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437.Survey of London, Vol. IV., p. 81.

438. Burke’sExtinct Peerage. Knighted, 7th August, 1624 (Shaw’sKnights of England, II., p. 186).

439.Peerage of England, 1710 (2nd edn.), p. 232.

440. SeeSurvey of London, III., p. 53.

441. Probably the “Ashburnham Froude” who is shown in joint occupation with Burges of No. 68 in 1723 (see p.92).

442. Francis Const (1751–1839), legal writer. “Wrote some epilogues and prologues, and numbered among his convivial companions Henderson, John Kemble, Stephen Storace, Twiss, Porson, Dr. Burney and Sheridan.” (Dic. Nat. Biog.).

443. “Yesterday was married by the Rev. Mr. Francklin at his chapel near Russel Street, Bloomsbury, David Garrick, Esq., to Eva Maria Violetti.” (General Advertiser, 23rd June, 1749). Fitzgerald (Life of David Garrick, p. 126) wrongly says: “at thechurch inRussell Street, Bloomsbury.” The statement of Mrs. Parsons (Garrick and his Circle, p. 143) that it was “at Dr. Francklin’s Chapel in Queen Street (the modern Museum Street)” is based on unknown, but possibly quite good, evidence.

444.Dictionary of National Biography.

445.The Dictionary of National Biographystates that her death also took place in Great Queen Street. It is difficult to reconcile this with the fact that the parish ratebook for 1795 shows that Francis Const took up his residence in the house in the course of that year. She was, however, certainly resident there on 4 June, 1795, the date of her will.

446. Burke’sCommoners of Great Britain and Ireland, III., p. 402.

447.Historical MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Rutland, IV., p. 545.

448. “The style of Lord Ros of Roos continued to be still used (wrongfully) by the Earls of Rutland, as, indeed, it was until a much later period, and the well-known divorce of John Manners ... was granted to him ... under the designation of Lord Roos, to which he wasnotentitled.” (G. E. C[ockayne’s]Peerage.)

449. On the death of the sixth Earl of Rutland, the Barony of Ros of Hamlake expired, and the old Barony of Ros devolved upon his daughter, Katherine, who married George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham. She died in or before 1663, and was succeeded in the title (of Ros) by her son George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham (Burke’sPeerageand G. E. C[ockayne’s]Peerage).

450. After his death she married Sir William Langhorn, Bt.

451.Historical MSS. Commission, MSS. of Duke of Rutland, Vol. IV.

452.Ibid., II., p. 19.

453. The latter is probably for the whole of this period in respect of the Chapel. In 1733 a separate entry is made for Burges and the Chapel.

454. Reproduced here.

455. See p.42.

456. The licence was granted in 1630 (see p.43).

457. This ran parallel to Great Queen Street, 197 feet distant therefrom.

458. The above particulars are taken fromRecovery Roll, 9 Chas. I. (Easter) (201). Rot. 23.

459. Indenture dated 9th August, 1633, between Geo. Gage and the Lady Alice Dudley (Close Roll, 10 Chas. I. (2652)).

460. Then (under the indenture of 9th August, 1633, mentioned above) charged with a rent of £150 a year, during the life of Lady Dudley (Chancery Proceedings, Series II., 409–73).

461. SeeChancery Proceedings, Bridges, 562–24. Suit of Sir Edw. Stradling.

462. Such was the statement made by Weld in answer to the claim advanced by Sir Edward Stradling, junr., grandson of the other Sir Edward, who, however, suggested that the transaction was a mortgage containing a proviso for redemption for £416. (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 562–24).

463. Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 138) mentions a tablet at one end of Wild Street, with an inscription suggesting that the east side of the street was finished in 1653. This fits in quite well with the above-mentioned facts.

464. It is mentioned as “the way ... leading on the back side of Drury Lane from Princes Streete to Queene Streete” in Indenture of 13th August, 1629, between Richard Holford and Sir Edw. Stradling (Close Roll, 5 Chas. I. (2800)).

