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{180} NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.
_Lady Dacre's Alms-Houses, or Emanuel Hospital._--"Jan. 8. 1772,
died, in Emanual Hospital, Mrs. Wyndymore, cousin of Mary, queen of
William III., as well as of Queen Anne. Strange revolution of
fortune, that the cousin of two queens should, for fifty years, by
supported by charity."--_MS. Diary_, quoted in Collett's _Relics of
Literature_, p. 310.
_Essex Buildings._--"On Thursday next, the 22nd of this instant,
November, at the _Musick-school in Essex Buildings_, over against
St. Clement's Church in the Strand, will be continued a concert of
vocal and instrumental musick, beginning at five of the clock, every
evening. Composed by Mr. Banister."--_Lond. Gazette_, Nov. 18.
1678. "This famous 'musick-room' was afterwards Paterson's
auction-room."--Pennant's _Common-place Book_.
_St. Antholin's._--In Thorpe's Catalogue of MSS. for 1836 appears
for sale, Art. 792., "The Churchwarden's Accounts, from 1615 to
1752, of the Parish of _St. Antholin's_, London." Again, in the same
Catalogue, Art. 793., "The Churchwardens and Overseers of the Parish
of _St. Antholin's_, in London, Accounts from 1638 to 1700
inclusive." Verily these books have been in the hands of "unjust
stewards!"
_Clerkenwell._--Names of eminent persons residing in this parish in
1666:--Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Essex, Earl of Aylesbury, Lord
Barkely, Lord Townsend, Lord Dellawar, Lady Crofts, Lady Wordham,
Sir John Keeling, Sir John Cropley, Sir Edward Bannister, Sir
Nicholas Stroude, Sir Gower Barrington, Dr. King, Dr. Sloane. In
1667-8:--Duke of Newcastle, Lord Baltimore, Lady Wright, Lady Mary
Dormer, Lady Wyndham, Sir Erasmus Smith, Sir Richard Cliverton, Sir
John Burdish, Sir Goddard Nelthorpe, Sir John King, Sir William
Bowles, Sir William Boulton.--_Extracted from a MS. in the late Mr.
Upcott's Collection._
_Tyburn Gallows._--No. 49. Connaught Square, is built on the spot
where this celebrated gallows stood; and, in the lease granted by
the Bishop of London, this is particularly mentioned.