]
• St. Giles, Vestry of, [26]
• St. Giles’ Wood, Edmonton, [125]
• St. Giles’ Workhouse, [109], [110]
• St. John, Lord, Earl of Wilts., and Marquess of Winchester, [95], [96], [137]
• St. John of Jerusalem, Priory of, [3], [7]
• St. John’s Court, [76]
• St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, Order of, [118]
• St. Mary Graces, Abbot of, [117]–118
• St. Thomas’s Street (now Shelton Street), [27], [31]
• Salisbury, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of, [75]
• Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, [36]
• Salisbury, Thomas, [139]
• Salvadore, —, [66]
• Sandby, Thomas, [61], [62], [63]
• Sanders (Saunders), Mary, [96]
• Sandfeild, William, [38]
• Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of, [89]
• Sardinia Ambassador, [45]n
• Sardinia Place, [34]
• Sardinia Street, [93], [94], [100]
• Saunders, —, [89]
• Savage, —, [84]
• Savage, Miss Bessy (afterwards Countess of Rochford), [70]
• Savage, Elizabeth (afterwards Lady Thimbleby), [90]
• Savage, Elizabeth (née Darcy), Countess Rivers, [59], [67], [68], [73]n, [90]
• Savage, J., [89]
• Savage, John, 2nd Earl Rivers, [68]
• Savage, Lady Mary, [68]
• Savage, Sir Thomas (afterwards Viscount Savage), [67], [90]
• Savage, Thomas, 3rd Earl Rivers, [68], [69]
• Savill, Miss, [71]
• Sayes Court, Addlestone, [114]
• Saywell (née Lloyd), Elizabeth, [119]–120
• Schmidt, Bernard (Father Smith), [132]
• Scott, —, [172]
• Scott, John, 1st Earl of Eldon, [155]
• Scott, Sir John, [186]
• Scott, John (Rector), [139]
• Scott, William, [150]
• Scott, William (afterwards Lord Stowell), [155]
• Scroope, Adrian, [102]
• Scroope, Elizabeth (afterwards Countess Rivers), [68]
• Scroope, Sir Gervase, [102]
• Seagood, Henry, [35], [37], [40], [41]
• Seal, Office of the Lord Keeper of, [79], [80], [81]
• Seales, Major, [91]
• Segar (Seager), Sir William and Lady, [6]n
• Seven Dials, [113]–114
• Seven Dials. (See also Marshland.)
• Seven Dials Mission, [116]
• Seymour, Francis, 5th Baron Conway, [61]n
• Seymour (alias Conway), Popham, [78], [82]
• Shaftesbury Avenue, [112]n, [113], [118]
• Sharp, John, [139]
• Shaw, Charles (afterwards Shaw-Lefevre), [160]
• Shaw-Lefevre, Charles (afterwards Viscount Eversley), [160]
• Shaw-Lefevre, Sir John George, [160]
• Sheffield, Edmund, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, [73]
• Sheffield, John, Marquess of Normanby, [73]–74
• Sheffield Street, boundary stone in, [1]
• Sheldon, Lady Henrietta Maria, [90]
• Sheldon, John, [147], [149]
• Sheldon, Ralph, [90]
• Shelton Street, [27], [30]–31
• Shenton, Mrs., [17]
• Shenton’s Tenements, [16], [17]
• Sherbourne, Richd., [11]
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [66]–67
• Sheridan, Thomas, [66]
• Shiffner, Henry, [84]
• Ship Tavern, Gate Street, [12]
• Short, Dudley, [109]
• Short, Gregory, [18]n
• Short, Thomas, [106], [108], [109]
• Short, William (the Elder), [28], [101], [106]
• Short, William (the Younger), [18], [19], [27]n, [28], [29], [30], [31]n, [101], [110], [112]
• Short’s Gardens, [101], [106]–111
• Sidney, Algernon, [81]
• Sidney, Henry, [54]
• Skinner, Sir John, [175]
• Slingsby, —, [79]
• Slingsby, Henry, [53]n, [79]
• Smallbone, Sir John, [110]n
• Smart, John, [22]
• Smart, Lewis, [22]
• Smart, William, [22]
• Smart’s Buildings, [18]–22
• Smith, Edward, [80]n
• Smith (Smyth), Edward, [106], [110], [121]
• Smith, Father (Bernard Schmidt), [132]
• Smith, John, [125]
• Smith, John, of Tudworth, [76]
• Smith, Lilley, [89]
• Smith, Thomas, [67], [72]n
• Smith, Thomas, [11]
• Smithfield Gallows, [144]
• Smithson, George, [6]n, [8]n
• Smyth, John, [139]
• Smyth, Katherine (alias Katherine Clerke), [24]
• Soane, Sir John, [63]
• Soho Square, [76]
• Somaster, Sir Samuel, [19]n
• Southampton, Henry, 3rd Earl of, [126]
• Southampton Buildings, [77]
• Southampton Square, [56]
• South Crescent, [186]
• Southgate, Rev. Richard, [136]
• Spanish Ambassador, [47], [59], [67], [96], [97]
• Sparkes, John, [41]
• Speaks, Hugh, [6]n
• Speckard, Abraham, [122]
• Speckard, Dorothy, [122]
• Spencer, Lady, [95]
• Spencer, Anne (née Digby), Countess of Sunderland, [54]
• Spencer, Lady Diana (afterwards Beauclerk), [149]
• Spencer, Dorothy (Countess of Sunderland) (“Sacharissa”), [54]
• Spencer, Henry, 1st Earl of Sunderland, [54]
• Spencer, Robert, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, [54]
• Spiller, Sir Henry, [29]n
• Spittle Houses, St. Giles’s Hospital, [118], [121]–122, [125]
• Stafey, John, [119]n, [121]n
• Stainsforth, George, [151]
• Stamford, Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of, [65]
• Star, High Holborn, [3]n
• Statue of Queen Henrietta Maria, [44], [59], [60], [61], [71]–77
• Steers, Charles, [149]
• Stephenson, Jno., [165]
• Stephenson, Mrs., [165]
• Steward, P. G., [61]
• Steward, William, [139]
• Stewart, G., [92]
• Stidwell Street, [123], [141]
• Stoake, Thomas, [40]n
• Stockwood, Edward, [3]
• Stonor, Thos., [47], [48], [54]n, [55]
• Stowell, William, Lord, [155]
• Stradling, Sir Edward, [42], [43], [93], [94], [100]n
• Stradling, Sir Edward (Junior), [94]n
• Stradling House, [95]
• Strange, Sir Robert, [44]n
• Stratton, Edward, [94]n
• Stratton, Elizabeth, [17]n
• Stratton, Henry, [110]
• Stratton, Robert, [35]n
• Strode, George, [42], [93]
• Stuart, Esmé, Seigneur D’Aubigny, Earl of March (afterwards Duke of Lennox), [72], [101]
• Stuart, George Seigneur D’Aubigny, [60], [72]
• Stydolph, Sir Francis, [112], [113]
• Stydolph, Sir Richard, [113], [122], [123]
• Stydolph, Thomas, [112]
• Suffolk, Earl of, [72]
• Sun and Dolphin, High Holborn, [3]n
• Sunderland, Anne, Countess of, [54]
• Sunderland, Dorothy Spencer, Countess of (“Sacharissa”), [54]
• Sunderland, Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of, [54]
• Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of, [54]
• Sussex, Duke of, [62]
• Sutton, George, [27]–28
• Swan, The, [107], [108]
• Swan on le Hop, [108]
• Symonds, R., [11]
• Tahairdin, Peter, [67]n
• Talbot, Hon. Catherine, [136]
• Talbot, Hon. John, [136]
• Tamworth, Viscount, [75]n
• Tatnell, Wm., [171]
• Tattershall, Widow, [96]
• Tavistock, Francis, Marquess of, [149]
• Tavistock, Lady, [149]
• Taylor, Ed., [56]
• Taylor, Dr. John, [89]
• Taylor, Richard, [28]n
• Taylor, W. A., [113]–114
• Taylor, William, [15]n
• Temple, Freemasons’ Tavern, [61], [62]
• Thanet, Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of, [147], [148]
• Thanet House, [147]–149
• Theedham, Edward, [108]
• Thelwall, Daniel, [6], [8]n
• Theobalds, Hertfordshire, road to, [36], [42]
• Thimbleby, Elizabeth, Lady, [89]–90
• Thimbleby, John, [90]
• Thimbleby, Sir John, [11]n, [90]
• Thomas, —, [92]
• Thomas, Mrs., [92]
• Thomson, Mrs. Anne, [11]
• Thomson, William, [11]
• Thornton, Beatrice, [9]
• Thornton, John, [9]
• Thornton’s Alley, [9]
• Thorold, Anthony W., [138]
• Three Anchors, Salisbury Court, [82]n
• Three Feathers Tavern, High Holborn, [8]
• Thriscrosse, Francis, [38]
• Tomkins, Packington, [73]n
• Tompson, Elizabeth (afterwards Hollinghurst), [8]
• Tooke, Edward, [27]n, [28], [30]n
• Tottenham Court Road, [187], [188]
• Tower Street, [113]n
• Trinity College, [16]
• Troughton, —, [119]
• Trueman (alias Johnson), William, [80]n
• Tryon, Charles, [122]
• Tryon, Mrs. Margaret, [69]
• Tubb, Marchant, [163]
• Tubbs, Robt., [165]
• Tufton, Lady Margaret, [148]
• Tufton, Thomas, 6th Earl of Thanet, [147], [148]
• Turngatlane, [3]
• Turnpiklane, [3]
• Turpin, Jeremiah, [19]
• Twelves, John, [71]
• Twiney, J., [83]
• Twisden, Sir Thomas, [11]
• Twisden, Sir William, [11]
• Twyford Buildings, Gate Street, [12]
• “Tyburn Dick”, [69]
• Tyburn Gallows, [144]
• Tye, Dr., [162]
• Tyler, Rev. James Endell, [105]
• Tyler, William, [61], [62]
• Umfreville, Chas., [103]n
• Umfreville, Gilbert, [103]n
• Unicorn Inn, High Holborn, [8], [9]
• Unicorn Yard, High Holborn, [8]
• Vanblew, —, [76], [77]n
• Van Helmont, —, [78]
• Varney, Frances, [120]
• Vaughan, Elinor, [18]
• Vaughan, Thomas, [18]
• Vaughan, Thomas (“Dapper”), [71]
• Vaune, Mr., [90]
• Vavasour, Anne, [20]
• Vavasour, John, [20], [101], [107], [108], [110], [144]
• Vavasour, Nicholas, [144]
• Vere, Lady, [31]
• Vere, Sir Horace, [51]
• Verney, Edmund, [121]
• Verney, Sir R., [120]n
• Vernon, Mr., [77]
• Verrinder, Dr. G. C., [132]
• Vertue, —, [44]
• Vestry of St. Giles, [26]
• Villiers, George, 1st Duke of Buckingham, [91]n
• Villiers, George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, [91]n
• Villiers House, [53]n
• Vine, The, High Holborn, [123], [124]
• Vine Street (now Grape Street), [124]
• Violetti, Eva Maria, [90]n
• Vuidele, Anthony, [119]
• Waldron, John, [6]
• Wales, George, Prince of (afterwards George IV.), [78]
• Walgrave, John, [28], [107]
• Walker, Dr. Jas., [11]
• Walker, John, [13], [14]
• Walker, Richard, [163]
• Walker, Thomas, [29]n, [31]n
• Walpole, Horace, [44], [46], [56]n, [71]
• Walter, Peter, [105]
• Walton, Brian, [139]
• Ward, James, [92]
• Wardrobe, Great Queen Street, [45]n, [66]
• Warner, Henry, [34]n
• Warwick, Charles, Earl of, [88]
• Warwick, Robert, Earl of, [88]
• Watson, Mrs., [96]
• Watson, Henry, [149]
• Watson, Mary, [96]
• Watson, Rowland, [5], [6]
• Watson, William, [5]
• Watson, Sir William, [133]
• Wayte, Edward, [79]
• Webb, Barbara (afterwards Viscountess Montagu), [65]
• Webb, Lady Barbara, [65], [136]
• Webb, Sir John, [47]n, [65]n, [136]
• Webb, John, Architect, [44]
• Webb, Philip Carteret, [73]n, [74]
• Webb, Rhoda (afterwards Beavor), [75]
• Webb, Richard, [38]
• Webb, Thos., [71]
• Wedderburn, Alexander, Lord Loughborough (afterwards Earl of Rosslyn), [155]
• Weedon, Thomas, [96]
• Weld, Lady Frances, [94], [95]n
• Weld (Wild, Wield), Humfrey, [59], [60], [94], [95]n, [96], [97]n, [100]
• Weld House, [93]–97, [99]
• Weld Street. (See Wild Street.)
• Wesley, John, [115], [116]
• Wesleyan Chapel, Great Queen Street, [86]–92
• West London Mission, [88], [115]
• West Street, [112]n, [115]
• West Street Chapel, Seven Dials, [87]
• Western, Thomas, [11]
• Weston (Whetstone), John, [5]n
• Westone, William, [109]n
• Wetherell, Philip, [21]n
• Wharton, Philip, 4th Lord, [79], [120]
• Whetstone, William, [6]–7
• Whetstone Park, [4], [8]
• White, James, [28], [112]
• White Hart, [14], [19], [20], [23], [24], [25], [28], [29]n, [30]n, [123]
• White Hart Feilde, [6]
  • —(See also Pursefield.)
• White Hart Yard, [26]
• White Horse in Drury Lane, [35]
• White House, St. Giles’s Precinct, [121]
• White Lion Street, [113]n, [114]
• Whitesaunder, Thomas, [119]
• White Swan in Queen Street, [37]n
• Whitfield, Henry Fotherley, [31]n
• Whitfield, Thomas, [110]n, [111]n
• Wigg, William, [110]n, [111]n
• Wild. (See Weld.)
• Wild Boare Alley, [18]
• Wild Court, Nos. 6 and 7, [98]
• Wild Street (Weld Street), [34], [93]–97
  • —(See also Little Wild Street.)
• Wilkes, John, [74]–75
• Wilkinson, William, [125]
• Wilkinson’s Close, [125]n, [187]
• Williams, Jas., [165]
• Williams, John, [84]
• Williams, Paul, [40]n
• Williamson, Sir Joseph, [69]
• Williamsfeild (alias Church Close), [145]
• Willoughby, Philip, [60]n
• Willson, Thomas, [138]
• Wilson, Benjamin, [56], [57], [66], [67]n
• Wilson, Jas., [56]
• Wilson, Major, [57]
• Wilton House, Picture of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [46]
• Wiltshire, Charles Powlett, Earl of (afterwards Duke of Bolton), [65]
• Winchester, John, Marquiss of, [95], [96], [137]
• Windell, Richard, [109]n
• Windham, W., [67]
• Winstanley, J., [11]
• Wise (Wyse), Joan (afterwards Briscowe), [107], [119]
• Wise, John, [107]n
• Wise, Robert, [20]
• Wither, Thomas, [60]n
• Withers (Wither, Wyther), Anthony, [51], [60], [73]n
• Withers, William, [74]
• Wolcot, Dr. (Peter Pindar), [83]
• Wolstenholme, John, [96]
• Wood, Anthony, [80]
• Woodville, Thomas, [130]
• Woodward, William, [14]
• Worcester, Edward (1st Marquess of), [73]
• Worliche, Mary, [9]n
• Worlidge, Mrs., [77]
• Worlidge, Thomas 58, [67]n, [76], [77]
• Worsley, John, [96]
• Wortley, Sir Francis, [89]
• Wray, Sir John, [95]n
• Wren, Sir Christopher, [123], [147]
• Wren, Stephen, [147]
• Wright, —, [96]n
• Wright, Martin, [89]
• Wriothesley, Lord, [124]
• Wylson, —, [119]
• Wynter, Master, [119]
• Wyse. (See Wise.)
• Yarmouth, 1st Earl of, [52]
• York, Frederica, Duchess of, [114]
• York, Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of, [110]n
• Young, Thomas, [110]
• Zucchi, Antonio, [151], [153], [163], [176]
• Zuylestein, Frederick Nassau de, 3rd Earl of Rochford, [70]

