[687]. Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 152.
[688]. Edmund Buckeridge and Henry Loveday querentes: and Jane Baynbrigge, widow; William Maynard and Mary, his wife; Nicholas Buckeridge, and Sara, his wife; and Simon Dyott and Jane, his wife, deforciantes; of 100 messuages, 200 cottages, 40 gardens and 10 acres of land in St. Giles, Mary, Sara and Jane renounce for their heirs. It will be seen that the property had grown, and it is known that Bainbridge had purchased more (see e.g., purchase from Sir John Bramston and others, Middlesex Feet of Fines, 1665, Trinity).
[689]. “The Rookery,” was a triangular space bounded by Bainbridge, George, and High Streets; it was one dense mass of houses, through which curved narrow tortuous lanes, from which again diverged close courts—one great mass, as if the houses had originally been one block of stone, eaten by slugs into numberless small chambers and connecting passages. The lanes were thronged with loiterers; and stagnant gutters, and piles of garbage and filth infested the air. In the windows, wisps of straw, old hats, and lumps of bed-tick or brown paper, alternated with shivered panes of broken glass, the walls were the colour of bleached soot, and doors fell from their hinges and worm-eaten posts. Many of the windows announced, “Lodgings at 3d. a night,” where the wild wanderers from town to town held their nightly revels.” (Timbs’ Curiosities of London (1867), p. 378.)
[690]. Opened in 1847.
[691]. Except perhaps the extreme east.
[692]. Wheatley and Cunningham (London, Past and Present) give the date of the street’s formation as approximately 1670.
[693]. Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren (1823), p. 522.
[694]. Collins’s Peerage of England, 5th Edition, III., p. 328.
[695]. Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren, p. 522.
[696]. Burke’s Peerage.