[111] Pennant’s History of Whitford and Hollywell, p. 16.
[128] Mr. Goss, the present Organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, was then Organist of the Church.
[137] The Act specifies £20,000 and a Sixpenny Rate.
[144] In allusion to a very impressive sermon preached by the late Rev. H. Blunt, from 1 Sam. xv. 14.
[147] The number that died of the plague this year in London was 30,578.
[150] The Writer’s father was one of the two Overseers of the Poor in 1805.
[153a] Drawn up in the hand-writing of the Rev. Dr. King, Rector.
[153b] We find mention of Bloody Gate and Bridge as early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth. This spot was situated at the eastern entrance into Sloane Square, and where Chelsea is divided from St. George’s, Hanover Square.
[153c] The whole of the land, now the site of Sloane Street, was anciently called “Blackland.” It extended as far as the Marlborough Road, some few years since known as Blackland Lane.
[155] Gent. Mag., 1753.