[208]. Harl. MS., 5,900, 57b.
[209]. The reason why Lindsey House is now not in the middle of the west side of the Fields is that in the original design the west row extended from Gate Street to No. 2, Portsmouth Street. The building of the houses on the north and south sides of the Fields, not included in the original design, encroached on both sides of the west row, but the encroachment on the north being the greater, the axis of the square was thereby moved further south.
[210]. British Museum. J. W. Archer Collection. “The house called Queen Anne’s Wardrobe,” drawn 1846 (No. 55–6, Great Queen Street) and “House of the Sardinia Ambassador,” drawn 1858 (No. 54, Lincoln’s Inn Fields).
[211]. “The expert surveyour will repart the windows to the front of a palace, that they may (besides the affording of sufficient light to the rooms) leave a solid peeres between them, and to place some pleasing ornament thereon, not prejudicial to the structure, nor too chargeable for the builder, shunning incongruities, as many (pretending knowledge in ornaments) have committed, by placing between windows pilasters, through whose bodies lions are represented to creep; as those in Queen Street without any necessity, or ground for the placing lions so ill, which are commonly represented but as supporters, either of weight, or of arms on herauldry.” (Counsel and Advice to All Builders, pp. 13–14.)
[213]. Anecdotes of Painting, II., p. 60.
[214]. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), Plate 6.
[215]. It was assessed for the hearth tax at 40 hearths, while Conway House, although of the same frontage, was only assessed at 31.
[216]. The frontage of this house is stated in certain deeds in the London County Council’s possession (e.g., Indenture of 26th October, 1639, between Wm. Newton and Compton, Dive and Brewer) to be 98 feet, but in others (e.g., Release by Wm. Newton senr., to Wm. Newton, junr., dated 22nd January, 1637–8) is given as 88 feet. That the latter is correct may be regarded as certain from the perfect accord of the total number of feet thus obtained with the present boundaries.
[217]. The deeds from which these particulars are taken are (1) Close Roll, 15 Chas. I. (3196)—Indenture between Wm. Newton and Sir Ralph Freeman; and (2) a deed in the possession of the Council—Indenture between Newton and Sir Henry Compton, etc. The former deed, in error, reverses the eastern and western boundaries.