[398]. Ibid., 1670, p. 111.
[399]. A less known contemporary account is the following: “Wednesday night last ... some mischievous persons to dishonour my Lord Chancellour crept through a window of his house in Queen Street and stole the mace and the two purses, but by good chance could not find the seal. There was upon the table a great silver standish, and a thousand guineyes in a cabinet, as they report, but nothing of them touched, the design being upon another score than bare robbery” (Letter, dated 8th February, 1676–7, from Edward Smith to Lord Rous, Historical MSS. Commission, Rutland MSS., XII. Report, App. V., p. 37).
The entry in the Middlesex Sessions Records concerning the event is as follows: “7 February, 29 Charles II.—True Bill that, at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Co. Midd., in the night between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. of the said day, Thomas Sadler alias Clarke, William Johnson alias Trueman and Thomas Reneger, all three late of the said parish, laborers, broke burglariously into the dwelling house of Heneage Lord Finch the Lord Chancellor of the said Lord the King and then and there stole and carried off a silver mace gilt gold worth one hundred pounds and two velvet purses imbroydered with gold and silver and sett with pearles, worth forty pounds, of the goods and chattels of the said Lord the King. Found ‘Guilty,’ all three burglars were sentenced to be ‘hanged.’” (Middlesex Sessions Records, IV., p. 75).
[400]. Dictionary of National Biography.
[401]. Roger North’s Autobiography, p. 165.
[402]. “After we came to London, we were to wait on the Lord Jeffreys, who had the Seal, to congratulate and offer him all the service we could do, and to receive his commands touching the house in Queen Street where the Lord Keeper lived, and it was so proceeded that he took the house” (Roger North’s Autobiography, p. 195).
[403]. H. B. Irving’s Judge Jeffreys, p. 332.
[404]. 7 and 8 Will. III., cap. 27 (sessional number, 53).
[405]. Then resident next door, see pp. 73–4. She was Ursula, widow of Edward Conway, first Earl of Conway.
[406]. See e.g., Indenture of lease, dated 18th November, 1743, between Francis Paddey and Jas. Mallors (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1743, III., 453).