[437]. Survey of London, Vol. IV., p. 81.
[438]. Burke’s Extinct Peerage. Knighted, 7th August, 1624 (Shaw’s Knights of England, II., p. 186).
[439]. Peerage of England, 1710 (2nd edn.), p. 232.
[440]. See Survey of London, III., p. 53.
[441]. Probably the “Ashburnham Froude” who is shown in joint occupation with Burges of No. 68 in 1723 (see p. [92]).
[442]. Francis Const (1751–1839), legal writer. “Wrote some epilogues and prologues, and numbered among his convivial companions Henderson, John Kemble, Stephen Storace, Twiss, Porson, Dr. Burney and Sheridan.” (Dic. Nat. Biog.).
[443]. “Yesterday was married by the Rev. Mr. Francklin at his chapel near Russel Street, Bloomsbury, David Garrick, Esq., to Eva Maria Violetti.” (General Advertiser, 23rd June, 1749). Fitzgerald (Life of David Garrick, p. 126) wrongly says: “at the church in Russell Street, Bloomsbury.” The statement of Mrs. Parsons (Garrick and his Circle, p. 143) that it was “at Dr. Francklin’s Chapel in Queen Street (the modern Museum Street)” is based on unknown, but possibly quite good, evidence.
[444]. Dictionary of National Biography.
[445]. The Dictionary of National Biography states that her death also took place in Great Queen Street. It is difficult to reconcile this with the fact that the parish ratebook for 1795 shows that Francis Const took up his residence in the house in the course of that year. She was, however, certainly resident there on 4 June, 1795, the date of her will.
[446]. Burke’s Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, III., p. 402.