[134]. Either this means that Short had purchased a portion of Bear Close, or, more probably, it refers to that portion of Rose Field which bounded Bear Close on the east. This had before 1650 been sold to Thomas Grover. (Close Roll, 1654 (3813).—Indenture between William Short and Wm. Atkinson.)
[135]. Close Roll, 1657 (3940)—Indenture between William Short and Edward Tooke.
[136]. Privy Council Register, vol. 258, 46.
[137]. See letters from him addressed to (a) the Earl of Pembroke, 22nd November, 1620; (b) Secretary Conway, 23rd November, 1623 (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1619–23, p. 194, and 1623–5, p. 117).
[138]. It need hardly be said that Blott’s (Blemundsbury, pp. 357–362) identification of Lewknor’s house with “Cornwallis House, Drury Lane,” the residence of Sir William Cornwallis, “adjoining the grounds of the White Hart Inn ... at the Holborn end of Drury Lane” is a pure fiction. There is no evidence that Sir William Cornwallis ever lived in Drury Lane. His statement that “it is a long task to trace how the Christmasse estate passed into the Cornwallis family, who appears to have been the immediate successors to the great inheritance in Drury Lane,” is delightful, seeing that “the Christmasse estate” was situated at White Hart corner, and the Cornwallis “inheritance,” which, by the way, was acquired only in 1613, some years after Sir William Cornwallis’s death, consisted of Purse Field, which nowhere reached within 500 feet of Drury Lane.
[139]. Coram Rege Roll, Easter term, 17 Chas. II., No. 469.
[140]. Close Roll, 1650 (3542).—Indenture between William Short and Thomas Walker, Peter Mills and Richard Horseman.
[141]. This is stated in the deed (20 June, 1652) relating to the sale of the property by George Evelyn (who had married Sir John Cotton’s widow) to John Fotherley (Common Pleas, Recovery Roll, 1652, Trin., 278), and Cotton’s name is given in respect of the house in the Subsidy Roll of 1646.
[142]. See, e.g.—Indenture between Henry Fotherley Whitfield and Joseph King (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1766, I., 379) concerning a parcel of ground in “St. Thomas’s Street, now intended to be called King Street.”
[143]. Lease dated 23rd February, 1619–20, by Thomas Burton to Edmund Edlyn, quoted in Blott’s Blemundsbury, pp. 358–9. It should be explained that Walter Burton had sublet to Thomas Burton a portion of the ground leased to him by William Short.