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NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, circ. 1560–1570 (AGAS)

PLATE 2

PURSE FIELD, circ. 1609

PLATE 3

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, circ. 1658 (HOLLAR)
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PLATE 4

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, 1658. (FAITHORNE AND NEWCOURT)
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PLATE 5

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS, circ. 1720 (STRYPE)
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PLATE 6

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PLATE 7

PLATE 8

No. 211, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT

PLATE 9

No. 181, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT

PLATE 10

No. 172, HIGH HOLBORN, SHOP FRONT

PLATE 11

No. 1, SARDINIA STREET

No. 18, PARKER STREET

PLATE 12

N^o. 2 GREAT QUEEN STREET. MAHOGANY STAIRCASE.

GENERAL BALUSTRADING.
(FROM SECOND TO THIRD FLOOR).

PLATE 13

PLATE 14

PLATE 15

PLATE 16

Nos. 55 and 56, GREAT QUEEN STREET IN 1846

HOUSE OF THE SARDINIA AMBASSADOR, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS

PLATE 17

PLATE 18

N^os. 55 & 56, GREAT QUEEN STREET, ELEVATION.

PLATE 19

Nos. 55–56, GREAT QUEEN STREET, (MAY, 1906)

PLATE 20

No. 55, GREAT QUEEN STREET, STAIRCASE

PLATE 21

PLATE 22

ELEVATION IN 1779

FREEMASONS’ HALL, PLAN OF PREMISES BEFORE 1779

PLATE 23

FREEMASONS’ HALL IN 1811

PLATE 24

FREEMASONS’ HALL, FAÇADE

PLATE 25

FREEMASONS’ HALL, ELEVATION OF NORTH END OF TEMPLE IN 1775

PLATE 26

FREEMASONS’ HALL, THE TEMPLE, LOOKING SOUTH

PLATE 27

FREEMASONS’ HALL, SIR J. SOANE’S DESIGN FOR NEW MASONIC HALL (1828)

PLATE 28

FREEMASONS’ HALL. GRAND STAIRCASE

VESTIBULE TO TEMPLE SHOWING MOSAIC PAVING

PLATE 29

MARKMASONS’ HALL, CHIMNEYPIECE IN BOARD ROOM

PLATE 30

MARKMASONS’ HALL, CEILING IN BOARD ROOM

PLATE 31

MARKMASONS’ HALL, CEILING IN GRAND SECRETARY’S ROOM

PLATE 32

GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL

PLATE 33

GREAT QUEEN STREET CHAPEL, INTERIOR

PLATE 34

LITTLE WILD STREET, VIEW LOOKING NORTH-EAST (1906)

PLATE 35

PLATE 36

No. 32, BETTERTON STREET, ENTRANCE DOORCASE

PLATE 37

“QUEEN ANNE’S BATH,” No. 25, ENDELL STREET

PLATE 38

THE BOWL BREWERY IN 1846

PLATE 39

PLATE 40

SEVEN DIALS COLUMN AT WEYBRIDGE

PLATE 41

LITTLE EARL STREET, LOOKING EAST

PLATE 42

Nos. 14 to 16, NEW COMPTON STREET, SHOP FRONTS

PLATE 43

PLATE 44

PLATE 45

S^t. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. WEST FRONT.

PLATE 46

S^t. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS. CROSS SECTION.

PLATE 47

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-WEST

PLATE 48

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-EAST

PLATE 49

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, INTERIOR, LOOKING EAST, 1753

PLATE 50

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, INTERIOR, LOOKING WEST

PLATE 51

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, COLUMNS AND CEILING

ALTARPIECE

PLATE 52

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, OAK FRAME WITH PICTURE

PAINTED GLASS PANEL, PROBABLY FROM FORMER CHURCH

PLATE 53

PLATE 54

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, OAK PANEL IN LICH GATE

PLATE 55

ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH, VESTRY

PLATE 56

PLATE 57

PLATE 58

PLATE 59

Nos. 10 and 11, DENMARK STREET

PLATE 60

DENMARK PASSAGE, BLACKSMITH’S FORGE

PLATE 61

BEDFORD SQUARE, SOUTH SIDE

PLATE 62

N^o. 1 BEDFORD SQUARE.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN.

PLATE 63

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, FRONT VIEW

PLATE 64

PLATE 65

ENTRANCE HALL, LOOKING SOUTH

ENTRANCE HALL, SHOWING STAIRCASE, No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 66

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING IN ENTRANCE HALL

PLATE 67

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEY BREAST, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 68

No. 1, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 69

No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 70

No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE, LANTERN OVER STAIRCASE

PLATE 71

No. 6, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 72

ON CHIMNEY BREAST, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

ON CHIMNEY BREAST, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

No. 9, BEDFORD SQUARE, PLASTER PLAQUES OVER DOOR, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 73

No. 9, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 74

No. 10, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 75

PLATE 76

No. 11, BEDFORD SQUARE, EXTERIOR

PLATE 77

No. 11, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 78

No. 13, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 79

No. 14, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 80

No. 15, BEDFORD SQUARE, ENTRANCE DOORWAY

PLATE 81

No. 8, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 82

No. 23, BEDFORD SQUARE, DOORS AND DOORCASE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 83

CHIMNEY BREAST

ALCOVE
No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 84

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR,
No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 85

No. 25, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 86

DETAIL OF CENTRAL PANEL

No. 28, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 87

No. 30, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 88

No. 31, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 89

PLATE 90

No. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE, SCREEN IN HALL

PLATE 91

PANEL OF CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

DETAIL OF CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 92

CEILING, REAR ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 92

CEILING, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 32, BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 93

No. 40, BEDFORD SQUARE, PLASTER PLAQUE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR

PLATE 94

No. 40, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 95

CHIMNEYPIECE, REAR ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR No. 41, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 96

No. 44, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 97

Nos. 46–47, BEDFORD SQUARE, EXTERIOR

PLATE 98

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, GROUND FLOOR
No. 46, BEDFORD SQUARE

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 99

N^o. 47 BEDFORD SQUARE.

PLATE 100

CEILING OVER STAIRCASE

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR
No. 47, BEDFORD SQUARE

PLATE 101

No. 47, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 102

No. 48, BEDFORD SQUARE, CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 103

No. 48, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 104

No. 50, BEDFORD SQUARE, FANLIGHT IN ENTRANCE HALL

PLATE 105

No. 51, BEDFORD SQUARE, CEILING, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

PLATE 106

No. 68, GOWER STREET, DOORCASE

No. 84, GOWER STREET, DOORCASE

PLATE 107

CHIMNEYPIECE, FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR HOUSE IN REAR OF No. 196, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

EXTERIOR

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[1]. Survey of London, Vol. III., p. xviii.

[2]. “Exinde secundum quod via extra idem gardinum protenditur usque ad metas dividentes Mersland et parochiam S. Ægidii.”

[3]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. xvi.

[4]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 37 Henry VIII., Mich.

[5]. British Museum Addl. MS., Charters, 15636.

[6]. Namely, reckoning west to east: (i.) Star; (ii.) unnamed house of John Bishop; (iii.) Sun and Dolphin; (iv.) Gridiron (easternmost house in St. Giles); (v.) Eagle and Child; (vi.) Cock and Coffin; (vii.) unnamed house in occupation of Thos. Fisher. (Close Rolls, (a) 1652, Alexander Goddard, etc., and Philip Cotham; (b) 1652, Alexander Goddard, etc., and Jonathan Read; (c) 13 Chas. II., Samuel Bishopp and William Rymes).

