[238]. Hist. MSS. Comm., Pembroke College MSS., Report V., App. p. 487.
[239]. He was still in the parish (possibly in this house) in 1658, for Parton quotes (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 356) an entry in the churchwardens’ accounts for that year: “Pd. and expended at the sessions, about Sir William Paston’s complaynt, of his being double rated.”
[240]. Close Roll, 15 Chas. II. (4143)—Indenture between the Hon. John Digby and Sir Anthony Morgan and Richard Langhorne.
[241]. Described in Survey of London, Vol. IV. (Chelsea, Part II.), pp. 18–27.
[242]. Some time between 1666 and 1675 he removed to No. 51, Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Survey of London, Vol. III., p. 71).
[243]. See also North’s account: “The great House in Queen Street was taken for the use of this Commission. Mr. Henry Slingsby sometime Master of the Mint, was the Secretary; and they had a formal Board with Green Cloth and standishes, clerks’ good store, a tall Porter and staff and sitting attendance below, and a huge Luminary at the Door. And, in Winter Time, when the Board met, as was two or three times a week, or oftener, all the Rooms were lighted, Coaches at the Door, and great passing in and out, as if a Council of State in good earnest had been sitting. All cases, Complaints and Deliberations of Trade were referred to this Commission, and they reported their opinion, whereupon the King in Council ordered as of course. So that they had the Province of a Committee of Council; and the whole Privy Council was less charge to the King than this.” (Examen, p. 461.)
[244]. The Council of Trade was established on 7th November, 1660, and by patent dated 1st December in the same year Charles II. also created the Council of Foreign Plantations. (Haydn’s Book of Dignities, 1894, p. 263.)
[245]. Slingsby writes on behalf of the Council for Foreign Plantations from Queen Street, on 27th April, 1671. (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1671, p. 204.)
[246]. In October, 1672, the Council of Plantations was united to that of Trade (Evelyn, Diary, 13th October, 1672), and the united Council seems thenceforth to have utilised a portion of “Villiers House,” the house of the Duchess of Cleveland. (Audit Office, Declared Accounts, Trade, etc., 2303 (2)).
[247]. See schedules of deeds appended to Indentures between Thos. Stonor, etc., and Sir Godfrey Kneller, dated 11th and 12th March, 1717–8 (Close Roll, 5 Geo. I. (5117)).