465. The date of the lease to Ittery (see p.93).

466. Weld’s own name, though usually spelt with an “e” is also found in the forms: Wild, Wield, Weild.

467. Indenture between Richard Holford and Edward Stratton (Close Roll, 1658 (3984)).

468. Weld having been ordered to build a wall to prevent back avenues to his chapel, at his house, was in 1679 accused of having evaded the order by leaving a door in the wall, “whereby there will be as free access to the chapel as before.” (Historical MSS. Commission, House of Lords MSS.App. to 11th Report, Part II., p. 127).

469.Blemundsbury, p. 384.

470. The lease was not held directly by the ambassadors; see particulars of a mortgage of Weld House, 20 June, 1665, wherein was reserved a lease made on 10 May, 1678, by Weld of the ambassador’s house to Augustine Coronell for 10 years at a rent of £300. (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 438–48).

471.Lands.Goods.Lady Francis Weld and Mr. Humphrey Weld2100200Sir John Wray.100100

471.

472. “John Corrance ... sheweth that ... Humphry Weld, of Weld Street, esq., ... built these several messuages, viz. ... and two other messuages scituate in Weld Street, with two coach houses, stables and hay lofts over, being at the further end of a garden in his, Humphry’s, possession, and by indenture of 17th May, 1665, demised them to John, Lord St. John, of Basing, Earle of Wilts and Marquis of Winchester, for twenty yeares, at a rent of £160; and also one other house in Weld Street, which messuage with the use of a house of office at the end of a garden of Weld’s called the Back garden, and the use of a pumpe in a stable yard thereto adjoyning in common with his other tenants by indenture of July 31st, 1671, Weld demised to Thomas Hawker, of St. Giles, gentleman, for 11¼ years at a rent of £30.” (Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 465–184).

473. See previous note.

474. Worsley’s residence was the last house but one in Great Queen Street, and the premises held by him in Wild Street obviously backed on to his residence.

475.Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, p. 248.

476. It is impossible to make the entries in the Hearth Tax Rolls agree with all the particulars of occupations given by Parton, and copies of the deeds from which he quotes have not come to light in the course of the investigations for this volume.

477. “Finding them, however, to be too numerous, they ventured to apprehend only some few that stood outmost, and hurrying them away as fast as they could, by the time they were well within my gates, the rest made after them, attempted to break open my doors, fell upon the watchmen, broke their halberts, flung brickbats and stones up against my house, cried out: ‘This is the grand justice that hangs and quarters us all, and caused Jones and Wright to be executed the last sessions,’ divided themselves into two parties, sent one to beset the back lane behind my garden, having information given them that I sent prisoners out that way to avoid a rescue, and had not the Horse Guards opportunely fell in upon them, as they lay battering before my house, it had not been in my power to have prevented a further mischief.” (Letter from Humphrey Weld to the Earl of Craven inCalendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1671, pp. 241–2).

478.Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of Portland’s MSS., Report XIII., App. 1, 683.

479. He was certainly there in April of that year. “Letter for the French Ambassador brought by a sea captain enclosed to Humphrey Wield, at his house in Wield Street, London.” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1673, p. 166).

480. For example: (i) 10 March 1676–7. Information of William Herriot that “at Nieuport he met Captains Douglas and Ennys, who desired him to make his address to the Spanish Ambassador at London, who lived at Wild House.” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1677–8, p. 14); (ii.) 29 March, 1679. Lord Clarendon reports that “in Mr. Weld’s garden in a grotto are 27 chests of goods.... Mr. Bedloe present said they belonged to Don Pedro de Ronquillio who was present at the search and would not admit to have the letters perused.” (Historical MSS. Commission, House of Lords MSS., App. to 11th Report, Part II., pp. 126–7); (iii.) 26 April, 1681. Evelyn records his visit to “Don Pietro Ronquillio’s, the Spanish Ambassador, at Wild House”; (iv.) 9th September, 1686. “The Spanish Ambassador made a bonfire at Wild House last night and brought out wine for the mob, but the rabble overthrew the bonfires, broke the cask of wine and broke the windows, and pulled down some of the brick wall.” (Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of Portland’s MSS., III., p. 397).

