[94]. Together with a moiety of the three northernmost of the 8 houses and of other property on the north side of High Holborn, acquired by Mascall of Edward Kingston.
[95]. Close Roll, 11 Chas. I. (3057)—Indenture between Thos. Godman and Olive his wife and Francis Gerard and Frances his wife.
[96]. Blott’s Blemundsbury, p. 381.
[97]. As showing the connection between the Gerard and Cole families attention may be drawn to the fact that Philip Gerard, successor of Francis Gerard in Drury Lane, and probably his son, was associated with Salomon Cole in a deed relating to property at King’s Gate. (Close Roll, 1658—Indenture between Sir Thos. Fisher, Gerard and Cole and John Plumer).
[98]. Close Roll, 1655 (3857)—Indenture between Chas. Lovell, etc., and Philip Wetherell.
[99]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1756, II., 325–6—Indenture between John Smart and John Higgs.
[100]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1717, II., 272.
[101]. Reproduced here.
[102]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 71.
[103]. From deeds quoted by Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles) it is evident that in the 13th century Drury Lane was known as “Aldewych” or “Via de Aldewych.” The name “Drury Lane,” given later, was no doubt due to the existence of Drury House near the Strand end of the road. How late “Via de Aldewych” was used there is nothing to show. In certain deeds of the 17th century (e.g., Close Roll, 24 November, 8 Charles I.—Indenture between Francis, Lord Russell, and Earl of Bedford and John, Earl of Bristol, etc.) the road is called “Drury Lane alias Fortescue Lane.” It is just possible that the latter name is to be connected with Sir John Fortescue, who held the Elm Field (i.e., the land between Castle Street and Long Acre) in the reign of Henry VI. (Close Roll, 30 Henry VI. (302)—Grant by John Crouton and Wm. Horn to John and Katherine Nayler); in fact there is reason for thinking that the “viam regiam ducentem ... a villa Sci. Egidii versus Bosomysynne modo Johis. Fortescue militis” mentioned in the same deed is actually Drury Lane. The road seems also to have gone by the name of St. Giles’s Lane in the early part of the 17th century. (See p. [35]n.)