[657]. See illustrations on map in Strype’s edition of Stow (Plate 5).
[658]. A list of Lady Dudley’s benefactions comprises the following: “She gave to the Church of St. Giles, the greatest bell in the steeple; and divers great pieces of massive plate; paved the chancel with marble, built the fair blue gate at the entrance to the churchyard, and purchased a fair house of £30 a year value for the perpetual incumbent. She also gave the hangings for the choir, which cost £80 10s., 2 service books, embroidered in gold, £5; velvet altar cloth with gold fringe £60; a cambric cloth to lay over it with a deep bone lace £4 10s.; another fine damask cloth £3; 2 cushions for the altar, richly embroidered with gold, £10; a Turkey carpet to lay before the altar £6; a long screen to sever the chancel from the church, richly carved and gilt, £200; a fair organ £100; the organ loft richly wrought and gilt, and a tablet of the Ten Commandments, the Creed and Lord’s Prayer, richly adorned, £80; the rails before the altar curiously carved and gilt, £40.” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1668–9, p. 176).
[659]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, pp. 200–1.
[660]. 4 Geo. I., cap. 14.
[661]. 3 Geo. II., cap. 19.
[662]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 213.
[663]. Hatton’s New View of London (1708), p. 262.
[664]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 224
[665]. Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, pp. 216–7.
[666]. Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense, p. 173.