[7]. Sale by Robert Harris to John Coke (Land Revenue Enrolments and Grants, vol. 311, p. 204.)

[8]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 3.

[9]. British Museum MS. Claudius E VI, 218b–219.

[10]. Grant to Thos. Ellys, 22 Henry VIII (Land Revenue Miscellaneous Books, No. 62); grant to Thomas Bochier (Patent Roll, 36 Henry VIII. (745)).

[11]. Lease of 21st July, 8 Chas. I., by Henry Hurlestone to John Allen and Thomas Clements (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges 5–105,—Suit of John King); Close Roll, 6 Chas. I. (2853)—Indenture between Wm. Newton and Anthony Bailey and John Johnson.

[12]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), pp. 3–4.

[13]. Certain properties, some of which include houses, are mentioned as extending from Holborn on the north to Fickett’s Field on the south, but some, at least, of these may have been to the west of Little Turnstile. The records in question, when dateable, may be referred to the time of Henry III. or Edward I.

[14]. Parliamentary Survey (Augmentation Office), No. 25.

[15]. It was afterwards occupied by Chamberlain’s Stable (Survey of Crown Lands) and this formed the eastern boundary of a piece of ground, 21 feet in width “abutting upon the footeway leading from Master Newman’s building [west portion of north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields] to the Little Turnstile on the west,” purchased by John Weston [Whetstone] from Edmond Gregory in 1661, (Close Roll, 13 Chas. II. (4087).)

[16]. Close Roll, 2 Elizabeth (566).

[17]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, II. Series, Vol. 149 (74).

[18]. Close Roll, 18 Elizabeth (990).

[19]. Burrard Cranigh, M.D., by his will proved 21st November, 1578, left his lands, etc., in Holborn to be sold to pay his debts and legacies (Somerset House Wills, Langley, 41).

[20]. Patent Roll, 20th July, 18 Elizabeth (1144).

[21]. Close Roll, 18 Elizabeth (990).

[22]. Close Roll, 18 Elizabeth (994).

[23]. Close Roll, 31 Elizabeth (1318).

[24]. Close Roll, 21 Charles II. (4270).

[25]. Blott’s Blemundsbury, p. 201.

[26]. Close Roll, 33 Elizabeth (1375).

[27]. Daughter of Sir Nicolas Harvey, and widow of George Carew, dean of Windsor, who died in June, 1583, and was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields (Dictionary of National Biography).

[28]. No doubt the same afterwards occupied by Sir William and Lady Segar, and Lord Bothwell (see plan of 1658 in Black Books of Lincoln’s Inn, Vol, II.) The easternmost portion of the northern boundary of Purse Field is described as “the late garden wall of Sir William Seager, Knt.” in the grant of the field to Newton in 1638 (Patent Roll, 13 Charles I. (2775)), and as “the garden of Bothwell House” in the sale of that part of the field in 1653 (Close Roll, 1653 (3715))—(Indenture between Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman).

[29]. It is no doubt this intermixture of gardens and houses that caused the peculiar shape of Partridge Alley, seen on the map accompanying Strype’s edition of Stow (Plate 5), and better still on Hollar’s Plan of 1658 (Plate 3).

[30]. It is strange, however, that her will (Somerset House Wills, Hayes, 61) bequeathing her property to her son, Sir George Carew, only mentions “all such leases as are in my possession, as inter alia Savoy, St. Giles.”

[31]. Close Roll, 16 Charles I. (3228).

[32]. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges XX, 45. Suit of Henry Harwell.

[33]. Chancery Decree Roll, 1922. Suit of William Duckett and Hugh Speaks against Henry Harwell, George Smithson, Daniel Thelwall and William Byerly.

[34]. Privy Council Register, Vol. 47, p. 24.

[35]. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 447–82. Suit of Peter Broome and Thos. Barker.

[36]. Close Roll, 28 Elizabeth (1263).

[37]. On 13th June, 1592, administration of probate was granted to John Buck’s widow, Margaret Buck. He had, therefore, died quite a short time previously (Arch. London Probate Acts, II., 88).

[38]. Close Roll, 25 Elizabeth (1155).

[39]. Close Roll, 10 Charles I. (3018).

[40]. Close Roll, 13 Charles II. (4086).

[41]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1716, III., 63.

[42]. Close Roll, 15 Charles II. (4143).

[43]. John Apsley sold the inn in 1639 to Daniel Thelwall, William Bierley and Sir Chas. Dallison. See Close Roll, 22 Charles I. (3343)—Indenture between Dallison, Thelwall, Bierley, and George Smithson and George Gentleman.

[44]. Close Roll, 5 James I. (1910). Indenture between Gregory Miller and Geo. Flower.

[45]. Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 354) records the fact of the residence of Sir Anthony Ashley and Sir John Cowper (see above) in Thornton’s Alley.

[46]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 16 Elizabeth, Easter.

[47]. Close Roll, 2 Charles I. (2677). Indenture between Frederick Johnson and Mary Worliche and Francis Cole.

[48]. Close Roll, 5 Charles I. (2800). Indenture between Francis Cole and Robert Offley.

[49]. See warrant given in Indenture of 9th April, 1630, between Wm. and Joan Newton and Anthony Bailey and John Johnson. (Close Roll, 6 Charles I. (2853). Newton, the designer of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, had married the daughter and heir of Gregory Miller, son of John.)

[50]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.) pp. 5–6.

[51]. Close Roll, 15 Chas. I. (3193).

[52]. Close Rolls, 20th July, 1639, between William Newton and Lewis Richard (15 Chas. I. (3191)); 15th March, 1638–9, between Wm. Newton and John Giffard (15 Chas. I. (3188)); 1st October, 1657, between Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman (1657 (3945)).

[53]. The houses to the south of Fortescue’s premises seem to have been built originally as three houses. The southern boundary of Fortescue’s houses is said to be “a greate house lately built by the said William Newton.” This, according to the Hearth Tax Rolls, was the Earl of Northampton’s mansion. Then came “a faire messuage or howse of one Master Crewe,” and to the south of this, at the corner of Great Queen Street, and having a width from north to south of 42 feet, was in 1648 a plot of ground on which “Henry Massingberd intends to erect a house.” (Close Roll, 24 Chas. I. (3411.) Indenture between Humfrey Newton and Henry Massingberd.) If, however, only one house was built on this plot, it was divided quite early, as the premises already appear in two occupations in the Hearth Tax Roll for 1666.

[54]. One of the two houses was in 1643 in the tenure of Sir John Thimbleby (Close Roll, 18 Chas. I. (3295)—Indenture between John Fortescue and John Pynchon and Wm. Barnard).

[55]. Moved to No. 1, Lincoln’s Fields, in 1743 (Survey of London, Vol. III., p. 24.)

[56]. British Museum Additional MS., 11,411, ff. 70 and 77.

[57]. Ibid., f. 17b.

[58]. Reproduced here.

[59]. See Land Revenue Enrolments, Book IV., No. 52, p. 120.

[60]. Patent Roll, 7 Jas. I. (1802) (Translated from the Latin).

[61]. Parliamentary Survey (Augmentation Office), No. 25. Middlesex—tenements in St. Giles-in-the-Fields and High Holborn.

[62]. Close Roll, 7 Jas. I. (1971).

[63]. Close Roll, 8 Jas. I. (2032).

[64]. See p. [36].

[65]. Close Roll, 9 Jas. I. (2083).

[66]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 10 Jas. I., Easter.

[67]. Close Roll, 13 Chas. II. (4084). Indenture between Thos. Newton and Geo. Goodman and Arthur Newman. William Lane, by his will dated 15th February, 1653–4, left nine messuages in Holborn to his grandson, who enjoyed two-thirds leaving one-third to his grandmother Elinor. The premises were rebuilt about 1698–1701. (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 328–31. Suit of Roger Reading, 3rd February, 1703–4.)

[68]. In 1618 William Taylor was reported to the Privy Council for building a house “in Fawlcon yard in the upper end of Holborne where none was before.” (Privy Council Register, No. 29, 493).

[69]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 7.

[70]. Privy Council Register, Vol. 47, p. 410.

[71]. Inquisitio Ad Quod Damnum—Brevia Regia, Petty Bag Office, No. 17.

[72]. Petition of the Lord Mayor, etc., dated 10th April, 1635. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1635–6, p. 17).

[73]. Privy Council Register, Vol. 47, p. 370.

[74]. Close Roll, 16 Chas. I. (3232)—Indenture between Henry Darrell and Mary Blague.

[75]. I.e., “very well with brick and covered with tyle.”

[76]. In the case of Shenton’s tenements, built probably at about the same time, it is known that rebuilding was carried out before October, 1682. (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 271–13. Suit of Elizabeth Stratton).

[77]. 3rd Report of H.M. Commissioners of Woods and Forests (1819), App. 2, pp. 38–9.

[78]. Reproduced here.

[79]. Close Roll, 1650 (3510)—Indenture between William Short, Gregory Short and William and Magdalen Curtis and Thomas and Elinor Vaughan.

[80]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 1650, Easter.

[81]. Close Roll, 18 Chas. II. (4195).

[82]. Exchequer Pleas 582 (2)—Suit of William Bell (Easter term, 18 Chas. I.) against Sir Samuel Somaster.

[83]. Blott’s suggestion (Blemundsbury, pp. 201–2) that the place referred to was Little Turnstile, has nothing to recommend it.

[84]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1629–31, p. 284.

[85]. Ibid., pp. 321–2.

[86]. Exchequer Pleas 582 (2), cited above.

[87]. See p. [107].

[88]. Close Roll, 9 Eliz. (742)—Indenture, dated 1st February, 1566–7, between Lord and Lady Mountjoy and Edward Kingston.

[89]. The southernmost of the three northerly houses mentioned above.

[90]. Close Roll, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture, dated 30th July, 1582, between Jas. Briscowe, etc., and Jas. Mascall.

[91]. See p. [27].

[92]. It will be remembered that the houses, including, and for a little distance west of, No. 198, High Holborn (the Public Library), are on the site of Rose Field (see p. 18).

[93]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Middx., Series II., vol. 208.

[94]. Together with a moiety of the three northernmost of the 8 houses and of other property on the north side of High Holborn, acquired by Mascall of Edward Kingston.

[95]. Close Roll, 11 Chas. I. (3057)—Indenture between Thos. Godman and Olive his wife and Francis Gerard and Frances his wife.

[96]. Blott’s Blemundsbury, p. 381.

[97]. As showing the connection between the Gerard and Cole families attention may be drawn to the fact that Philip Gerard, successor of Francis Gerard in Drury Lane, and probably his son, was associated with Salomon Cole in a deed relating to property at King’s Gate. (Close Roll, 1658—Indenture between Sir Thos. Fisher, Gerard and Cole and John Plumer).

[98]. Close Roll, 1655 (3857)—Indenture between Chas. Lovell, etc., and Philip Wetherell.

[99]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1756, II., 325–6—Indenture between John Smart and John Higgs.

[100]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1717, II., 272.

[101]. Reproduced here.

[102]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 71.

[103]. From deeds quoted by Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles) it is evident that in the 13th century Drury Lane was known as “Aldewych” or “Via de Aldewych.” The name “Drury Lane,” given later, was no doubt due to the existence of Drury House near the Strand end of the road. How late “Via de Aldewych” was used there is nothing to show. In certain deeds of the 17th century (e.g., Close Roll, 24 November, 8 Charles I.—Indenture between Francis, Lord Russell, and Earl of Bedford and John, Earl of Bristol, etc.) the road is called “Drury Lane alias Fortescue Lane.” It is just possible that the latter name is to be connected with Sir John Fortescue, who held the Elm Field (i.e., the land between Castle Street and Long Acre) in the reign of Henry VI. (Close Roll, 30 Henry VI. (302)—Grant by John Crouton and Wm. Horn to John and Katherine Nayler); in fact there is reason for thinking that the “viam regiam ducentem ... a villa Sci. Egidii versus Bosomysynne modo Johis. Fortescue militis” mentioned in the same deed is actually Drury Lane. The road seems also to have gone by the name of St. Giles’s Lane in the early part of the 17th century. (See p. [35]n.)

