[74] The church now St. John’s. Rebuilt in 1745.
[75] Lysons, ‘Environs of London.’
[76] The Rev. Samuel White, at that time resident at Frognal.
[77] ‘At the above date Hampstead, with many other parishes, took advantage of a statute passed in the reign of George I., which, with the consent of the major part of the parishioners, empowered the churchwardens and overseers of parishes to purchase or hire any house in the parish, or to contract with any person to lodge and keep and employ the poor ... hiring them, in fact, to contractors. The system, for a while, appeared to work well, but after a time ceased to be useful.’—Howitt, ‘Northern Heights.’
[78] It was he who built the magnificent Chesterfield House, Mayfair.
[79] Park, p. 342.
[80] Obituary, European Magazine, 1804. Haydn says 1805, which is wrong.
[81] Howitt, ‘Northern Heights of London.’
[82] Every ticket was sold before the drawing took place.
[83] Obituary, European Magazine, of this month and year. Haydn says 1805.