3.
Footnote 9:
_British Museum MS. Claudius_ E VI, 218_b_–219.
Footnote 10:
Grant to Thos. Ellys, 22 Henry VIII (_Land Revenue Miscellaneous
Books_, No. 62); grant to Thomas Bochier (_Patent Roll_, 36 Henry
VIII. (745)).
Footnote 11:
Lease of 21st July, 8 Chas. I., by Henry Hurlestone to John Allen and
Thomas Clements (_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_ 5–105,—Suit of John
King); _Close Roll_, 6 Chas. I. (2853)—Indenture between Wm. Newton
and Anthony Bailey and John Johnson.
Footnote 12:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), pp.
3–4.
Footnote 13:
Certain properties, some of which include houses, are mentioned as
extending from Holborn on the north to Fickett’s Field on the south,
but some, at least, of these may have been to the west of Little
Turnstile. The records in question, when dateable, may be referred to
the time of Henry III. or Edward I.
Footnote 14:
_Parliamentary Survey (Augmentation Office)_, No. 25.
Footnote 15:
It was afterwards occupied by Chamberlain’s Stable (_Survey of Crown
Lands_) and this formed the eastern boundary of a piece of ground, 21
feet in width “abutting upon the footeway leading from Master Newman’s
building [west portion of north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields] to the
Little Turnstile on the west,” purchased by John Weston [Whetstone]
from Edmond Gregory in 1661, (_Close Roll_, 13 Chas. II. (4087).)
Footnote 16:
_Close Roll_, 2 Elizabeth (566).
Footnote 17:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Vol. 149 (74).
Footnote 18:
_Close Roll_, 18 Elizabeth (990).
Footnote 19:
Burrard Cranigh, M.D., by his will proved 21st November, 1578, left
his lands, etc., in Holborn to be sold to pay his debts and legacies
(_Somerset House Wills, Langley_, 41).
Footnote 20:
_Patent Roll_, 20th July, 18 Elizabeth (1144).
Footnote 21:
_Close Roll_, 18 Elizabeth (990).
Footnote 22:
_Close Roll_, 18 Elizabeth (994).
Footnote 23:
_Close Roll_, 31 Elizabeth (1318).
Footnote 24:
_Close Roll_, 21 Charles II. (4270).
Footnote 25:
Blott’s _Blemundsbury_, p. 201.
Footnote 26:
_Close Roll_, 33 Elizabeth (1375).
Footnote 27:
Daughter of Sir Nicolas Harvey, and widow of George Carew, dean of
Windsor, who died in June, 1583, and was buried in the church of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields (_Dictionary of National Biography_).
Footnote 28:
No doubt the same afterwards occupied by Sir William and Lady Segar,
and Lord Bothwell (see plan of 1658 in _Black Books of Lincoln’s Inn_,
Vol, II.) The easternmost portion of the northern boundary of Purse
Field is described as “the late garden wall of Sir William Seager,
Knt.” in the grant of the field to Newton in 1638 (_Patent Roll_, 13
Charles I. (2775)), and as “the garden of Bothwell House” in the sale
of that part of the field in 1653 (_Close Roll_, 1653
(3715))—(Indenture between Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman).
Footnote 29:
It is no doubt this intermixture of gardens and houses that caused the
peculiar shape of Partridge Alley, seen on the map accompanying
Strype’s edition of Stow (Plate 5), and better still on Hollar’s Plan
of 1658 (Plate 3).
Footnote 30:
It is strange, however, that her will (_Somerset House Wills, Hayes_,
61) bequeathing her property to her son, Sir George Carew, only
mentions “all such _leases_ as are in my possession, as _inter alia_
Savoy, St. Giles.”
Footnote 31:
_Close Roll_, 16 Charles I. (3228).
Footnote 32:
_Chancery Proceedings_, Bridges XX, 45. Suit of Henry Harwell.
Footnote 33:
_Chancery Decree Roll_, 1922. Suit of William Duckett and Hugh Speaks
against Henry Harwell, George Smithson, Daniel Thelwall and William
Byerly.
Footnote 34:
_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 47, p. 24.
Footnote 35:
_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 447–82. Suit of Peter Broome and
Thos. Barker.
