References for volumes 31 and 32

References

General Introduction

(pp. 1–23)

1. John Summerson, John Nash Architect to King George IV, 1935, p. 125.

2. P.R.O, MR325.

3. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1668–9, pp. 111–12.

4. Colvin.

5. Wren Society, vol. xviii, 1941, pp. 18–19.

6. Kingsford, p. 120.

7. Copy in Guildhall Library, Small collections, 1671.

8. Wren Society, vol. xviii, 1941, p. 26.

9. Ibid., vol. xviii, 1941, pp. 19–20; see also P.R.O., PC2/62, p.429.

10. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1671, p. 226.

11. Wren Society, vol. xviii, 1941, pp. 14–15; see also P.R.O., PC2/63, pp. 24, 39.

12. Wren Society, vol. xviii, 1941, pp. 24–5.

13. P.R.O., PC2/63, p. 70.

14. Ibid., PC2/63, p. 72.

15. Ibid., PC2/63, pp. 236, 242.

16. Wren Society, vol. xviii, 1941, pp. 33–4; see also P.R.O., PC2/63, p. 108.

17. P.R.O., C66/3151, no. 13.

18. Ibid., MPA69.

19. Ibid., C66/3140, no. 23.

20. Ibid., LR1/63, part I, ff. 70–5, part 2, ff. 76–9.

21. Soane Museum, Court Orders of Sir Christopher Wren, ff. 39–40, printed in Wren Society, vol. xviii, 1941, p. 32.

22. 19 Car. II, c.3, public.

23. 7 Anne, c.17, public.

24. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3.

25. L.C.C.R.O., WCS50, pp. 122–3, 131.

26. Survey of London, vol. xxx, 1960, p. 510.

27. M.L.R. 1729/6/133.

28. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3, agreement with Thomas Reading, 18 Sept. 1718.

29. W.P.L., D1772, 21 Nov. 1833.

30. The Builder, 17 Aug. 1861, pp. 560–1.

31. Rev. Harry Jones, East and West London, 1875, pp. 50–5, 189–90.

32. Report for year 1874 to St. James's Vestry by James Edmunds, M.O.H., p. 24; The Builder, 7 Mar. 1857, p. 134.

33. The Builder, 20 Oct. 1855, p. 493.

34. Ibid., 27 Oct. 1855, p. 509.

35. Annual Report of Vestry of St. James, Westminster, for the Tear 1866, by Edwin Lankester, M.O.H., pp. 43–4.

36. The Builder, 20 Oct. 1855, p. 493.

37. Ibid., 9 Sept. 1848, p. 433.

38. Rev. Harry Jones, op. cit., p. 276.

39. The Builder, 16 Feb. 1878, p. 161.

40. Rev. Harry Jones, op. cit., p. 278.

CHAPTER I (pp. 24–31)

The Bailiwick of St. James

1. P.R.O., C66/957, no. 10.

2. Ibid., C54/590, no. 39.

3. Cal. Pat. Rolls 1550–1553, pp. 313–15; 1560–1563, pp. 109, 529 etc.

4. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 80; J. V. Kitto, St. Martin in the Fields, The Accounts of the Churchwardens 1525–1603, 1901, pp. 579–82.

5. Kingsford, pp. 16, 21–2.

6. P.R.O., E112/27/190, transcribed by Kingsford, p. 151.

7. Ibid., E178/1391; Kingsford, pp. 15–16, 146.

8. P.R.O., E178/1391, transcribed by Kingsford, p. 148; Kingsford, p. 18.

9. P.R.O., E178/1391, transcribed by Kingsford, pp. 141–2.

10. Ibid., MPB1.

11. Ibid., E178/1391, transcribed by Kingsford, pp. 141–50.

12. Ibid., E112/27/190, summarized by Kingsford, p. 151.

13. Ibid., E112/27/190.

14. Ibid., E134/32 Eliz., Easter 21, transcribed by Kingsford, pp. 153–9.

15. Kingsford, pp. 20–1.

16. P.C.C., 84 Drury, will of Thomas Wilson; Ibid., 91 Sainberbe, will of James Bristow.

17. Ibid., 84 Drury.

18. P.R.O., C10/389/39; C6/169/66.

19. Pollen deeds, 29 June 1622; Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 216 enrolled in M.L.R. 1747/2/69.

20. P.R.O., SC12/3/13; LR1/46, f. 173.

21. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, pp. 26–7.

22. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 1, deed of 1607 attached to deed of 13 Feb. 27 Eliz.

23. Ibid., box 1, bundle 1, 30 March 8 Jas. I, 1 May 1652.

24. Ibid., box 1, bundle 1, 3 April 8 Jas. I.

25. P.R.O., E317/Middlesex 39.

26. Ibid., LR1/60, ff. 117–24.

27. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 1, 1 May 1652.

28. B.M., Add. MS. 22063, f. 16.

29. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 1, 26 May 1665.

30. P.R.O., C66/3065, no. 17.

31. Ibid., C54/4165, no. 19.

32. Ibid., C66/3099, no. 8; see also Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 27.

33. P.R.O., C10/204/95.

34. Ibid., LR1/61, ff. 82–4.

35. Ibid., C66/3181, no. 19; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 378.

36. P.R.O., C66/3403, no. 1.

37. P.C.C., 172 Vere.

38. Buckinghamshire Record Office, Lowndes ST94/1.

39. P.R.O., C66/3359, no. 2.

40. 9 Geo. I, c. 7, personal.

41. P.R.O., C66/3359, no. 1; CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; LR1/63, part I, ff. 74–5.

42. Ibid., C66/3356, no. 7; CREST 6/17, pp. 291–2, 298, 324–5.

43. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 1, 18 March 1692.

44. P.R.O., LR1/63, part I, ff. 70–5.

45. Ibid., LR1/63, part I, ff. 76–7.

46. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 5, 4 Oct. 1699.

47. G.E.C.

48. P.R.O., LR1/283, ff. 1–8.

49. Sutton deeds, statement as to the title of Sir Richard Sutton's settled estates, 1915.

50. C.E.O., London and Middlesex deeds 743.

51. Ibid., London lease book 38, pp. 292–314.

52. Kitto, op. cit. (4 above), pp. 579–82.

53. Strype, op. cit. (4 above), vol. II, bk. VI, pp. 78–80.

54. Strype, op. cit., vol. II, bk. VI, p. 80; Kitto, op. cit., p. 583.

55. Kitto, op. cit., p. 584.

56. W.P.L., F3551, p.23.

57. Ibid., F3551, passim.

58. Ibid., F26, payment by Colonel Panton.

CHAPTER II (pp. 32–40)

The Early History of Piccadilly

1. P.R.O., C66/957, no. 10.

2. Ibid., C54/590, no. 39.

3. Ibid., C142/446/64.

4. Cal. L. and P. Henry VIII 1533, vol. VI, pp. 579, 617.

5. P.R.O., Wards 5/26; C2/Jas. 1/B17/73.

6. W.P.L., F2001, 9 July 1612.

7. P.R.O., C2/Jas. 1/B17/73.

8. Ibid., C10/389/39.

9. T. Blount, Glossographia: or A Dictionary, Interpreting all such Hard Words, 1656.

10. Thomas Pennant, Some Account of London, 1791, p. 122.

11. Rev. Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex, 1815, vol. III, part II, p. 612.

12. Charles Knight, London, 1841, vol. I, pp. 801–2.

13. Peter Cunningham, A Handbook for London, 1849, vol. II, pp. 654–5.

14. Notes and Queries, third series, vol. IX, 1866, pp. 176, 249, 329.

15. Edward Walford, Old and New London, N.D., vol. IV, p. 248.

16. Sir Walter Besant, London North of the Thames, 1911, pp. 296–7.

17. The Athenaeum, 27 July 1901, pp. 125–7.

18. P.R.O., SP16/322, item 41.

19. Kingsford, pp. 72–3.

20. The Connoisseur, 1926, Francis M. Kelly, Why Piccadilly?, pp. 157–62.

21. Notes and Queries, vol. 187, 1944, pp. 24–7.

22. P.R.O., MR142.

23. Norwich Archdeaconry Wills, 1617, pp. 42–3; 1644, p. 57.

24. P.R.O., C10/76/10.

25. W.P.L., F330.

26. P.R.O., C9/38/21.

27. Kingsford, p. 72.

28. M.C.R., typescript Calendar of Sessions Books, passim.

29. W.P.L., F2517.

30. P.R.O., C8/85/137.

31. H.M.C., Salisbury MSS., part XV, 1930, pp. 227–8.

32. Guildhall Library, typescript calendar to the minute books of the Grocers' Company, vol. 2, part 3, pp. 583–4, 698.

33. C. R. B. Barrett, The History of the Society of Apothecaries of London, 1905, pp. xxi, 2, 9, 14, 37–40, 56.

34. Robert Steele, Tudor and Stuart Proclamations, 1485–1714, 1910, vol. I, no. 749.

35. Ibid., vol. I, no. 1049.

36. See, for instance, P.R.O., C66/1850, licence to Robert Browne, James Buhanan and David Powell to build in Drury Lane; PC2/43, pp. 281–2; Steele, op. cit., vol. I, no. 1063.

37. P.R.O., Star Ch 8/30/17.

38. Ibid., Star Ch 8/164/7.

39. W.P.L., Minutes of the Court of Burgesses, 5 March 1610/11.

40. Acts of the Privy Council, 1619–1621, pp. 20–1; Survey of London, vol. V, 1914, pp. 23–6.

41. W.P.L., Minutes of the Court of Burgesses, 12, 26 Nov., 10, 17 Dec. 1611.

42. P.C.C., 54 Swann and 12 Byrde, wills of Robert and Samuel Baker.

43. Acts of the Privy Council, 1619–1621, pp. 20–1.

44. W.P.L., Minutes of the Court of Burgesses, 26 Nov. 1611, 14 Jan. 1611/12.

45. Ibid., 17 Dec. 1611, 14 Jan. 1611/12.

46. Ibid., Duchy of Lancaster, Verdicts and Presentments of the Manor Court, ff. 14, 21.

47. M.C.R., Calendar to the Sessions Records, new series, ed. W. Le Hardy, vol. II, 1936, p. 302.

48. N. G. Brett-James, The Growth of Stuart London, 1935, p. 89.

49. P.R.O., Wards 5/26.

50. Ibid., C2/Jas. 1/B17/73; W.P.L., F2001, 9 July 1612.

51. W.P.L., Minutes of the Court of Burgesses, 20 Sept. 1614.

52. Ibid., F3551, book of extracts concerning parish lammas rights.

53. M.C.R., typescript Calendar of Sessions Rolls, … 1612, part 2, p. 123.

54. Ibid., op. cit., p. 96; W.P.L., F343.

55. W.P.L., Minutes of the Court of Burgesses, 12 April 1614.

56. Ibid., F2001, 19 June 1618.

57. See also The Athenaeum, 27 July 1901, pp. 125–127.

58. W.P.L., F2.

59. Ibid., F354.

60. John Gerarde, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1633 ed., p. 799.

61. P.R.O., SP16/322, item 41, calendared in Cal. S.P. Dom. 1635–1636, p. 462.

62. See, for instance, P.R.O., C8/244/79.

63. Ibid., E317/Middlesex 73.

64. See, for instance, P.R.O., C10/471/80; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1650, pp. 263, 270.

65. P.R.O., C10/389/39; C6/169/66; CP25(2)/324 17 Jas. I, Easter.

66. W.P.L., F2001, 2 Aug. 1621, f. 152.

67. P.C.C., 54 Swann.

68. P.R.O., C8/85/137; C9/38/21.

69. Ibid., C8/85/137; C6/169/66; C6/143/38.

70. P.C.C., 12 Byrde.

71. P.R.O., C10/471/80.

72. Kingsford, p. 52.

73. P.R.O., C6/143/38; C8/244/79.

74. Ibid., SP16/370, no. 35.

75. Ibid., SP16/407, no. 18, calendared in Cal. S.P. Dom. 1637–1638, p. 228.

76. W.P.L., F4514, money disbursed for the poor afflicted with plague, 1636.

77. P.R.O., SP16/461, no. 95, calendared in Cal. S.P. Dom. 1640, p. 542.

78. P.R.O., PC2/51, pp.61–2.

79. William Knowler, The Earl of Straffordes Letters and Dispatches, 1739, vol. II, p. 150.

80. P.R.O., SP16/408, no. 178, calendared in Cal. S.P. Dom. 1638–1639, p. 281.

81. P.R.O., SP16/424, no. 76, calendared in Cal. S.P. Dom. 1639, p. 349; PC2/50, p. 477.

82. P.R.O., E317/Middlesex 73, printed in full by Kingsford, pp. 159–61.

83. P.R.O., C6/143/38; C8/253/13.

84. Ibid., Wards 4/14.

85. Guildhall Library, MS. 8200/1, minutes of the Society of Apothecaries, 23 July 1640.

86. M.C.R., Calendar to the Sessions Records, new series, ed. W. Le Hardy, vol. IV, 1616–1618, 1941, p.62.

87. P.R.O., C6/143/38.

88. Ibid., C10/42/129.

89. Ibid., C8/285/13.

90. Ibid., C6/169/66; C9/38/21; C10/471/80; P.C.C., 78 Penn.

91. Ibid., C6/169/66.

92. Ibid., C54/4214, no. 40.

93. Ibid., C54/4213, no. 31.

94. Ibid., SP29/164, no. 100, calendared in Cal. S.P. Dom. 1665–1666, p. 573.

95. Games and Gamesters of the Restoration, 1930, introd. C. H. Hartmann, p. 157.

96. P.R.O., C54/4142, no. 5; C54/4139, no. 9; C54/4289, no. 15; C54/4383, no. 29; C54/4168, no. 26, and others.

97. Ibid., C54/4139, no. 9.

98. Ibid., C54/4196, no. 22.

99. Ibid., C10/321/27.

100. M.L.R. 1720/5/230–1.

CHAPTER III (pp. 41–56)

Great Windmill Street Area

1. Robert Steele, Tudor and Stuart Proclamations 1485–1714, 1910, vol. I, no. 3549.

2. P.R.O., C66/3124, no. 7; Wren Society, vol. XVIII, 1941, pp. 14–15.

3. Wren Society, vol. XVIII, 1941, pp. 24–5.

4. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 84.

5. R.B.

6. Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe written by himself, 1826, vol. I, pp. 79–80.

7. P.R.O., SP44/138, passim.

8. R.B.; L.C.C. Members' Library, file 442.

9. L.C.C. Members' Library, file 1257.

10. G.E.C.

11. Deeds of J. Lyons and Co.

12. M.L.R. 1731/1/280.

13. O.S. 1870 ed.

14. 3 and 4 Geo. V, c. 72, local and private.

15. Kingsford, p. 57.

16. The Builder, 9 July 1904, p. 38.

17. Percy J. Edwards, History of London Street Improvements, 1855–1897, 1898, p. 61.

18. Kingsford, p. 85.

19. J. T. Smith, An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, 1846, vol. I, p. 113.

20. N. Whittock, On the Construction and Decoration of the Shop Fronts of London, 1840, p. 6, plate 111; Colvin.

21. B.A. 29568; The Builder, 8 June 1923, pp. 934–5 and plates.

22. P.O.D.

23. M.L.R. 1874/14/876.

24. W.P.L., plans 424–6; inscription on building.

25. The Building News, 17 March 1893, p. 390; 12 May 1893, pp. 635–6.

26. P.C.C., 84 Drury.

27. P.R.O., MR325.

28. Ibid., E317/Middlesex 73.

29. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

30. P.R.O., C10/255/69.

31. Ibid., C10/205/113.

32. Kingsford, p. 99.

33. Ibid., loc. cit.; P.R.O., C10/457/52.

34. L.C.C. Legal and Parliamentary Dept. deeds.

35. R.B.; William Chaffers, Gilda Aurifabrorum, N.D., pp. 85, 176.

36. In L.C.C. collection.

37. The Builder, 26 Aug. 1854, p. 455.

38. Ibid., 22 Sept. 1855, p. 456.

39. Church Commissioners, file 23913.

40. The Builder, 7 July 1860, p. 440.

41. The Illustrated London News, 20 July 1861, p. 58.

42. The Builder, 17 Aug. 1861, pp. 560–1.

43. St. Peters, Great Windmill Street, Parish Magazine, Jan. 1908, p. 9.

44. Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry … of St. James, 1885, pp. 83–4.

