London_, ed. Geo. S. Fry, Part I., p. 62. Legh was buried in the old
church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and an illustration of his effigy
is given in Ellis’s _Antiquities of Shoreditch_. The following
inscription was underneath (Hatton’s _New View of London_, 1908):—
“Here under lye the Ashes and the Bones
Of Sir Tho. Leigh, that good and learned Knight,
Whose hasty Death, alas, the Godly still bemoan,
Tho his Soul always rejoice in God’s sight,
Great was his Wisdom, and greater was his Wit,
His Visage comely, with no sad Change dismay’d,
A Man in all Affairs a King to serve most fit,
Had not Death so soon his mortal Life betray’d.”
Footnote 627:
_Chancery Decree Roll_, No. 3.
Footnote 628:
_Close Roll_, 37 Henry VIII. (444).
Footnote 629:
This was in the parish of Edmonton, now Southgate.
Footnote 630:
On the north side of Broad Street, now in the parish of St. George,
Bloomsbury.
Footnote 631:
The Great Close of Bloomsbury and Wilkinson’s Close.
Footnote 632:
_I.e._, Middle Row (see _Close Roll_, 12 Elizabeth (832).—Indenture
between Lord and Lady Mountjoy and William Perye), formerly standing
just outside Holborn Bars.
Footnote 633:
These were in St. Marylebone. The Inquisition on the death of Sir John
Grange (1611) refers to “a close of land commonly known by the name of
Newlondes containing 24 acres, and ... all that parcel of land or lane
(“venelle”) near adjoining the aforesaid close ... situated within the
parish of Marylebone.” (_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Vol.
686 (113)).
Footnote 634:
Licence to alienate granted 6th July, 1546.
Footnote 635:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, 3 Edward VI. (89).
Footnote 636:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, 15 Elizabeth, Vol. 165, on Thomas Carew.
Footnote 637:
_Ibid._, 6 Elizabeth, Vol. 139.
Footnote 638:
_Ibid._, Series II. (49), Vol. 109.
Footnote 639:
Her second husband was Sir Thomas Chaloner.
Footnote 640:
According to the _Dictionary of National Biography_, he “spent the
fortune of his family in the pursuit of alchemy.”
Footnote 641:
The “Lorde Mountjoye and the Lady Katherine” are mentioned in a
mortgage by the former to John Mery, dated 1st February, 1556–7.
(_Close Roll_, 4 and 5, Philip and Mary (547)).
Footnote 642:
_Close Roll_, 7 Eliz. (695).
Footnote 643:
Considerable doubt seems to have existed on this point. Side by side
with assertions to the contrary, there are plain statements that the
mortgage _was_ redeemed (see _e.g._, _Chancery Decree Roll_, 54,
concerning a complaint by Jas. Mascall against Thomas Harrys and
others). Nevertheless it is quite certain that the statement in the
text is true, for (1) the recognisance accompanying the mortgage is
not cancelled; (2) Blount’s son Charles (afterwards Earl of
Devonshire) definitely stated that the manor was not redeemed
(_Chancery Proceedings_, Elizabeth B. 15–52), suit of Charles Blount;
(3) the steps by which the manor descended from the Brownes are known.
Footnote 644:
_Close Roll_, 21 Eliz. (1059); _Common Plea Roll_, 25 Eliz., Hilary,
4010; _Close Roll_, 34 Eliz. (1425). Parton (_Hospital and Parish of
St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 331) bridges over the gap between Blount
and Cope by the supposition that the manor came into the hands of the
last-named in consequence of a mortgage to one “Master Cope, citizen
of London.” But (1) the mortgage is not of the manor of St. Giles, and
(2) the proper reading is not “Cope” but “Rope.”
Footnote 645:
He was knighted on 20th April, 1603.
Footnote 646:
_Close Roll_, 14 Jas. I. (2308)—Indenture between Sir Henry Rich, Dame
Isabella, and Dame Dorothy Cope and Gifford _and_ Risley.
Footnote 647:
_Vestry Minutes_, 1624–1719.
Footnote 648:
See p. 1.
Footnote 649:
Newcourt, _op. cit._, p. 612.
Footnote 650:
The sketch given by Parton, _Hospital and Parish of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 54, is quite untrustworthy, and is in
conflict with the little that is known of the church. He gives no
authority for the sketch save that it was as “preserved in rude
delineations of it, made near the time.”
Footnote 651:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 56.
Footnote 652:
_Ibid._, pp. 191–2.
Footnote 653:
_Vestry Minutes_, 1624–1719, f. 4.
Footnote 654:
_A Mirrour of Christianity and a Miracle of Charity, etc._, by R. B.
[_i.e._, Robert Boreman], p. 121.
Footnote 655:
_A New View of London_ (1708), I., p. 259.
