[407]. The vestry minutes for 1712 also refer to the house under this title: “That a proper place for the site of a new parish church, and a house for a minister, would be at the great house in Great Queen Street, commonly called by the name of the Land Bank” (Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 291).
[408]. He wrote several medical books, as well as a Narrative of the Birth of the Prince of Wales. He had been summoned to attend the confinement of James II.’s queen, but was away from London and arrived too late.
[409]. Subscriptions were to be paid at Mercers’ Hall and Exeter Change (London Gazette, May 28th–June 1st, 1696), and Dr. Chamberlain’s office was, at any rate, at first in New Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn (Ibid., June 20th–23rd, 1696).
[410]. “The trustees of the Land Bank, late at Exeter Change (now removed to the Three Anchors, over against Salisbury Court in Fleet Street) do give notice, that on the 11th day of February next they will make a dividend to such persons as are Heads of classes to whom transfers are made” (The Post Boy, January 25th–27th, 1697–8).
[411]. Reproduced here.
[413]. Survey of London, Vol. III., p. 98.
[414]. Confirmation of his residence in Great Queen Street about 1794 is found by the mention of “Thos. Leverton of Great Queen Street” in a deed of 29th September, 1795 (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1795, VI., 211).
[415]. Mrs. Piozzi’s Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson (1786), p. 173.
[416]. Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 5th April, 1775.