[322] The patronage of this rectory, usually held by a Fellow, was alienated rather more than thirty years ago.
[323] The slaughter-houses were replaced by a brew-house, to the use of which the old well beneath the wall was in 1672 diverted. Lumbard was a Jew who lived here. It is odd that the only shop in this lane still exhibits the arms of Lombardy, and perhaps carries on the business of this mediæval Jew: the Jewry was elsewhere.
[324] From a family named Penyverthing. A physician named Ireland who lived here in this century, and whose patients made believe to think his fee was 1¼d., got the name changed to Pembroke Street.
[325] Between 1675 and 1700 a new style of gardening seems to have come into vogue. Compare Loggan and Burghersh.
[326] Mrs. Evans, wife of the Rev. Dr. Evans, Master of the College.
[327] This is the meaning of the entry “pro ostreis” in the Bursar’s accounts.
[328] The late Bishop Jeune told Mr. Burgon that aged persons in his time remembered this.
[329] “Johnson could not bear to be painted with his defects … ‘He [Reynolds] may paint himself as deaf as he pleases, but I will not be Blinking Sam’” (Piozzi).
[330] It is curious that the College arms have almost from the first been blazoned wrongly, the argent and or fields of the chief having changed places. The argent should be on the dexter side.
[331] As it seems with a key; possibly a relic of the “wakening-mallet” of religious houses.