Footnote 36:
_Close Roll_, 28 Elizabeth (1263).
Footnote 37:
On 13th June, 1592, administration of probate was granted to John
Buck’s widow, Margaret Buck. He had, therefore, died quite a short
time previously (_Arch. London Probate Acts_, II., 88).
Footnote 38:
_Close Roll_, 25 Elizabeth (1155).
Footnote 39:
_Close Roll_, 10 Charles I. (3018).
Footnote 40:
_Close Roll_, 13 Charles II. (4086).
Footnote 41:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1716, III., 63.
Footnote 42:
_Close Roll_, 15 Charles II. (4143).
Footnote 43:
John Apsley sold the inn in 1639 to Daniel Thelwall, William Bierley
and Sir Chas. Dallison. See _Close Roll_, 22 Charles I.
(3343)—Indenture between Dallison, Thelwall, Bierley, and George
Smithson _and_ George Gentleman.
Footnote 44:
_Close Roll_, 5 James I. (1910). Indenture between Gregory Miller and
Geo. Flower.
Footnote 45:
Parton (_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 354)
records the fact of the residence of Sir Anthony Ashley and Sir John
Cowper (see above) in Thornton’s Alley.
Footnote 46:
_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 16 Elizabeth, Easter.
Footnote 47:
_Close Roll_, 2 Charles I. (2677). Indenture between Frederick Johnson
and Mary Worliche and Francis Cole.
Footnote 48:
_Close Roll_, 5 Charles I. (2800). Indenture between Francis Cole and
Robert Offley.
Footnote 49:
See warrant given in Indenture of 9th April, 1630, between Wm. and
Joan Newton _and_ Anthony Bailey and John Johnson. (_Close Roll_, 6
Charles I. (2853). Newton, the designer of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, had
married the daughter and heir of Gregory Miller, son of John.)
Footnote 50:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.) pp.
5–6.
Footnote 51:
_Close Roll_, 15 Chas. I. (3193).
Footnote 52:
_Close Rolls_, 20th July, 1639, between William Newton and Lewis
Richard (15 Chas. I. (3191)); 15th March, 1638–9, between Wm. Newton
and John Giffard (15 Chas. I. (3188)); 1st October, 1657, between
Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman (1657 (3945)).
Footnote 53:
The houses to the south of Fortescue’s premises seem to have been
built originally as three houses. The southern boundary of Fortescue’s
houses is said to be “a greate house lately built by the said William
Newton.” This, according to the Hearth Tax Rolls, was the Earl of
Northampton’s mansion. Then came “a faire messuage or howse of one
Master Crewe,” and to the south of this, at the corner of Great Queen
Street, and having a width from north to south of 42 feet, was in 1648
a plot of ground on which “Henry Massingberd intends to erect a
house.” (_Close Roll_, 24 Chas. I. (3411.) Indenture between Humfrey
Newton and Henry Massingberd.) If, however, only one house was built
on this plot, it was divided quite early, as the premises already
appear in two occupations in the Hearth Tax Roll for 1666.
Footnote 54:
One of the two houses was in 1643 in the tenure of Sir John Thimbleby
(_Close Roll_, 18 Chas. I. (3295)—Indenture between John Fortescue
_and_ John Pynchon and Wm. Barnard).
Footnote 55:
Moved to No. 1, Lincoln’s Fields, in 1743 (_Survey of London_, Vol.
III., p. 24.)
Footnote 56:
_British Museum Additional MS._, 11,411, ff. 70 and 77.
Footnote 57:
_Ibid._, f. 17_b._
Footnote 58:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 59:
See _Land Revenue Enrolments_, Book IV., No. 52, p. 120.
Footnote 60:
_Patent Roll_, 7 Jas. I. (1802) (Translated from the Latin).
Footnote 61:
_Parliamentary Survey_ (Augmentation Office), No. 25.
Middlesex—tenements in St. Giles-in-the-Fields and High Holborn.
Footnote 62:
_Close Roll_, 7 Jas. I. (1971).
Footnote 63:
_Close Roll_, 8 Jas. I. (2032).
Footnote 64:
See p. 36.
Footnote 65:
_Close Roll_, 9 Jas. I. (2083).
