[417]. Obituary notice in Gentleman’s Magazine, 88, part ii., 179.
[418]. Reproduced here.
[419]. Indenture of 19th July, 1798 (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1798, III., 185), referring to the sites of Nos. 67 and 68, recites the lease so far as it concerns those sites. The recital also refers to other ground dealt with by the lease, and this was almost certainly the site of No. 66, which it is known was also a Mills house, the eastern boundary of Conway House being described as “the messuage of Peter Mills, bricklayer, now in the tenure of the Countess of Essex.” (Recovery Roll (Common Pleas), 17 Chas. I., Hilary (236).)
[420]. Peter Mills died in 1670, then being resident in Little St. Bartholomew’s. (Somerset House Wills, Penn, 147.)
[421]. There is a clause referring to “such messuages and buildings as then were or afterwards should be erected thereon,” which is quite indefinite, but if there had been any houses the names of the occupiers would almost certainly have been given. The Finalis Concordia relating to the transaction does not mention houses, but only half a rood of pasture.
[422]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 290.
[423]. The occupier of No. 68 seems to have persisted later than 1709 (see below). Moreover, the assessable value of No. 67 drops from £40 in 1703 to £25 in 1715 (the next record), a fact which seems to point to the curtailment of the property due to the erection of the chapel.
[424]. Baguley’s The True State of the Case.
[425]. On 3rd September, 1728, Thos. Burges sold to Thos. Parnell and Wm. Page certain houses (one of which was certainly No. 68), and “all that building or chappell, together with all and singular the pews, seats, gallereyes and other rights and privileges thereunto belonging.” (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1728, I., 251).
[426]. A Sermon preached at Queen Street Chapel and St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, on ... the day appointed for a general fast.