[495]. Katherine Clifton, only daughter and heiress of Gervase, Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromswold.
[496]. Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1623–5, p. 488; 1627–8, p. 10; 1628–9, p. 359; 1629–31, p. 38.
[497]. Ibid., 1628–9, p. 369.
[498]. Somerset House Wills, Harvey, 6 (Proved 15th January, 1638–9).
[499]. Lady Elizabeth Cust’s The Brownlows of Belton (Records of the Cust Family Series), II., p. 61.
[500]. This is not quite certain, but there does not seem much doubt that the entry refers to Lennox House.
[501]. The two portions were subsequently assessed for the Hearth Tax at 26 and 11 hearths respectively. The whole house was therefore comparable in size with Bristol House, assessed at 40 hearths.
[502]. The Countess of Dysart writes from “Lady Allington’s house, Drury Lane,” on 22nd August, 1667 (Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1667, p. 409), and in November, 1668 or 1669, Lord Allington refers to his mother’s house in Drury Lane (Ibid., 1668–9, p. 55). Lady Allington was succeeded in this house by Lady Ivey (Hearth Tax Roll for 1675).
[503]. Somerset House Wills, Batt, 136. (Proved, with 39 codicils, 28th June, 1680).
[504]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1716, III., 24.