[298]. The house is referred to later on as “all that messuage, etc., formerly called by the name of the Great Wardrobe” (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1811, VI., 104). It will be noticed that the title “Queen Anne’s Wardrobe” given to the western half of Bristol House in 1846 (Plate 16) is doubly incorrect. In the first place it is assigned to the wrong half of Bristol House, and secondly the dates show that it could not possibly have had any connection with Queen Anne.
[299]. See copy of deed, dated 11th March, 1708–9, for the appointment of Dummer as deputy. (Treasury Papers, Cal. 1708–14, CXIII., No. 12.)
[300]. Shortly before 4th February, 1774, Sheridan took a house in Orchard Street (Sanders’ Life of Sheridan, p. 23).
[301]. His name in the ratebooks is given as “Richard Sheridan” only, but a deed of 1811, giving the names of occupants of the house mentions him by his full name: “formerly in occupation of Benjamin Wilson, painter, afterwards of John Henderson, sometime since in the possession of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and now of Ann Boak, milliner.” (Indenture of 20th June, 1811, between Jno. Kneller, Peter Tahairdin, and Thos. Grove—Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1811, VI., 104.)
[302]. Moore’s Memoirs of Sheridan, p. 213.
[303]. F. M. Parsons’ Garrick and His Circle, p. 369. As an example of how false history comes to be written, it is interesting to note that Mrs. Parsons describes the house as “an Inigo Jones house, in which five men known to fame: Hudson, the painter; scritch-scratch Worlidge, the etcher; Hoole, Tasso’s translator, whom Johnson loved; now Sheridan; and after him, Chippendale, the cabinet maker, successively lived.” None of the other individuals mentioned lived in the house occupied by Sheridan.
[305]. Stafford’s Letters (Ed. Wm. Knowler, 1739), II., p. 165
[306]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1638–9, p. 113.
[307]. Close Roll, 17 Charles I. (3275). Indenture between Lord Conway, Edw. Burghe and Wm. Newton and Elizabeth, Countess Rivers.