[104]. See p. [107].

[105]. They appear together as witnesses in many deeds. Two deeds bearing the name of William Christmas as witness can be dated with certainty 1257–8 and 1276.

[106]. Blott’s statement that here “stood the mansion house of the Christmasse family, with its pasture land and orchard bordering the King’s Highway, Oldborne, the domain reaching to Ficquet Fields,” goes beyond the evidence, and his imaginative history, based on an identification of “John of Good Memory,” late chaplain of St. Giles, mentioned in Henry II.’s Charter (not the original foundation charter, as Blott says), with a John Christmas = John de Cruce the elder = John de Fonte the elder (all equally hypothetical persons) is absolutely unjustifiable (Blemundsbury, pp. 333–4).

[107]. Augmentation Office, Deeds of purchase and exchange, E. 19.

[108]. The premises, together with a cottage and Purse Field with the pightells, were farmed to her on 6 June, 1524, by the Master of Burton Lazars, and it is stated that she was then living there. (Patent Roll, 7 Elizabeth, pt. 3, Grant to Thos. Jordayne.)

[109]. “Et de liij^s iiij^d de Willelmo Hosyer pro redditu cujusdam messuagii vocati le White Harte in Hamelett S^ci Egidii et xviij acr’ pasture ac unius parvi clausi vocati Pale Close.” (Ministers’ Accounts, 2101, Henry VIII.)

[110]. Uncertainty on this point and on the date of the period of his tenancy unfortunately stands in the way of accepting the following note as a contribution to the history of The White Hart. “Will. Hosyer, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London—Licence (he having had his house burnt down 9th Oct. last [1539] and lost all his goods therein to the value of £200) to collect alms in England and Wales for his relief.” (Patent Roll, 32 Henry VIII. pt. 4.)

[111]. Close Roll, 9 Eliz. (733)—Indenture between Lord Mountjoy and Geo. Harrison; and Close Roll, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture between Jas. Briscowe, etc., and Jas. Mascall. Cockshott was apparently there in 1579, for the piece of ground or garden plot which 12 years before had been used as “a greate garden belonginge to ... the White Harte,” (Close Roll, 9 Eliz. (742)—Indenture between Lord Mountjoy and Edward Kyngston) was in that year described as “then or late in the tenure of Richard Cockeshute.” (Close Roll, 21 Eliz. (1058)—Indenture between Ed. Kyngston and James Mascall.)

[112]. Parton, Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, pp. 131–2.

[113]. See Land Revenue Enrolments, Book IV., No. 52, p. 120.

[114]. Situated on the north side of High Holborn, just to the west of the present junction with New Oxford Street.

[115]. It will be seen that the present Ye Olde White Hart, No. 191, Drury Lane, is not on the site either of the old White Hart, or even of the land formerly belonging to it.

[116]. Parton, Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 238.

[117]. Reproduced here.

[118]. The course of this stream as shown in the map accompanying Volume III. of the Survey of London requires a slight modification, as deeds, which have since come to light, show that to the south of High Holborn it followed exactly the winding red line indicating the course of the later sewer, and not the straight line there suggested.

[119]. Close Roll, 1657 (3940).—Indenture between William Short and Edward Tooke.

[120]. Thomas Burton’s land, which included the site of all the houses in Drury Lane mentioned in the above deed, had a width along that street of 233 feet. These houses reached as far south as the house belonging to Mr. Fotherley, on whose garden St. Thomas’s Street was subsequently formed. (Parton, Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 275.) The distance between the boundary line and the northern side of Shelton Street, the modern representative of St. Thomas’s Street, is 243 feet, thus allowing a 10 feet extension of the garden northwards beyond the street.

[121]. See p. [20].

[122]. The occupier of The Rose at this time was Richard Taylor. See Petition of Geo. Sutton complaining of a confederacy between Taylor and “one Thomas Barnett, brewer,” to whom Taylor had let the premises after Sutton had given him lawful warning to avoid. (Augmentation Proceedings, 22–25.) The property is described as “one tenement called The Roose, lieing and being within the said parish of Saint Gyles in the feldes, with one barne and syxe acres of land, with appurtenances to the same.”

[123]. Close Roll, 42 Elizabeth (1666).

[124]. Augmentation Office, Miscellaneous Books, 140, p. 56.

[125]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 239.

[126]. Close Roll, 22 Chas. II. (4290).—Indenture between Sarah Hooper, etc., and Anthony Hannott.

[127]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1723, III., 289, 390.

[128]. The entries in the ratebook, from the corner of Duke Street (now represented by the first courtyard to the east of Grape Street) to the corner of Bow Street, are as follows:—Jonathan Dodswell, 2 houses (£20); Samuel Chandler (£20); Nathaniel Chandler (£25); John Lacost (£25); Mr. Anthony Elmes (£70); Thomas Gwilliam (£20); Alexander Masters (£16); John Pettit (£10).

[129]. This rough identification is confirmed by the fact that The Rose can be shown by comparison of particulars given in various deeds to have been the 8th house westward from the Pale Pingle, the westernmost limit of which seems to have been opposite the centre of the frontage of the White Hart property. (See Plate 2).

[130]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 16 Chas. I., Trin. Of course, in the absence of more definite details, there is nothing to prove that this refers to The Rose.

[131]. Close Roll, 1650 (3542).—Indenture between William Short and Thos. Walker, Peter Mills and Richd. Horseman.

[132]. See p. [31].

[133]. “July 8, 1640. Warrant to the Petty Constables of the parishes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. Clement’s Danes to give notice to the persons whose names are underwritten to appear ... before Sir John Hippisley and Sir Henry Spiller to show cause why they neglect and refuse to cleanse and repair their parts of a common sewer near Lewknor’s lane, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, which has become a public nuisance.” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1640, p. 459). This sewer, which ran about 74 feet north of Lewknor’s lane (Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 101), seems to have originally, as an open ditch, formed the boundary between Rose Field and Bear Close.

[134]. Either this means that Short had purchased a portion of Bear Close, or, more probably, it refers to that portion of Rose Field which bounded Bear Close on the east. This had before 1650 been sold to Thomas Grover. (Close Roll, 1654 (3813).—Indenture between William Short and Wm. Atkinson.)

[135]. Close Roll, 1657 (3940)—Indenture between William Short and Edward Tooke.

[136]. Privy Council Register, vol. 258, 46.

[137]. See letters from him addressed to (a) the Earl of Pembroke, 22nd November, 1620; (b) Secretary Conway, 23rd November, 1623 (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1619–23, p. 194, and 1623–5, p. 117).

[138]. It need hardly be said that Blott’s (Blemundsbury, pp. 357–362) identification of Lewknor’s house with “Cornwallis House, Drury Lane,” the residence of Sir William Cornwallis, “adjoining the grounds of the White Hart Inn ... at the Holborn end of Drury Lane” is a pure fiction. There is no evidence that Sir William Cornwallis ever lived in Drury Lane. His statement that “it is a long task to trace how the Christmasse estate passed into the Cornwallis family, who appears to have been the immediate successors to the great inheritance in Drury Lane,” is delightful, seeing that “the Christmasse estate” was situated at White Hart corner, and the Cornwallis “inheritance,” which, by the way, was acquired only in 1613, some years after Sir William Cornwallis’s death, consisted of Purse Field, which nowhere reached within 500 feet of Drury Lane.

[139]. Coram Rege Roll, Easter term, 17 Chas. II., No. 469.

[140]. Close Roll, 1650 (3542).—Indenture between William Short and Thomas Walker, Peter Mills and Richard Horseman.

[141]. This is stated in the deed (20 June, 1652) relating to the sale of the property by George Evelyn (who had married Sir John Cotton’s widow) to John Fotherley (Common Pleas, Recovery Roll, 1652, Trin., 278), and Cotton’s name is given in respect of the house in the Subsidy Roll of 1646.

[142]. See, e.g.—Indenture between Henry Fotherley Whitfield and Joseph King (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1766, I., 379) concerning a parcel of ground in “St. Thomas’s Street, now intended to be called King Street.”

[143]. Lease dated 23rd February, 1619–20, by Thomas Burton to Edmund Edlyn, quoted in Blott’s Blemundsbury, pp. 358–9. It should be explained that Walter Burton had sublet to Thomas Burton a portion of the ground leased to him by William Short.

[144]. It should be noticed that the eastern portion of Parker Street (beyond the alley lying to the east of the Kingsway Theatre) is on the site of Purse Field, not of Rose Field.

[145]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 358.

[146]. “Philip Parcar, for 5 houses built neare Drury Lane in Parcar’s Lane, to the Star Chamber.” (Privy Council Register (1633–4), vol. 258, No. 46).

[147]. Philip Parker is seen in a different role in the following: “Recognisances ... for the appearance of ... William Hartoppe ... to answer ... for refusinge to ayde Phillip Parker to search for a seminary priest in the house of John Clarke, of St. Gyles in the Feildes” (11th April, 1626) (Middlesex Sessions Rolls, III., p. 160).

[148]. Reproduced here.

[149]. A change of tenancy in 1775 is accompanied by an increase in the rateable value from £8 to £18.

[150]. Reproduced here.

[151]. Close Roll, 9 Elizabeth (748)—Indenture, dated 20th January, 1566–7, between Lord and Lady Mountjoy and Richard Holford.

[152]. From other documents it is quite obvious that this must be another name for Purse Field, but the name has not been met with elsewhere.

[153]. The deeds show that all the western portion of Parker Street, both south and north sides, was in Rose Field, and all the western part of Great Queen Street was in Aldwych Close.

[154]. This was the line of the sewer, or open stream, which formed the western boundary of Purse Field. In later deeds relating to the central portion of Aldwych Close, the latter is described as extending to the common sewer on the east side towards Lincoln’s Inn. (See e.g. Recovery Roll, 1633, 9 Chas. I., Easter (201).)

[155]. See p. [124].

[156]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem (Middlesex), 18 Eliz., vol. 174 (32).

[157]. I.e., according to a deed referred to in the inquisition on Henry Holford (16th June, 1624) (Ibid., 22 Jas. I., vol. 428 (87)). There was also, however, or there had been three years before, “a little howse, forge or shedd” on what was afterwards the north-west corner of Great Queen Street (Close Roll, 40 Eliz. (1597)—Demise by Henry Holford to Henry Foster, Margaret Foster and Henry Warner).

[158]. Recited in lease of 30th April, 1607, by Walter Burton to Thomas Burton, in possession of the London County Council.

[159]. See p. [40].

[160]. See indentures between Richard Holford and Robert Stratton and Edward Stratton respectively, dated 28th July, 1635, and 24th April, 1658. (Close Rolls, 11 Chas. I. (3060) and 1658 (3984)).

[161]. This triangular piece, and the ground on which the houses on the south side of Kemble Street are built, both originally being portions of Aldwych Close, have recently been taken out of the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.

[162]. “The private way in Oldwitch Close for the King and Councell to passe through leading from St. Giles his lane in the feildes east towardes Holborne.” (Close Roll, 22 James I. (2601)—Indenture between Jane and Richard Holford and Jeoffery Prescott.)

[163]. The two gates are referred to in the petition (ascribed to March, 1632), of the Surveyor-General of His Majesty’s Ways, who complained that on the day before the King and Queen went last to Theobalds, he warned Richard Powell, the scavenger for High Holborn, to cleanse the passage between the two gates in Holborn, where many loads of noisome soil lay stopping up the way; but Powell neglected to do this, and at the time of the Royal passage a cart laden with soil stood in the passage blocking the way. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1631–3, p. 298.)

