Stradling.
Footnote 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).
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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)).
Footnote 465:
The date of the lease to Ittery (see p. 93).
Footnote 466:
Weld’s own name, though usually spelt with an “e” is also found in the
forms: Wild, Wield, Weild.
Footnote 467:
Indenture between Richard Holford and Edward Stratton (_Close Roll_,
1658 (3984)).
Footnote 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).
Footnote 469:
_Blemundsbury_, p. 384.
Footnote 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).
Footnote 471:
Lands. Goods.
Lady Francis Weld and Mr. Humphrey Weld 2 10 0 2 0 0
Sir John Wray. 1 0 0 1 0 0
Footnote 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).
Footnote 473:
See previous note.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 475:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 248.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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 in _Calendar of State Papers,
Domestic_, 1671, pp. 241–2).
Footnote 478:
_Historical MSS. Commission, Duke of Portland’s MSS._, Report XIII.,
App. 1, 683.
Footnote 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).
Footnote 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).
Footnote 481:
See _Petition and Appeal of Ralph Lister_, MSS. of House of Lords, New
Series, IV., pp. 274–5.
Footnote 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).
Footnote 483:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 484:
Indenture between Isaac Foxcroft and others _and_ Hugh Jones (in
possession of the London County Council).
Footnote 485:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 486:
_Close Roll_, 5 Chas. I. (2800)—Indenture between Richard Holford and
Sir Edward Stradling, reciting the earlier indenture.
Footnote 487:
See p. 93.
Footnote 488:
_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 465–184. Plea of John Corrance.
Footnote 489:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 490:
_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 32 Eliz., Hilary.
Footnote 491:
_Ibid._, 21 Jas. I., Easter.
Footnote 492:
Recited in Indenture between Matthew Francis and Symond Harborne, in
the possession of the London County Council.
Footnote 493:
Lease by the Rt. Hon. Lord Cary to William Loringe, in the possession
of the London County Council.
Footnote 494:
See p. 112.
Footnote 495:
Katherine Clifton, only daughter and heiress of Gervase, Lord Clifton
of Leighton Bromswold.
Footnote 496:
_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1623–5, p. 488; 1627–8, p. 10;
1628–9, p. 359; 1629–31, p. 38.
Footnote 497:
_Ibid._, 1628–9, p. 369.
Footnote 498:
_Somerset House Wills, Harvey_, 6 (Proved 15th January, 1638–9).
Footnote 499:
Lady Elizabeth Cust’s _The Brownlows of Belton_ (_Records of the Cust
Family_ Series), II., p. 61.
Footnote 500:
This is not quite certain, but there does not seem much doubt that the
entry refers to Lennox House.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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 Roll_ for 1675).
Footnote 503:
_Somerset House Wills, Batt_, 136. (Proved, with 39 codicils, 28th
June, 1680).
Footnote 504:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1716, III., 24.
Footnote 505:
Parton states that Brownlow Street appears in the parish books in
1685.
Footnote 506:
Indenture of 28th April, 1722, between Gilbert Umfreville and Chas.
Umfreville _and_ Ric. Baker (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1722,
VI., 85).
Footnote 507:
See p. 105.
Footnote 508:
Grey’s _St. Giles’s of the Lepers_, pp. 114–5.
Footnote 509:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 510:
See p. 103.
Footnote 511:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 125.
Footnote 512:
The ratebooks from 1730 (earliest extant) to 1746 show “Daniel Hahn,”
possibly a more correct form of the name, at this house.
Footnote 513:
Indenture dated 27th May, 1728, between Peter Walter and Nicholas
Lovell (_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1728, VI., 15).
Footnote 514:
Grey’s _St. Giles’s of the Lepers_, p. 116.
Footnote 515:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 516:
_Close Roll_, 12 William III. (4863)—Indenture between (1) Mary
Rawlinson, (2) Giles Powell and (3) Jeremiah Ridge.
Footnote 517:
See p. 109.
Footnote 518:
See p. 112.
