Holford (16th June, 1624) (_Ibid._, 22 Jas. I., vol. 428 (87)). There
was also, however, or there had been three years before, “a little
howse, forge or shedd” on what was afterwards the north-west corner of
Great Queen Street (_Close Roll_, 40 Eliz. (1597)—Demise by Henry
Holford to Henry Foster, Margaret Foster and Henry Warner).
Footnote 158:
Recited in lease of 30th April, 1607, by Walter Burton to Thomas
Burton, in possession of the London County Council.
Footnote 159:
See p. 40.
Footnote 160:
See indentures between Richard Holford _and_ Robert Stratton and
Edward Stratton respectively, dated 28th July, 1635, and 24th April,
1658. (_Close Rolls_, 11 Chas. I. (3060) and 1658 (3984)).
Footnote 161:
This triangular piece, and the ground on which the houses on the south
side of Kemble Street are built, both originally being portions of
Aldwych Close, have recently been taken out of the Parish of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields.
Footnote 162:
“The private way in Oldwitch Close for the King and Councell to passe
through leading from St. Giles his lane in the feildes east towardes
Holborne.” (_Close Roll_, 22 James I. (2601)—Indenture between Jane
and Richard Holford and Jeoffery Prescott.)
Footnote 163:
The two gates are referred to in the petition (ascribed to March,
1632), of the Surveyor-General of His Majesty’s Ways, who complained
that on the day before the King and Queen went last to Theobalds, he
warned Richard Powell, the scavenger for High Holborn, to cleanse _the
passage between the two gates_ in Holborn, where many loads of noisome
soil lay stopping up the way; but Powell neglected to do this, and at
the time of the Royal passage a cart laden with soil stood in the
passage blocking the way. (_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_,
1631–3, p. 298.)
Footnote 164:
On 31st October, 1617, a warrant was issued to Thos. Norton, “Surveyor
of His Majesty’s Wayes and Passages,” calling attention to the fact
that in spite of the King’s commands, “sundry persons have gotten and
used false keyes for opening the lockes and gates of His Majesties
private passages through the feildes neere the Cittie of London, and
that divers unruly coachmen, carters, and others, have and doe use
with great hammers and other like tools to breake open the said
gates.” (_Privy Council Register_, XXIX., 153.) This warrant seems
almost too late to refer to Great Queen Street, and yet the fact that
it also deals with the steps to be taken against “one Holford and his
tennantes” for their default in allowing “the streete in Drury Lane in
his Ma^{ties} ordinary way” to be very noisome, seems to point to the
Theobalds route. Perhaps the fields north of Holborn are referred to.
Footnote 165:
The entrance became known as “Hell Gate” or “Devil’s Gap.” The
widening of the street to its present measurements is said to have
been carried out in 1765 (Blott’s _Blemundsbury_, p. 370).
Footnote 166:
_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1611–18, James I., vol. 69 (36).
Robert Cecil was created Earl of Salisbury in May, 1605; he died in
May, 1612.
Footnote 167:
This form of the name occurs frequently.
Footnote 168:
See p. 14.
Footnote 169:
In January, 1669–70, references occur to “John Jones, the master of
the White Swan in Queen Street, Drury Lane,” and “John Jones,
victualler, at the White Swan in Queen’s Street” (_Historical MSS.
Commission, Ho. of Commons Calendar_, App. to 8th Rep. I., 155_b_,
157_a_). As late as 8th April, 1677, a letter was addressed to “Don
Manuel Fonseca, Queen Street” (_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_,
1677–8, p. 82). On the other hand, the title Great Queen Street is
found in 1667 as the address of Viscount Conway (_Ibid._, 1667, p.
535), and occurs even in a passage which must have been written at
least fifteen years earlier (see p. 50).
Footnote 170:
See, _e.g._ Wheatley and Cunningham’s _London, Past and Present_,
III., p. 135: “The houses in the first instance were built on the
south side only”; Heckethorn’s _Lincoln’s Inn Fields_, p. 171;
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 133.
Footnote 171:
See p. 50.
Footnote 172:
See p. 35.
Footnote 173:
Lease to Edward Fort of 18th May, 1612, quoted in indenture of 10th
February, 1625, between Jane and Richard Holford _and_ Jeoffery
Prescott (_Close Roll_, 22 Jas. I. (2601)).