Footnote 656:
_Strype’s edition of Stow_, 1720, II., pp. 77_ff_. The greater portion
of what follows is taken from Strype’s description.
Footnote 657:
See illustrations on map in _Strype’s edition of Stow_ (Plate 5).
Footnote 658:
A list of Lady Dudley’s benefactions comprises the following: “She
gave to the Church of St. Giles, the greatest bell in the steeple; and
divers great pieces of massive plate; paved the chancel with marble,
built the fair blue gate at the entrance to the churchyard, and
purchased a fair house of £30 a year value for the perpetual
incumbent. She also gave the hangings for the choir, which cost £80
10s., 2 service books, embroidered in gold, £5; velvet altar cloth
with gold fringe £60; a cambric cloth to lay over it with a deep bone
lace £4 10s.; another fine damask cloth £3; 2 cushions for the altar,
richly embroidered with gold, £10; a Turkey carpet to lay before the
altar £6; a long screen to sever the chancel from the church, richly
carved and gilt, £200; a fair organ £100; the organ loft richly
wrought and gilt, and a tablet of the Ten Commandments, the Creed and
Lord’s Prayer, richly adorned, £80; the rails before the altar
curiously carved and gilt, £40.” (_Calendar of State Papers,
Domestic_, 1668–9, p. 176).
Footnote 659:
_Parton’s Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, pp. 200–1.
Footnote 660:
4 Geo. I., cap. 14.
Footnote 661:
3 Geo. II., cap. 19.
Footnote 662:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 213.
Footnote 663:
Hatton’s _New View of London_ (1708), p. 262.
Footnote 664:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 224
Footnote 665:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, pp. 216–7.
Footnote 666:
_Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense_, p. 173.
Footnote 667:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 668:
See p. 123.
Footnote 669:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 670:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 117.
Footnote 671:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 672:
See p. 1.
Footnote 673:
_Close Roll_, 30 Henry VI.—Grant, dated 2nd April, 1452, by Jo.
Crouton and W. Horn to Jo. and Katherine Nayler.
Footnote 674:
To the east of Church Close.
Footnote 675:
_Close Roll_, 13 James I. (2275).
Footnote 676:
_History of London_, p. 1363.
Footnote 677:
_Tyburn Gallows_ (published by the London County Council), p. 16.
Footnote 678:
The gallows in St. Giles Fields erected for the execution of Lord
Cobham were obviously put up for that special purpose. There may, of
course, have been a manorial gallows, but no mention of such for St.
Giles occurs in the _Quo Warranto_ Rolls.
Footnote 679:
_Endowed Charities, County of London_, III., p. 350.
Footnote 680:
Parton’s _Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 228.
Footnote 681:
_Chancery Decree Roll_, No. 3.
Footnote 682:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, II. Series, Middlesex, Vol. 200 (5).
Footnote 683:
Formerly on the east side of Dyott Street, just outside the parish
boundary.
Footnote 684:
_Close Roll_, 9 Elizabeth (742).
Footnote 685:
_Close Roll_, 8 Charles I. (2946).
Footnote 686:
_Close Roll_, 1649 (31). Indenture, dated 20th March, 1648–9, between
John Barber _als_ Grigg and Henry Baynbrigge.
Footnote 687:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields_, p. 152.
Footnote 688:
Edmund Buckeridge and Henry Loveday _querentes_: and Jane Baynbrigge,
widow; William Maynard and Mary, his wife; Nicholas Buckeridge, and
Sara, his wife; and Simon Dyott and Jane, his wife, _deforciantes_; of
100 messuages, 200 cottages, 40 gardens and 10 acres of land in St.
Giles, Mary, Sara and Jane renounce for their heirs. It will be seen
that the property had grown, and it is known that Bainbridge had
purchased more (see _e.g._, purchase from Sir John Bramston and
others, _Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 1665, Trinity).
Footnote 689:
“The Rookery,” was a triangular space bounded by Bainbridge, George,
and High Streets; it was one dense mass of houses, through which
curved narrow tortuous lanes, from which again diverged close
courts—one great mass, as if the houses had originally been one block
of stone, eaten by slugs into numberless small chambers and connecting
passages. The lanes were thronged with loiterers; and stagnant
gutters, and piles of garbage and filth infested the air. In the
windows, wisps of straw, old hats, and lumps of bed-tick or brown
paper, alternated with shivered panes of broken glass, the walls were
the colour of bleached soot, and doors fell from their hinges and
worm-eaten posts. Many of the windows announced, “Lodgings at 3d. a
night,” where the wild wanderers from town to town held their nightly
revels.” (Timbs’ _Curiosities of London_ (1867), p. 378.)
Footnote 690:
Opened in 1847.
Footnote 691:
Except perhaps the extreme east.