Footnote 519:
_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 29, p. 424.
Footnote 520:
_Calendar State Papers, Domestic_, 1611–18, p. 551.
Footnote 521:
_Ibid._, p. 555.
Footnote 522:
_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 29, p. 484.
Footnote 523:
_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 46, p. 274.
Footnote 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 y^e stopping up of a fair large
and open well in y^e said towne; being of great use and comfort to y^e
pet^{ers} who now find y^e want thereof in these times of contagion,
y^e same being continued to bee stopped up as aforesaid, by y^e now
landlord Frauncis Garrett.” (_Privy Council Register_, Vol. 48, p.
105).
Footnote 525:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 114.
Footnote 526:
_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz. (742).
Footnote 527:
_Close Roll_, 24 Eliz. (1129)—Indenture between Jas. Briscowe, Joan
his wife and John Wise _and_ Jas. Mascall.
Footnote 528:
_Close Roll_, 11 Chas. I. (3057).—Indenture between Thos. and Olive
Godman and Francis and Frances Gerard.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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).
Footnote 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).
Footnote 532:
He died in 1585 (_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, Series II., Vol. 208
(173).)
Footnote 533:
John Vavasour’s will (_Somerset House Wills, Winderbanck_, 65), was
proved on 18th June, 1608.
Footnote 534:
_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz., (749).
Footnote 535:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1723, V., 181–2.
Footnote 536:
On 16th January, 1717–8, Edward Theedham leased to Chas. Hall and Ant.
Elmes _The Bear_ Brewhouse, in St. Giles (_Middlesex Registry
Memorials_, 1717, IV., 263).
Footnote 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.)
Footnote 538:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 237.
Footnote 539:
_Close Roll_, 31 Chas. II. (4527).
Footnote 540:
_Sewer Rate Book_ for that year.
Footnote 541:
_Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 320.
Footnote 542:
_Close Roll_, 9 Eliz. (742).
Footnote 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).
Footnote 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).)
Footnote 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 comprising _inter
alia_ a house which by reference to the ratebooks can be shown to be
the second westwards from Lamb Alley.
Footnote 546:
_Close Roll_, 7 Chas. I. (2895).
Footnote 547:
_Close Roll_, 1655 (3866).
Footnote 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).
Footnote 549:
_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 32 Eliz., Easter.
Footnote 550:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 319.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 552:
See p. 106.
Footnote 553:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 125.
Footnote 554:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 113. Newlands was actually in
the parish of St. Marylebone (see p. 125).
Footnote 555:
_Blemundsbury_, p. 308.
Footnote 556:
“Maslyn’s Pond” and “Maslyn Fields” are mentioned in the parish books
in 1644 and 1656 (Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, pp.
270–1).
Footnote 557:
See p. 101.
Footnote 558:
See Sale by Arthur Blythe to Wigg and Whitfield, quoted by Parton
(_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 126).
Footnote 559:
Kingsford’s edition, II., p. 91.
Footnote 560:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 561:
See p. 123. The Close had a reputed area of 10 acres (See _e.g._,
_Rents of Henry VIII. in London and the Suburbs_, 35 Henry VIII.
(Rentals and Surveys, General Series), Roll 452).
Footnote 562:
_Parliamentary Survey_ (Augmentation Office), Middlesex, 24.
Footnote 563:
_I.e._, the field called Long Acre or Elm Field, lying between Castle
Street and the street called Long Acre.
Footnote 564:
Obviously a mistake for “south”; Castle Street is the thoroughfare
meant.
Footnote 565:
Monmouth Street, now Shaftesbury Avenue, and West Street.
Footnote 566:
_I.e._, _The Bowl_ property, see p. 110.
Footnote 567:
Sir John Brownlow. The same variation occurs in the Hearth Tax Rolls.
Footnote 568:
_Close Roll_, 2 Geo. II. (5363).
Footnote 569:
_Endowed Charities, County of London_, Vol. V., p. 946.
Footnote 570:
_Patent Roll_, 24 Charles II. (3137).