45. Ibid., loc. cit.; The Illustrated London News, loc. cit.

46. St. John's Church, Broad Court, Drury Lane, Parish Magazine, 1909, pp. 163–5.

47. Philip Magnus, Gladstone, A Biography, 1954, p. 106.

48. The Times, 19 April 1954.

49. Church Commissioners, file 78983X.

50. The Illustrated London News, 20 July 1861, pp. 50, 58.

51. T. F. Bumpus, London Churches Ancient and Modern, N.D., vol. II, p. 326; The Builder, 17 Aug. 1861, p. 560.

52. N.B.R., 7 photographs of the church taken during demolition in 1954.

53. Harold Scott, The Early Doors, Origins of the Music Hall, 1946, p. 163.

54. W.P.L., playbill in D134(11).

55. P.R.O., LC7/11, f. 34.

56. W.P.L., playbills in D134(3–5).

57. Ibid., D134 and box 47, no. 5.

58. P.R.O., Lord Chamberlain's MS. index of theatrical references, vol. II, f. 210.

59. Enthoven Theatre Collection, playbill of Feb. 1834.

60. W.P.L., playbills in D134 (2, 3, 6–8).

61. P.R.O., LC1/18, nos. 1471–3, 1481; LC1/45, f. 91.

62. Ibid., LC1/18, no. 1510; LC1/45, f. 107.

63. W.P.L., playbills in D134 (7–9).

64. Enthoven Theatre Collection.

65. London Museum, a souvenir silk handkerchief (61.112) bought at the Great Exhibition of 1851 mentions the Argyll Rooms in Great Windmill Street by name.

66. W.P.L., water-colour D137; The Building News, 15 Nov. 1889, engraving, pp. 666–7.

67. Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 1862, vol. IV, p. 218.

68. H. G. Hibbert, A Playgoer's Memories, 1920, pp. 250–1.

69. H. G. Hibbert, Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life, 1916, p. 123; Charles Douglas Stuart and A. J. Park, The Variety Stage, 1895, pp. 195–196.

70. Hibbert, Fifty Years, etc., p. 123.

71. Scott, loc. cit.; Hibbert, A Playgoer's Memories, loc. cit.

72. Stuart and Park, loc. cit.

73. Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection, 5 Venner Road, S.E.26.

74. C.E.O., file 15110; L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Theatre Section records.

75. R.B.; D.N.B.

76. George C. Peachey, A Memoir of William and John Hunter, 1924, pp. 59, 75, 85.

77. Ibid., pp. 46–7, 51–2.

78. Survey of London, vol. XXX, 1960, p. 547.

79. Two Introductory Lectures, Delivered by Dr. William Hunter … to which are added some Papers relating to Dr. Hunter's intended Plan, for establishing a Museum in London, 1784, pp. 117–21.

80. Glasgow University, Hunterian Library, Hunter-Douglas papers, bundle 26.8.

81. Two Introductory Lectures etc., pp. 122–30.

82. Samuel Foart Simmons, An Account of the Life and Writings of the late William Hunter, 1783, p. 57.

83. John Thomson, An Account of the Life, Lectures and Writings of William Cullen, M.D., 1859, vol. I, p. 151.

84. Peachey, op. cit., p. 121.

85. Sir Albert Richardson's volume of plans and elevations by Robert Mylne, item 182; information supplied by Miss J. Dobson, Royal College of Surgeons.

86. Rev. Robert Scott Mylne, The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland, 1893, p. 269.

87. Mylne MS. diaries in the possession of Miss J. M. H. Mylne of Great Amwell, Herts.

88. Water-colour drawing in L.C.C. collection.

89. Peachey, op. cit., p. 122.

90. Thomson, op. cit., vol. I, p. 555.

91. Peachey, op. cit., pp. 123–4.

92. William Wadd, Mems. Maxims and Memoirs, 1827, p. 189.

93. P.C.C., 180 Cornwallis.

94. D.N.B.

95. R. Hingston Fox, William Hunter, 1901, p. 11.

96. Letters of Sir Charles Bell, 1870, p. 196.

97. Peachey, op. cit., p. 124; Thomson, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 739–42.

98. M.B.W. Minutes, 28 Oct. 1887, p. 648.

99. E. O. Sachs, Modern Opera Houses and Theatres, 1897, vol. II, two unnumbered plates show changes actually made.

100. L.C.C. Theatres and Music Halls Committee Minutes, 26 Jan. 1910.

101. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Theatre Section records.

102. Vivian Van Damm, To-Night and Every Night, 1952, pp. 70–2.

103. Ibid., pp. 69, 71, 80–1.

104. The Times, 4 Feb. 1932.

105. Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, The Theatres of London, 1961, p. 210.

106. Van Damm, op. cit., pp. 190–2.

107. The Evening News, 2 5 Nov. 1959.

108. The Evening Standard, 7 March 1961.

109. Endowed Charities (County of London), 1903, vol. V, pp. 180–1; St. John's, Broad Court, Drury Lane, Parish Magazine, 1909, pp. 163–5.

110. Endowed Charities, etc., loc. cit.; Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry … of St. James, 1885, p. 84.

111. Inscribed stone on building.

112. Photograph in L.C.C. collection; W.P.L., box 47, no. 4.

113. L.C.C. Minutes, 18 May 1897, p. 543; P.O.D.; inscribed stone on building.

114. W.P.L., D1835A.

115. The Builder, 1 Nov. 1912, p. 507 and plate.

116. R.B.; D.N.B.; M.B.W. Minutes, 25 July 1862, p. 581; 3 Oct. 1862, p. 729.

117. R.B.; P.O.D.; The Pictorial Handbook of London, N.D. (c. 1853), p. 522.

118. The Builder, 4 May 1928, p. 780; Enthoven Theatre Collection.

119. Mander and Mitchenson, op. cit., p. 135.

120. Ibid., loc. cit.; Enthoven Theatre Collection.

121. The Builder, 4 May 1928, p. 780.

122. W.C.C. Minutes, 21 Dec. 1905, p. 1330; L.C.C. Minutes, 8 May 1906, pp. 1196–7; P.O.D.

123. M.L.R. 1797/4/680.

124. Ibid., 1855/12/896, plan.

125. Survey of London, vol. XX, 1940, p. 67.

126. The Picture of London for 1802, pp. 188–9.

127. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 148; Colvin.

128. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, ed. G. C. Williamson, 1905, vol. V, pp. 86–7.

129. Leigh's New Picture of London, 1818 ed., p. 385.

130. Kidd's New Guide to the Lions of London, c. 1832, p. 44.

131. Rev. Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex, 1815, vol. III, part II, p. 657.

132. P.C.C., 380 Teignmouth.

133. M.B.O., vol. 76, Cases of Special Supervision, pp. 142–63.

134. Joseph Kahn, The Heteradelph, N.D.; Catalogue of Dr. Kahn's Anatomical Museum, 1851 (copy in B.M. pressmark 7306 ccc 3(9)).

135. The Builder, 3 Jan. 1903, p. 12.

136. Ibid., 28 Jan. 1860, pp. 62–3.

137. H. G. Hibbert, Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life, 1916, pp. 40–1.

138. Ibid., loc. cit.; Enthoven Theatre Collection, programme of 4 July 1862 which mentions the gallery.

139. Interim Report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Working of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1888, p. 6.

140. Ibid., pp. 6, 120.

141. The Builder, 11 Aug. 1883, p. 199.

142. The London Pavilion, 1900 (copy in L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Historic Buildings Section file).

CHAPTER IV (pp. 57–67)

Swallow Street to Glasshouse Street

1. P.R.O., SC12/3/13.

2. Ibid., LRI/46, f. 173.

3. Ibid., LRI/51, f. 191.

4. Ibid., C66/1870, no. 2; Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 1, 10 July 1618.

5. P.R.O., E317/Middlesex 39.

6. B.M., Add. MS. 22063, f. 16.

7. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 6, counsel's opinion, 5 April 1767.

8. J. Macky, A Journey Through England, 3rd ed., 1723, vol. I, pp. 175–6.

9. Royal Academy Library, collection of Lord Chesham.

10. L.C.C. Minutes, 4 March 1902, pp. 311–14; 28 January 1903, pp. 1327–31; 26 March 1907, p.725.

11. Ibid., 25 Feb. 1913, p. 387; 23 June 1914, p. 1499.

12. Ibid., 8 Dec. 1925, p. 893; 10 May 1927, p. 707.

13. Ibid., 16 Nov. 1954, p. 676; The Times, 7 Oct. 1955.

14. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 6, 5 March 1691/2; R.B.; P.C.C., Admon., July 1692.

15. Gunnis.

16. W.P.L., D1756, 19 May 1693.

17. P.O.D.

18. C.E.O., file 12584.

19. Ibid., file 12585; London lease book 67, p. 62; D.N.B.

20. The Builder, 4 Oct. 1856, p. 543.

21. D.N.B.

22. The Builder, 13 March 1858, p. 171.

23. Ibid., 24 April 1858, p. 282.

24. The Illustrated London News, 3 April 1858, p. 353.

25. J. Timbs, Curiosities of London, 1867 ed., p. 427.

26. Robert Elkin, Royal Philharmonic, 1947, pp. 67, 79, 80, 83–4; Robert Elkin, The Old Concert Rooms of London, 1955, p. 154; The Era Almanack, 1888, p. 2495.

27. The Builder, 25 April 1874, p. 361; 5 Dec. 1874, p. 1022; 22 May 1875, p. 471; 25 Sept. 1875, p. 859.

28. The Daily Telegraph, 31 Dec. 1902.

29. The Builder, 21 Jan. 1882, p. 89; 24 Feb. 1883, p. 242.

30. Ibid., 24 June 1899, p. 619; C.E.O., file 13527; L.C.C. Minutes, 20 June 1899, pp. 886–7.

31. C.E.O., file 15177; L.C.C. Minutes, 4 March 1902, pp. 311–14.

32. C.E.O., loc. cit.; Robert Elkin, The Old Concert Rooms of London, 1955, pp. 155, 157.

33. Elkin, op. cit., p. 155; W.P.L., D137 (2–5).

34. P.R.O., CREST 6/61, pp. 53–5.

35. M. Willson Disher, Greatest Show on Earth, 1937, p. 35; B.M., Pantheon press cuttings, advertisement of 5 Feb. 1779.

36. Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses in London, etc., 1814, vol. IV, p. 51.

37. R. Ackermann, The Microcosm of London, vol. I, c. 1808, p. 223 and plate 29.

38. P.R.O., LC5/163, f. 240.

39. A Companion to the Liverpool Museum … by William Bullock, 7th ed., 1809 (B.M. pressmark 990 i 22).

40. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 267.

41. P.R.O., CREST 6/61, pp. 87–8.

42. Kingsford, p. 102, quoting a ratebook not now available.

43. M.C.R., Calendar of the Sessions Books 1689 to 1709, ed. W. J. Hardy, 1905, p. 80.

44. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, pp. 84–5.

45. Horwood's map, 1819 ed.; First Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1812, p. 15; P.R.O., CREST 2/854.

46. Huguenot Society Library, Actes à Reglement De L'Eglise en Jewin Street, 1686–96.

47. Ibid., loc. cit.; P.R.O., CREST 2/854; C.E.O., file 12948, and London and Middlesex deeds, 614.

48. Procs. Hug. Soc., vol. VIII, 1905–8, George B. Beeman, Notes on the Sites and History of the French Churches in London, p. 34.

49. Ibid., loc. cit.; Huguenot Society Library, Registre des Actes en Consistoire De L'Eglise En Berwick Street, 1690–1744.

50. Pubs. Hug. Soc., vol. XXVIII, 1924, Registres des Eglises de la Chapelle Royale de Saint James, 1700–1756, et de Swallow Street, 1690–1709, p. 23.

51. P.R.O., CREST 2/854; Wilson, op. cit., vol. IV, pp. 45–6.

52. Wilson, op. cit., vol. IV, pp. 33–4.

53. Ibid., vol. IV, pp. 43–6.

54. P.R.O., CREST 2/854.

55. C.E.O., file 12948; Wilson, op. cit., vol. IV, pp. 45–6.

56. C.E.O., file 12948; ibid., Zachary Chambers's MS. numerical register, 1769.

57. Wilson, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 31.

58. C.E.O., file 12948.

59. Ibid., loc. cit.; W.P.L., D131.1, photograph after removal of spire.

60. C.E.O., file 13098.

61. Ibid., file 16072.

62. Ibid., file 11273; H. Chance Newton, Idols of the Halls, 1928, p. 250; Charles Douglas Stuart and A. J. Park, The Variety Stage, 1895, p. 88.

63. C.E.O., file 11273.

64. Ibid., file 15002.

65. Richard Baxter, A Breviate of the Life of Margaret … Baxter, 1681, pp. 58–9.

66. Ibid., loc. cit.; F. J. Powicke, Rev. Richard Baxter Under the Cross (1662–1691), 1927, p. 95.

67. Strype, op. cit. (44 above), vol. II, bk. VI, p. 84.

68. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

69. R.B.

70. D.N.B.; R.B.

71. 23 Geo. II, c. 27, public.

72. 24 Geo. II, c. 42, public.

73. W.P.L., D138 Vine Street (2).

74. 6 and 7 William IV, c. 137, public: P.O.D.

75. P.C.C., 190 Young; M.L.R. 1716/2/130.

76. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 54.

77. W.P.L., D1762, 1 May 1766.

78. Ibid., D1762, 2, 26 Dec. 1766, 26 Jan. 1767; D1763, 26 Jan. 1769.

79. Ibid., D1762, 26 Jan. 1767.

80. P.R.O., CREST 2/901; R.B.

81. W.P.L., D1765, 9 Feb., 18, 28 April 1786, 2 June, 7 Nov. 1787.

82. P.R.O., CREST 2/901.

83. Endowed Charities (County of London), 1903, vol. V, pp. 138, 157.

84. Metropolitan Police, Department of Chief Architect and Surveyor, deeds D20 and property register.

85. L.C.C.R.O., M.B.O., vol. 87, cases of special supervision, pp. 101–6.

86. Metropolitan Police, deeds D20; M.L.R. 1856/6/219.

87. Metropolitan Police, property register.

88. Ibid., deeds D20.

89. C.E.O., file 15012.

90. Ibid., file 13637.

91. B.M., Add. MS. 22063 passim.

92. The Picture of London for 1803, p. 318.

93. W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's.

94. Ibid., loc. cit.; P.C.C., 99 Bath.

95. Sidney Young, The History of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London, 1913, pp. 66–7.

96. L.C.C.R.O., WCS40, p. 295; Middlesex County Records, ed. J. C. Jeaffreson, vol. IV, 1892, pp. XXXIV–XXXV.

97. W.P.L., D1756, 1 Aug. 1693.

98. Ibid., D1756, 10 April 1694.

99. Cal. Close Rolls 1392–1396, pp. 107, 109.

100. First Report of the Surveyor General of His Majesty's Land Revenue, 1797, pp. 5, 21.

101. B.M., Grace Maps, portfolio XII, item 15.

102. First Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1812, pp. 14–15.

CHAPTER V (pp. 68–84)

Shaftesbury Avenue

1. John Gwynn, London and Westminster Improved, 1766, plates 1, 11, p. 83.

2. Second Report from the Select Committee on Metropolis Improvements, 1838, pp. vii, ix.

3. Ibid., plate 33, p. 34.

4. The Builder, 26 Jan. 1861, pp. 54–6; 5 March 1864, p. 161; 18 March 1871, pp. 203–5.

5. 40 and 41 Vict., c. 23 5, local; Percy J. Edwards, History of London Street Improvements, 1855–1897, 1898, p. 59.

6. The Builder, 3 March 1877, pp. 206–7.

7. 40 and 41 Vict., c. 235, local.

8. Edwards, op. cit., pp. 134–5.

9. 35 and 36 Vict., c. 163, local.

10. 38 and 39 Vict., c. 36, public.

11. M.B.W. miscellaneous printed papers, bundle 6, Statement submitted by a deputation to the Home Secretary in July 1878 on the subject of the Metropolitan Street Improvements Act, 1877, pp. 3–5.

12. Ibid., pp. 3–12.

13. M.B.W. Minutes, 1 Oct. 1880, p. 387.

14. Ibid., 9 May 1879, p. 671; Statement … to the Home Secretary, etc., p. 13.

15. M.B.W. Minutes, 22 Oct. 1880, pp. 508–9.

16. Ibid., 13 May 1881, p. 789.

17. Report from the Select Committee on Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings, 1882, vol. VII, pp. 260–261.

18. 46 Vict., c. 23, local.

19. M.B.W. miscellaneous printed papers, bundle 6, Reports by the Solicitor and Superintending Architect as to Properties required, 1881, p. 4.

20. 46 Vict., c. 23, local, first schedule.

21. M.B.W. Minutes, 10 Oct. 1884, p. 454; plaques on buildings.

22. M.B.W. Minutes, 6 Jan. 1882, p. 10; 3 Feb. 1882, p. 214; 10 Aug. 1883, p. 362; 4 Jan. 1884, p. 9.

23. Ibid., 19 Dec. 1884, p. 894.

24. The Builder, 3 Jan. 1903, p. 12.

25. M.B.W. Minutes, 12 Feb. 1886, p. 275.

26. Ibid., 22 Jan. 1886, p. 89; 5 Feb. 1886, p. 196; 12 Feb. 1886, p. 275.

27. The Architectural Review, Sept. 1942, pp. 63–6.

28. 8 and 9 Vict., c. 18, public, section 127; M.B.W. miscellaneous printed papers, bundle 6, Report to the Works and General Purposes Committee, 3 July 1882, p. 3.

29. 40 and 41 Vict., c. 235, local, sections 25–9.

