[114]. Situated on the north side of High Holborn, just to the west of the present junction with New Oxford Street.
[115]. It will be seen that the present Ye Olde White Hart, No. 191, Drury Lane, is not on the site either of the old White Hart, or even of the land formerly belonging to it.
[116]. Parton, Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 238.
[117]. Reproduced here.
[118]. The course of this stream as shown in the map accompanying Volume III. of the Survey of London requires a slight modification, as deeds, which have since come to light, show that to the south of High Holborn it followed exactly the winding red line indicating the course of the later sewer, and not the straight line there suggested.
[119]. Close Roll, 1657 (3940).—Indenture between William Short and Edward Tooke.
[120]. Thomas Burton’s land, which included the site of all the houses in Drury Lane mentioned in the above deed, had a width along that street of 233 feet. These houses reached as far south as the house belonging to Mr. Fotherley, on whose garden St. Thomas’s Street was subsequently formed. (Parton, Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 275.) The distance between the boundary line and the northern side of Shelton Street, the modern representative of St. Thomas’s Street, is 243 feet, thus allowing a 10 feet extension of the garden northwards beyond the street.
[122]. The occupier of The Rose at this time was Richard Taylor. See Petition of Geo. Sutton complaining of a confederacy between Taylor and “one Thomas Barnett, brewer,” to whom Taylor had let the premises after Sutton had given him lawful warning to avoid. (Augmentation Proceedings, 22–25.) The property is described as “one tenement called The Roose, lieing and being within the said parish of Saint Gyles in the feldes, with one barne and syxe acres of land, with appurtenances to the same.”
[123]. Close Roll, 42 Elizabeth (1666).