Footnote 174:
In the absence of deeds relating to the early history of Nos. 14–35,
it is impossible to be more precise. There may, of course, have been
gaps in the north side (excluding Nos. 1–6) even later than 1612. In
the Subsidy Rolls of 21 James I. (1623–4) and 4 Charles I. (1628–9),
preserved at the Record Office, thirteen names of occupiers of houses
in the street are given, and the assessment in 1623 for the rebuilding
of St. Giles’ Church gives fifteen housekeepers in the street (Parton,
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 136_n_). No adequate idea of
the number of houses in the street can, however, be gained from these
facts, for the subsidy rolls certainly do not give all the occupiers,
and, as the assessment was not compulsory, it is improbable that every
householder made a contribution.
Footnote 175:
_History of ... St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury_,
p. 58.
Footnote 176:
No evidence has come to light in the course of the investigations for
this volume whereby Lord Herbert’s house might be identified. In his
will, dated 1st August, 1648, proved 5th October, 1648, he refers more
than once to his “house in Queene Streete”. (_Somerset House Wills,
Essex_, 138).
Footnote 177:
_Close Roll_, 18 Chas. I. (3295).—Indenture between W. Newton and
Francis Thriscrosse.
Footnote 178:
_Close Roll_, 15 Chas. I. (3192).
Footnote 179:
_Close Roll_, 15 Chas. I. (3190)—Indenture between W. Newton _and_
Ric. Webb, Nicholas Redditt and Jeremy Deane.
Footnote 180:
_Harl. MS._, 5,900, fol. 57_b_.
Footnote 181:
Indenture, dated 7th February, 1734–5, between John Bigg and Peter
Guerin. (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1734, V., 85.)
Footnote 182:
British Museum, Crace Colln., Portfolio 28, No. 53.
Footnote 183:
It is possible that in 1646 Sir Martin Lumley was resident at this
house, but not certain. In the Subsidy Roll for that year his name is
the first on the north side of the street, and precedes Sir Thos.
Barrington’s, who, it may be proved, lived at No. 3. It may be,
therefore, that Lumley was the occupant of No. 1.
Footnote 184:
G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Baronetage_, II., p. 80.
Footnote 185:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 186:
Elizabeth Killigrew, Lewis Richardes, Thomas Stoake.
Footnote 187:
Lewis Richardes.
Footnote 188:
See p. 35.
Footnote 189:
It is given (_Close Roll_, 22 Jas. I. (2601).—Indenture between Jane
and Richard Holford _and_ Jeoffrey Prescott) as the _eastern_ boundary
of Prescott’s property, which extended along the north side of Great
Queen Street from Drury Lane, and the length of which is given as 120
feet. Thus the Prescott property was on the site of the present Nos.
38 to 45. A deed dated 20 June, 1721, refers to property of which
Seagood’s house had formerly formed the _western_ boundary. This deed
gives the names of the occupants of the houses to which it relates
both in 1636 and at that time, and the latter list clearly identifies
the property as Nos. 26 to 35, thus leaving 36 and 37 for Seagood’s
house. That this house corresponded to two numbers is rendered quite
certain by a careful comparison of the entries in the series of Hearth
Tax Rolls. In fact, the house is on two occasions taxed for 30
hearths, which seems an over estimate, as the assessment is afterwards
reduced to 24 hearths. Even this implies a very large house.
Footnote 190:
_Close Roll_, 13 Chas. II. (3123).—Indenture between Henry Holford and
Paul Williams, etc.
Footnote 191:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 192:
_Close Roll_, 5 Chas. I. (2800). Indenture between Richard Holford and
Sir Edw. Stradling—reciting indenture of 1618.
Footnote 193:
See _Recovery Roll_, 9 Chas. I. rot. 23 (201). Indenture between
Edward Stradling and George Gage.
Footnote 194:
See p. 93.
Footnote 195:
_Close Roll_, 5 Chas. I. (2800). Indenture between Richard Holford
_and_ Sir William Cawley and Geo. Strode.
Footnote 196:
_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1629–31, p. 47.
Footnote 197:
_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1629–35, p. 55.
Footnote 198:
See p. 93.
