[457]. This ran parallel to Great Queen Street, 197 feet distant therefrom.
[458]. The above particulars are taken from Recovery Roll, 9 Chas. I. (Easter) (201). Rot. 23.
[459]. Indenture dated 9th August, 1633, between Geo. Gage and the Lady Alice Dudley (Close Roll, 10 Chas. I. (2652)).
[460]. Then (under the indenture of 9th August, 1633, mentioned above) charged with a rent of £150 a year, during the life of Lady Dudley (Chancery Proceedings, Series II., 409–73).
[461]. See Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 562–24. Suit of Sir Edw. Stradling.
[462]. Such was the statement made by Weld in answer to the claim advanced by Sir Edward Stradling, junr., grandson of the other Sir Edward, who, however, suggested that the transaction was a mortgage containing a proviso for redemption for £416. (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 562–24).
[463]. Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 138) mentions a tablet at one end of Wild Street, with an inscription suggesting that the east side of the street was finished in 1653. This fits in quite well with the above-mentioned facts.
[464]. It is mentioned as “the way ... leading on the back side of Drury Lane from Princes Streete to Queene Streete” in Indenture of 13th August, 1629, between Richard Holford and Sir Edw. Stradling (Close Roll, 5 Chas. I. (2800)).
[465]. The date of the lease to Ittery (see p. [93]).
[466]. Weld’s own name, though usually spelt with an “e” is also found in the forms: Wild, Wield, Weild.