30. M.B.W. etc., Report to the Works and General Purposes Committee, 3 July 1882, p. 3.

31. 47 and 48 Vict., c. 50, public, section 23.

32. Interim Report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Working of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1888, p. 14.

33. Ibid., p. 7.

34. 51 and 52 Vict., c. 41, public, section 79.

35. Interim Report etc., p. 6; Minutes of Evidence taken on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Working of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1888, p. 120.

36. Interim Report etc., p. 6.

37. Ibid., pp. 5, 7; Minutes of Evidence etc., pp. 120–1.

38. Interim Report etc., pp. 7–9.

39. Ibid., pp. 22, 25–7.

40. The Builder, 26 Dec. 1885, p. 911.

41. Interim Report etc., p. 10.

42. M.B.W. Minutes, 9 Jan. 1885, p. 40; 23 Jan. 1885, p. 111.

43. John Summerson, John Nash Architect to King George IV, 1935, p. 135.

44. M.B.W. Minutes, 16 Oct. 1885, p. 479; 30 Oct. 1885, p. 610.

45. Ibid., 15 July 1887, pp. 78–91; Interim Report etc., p. 11.

46. M.B.W. Minutes, 15 March 1861, p. 205.

47. Interim Report etc., p. 38.

48. M.B.W. Minutes, 5 March 1886, p. 445.

49. Ibid., 14 May 1886, p. 909; 1 Oct. 1886, p. 438; 12 Nov. 1886, p. 683.

50. Ibid., 3 Dec. 1886, p. 867; 15 July 1887, pp. 78–91.

51. Ibid., 29 July 1887, pp. 222–4; 7 Oct. 1887, pp. 473–83.

52. Ibid., 30 Sept. 1887, p. 420; 2 Dec. 1887, p. 888.

53. Ibid., 27 Jan. 1888, p. 182; 17 Feb. 1888, p. 306.

54. Ibid., 4 May 1888, p. 770; 9 Nov. 1888, p. 813.

55. 51 and 52 Vict., c. 41, public.

56. Interim Report etc., pp. 5, 6.

57. Ibid., pp. 19–20; Minutes of Evidence etc., pp. 36–45.

58. Interim Report etc., p. 10; M.B.W. Minutes, 18 May 1888, p. 878.

59. Interim Report etc., pp. 5–20, 22–35.

60. Ibid., pp. 37–8.

61. M.B.W. Works and General Purposes Committee Papers, 23 July 1888/76; Works and General Purposes Committee Minutes, 15 Oct. 1888/58.

62. P.O.D.

63. Ibid.; see also Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, The Theatres of London, 1961, pp. 260–1.

64. Enthoven Theatre Collection.

65. L.C.C. Minutes, 9 April 1889, p. 157.

66. M.B.W. Works and General Purposes Committee Papers, 26 March 1888/52, 16 April 1888/49; L.C.C. Legal and Parliamentary Dept. deeds.

67. The Builder, 1 June 1889, p. 412 and drawing; The Building News, 3 May 1889, p. 614 and photograph following p. 634.

68. M.B.W. Minutes, 28 Oct. 1887, p. 648.

69. E. O. Sachs, Modern Opera Houses and Theatres, 1897, vol. II, p. 37 and two unnumbered plates.

70. The Builder, 22 Dec. 1888, pp. 453–4.

71. H. G. Hibbert, Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life, 1916, p. 71.

72. Ibid., pp. 218, 228; Enthoven Theatre Collection.

73. The Architect and Building News, 6 Jan. 1933, pp. 14–15.

74. Mander and Mitchenson, op. cit., p. 115.

75. The Builder, 2 2 Dec. 1900, p. 575.

76. Louis N. Parker, The Apollo Theatre, 1901 (souvenir brochure in L.C.C. Members' Library pamphlet collection).

77. The Builder, 30 Oct. 1914, p. 413.

78. The British Architect, 22 Feb. 1901, plate following p. 130.

79. Ibid., loc. cit., pp. 128–30 and plates following; 1 March 1901, plate following p. 148.

80. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Theatre Section records.

81. Mander and Mitchenson, op. cit., pp. 32–4.

82. Ibid., pp. 90–1.

83. Ibid., pp. 90–1, 147; P.O.D.

84. Mander and Mitchenson, op. cit., pp. 91–2.

85. The Times, 27 Aug. 1959.

86. Mander and Mitchenson, op. cit., pp. 147–8.

87. Information supplied by Westminster City Council.

88. The Builder, 17 May 1957, pp. 898–9; 25 Sept. 1959, pp. 288–93.

89. The Times, 28 Dec. 1906.

90. The Stage, 10 Oct. 1907, quoted in Mander and Mitchenson, op. cit., p. 148.

91. The Builder, 26 Dec. 1885, p. 911.

92. Charles Douglas Stuart and A. J. Park, The Variety Stage, 1895, pp. 75–7.

93. The London Pavilion, 1900 (copy in L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Historic Buildings Section file).

94. Hibbert, op. cit., p. 40.

95. Stuart and Park, op. cit., p. 77.

96. Archibald Haddon, The Story of the Music Hall, 1935, p. 130.

97. The Builder, 17 Nov. 1900, p. 450; The Times, 10 April 1934.

98. The London Pavilion, 1900, pp. 13, 14, plates 9, 10; The Architectural Review, Dec. 1900, pp. 250–2.

99. The London Pavilion, 1900, plates 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

100. C.E.O., rack 83, no. 7.

101. Deeds of J. Lyons and Co.

102. Ibid., loc. cit.; The Building News, 28 Aug. 1896, pp. 299, 302–3.

103. C.E.O., file 14279; The Builder, 9 July 1904, p. 39; L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Theatre Section records.

104. The Builder, 9 July 1904, p. 39.

105. C.E.O., file 15110; L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Theatre Section records.

106. Deeds of J. Lyons and Co.; C.E.O., file 15971.

107. The Building News, 15 Nov. 1889, pp. 658, 666–7.

108. The Architectural Review, 1897, pp. 99–106.

109. The Architect, 7 Nov. 1902, plate between pp.296–7.

110. Lyons of London (duplicated pamphlet, c. 1958).

CHAPTER VI (pp. 85–100)

The Rebuilding of Piccadilly Circus and the Regent Street Quadrant

1. The Builder, 24 Oct. 1885, p. 585.

2. M.B.W. Works Committee Minutes, 7 June 1886, item 37.

3. The Builder, 5 March 1887, p. 368.

4. Ibid., 26 March 1887, p. 484.

5. M.B.W. Works Committee Papers, 23 May 1887, p. 555.

6. M.B.W. Minutes, 12 Nov. 1886, p. 696.

7. Ibid., 30 Sept. 1887, pp. 388, 413; 14 Oct. 1887, p. 501; 21 Oct. 1887, pp. 563–4, 601; 28 Oct. 1887, p. 610; 4 Nov. 1887, pp. 697–698.

8. The Builder, 3 Sept. 1887, p. 323.

9. M.B.W. Works Committee Minutes, 17 Oct. 1887, item 25.

10. M.B.W. Minutes, 15 June 1888, p. 1035.

11. 40 and 41 Vict., c. 235, local, sections 15, 18.

12. M.B.W. Minutes, 13 Jan. 1888, p. 33; 10 Feb. 1888, p. 264.

13. Ibid., 12 Feb. 1886, p. 295; L.C.C. Minutes,

14 Jan. 1890, p. 5.

14. C.E.O., file 15177.

15. Ibid., file 15276.

16. L.C.C. Minutes, 4 March 1902, pp. 311–14.

17. C.E.O., file 15325.

18. R.I.B.A. Library, drawings by Norman Shaw.

19. C.E.O., file 15382.

20. Sir Reginald Blomfield, Richard Norman Shaw, R.A., 1940, p. 62.

21. The Times, 7 Aug. 1909.

22. C.E.O., file 15419.

23. Blomfield, op. cit., p. 70.

24. The Builder, 5 May 1906, p. 482.

25. C.E.O., file 15530.

26. Ibid., file 15578.

27. The Builder, 22 Oct. 1910, p. 471.

28. Ibid., 8 Nov. 1912, p. 541.

29. Ibid., 10 Feb. 1906, pp. 151–2.

30. Ibid., 2 Dec. 1905, p. 590; 27 March 1909, p. 365; 5 May 1911, p. 537; 17 May 1912, p. 565; 24 May 1912, p. 603.

31. C.E.O., file 15419; The Times, 5 May 1908.

32. The Builder, 5 May 1906, pp. 481–2.

33. Ibid., 27 April 1907, p. 497.

34. C.E.O., file 15468.

35. Ibid., loc. cit.; The Builder, 6 April 1907, p. 429.

36. The Times, 5 May 1908.

37. Ibid., 7 Aug., 19 Aug. 1909.

38. Ibid., 6 Oct. 1913.

39. John Summerson, John Nash Architect to King George IV, 1935, pp. 219–20.

40. C.E.O., files 15530, 15578.

41. Ibid., file 15578. A slightly different version of this letter is printed in Blomfield, op. cit., pp. 63–4.

42. C.E.O., file 15794.

43. The Builder, 19 April 1912, p. 444.

44. Ibid., 5 July 1912, p. 12.

45. Report of the Committee to consider the Design for completing the rebuilding of the Quadrant, Regent Street, 1913.

46. The Builder, 1 Aug. 1913, p. 127.

47. C.E.O., file 15834.

48. Ibid., file 15931.

49. The Builder, 22 Dec. 1916, p. 385; 29 Dec. 1916, p. 395.

50. Blomfield, op. cit., p. 65.

51. C.E.O., file 16143.

52. Ibid., plan 106/8.

53. Blomfield, op. cit., p. 66.

54. The Times, 4 April, 11 Dec. 1928.

55. Inscribed stone at top of escalators.

56. The Times, 4 April 1928.

57. Ibid., 5 April 1928.

58. Ibid., 12 Oct. 1928.

59. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 9 May 1928, item 40; 11 July 1928, item 49.

60. L.C.C. Minutes, 6–7 Nov. 1928, p. 597.

61. The Times, 4 May 1936.

62. The World's Work, vol. XLII, 1923, Sir Edwin Lutyens, What I am trying to do, pp. 527–534.

63. County of London Plan, 1943, plate LIV, facing p. 139.

64. L.C.C. Minutes, 17 March 1959, p. 161.

65. Ibid., 21 Oct. 1958, p. 652.

66. Ibid., 17 March 1959, p. 161.

67. Ibid., 21 June 1960, pp. 434–6.

68. Ibid., 31 Jan. 1961, p. 44.

69. 57 and 58 Vict., c. 213, local and private.

70. Ibid., section 22 (1).

71. Ibid., section 73 (8).

72. Ibid., section 164(1).

73. L.C.C. Minutes, 31 Jan. 1899, p. 86.

74. L.C.C. publication no. 3957, By-Laws … for the Good Rule and Government of the Administrative County of London, 1900.

75. L.C.C. Minutes, 18 June 1901, p. 728.

76. Ibid., loc, cit.; 4 March 1902, p. 319.

77. The Times Law Reports, vol. XVII, Hull v. L.C.C., pp. 270–2.

78. The Law Reports, King's Bench Division, 1904, vol. II, L.C.C. v. Illuminated Advertisements Co., p. 886.

79. Ibid., 1905, vol. II, L.C.C. v. Schewzik, p. 695.

80. L.C.C. Minutes, 26 May 1908, p. 1268.

81. Typescript of conference proceedings, in possession of L.C.C., p. 31.

82. L.C.C. publication no. 1757, Lamp and Sign Bye-Laws, 1915.

83. N.B.R., Bedford Lemere photograph 12254.

84. L.C.C. Minutes, 3 May 1892, p. 363; 21 March 1899, pp. 400–1.

85. N.B.R., photograph by H. Clunn received Feb. 1941.

86. L.C.C. Building Act Committee Minutes, 19 Feb. 1906, item 7.

87. B.A. 10884; N.B.R., Bedford Lemere photograph no. 20981/36.

88. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 12 Feb. 1908, item 33; 11 March 1908, item 27.

89. N.B.R., Bedford Lemere photograph no. 20981/36.

90. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 12 Feb. 1913, item 22.

91. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Papers, 23 Jan. 1924, item 24.

92. L.C.C. Legal and Parliamentary Dept., deeds of Nos. 1–17 Shaftesbury Avenue.

93. B.A. 19518.

94. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 14 Dec. 1921, item 21.

95. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Papers, 14 Nov. 1923, item 12.

96. Ibid., 22 Oct. 1924, item 33.

97. Ibid., 24 June 1925, item 11.

98. Ibid., 7 Oct. 1925, item 17.

99. L.C.C. Minutes, 8 Dec. 1925, p. 894; 15 Dec. 1925, p. 918.

100. W.C.C. Minutes, 27 July 1922, p. 379.

101. B.A. 29170.

102. Ibid., 51118.

103. L.C.C. Minutes, 27 Feb. 1923, pp. 238–9; 13 March 1923, p. 341.

104. Ibid., 2 March 1926, p. 385.

105. C.E.O., London lease book 8, pp. 37–8.

106. Ibid., file 16117.

CHAPTER VII (pp. 101–110)

The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain

1. The Times, 10 Oct. 1885.

2. Ibid., 29 Oct. 1885.

3. M.B.W. Minutes, 22 Jan. 1886, pp. 88, 90.

4. Ibid., 12 Feb. 1886, p. 275.

5. Ibid., 12 Feb. 1886, p. 295.

6. The Times, 3 March 1886, 2 Oct. 1888.

7. Isabel McAllister, Alfred Gilbert, 1929, pp. 104–5.

8. The Times, 30 June 1893.

9. The Easter Art Annual, 1903, pp. 13–17; press cuttings in the possession of Mr. Adrian Bury, R.W.S., author of Shadow of Eros, 1952.

10. M.B.W. Works Committee Papers, 14 Feb. 1887, item 73.

11. The Easter Art Annual, 1903, pp. 13–17.

12. The Times, 25 Nov. 1887.

13. M.B.W. Works Committee Papers, 14 Feb. 1887, item 73; Works Committee Minutes, 9 Jan. 1888, item 33.

14. The Times, 25 Nov. 1887, 6 Aug. 1888.

15. Thirty-second Annual Report of the Vestry … of St. James, 1888, pp. 56–7.

16. Thirty-third Annual Report …, 1889, pp. 67–9.

17. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 25 Sept. 1889, item 24.

18. McAllister, op. cit., p. 107.

19. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 10 July 1889, item 16.

20. Ibid., 31 July 1889, item 18; 25 Sept. 1889, item 24.

21. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Papers, 25 Sept. 1889, item 24; 23 Oct. 1889, item 25 (both in vol. 11a).

22. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 27 Nov. 1889, item 6.

23. L.C.C. Minutes, 14 Jan. 1890, p. 5.

24. The Times, 8 March 1890.

25. McAllister, op. cit., p. 106.

26. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Papers, 6 April 1892, item 18.

27. C.E.O., file 14044.

28. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 22 Oct. 1890, item 33.

29. Ibid., 23 Sept. 1891, item 36.

30. 52 and 53 Vict., c. 147, local and private, section 8.

31. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Papers, 30 Sept. 1891, item 16.

32. Ibid., 4 Nov. 1891, item 15.

33. Press cuttings in the possession of Mr. Adrian Bury, R.W.S.

34. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes and Papers, 4 Nov. 1891, item 15.

35. Ibid., 17 Feb. 1892, item 16.

36. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 24 Feb. 1892, item 2.

37. Ibid., 1 March 1892, item 4.

38. L.C.C. Minutes, 3 May 1892, p. 370.

39. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Papers, 6 April 1892, item 18.

40. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 13 July 1892, item 15.

41. Ibid., 21 Dec. 1892, item 15; 15 March 1893, item 9.

42. The Times, 30 June 1893; press cuttings in the possession of Mr. Adrian Bury, R.W.S.

43. McAllister, op. cit., pp. 106–7.

44. The Illustrated London News, 8 July 1893, p. 46.

45. The Times, 17 July 1893.

46. Ibid., 12 July 1893.

47. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 2 May 1894, item 24.

48. Ibid., 1 Aug. 1893, items 2, 3; Improvements Committee Papers, 5 July 1893, item 25.

49. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 5 July 1893, item 24; 19 July 1893, item 27.

50. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes and Papers, 26 July 1893, item 14.

51. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 1 Aug. 1893, items 2, 3.

52. Ibid., 8 Aug. 1893 (no item no.); 4 Oct. 1893, item 16.

53. L.C.C. Minutes, 10 Oct. 1893, pp. 948–9.

54. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes and Papers, 1 Nov. 1893, item 43.

55. The Times, 23 Sept. 1893.

56. Ibid., 30 Sept. 1893.

57. Ibid., 3 Oct. 1893.

58. Ibid., 7 Oct. 1893.

59. Ibid., 13 Oct. 1893.

60. Information supplied by Mr. Adrian Bury, R.W.S.

61. The Times, 7 Aug. 1923.

62. Ibid., 8 June 1927, 26 Jan. 1953.

63. Ibid., 9 Feb. 1953.

64. Ibid., 1 July 1947.

65. Ibid., 22 March 1930.

66. L.C.C. Minutes, 21 Nov. 1893, p. 1144.

67. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 19 Dec. 1893, item 13; 10 Jan. 1894, item 5; 4 April 1894, item 15.

68. L.C.C. Minutes, 17 April 1894, p. 410.

69. Ibid., 10 July 1894, pp. 784–6; 24 July 1894, p. 853.

70. L.C.C. Improvements Committee Minutes, 27 March 1895, item 17.

71. The Easter Art Annual, 1903, p. 5.

72. The Times, 15, 21 Feb. 1911.

73. Ibid., 12, 13, 16 Feb. 1925.

74. Ibid., 25 May 1925; L.C.C. Minutes, 2 May 1933, p. 630.

75. L.C.C. Minutes, 3 Feb. 1931, p. 189.

76. The Times, 28 Dec. 1931.

77. Ibid., 15 May 1931.

78. L.C.C. Minutes, 16 Dec. 1930, p. 1004.

79. The Times, 18 April, 5 May 1932.

80. Ibid., 26 March 1930; 12 Feb. 1936.

81. Ibid., 17–20 Dec. 1930.

82. W.C.C. Minutes, 28 Jan. 1931, p. 25.

83. The Times, 2, 28 Jan. 1932.

84. L.C.C. Minutes, 23 March 1937, p. 350.

85. Ibid., 17 Oct. 1939, p. 268; 29 Sept. 1945, p. 2.

86. The Times, 30 June 1947.

87. Ibid., 19 June 1953; The Builder, 29 May 1953, p. 824.

88. The Times, 4, 25 Jan. 1932; 23 Dec. 1935.

89. Ibid., 31 July 1950; 17 March 1951.

90. M. H. Spielmann, British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-day, 1901, p. 82.

91. The Times, 12 Oct. 1928.

CHAPTER VIII (pp. 111–15)

Rupert Street Area

1. P.R.O., E317/Middlesex 38.

2. W.P.L., F2002, 7 March 1648/9; 12 Sept. 1649.

3. P.R.O., MR325.

4. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 22.

5. Ibid., p. 378.

6. P.R.O., C66/3181, no. 19.

7. Ibid., C8/510/40.

8. Kingsford, pp. 112–13.

9. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 84.

10. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

11. Annual Report of the Vestry of … St. James, 1872–3, p. 19; M.B.W. Minutes, 10 Oct. 1873, p. 306; 10 July 1874, p. 44.

12. M.L.R. 1728/6/455–7,459–61.

13. Ibid., 1728/6/459.

14. Kingsford, p. 113.

15. M.L.R. 1725/5/402.

16. L.C.C. Minutes, 4 Oct. 1904, p. 1941.

17. Colvin.

18. The Builder, 26 June 1914, p. 754 and plates; B.A. 38107.

CHAPTER IX (pp. 116–37)

Brewer Street and Great Pulteney Street Area

1. P.R.O., C105/21 (Mr. H. M. Colvin kindly drew attention to this document).

2. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 5, 4 Oct. 1699.

3. P.R.O., CREST 6/30, pp. 60–1.

4. Ibid., C10/204/95.

5. G.E.C.

6. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 7, 4 Dec. 1668.

7. Guildhall Library, MS. 3047/2.

8. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 7, 2 Nov. 1668.

9. Clarke, Square and Co., Abstract of the leases of the estate of Sir William Pulteney.

10. P.R.O., C10/173/61.

11. Ibid., CREST6/18, pp. 199–201.

12. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 84.

13. P.R.O., LR1/63, part I, ff. 76–7.

14. Strype, op. cit., cf. plate between pp. 80 and 81 with p. 84.

15. P.C.C., 66 Young.

16. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3.

17. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 49, p. 151.

18. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3; box 2, bundle 7.

19. M.L.R. 1719/3/169.

20. Ibid., 1717/2/4.

21. Ibid., 1719/4/54.

22. Ibid., 1719/3/39.

23. Ibid., 1720/1/32.

24. Ibid., 1719/5/179.

25. Ibid., 1729/6/135.

26. Ibid., 1719/1/185.

27. Ibid., 1725/6/447.

28. Ibid., 1719/1/138.

29. Ibid., 1719/3/40.

30. Ibid., 1719/4/48.

31. 7 Geo. I, House of Lords Act no. 34.

32. P.R.O., LR1/283, ff. 1–8.

33. C.E.O., London lease book 94, p. 500.

34. Ibid., London lease book 38, pp. 292–314.

35. Ibid., file 15787.

36. P.R.O., MR 325.

37. Ibid., C54/4382, no. 25.

38. M.L.R. 1725/1/288; 1725/6/123.

39. Ibid., 1717/6/129; 1719/6/186; P.R.O., C8/204/13.

40. P.R.O., PC2/63, p. 171.

41. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 5, 11 Dec. 1700.

42. P.R.O., C10/395/8.

43. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, West London, 1925, pp. 145–6.

44. P.R.O., LR1/304, ff. 209–12.

45. P.O.D.

46. P.R.O., CREST6/148, pp. 175–84.

47. W.P.L., D1835A.

48. B.A. 9892.

49. P.R.O., PC2/63, p. 166.

50. Ibid., C5/173/127; P.C.C., 190 Young.

51. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 7, 25 May 1708.

52. M.L.R. 1714/4/175.

53. P.C.C., 190 Young.

54. R.B.

55. Sutton deeds, 1742 Survey, ff. XL, XLI.

56. W.P.L., The Westminster Poll, 1749.

57. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim; P.O.D.

58. Inscription on building.

59. C.E.O., file 13716.

60. Ibid., file 13957.

61. Ibid., file 13770.

62. Ibid., file 13806.

63. Ibid., file 13805.

64. Ibid., files 13957,13994, 13995.

65. Ibid., file 13961; The Builder, 14 Nov. 1885, p. 705.

66. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 7, 22 Feb. 1717/18.

67. M.L.R. 1719/2/95.

68. H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period V, vol. I, 1921, p. 23.

69. Colvin; H. Avray Tipping, loc. cit. and p. 9.

70. M.L.R. 1723/1/62.

71. R.B.; D.N.B.

72. Robert Elkin, The Old Concert Rooms of London, 1955, pp. 42–4; Survey of London, vol. XX, 1940, p. 102.

73. Charles Burney, A General History of Music, 1789, vol. IV, p. 663.

74. O. E. Deutsch, Handel, A Documentary Biography, 1955, passim; F. Madan, Catalogue of Western MSS. in Bodleian Library, vol. 5, 1905, no. 26649; The Musical Times, 1 Sept. 1906, Bertha Harrison, A Forgotten Concert Room, pp. 602–5.

75. The Public Advertiser, 11 March, 9 April, 10 May, 13 May 1765.

76. P.C.C., 85 Collins.

77. The Musical Times, 1 Oct. 1906, Bertha Harrison, A Forgotten Concert Room, pp. 668–672.

78. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1954 ed.; W.P.L., box 47, no. 899; The Public Advertiser, 4, 18, 20 Jan. 1772.

79. W.P.L., box 47, no. 899.

80. Ibid., P.R.O., LC5/163.

81. W.P.L., D1760, 26 Jan. 1797.

82. R.B.; P.O.D.

83. C.E.O., file 15787; London lease books 94, p. 500 and 95, p. 261.

84. Ibid., file 15977.

85. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1947 ed., sub Concert.

86. W.P.L., box 47, no. 1A.

87. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3, 10 July 1717; M.L.R. 1725/2/259.

88. C.E.O., rack 102, no. 38.

89. Guildhall Library, Chadwyck Healey Collection, small box, W3/21.

90. E. C. Mossner, The Life of David Hume, 1954, p. 548.

91. P.R.O., CREST 6/18, pp. 205–6.

92. Ibid., C6/244/10; G.E.C.

93. P.R.O., C6/244/10; C10/146/52.

94. P.R.O., CREST 6/30, pp. 60–1, 117–19; 6/42, pp. 65–7; 6/54, pp. 131–3, 201–7; 6/65, pp. 32–7; G.E.C.

95. C.E.O., file 15662.

96. Kingsford, p. 125, quoting a ratebook not now available.

97. E. Hatton, A New View of London, 1708, vol. I, p. 75.

98. C.E.O., file 15586; The Builder, 2 Aug. 1912, p. 140; 31 Jan. 1913, p. 161; 15 Oct. 1915, p. 281.

99. The Building News, 17 Sept. 1909, p. 416.

100. Ibid., 2 Oct. 1914, p. 430; The Builder, 4 June 1915, p. 530, and plate following p. 540; The Architectural Review, July 1915, pp. 15–18.

101. The Architectural Review, July 1915, illustration on p. 17; The Builder, 8 June 1923, two plates between pp. 930–1.

102. M.L.R. 1719/3/171–2.

103. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3, 3 April 1719.

104. M.L.R. 1729/6/133; Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3, 17 March 1717/18.

105. Unless a specific reference has been given the information in this list has been taken from ratebooks, directories, the Dictionary of National Biography, G.E.C., Burke's Peerages, and The Army Lists.

106. L.C.C. Members' Library, file 1172.

107. Photographs in possession of the N.B.R. and the L.C.C.

108. Sutton deeds, particulars book, property nos. 348–9; P.O.D.

109. Sutton deeds, files, property nos. 398, 399 and part of 402.

110. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

111. Sutton deeds, particulars book, property no. 370; The Builder, 11 March 1882, p. 301.

112. Sutton deeds, files, property no. 380.

113. M.L.R. 1729/6/133.

114. Ibid., 1719/1/312; 1719/2/224.

115. Ibid., 1719/5/55.

116. Ibid., 1719/4/47.

117. Ibid., 1719/5/50.

118. Ibid., 1720/5/69.

119. Colvin.

120. Sutton deeds, particulars book, property no. 433.

121. Burke's Extinct Baronetages and Peerages.

122. M.L.R. 1719/5/55; 1719/5/57; 1719/3/168.

123. Ibid., 1719/3/40.

124. Ibid., 1719/3/39.

125. Ibid., 1719/5/49.

126. Ibid., 1719/4/48.

127. Ibid., 1719/5/310; 1719/1/138.

128. Sutton deeds, particulars book, property nos. 411–14.

129. Ibid., no. 415.

130. Ibid., nos. 406–7.

131. Ibid., nos. 484–6.

132. P.O.D.; Endowed Charities (County of London), vol. V, 1903, pp. 182–4.

133. H. Roberts, The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, 1st ed., 1850.

134. P.O.D.; Endowed Charities, loc. cit.; Fortysecond Annual Report of the Vestry… . of St. James, 1898, pp. 97–9.

135. The Builder, 27 March 1886, pp. 471–2, plans, elevation and section, pp. 478–9; 31 July 1886, p. 180.

CHAPTER X (pp. 138–75)

Golden Square Area

1. P.R.O., C54/590, no. 39.

2. Ibid., C66/957, no. 10.

3. P.C.C., 84 Drury.

4. P.R.O., C10/389/39.

5. Ibid., Wards 5/26.

6. Ibid., C6/211/66; C8/502/64; Wren Society, vol. XVIII, 1941, pp. 32, 34; ibid., vol. XIX, 1942, p. 51.

7. P.R.O., C8/230/1.

8. Ibid., C8/431/4.

9. Ibid., C10/171/45.

10. Ibid., C6/211/66.

11. Wren Society, vol. XVIII, 1941, pp. 18–19.

12. Robert Steele, Tudor and Stuart Proclamations, 1485–1714, 1910, vol. I, no. 3549.

13. Wren Society, vol. XVIII, 1941, p. 33; also P.R.O., PC2/63, p. 108.

14. P.R.O., C66/3151, no. 13; C5/437/60; C10/171/45.

15. Ibid., C66/3151, no. 13.

16. Ibid., MPA 69.

17. Ibid., C8/400/7.

18. Ibid., C6/62/109; C6/211/66; C8/284/164.

19. H.M.C., 12th Report, Appendix, part VI, MSS. of the House of Lords, 1689–1690, 1889, p. 85.

20. Narcissus Luttrell, A Brief Historical Relation, vol. III, 1857, p. 434.

21. P.R.O.. C6/211/66; C10/171/45.

22. Ibid., C5/437/60; C6/211/66.

23. Westminster Cathedral, deed of 21 April 1684.

24. P.R.O., C8/502/64; C8/230/1.

25. L.C.C. Members' Library, file 458.

26. P.R.O., C6/224/24.

27. Ibid., C105/39, bundle 46.

28. R.B.

29. P.R.O., C8/502/64.

30. Ibid., loc. cit.; C8/400/7; C8/299/102.

31. Ibid., C8/471/60.

32. Ibid., C8/299/102.

33. Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital deeds, 28 Oct. 1685.

34. B.M., Crace Views, portfolio XVIII, sheet 1, no. 1.

35. Wren Society, vol. XVIII, 1941, p. 33.

36. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, ed. Annie Raine Ellis, 1889, vol. II, p. 85; Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1954 ed.

37. Walpo/e's Anecdotes of Painting in England, ed. F. W. Hilles and P. J. Daghlian, 1937, vol. V, p. 4.

38. R.B.; M. A. Shee, The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1860, p. 194.

39. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1839 ed., pp. 5–6.

40. P.O.D.

41. P.R.O., C8/350/89.

42. 24 Geo. II, c. 27, public.

43. C. H. Collins Baker and M. I. Baker, The Life and Circumstances of James Brydges, First Duke of Chandos, 1949, pp. 141–2, 159, plates facing pp. 117 and 124.

44. James Ralph, A Critical Review of the Publick Buildings … In and About London, etc., 1783 ed., p. 195.

45. 7 and 8 Geo. IV, c. 44, public.

46. W.C.C. Minutes and Agenda, 31 Jan. 1952, p. 31; 18 Dec. 1952, p. 242.

47. The Architect and Building News, 22 Jan. 1953, p. 104.

48. P.R.O., C8/471/60; M.L.R. 1731/5/539; R.B.

49. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 44, p. 352; WCS 46, pp. 144, 157; R.B.; Second Report of the Commissioners concerning Charities for the Education of the Poor, 1819, pp. 55, 233–4.

50. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 679/7.

51. R.B.; G.E.C.

52. Second Report etc., loc. cit.; Trusts and Foundations, 1953, p. 114.

53. R.B.; Eric Blom, The Romance of the Piano, 1928, p.167.

54. E.S. 9364; P.O.D.

55. The Architect and Building News, 3 Feb. 1928, p. 210.

56. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 680/4; P.R.O., C8/471/60; R.B.; Second Report etc., loc. cit.

57. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 680/4; R.B.

58. R.B.; Colvin.

59. W.C.C. Minutes, 9 Oct. 1913, p. 516; E.S. 70651; P.O.D.

60. P.R.O., C8/471/60; Second Report etc., p. 5.

61. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 680/4; R.B.; D.N.B.

62. R.B.; P.O.D.

63. E.S. 70651.

64. P.R.O., C8/471/60; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 45, p. 138; WCS 680/4; R.B.; Second Report etc., p. 5.

65. Life of Mrs. Jordan by a Confidential Friend, [1832], pp. 80–1; P. W. Sergeant, Mrs. Jordan, 1913, pp. 99–100, 223–4; R.B.; D.N.B.

66. R.B.; P.O.D.; D.N.B.

67. E.S. 108009.

68. R.B.; Burke's Peerage, sub Brabourne.

69. R.B.; P.O.D.; The Architect, 29 Jan. 1897, plate.

70. Abstract of title in the possession of Messrs. Armitage, Sykes and Hinchcliffe of Huddersfield.

71. P.R.O., SP 100/2.

72. R.B.; D.N.B.

73. L.C.C.R.O., MBW 1699, 7, part I, Nov. and Dec. 1881; MBW 1708, 7, part 2, Jan. 1882; P.O.D.

74. P.R.O., C5/216/78.

75. Ibid., C8/631/13; R.B.

76. P.R.O., C8/631/13; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 679/7; R.B.

77. Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, 1722–1723, p. 234; 1731, p. 290.

78. L.C.C. Minutes, 15 Dec. 1903, p. 2045; P.O.D.

79. P.R.O., C8/587/49; R.B.

80. R.B.; D.N.B.; G.E.C.

81. B.A. 51806; E.S. 13681.

82. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 44, p. 34; R.B.

83. L.C.C.R.O, WCS 43, pp. 218, 325; WCS 44, p. 34.

84. B.A. 51806.

85. J. D. Aylward, The English Master of Arms, 1956, pp. 237–8.

86. E.S. 8899.

87. W.C.C. Minutes, 15 April 1908, p. 271; P.O.D.

88. P.R.O., C10/525/68; R.B.

89. R. E. M. Harding, The Piano-Forte, 1933, p. 397.

90. T.P. 77031.

91. M.L.R. 1714/2/98–9.

92. E.S. 9377; The Architect and Building News, 10 Feb. 1928, p. 241.

93. R.B.; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 680/4; Colvin.

94. Shee, op. cit. (38 above), p. 194.

95. E.S. 4013; B.A. 28418.

96. In the L.C.C. collection.

97. E.S. 4013.

98. W.C.C. Minutes, 4 July 1912, p. 405.

99. Ibid., 29 Nov. 1906, p. 775; 7 March 1907, p. 161; 1 Oct. 1908, p. 556.

100. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/5; R.B.

101. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 595/2; W.P.L., D644; Adeline Hartcup, Angelica, 1954, pp. 35, 49–51, 136–7.

102. W.C.C. Minutes, 18 April 1905, p. 578; P.O.D.

103. R.B.; The Army List, 1781.

104. W.C.C. Minutes, 21 Dec. 1922, p. 607.

105. P.R.O., C105/39, bundle 46; C6/224/24; L.C.C. Members' Library, file 458.

106. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/3; R.B.; P.O.D.; D.N.B.; G.E.C.

107. W.P.L., D1998; P.O.D.

108. P.R.O., FEC 1/B23; R.B.; Baker, op. cit. (43 above), p. 26.

109. Baker, op. cit. (43 above), pp. 26–7.

110. R.B.; The Army List, 1761; D.N.B.

111. Berkshire Record Office, D/Etty ; The Times, 22 Jan. 1791; D.N.B.

112. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/5.

113. Thomas MacKnight, Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, 1863, pp. 247–8; M. R. Hopkinson, Married to Mercury, 1936, passim; R.B.

114. P.R.O., FEC 1/B23, 24; D.N.B.

115. Westminster Cathedral, deed of 21 April 1684; R.B.

116. Westminster Cathedral, deed of 16 Dec. 1797; R.B.; G.E.C.

117. E.S. 78910.

118. Westminster Cathedral, deed of 5 Dec. 1700 and endorsement; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/3; R.B.; G.E.C.

119. P.R.O., SP89/40; Marcus Cheke, Dictator of Portugal, 1938, passim; R.B.

120. The Last Journals of Horace Walpole, ed. A. Francis Stewart, N.D., vol. I, pp. 107–8; The Gentleman's Magazine, 1783, pp. 454, 540; R.B.

121. Abt. Geh. Staatsarchiv, Munich, Kasten Schwarz, 502/4.

122. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. XI, 1904, p. 196.

123. P.R.O., C8/350/89; Westminster Cathedral, deed of 21 April 1684; R.B.

124. P.R.O., FEC 1/B23, 24; Westminster Cathedral, deed of 1 Sept. 1832; R.B.

125. T.P. 77491.

126. P.R.O., C5/216/78; C8/350/89.

127. Ibid., FEC 1/B23, 24; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/3; R.B.; D.N.B.

128. B.A. 46587.

129. M.L.R. 1734/5/131.

130. P.R.O., C8/392/2.

131. P.C.C., 222 Buckingham.

132. M.L.R. 1734/5/131; R.B.

133. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/5; R.B.

134. H.M.C., Fortescue MSS., vol. I, pp. 10, 19; R.B.; D.N.B.

135. P.C.C., 72 Box; R.B.

136. The Architect and Building News, 11 Sept. 1931, pp. 296–9; B.A. 65758.

137. M.B.W. Minutes, 16 June 1882, p. 989; The Builder, 22 April 1882, p. 503.

138. Granada Group Ltd., deed of 9 May 1851.

139. The Builder, 8 May 1914, p. 556.

140. Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital deeds, 28 Oct. 1685; R.B.

141. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/3; R.B.

142. Charles Burney, A General History of Music, 1789, vol. IV, p. 246.

143. R.B.; P.O.D.; D.N.B.

144. M.L.R. 1734/5/131; 1737/4/321.

145. Ibid., 1716/3/120; 1731/5/539; 1737/4/431; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 44, p. 226.

146. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 680/4; R.B.; D.N.B.

147. B.A. 60147.

148. M.L.R. 1731/5/539; 1741/1/151.

149. Notes and Queries, 8th series, 1894, vol. V, p. 41.

150. M.L.R. 1734/5/131; Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital deeds, 4 Jan. 1725.

151. Royal National … Hospital deeds, loc. cit.

152. P.R.O., LR1/60, ff. 117–24.

153. Ibid., C8/350/89; C8/299/102; C8/400/7.

154. W.P.L., acc. 198.

155. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 84.

156. B.A. 35102; E.S. 52622.

157. Westminster Cathedral, deed of 5 Dec. 1700.

158. Ibid., loc. cit., endorsement of 30 Sept. 1708.

159. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 117.

160. P.R.O., SP89/40, 1 Aug. 1738; Cheke, op. cit. (119 above), passim; Catholic Record Society, vol. 38, 1941, pp. XXV, XXVII.

161. Catholic Record Society, vol. 38, 1941, pp. XXI, XXII; R.B.

162. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1783, p. 540.

163. House of Lords Record Office, Return of Papists for 1780.

164. Rev. R. C. Fuller, Warwick Street Church, 1956, pp. 52–4.

165. Abt. Geh. Staatsarchiv, Munich, Kasten Schwarz, 502/4; J. P. de Castro, The Gordon Riots, 1926, pp. 32, 42–7.

166. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. XI, 1904, pp. 190, 196.

167. P.R.O., SP81/116.

168. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England, ed. F. W. Hilles and P. J. Daghlian, 1937, vol. V, p. 90; Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530–1790, 1953, p. 126; Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, 1920, vol I, p. 246.

169. Fuller, op. cit., p. 13; de Castro, op. cit., p. 43.

170. Fuller, op. cit., p. 42, quoting The Catholic Miscellany, vol. II, 1822, p. 317.

171. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1783, p. 454.

172. Fuller, op. cit., p. 13.

173. B. Ward, The Dawn of the Catholic Revival in England, 1909, vol. I, pp. 189–90; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 117.

174. Westminster Cathedral, deed of 29 Sept. 1788.

175. Ibid., MS. vol. XLII, no. 157, quoted in Fuller, op. cit., p. 15.

176. Fuller, op. cit., pp. 14, 16; Ward, op. cit., pp. 189–93.

177. Fuller, op. cit., pp. 14–16.

178. The Builder, 1 Oct. 1853, p. 624.

179. Ibid., loc. cit.; Gunnis.

180. Fuller, op. cit., pp. 28–30; Winefride De L'Hôpital, Westminster Cathedral and its Architect, N.D., vol. II, p. 449.

181. Fuller, op. cit., p. 27.

182. Fuller, loc. cit.; De L'Hôpital, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 449–50.

183. Fuller, op. cit., p. 31; De L'Hôpital, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 451–2.

184. De L'Hôpital, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 450–1.

185. N. Pevsner, London. The Cities of London and Westminster, 1962 ed., p. 457.

186. B.A. 29013.

187. P.R.O., CREST 6/24, pp. 118, 167; M.C.R., Calendar of the Sessions Books 1689 to 1709, ed. W. J. Hardy, 1905, pp. 38–9.

188. P.R.O., C8/502/64; C8/299/102.

189. M.L.R. 1717/1/216.

190. Deeds in custody of Equity and Law Life Assurance Co.

191. M.L.R. 1715/3/146.

192. Ibid., 1728/5/352.

193. Ibid., 1717/4/103.

194. Strype, op. cit. (155 above), vol. II, bk. VI, p. 85.

195. Walpole Society, vol. IX, 1921, Hilda Finberg, Canaletto in England, pp. 27–44.

196. Daniel Lysons, Collectanea, vol. II, p. l61 (B.M. pressmark 1889 e.5).

197. Ibid., vol. I, p. 4 (B.M. pressmark 1881 b.6).

198. Walpole Society, vol. IX, 1921, p. 3 5 n.

199. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1839 ed., p. 64; P.O.D.

200. W.C.C. Minutes, 8 July 1909, p. 418; 28 July 1910, p. 433.

CHAPTER XI (pp. 176–95)

Kingly and Carnaby Street Area

1. P.R.O., LR1/50, ff. 15–16; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, pp. 26–7.

2. P.R.O., E317/Middlesex 39.

3. Ibid., CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; C66/3359, no. 2; P.C.C., 172 Vere; Buckinghamshire Record Office, Lowndes ST94/1.

4. P.R.O., C66/3099, no. 8.

5. Ibid., CREST 6/14, pp. 139–41.

6. Ibid., MPA 69.

7. R.B.

8. P.R.O., CREST 6/24, pp. 118, 142.

9. Ibid., CREST 6/17, pp. 324–5; MPE 507.

10. P.C.C., Admon. 1710.

11. P.R.O., CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; C54/4881, no. 22.

12. Ibid., CREST 6/14, pp. 139–41; M.L.R. 1741/1/286; Buckinghamshire Record Office, Lowndes ST94/1.

13. P.C.C., 35 Cann.

14. P.R.O., C54/4881, no. 22.

15. Ibid., loc. cit.; CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; R.B.

16. John and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigenses, 1924; Augustan Reprint Society, 1955, J. Max Patrick, introduction to Maidwell's Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education.

17. P.R.O., CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; R.B.

18. P.R.O., CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; C66/3423, no. 6.

19. Ibid., CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9.

20. Lewis Maidwell, A Scheme for a Public Academy, 1700.

21. W. H. Cummings, Purcell, 1881, p. 50.

22. P.R.O., C66/3423, no. 6.

23. Lewis Maidwell, Majestas Imperii Britannici, translated by Nahum Tate, 1706.

24. P.R.O., CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; C66/3359, no. 1.

25. Ibid., CREST 6/18, pp. 6–9; Buckinghamshire Record Office, Lowndes ST94/1.

26. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XIII, p. 169; Lewis Maidwell, A Scheme for a Public Academy, 1700.

27. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XIV, pp. 125, 445, 463; Lewis Maidwell, Proposals Reviv'd, of Establishing, and Supporting a Public Schole, 1701, and A Description of the Royal Schole, 1703; Augustan Reprint Society, loc. cit.

28. Oxford Historical Society, Collectanea, first series, 1885, T. W. Jackson, Dr. Wallis' Letter Against Mr. Maidwell (1700), p. 308.

29. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XIV, pp. 475–6.

30. P.R.O., C10/333/21.

31. M.L.R. 1741/1/286; R.B.

32. M.C.R.O., Archdeaconry of Middlesex Wills.

33. Cal. Treasury Books 1679–1680, p. 132; J. D. Aylward, The English Master of Arms, 1956, pp. 92–107; Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. XVI, 1941, W. H. Manchée, The Fouberts and their Royal Academy, p. 79.

34. T. Pennant, Some Account of London, 1793 ed., p. 121.

35. Kingsford, p. 61.

36. The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, vol. IV, p. 400.

37. Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. XVI, 1941 (33 above), p. 83.

38. P.C.C., Admon. 1696; Cal. Treasury Books 1689–1692, p. 1355; Ibid., 1693–1696, p. 1226.

39. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1743, p. 107.

40. Cal. Treasury Books Oct. 1697–Aug. 1698, p. 167.

41. P.R.O., CREST 6/21, p. 290.

42. Cal. Treasury Books 1702, pp. 69, 99.

43. Ibid., 1702, p. 1009; ibid., 1710, p. 569.

44. Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. XVI, 1941 (33 above), p. 86.

45. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570.

46. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1743, p. 107; P.C.C., 40 Boycott.

47. W.P.L., D1870.

48. P.R.O., CREST 6/69, pp. 143–7, 166.

49. Sketch of the State of the Children of the Poor in the year 1756, and of the Present State and Management of all the Poor in the Parish of St. James, Westminster in January 1797, 1797.

50. W.P.L., D1882, 1 Sept. 1819.

51. Ibid., D1870, 11 Oct. 1782.

52. P.R.O., CREST 26/156.

53. W.P.L., D1881, 3 Feb. 1815, 7 May 1816.

54. Ibid., D1881, 20 Dec. 1814.

55. Ibid., D1882, 2, 17 Sept. 1819, 21 March 1820.

56. Lambeth Palace Library, MS. 952, f. 80.

57. P.R.O., C54/4881, no. 22; CREST 6/17, p. 298; MPE507.

58. Richard Burd, Two Sermons preached After the Opening of the new Chapel of St. James's, Westminster, 1702; White Kennett, The Case of Impropriations, 1704, p. 310; James Paterson, Pietas Londinensis, 1714, pp. 126–127; A. G. Jackson, The History of St. Thomas's Church, Regent Street, 1881, p. 10.

59. P.R.O., CREST 6/17, p. 298; MPE507.

60. Ibid., MPE 507.

61. Ibid., C66/3356, no. 7; CREST 6/17, p. 291.

62. The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, vol. V, pp. 132, 136, 160.

63. W.P.L., Minutes of the Trustees of King Street Chapel, 8 Jan. 1701/2.

64. Ibid., 28 Jan. 1701/2.

65. Ibid., 28 Jan. 1701/2, 18 May 1702; R.B.; Jackson, op. cit., p. 16.

66. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 28 Jan., 4 Feb. 1701/2.

67. Jackson, op. cit. (58 above), pp. 16–17.

68. Jackson, loc. cit.; W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 18 May, 7 July, 22 Sept. 1702.

69. Burd, op. cit.

70. Jackson, op. cit., pp. 18, 20, 21.

71. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 4 Feb. 1701/2, 13 April, 20 May 1703.

72. Ibid., Trustees' Minutes, 27 Feb. 1712/13, 22, 27 June 1713, 9 April 1714; D1759, 26 June 1713; Jackson, op. cit., p. 18; Colvin.

73. Paterson, op. cit. (58 above), pp. 126–7.

74. Jackson, op. cit., pp. 13–15, 18–19.

75. Ibid., p. 21; W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 20, 24 May 1766; D1762, 2 June 1766, 16 April 1767.

76. Jackson, op. cit., pp. 23–4.

77. Ibid., p. 24; W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 18 July 1809, 30 April 1814.

78. C.E.O., file 15214.

79. Jackson, op. cit., p. 26; W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 24 May 1817, 28 April 1820.

80. James Elmes, Metropolitan Improvements, 1827, p. 116.

81. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 28 April 1820, 14 May 1822, 15 May 1824, 10 Feb. 1825.

82. Endowed Charities (County of London), 1903, vol. V, pp. 133–7.

83. Jackson, op. cit., p. 29; W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 20 Feb., 26 May, 16 June 1847, 4 March 1848.

84. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 26 Feb. 1849, 17 June 1850, 19 May 1851.

85. Ibid., 24 Jan., 28 Feb., 14 Sept., 2 Nov. 1854, 15 Feb. 1855, 9 July 1857; Jackson, op. cit., p. 31.

86. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 20 April 1854.

87. Ibid., Trustees' Minutes, 27 July 1854; P.O.D.

88. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 8 Jan. 1868, 9 July 1869; Church Commissioners, file 12191, part 1/2; Endowed Charities (County of London), 1903, vol. V, pp. 145–8.

89. St. Thomas's, Kingly Street, Parochial Church Council Minutes.

90. Charles Mackeson, A Guide to the Churches of London, 1889.

91. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 29 Nov. 1883, 25 June 1884, 11 June 1885.

92. Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, R 2 a.

93. W.P.L., Trustees' Minutes, 9 Dec. 1902, 5 Jan., 30 Nov. 1903, 18 May 1904, 25 Nov. 1908, 9 Dec. 1918, 2 Jan. 1919, 14 May 1923.

94. In the possession of the London County Council.

95. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, West London, 1925, p. 117.

96. P.R.O., C5/542/53.

97. Ibid., CREST 6/14, pp. 139–41; Buckinghamshire Record Office, Lowndes ST94/1.

98. P.R.O., T48/45.

99. Ibid., C10/394/28; Buckinghamshire Record Office, Lowndes ST94/1; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 34, 34 n.

100. P.C.C., 172 Vere.

101. Buckinghamshire Record Office, Lowndes ST94/1.

102. Ibid., loc. cit.; D.N.B.; Burke's Landed Gentry.

103. P.R.O., C66/3359, no. 2.

104. 9 Geo. I, c. 7, private.

105. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XX, pp. 93, 177.

106. M.L.R. 1726/3/119.

107. Ibid., 1724/2/153.

108. Ibid., 1724/5/478.

109. Ibid., 1725/1/10.

110. Ibid., 1724/1/129.

111. Ibid., 1724/5/459.

112. Ibid., 1724/1/445.

113. Ibid., 1724/2/388.

114. Ibid., 1724/4/46.

115. Ibid., 1725/4/51.

116. Ibid., 1725/4/112.

117. Ibid., 1727/6/295.

118. Ibid., 1724/1/11–12.

119. Ibid., 1724/5/325.

120. Ibid., 1724/1/130.

121. Ibid., 1724/1/13.

122. Ibid., 1724/5/318.

123. Ibid., 1729/5/154.

124. Ibid., 1724/2/387.

125. Ibid., 1725/2/229.

126. Ibid., 1723/4/405.

127. Ibid., 1724/5/44.

128. Ibid., 1724/3/176.

129. Ibid., 1725/1/156.

130. Ibid., 1725/1/286

131. Ibid., 1725/4/108.

132. Ibid., 1727/2/35.

133. Ibid., 1725/1/31.

134. Ibid., 1723/5/264–8; 1724/1/446.

135. Ibid., 1724/6/276.

136. Ibid., 1724/5/323.

137. Ibid., 1724/1/446.

138. Ibid., 1724/5/477.

139. Ibid., 1724/5/403.

140. P.R.O., C66/3537, no. 3.

141. M.L.R. 1735/5/393.

142. Ibid., 1773/4/492–3, 495–6, 498–9, 501–2; 1791/7/374; M.C.R.O., LTA(W) 236; deeds in custody of Laurence Graham and Co., and of Messrs. Taylor and Humbert.

143. M.C.R.O., LTA(W) 237.

144. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 85.

145. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim; R.B.

146. M.C.R.O., Acc. 603/2; R.B.

CHAPTER XII (pp. 196–208)

Marshall Street Area

1. 7 Geo. II, c. 11, private; Journals of the House of Lords, vol. XXII, p. 122.

2. P.R.O., PC 2/58, pp. 170–1.

3. The English Historical Review, 1925, pp. 436–7.

4. D.N.B.

5. P.R.O., PC2/59, p. 13.

6. B.M., Stowe MS. 152, f. 112.

7. House of Lords Record Office, House of Lords Papers, 31 Jan. 1722/3.

8. William Maitland, The History of London, 1739, vol. II, p. 721.

9. Notes and Queries, twelfth series, vol. IX, 1921, p. 35.

10. L.C.C.R.O., BRA329/1a.

11. Berkshire Record Office, D/EC, E32, schedule of deeds.

12. W.P.L., deed 10/23.

13. Ibid., D1759, 19 May, 24 July, 27 Nov. 1722; ibid., collection of Acts and Bills relating to St. Martin's parish, 942 13 (95); House of Lords Record Office, loc. cit.; Journals of the House of Lords, vol. XXII, pp. 31, 102, 106, 122, 126.

14. R. Mead, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagions, 1720, p. 8.

15. 7 Geo. I, c. 3, public.

16. Journals of the House of Lords, vol. XXII, pp. 106–7, 122, 126.

17. 7 Geo. II, c. 11, private.

18. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XXII, p. 315.

19. Endowed Charities (County of London), 1903, vol. V, pp. 166–7.

20. The Annual Charities Register and Digest, 1961, p. 215.

21. See, for instance, M.L.R. 1733/3/171, 422, 437.

22. L.C.C.R.O., BRA329/12.

23. Sutton deeds, particulars book, property no. 463.

24. M.L.R. 1735/5/393.

25. H.M.C., MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, The Egmont Diaries, vol. I, 1920, p. 379; W.P.L., D1759, 19 June 1733.

26. W.P.L., D1759, 21 Aug. 1733.

27. Deeds in the custody of Laurence Graham and Co., and of Messrs. Taylor and Humbert.

28. M.L.R. 1818/8/275; 1819/8/288.

29. R.B.

30. M.L.R. 1822/3/59–61; 1822/6/640–2; 1823/9/76, 407, 606; 1824/6/653; 1824/11/469.

31. The Builder, 16 Feb. 1861, p. 115.

32. M.L.R. 1734/2/314.

33. Ibid., 1733/3/171.

34. Ibid., 1734/2/35.

35. Ibid., 1733/4/21.

36. Ibid., 1733/5/204.

37. Ibid., 1733/3/422–3.

38. Ibid., 1734/2/439.

39. Ibid., 1734/3/500.

40. Ibid., 1734/3/283.

41. Ibid., 1741/3/343.

42. Ibid., 1733/3/437.

43. Ibid., 1735/4/480.

44. Ibid., 1733/3/480–1.

45. Ibid., 1734/4/159.

46. Ibid., 1734/4/447.

47. Endowed Charities (County of London), 1903, vol. V, pp. 138, 186.

48. Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry of St. James, 1885, pp. 123–4.

49. W.P.L., D2063, 12 Jan. 1847.

50. Ibid., D2063, 10 Feb. 1851; The Builder, 27 May 1854, p. 284.

51. W.P.L., D2063, 19 Dec. 1849, 2 Dec. 1850.

52. The Builder, 2 Nov. 1861, p. 755; 21 June 1862, p. 448; R.B.

53. Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Vestry … of St. James, 1894, pp. 27–8; R.B.

54. W.C.C. Minutes, 30 June 1927, p. 415; 26 July 1928, pp. 510–11; 30 April 1931, p. 245; W.P.L., The Marshall Street Public Baths, 1931.

55. The Builder, 10 April 1931, pp. 651, 660, 664–668.

56. Joshua Wilson, A Memoir of … Thomas Wilson, Esq., 1846, p. 319.

57. The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, vol. I, new series, Jan. 1823, p. 27.

58. Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry … of St. James, 1885, pp. 86–7; M.L.R. 1823/9/606.

59. Twenty-ninth Annual Report, loc. cit.; Wilson, op. cit., pp. 320–2.

60. Wilson, op. cit., p. 321.

61. J. R. Leifchild, John Leifchild, D.D., 1863, pp. 177–8, 180, 218, 259.

62. The Congregational Year Book, 1875, pp. 43 1–2.

63. The West London Mission, Seventh Annual Report, 1894, pp. 3–8; Eighth Annual Report, 1895, pp. 4–6 (copies at Kingsway Hall).

64. West London Mission, The Story of Our Work, 1898, pp. 1–18.

65. W.P.L., plans 764–5.

66. Deeds in possession of Messrs. Liberty and Co.

67. The Congregational Year Book, 1847, p. 157.

68. M.L.R. 1734/1/308; 1734/2/356; 1734/3/134; 1734/5/353–4.

69. Ibid., 1733/1/171; 1734/1/382.

70. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

71. M.L.R. 1734/1/308.

72. R.B.; L.C.C. Members' Library, file 265; Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 62, 1958, Paul Miner, William Blake's London Residences, pp. 540–1.

73. M.L.R. 1733/5/124; 1734/1/378; 1734/2/365–366.

74. Ibid., 1737/3/332.

75. Ibid., 1734/3/280–4.

76. Ibid., 1735/2/158; 1735/4/118; 1735/5/299, 300; 1736/3/478.

CHAPTER XIII (pp. 209–18)

The Burial Ground and Workhouse

1. W.P.L., D1756, 13 April, 28 Sept., 24 Nov. 1693.

2. P.R.O., LR1/63, part I, ff. 76–7.

3. Ibid., C54/4775, no. 28; W.P.L., D1756, 28 Sept. 1693, 5 April 1694; D1757, 19 Dec. 1694.

4. W.P.L., D1757, 22 June 1694.

5. Ibid., D1758, 7 Nov. 1711.

6. Ibid., D1759, 24 May 1733.

7. H.M.C., MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, Egmont Diaries, vol. I, 1920, p. 379.

8. W.P.L., D1759, 21 Aug. 1733.

9. 29 Geo. III, c. 47, public.

10. Endowed Charities (County of London), 1903, vol. V, p. 173.

11. Survey of London, vol. XXI, 1949, p. 134.

12. W.P.L., D1759, 2 Dec. 1724.

13. 9 Geo. I, c. 7, public.

14. W.P.L., D1756, 18 May 1688.

15. Ibid., D1756, 21 Nov. 1690.

16. Ibid., D1759, 19 Jan. 1718/19, 24 Aug. 1719, 14 April, 26 Dec. 1720; R.B.

17. W.P.L., D1759, 26 Dec. 1724, 29 Jan. 1724/5.

18. Ibid., D1759, 16 March 1724/5.

19. Ibid., D1759, 25 March 1725.

20. Ibid., D1759, 7 May 1725, 17 Jan. 1725/6.

21. The Daily Journal, 3 Aug. 1726.

22. W.P.L., D1759, 2 Aug. 1726, 21 June, 4 July, 10 Aug. 1727; Colvin.

23. New Remarks of London by the Company of Parish Clerks, 1732, p. 266.

24. W.P.L., D1759, 16 Sept. 1727.

25. Dorothy Marshall, The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century, 1926, pp. 134, 137.

26. W.P.L., D1759, 17 March 1728/9, 18 July 1729.

27. Ibid., D1759, 27 Dec. 1728, 10 Dec. 1729, 3 April 1730.

28. Ibid., D1759, 19 April 1736.

29. Ibid., D1760, 26 Jan., 1 Feb. 1739/40.

30. Ibid., D1760, 31 March 1741.

31. Ibid., D1760, 26 Oct. 1744.

32. Ibid., D1762, 6 June 1760.

33. Ibid., D1760, 5 June 1742.

34. M. D. George, London Life in the Eighteenth Century, 1925, p. 48; Sir Richard Manningham, An Abstract of Midwifry, 1744, passim; D.N.B.

35. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XXIX, p. 189.

36. 2 Geo. III, c. 58, public.

37. W.P.L., D1762, 2 June 1762; D1763, 26 Jan. 1771, 20 Dec. 1774.

38. Ibid., D1870, 6 Sept., 11 Oct. 1782.

39. Ibid., D1881, 20 Dec. 1814.

40. Ibid., D1881, 15, 24 Nov., 19 Dec. 1815, 21 June 1817.

41. Ibid., D1881, 16 March 1816.

42. Ibid., D1881, 27 Feb. 1816.

43. Ibid., D1881, 11 March 1816.

44. 56 Geo. III, c. 54, local and personal.

45. W.P.L., D1882, 8 May 1818; M.L.R. 1818/8/275, 1819/8/288.

46. W.P.L., D1881, 22 April, 6 May 1816; D1882, 11 Aug. 1818, 11 July 1820; D1883, 23, 24 Jan. 1821.

47. Ibid., D1883, 2 Feb., 15 June 1821, 19 Feb. 1822.

48. Ibid., D1883, 2 Feb., 17 March, 16 Nov. 1821.

49. Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry of … St. James, 1885, p. 113.

50. L.C.C.R.O., minutes of the governors of the poor of St. James's parish, vol. 39, 3 Oct. 1856.

51. Ibid., vol. 40, 16 April, 28 May, 11 June 1858.

52. Ibid., vol. 40, 14 July 1858; W.P.L., D1781, 29 July 1858.

53. L.C.C.R.O., minutes of the governors etc., vol. 40, 6 Aug., 3 Sept. 1858.

54. Ibid., vol. 40, 29 Oct., 12 Nov., 3 Dec. 1858; vol. 41, 27 May 1859.

55. W.C.C. title-deeds.

56. L.C.C.R.O., minutes of Westminster Union, 26 July 1870, 13 Oct. 1871, 11 Oct. 1872; Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry … of St. James, 1885, p. 113.

57. L.C.C.R.O., minutes of Westminster Union, 19 April, 29 Nov. 1901; W.C.C. Minutes, 15 May 1902, pp. 443–4; 20 Nov. 1902, pp. 1124–5.

58. Sutton deeds, 1742 Survey, f. XLIX; M.L.R. 1721/6/157.

59. R.B.

60. P.O.D.

61. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 7, 19 Dec. 1718; M.L.R. 1729/6/133.

62. R.B.; D.N.B.; H. Riemann, Dictionary of Music, 1908 ed.

63. P.C.C., 90 Wake.

64. M.L.R. 1719/5/193; 1719/6/335; 1720/6/361.

CHAPTER XIV (pp. 219–29)

Broadwick and Peter Street Area

1. P.R.O., C110/164.

2. Cal. Pat. Rolls 1461–1467, pp. 2, 11.

3. P.R.O., C110/164; R.B.

4. P.R.O., C110/164; CP25(2)/457, 6 Chas. I, Hil.; H.M.C., 5th Report, Appendix, p. 85; ibid., 6th Report, Appendix, p. 472; ibid., Carlisle MSS., p. 2.

5. P.R.O., CP25(2)/324, 21 Jas. I, Mich.; CP25 (2)/457, 6 Chas. I, Hil.

6. W.P.L., F3.

7. Ibid., F2002, pp. 129, 146, 163.

8. P.R.O., MR325.

9. Ibid., SP16/520, no. 132; Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money, part II, p. 1052.

10. P.R.O., C8/204/13.

11. Ibid., loc. cit.; R.B.

12. P.R.O., C110/164; Calendar of the Proceedings, etc., loc. cit.; S. B. Baxter, The Development of the Treasury, 1957, p. 124.

13. P.R.O., C110/47.

14. Ibid., loc. cit.; C110/164; R.B.

15. P.R.O., C66/3283, no. 4.

16. Ibid., C66/3304, no. 14.

17. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1689–1690, p. 564.

18. R.B.

19. E. Hatton, A New View of London, 1708, vol. I, p. 7.

20. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 84.

21. P.R.O., C110/164; M.L.R. 1714/3/123–4.

22. R.B.; M.C.R., Calendar of the Sessions Books, 1689 to 1709, ed. W. J. Hardy, 1905, p. 50.

23. M.L.R. 1718/2/28–9.

24. E. Walford, Old and New London, N.D., vol. III, p. 196.

25. E. F. Rimbault, Soho and its Associations, 1895, pp. 190–1.

26. Kingsford, p. 120.

27. M.L.R. 1718/2/28–9; 1719/2/160; R.B.

28. P.C.C., 194 Degg.

29. R.B.; D.N.B.

30. The Builder, 9 Sept. 1854, p. 473; 20 Oct. 1855, p. 493.

31. Ibid., 20 Oct. 1855, p. 493; 27 Oct. 1855, p. 509.

32. Ibid., 3 Feb. 1855, p. 49; D.N.B.

33. The Builder, 27 Oct. 1855, p. 509; L.C.C. Members' Library, file 820; St. James, Westminster, Abstract of Accounts 1866–7, pp. 43–44.

34. W. H. Whitley, The Baptists of London, 1928, p. 132; Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses in London, 1814, vol. IV, pp. 25–7, 30.

35. W.P.L., D1835A.

36. The Builder, 31 Oct. 1885, p. 629; Colvin; R.B.; P.O.D.

37. L.C.C.R.O., WCS44, p. 293.

38. M.L.R. 1719/2/157–8, 160; R.B.

39. Walford, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 238.

40. The Builder, 26 Feb. 1853, p. 129; 9 Sept. 1854, p. 473; 12 June 1858, p. 414; 22 Feb. 1862, p.125.

41. W.P.L., D1913, 12 Oct. 1778, pp. 63–4.

42. Ibid., D1786, 21 May 1868, p. 143.

43. Ibid., D1791, 22 March 1883, p. 405.

44. Ibid., D1793, 7 May 1885, p. 7.

45. Ibid., D1794, 12 April 1888, p. 411.

46. Ibid., D2037, 12 Jan. 1892, p. 176.

47. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

48. P.O.D.

49. Huguenot Society Library, Registre des Actes en Consistoire de L'Eglise en Berwick Street, 1690–1744; Procs. Hug. Soc., vol. VIII, 1909, George G. Beeman, Notes on the Sites and History of the French Churches in London, p. 36.

50. Huguenot Society Library, Registre des Actes en Consistoire des Eglises de Castle Street St. Martin et de Berwick Street, 1727–52.

51. Ibid., Castle Street Chapel Register.

52. Ibid., Berwick Street Chapel Account Book, 1762–97.

53. Procs. Hug. Soc., vol. VIII, 1909, p. 37.

54. B.M., theatre cuttings (pressmark TC60, no. 24); see also a playbill dated 1822 in the Enthoven Theatre Collection.

55. P.R.O., C66/3306, no. 3; see also Pubs. Hug. Soc., vol. XI, 1898, pp. i–iii, where there is a transcript of the patent.