481. SeePetition and Appeal of Ralph Lister, MSS. of House of Lords, New Series, IV., pp. 274–5.

482. 21st December, 1693. “The Spanish Ambassador has taken a house in the Old Spring Garden, where the Duke of Norfolk lately lived, and has, in a manner, fitted up his chapel. Notice was sent to his Excellency that for some reasons a Romish chapel could not be permitted within the verge of the Court, so he is removing back to Weld House.” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1693, p. 433).“Weld House is to be Lett, containing 33 Rooms, Garrets and Cellars, with other suitable conveniences, in Weld Street near L.I. Fields. Enquire at Weld House, or at Marybone House.” (London Gazette, Sep. 13–17, 1694).

“Weld House is to be Lett, containing 33 Rooms, Garrets and Cellars, with other suitable conveniences, in Weld Street near L.I. Fields. Enquire at Weld House, or at Marybone House.” (London Gazette, Sep. 13–17, 1694).

483. Reproduced here.

484. Indenture between Isaac Foxcroft and othersandHugh Jones (in possession of the London County Council).

485. Reproduced here.

486.Close Roll, 5 Chas. I. (2800)—Indenture between Richard Holford and Sir Edward Stradling, reciting the earlier indenture.

487. See p.93.

488.Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 465–184. Plea of John Corrance.

489. Reproduced here.

490.Middlesex Feet of Fines, 32 Eliz., Hilary.

491.Ibid., 21 Jas. I., Easter.

492. Recited in Indenture between Matthew Francis and Symond Harborne, in the possession of the London County Council.

493. Lease by the Rt. Hon. Lord Cary to William Loringe, in the possession of the London County Council.

494. See p.112.

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’sThe Brownlows of Belton(Records of the Cust FamilySeries), 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 Rollfor 1675).

503.Somerset House Wills, Batt, 136. (Proved, with 39 codicils, 28th June, 1680).

504.Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1716, III., 24.

505. Parton states that Brownlow Street appears in the parish books in 1685.

506. Indenture of 28th April, 1722, between Gilbert Umfreville and Chas. UmfrevilleandRic. Baker (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1722, VI., 85).

507. See p.105.

508. Grey’sSt. Giles’s of the Lepers, pp. 114–5.

509. Reproduced here.

510. See p.103.

511. Parton’sHospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 125.

512. The ratebooks from 1730 (earliest extant) to 1746 show “Daniel Hahn,” possibly a more correct form of the name, at this house.

513. Indenture dated 27th May, 1728, between Peter Walter and Nicholas Lovell (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1728, VI., 15).

514. Grey’sSt. Giles’s of the Lepers, p. 116.

515. Reproduced here.

516.Close Roll, 12 William III. (4863)—Indenture between (1) Mary Rawlinson, (2) Giles Powell and (3) Jeremiah Ridge.

517. See p.109.

518. See p.112.

519.Privy Council Register, Vol. 29, p. 424.

520.Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1611–18, p. 551.

521.Ibid., p. 555.

522.Privy Council Register, Vol. 29, p. 484.

523.Privy Council Register, Vol. 46, p. 274.

524. It is just possible that a later reference to the spring is to be found in the petition dated 7th July, 1637, of the inhabitants of the Old Town of St. Giles, “complayning of yestopping up of a fair large and open well in yesaid towne; being of great use and comfort to yepeterswho now find yewant thereof in these times of contagion, yesame being continued to bee stopped up as aforesaid, by yenow landlord Frauncis Garrett.” (Privy Council Register, Vol. 48, p. 105).

525. Parton’sHospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 114.

526.Close Roll, 9 Eliz. (742).

527.Close Roll, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture between Jas. Briscowe, Joan his wife and John WiseandJas. Mascall.

528.Close Roll, 11 Chas. I. (3057).—Indenture between Thos. and Olive Godman and Francis and Frances Gerard.

529. Property on the east side of Drury Lane and on the north side of Broad Street is mixed up with this, and it is not possible entirely to separate them.

530. “... abutting east on a court called Ragged Staffe Court (which court was heretofore in the possession of John Vavasour.” (Close Roll, 12 William III. (4863)—Indenture between Mary Rawlinson, etc., cited above).

531. Parton’s statement that the two were identical (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 127) is incorrect. The Hearth Tax Rolls mention both, and both are clearly shown in the map accompanying Strype’s edition of Stow (Plate 5).

532. He died in 1585 (Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Series II., Vol. 208 (173).)

533. John Vavasour’s will (Somerset House Wills, Winderbanck, 65), was proved on 18th June, 1608.

534.Close Roll, 9 Eliz., (749).

535.Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1723, V., 181–2.

536. On 16th January, 1717–8, Edward Theedham leased to Chas. Hall and Ant. ElmesThe BearBrewhouse, 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 Bookfor 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).)

545. The Hawkins property seems to have descended to Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York, whose mother was Jane Hawkins. By a deed of 1726 (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1726, IV., 389) Jane Lewis sold the remainder of a lease granted by Sir William, and comprisinginter aliaa house which by reference to the ratebooks can be shown to be the second westwards from Lamb Alley.

546.Close Roll, 7 Chas. I. (2895).

547.Close Roll, 1655 (3866).

548. On 3rd December, 1603, William Barber, of St. Giles, gardener, was convicted, with others, of throwing filth and dung near the highway in a certain close called “Blumsberrie fieldes.” (Middlesex County Records, Sessions Rolls, II., p. 4).

549.Middlesex Feet of Fines, 32 Eliz., Easter.

550.Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 319.

551. Sale by Arthur Blythe to William Wigg and Thomas Whitfield, in trust for John Smallbone, dated 1680, and quoted by Parton (op. cit.) p. 126.

552. See p.106.

553.Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 125.

554.Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 113. Newlands was actually in the parish of St. Marylebone (see p.125).

555.Blemundsbury, p. 308.

556. “Maslyn’s Pond” and “Maslyn Fields” are mentioned in the parish books in 1644 and 1656 (Parton’sHospital and Parish of St. Giles, pp. 270–1).

557. See p.101.

558. See Sale by Arthur Blythe to Wigg and Whitfield, quoted by Parton (Hospital and Parish of St. Giles, p. 126).

559. Kingsford’s edition, II., p. 91.

560. Reproduced here.

561. See p.123. The Close had a reputed area of 10 acres (Seee.g.,Rents of Henry VIII. in London and the Suburbs, 35 Henry VIII. (Rentals and Surveys, General Series), Roll 452).

562.Parliamentary Survey(Augmentation Office), Middlesex, 24.

563.I.e., the field called Long Acre or Elm Field, lying between Castle Street and the street called Long Acre.

564. Obviously a mistake for “south”; Castle Street is the thoroughfare meant.

565. Monmouth Street, now Shaftesbury Avenue, and West Street.

566.I.e.,The Bowlproperty, see p.110.

567. Sir John Brownlow. The same variation occurs in the Hearth Tax Rolls.

568.Close Roll, 2 Geo. II. (5363).

569.Endowed Charities, County of London, Vol. V., p. 946.

570.Patent Roll, 24 Charles II. (3137).

571. The existence of a “Tower Street” between King Street and White Lion Street is impossible. A portion of the close was in 1690 used as a laystall (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1689–90, p. 389).

572.Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 36–47. Suit of Jas. Kendricke.

573.Chancery Proceedings, Bridges, 614–105. Suit of William Jennens.

574. There are recordsinter alia of(a) four houses built in Great St. Andrew Street, between Michaelmas, 1693, and August, 1694 (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1734, V., 266), and (b) houses built in Monmouth Street and Little Earl Street in July, 1693, and October, 1694 (Chancery Decree Roll, 1933. Suit of William Lloyd).

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