[164]. On 31st October, 1617, a warrant was issued to Thos. Norton, “Surveyor of His Majesty’s Wayes and Passages,” calling attention to the fact that in spite of the King’s commands, “sundry persons have gotten and used false keyes for opening the lockes and gates of His Majesties private passages through the feildes neere the Cittie of London, and that divers unruly coachmen, carters, and others, have and doe use with great hammers and other like tools to breake open the said gates.” (Privy Council Register, XXIX., 153.) This warrant seems almost too late to refer to Great Queen Street, and yet the fact that it also deals with the steps to be taken against “one Holford and his tennantes” for their default in allowing “the streete in Drury Lane in his Ma^ties ordinary way” to be very noisome, seems to point to the Theobalds route. Perhaps the fields north of Holborn are referred to.

[165]. The entrance became known as “Hell Gate” or “Devil’s Gap.” The widening of the street to its present measurements is said to have been carried out in 1765 (Blott’s Blemundsbury, p. 370).

[166]. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1611–18, James I., vol. 69 (36). Robert Cecil was created Earl of Salisbury in May, 1605; he died in May, 1612.

[167]. This form of the name occurs frequently.

[168]. See p. [14].

[169]. In January, 1669–70, references occur to “John Jones, the master of the White Swan in Queen Street, Drury Lane,” and “John Jones, victualler, at the White Swan in Queen’s Street” (Historical MSS. Commission, Ho. of Commons Calendar, App. to 8th Rep. I., 155b, 157a). As late as 8th April, 1677, a letter was addressed to “Don Manuel Fonseca, Queen Street” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1677–8, p. 82). On the other hand, the title Great Queen Street is found in 1667 as the address of Viscount Conway (Ibid., 1667, p. 535), and occurs even in a passage which must have been written at least fifteen years earlier (see p. [50]).

[170]. See, e.g. Wheatley and Cunningham’s London, Past and Present, III., p. 135: “The houses in the first instance were built on the south side only”; Heckethorn’s Lincoln’s Inn Fields, p. 171; Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 133.

[171]. See p. [50].

[172]. See p. [35].

[173]. Lease to Edward Fort of 18th May, 1612, quoted in indenture of 10th February, 1625, between Jane and Richard Holford and Jeoffery Prescott (Close Roll, 22 Jas. I. (2601)).

[174]. In the absence of deeds relating to the early history of Nos. 14–35, it is impossible to be more precise. There may, of course, have been gaps in the north side (excluding Nos. 1–6) even later than 1612. In the Subsidy Rolls of 21 James I. (1623–4) and 4 Charles I. (1628–9), preserved at the Record Office, thirteen names of occupiers of houses in the street are given, and the assessment in 1623 for the rebuilding of St. Giles’ Church gives fifteen housekeepers in the street (Parton, Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 136n). No adequate idea of the number of houses in the street can, however, be gained from these facts, for the subsidy rolls certainly do not give all the occupiers, and, as the assessment was not compulsory, it is improbable that every householder made a contribution.

[175]. History of ... St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury, p. 58.

[176]. No evidence has come to light in the course of the investigations for this volume whereby Lord Herbert’s house might be identified. In his will, dated 1st August, 1648, proved 5th October, 1648, he refers more than once to his “house in Queene Streete”. (Somerset House Wills, Essex, 138).

[177]. Close Roll, 18 Chas. I. (3295).—Indenture between W. Newton and Francis Thriscrosse.

[178]. Close Roll, 15 Chas. I. (3192).

[179]. Close Roll, 15 Chas. I. (3190)—Indenture between W. Newton and Ric. Webb, Nicholas Redditt and Jeremy Deane.

[180]. Harl. MS., 5,900, fol. 57b.

[181]. Indenture, dated 7th February, 1734–5, between John Bigg and Peter Guerin. (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1734, V., 85.)

[182]. British Museum, Crace Colln., Portfolio 28, No. 53.

[183]. It is possible that in 1646 Sir Martin Lumley was resident at this house, but not certain. In the Subsidy Roll for that year his name is the first on the north side of the street, and precedes Sir Thos. Barrington’s, who, it may be proved, lived at No. 3. It may be, therefore, that Lumley was the occupant of No. 1.

[184]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Baronetage, II., p. 80.

[185]. Reproduced here.

[186]. Elizabeth Killigrew, Lewis Richardes, Thomas Stoake.

[187]. Lewis Richardes.

[188]. See p. [35].

[189]. It is given (Close Roll, 22 Jas. I. (2601).—Indenture between Jane and Richard Holford and Jeoffrey Prescott) as the eastern boundary of Prescott’s property, which extended along the north side of Great Queen Street from Drury Lane, and the length of which is given as 120 feet. Thus the Prescott property was on the site of the present Nos. 38 to 45. A deed dated 20 June, 1721, refers to property of which Seagood’s house had formerly formed the western boundary. This deed gives the names of the occupants of the houses to which it relates both in 1636 and at that time, and the latter list clearly identifies the property as Nos. 26 to 35, thus leaving 36 and 37 for Seagood’s house. That this house corresponded to two numbers is rendered quite certain by a careful comparison of the entries in the series of Hearth Tax Rolls. In fact, the house is on two occasions taxed for 30 hearths, which seems an over estimate, as the assessment is afterwards reduced to 24 hearths. Even this implies a very large house.

[190]. Close Roll, 13 Chas. II. (3123).—Indenture between Henry Holford and Paul Williams, etc.

[191]. Reproduced here.

[192]. Close Roll, 5 Chas. I. (2800). Indenture between Richard Holford and Sir Edw. Stradling—reciting indenture of 1618.

[193]. See Recovery Roll, 9 Chas. I. rot. 23 (201). Indenture between Edward Stradling and George Gage.

[194]. See p. [93].

[195]. Close Roll, 5 Chas. I. (2800). Indenture between Richard Holford and Sir William Cawley and Geo. Strode.

[196]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1629–31, p. 47.

[197]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1629–35, p. 55.

[198]. See p. [93].

[199]. Close Roll, 11 Chas. I. (3059). Indenture between Sir Kenelm Digby and William Newton.

[200]. He succeeded his father as Earl of Carnwath in 1639.

[201]. Patent Roll, 12 Chas. I. (2740).

[202]. The means taken to enforce a uniform design may be gathered from the fact that the purchaser of certain plots to the west of Nos. 55–56 was required to build three houses “to front and range towards Queenes Streete ... in the same uniformity, forme and beauty as the other houses already ... erected by the said William Newton in Queenes Streete are of.”

[203]. The evidence for this statement is gathered from the undermentioned illustrations:

No. 51. Sir Robert Strange’s House (Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 250), 3 bays, 4 pilasters. Western portion of third plot 41 feet wide.

Nos. 55–6, 57–8. Bristol House (Ibid.). Double façade each 44 feet wide, 5 bays, 6 pilasters. Fifth plot 88 feet wide.

Nos. 55–6, 57–8. J. Nash, 1840. (The Growth of the English House, J. Alfred Gotch.)

Original Freemasons’ Tavern. Engraving by Joseph Bottomley, 1783. 5 bays, 6 pilasters. Seventh plot 44 feet wide.

Queen Street Chapel (Parton, op. cit. p. 250). Western portion of tenth plot 59 feet 6 inches wide.

No. 70. (Photograph taken by the London County Council in 1903.) Refronted on old lines, 4 bays, 5 pilasters on plot 35 feet wide.

[204]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 97.

[205]. II., p. 174.

[206]. See p. [86].

[207]. See full quotation on p. [45] footnote.

[208]. Harl. MS., 5,900, 57b.

[209]. The reason why Lindsey House is now not in the middle of the west side of the Fields is that in the original design the west row extended from Gate Street to No. 2, Portsmouth Street. The building of the houses on the north and south sides of the Fields, not included in the original design, encroached on both sides of the west row, but the encroachment on the north being the greater, the axis of the square was thereby moved further south.

[210]. British Museum. J. W. Archer Collection. “The house called Queen Anne’s Wardrobe,” drawn 1846 (No. 55–6, Great Queen Street) and “House of the Sardinia Ambassador,” drawn 1858 (No. 54, Lincoln’s Inn Fields).

[211]. “The expert surveyour will repart the windows to the front of a palace, that they may (besides the affording of sufficient light to the rooms) leave a solid peeres between them, and to place some pleasing ornament thereon, not prejudicial to the structure, nor too chargeable for the builder, shunning incongruities, as many (pretending knowledge in ornaments) have committed, by placing between windows pilasters, through whose bodies lions are represented to creep; as those in Queen Street without any necessity, or ground for the placing lions so ill, which are commonly represented but as supporters, either of weight, or of arms on herauldry.” (Counsel and Advice to All Builders, pp. 13–14.)

[212]. See p. [38].

[213]. Anecdotes of Painting, II., p. 60.

[214]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), Plate 6.

[215]. It was assessed for the hearth tax at 40 hearths, while Conway House, although of the same frontage, was only assessed at 31.

[216]. The frontage of this house is stated in certain deeds in the London County Council’s possession (e.g., Indenture of 26th October, 1639, between Wm. Newton and Compton, Dive and Brewer) to be 98 feet, but in others (e.g., Release by Wm. Newton senr., to Wm. Newton, junr., dated 22nd January, 1637–8) is given as 88 feet. That the latter is correct may be regarded as certain from the perfect accord of the total number of feet thus obtained with the present boundaries.

[217]. The deeds from which these particulars are taken are (1) Close Roll, 15 Chas. I. (3196)—Indenture between Wm. Newton and Sir Ralph Freeman; and (2) a deed in the possession of the Council—Indenture between Newton and Sir Henry Compton, etc. The former deed, in error, reverses the eastern and western boundaries.

[218]. A release by deed poll from Wm. Newton the elder to Wm. Newton the younger, in the possession of the London County Council.

[219]. Close Roll, 5 Geo. I. (5117)—Indenture dated 16th May, 4 Geo. I., between Sir John Webb and Thos. Stonor, and Sir Godfrey Kneller, etc.

[220]. Mr. Stonor inhabited the western half of the original house, now forming Nos. 55 and 56; Mr. Browne was in occupation of the eastern half, afterwards Nos. 57 and 58.

[221]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1832, V., 93.

[222]. See p. [53].

[223]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Part I.), Plate 66.

[224]. In possession of the London County Council.

[225]. Close Roll, 15 Charles I. (3196). Indenture between Wm. Newton and Sir Ralph Freeman.

[226]. Marginal note in his private journal (Memoirs and letters of Marquis of Clanricarde, ed. by K. De Burgh, p. 68).

[227]. Deed in possession of the London County Council.

[228]. Memoirs and Letters of the Marquis of Clanricarde, p. xiv.

[229]. Hist. MSS. Comm.; MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, I., p. 223.

[230]. Constitutional History of England (ed. 1854) III., 389n.

[231]. Somerset House Wills, Nabbs, 117.

[232]. She was Catherine, daughter of Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford; her husband, Robert Greville, second Baron Brooke, distinguished himself as a general of the parliamentary forces in the Civil War, and was killed at Lichfield in 1643. Fulke Greville, who was not born until after his father’s death, eventually succeeded to the title, and died in 1710.

[233]. Close Roll, 1654 (3814).

[234]. Sir William Constable was afterwards possibly an occupant of the house, for on 24th May, 1647, he wrote to the old Lord Fairfax from “Queen Street.” (Hist. MSS. Comm.; Morrison MSS., Report IX., Part II., App. p. 439.) Constable had married in 1608, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas, first Lord Fairfax. He contrived with difficulty to raise a regiment of foot in the Civil War, and greatly distinguished himself in the field. He was afterwards one of the king’s judges and signed the warrant for his execution. He died in 1655.

