[46] Pennant's Account of London, ed. 1813, p. 537. It has been stated recently that Messrs Martin & Co., of Lombard Street, the direct successors of Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579), are the oldest bankers in London. But I prefer to believe Pennant.
[47] Robert Chambers, in his Journal (No. 567, Nov. 7, 1874).
[48] Representative Actors, W. Clark Russell, p. 322.
[49] Memoirs of Miss Mellon, vol. i., p. 309.
[50] Cunningham's Handbook of London, 1850, p. 476.
[51] London Past and Present, vol. i., p. 6.
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