Footnote 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).
Footnote 572:
_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 36–47. Suit of Jas. Kendricke.
Footnote 573:
_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 614–105. Suit of William Jennens.
Footnote 574:
There are records _inter 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).
Footnote 575:
The leases of many of the houses erected on the south-west of the
close do not seem to have been granted before 1708–9.
Footnote 576:
_Notes and Queries_, 11th Series, VIII., pp. 182–3.
Footnote 577:
The plan is probably a little later than 1691 (the date assigned to
it), for, as has been shown, Neale did not obtain his lease until
1693.
Footnote 578:
Wheatley and Cunningham’s _London Past and Present_, III., p. 234.
Footnote 579:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 580:
Recited in Indenture of 25th October, 1728, between Jas. Joye (1),
Oliver Martin and Thos. Russell (2) and Rev. Thos. Blackwell (3)
(_Close Roll_, 2 Geo. II. (5364)).
Footnote 581:
Much of the above information is taken from Emily Dibdin’s _Seven
Dials Mission: the story of the old Huguenot Church of All Saints,
West Street_.
Footnote 582:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 583:
It should be mentioned, however, that in a petition, probably
belonging to the year 1354, the Mayor and Commonalty of London claimed
that the Hospital had been founded by a citizen of London suffering
from leprosy. (_Calendar of Letterbooks of the City of London_,
Letterbook G., p. 27).
Footnote 584:
Parton (_History of the Hospital and Parish of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 1) and, following him, Dugdale (_Monasticon_
VII., p. 635) give the date of the Hospital’s foundation as 1101. This
is certainly wrong. Parton’s authority was an entry in Leland’s
_Collectanea_, I., p. 418 (2nd edn.), which under the date 1101
mentions several events, (i.) Henry’s marriage with Maud, (ii.) his
appointment of a military guard for his brother Robert who was in
prison, (iii.) Maud’s foundation of the Hospital of St. Giles. The
next entry is dated 1109. The date 1101 is obviously only intended to
cover (i.) (which took place strictly speaking in 1100), for Robert
was not taken prisoner until the battle of Tinchebray in 1106. The
passage therefore would seem to suggest a date between 1106 and 1109
for the foundation of St. Giles.
Footnote 585:
_Survey of London_ (Kingsford’s edn.), II., p. 90.
Footnote 586:
_Historia Anglicana_, p. 176_b_.
Footnote 587:
Parton in his transcription of the document reads “forty” throughout,
and has been copied by everybody. It is, however, clearly
“quatuordecim” in all cases.
Footnote 588:
_Ancient Petitions_, E. 617.
Footnote 589:
_Ancient Petitions_, E. 617; 2448.
Footnote 590:
_Calendar of Letterbooks of the City of London_, Letterbook G., p. 28.
Footnote 591:
_Ibid._, p. 29.
Footnote 592:
_I.e._, 27 Edw. I. (_Calendar of Patent Rolls_, p. 404). It has been
generally assumed that the date was 1354, _i.e._, 27 Edw. III., no
doubt because Parton (_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, pp. 23, 26)
when translating the document relating to the suit between the Abbot
of St. Mary Graces and the Master of Burton Lazars gave the name of
the King as Edward the son of Edward, whereas the reading is clearly
“Edward the son of Henry.”
Footnote 593:
It really extended somewhat to the west of the eastern side of the
modern road, which has been formed by widening the ancient Hog Lane.
Footnote 594:
_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384).—Indenture, dated 19 March, 1617–8,
between Robert Lloyd and Isaac Bringhurst.
Footnote 595:
See p. 124.
Footnote 596:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, 3 Edward VI. (89).
Footnote 597:
_Close Roll_, 8 Elizabeth (722).
Footnote 598:
_Close Roll_, 8 James I. (2066)—Indenture, dated 20th February,
1610–11, between John Graunge and Robert Lloyd.