Footnote 66:
_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 10 Jas. I., Easter.
Footnote 67:
_Close Roll_, 13 Chas. II. (4084). Indenture between Thos. Newton and
Geo. Goodman _and_ Arthur Newman. William Lane, by his will dated 15th
February, 1653–4, left nine messuages in Holborn to his grandson, who
enjoyed two-thirds leaving one-third to his grandmother Elinor. The
premises were rebuilt about 1698–1701. (_Chancery Proceedings_,
_Bridges_, 328–31. Suit of Roger Reading, 3rd February, 1703–4.)
Footnote 68:
In 1618 William Taylor was reported to the Privy Council for building
a house “in Fawlcon yard in the upper end of Holborne where none was
before.” (_Privy Council Register_, No. 29, 493).
Footnote 69:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
7.
Footnote 70:
_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 47, p. 410.
Footnote 71:
_Inquisitio Ad Quod Damnum—Brevia Regia_, Petty Bag Office, No. 17.
Footnote 72:
_Petition of the Lord Mayor_, _etc._, dated 10th April, 1635.
(_Calendar of State Papers_, _Domestic_, 1635–6, p. 17).
Footnote 73:
_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 47, p. 370.
Footnote 74:
_Close Roll_, 16 Chas. I. (3232)—Indenture between Henry Darrell and
Mary Blague.
Footnote 75:
_I.e._, “very well with brick and covered with tyle.”
Footnote 76:
In the case of Shenton’s tenements, built probably at about the same
time, it is known that rebuilding was carried out before October,
1682. (_Chancery Proceedings_, _Bridges_, 271–13. Suit of Elizabeth
Stratton).
Footnote 77:
_3rd Report of H.M. Commissioners of Woods and Forests_ (1819), App.
2, pp. 38–9.
Footnote 78:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 79:
_Close Roll_, 1650 (3510)—Indenture between William Short, Gregory
Short and William and Magdalen Curtis _and_ Thomas and Elinor Vaughan.
Footnote 80:
_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 1650, Easter.
Footnote 81:
_Close Roll_, 18 Chas. II. (4195).
Footnote 82:
_Exchequer Pleas_ 582 (2)—Suit of William Bell (Easter term, 18 Chas.
I.) against Sir Samuel Somaster.
Footnote 83:
Blott’s suggestion (_Blemundsbury_, pp. 201–2) that the place referred
to was Little Turnstile, has nothing to recommend it.
Footnote 84:
_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1629–31, p. 284.
Footnote 85:
_Ibid._, pp. 321–2.
Footnote 86:
_Exchequer Pleas_ 582 (2), cited above.
Footnote 87:
See p. 107.
Footnote 88:
_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz. (742)—Indenture, dated 1st February, 1566–7,
between Lord and Lady Mountjoy and Edward Kingston.
Footnote 89:
The southernmost of the three northerly houses mentioned above.
Footnote 90:
_Close Roll_, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture, dated 30th July, 1582,
between Jas. Briscowe, etc., and Jas. Mascall.
Footnote 91:
See p. 27.
Footnote 92:
It will be remembered that the houses, including, and for a little
distance west of, No. 198, High Holborn (the Public Library), are on
the site of Rose Field (see p. 18).
Footnote 93:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, _Middx._, Series II., vol. 208.
Footnote 94:
Together with a moiety of the three northernmost of the 8 houses and
of other property on the north side of High Holborn, acquired by
Mascall of Edward Kingston.
Footnote 95:
_Close Roll_, 11 Chas. I. (3057)—Indenture between Thos. Godman and
Olive his wife _and_ Francis Gerard and Frances his wife.
Footnote 96:
Blott’s _Blemundsbury_, p. 381.
Footnote 97:
As showing the connection between the Gerard and Cole families
attention may be drawn to the fact that Philip Gerard, successor of
Francis Gerard in Drury Lane, and probably his son, was associated
with Salomon Cole in a deed relating to property at King’s Gate.
(_Close Roll_, 1658—Indenture between Sir Thos. Fisher, Gerard and
Cole _and_ John Plumer).
Footnote 98:
_Close Roll_, 1655 (3857)—Indenture between Chas. Lovell, etc., and
Philip Wetherell.
