[24]. Close Roll, 21 Charles II. (4270).
[25]. Blott’s Blemundsbury, p. 201.
[26]. Close Roll, 33 Elizabeth (1375).
[27]. Daughter of Sir Nicolas Harvey, and widow of George Carew, dean of Windsor, who died in June, 1583, and was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields (Dictionary of National Biography).
[28]. No doubt the same afterwards occupied by Sir William and Lady Segar, and Lord Bothwell (see plan of 1658 in Black Books of Lincoln’s Inn, Vol, II.) The easternmost portion of the northern boundary of Purse Field is described as “the late garden wall of Sir William Seager, Knt.” in the grant of the field to Newton in 1638 (Patent Roll, 13 Charles I. (2775)), and as “the garden of Bothwell House” in the sale of that part of the field in 1653 (Close Roll, 1653 (3715))—(Indenture between Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman).
[29]. It is no doubt this intermixture of gardens and houses that caused the peculiar shape of Partridge Alley, seen on the map accompanying Strype’s edition of Stow (Plate 5), and better still on Hollar’s Plan of 1658 (Plate 3).
[30]. It is strange, however, that her will (Somerset House Wills, Hayes, 61) bequeathing her property to her son, Sir George Carew, only mentions “all such leases as are in my possession, as inter alia Savoy, St. Giles.”
[31]. Close Roll, 16 Charles I. (3228).
[32]. Chancery Proceedings, Bridges XX, 45. Suit of Henry Harwell.
[33]. Chancery Decree Roll, 1922. Suit of William Duckett and Hugh Speaks against Henry Harwell, George Smithson, Daniel Thelwall and William Byerly.