[235]. C. R. Markham’s The Great Lord Fairfax, p. 191.

[236]. Ibid., p. 254.

[237]. Ibid., p. 274. The old lord had recently married again. He announced the fact to his brother in a letter dated “Queen Street, October 20th, 1646.”

[238]. Hist. MSS. Comm., Pembroke College MSS., Report V., App. p. 487.

[239]. He was still in the parish (possibly in this house) in 1658, for Parton quotes (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 356) an entry in the churchwardens’ accounts for that year: “Pd. and expended at the sessions, about Sir William Paston’s complaynt, of his being double rated.”

[240]. Close Roll, 15 Chas. II. (4143)—Indenture between the Hon. John Digby and Sir Anthony Morgan and Richard Langhorne.

[241]. Described in Survey of London, Vol. IV. (Chelsea, Part II.), pp. 18–27.

[242]. Some time between 1666 and 1675 he removed to No. 51, Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Survey of London, Vol. III., p. 71).

[243]. See also North’s account: “The great House in Queen Street was taken for the use of this Commission. Mr. Henry Slingsby sometime Master of the Mint, was the Secretary; and they had a formal Board with Green Cloth and standishes, clerks’ good store, a tall Porter and staff and sitting attendance below, and a huge Luminary at the Door. And, in Winter Time, when the Board met, as was two or three times a week, or oftener, all the Rooms were lighted, Coaches at the Door, and great passing in and out, as if a Council of State in good earnest had been sitting. All cases, Complaints and Deliberations of Trade were referred to this Commission, and they reported their opinion, whereupon the King in Council ordered as of course. So that they had the Province of a Committee of Council; and the whole Privy Council was less charge to the King than this.” (Examen, p. 461.)

[244]. The Council of Trade was established on 7th November, 1660, and by patent dated 1st December in the same year Charles II. also created the Council of Foreign Plantations. (Haydn’s Book of Dignities, 1894, p. 263.)

[245]. Slingsby writes on behalf of the Council for Foreign Plantations from Queen Street, on 27th April, 1671. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1671, p. 204.)

[246]. In October, 1672, the Council of Plantations was united to that of Trade (Evelyn, Diary, 13th October, 1672), and the united Council seems thenceforth to have utilised a portion of “Villiers House,” the house of the Duchess of Cleveland. (Audit Office, Declared Accounts, Trade, etc., 2303 (2)).

[247]. See schedules of deeds appended to Indentures between Thos. Stonor, etc., and Sir Godfrey Kneller, dated 11th and 12th March, 1717–8 (Close Roll, 5 Geo. I. (5117)).

[248]. Chancery Warrants (Series II.), Signet Office, 16th April, 1669 (21 Chas. II., 2386).

[249]. Indenture of 24th June, 1674, between Sir Chas. Harboard and John Hanson, by direction of the Earl of Devonshire, and the Earl of Sunderland, recited in Indenture of 12th March, 1717–8, between Thos. Stonor, etc. and Sir Godfrey Kneller (Close Roll, 5 Geo. I. (5117)). Sunderland’s purchase of the Earl of Bristol’s interest in the freehold was not effected until February, 1683–4 (Deed in possession of the London County Council) just before his sale of the premises.

[250]. The fact that the 1675 Hearth Tax Roll shows the Earl of Devonshire at the house is not conclusive against this, as it is probable, from other considerations, that this particular roll, though bearing the date 1675, represents the state of affairs in 1674.

[251]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[252]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[253]. Freehold and 99 years’ lease in April, subsidiary lease in June.

[254]. Second son of Thomas, first Lord Fauconberg, a prominent royalist. Died in 1689.

[255]. Will of Lord Belasyse, quoted in Indenture of 12th March, 1717–8, between Thos. Stonor, etc., and Sir Godfrey Kneller (Close Roll, 5 Geo. I. (5117)).

[256]. Indenture of 12th March, 1717–8, between Thos. Stonor, etc., and Sir Godfrey Kneller (Close Roll, 5 Geo. I. (5117)).

[257]. The sewer ratebook for 1703 (representing probably the state of things in the previous year) shows “Thomas Stonor, Esq.” still in occupation; that for 1709 (the next issue) gives “Sir Godfrey Kneller.” The Dictionary of National Biography says he purchased the house in 1703, but this is obviously an error. (See above).

[258]. Somerset House Wills, Richmond, 161.

[259]. The statement seems to have originated with Horace Walpole (Anecdotes of Painting, Wornum ed. (1888), II., pp. 209–210).

[260]. Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, I., p. 456.

[261]. London Past and Present, III., p. 137.

[262]. See p. [76].

[263]. A deed of 27th November, 1745, shows “Lady Goodyear” and Mr. Charles Leviez then in occupation. (Midd. Registry Memorials, 1745, III., No. 156).

[264]. Sir Godfrey Kneller left his Great Queen Street property to his wife for her lifetime, with reversion to his godson, Godfrey Kneller Huckle, “provided the surname of Kneller be adopted.” Godfrey Kneller, the younger, died in 1781, and his son, John Kneller, in 1814.

[265]. Bryan’s Dictionary of Artists; Walpole’s Anecdotes, p. 702.

[266]. The Dictionary of National Biography is in error in stating that he added this house to the other.

[267]. Redgrave’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.

[268]. Leask’s James Boswell, p. 125.

[269]. Nichol’s Illustrations of Literature, VII., pp. 308–9.

[270]. Details of Boswell’s residence there are given in the Council’s publication, Indication of Houses of Historical Interest, I., pp. 79–84.

[271]. III., p. 137.

[272]. Holden’s Triennial Directory for 1802–4.

[273]. Reproduced here.

[274]. See p. [47].

[275]. “All that messuage ... lately divided into two shops or dwelling houses.” Indenture, dated 7th October, 1813, between Sophia Kneller and G. J. Kneller and Thos. Crook. (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1813, IX., 129.) The ratebook for 1812 shows the house in single occupation.

[276]. Close Roll, 17 Chas. I. (3275)—Indenture between Edward, Lord Viscount Conway, Edw. Burghe, and William Newton and Elizabeth, Countess Rivers.

[277]. Release and quit claim by Wm. Newton, jnr., in possession of the London County Council.

[278]. The house was still standing on 12th February, 1738–9 (see indenture of that date between Philip Carter and Jas. Mallors, Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1739, I., 450–1), but by 22nd May in that year it had been demolished, the two houses fronting Great Queen Street were then in course of erection, and others were intended to be built. The parish ratebook for 1739 shows the house as “Empty”; that for 1740 gives: “Empty. 12 houses made out of one.”

[279]. That the archway was exactly in the centre may be proved by the fact that when the two houses were sold to Jas. Mallors in the year 1742, they were each described as 22 feet in width, including half of the passage into Queen’s Court (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1741, IV., 424 and 1742, I., 435).

[280]. Between Thomas Wither and Thomas Raye (Common Pleas Recovery Roll, 26 Chas. II., Trinity, Rot. 4).

[281]. Feet of Fines, Middlesex, 13 Chas. I., Trinity.

[282]. (27th January, 1650–1.) “Col. Berkstead to take care for the pulling down of the gilt image of the late Queen, and also of the King, the one in Queen Street, and the other at the upper end of the same street, towards Holborn, and the said images are to be broken in pieces.” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1651, p. 25.)

[283]. Recovery Roll (Common Pleas), 17 Chas. I., Hilary, 236.—Indenture between William Newton, Philip Willoughby and Edward Mabb and Edward Burghe.

[284]. Afterwards Middle Yard.

[285]. See p. [82].

[286]. See Indenture of 18th May, 16 Geo. II., between Lord Conway and Francis Paddy (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1743, I., 334–5).

[287]. Henry Sadler, Some memorials of the Globe Lodge No. 23 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England, p. 11.

[288]. Documents and drawings preserved in the Soane Museum.

[289]. Photographs of various modern features, although not coming properly within the scope of this volume, have been inserted for the purpose of showing the historic continuity of the buildings on the site of the old Hall.

[290]. The premises had been purchased in 1880. (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1880, 962).

[291]. Indenture of 5th March, 1718–9, between Lord Montagu, etc. (1), William Juxon and Jas. St. Amond (2), and Sir Godfrey Kneller and Ed. Byng (3), in the possession of the London County Council.

[292]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.

[293]. The sewer ratebook for this year shows “Henry Browne” in occupation of the house, but that for 1700 has the entry “— Webb, Esq.,” referring to the owner.

[294]. The sewer ratebook for this year shows “Henry, Lord Montague” in occupation.

[295]. Burke’s Extinct Peerage.

[296]. For other houses used for the purpose of the Portuguese Embassy in St. Giles-in-the-Fields, see p. [97], and Survey of London, Vol. III., pp. 13, 82.

[297]. Somerset House Wills, Richmond, 161.

[298]. The house is referred to later on as “all that messuage, etc., formerly called by the name of the Great Wardrobe” (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1811, VI., 104). It will be noticed that the title “Queen Anne’s Wardrobe” given to the western half of Bristol House in 1846 (Plate 16) is doubly incorrect. In the first place it is assigned to the wrong half of Bristol House, and secondly the dates show that it could not possibly have had any connection with Queen Anne.

[299]. See copy of deed, dated 11th March, 1708–9, for the appointment of Dummer as deputy. (Treasury Papers, Cal. 1708–14, CXIII., No. 12.)

[300]. Shortly before 4th February, 1774, Sheridan took a house in Orchard Street (Sanders’ Life of Sheridan, p. 23).

[301]. His name in the ratebooks is given as “Richard Sheridan” only, but a deed of 1811, giving the names of occupants of the house mentions him by his full name: “formerly in occupation of Benjamin Wilson, painter, afterwards of John Henderson, sometime since in the possession of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and now of Ann Boak, milliner.” (Indenture of 20th June, 1811, between Jno. Kneller, Peter Tahairdin, and Thos. Grove—Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1811, VI., 104.)

[302]. Moore’s Memoirs of Sheridan, p. 213.

[303]. F. M. Parsons’ Garrick and His Circle, p. 369. As an example of how false history comes to be written, it is interesting to note that Mrs. Parsons describes the house as “an Inigo Jones house, in which five men known to fame: Hudson, the painter; scritch-scratch Worlidge, the etcher; Hoole, Tasso’s translator, whom Johnson loved; now Sheridan; and after him, Chippendale, the cabinet maker, successively lived.” None of the other individuals mentioned lived in the house occupied by Sheridan.

[304]. See p. [59].

[305]. Stafford’s Letters (Ed. Wm. Knowler, 1739), II., p. 165

[306]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1638–9, p. 113.

[307]. Close Roll, 17 Charles I. (3275). Indenture between Lord Conway, Edw. Burghe and Wm. Newton and Elizabeth, Countess Rivers.

[308]. Historical MSS. Commission, House of Lords Calendar, Appendix to VI. Report, p. 109b.

[309]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage. The Dictionary of National Biography states that he was born in 1628, and was the son of John Savage, a colonel in the royal army.

[310]. Historical MSS. Commission, Frere MSS., Appendix to 7th Report, p. 531a.

[311]. Elizabeth Scroope, married to the Earl in 1647.

[312]. “Lord Rivers denies entrance to survey and payment,” and “Earle Rivers refuseth to pay.”

[313]. Historical MSS. Commission, Frere MSS., Appendix to 7th Report, p. 531a.

[314]. At first a Roman Catholic, the Earl subsequently joined the English Communion.

[315]. Mary, the second wife of the second Earl, at this time Countess Dowager Rivers, by her will, proved 25th January, 1657–8 (in which she is described as “of St. Giles”) left £400 to Sir Francis Petre (Somerset House Wills, Wootton, 5).

[316]. Covent Garden.