Footnote 99:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1756, II., 325–6—Indenture between
John Smart and John Higgs.
Footnote 100:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1717, II., 272.
Footnote 101:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 102:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 71.
Footnote 103:
From deeds quoted by Parton (_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_) it is
evident that in the 13th century Drury Lane was known as “Aldewych” or
“Via de Aldewych.” The name “Drury Lane,” given later, was no doubt
due to the existence of Drury House near the Strand end of the road.
How late “Via de Aldewych” was used there is nothing to show. In
certain deeds of the 17th century (_e.g._, _Close Roll_, 24 November,
8 Charles I.—Indenture between Francis, Lord Russell, and Earl of
Bedford _and_ John, Earl of Bristol, etc.) the road is called “Drury
Lane _alias_ Fortescue Lane.” It is just possible that the latter name
is to be connected with Sir John Fortescue, who held the Elm Field
(_i.e._, the land between Castle Street and Long Acre) in the reign of
Henry VI. (_Close Roll_, 30 Henry VI. (302)—Grant by John Crouton and
Wm. Horn to John and Katherine Nayler); in fact there is reason for
thinking that the “viam regiam ducentem ... a villa Sci. Egidii versus
Bosomysynne modo Johis. Fortescue militis” mentioned in the same deed
is actually Drury Lane. The road seems also to have gone by the name
of St. Giles’s Lane in the early part of the 17th century. (See p.
35_n_.)
Footnote 104:
See p. 107.
Footnote 105:
They appear together as witnesses in many deeds. Two deeds bearing the
name of William Christmas as witness can be dated with certainty
1257–8 and 1276.
Footnote 106:
Blott’s statement that here “stood the mansion house of the
Christmasse family, with its pasture land and orchard bordering the
King’s Highway, Oldborne, the domain reaching to Ficquet Fields,” goes
beyond the evidence, and his imaginative history, based on an
identification of “John of Good Memory,” late chaplain of St. Giles,
mentioned in Henry II.’s Charter (_not_ the original foundation
charter, as Blott says), with a John Christmas = John de Cruce the
elder = John de Fonte the elder (all equally hypothetical persons) is
absolutely unjustifiable (_Blemundsbury_, pp. 333–4).
Footnote 107:
_Augmentation Office_, Deeds of purchase and exchange, E. 19.
Footnote 108:
The premises, together with a cottage and Purse Field with the
pightells, were farmed to her on 6 June, 1524, by the Master of Burton
Lazars, and it is stated that she was then living there. (_Patent
Roll_, 7 Elizabeth, pt. 3, Grant to Thos. Jordayne.)
Footnote 109:
“Et de liij^s iiij^d de Willelmo Hosyer pro redditu cujusdam messuagii
vocati le White Harte in Hamelett S^{ci} Egidii et xviij acr’ pasture
ac unius parvi clausi vocati Pale Close.” (_Ministers’ Accounts_,
2101, Henry VIII.)
Footnote 110:
Uncertainty on this point and on the date of the period of his tenancy
unfortunately stands in the way of accepting the following note as a
contribution to the history of _The White Hart_. “Will. Hosyer, of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, London—Licence (he having had his house burnt
down 9th Oct. last [1539] and lost all his goods therein to the value
of £200) to collect alms in England and Wales for his relief.”
(_Patent Roll_, 32 Henry VIII. pt. 4.)
Footnote 111:
_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz. (733)—Indenture between Lord Mountjoy and Geo.
Harrison; and _Close Roll_, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture between Jas.
Briscowe, etc., and Jas. Mascall. Cockshott was apparently there in
1579, for the piece of ground or garden plot which 12 years before had
been used as “a greate garden belonginge to ... the _White Harte_,”
(_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz. (742)—Indenture between Lord Mountjoy and
Edward Kyngston) was in that year described as “then or late in the
tenure of Richard Cockeshute.” (_Close Roll_, 21 Eliz.
(1058)—Indenture between Ed. Kyngston and James Mascall.)
Footnote 112:
Parton, _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, pp. 131–2.
Footnote 113:
See _Land Revenue Enrolments_, Book IV., No. 52, p. 120.
Footnote 114:
Situated on the north side of High Holborn, just to the west of the
present junction with New Oxford Street.