Footnote 692:
Wheatley and Cunningham (_London, Past and Present_) give the date of
the street’s formation as approximately 1670.
Footnote 693:
_Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren_ (1823), p.
522.
Footnote 694:
Collins’s _Peerage of England_, 5th Edition, III., p. 328.
Footnote 695:
_Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren_, p. 522.
Footnote 696:
Burke’s _Peerage_.
Footnote 697:
_Hospital and Parish of St. Giles_, p. 372.
Footnote 698:
_Dictionary of National Biography._
Footnote 699:
Walpole’s _Letters_ (Toynbee Edn.) XI., p. 52.
Footnote 700:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III., pp. 88–89.
Footnote 701:
Parish ratebooks.
Footnote 702:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 703:
Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
Footnote 704:
Richardson and Gill’s _London Houses from 1660 to 1820_, p. 67.
Footnote 705:
A. E. Richardson’s _Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain
and Ireland_.
Footnote 706:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
108.
Footnote 707:
Beresford Chancellor’s _History of the Squares of London_, pp. 202–10.
Footnote 708:
Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
Footnote 709:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, II., 409.
Footnote 710:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 711:
In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
Footnote 712:
_Painted Decoration—the Georgian Period_, by Ingleson C. Goodison
(_Architectural Review_, January, 1913).
Footnote 713:
Information kindly supplied by the Rev. Lewis Gilbertson, M.A., F.S.A.
Footnote 714:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 715:
In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
Footnote 716:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, II., 409.
Footnote 717:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
67.
Footnote 718:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 719:
In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
Footnote 720:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, IV., 505.
Footnote 721:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 722:
In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
Footnote 723:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, IV., 505.
Footnote 724:
See p. 153.
Footnote 725:
Boyle’s _Court Guide_, however, shows him at the house from 1796 to
1799.
Footnote 726:
_The Dictionary of National Biography_ says that it was at No. 11,
Bedford Square.
Footnote 727:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 728:
Partly in the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and partly in that of
St. George, Bloomsbury.
Footnote 729:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 730:
Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
Footnote 731:
See p. 151.
Footnote 732:
See pp. 84–5.
Footnote 733:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 734:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 735:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 736:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 737:
See p. 168.
Footnote 738:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 739:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 263.
Footnote 740:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 741:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1776, VI., 487.
Footnote 742:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 743:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1776, VI., 630.
Footnote 744:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 745:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, VI., 631.
Footnote 746:
_Survey of London_, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p.
102.
Footnote 747:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 748:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1778, II., 314.
Footnote 749:
_Dictionary of National Biography._
Footnote 750:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 751:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 351.
Footnote 752:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 753:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 353.
Footnote 754:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 755:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 254.
Footnote 756:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 757:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 252.
Footnote 758:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 759:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, VII., 257.
Footnote 760:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 761:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, I., 637.
Footnote 762:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 763:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, II., 526.
Footnote 764:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 765:
In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
Footnote 766:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1777, I., 631.
Footnote 767:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 768:
Reproduced here.
Footnote 769:
See licence to alienate granted in _Patent Roll_, 9 Elizabeth (1038).
Footnote 770:
See p. 125.
Footnote 771:
See pardon for alienation granted in _Patent Roll_, 30 Elizabeth
(1321).
Footnote 772:
Information kindly supplied by the City of London Corporation.
Footnote 773:
A. E. Richardson’s _Monumental Classic Architecture_.
Footnote 774:
A copy is in the County Hall collection.
Footnote 775:
It was the last of several designs prepared for a Select Committee of
the House of Commons who engaged in deliberating on the improvements
to the Port, including a new London Bridge. The view shows two bridges
of six arches each, with a drawbridge in the centre intended for the
passage of ships. Between the bridges flights of steps lead down to
the river. The two large areas beyond the bridges are terminated by
crescents. The Monument stands in the chord of the northern crescent,
and a large obelisk in that of the southern.
Footnote 776:
_Inquisitiones Post Mortem_, Chas. I. (765), 37.
Footnote 777:
John Holles, first Earl of Clare (1564?–1637).
Footnote 778:
It seems probable that the land in question (which, being partly in
St. Giles and partly in St. Pancras, was described sometimes as in one
parish, sometimes in the other) is identical with the land in St.
Pancras sold, together with Clement’s Inn, by Sir William Hawte to
William (afterwards Sir William) Holles, ancestor of the Earls of
Clare, in 1532 (_Middlesex Feet of Fines_, 23 Henry VIII., Hil.).
Footnote 779:
The boundary between St. Giles and St. Pancras used to run through the
middle of the close.
Footnote 780:
_Middlesex Registry Memorials_, 1772, VI., 111.
Footnote 781:
_The Old Farm House in Tottenham Court Road_, by Ambrose Heal.
Footnote 782:
Reproduced here.
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