[317]. Was this the third Earl’s sister of that name, youngest daughter but one of the second Earl by his first wife?

[318]. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1673–5, p. 37.

[319]. Ibid., p. 174.

[320]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[321]. Arabella, died s.p. 21st March, 1717. (G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.)

[322]. He married, in 1679, Penelope, daughter of John Downes; and in 1688 Mrs. Margaret Tryon. (Ibid.)

[323]. Somerset House Wills, Barnes, 209.

[324]. Daughter of Sir Peter Colleton, and one of the Earl’s numerous mistresses.

[325]. Sewer ratebook for 1720: “Lord North and Grey.”

[326]. On 29th September, 1722, the Duchess of Rutland wrote to Lady Gower: “The two lords went there [to the Tower] last night, Orrery and North and Gray, through their own want of consideration and indiscretion, ’twas said.” (Hist. MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Sutherland, Report V., p. 191.)

[327]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.

[328]. His country residence was St. Osyth’s Priory, Essex.

[329]. She died on 23rd June, 1746. (Gentleman’s Magazine, 1746, p. 328.)

[330]. Indenture of 12th February, 1738–9, between “Philip Carter of Tunstal, Suffolk, clerk, and Bessy, his wife (widow of Frederick late Earl of Rochford, deceased, and now commonly called Countess Dowager of Rochford), William Henry, Earl of Rochford, eldest son and heir of the said Frederick by the said Bessy, and Sir John Colleton, of Exmouth, Bt., brother and heir at law of Elizabeth Colleton alias Johnson, deceased, and James Mallors”; purporting to be a lease “for a year to vest the possession of and concerning all that capital messuage or mansion house situate on the south side of Great Queen Street where the said Frederick did lately dwell, which said messuage or mansion house was heretofore the house of Richard, Earl Rivers, and then called or known by the name of Rivers House.” (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1739, I., 450–1.)

[331]. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, p. 174.

[332]. FitzGerald, Life of Mrs. Catherine Clive, p. 84.

[333]. Boswell, Life of Johnson, Vol. IV., pp. 7, 243.

[334]. See p. [60].

[335]. “March 31, 1638–9.... Direct your letter to be left with Lord Conway’s maid in Queen Street, so it will come more speedily to me, since I am very often with the Lord Admiral [Earl of Northumberland], whose house is next to Lord Conway’s, as I think you know” (Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1638–9, p. 630).

[336]. See p. [86].

[337]. Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion, Book III., par. 228.

[338]. Letters from Thos. Smith to Sir John Pennington (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, for 1638–9, pp. 92, 103, 113, 130).

[339]. Order of the Committee of the Council of War (Ibid., p. 166.)

[340]. March 5th, 1638–9. Instructions from the Lord Admiral to Capt. John Mennes of the Victory (Ibid., p. 537).

[341]. Letter, headed “Queen Street,” from Northumberland to the deputy lieutenants of Nottinghamshire (Hist. MSS. Commission, Reports on MSS. in Various Collections, VII., 295).

[342]. Recovery Roll (Common Pleas), 17 Chas. I., Hilary (236).

[343]. After her husband’s death she fell under the displeasure of Parliament, and “endured a long imprisonment ... and had ... been put to death if she had not made her escape to Oxford.” (Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion, Book XI., par. 222.) She afterwards (in 1648) married Sir James Livingstone, who became Earl of Newburgh.

[344]. Close Roll, 17 Chas. I. (3275)—Indenture between Lord Conway, etc., and Countess Rivers.

[345]. John Lucas, etc., “say they carried divers pictures, with frames, others without frames, and some rayles into Mr. Withers House [it will be remembered that Anthony Withers had purchased the house from Newton in 1637–8] in Queen’s Street, now in the possession of Col. Popham, the which goods above said these examiners say are the proper goods of Mr. Withers” (Interregnum Papers, A., 98). Withers was reported as a delinquent in October, 1645 (Domestic Interregnum Committee for Advance of Money (Order Book), A., 4 (295)), and was sequestrated in January, 1646 (Interregnum Papers A., 98 (13)).

[346]. Interregnum Papers G., 17 (704).

[347]. A deed relating to the house, dated 20th May, 1674, refers to it as being “now or late in the tenure ... of the Right Hon. Francis, Lord Viscount Mountague” (Common Pleas Recovery Roll, 26 Chas. II., Trinity, vol. 4 (366)).

[348]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.

[349]. She was Elizabeth, daughter of Edward, first Marquess of Worcester. She died in 1684.

[350]. Sewer ratebook for 1683.

[351]. Indenture, 9th May, 1764, between Packington Tomkins (1), the Hon. Geo. Lane Parker (2) and Philip Carteret Webb (3) (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1764, II., 491); indenture 16th November, 1774, between the Rev. Jas. Hallifax, etc., and Trustees for the Freemasons (Ibid., 1775, II., 122).

[352]. Historical MSS. Commission, Earl of Denbigh’s MSS. Appendix to 8th Report, Part I., p. 556b.

[353]. Feet of Fines (Middlesex), 1 Anne, Hilary.

[354]. His country residence was Woodberry Hall, Cambridge.

[355]. Somerset House Wills, Bedford, 210–211.

[356]. Mary, his eldest daughter, married (with a dower of £30,000) George, Viscount Parker, who in 1732 succeeded his father as (second) Earl of Macclesfield.

[357]. Afterwards married William Cartwright, of Aynho, Northampton.

[358]. See her will, dated 22nd June, 1753 (Somerset House Wills, Pinfold, 80).

[359]. Indenture of 9th May, 1764 (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1764, II., 491).

[360]. See his will dated 7th February, 1770 (Somerset House Wills, Jenner, 417).

[361]. Indenture between the Rev. Jas. Hallifax, Ric. Blyke, Edw. Beavor of Farnham and Rhoda, his wife (lately Rhoda Webb, widow of Philip Carteret Webb, late of Busbridge, Surrey, deceased) and the Rt. Hon. Robert Edward Lord Petre, Henry Duke of Beaufort, Henry Duke of Chandos, Washington Earl Ferrers, Viscount Tamworth and Rowland Holt (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1775, II., 122).

[362]. Foxcroft’s Life of Gilbert Burnet, p. 144.

[363]. Survey of London, Vol. III., p. 75.

[364]. Macaulay, History of England, II., p. 180.

[365]. Ibid., II., p. 460.

[366]. Foxcroft’s Life of Gilbert Burnet, I., p. lvii.

[367]. Foxcroft’s Life of Gilbert Burnet, I., p. lix.

[368]. Beaven’s Aldermen of the City of London, II., pp. 109, 186.

[369]. Lipscombe’s History of Buckinghamshire, II., p. 222.

[370]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.

[371]. See p. [56].

[372]. See p. [74].

[373]. Campbell’s Lives of the Lord Chancellors, IV., p. 560.

[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.

[375]. The entry “Geo. Hudson” in the issue of the ratebook for this year is probably a mistake.

[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).

[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).

[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).

[379]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[380]. Memoirs of Mrs. Robinson, ed. by M. E. Robinson, I., pp. 74–5.

[381]. Memoirs of Mrs. Robinson, I., p. 94.

[382]. See p. [60].

[383]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1638–9, p. 630.

[384]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.

[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).

[386]. Recovery Roll, Common Pleas, 21 Chas. I., Mich., rot. x (251).

[387]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.

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

[389]. Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of Portland’s MSS., Vol. III., p. 291.

[390]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, Addenda, 1660–70, p. 701.

[391]. Ibid., pp. 712–3.

[392]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1667, p. 535.

[393]. Ibid., 1667–8, p. 259.

[394]. Ibid., 1668–9, p. 223.

[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.

[396]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1668–9, p. 502.

[397]. Ibid., 1668–9, p. 567.

[398]. Ibid., 1670, p. 111.

[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).

[400]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[401]. Roger North’s Autobiography, p. 165.

[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).

[403]. H. B. Irving’s Judge Jeffreys, p. 332.

[404]. 7 and 8 Will. III., cap. 27 (sessional number, 53).

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

[406]. See e.g., Indenture of lease, dated 18th November, 1743, between Francis Paddey and Jas. Mallors (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1743, III., 453).

[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).

[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.

[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).

[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).

[411]. Reproduced here.

[412]. See pp. [60]–61, 63.

[413]. Survey of London, Vol. III., p. 98.

[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).

[415]. Mrs. Piozzi’s Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson (1786), p. 173.

[416]. Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 5th April, 1775.

[417]. Obituary notice in Gentleman’s Magazine, 88, part ii., 179.

[418]. Reproduced here.

[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).)

[420]. Peter Mills died in 1670, then being resident in Little St. Bartholomew’s. (Somerset House Wills, Penn, 147.)

[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.

[422]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 290.

[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.

[424]. Baguley’s The True State of the Case.

[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).

[426]. A Sermon preached at Queen Street Chapel and St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, on ... the day appointed for a general fast.

[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).

[428]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1798, III., 185.

[429]. Blemundsbury, p. 397.

[430]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1815, III., 227.

[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).

[432]. Heckethorn’s Lincoln’s Inn Fields, p. 183.

[433]. See p. [61].

[434]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.

[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.

[436]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[437]. Survey of London, Vol. IV., p. 81.

[438]. Burke’s Extinct Peerage. Knighted, 7th August, 1624 (Shaw’s Knights of England, II., p. 186).

[439]. Peerage of England, 1710 (2nd edn.), p. 232.

[440]. See Survey of London, III., p. 53.

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

[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.).

[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.

[444]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[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.

[446]. Burke’s Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, III., p. 402.

[447]. Historical MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Rutland, IV., p. 545.

[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.)

[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).

[450]. After his death she married Sir William Langhorn, Bt.

[451]. Historical MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Rutland, Vol. IV.

[452]. Ibid., II., p. 19.

[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.

[454]. Reproduced here.

[455]. See p. [42].

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

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

[458]. The above particulars are taken from Recovery Roll, 9 Chas. I. (Easter) (201). Rot. 23.

[459]. Indenture dated 9th August, 1633, between Geo. Gage and the Lady Alice Dudley (Close Roll, 10 Chas. I. (2652)).

[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).

[461]. See Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 562–24. Suit of Sir Edw. Stradling.

[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).

[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.

[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)).

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

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

[467]. Indenture between Richard Holford and Edward Stratton (Close Roll, 1658 (3984)).

[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).

[469]. Blemundsbury, p. 384.

[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).

[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

[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).

[473]. See previous note.

[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.

[475]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 248.

[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.

[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).

[478]. Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of Portland’s MSS., Report XIII., App. 1, 683.

[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).

[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).

[481]. See Petition and Appeal of Ralph Lister, MSS. of House of Lords, New Series, IV., pp. 274–5.

[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).

[483]. Reproduced here.

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

[485]. Reproduced here.

[486]. Close Roll, 5 Chas. I. (2800)—Indenture between Richard Holford and Sir Edward Stradling, reciting the earlier indenture.

[487]. See p. [93].

[488]. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 465–184. Plea of John Corrance.

[489]. Reproduced here.

[490]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 32 Eliz., Hilary.

[491]. Ibid., 21 Jas. I., Easter.

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

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

[494]. See p. [112].

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

[496]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1623–5, p. 488; 1627–8, p. 10; 1628–9, p. 359; 1629–31, p. 38.

[497]. Ibid., 1628–9, p. 369.

[498]. Somerset House Wills, Harvey, 6 (Proved 15th January, 1638–9).

[499]. Lady Elizabeth Cust’s The Brownlows of Belton (Records of the Cust Family Series), II., p. 61.

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

[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.

[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).

[503]. Somerset House Wills, Batt, 136. (Proved, with 39 codicils, 28th June, 1680).

[504]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1716, III., 24.

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

[506]. Indenture of 28th April, 1722, between Gilbert Umfreville and Chas. Umfreville and Ric. Baker (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1722, VI., 85).

[507]. See p. [105].

[508]. Grey’s St. Giles’s of the Lepers, pp. 114–5.

[509]. Reproduced here.

[510]. See p. [103].

[511]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 125.

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

[513]. Indenture dated 27th May, 1728, between Peter Walter and Nicholas Lovell (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1728, VI., 15).

[514]. Grey’s St. Giles’s of the Lepers, p. 116.

[515]. Reproduced here.

[516]. Close Roll, 12 William III. (4863)—Indenture between (1) Mary Rawlinson, (2) Giles Powell and (3) Jeremiah Ridge.

[517]. See p. [109].

[518]. See p. [112].

[519]. Privy Council Register, Vol. 29, p. 424.

[520]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1611–18, p. 551.

[521]. Ibid., p. 555.

[522]. Privy Council Register, Vol. 29, p. 484.

[523]. Privy Council Register, Vol. 46, p. 274.

[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).

[525]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 114.

[526]. Close Roll, 9 Eliz. (742).

[527]. Close Roll, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture between Jas. Briscowe, Joan his wife and John Wise and Jas. Mascall.

[528]. Close Roll, 11 Chas. I. (3057).—Indenture between Thos. and Olive Godman and Francis and Frances Gerard.

[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.

[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).

[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).

[532]. He died in 1585 (Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Series II., Vol. 208 (173).)

[533]. John Vavasour’s will (Somerset House Wills, Winderbanck, 65), was proved on 18th June, 1608.

[534]. Close Roll, 9 Eliz., (749).

[535]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1723, V., 181–2.

[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).

[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.)

[538]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 237.

[539]. Close Roll, 31 Chas. II. (4527).

[540]. Sewer Rate Book for that year.

[541]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 320.

[542]. Close Roll, 9 Eliz. (742).

[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).

[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).)

[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.

[546]. Close Roll, 7 Chas. I. (2895).

[547]. Close Roll, 1655 (3866).

[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).

[549]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 32 Eliz., Easter.

[550]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 319.

[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.

[552]. See p. [106].

[553]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 125.

[554]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 113. Newlands was actually in the parish of St. Marylebone (see p. [125]).

[555]. Blemundsbury, p. 308.

[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).

[557]. See p. [101].

[558]. See Sale by Arthur Blythe to Wigg and Whitfield, quoted by Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 126).

[559]. Kingsford’s edition, II., p. 91.

[560]. Reproduced here.

[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).

[562]. Parliamentary Survey (Augmentation Office), Middlesex, 24.

[563]. I.e., the field called Long Acre or Elm Field, lying between Castle Street and the street called Long Acre.

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

[565]. Monmouth Street, now Shaftesbury Avenue, and West Street.

[566]. I.e., The Bowl property, see p. [110].

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

[568]. Close Roll, 2 Geo. II. (5363).

[569]. Endowed Charities, County of London, Vol. V., p. 946.

[570]. Patent Roll, 24 Charles II. (3137).

[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).

[572]. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 36–47. Suit of Jas. Kendricke.

[573]. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 614–105. Suit of William Jennens.

[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).

[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.

[576]. Notes and Queries, 11th Series, VIII., pp. 182–3.

[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.

[578]. Wheatley and Cunningham’s London Past and Present, III., p. 234.

[579]. Reproduced here.

[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)).

[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.

[582]. Reproduced here.

[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).

[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.

[585]. Survey of London (Kingsford’s edn.), II., p. 90.

[586]. Historia Anglicana, p. 176b.

[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.

[588]. Ancient Petitions, E. 617.

[589]. Ancient Petitions, E. 617; 2448.

[590]. Calendar of Letterbooks of the City of London, Letterbook G., p. 28.

[591]. Ibid., p. 29.

[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.”

[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.

[594]. Close Roll, 16 James I. (2384).—Indenture, dated 19 March, 1617–8, between Robert Lloyd and Isaac Bringhurst.

[595]. See p. [124].

[596]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, 3 Edward VI. (89).

[597]. Close Roll, 8 Elizabeth (722).

[598]. Close Roll, 8 James I. (2066)—Indenture, dated 20th February, 1610–11, between John Graunge and Robert Lloyd.

[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]).

[600]. Close Roll, 16 James I. (2384).

[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).

[602]. Endowed Charities (County of London), Vol. III. (1900), p. 348.

[603]. Close Roll, 10 James I. (2123)—Indenture between Robert Floyd and William Holt and John Harman.

[604]. Close Roll, 1652 (3683)—Indenture between John Hooker and Walter Bigg.

[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).

[606]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 117.

[607]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1727, VI., 138.

[608]. Close Roll, 16 James I. (2384)—Indenture between Robert Lloyd and Isaac Bringhurst.

[609]. Close Roll, 16 James I. (2384).

[610]. Close Roll, 7 Charles I. (2895)—Indenture between Anne Bringhurst and John Stafey and the Lady Alice Dudley.

[611]. Close Roll, 10 Charles I. (3017).

[612]. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 455–66.—Suit of John Boswell.

[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).

[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).

[615]. See p. [125].

[616]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, II. Series, Vol. 139 (134).

[617]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, II. Series, Vol. 384 (139).

[618]. Recovery Roll, 21 James I. Trinity.—Indenture between John and William Flood, and Zachery Bethel.

[619]. Somerset House Wills, Gee, 159.

[620]. Patent Roll, 23 Charles II. (3125).

[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).

[622]. These were in St. Anne’s, Soho.

[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).

[624]. Patent Roll, 28 Henry VIII. (671).

[625]. The whole of the above information is obtained from Chancery Decree Roll (1).

[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.”

[627]. Chancery Decree Roll, No. 3.

[628]. Close Roll, 37 Henry VIII. (444).

[629]. This was in the parish of Edmonton, now Southgate.

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

[631]. The Great Close of Bloomsbury and Wilkinson’s Close.

[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.

[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)).

[634]. Licence to alienate granted 6th July, 1546.

[635]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, II. Series, 3 Edward VI. (89).

[636]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, 15 Elizabeth, Vol. 165, on Thomas Carew.

[637]. Ibid., 6 Elizabeth, Vol. 139.

[638]. Ibid., Series II. (49), Vol. 109.

[639]. Her second husband was Sir Thomas Chaloner.

[640]. According to the Dictionary of National Biography, he “spent the fortune of his family in the pursuit of alchemy.”

[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)).

[642]. Close Roll, 7 Eliz. (695).

[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.

[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.”

[645]. He was knighted on 20th April, 1603.

[646]. Close Roll, 14 Jas. I. (2308)—Indenture between Sir Henry Rich, Dame Isabella, and Dame Dorothy Cope and Gifford and Risley.

[647]. Vestry Minutes, 1624–1719.

[648]. See p. [1].

[649]. Newcourt, op. cit., p. 612.

[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.”

[651]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 56.

[652]. Ibid., pp. 191–2.

[653]. Vestry Minutes, 1624–1719, f. 4.

[654]. A Mirrour of Christianity and a Miracle of Charity, etc., by R. B. [i.e., Robert Boreman], p. 121.

[655]. A New View of London (1708), I., p. 259.

[656]. Strype’s edition of Stow, 1720, II., pp. 77ff. The greater portion of what follows is taken from Strype’s description.

[657]. See illustrations on map in Strype’s edition of Stow (Plate 5).

[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).

[659]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, pp. 200–1.

[660]. 4 Geo. I., cap. 14.

[661]. 3 Geo. II., cap. 19.

[662]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 213.

[663]. Hatton’s New View of London (1708), p. 262.

[664]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 224

[665]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, pp. 216–7.

[666]. Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense, p. 173.

[667]. Reproduced here.

[668]. See p. [123].

[669]. Reproduced here.

[670]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 117.

[671]. Reproduced here.

[672]. See p. [1].

[673]. Close Roll, 30 Henry VI.—Grant, dated 2nd April, 1452, by Jo. Crouton and W. Horn to Jo. and Katherine Nayler.

[674]. To the east of Church Close.

[675]. Close Roll, 13 James I. (2275).

[676]. History of London, p. 1363.

[677]. Tyburn Gallows (published by the London County Council), p. 16.

[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.

[679]. Endowed Charities, County of London, III., p. 350.

[680]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 228.

[681]. Chancery Decree Roll, No. 3.

[682]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, II. Series, Middlesex, Vol. 200 (5).

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

[684]. Close Roll, 9 Elizabeth (742).

[685]. Close Roll, 8 Charles I. (2946).

[686]. Close Roll, 1649 (31). Indenture, dated 20th March, 1648–9, between John Barber als Grigg and Henry Baynbrigge.

[687]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 152.

[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).

[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.)

[690]. Opened in 1847.

[691]. Except perhaps the extreme east.

[692]. Wheatley and Cunningham (London, Past and Present) give the date of the street’s formation as approximately 1670.

[693]. Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren (1823), p. 522.

[694]. Collins’s Peerage of England, 5th Edition, III., p. 328.

[695]. Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren, p. 522.

[696]. Burke’s Peerage.

[697]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 372.

[698]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[699]. Walpole’s Letters (Toynbee Edn.) XI., p. 52.

[700]. Survey of London, Vol. III., pp. 88–89.

[701]. Parish ratebooks.

[702]. Reproduced here.

[703]. Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

[704]. Richardson and Gill’s London Houses from 1660 to 1820, p. 67.

[705]. A. E. Richardson’s Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland.

[706]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 108.

[707]. Beresford Chancellor’s History of the Squares of London, pp. 202–10.

[708]. Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

[709]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1778, II., 409.

[710]. Reproduced here.

[711]. In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

[712]. Painted Decoration—the Georgian Period, by Ingleson C. Goodison (Architectural Review, January, 1913).

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

[714]. Reproduced here.

[715]. In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

[716]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1778, II., 409.

[717]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 67.

[718]. Reproduced here.

[719]. In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

[720]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1778, IV., 505.

[721]. Reproduced here.

[722]. In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

[723]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1778, IV., 505.

[724]. See p. [153].

[725]. Boyle’s Court Guide, however, shows him at the house from 1796 to 1799.

[726]. The Dictionary of National Biography says that it was at No. 11, Bedford Square.

[727]. Reproduced here.

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

[729]. Reproduced here.

[730]. Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

[731]. See p. [151].

[732]. See pp. [84]–5.

[733]. Reproduced here.

[734]. Reproduced here.

[735]. Reproduced here.

[736]. Reproduced here.

[737]. See p. [168].

[738]. Reproduced here.

[739]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 263.

[740]. Reproduced here.

[741]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1776, VI., 487.

[742]. Reproduced here.

[743]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1776, VI., 630.

[744]. Reproduced here.

[745]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, VI., 631.

[746]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 102.

[747]. Reproduced here.

[748]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1778, II., 314.

[749]. Dictionary of National Biography.

[750]. Reproduced here.

[751]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 351.

[752]. Reproduced here.

[753]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 353.

[754]. Reproduced here.

[755]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 254.

[756]. Reproduced here.

[757]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 252.

[758]. Reproduced here.

[759]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 257.

[760]. Reproduced here.

[761]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, I., 637.

[762]. Reproduced here.

[763]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, II., 526.

[764]. Reproduced here.

[765]. In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

[766]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, I., 631.

[767]. Reproduced here.

[768]. Reproduced here.

[769]. See licence to alienate granted in Patent Roll, 9 Elizabeth (1038).

[770]. See p. [125].

[771]. See pardon for alienation granted in Patent Roll, 30 Elizabeth (1321).

[772]. Information kindly supplied by the City of London Corporation.

[773]. A. E. Richardson’s Monumental Classic Architecture.

[774]. A copy is in the County Hall collection.

[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.

[776]. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Chas. I. (765), 37.

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

[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.).

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

[780]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1772, VI., 111.

[781]. The Old Farm House in Tottenham Court Road, by Ambrose Heal.

[782]. Reproduced here.

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