Footnote 115:
It will be seen that the present _Ye Olde White Hart_, No. 191, Drury
Lane, is not on the site either of the old _White Hart_, or even of
the land formerly belonging to it.
Footnote 116:
Parton, _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 238.
Footnote 117:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 118:
The course of this stream as shown in the map accompanying Volume III.
of the _Survey of London_ requires a slight modification, as deeds,
which have since come to light, show that to the south of High Holborn
it followed exactly the winding red line indicating the course of the
later sewer, and not the straight line there suggested.
Footnote 119:
_Close Roll_, 1657 (3940).—Indenture between William Short and Edward
Tooke.
Footnote 120:
Thomas Burton’s land, which included the site of all the houses in
Drury Lane mentioned in the above deed, had a width along that street
of 233 feet. These houses reached as far south as the house belonging
to Mr. Fotherley, on whose garden St. Thomas’s Street was subsequently
formed. (Parton, _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p.
275.) The distance between the boundary line and the northern side of
Shelton Street, the modern representative of St. Thomas’s Street, is
243 feet, thus allowing a 10 feet extension of the garden northwards
beyond the street.
Footnote 121:
See p. 20.
Footnote 122:
The occupier of _The Rose_ at this time was Richard Taylor. See
Petition of Geo. Sutton complaining of a confederacy between Taylor
and “one Thomas Barnett, brewer,” to whom Taylor had let the premises
after Sutton had given him lawful warning to avoid. (_Augmentation
Proceedings_, 22–25.) The property is described as “one tenement
called _The Roose_, lieing and being within the said parish of Saint
Gyles in the feldes, with one barne and syxe acres of land, with
appurtenances to the same.”
Footnote 123:
_Close Roll_, 42 Elizabeth (1666).
Footnote 124:
_Augmentation Office, Miscellaneous Books_, 140, p. 56.
Footnote 125:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 239.
Footnote 126:
_Close Roll_, 22 Chas. II. (4290).—Indenture between Sarah Hooper,
etc., and Anthony Hannott.
Footnote 127:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1723, III., 289, 390.
Footnote 128:
The entries in the ratebook, from the corner of Duke Street (now
represented by the first courtyard to the east of Grape Street) to the
corner of Bow Street, are as follows:—Jonathan Dodswell, 2 houses
(£20); Samuel Chandler (£20); Nathaniel Chandler (£25); John Lacost
(£25); Mr. Anthony Elmes (£70); Thomas Gwilliam (£20); Alexander
Masters (£16); John Pettit (£10).
Footnote 129:
This rough identification is confirmed by the fact that _The Rose_ can
be shown by comparison of particulars given in various deeds to have
been the 8th house westward from the Pale Pingle, the westernmost
limit of which seems to have been opposite the centre of the frontage
of the _White Hart_ property. (See Plate 2).
Footnote 130:
_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 16 Chas. I., Trin. Of course, in the
absence of more definite details, there is nothing to _prove_ that
this refers to _The Rose_.
Footnote 131:
_Close Roll_, 1650 (3542).—Indenture between William Short and Thos.
Walker, Peter Mills _and_ Richd. Horseman.
Footnote 132:
See p. 31.
Footnote 133:
“July 8, 1640. Warrant to the Petty Constables of the parishes of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields and St. Clement’s Danes to give notice to the
persons whose names are underwritten to appear ... before Sir John
Hippisley and Sir Henry Spiller to show cause why they neglect and
refuse to cleanse and repair their parts of a common sewer near
Lewknor’s lane, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, which has become a public
nuisance.” (_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1640, p. 459). This
sewer, which ran about 74 feet north of Lewknor’s lane (Parton’s
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 101), seems to have originally,
as an open ditch, formed the boundary between Rose Field and Bear
Close.
Footnote 134:
Either this means that Short had purchased a portion of Bear Close,
or, more probably, it refers to that portion of Rose Field which
bounded Bear Close on the east. This had before 1650 been sold to
Thomas Grover. (_Close Roll_, 1654 (3813).—Indenture between William
Short and Wm. Atkinson.)
Footnote 135:
_Close Roll_, 1657 (3940)—Indenture between William Short and Edward
Tooke.
Footnote 136:
_Privy Council Register_, vol. 258, 46.
Footnote 137:
See letters from him addressed to (_a_) the Earl of Pembroke, 22nd
November, 1620; (_b_) Secretary Conway, 23rd November, 1623 (_Calendar
of State Papers, Domestic_, 1619–23, p. 194, and 1623–5, p. 117).
Footnote 138:
It need hardly be said that Blott’s (_Blemundsbury_, pp. 357–362)
identification of Lewknor’s house with “Cornwallis House, Drury Lane,”
the residence of Sir William Cornwallis, “adjoining the grounds of the
White Hart Inn ... at the Holborn end of Drury Lane” is a pure
fiction. There is no evidence that Sir William Cornwallis ever lived
in Drury Lane. His statement that “it is a long task to trace how the
Christmasse estate passed into the Cornwallis family, who appears to
have been the immediate successors to the great inheritance in Drury
Lane,” is delightful, seeing that “the Christmasse estate” was
situated at White Hart corner, and the Cornwallis “inheritance,”
which, by the way, was acquired only in 1613, some years after Sir
William Cornwallis’s death, consisted of Purse Field, which nowhere
reached within 500 feet of Drury Lane.
Footnote 139:
_Coram Rege Roll_, Easter term, 17 Chas. II., No. 469.
Footnote 140:
_Close Roll_, 1650 (3542).—Indenture between William Short and
Thomas Walker, Peter Mills _and_ Richard Horseman.
Footnote 141:
This is stated in the deed (20 June, 1652) relating to the sale of the
property by George Evelyn (who had married Sir John Cotton’s widow) to
John Fotherley (_Common Pleas, Recovery Roll_, 1652, Trin., 278), and
Cotton’s name is given in respect of the house in the Subsidy Roll of
1646.
Footnote 142:
See, _e.g._—Indenture between Henry Fotherley Whitfield and Joseph
King (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1766, I., 379) concerning a
parcel of ground in “St. Thomas’s Street, now intended to be called
King Street.”
Footnote 143:
Lease dated 23rd February, 1619–20, by Thomas Burton to Edmund Edlyn,
quoted in Blott’s _Blemundsbury_, pp. 358–9. It should be explained
that Walter Burton had sublet to Thomas Burton a portion of the ground
leased to him by William Short.
Footnote 144:
It should be noticed that the eastern portion of Parker Street (beyond
the alley lying to the east of the Kingsway Theatre) is on the site of
Purse Field, not of Rose Field.
Footnote 145:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 358.
Footnote 146:
“Philip Parcar, for 5 houses built neare Drury Lane in Parcar’s Lane,
to the Star Chamber.” (_Privy Council Register_ (1633–4), vol. 258,
No. 46).
Footnote 147:
Philip Parker is seen in a different role in the following:
“Recognisances ... for the appearance of ... William Hartoppe ... to
answer ... for refusinge to ayde Phillip Parker to search for a
seminary priest in the house of John Clarke, of St. Gyles in the
Feildes” (11th April, 1626) (_Middlesex Sessions Rolls_, III., p.
160).
Footnote 148:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 149:
A change of tenancy in 1775 is accompanied by an increase in the
rateable value from £8 to £18.
Footnote 150:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 151:
_Close Roll_, 9 Elizabeth (748)—Indenture, dated 20th January, 1566–7,
between Lord and Lady Mountjoy and Richard Holford.
Footnote 152:
From other documents it is quite obvious that this must be another
name for Purse Field, but the name has not been met with elsewhere.
Footnote 153:
The deeds show that all the western portion of Parker Street, both
south and north sides, was in Rose Field, and all the western part of
Great Queen Street was in Aldwych Close.
Footnote 154:
This was the line of the sewer, or open stream, which formed the
western boundary of Purse Field. In later deeds relating to the
central portion of Aldwych Close, the latter is described as extending
to the common sewer on the east side towards Lincoln’s Inn. (See
_e.g._ _Recovery Roll_, 1633, 9 Chas. I., Easter (201).)
Footnote 155:
See p. 124.
Footnote 156:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem (Middlesex)_, 18 Eliz., vol. 174 (32).
Footnote 157: