725. Boyle’s Court Guide, however, shows him at the house from 1796 to 1799.

726. The Dictionary of National Biography says that it was at No. 11, Bedford Square.

727. Reproduced here.

728. Partly in the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and partly in that of St. George, Bloomsbury.

729. Reproduced here.

730. Information kindly supplied by His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

731. See p. 151.

732. See pp. 84–5.

733. Reproduced here.

734. Reproduced here.

735. Reproduced here.

736. Reproduced here.

737. See p. 168.

738. Reproduced here.

739. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 263.

740. Reproduced here.

741. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1776, VI., 487.

742. Reproduced here.

743. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1776, VI., 630.

744. Reproduced here.

745. Middlesex Registry Memorials, VI., 631.

746. Survey of London, Vol. III. (St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Part I.), p. 102.

747. Reproduced here.

748. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1778, II., 314.

749. Dictionary of National Biography.

750. Reproduced here.

751. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 351.

752. Reproduced here.

753. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 353.

754. Reproduced here.

755. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 254.

756. Reproduced here.

757. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 252.

758. Reproduced here.

759. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, VII., 257.

760. Reproduced here.

761. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, I., 637.

762. Reproduced here.

763. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, II., 526.

764. Reproduced here.

765. In the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.

766. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1777, I., 631.

767. Reproduced here.

768. Reproduced here.

769. See licence to alienate granted in Patent Roll, 9 Elizabeth (1038).

770. See p. 125.

771. See pardon for alienation granted in Patent Roll, 30 Elizabeth (1321).

772. Information kindly supplied by the City of London Corporation.

773. A. E. Richardson’s Monumental Classic Architecture.

774. A copy is in the County Hall collection.

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.

776. Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Chas. I. (765), 37.

777. John Holles, first Earl of Clare (1564?–1637).

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.).

779. The boundary between St. Giles and St. Pancras used to run through the middle of the close.

780. Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1772, VI., 111.

781. The Old Farm House in Tottenham Court Road, by Ambrose Heal.

782. Reproduced here.

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