Footnote 199:
_Close Roll_, 11 Chas. I. (3059). Indenture between Sir Kenelm Digby
and William Newton.
Footnote 200:
He succeeded his father as Earl of Carnwath in 1639.
Footnote 201:
_Patent Roll_, 12 Chas. I. (2740).
Footnote 202:
The means taken to enforce a uniform design may be gathered from the
fact that the purchaser of certain plots to the west of Nos. 55–56 was
required to build three houses “to front and range towards Queenes
Streete ... in the same uniformity, forme and beauty as the other
houses already ... erected by the said William Newton in Queenes
Streete are of.”
Footnote 203:
The evidence for this statement is gathered from the undermentioned
illustrations:
No. 51. Sir Robert Strange’s House (Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of
St. Giles_, p. 250), 3 bays, 4 pilasters. Western portion of third
plot 41 feet wide.
Nos. 55–6, 57–8. Bristol House (_Ibid._). Double façade each 44 feet
wide, 5 bays, 6 pilasters. Fifth plot 88 feet wide.
Nos. 55–6, 57–8. J. Nash, 1840. (_The Growth of the English House_, J.
Alfred Gotch.)
Original Freemasons’ Tavern. Engraving by Joseph Bottomley, 1783. 5
bays, 6 pilasters. Seventh plot 44 feet wide.
Queen Street Chapel (Parton, _op. cit._ p. 250). Western portion of
tenth plot 59 feet 6 inches wide.
No. 70. (Photograph taken by the London County Council in 1903.)
Refronted on old lines, 4 bays, 5 pilasters on plot 35 feet wide.
Footnote 204:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
97.
Footnote 205:
II., p. 174.
Footnote 206:
See p. 86.
Footnote 207:
See full quotation on p. 45 footnote.
Footnote 208:
_Harl. MS._, 5,900, 57_b_.
Footnote 209:
The reason why Lindsey House is now not in the middle of the west side
of the Fields is that in the original design the west row extended
from Gate Street to No. 2, Portsmouth Street. The building of the
houses on the north and south sides of the Fields, not included in the
original design, encroached on both sides of the west row, but the
encroachment on the north being the greater, the axis of the square
was thereby moved further south.
Footnote 210:
British Museum. J. W. Archer Collection. “The house called Queen
Anne’s Wardrobe,” drawn 1846 (No. 55–6, Great Queen Street) and “House
of the Sardinia Ambassador,” drawn 1858 (No. 54, Lincoln’s Inn
Fields).
Footnote 211:
“The expert surveyour will repart the windows to the front of a
palace, that they may (besides the affording of sufficient light to
the rooms) leave a solid peeres between them, and to place some
pleasing ornament thereon, not prejudicial to the structure, nor too
chargeable for the builder, shunning incongruities, as many
(pretending knowledge in ornaments) have committed, by placing between
windows pilasters, through whose bodies lions are represented to
creep; as those in Queen Street without any necessity, or ground for
the placing lions so ill, which are commonly represented but as
supporters, either of weight, or of arms on herauldry.” (_Counsel and
Advice to All Builders_, pp. 13–14.)
Footnote 212:
See p. 38.
Footnote 213:
_Anecdotes of Painting_, II., p. 60.
Footnote 214:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.),
Plate 6.
Footnote 215:
It was assessed for the hearth tax at 40 hearths, while Conway House,
although of the same frontage, was only assessed at 31.
Footnote 216:
The frontage of this house is stated in certain deeds in the London
County Council’s possession (_e.g._, Indenture of 26th October, 1639,
between Wm. Newton _and_ Compton, Dive and Brewer) to be 98 feet, but
in others (_e.g._, Release by Wm. Newton senr., to Wm. Newton, junr.,
dated 22nd January, 1637–8) is given as 88 feet. That the latter is
correct may be regarded as certain from the perfect accord of the
total number of feet thus obtained with the present boundaries.
Footnote 217:
The deeds from which these particulars are taken are (1) _Close Roll_,
15 Chas. I. (3196)—Indenture between Wm. Newton and Sir Ralph Freeman;
and (2) a deed in the possession of the Council—Indenture between
Newton and Sir Henry Compton, etc. The former deed, in error, reverses
the eastern and western boundaries.
