[21] Malcolm, Lond. rediv. iii. 230, 231.
[22] The orchestra connected with it was pulled down in 1827; Cromwell’s Clerkenwell, p. 357.
[23] No. 6, Eliza Place, stood on the site of the old entrance (Pinks).
[24] Mr. Philip Norman, writing in Notes and Queries, 8th ser. vi. 1894, p. 457, says:—“I have seen (in the cellar of No. 6, Spa Cottages, behind the house at the corner of Lloyd’s Row) grotto work with stone pilasters and on each side steps descending. Here, I believe, was the chalybeate spring. For many years it has ceased to flow.”
[25] Daily Telegraph, 1 August, 1895.
[26] A newspaper paragraph of April 1752, mentions the little summer house at the Ducking Pond House in Spa Fields, as being lately stripped of its chairs and tables by some pitiful rogues.
[27] In The Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine for January 1773 (p. 162) is the notice:—
“Pantheons: The Nobility’s, Oxford Road; the Mobility’s, Spawfields.”
[28] The organ appears, about 1772, to have been silenced on Sundays, at least for a time. A correspondent in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser for 20 June, 1772, refers to the Middlesex Justices who will not suffer the organs to be played at the Little Pantheon, White Conduit House, Bagnigge Wells, &c.
[29] May Day, or the Origin of Garlands, a poem published in 1720. The Field Spy, published in 1714 (Rogers, Views of Pleasure Gardens of London, p. 46), speaks of the spring and garden as if a good deal frequented in 1714.