It is as follows.

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[Footnote 2:]

In the

Spectator's

time numbering of houses was so rare that in Hatton's

New View of London

, published in 1708, special mention is made of the fact that

'in Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields, instead of signs the houses are distinguished by numbers, as the staircases in the Inns of Court and Chancery.'

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