Footnote 218:
A release by deed poll from Wm. Newton the elder to Wm. Newton the
younger, in the possession of the London County Council.
Footnote 219:
_Close Roll_, 5 Geo. I. (5117)—Indenture dated 16th May, 4 Geo. I.,
between Sir John Webb and Thos. Stonor, _and_ Sir Godfrey Kneller,
etc.
Footnote 220:
Mr. Stonor inhabited the western half of the original house, now
forming Nos. 55 and 56; Mr. Browne was in occupation of the eastern
half, afterwards Nos. 57 and 58.
Footnote 221:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1832, V., 93.
Footnote 222:
See p. 53.
Footnote 223:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Part I.),
Plate 66.
Footnote 224:
In possession of the London County Council.
Footnote 225:
_Close Roll_, 15 Charles I. (3196). Indenture between Wm. Newton and
Sir Ralph Freeman.
Footnote 226:
Marginal note in his private journal (_Memoirs and letters of Marquis
of Clanricarde_, ed. by K. De Burgh, p. 68).
Footnote 227:
Deed in possession of the London County Council.
Footnote 228:
_Memoirs and Letters of the Marquis of Clanricarde_, p. xiv.
Footnote 229:
_Hist. MSS. Comm.; MSS. of the Earl of Egmont_, I., p. 223.
Footnote 230:
_Constitutional History of England_ (ed. 1854) III., 389_n_.
Footnote 231:
_Somerset House Wills, Nabbs_, 117.
Footnote 232:
She was Catherine, daughter of Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford; her
husband, Robert Greville, second Baron Brooke, distinguished himself
as a general of the parliamentary forces in the Civil War, and was
killed at Lichfield in 1643. Fulke Greville, who was not born until
after his father’s death, eventually succeeded to the title, and died
in 1710.
Footnote 233:
_Close Roll_, 1654 (3814).
Footnote 234:
Sir William Constable was afterwards possibly an occupant of the
house, for on 24th May, 1647, he wrote to the old Lord Fairfax from
“Queen Street.” (_Hist. MSS. Comm.; Morrison MSS._, Report IX., Part
II., App. p. 439.) Constable had married in 1608, Dorothy, daughter of
Thomas, first Lord Fairfax. He contrived with difficulty to raise a
regiment of foot in the Civil War, and greatly distinguished himself
in the field. He was afterwards one of the king’s judges and signed
the warrant for his execution. He died in 1655.
Footnote 235:
C. R. Markham’s _The Great Lord Fairfax_, p. 191.
Footnote 236:
_Ibid._, p. 254.
Footnote 237:
_Ibid._, p. 274. The old lord had recently married again. He announced
the fact to his brother in a letter dated “Queen Street, October 20th,
1646.”
Footnote 238:
_Hist. MSS. Comm., Pembroke College MSS._, Report V., App. p. 487.
Footnote 239:
He was still in the parish (possibly in this house) in 1658, for
Parton quotes (_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 356) an entry in
the churchwardens’ accounts for that year: “Pd. and expended at the
sessions, about Sir William Paston’s complaynt, of his being double
rated.”
Footnote 240:
_Close Roll_, 15 Chas. II. (4143)—Indenture between the Hon. John
Digby _and_ Sir Anthony Morgan and Richard Langhorne.
Footnote 241:
Described in _Survey of London_, Vol. IV. (Chelsea, Part II.), pp.
18–27.
Footnote 242:
Some time between 1666 and 1675 he removed to No. 51, Lincoln’s Inn
Fields (_Survey of London_, Vol. III., p. 71).
Footnote 243:
See also North’s account: “The great House in Queen Street was taken
for the use of this Commission. Mr. Henry Slingsby sometime Master of
the Mint, was the Secretary; and they had a formal Board with Green
Cloth and standishes, clerks’ good store, a tall Porter and staff and
sitting attendance below, and a huge Luminary at the Door. And, in
Winter Time, when the Board met, as was two or three times a week, or
oftener, all the Rooms were lighted, Coaches at the Door, and great
passing in and out, as if a Council of State in good earnest had been
sitting. All cases, Complaints and Deliberations of Trade were
referred to this Commission, and they reported their opinion,
whereupon the King in Council ordered as of course. So that they had
the Province of a Committee of Council; and the whole Privy Council
was less charge to the King than this.” (_Examen_, p. 461.)
Footnote 244:
The Council of Trade was established on 7th November, 1660, and by
patent dated 1st December in the same year Charles II. also created
the Council of Foreign Plantations. (Haydn’s _Book of Dignities_,
1894, p. 263.)
Footnote 245:
Slingsby writes on behalf of the Council for Foreign Plantations from
Queen Street, on 27th April, 1671. (_Calendar of State Papers,
Domestic_, 1671, p. 204.)
Footnote 246:
In October, 1672, the Council of Plantations was united to that of
Trade (Evelyn, _Diary_, 13th October, 1672), and the united Council
seems thenceforth to have utilised a portion of “Villiers House,” the
house of the Duchess of Cleveland. (_Audit Office, Declared Accounts,
Trade, etc._, 2303 (2)).
Footnote 247:
See schedules of deeds appended to Indentures between Thos. Stonor,
etc., and Sir Godfrey Kneller, dated 11th and 12th March, 1717–8
(_Close Roll_, 5 Geo. I. (5117)).
Footnote 248:
_Chancery Warrants_ (_Series II._), Signet Office, 16th April, 1669
(21 Chas. II., 2386).
Footnote 249:
Indenture of 24th June, 1674, between Sir Chas. Harboard and John
Hanson, by direction of the Earl of Devonshire, _and_ the Earl of
Sunderland, recited in Indenture of 12th March, 1717–8, between Thos.
Stonor, etc. _and_ Sir Godfrey Kneller (_Close Roll_, 5 Geo. I.
(5117)). Sunderland’s purchase of the Earl of Bristol’s interest in
the freehold was not effected until February, 1683–4 (Deed in
possession of the London County Council) just before his sale of the
premises.
Footnote 250:
The fact that the 1675 Hearth Tax Roll shows the Earl of Devonshire at
the house is not conclusive against this, as it is probable, from
other considerations, that this particular roll, though bearing the
date 1675, represents the state of affairs in 1674.
Footnote 251:
_Dictionary of National Biography._
Footnote 252:
_Dictionary of National Biography._
Footnote 253:
Freehold and 99 years’ lease in April, subsidiary lease in June.
Footnote 254:
Second son of Thomas, first Lord Fauconberg, a prominent royalist.
Died in 1689.
Footnote 255:
Will of Lord Belasyse, quoted in Indenture of 12th March, 1717–8,
between Thos. Stonor, etc., and Sir Godfrey Kneller (_Close Roll_, 5
Geo. I. (5117)).
Footnote 256:
Indenture of 12th March, 1717–8, between Thos. Stonor, etc., and Sir
Godfrey Kneller (_Close Roll_, 5 Geo. I. (5117)).
Footnote 257:
The sewer ratebook for 1703 (representing probably the state of things
in the previous year) shows “Thomas Stonor, Esq.” still in occupation;
that for 1709 (the next issue) gives “Sir Godfrey Kneller.” _The
Dictionary of National Biography_ says he _purchased_ the house in
1703, but this is obviously an error. (_See above_).
Footnote 258:
_Somerset House Wills, Richmond_, 161.
Footnote 259:
The statement seems to have originated with Horace Walpole (_Anecdotes
of Painting_, Wornum ed. (1888), II., pp. 209–210).
Footnote 260:
Munk’s _Roll of the Royal College of Physicians_, I., p. 456.
Footnote 261:
_London Past and Present_, III., p. 137.
Footnote 262:
See p. 76.
Footnote 263:
A deed of 27th November, 1745, shows “Lady Goodyear” and Mr. Charles
Leviez then in occupation. (_Midd. Registry Memorials_, 1745, III.,
No. 156).
Footnote 264:
Sir Godfrey Kneller left his Great Queen Street property to his wife
for her lifetime, with reversion to his godson, Godfrey Kneller
Huckle, “provided the surname of Kneller be adopted.” Godfrey Kneller,
the younger, died in 1781, and his son, John Kneller, in 1814.
Footnote 265:
Bryan’s _Dictionary of Artists_; Walpole’s _Anecdotes_, p. 702.
Footnote 266:
_The Dictionary of National Biography_ is in error in stating that he
_added_ this house to the other.
