[44]. Close Roll, 5 James I. (1910). Indenture between Gregory Miller and Geo. Flower.
[45]. Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 354) records the fact of the residence of Sir Anthony Ashley and Sir John Cowper (see above) in Thornton’s Alley.
[46]. Middlesex Feet of Fines, 16 Elizabeth, Easter.
[47]. Close Roll, 2 Charles I. (2677). Indenture between Frederick Johnson and Mary Worliche and Francis Cole.
[48]. Close Roll, 5 Charles I. (2800). Indenture between Francis Cole and Robert Offley.
[49]. See warrant given in Indenture of 9th April, 1630, between Wm. and Joan Newton and Anthony Bailey and John Johnson. (Close Roll, 6 Charles I. (2853). Newton, the designer of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, had married the daughter and heir of Gregory Miller, son of John.)
[50]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.) pp. 5–6.
[51]. Close Roll, 15 Chas. I. (3193).
[52]. Close Rolls, 20th July, 1639, between William Newton and Lewis Richard (15 Chas. I. (3191)); 15th March, 1638–9, between Wm. Newton and John Giffard (15 Chas. I. (3188)); 1st October, 1657, between Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman (1657 (3945)).
[53]. The houses to the south of Fortescue’s premises seem to have been built originally as three houses. The southern boundary of Fortescue’s houses is said to be “a greate house lately built by the said William Newton.” This, according to the Hearth Tax Rolls, was the Earl of Northampton’s mansion. Then came “a faire messuage or howse of one Master Crewe,” and to the south of this, at the corner of Great Queen Street, and having a width from north to south of 42 feet, was in 1648 a plot of ground on which “Henry Massingberd intends to erect a house.” (Close Roll, 24 Chas. I. (3411.) Indenture between Humfrey Newton and Henry Massingberd.) If, however, only one house was built on this plot, it was divided quite early, as the premises already appear in two occupations in the Hearth Tax Roll for 1666.