[575]. The leases of many of the houses erected on the south-west of the close do not seem to have been granted before 1708–9.
[576]. Notes and Queries, 11th Series, VIII., pp. 182–3.
[577]. The plan is probably a little later than 1691 (the date assigned to it), for, as has been shown, Neale did not obtain his lease until 1693.
[578]. Wheatley and Cunningham’s London Past and Present, III., p. 234.
[579]. Reproduced here.
[580]. Recited in Indenture of 25th October, 1728, between Jas. Joye (1), Oliver Martin and Thos. Russell (2) and Rev. Thos. Blackwell (3) (Close Roll, 2 Geo. II. (5364)).
[581]. Much of the above information is taken from Emily Dibdin’s Seven Dials Mission: the story of the old Huguenot Church of All Saints, West Street.
[582]. Reproduced here.
[583]. It should be mentioned, however, that in a petition, probably belonging to the year 1354, the Mayor and Commonalty of London claimed that the Hospital had been founded by a citizen of London suffering from leprosy. (Calendar of Letterbooks of the City of London, Letterbook G., p. 27).
[584]. Parton (History of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 1) and, following him, Dugdale (Monasticon VII., p. 635) give the date of the Hospital’s foundation as 1101. This is certainly wrong. Parton’s authority was an entry in Leland’s Collectanea, I., p. 418 (2nd edn.), which under the date 1101 mentions several events, (i.) Henry’s marriage with Maud, (ii.) his appointment of a military guard for his brother Robert who was in prison, (iii.) Maud’s foundation of the Hospital of St. Giles. The next entry is dated 1109. The date 1101 is obviously only intended to cover (i.) (which took place strictly speaking in 1100), for Robert was not taken prisoner until the battle of Tinchebray in 1106. The passage therefore would seem to suggest a date between 1106 and 1109 for the foundation of St. Giles.