Footnote 267:
Redgrave’s _Dictionary of Painters and Engravers_.
Footnote 268:
Leask’s _James Boswell_, p. 125.
Footnote 269:
Nichol’s _Illustrations of Literature_, VII., pp. 308–9.
Footnote 270:
Details of Boswell’s residence there are given in the Council’s
publication, _Indication of Houses of Historical Interest_, I., pp.
79–84.
Footnote 271:
III., p. 137.
Footnote 272:
Holden’s _Triennial Directory_ for 1802–4.
Footnote 273:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 274:
See p. 47.
Footnote 275:
“All that messuage ... lately divided into two shops or dwelling
houses.” Indenture, dated 7th October, 1813, between Sophia Kneller
and G. J. Kneller _and_ Thos. Crook. (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_,
1813, IX., 129.) The ratebook for 1812 shows the house in single
occupation.
Footnote 276:
_Close Roll_, 17 Chas. I. (3275)—Indenture between Edward, Lord
Viscount Conway, Edw. Burghe, and William Newton _and_ Elizabeth,
Countess Rivers.
Footnote 277:
Release and quit claim by Wm. Newton, jnr., in possession of the
London County Council.
Footnote 278:
The house was still standing on 12th February, 1738–9 (see indenture
of that date between Philip Carter and Jas. Mallors, _Middlesex
Registry Memorials_, 1739, I., 450–1), but by 22nd May in that year it
had been demolished, the two houses fronting Great Queen Street were
then in course of erection, and others were intended to be built. The
parish ratebook for 1739 shows the house as “Empty”; that for 1740
gives: “Empty. 12 houses made out of one.”
Footnote 279:
That the archway was exactly in the centre may be proved by the fact
that when the two houses were sold to Jas. Mallors in the year 1742,
they were each described as 22 feet in width, including half of the
passage into Queen’s Court (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1741, IV.,
424 and 1742, I., 435).
Footnote 280:
Between Thomas Wither and Thomas Raye (_Common Pleas Recovery Roll_,
26 Chas. II., Trinity, Rot. 4).
Footnote 281:
_Feet of Fines, Middlesex_, 13 Chas. I., Trinity.
Footnote 282:
(27th January, 1650–1.) “Col. Berkstead to take care for the pulling
down of the gilt image of the late Queen, and also of the King, the
one in Queen Street, and the other at the upper end of the same
street, towards Holborn, and the said images are to be broken in
pieces.” (_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1651, p. 25.)
Footnote 283:
_Recovery Roll_ (_Common Pleas_), 17 Chas. I., Hilary, 236.—Indenture
between William Newton, Philip Willoughby and Edward Mabb _and_ Edward
Burghe.
Footnote 284:
Afterwards Middle Yard.
Footnote 285:
See p. 82.
Footnote 286:
See Indenture of 18th May, 16 Geo. II., between Lord Conway and
Francis Paddy (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1743, I., 334–5).
Footnote 287:
Henry Sadler, _Some memorials of the Globe Lodge No. 23 of the Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons of England_, p. 11.
Footnote 288:
Documents and drawings preserved in the Soane Museum.
Footnote 289:
Photographs of various modern features, although not coming properly
within the scope of this volume, have been inserted for the purpose of
showing the historic continuity of the buildings on the site of the
old Hall.
Footnote 290:
The premises had been purchased in 1880. (_Middlesex Registry
Memorials_, 1880, 962).
Footnote 291:
Indenture of 5th March, 1718–9, between Lord Montagu, etc. (1),
William Juxon and Jas. St. Amond (2), and Sir Godfrey Kneller and Ed.
Byng (3), in the possession of the London County Council.
Footnote 292:
G. E. C[ockayne’s] _Peerage_.
Footnote 293:
The sewer ratebook for this year shows “Henry Browne” in occupation of
the house, but that for 1700 has the entry “— Webb, Esq.,” referring
to the owner.
Footnote 294:
The sewer ratebook for this year shows “Henry, Lord Montague” in
occupation.
Footnote 295:
_Burke’s Extinct Peerage._
Footnote 296:
For other houses used for the purpose of the Portuguese Embassy in St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, see p. 97, and _Survey of London_, Vol. III., pp.
13, 82.
Footnote 297: