[535]. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1723, V., 181–2.
[536]. On 16th January, 1717–8, Edward Theedham leased to Chas. Hall and Ant. Elmes The Bear Brewhouse, in St. Giles (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1717, IV., 263).
[537]. Ancient tavern signs were nearly always “on the hoop,” which seems to have originated “in the highly ornamented bush or crown, which latterly was made of hoops covered with evergreens.” (Larwood and Hotton, History of Signboards, p. 504.)
[538]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 237.
[539]. Close Roll, 31 Chas. II. (4527).
[540]. Sewer Rate Book for that year.
[541]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 320.
[542]. Close Roll, 9 Eliz. (742).
[543]. On 27th March, 1573, Henry Amptill and Roger Mascall, brewers, were convicted of having set at large certain suspected persons, whom William Westone, a “hedborowe” of St. Giles, had taken in a certain tenement of the said Henry Amptill and had imprisoned. (Middlesex County Records, Sessions Rolls, I., p. 82).
[544]. In 1621, John Ampthill was granted leave to alienate 5 messuages, 11 cottages and 4 gardens to Anne, Robert, James and Thomas Foote (Patent Roll, 19 Jas. I. (2263)); in 1614 he sold 3 houses to Richard Windell (Middlesex Feet of Fines, 12 Jas I., Mich.), whose grandson in 1630 parted with them to Abraham Hawkins (Close Roll, 6 Chas. I. (2823)); and in 1625 he obtained leave to alienate 14 messauges to John and Abraham Hawkins. On the death of Abraham in 1645, he was still in possession of 14 messuages in St. Giles (Inquisitiones Post Mortem, 2nd Series, 707 (41).)