Footnote 599:
A sixth was sold in 1622 by John and William Flood to Zachery Bethel,
lying to the south of Sir Edward Fisher’s house, but this seems to
have only recently been built on land taken out of the four acres (see
p. 122).
Footnote 600:
_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384).
Footnote 601:
The reversion was then sold to Francis Ashburnham (_Close Roll_, 5
Charles I. (2800)—Indenture, dated 1st March, 1628–9, between John
Stafey and Isaac Bringhurst _and_ The Worshipful Francis Ashburnham).
Footnote 602:
_Endowed Charities_ (_County of London_), Vol. III. (1900), p. 348.
Footnote 603:
_Close Roll_, 10 James I. (2123)—Indenture between Robert Floyd _and_
William Holt and John Harman.
Footnote 604:
_Close Roll_, 1652 (3683)—Indenture between John Hooker and Walter
Bigg.
Footnote 605:
Letter dated 5th May, 1677, from Philip, Lord Wharton to Sir R. Verney
(_Historical MSS. Commission, Verney MSS._, App. to VII. Report, p.
469).
Footnote 606:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 117.
Footnote 607:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1727, VI., 138.
Footnote 608:
_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384)—Indenture between Robert Lloyd and
Isaac Bringhurst.
Footnote 609:
_Close Roll_, 16 James I. (2384).
Footnote 610:
_Close Roll_, 7 Charles I. (2895)—Indenture between Anne Bringhurst
and John Stafey _and_ the Lady Alice Dudley.
Footnote 611:
_Close Roll_, 10 Charles I. (3017).
Footnote 612:
_Chancery Proceedings, Bridges_, 455–66.—Suit of John Boswell.
Footnote 613:
The boundaries are given as (E) tenement now in occupation of Nicholas
Holden; (W) churchyard; (N) Kilburn to Holborn Highway; (S) orchard of
Nicholas Holden (_Close Roll_, 9 Elizabeth (742)—Indenture between
Lord Mountjoy and Percival Rowland).
Footnote 614:
The boundaries are given as: (S) highway from St. Giles to
Knightsbridge; (W) a tenement late of Rowland Percival, and a close of
John Graunge; (N) highway through St. Giles to Uxbridge (_Close Roll_,
11 Elizabeth (797)—Indenture between Lord Mountjoy and Edward
Kyngston).
Footnote 615:
See p. 125.
Footnote 616:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Vol. 139 (134).
Footnote 617:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Vol. 384 (139).
Footnote 618:
_Recovery Roll_, 21 James I. Trinity.—Indenture between John and
William Flood, and Zachery Bethel.
Footnote 619:
_Somerset House Wills, Gee_, 159.
Footnote 620:
_Patent Roll_, 23 Charles II. (3125).
Footnote 621:
_Augmentation Office, Deed of Sale_, E. 19. The Master of Burton
Lazars apparently lost by the transaction, but from a letter, dated
1st April, 1535, written by Richard Layton to Cromwell, it would seem
that at one time there was a distinct prospect of his faring still
worse. “I sent for the Master of Burton Lazer as you desired,
advertising him of the King’s pleasure commanding him to be here by
Easter eve, and desire you to intercede for him with the King that he
might obtain other lands for his lands of St. Giles’s. He came, and I
have been with him divers times. I have persuaded him to put his sole
trust in you and that he shall not go to the King in anywise before
you bring him to His Grace. He is content to do so. When you wish that
I should bring him unto you to make further declaration to him of the
King’s pleasure, let me know.” (_Calendar of Letters of Henry VIII._,
26 H. VIII., p. 168).
Footnote 622:
These were in St. Anne’s, Soho.
Footnote 623:
After the Duke of Norfolk had heard that Legh was scheming to get the
mastership, he wrote that Legh was married, adding, “Alas! what pity
it were that such a vicious man should have the governance of that
honest house!” (_Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._, XII., i., p.
282).
Footnote 624:
_Patent Roll_, 28 Henry VIII. (671).
Footnote 625:
The whole of the above information is obtained from _Chancery Decree
Roll_ (1).
Footnote 626: