[427]. He was certainly in possession on 19th June, 1758, for on that date he mortgaged the whole of the property to William Ferrand (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1758, III., 4).
[428]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1798, III., 185.
[429]. Blemundsbury, p. 397.
[430]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1815, III., 227.
[431]. “The new Methodist Chapel erected on the south side of Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was opened yesterday morning. It is a spacious, handsome building, and will accommodate a larger congregation than most of our churches. It has a range of two galleries on each side. The altar is an appropriate and beautiful piece of architecture.” (Morning Herald, 26th September, 1817).
[432]. Heckethorn’s Lincoln’s Inn Fields, p. 183.
[434]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.
[435]. A much mutilated Hearth Tax Roll, dating apparently from some time between 1666 and 1672, shows “Geo. Porter, Esq.,” residing on the south side of Great Queen Street, but it cannot be proved that the entry refers to the same house.
[436]. Dictionary of National Biography.