56. Survey of London, vol. XXVII, 1957, p. 143.

57. Procs. Hug. Soc., vol. VIII, 1909, p. 39.

58. P.R.O., C5/124/6.

59. W.P.L., D1756, 9 April 1691.

60. Procs. Hug. Soc., vol. VIII, 1909, pp. 39, 42.

61. W.P.L., D1758, 24 July 1707.

62. Ibid., D1758, 31 Oct. 1707.

63. Ibid., D1758, 14 May 1708.

64. Ibid., D1758, 23 Feb. 1707/8.

65. Ibid., D1760, 2 June 1737; 3 April 1740; 2 June 1749.

66. Ibid., D1762, 27 Jan., 8 March, 2 June 1766; 16, 21 April, 17 Aug., 4 Sept. 1767; 25 June 1768.

67. Ibid., D1766, 17 June 1794; 31 Dec. 1801.

68. Ibid., D1772, 21 Nov. 1833.

69. Ibid., D1773, 14 May 1835.

70. Ibid., D1774, 24 May 1839.

71. The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, no. 7, April 1838, p. 173.

72. Church Commissioners, file 101282.

73. Ibid., file 78983.

74. Ibid., file 78983X.

75. Ibid., file 78983; The Builder, 14 Feb. 1857, p. 94.

76. Church Commissioners, file 78983X; Rev. Harry Jones, East and West London, 1875, pp. 189–90.

77. Jones, op. cit., pp. 183–4.

78. Church Commissioners, files 101105, 101282.

79. Information kindly supplied by Mr. N. P. Mander.

80. The Official Architect, April 1960; The Municipal Journal, 25 Sept. 1959; The Daily Telegraph, 28 Aug. 1961.

81. M.L.R. 1718/2/28–9; R.B.

82. Ibid., 1719/2/157–8.

83. Tallis's London Street Views, N.D.

84. The Builder, 16 Feb. 1878, p. 161.

85. Wilson, op. cit. (34 above), vol. IV, pp. 32–4.

86. The Evangelical Diary for 1815.

87. The Builder, 20 Nov. 1858, p. 788.

88. W.P.L., D1835A; O.S., 1870 ed.

89. R.B.; L.C.C.R.O., SBL Contract 01705, SBL 1566d.

90. M.L.R. 1719/2/157–8.

91. The Builder, 19 July 1856, p. 397; The Illustrated London News, 30 Oct. 1852, pp. 357–8.

92. M.L.R. 1741/4/169.

CHAPTER XV (pp. 230–42)

D'Arblay and Noel Street Area

1. P.R.O., E317/Middlesex 38; C10/126/38.

2. Ibid., CREST 6/20, pp. 142–50; Kingsford, p. 7.

3. P.R.O., CREST 6/20, pp. 142–50; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, pp. 21–2.

4. Chatsworth MSS., box 18, no. 190.

5. P.R.O., C6/86/78.

6. Ibid., C8/343/31.

7. R.B.

8. P.R.O., CREST 6/20, pp. 142–50; C54/4808, no. 10; C66/3403, no. 1.

9. B.M., Egerton MS. 1708, f. 276.

10. House of Lords Act, 1 Geo. II, no. 11.

11. M.L.R. 1734–42 passim; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

12. University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.; M.C.R.O., LTA (W)259.

13. M.L.R. 1735/2/338, 496; 1736/5/221–5; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

14. M.L.R. 1735/3/63–5; 1735/5/4–5.

15. Ibid., 1735/4/160; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

16. M.L.R. 1736/5/395–7; 1737/2/218.

17. Ibid., 1737/1/270–3.

18. Ibid., 1737/1/244–5; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

19. M.L.R.1737/2/445–7.

20. University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.; Colvin.

21. M.L.R. 1736/3/452–4.

22. Ibid., 1736/2/198; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

23. M.L.R. 1736/4/67.

24. University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

25. M.L.R. 1739/1/459.

26. Ibid., 1736/4/66.

27. Ibid., 1735/2/196–7.

28. Ibid., 1735/4/516.

29. Ibid., 1735/3/184.

30. Ibid., 1736/3/29.

31. Ibid., 1736/5/711; 1737/1/179; 1739/2/101

32. Ibid., 1735/5/399.

33. Ibid., 1739/1/416.

34. Ibid., 1738/1/103; 1739/1/465.

35. Ibid., 1738/1/137; 1739/5/282.

36. Ibid., 1735/5/6; 1738/2/373.

37. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

38. R.B.; Rocque's map of 1746.

39. M.L.R. 1736/5/226; 1737/1/223; 1737/2/118, 464–7; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

40. M.L.R. 1736/3/61–2, 83, 146, 215; 1737/1/222, 524; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

41. M.L.R. 1737/2/426.

42. Ibid., 1744/1/413.

43. Ibid., 1746/2/276.

44. R.B.; D.N.B.

45. M.L.R. 1736/3/357–9; 1736/4/359–61.

46. Ibid., 1737/2/303–4; 1737/2/305–6.

47. Ibid., 1735/4/473; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

48. M.L.R. 1737/4/196–8.

49. Ibid., 1735/5/415; 1741/4/178.

50. Ibid., 1736/4/177, 477.

51. Ibid., 1735/3/402–3; 1735/4/400; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

52. M.L.R. 1735/3/152.

53. Ibid., 1736/4/68.

54. Ibid., 1735/4/402.

55. Ibid., 1735/4/474.

56. Ibid., 1744/1/353.

57. The Sunday Times, 4 July 1926.

58. M.L.R. 1737/2/303–6; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

59. M.L.R. 1735/3/402–3; 1735/4/400; 1736/4/177, 477; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

60. P.O.D.

61. M.L.R. 1736/3/357–9; 1736/4/359–60.

62. W.C.C. Minutes, 9 May 1912, p. 287; 5 Dec. 1912, p. 643.

63. M.L.R. 1737/4/383; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

64. M.L.R. 1739/3/109; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

65. M.L.R. 1737/3/235–6.

66. Ibid., 1742/4/354.

67. Ibid., 1744/2/155.

68. Ibid., 1737/2/448.

69. Ibid., 1742/4/21751744/3/37.

70. Ibid., 1738/1/259; 1739/1/465.

71. J. H. Cardwell, Two Centuries of Soho, 1898, p. 60.

72. Photograph of 1949 in L.C.C. collection.

73. M.L.R. 1736/4/369; 1737/1/439, 441, 443.

74. Ibid., 1738/3/310; 1739/5/120–1.

75. Ibid., 1738/3/418; 1739/1/370.

76. Ibid., 1739/1/459.

77. Ibid., 1735/2/196.

78. Ibid., 1737/1/400; 1738/2/99, 101, 103; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

79. M.L.R. 1735/5/388; 1736/1/10; 1736/2/23; 1736/3/419.

80. Ibid., 1736/2/500–3.

81. Ibid., 1737/1/433–40; University of Nottingham, Portland MSS.

82. M.L.R. 1743/2/272.

83. Ibid., 1743/2/330–5.

84. Ibid., 1736/1/266; 1736/2/338.

85. Ibid., 1739/2/16.

86. Ibid., 1736/1/265.

87. L.C.C. Members' Library, file 371.

88. R.B.; E.S. 4064, 4065, 8508.

CHAPTER XVI (pp. 243–9)

Poland Street Area

1. Kingsford, pp. 17–18.

2. P.R.O., C10/389/39.

3. Ibid., C54/4528, no. 21; M.L.R. 1743/2/167.

4. P.C.C., 39 Whitfield.

5. P.R.O., C8/343/31; C110/164.

6. Ibid., C8/343/31.

7. M.L.R. 1716/3/66.

8. R.B.

9. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim; B.A. 52697; R.B.; P.O.D.

10. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 46, pp. 237–8; P.C.C., 194 Degg.

11. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 679/9.

12. M.L.R. 1716/3/66; 1718/5/173; 1725/3/58; 1735/1/498; 1740/1/78; 1744/1/20; 1745/1/12.

13. Millan's Universal Register, 1751, p. 96; R.B.

14. R.B.; D.N.B.

15. Fanny Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, 1832, vol. I, p. 134.

16. H. B. Wheatley, London Past and Present, 1891, vol. III, p. 101.

17. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 62, 1958, Paul Miner, William Blake's London Residences, pp. 535–50.

18. P.O.D.

19. L.C.C. Minutes, 14 June 1904, p. 992; P.O.D.

20. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 679/9; R.B.

21. E. Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1886, vol. I, pp. 123, 127–8, 150.

22. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim; R.B.

23. Photograph in L.C.C. collection.

24. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Historic Buildings Section, file 33.

25. Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry … of St. James, 1885, p. 113; L.C.C.R.O., Minutes of Westminster Union, 26 July 1870, 13 Oct. 1871, 11 Oct. 1872.

26. Memoirs of Mrs. Billington, 1792, p. 32.

27. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim; R.B.; Directories.

28. R.B.; G.E.C.

29. B.A. 34493.

30. In the L.C.C. collection.

31. W.C.C. Minutes, 9 Nov. 1911, p. 596; R.B.; P.O.D.

32. The Architect and Building News, 25 Feb. 1954, p. 232.

CHAPTER XVII (pp. 250–67)

Great Marlborough Street Area

1. Pollen deeds, 29 June 1622; Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 216 enrolled in M.L.R. 1747/2/69.

2. Pollen deeds, 18, 19 April 1664.

3. Ibid., 24 Jan. 1670/1.

4. M.L.R. 1718/3/287; 1732/4/209–10.

5. Ibid., 1720/1/34; 1746/1/702; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 44, p. 19.

6. W.P.L., St. Martin's ratebook F412.

7. Pollen deeds, 26 June 1688.

8. M.L.R. 1709/1/34.

9. Ibid., 1724/6/76.

10. Ibid., 1713/6/137; 1732/5/425.

11. Ibid., 1746/1/702.

12. P.C.C., 39 Whitfield; Moss deeds, 1(1) no. 119.

13. Pollen deeds, estate plan.

14. M.L.R. 1710/4/84.

15. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 46, pp. 237–8.

16. Notes and Queries, 8th series, vol. V, 1894, p. 41.

17. R.B.

18. E. Hatton, A New View of London, 1708, vol. II, p. 815.

19. J. Macky, A Journey through England, 1st ed., 1714, vol. I, p. 120.

20. J. Ralph, A Critical Review of the Publick Buildings … In and about London and Westminster, 1734, p. 102.

21. H.M.C., MSS. of the Earl Cowper at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, vol. II, 1889, pp. 116–17.

22. W.P.L., The Westminster Poll, 1749.

23. P.O.D.

24. F. W. Hilles and P. J. Daghlian, Anecdotes of Painting in England by Horace Walpole, vol. V, 1937, p. 4.

25. M.L.R. 1709/1/158; 1718/6/118.

26. Ibid., 1709/2/80; R.B.

27. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, West London, 1925, p. 146a, and record cards.

28. M.L.R. 1709/2/82; 1718/6/118.

29. Ibid., 1709/2/10; 1710/2/101.

30. D.N.B.

31. M.L.R. 1709/2/82.

32. Ibid., loc. cit.; 1710/1/63.

33. Ibid., 1712/4/33.

34. The Countess of Onslow, Clandon Park, N.D.; Colvin.

35. The British Trade Journal, 1 April 1874 quoted in Commerce, 7 Nov. 1894, p. 200.

36. P.O.D.; Doris Woodall, A Short History of the House of Kent, 1959.

37. P.O.D.; T.P. 34984.

38. Colvin.

39. M.L.R. 1712/1/127.

40. R.B.; P.O.D.; D.N.B.; Burke's Peerages; M.L.R. 1746/1/702.

41. M.L.R. 1710/2/160.

42. Ibid., 1710/2/159.

43. Ibid., loc. cit.; 1709/2/287.

44. W.P.L., box 47, no. 24.

45. B.M., Burney collection 248b, The Daily Courant, 22 Dec. 1725.

46. L.C.C. print collection; Leigh's New Picture of London, 1818, p. 336.

47. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, vol. I, 1828, p. 96.

48. R.B.; P.O.D.

49. M.L.R. 1709/1/97.

50. Ibid., 1719/2/13.

51. Ibid., 1710/2/101; 1711/5/41.

52. Ibid., 1710/2/98.

53. Ibid., 1711/5/41.

54. The Particulars and Inventories of the Estate, of the late Sub-Governor, Deputy Governor and Directors of the South-Sea Company, 1721, pp. 4–8.

55. R.B.; J. B. Burke, Extinct Baronetage, 1844.

56. Gunnis.

57. M.L.R. 1711/1/102.

58. Ibid., 1751/2/2; Pollen deeds, estate plan.

59. Metropolitan Police, Chief Architect and Surveyor's Dept., deeds and property records.

60. P.C.C., 190 Young.

61. H. Riemann, Dictionary of Music, 1908 ed.

62. Deeds of Augener Ltd.

63. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Theatres Section, file 328.

64. The Builder, 5 May 1894, p. 342.

65. The Daily Telegraph, 26 April 1961.

66. Metropolitan Police, Chief Architect and Surveyor's Dept., photographs.

67. M.L.R. 1736/1/101.

68. Ibid., 1709/2/7.

69. J. Carswell, The South Sea Bubble, 1960, p. 280.

70. M.L.R. 1709/1/199.

71. 32 Geo. III, c. 53, public.

72. M.L.R. 1714/3/120.

73. Moss deeds, 1(1), no. 132.

74. M.L.R. 1709/2/232.

75. Ibid., 1747/2/69.

76. Ibid., 1711/2/66.

77. Ibid., 1732/2/309–10.

78. Ibid., 1737/1/423–4.

79. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

80. M.L.R. 1709/2/5; 1736/3/292.

81. P.R.O., CREST 26/121; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 37.

82. More Letters of Charles Darwin, ed. Francis Darwin, 1903, vol. I, pp. XVIII–XIX.

83. M.L.R. 1710/4/94.

84. Ibid., 1709/2/10.

85. E. M. Forster, Marianne Thornton, 1956, pp. 212–13.

86. M.L.R. 1712/6/71.

87. L.C.C. Members' Library, file 1161.

88. E. Beresford Chancellor, The Romance of Soho, 1931, p. 210.

89. The Architectural Review, August 1902, p. 78.

90. M.L.R. 1710/4/129.

91. Ibid., 1725/4/43.

92. P.R.O., B1/68, p.240.

93. Ibid., B6/5, p. 91.

94. W.P.L., box 47, no. 25.

95. Schott and Co., deeds.

96. P.O.D.; Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. E. Blom, 1954; information supplied by Schott and Co.

97. M.L.R. 1710/4/93.

98. Church Commissioners, file 12191; Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Vestry of … St. James, 1885, pp. 84–6; T.P. 19983.

99. M.L.R. 1717/1/45.

100. M.B.W. Minutes, 7 Aug. 1885, p. 292; 23 July 1886, p. 170; 28 Sept. 1886, p. 421; 15 Oct. 1886, p. 528; 13 Jan. 1888, p. 39; The Builder, 16 Oct. 1886, p. 580.

101. L.C.C. Minutes, 16 May 1922, p. 627.

102. M.L.R. 1710/2/180.

103. Ibid., 1711/2/133.

104. Ibid., 1716/6/42.

105. Ibid., 1728/1/189–90.

106. Ibid., 1739/1/161–2.

107. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Historic Buildings Section records.

108. M.L.R. 1710/2/180; 1728/1/190.

109. Ibid., 1727/2/99; R.B.

110. John Summerson, The Architectural Association 1847–1947, 1947, pp. 30–7; P.O.D.

111. Rocque's map of 1746; Horwood's map of 1792; O.S., 1870 ed.

112. R.B.; M.L.R. passim.

113. M.L.R. 1710/4/92–3.

114. Ibid., 1710/2/181.

115. Ibid., 1713/1/17; 1772/3/384–6.

116. Ibid., 1709/2/153; 1710/3/28; 1710/4/164; 1712/3/8; 1713/1/13–14.

117. Ibid., 1712/6/96.

118. Ibid., 1711/4/84.

119. Ibid., 1712/4/735; 1712/5/97.

120. Ibid., 1712/2/146.

121. Ibid., 1732/5/415–16; P.R.O., CP43/851, no. 326; Pollen deeds, estate plan.

122. M.L.R. 1710/3/84.

123. Ibid., 1733/1/375.

124. Ibid., 1732/2/290–1.

125. The Builder, 17 Oct. 1924, p. 544.

126. The British Architect, 19 Feb. 1886, p. 168 and engraving.

127. Holden's Triennial Directory, 1802–4.

128. L.C.C. collection.

129. Building News, 5 Aug. 1910, pp. 176–9; The Builder, 30 July 1910, p. 137.

130. The Builder, 20 Mar. 1936, pp. 585–7, 596.

131. M.C.R.O., LV(W) 68/18.

CHAPTER XVIII (pp. 268–83)

The Pantheon

1. M.L.R. 1732/2/8–10.

2. Ibid., 1773/4/336.

3. P.R.O., C12/2306/44.

4. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 368.

5. P.R.O., C12/152/11.

6. Ibid., C12/408/29.

7. Ibid., C12/387/19.

8. Ibid., C12/2003/28.

9. M.L.R. 1772/6/325.

10. P.R.O., Cl2/127/22.

11. M.L.R. 1772/6/323.

12. Ibid., 1791/1/236.

13. Ibid., 1772/6/324; 1774/4/491.

14. Ibid., 1772/6/354.

15. Ibid., 1772/6/396.

16. Ibid., 1772/6/351–2; 1775/4/356–7; 1774/4/490.

17. Ibid., 1773/2/173.

18. Ibid., 1774/3/107.

19. Ibid., 1772/6/355; 1772/6/395.

20. Ibid., 1772/7/291.

21. Ibid., 1776/1/217.

22. Ibid., 1772/6/448.

23. Ibid., 1772/6/322.

24. Ibid., 1772/6/353.

25. Ibid., 1772/7/130–1.

26. Ibid., 1772/6/449.

27. Ibid., 1773/2/150.

28. Ibid., 1774/2/369.

29. D.N.B.

30. M.L.R. 1772/6/323; D.N.B.

31. M.L.R. 1776/1/217; D.N.B.

32. M.L.R. 1774/4/491; P.C.C., 306 Collier.

33. P.C.C., 306 Collier; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 229.

34. P.R.O., C12/408/29; M.L.R. 1772/7/130–1.

35. R.B.

36. The Monthly Magazine, vol. XXXVI, 1 Oct. 1813, p. 266.

37. T. F. Hunt, Architettura Campestre, 1827, p. xiv n.; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 347.

38. The Gentleman's Magazine, Sept. 1813, p. 296.

39. Antony Dale, James Wyatt, 1956, p. 7.

40. P.R.O., C12/387/19; M.L.R. 1772/6/322; W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Anne's, Westminster.

41. M.L.R. 1791/2/162.

42. The Farington Diary, ed. J. Greig, vol. I, 1922, p.258.

43. The Public Advertiser, 23 Nov. 1771; B.M., Pantheon press cuttings, July 1772 (pressmark 840 m 30).

44. R.B.; The Times, 7 July 1792, which wrongly gives his name as David Wyatt; Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection, 5 Venner Road, S.E.26, Pantheon, 6 July 1792.

45. M.L.R. 1772/6/322–5, 351–5, 395–6, 448–9; 1772/7/130–1, 291; 1773/2/150, 173; 1774/2/369; 1774/3/107; 1774/4/491; 1775/4/356–7; 1776/1/217.

46. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, pp. 297, 348.

47. M.L.R. 1775/1/355.

48. P.R.O., C123/T24.

49. Soane Museum, Soane drawings, drawer 18, set 6; Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., plan of 1831.

50. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. VIII, 1904, pp. 28–9.

51. P.R.O., C12/2003/28; M.L.R. 1835/7/309.

52. M.L.R. 1794/6/132.

53. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. VII, 1904, p. 379.

54. A.P.S.D., vol. VII, 1887, article on James Wyatt.

55. The Farington Diary, ed. J. Greig, vol. I, 1922, p. 218.

56. The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 29 Jan. 1772.

57. M.L.R. 1791/2/163.

58. Horace Walpole's Correspondence, ed. W. S. Lewis, vol. 28, 1955, p. 31.

59. Ibid., p. 102, 102 n.

60. The Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. J. E. Norton, vol. I, 1956, p. 303.

61. Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr. Burney, vol. II, 1948, pp. 177, 184.

62. Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, vol. XXVI, 1819, Pantheon article.

63. Fanny Burney, Evelina, Everyman ed., 1920, p. 124.

64. Passages from the Diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys, ed. Emily J. Climenson, 1899, p. 152.

65. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, revised by L. F. Powell, vol. II, 1934, pp. 168–9; The Public Advertiser, 30 March 1772.

66. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 19 Dec. 1771.

67. The Town and Country Magazine, April 1781, pp. 171–2.

68. B.M., Pantheon press cuttings, 28 Feb. 1772.

69. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1781, p. 190.

70. B.M., Pantheon press cuttings, 18 May 1772.

71. Ibid., July 1772.

72. Ibid., 28 Feb. 1772; Enthoven Theatre Collection, Pantheon, 15 Jan. 1774.

73. B.M., Pantheon press cuttings, passim.

74. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 19 Feb. 1783.

75. Fanny Burney, op. cit., p. 125.

76. B.M., Pantheon press cuttings, 3 May 1774, 24 Feb. 1775; Survey of London, vol. XXX, 1960, p. 452.

77. The Public Advertiser, 15 Jan. 1774.

78. Charles Burney, A General History of Music, vol. IV, 1789, p. 504.

79. Scholes, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 174, 177.

80. B.M., Pantheon press cuttings, 12 Jan. 1780.

81. Ibid., 2 May, 4 Dec. 1781.

82. Ibid., 30 Sept. 1777.

83. Ibid., 14 July 1781.

84. Charles Burney, An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon in Commemoration of Handel, 1785, p. 46.

85. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 17 Sept. 1784, 7 March 1785.

86. Ibid., 2 April 1786.

87. Ibid., passim.

88. The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 20 July 1786.

89. The Morning Post, 1 Jan. 1788.

90. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 22 April 1788.

91. Ibid., 28, 29 Jan. 1790.

92. Rees, op. cit. (62 above), vol. XXVII, Vogler article; F. J. Fétis, Biographie Universelle des Musiciens et Bibliographie Générate de la Musique, vol. 8, 1865 ed., pp. 375–6.

93. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, pp. 233–5; William C. Smith, The Italian Opera and Contemporary Ballet in London 1789–1820, 1955, frontispiece.

94. Reminiscences of Henry Angela, vol. I, 1828, p. 91.

95. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 14 July 1790, 17 Jan. 1792.

96. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 234.

97. The Times, 7 July 1792.

98. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 17 Jan. 1792.

99. The Times, 29 June 1793.

100. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 29 July, 11 Aug. 1790.

101. The Times, 1 March 1791.

102. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 13 Jan. 1791.

103. The Times, 29 June 1793.

104. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 11 Feb. 1791; Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, vol. V, 1921 ed., p. 203.

105. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 27 Aug. 1790.

106. Victoria and Albert Museum, Enthoven Theatre Collection, contains a Description of all the Allegory painted for the Curtain of the King's Theatre, Pantheon, 1791.

107. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 26 Jan. 1791.

108. The Plan and Section of the Boxes at the King's Theatre, Pantheon … 1791 (B.M. pressmark 118b 38(2)).

109. Ibid., loc. cit.; Dale, op. cit. (39 above), p. 202.

110. The Times, 3, 4, 5, 18, 20, 21 Jan. 1791.

111. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 3 Dec. 1790.

112. Smith, op. cit. (93 above), p. 18.

113. The Times, 22 Jan. 1791.

114. Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Musical Reminiscences, 1834, pp. 66–8.

115. B.M., Map Room, King's Topographical Collection, vol. XXV, 20–1–b.

116. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., plan of 1831.

117. The Times, 13, 21 July 1791.

118. Ibid., 16 Jan. 1792.

119. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, vol. I, 1828, pp. 93–6.

120. The Times, 21 Jan. 1792.

121. Ibid., 7 July 1792, 29 June 1793.

122. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 235; Smith, op. cit. (93 above), p. 22, which shows that O'Reilly had no part in the season which opened on 17 Dec. 1791.

123. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 6 July 1792.

124. Ibid., 8 Feb. 1793.

125. Survey of London, vol. XXIII, 1951, p. 70.

126. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 21 Aug. 1793.

127. The Times, 10 Jan., 11 April 1795.

128. Ibid., 23 Jan. 1796.

129. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., MS. note by James Winston.

130. M.L.R. 1806/3/640.

131. P.R.O., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vol. I, passim.

132. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., passim.

133. The Times, 11 Feb. 1802.

134. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., prospectus.

135. Ibid., 9 Aug. 1811.

136. P.R.O., LC1/6, no. 343.

137. Ibid., LC1/40, f. 292.

138. Ibid., LC7/4, part 2, Cundy's petition to the House of Lords.

139. M.L.R. 1811/10/588.

140. P.R.O., LC7/4, part 2, copy of the agreement, Cundy's petition to the House of Lords, and letter of 8 July 1813 from Cundy to the Lord Chamberlain; ibid., LC1/6, no. 343; Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., prospectus of new theatre.

141. M.L.R. 1811/10/588; Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., prospectus.

142. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 17 Jan. 1834.

143. The Times, 28 Feb. 1812.

144. Robert Wilkinson, Theatrum Illustrata (sic), 1825, facing p. 117.

145. P.R.O., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vol. I, f. 102.

146. Ibid., vol. I, f. 103.

147. The Times, 30 March 1812.

148. P.R.O., LC1/5, no. 267.

149. Ibid., LC1/4, f. 219.

150. Ibid., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vol. I, ff. 103–4; Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 8 May 1812.

151. The Times, 15 June 1812.

152. P.R.O., LC7/10, f. 8.

153. Ibid., LC1/40, f. 292; Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vol. I, f. 104.

154. The Times, 18 Nov. 1812.

155. P.R.O., LC1/5, no. 267.

156. The Times, 4 June 1818.

157. P.R.O., LC1/5, no. 267; Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 15 Jan. 1813.

158. P.R.O., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vol. I, ff. 104–5.

159. The Times, 23 July 1813.

160. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., July-Nov. 1813, passim.

161. Wilkinson, op. cit., p. 180.

162. Journals of the House of Lords, vol. 49, pp. 771, 1024.

163. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 1814–15, passim.

164. P.R.O., LC7/4, part 2, report of law officers of the Crown.

165. The Builder, 3 Aug. 1867, p. 568.

166. P.R.O., LC1/15, no. 1127; LC1/44, f. 104.

167. M.L.R. 1805/2/305.

168. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 1831–3, passim.

169. M.L.R. 1835/5/370–2, 374; 1835/7/309.

170. Companion to the British Almanac for 1835, pp. 243–4.

171. The Times, 28 May 1834.

172. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 25 Nov. 1833.

173. Companion to the British Almanac for 1835, pp. 243–4; The Builder, 3 Aug. 1867, p. 568.

174. Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit., 1834.

175. The Builder, 25 May 1867, p. 377; P.O.D.

176. Deeds in the possession of the Prudential Assurance Company.

177. The Builder, 28 Oct. 1938, p. 816.

178. Information supplied by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; The Architectural Review, Oct. 1938, p. 199.

179. Soane Museum, drawer 18, set 6; W.P.L., box 47, no. 31a.

CHAPTER XIX (pp. 284–307)

Argyll Street Area

1. M.L.R. 1718/3/287; 1732/4/209–10.

2. Ibid., 1709/1/34; 1724/6/76.

3. Ibid., 1732/5/425.

4. Notes and Queries, 8th series, vol. V, 1894, p. 41.

5. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 46, p. 287.

6. G.E.C.

7. Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, ed. Lord Holland, vol. I, 1846, pp. 275–6.

8. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 48, pp. 179, 181.

9. M.C.R., typescript Calendar of Sessions Books, 1727–1729, p. 122, quoted in F. H. W. Sheppard, Local Government in St. Marylebone, 1688–1835, 1958, p. 35.

10. R.B.

11. T. Allen, The History and Antiquities of London, vol. IV, 1828, p. 298.

12. M.L.R. 1735/5/467.

13. Moss deeds, 1(1) no. 107.

14. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 573/2.

15. M.L.R. 1740/1/490, 494.

16. Ibid., 1739/5/126; 1740/1/481; 1740/1/492.

17. R.B.; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 573/2.

18. M.L.R. 1739/5/111–12.

19. Ibid., 1744/1/420.

20. Ibid., 1738/5/247.

21. W.P.L., The Westminster Poll, 1749.

22. M.L.R. 1738/5/103.

23. Ibid., 1739/5/170.

24. Ibid., 1738/4/289.

25. Ibid., 1742/3/495.

26. Ibid., 1741/1/322.

27. Ibid., 1738/3/320.

28. Ibid., 1741/3/72.

29. Ibid., 1738/3/321.

30. Moss deeds, 1(1) no. 115.

31. Ibid., no. 112.

32. B.M., Crace Maps, portfolio XII, no. 45.

33. W.C.C. Minutes, 8 June 1914, p. 319; 11 Jan. 1915, pp. 9–10; 13 March 1916, p. 114; 14 July 1919, p. 329.

34. Unless a specific reference has been given the information in this list has been taken from ratebooks, directories, the Dictionary of National Biography, G.E.C., Burke's Peerages and The Army Lists.

35. Memoirs of William Hickey 1749–1809, ed. A. Spencer, vol. IV, 1925, pp. 481–4.

36. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

37. P.C.C., 74 Browne.

38. B.M., Add. MS. 22256, ff. 34–5.

39. Ibid., Add. MS. 31037, ff. 13–14.

40. R.B.; Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. Birkbeck Hill, revised L. F. Powell, 1934, vol. III, p. 536, vol. IV, p. 157.

41. Dictionary of Welsh Biography.

42. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Historic Buildings Section, Register of Historical Records.

43. Walpole, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 276–8.

44. R.B.; M.L.R. 1711/2/66.

45. M.L.R. 1732/2/309–10.

46. Register House, Edinburgh, Clerk of Penicuik Papers, 2110 (1), Travels at Home (information kindly supplied by Miss Mary Cosh).

47. M.L.R. 1737/5/240.

48. Ibid., 1737/1/423–4.

49. Ibid., 1738/1/354–5.

50. Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 216 enrolled in M.L.R. 1747/2/69; ibid., 1(3) no. 219.

51. Ibid., 1(2) no. 154, plan; Rocque's map of 1746; National Library of Scotland, Saltoun Papers, letters from Ilay, 8 July, 30 Oct. 1742.

52. P.C.C., 157 Cheslyn; 271 St. Eloy; Moss deeds, 1(1) no. 117 enrolled in M.L.R. 1806/1/191.

53. B.M., Maps 6 d. 43; ibid., Crace Views, portfolio XXIX, sheet 13; W.P.L., box 47, no. 27.

54. Lesley Blanch, The Game of Hearts, 1957 ed., p. 83.

55. National Library of Scotland, Saltoun Papers, letter from Lady Schaw, 3 Jan. 1745 (?/6).

56. Ibid., Saltoun Papers, letters from Ilay, passim.

57. Catalogus Librorum A.C.D.A., 1758 (B.M. pressmark 821 g 8).

58. National Library of Scotland, Saltoun Papers, letter from Ilay, 8 July 1742.

59. The Builder, 5 July 1862, p. 486.

60. A. E. Richardson, Robert Mylne, Architect and Engineer, 1733 to 1811, 1955, passim.

61. Rev. R. S. Mylne, The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland, 1893, p. 275.

62. M.L.R. 1809/1/390.

63. Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 231 enrolled in M.L.R. 1823/4/659; ibid., 1(1) no. 132 enrolled in M.L.R. 1827/7/171.

64. Ibid., 1(1) no. 128, 1(3) no. 227 enrolled in M.L.R. 1823/4/660.

65. Ibid., 1(2) no. 154 enrolled in M.L.R. 1863/22/615.

66. Ibid., 1(4) no. 1 enrolled in M.L.R. 1867/14/310.

67. Ibid., 1(2) no. 157 enrolled in M.L.R. 1863/22/616; ibid., 1(2) no. 172 enrolled in M.L.R. 1867/14/310; ibid., 1(4) no. 2.

68. P.O.D.

69. Ibid.; Moss deeds, 1(4) no. 2; W.P.L., box 47, no. 27.

70. W.P.L., box 47, no. 27.

71. The Builder, 2 July 1870, p. 534.

72. T. Frost, Circus Life and Circus Celebrities, 1875, pp. 290–309.

73. Ibid., loc. cit., and p. 187; Enthoven Theatre Collection.

74. Moss deeds, 1(4) no. 2; The Builder, 7 June 1884, p. 837.

75. The Era Almanack, 1888, p. 64.

76. Enthoven Theatre Collection.

77. Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 299 enrolled in M.L.R. 1895/10/367.

78. Ibid., 1(3) no. 300.

79. Ibid., 1(3) no. 287; ibid., 1(3) no. 293 enrolled in M.L.R. 1908/28/690.

80. P.O.D.; Enthoven Theatre Collection.

81. Ian Bevan, Top of the Bill, 1952, p. 23; Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 291.

82. Moss deeds, 1D, 23 Oct. 1908.

83. Notes and Queries, 10th series, 1909, vol. XII, p. 47.

84. The Times, 27 Dec. 1910; Moss deeds, 1D, 22 Dec. 1909.

85. R. Mander and J. Mitchenson, The Theatres of London, 1961, pp. 126–9.

86. Ibid., p. 128 quoting The Era, 24 Dec. 1910.

87. The Times, 7 Dec. 1910.

88. Ibid., 27 Dec. 1910.

89. Ian Bevan, Top of the Bill, 1952, pp. 35–6, 61, 65, 67, 140.

90. Ibid., passim; Enthoven Theatre Collection; Mander and Mitchenson, loc. cit.

91. Rocque's map of 1746; Moss deeds, 1(1) no. 128, plan, enrolled in M.L.R. 1823/4/660.

92. Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 251 enrolled in M.L.R. 1896/28/26.

93. P.C.C., 157 Cheslyn.

94. Ibid., 271 St. Eloy; Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 217; ibid., 1(1) no. 117 enrolled in M.L.R. 1806/1/191.

95. Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 221 enrolled in M.L.R. 1797/4/161.

96. Ibid., 1(3) no. 231 enrolled in M.L.R. 1823/4/659.

97. Ibid., 1(3) nos. 224, 221, 231, 227 enrolled in M.L.R. 1797/4/160–1, 1823/4/659–60.

98. Ibid., 1(3) no. 236.

99. P.O.D.; Mogg's New Picture of London, 1842, p. III; Cruchley's Picture of London, 1848, p. 245.

100. R.B.; P.O.D.

101. The Times, 1 July 1876.

102. P.O.D.; Moss deeds, 1(3) nos. 266–7.

103. Moss deeds, 1(3) no. 253.

104. R.B.; M.L.R. 1740/1/490, 494; T. Allen, The History and Antiquities of London, vol. IV, 1828, p. 298.

105. The Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. J. E. Norton, 1956, vol. I, p. 320; M.L.R. 1773/1/202.

106. M.L.R. 1802/5/111.

107. Burke's Peerages.

108. The Army Lists, 1777–1794, passim.

109. [Isabella] Wyndham, An Appeal to the Gentlemen of England, 1812 (B.M. pressmark B741(11)).

110. The Pic-Nic, 1803, preface; The Times, 16 March 1802.

111. The Times, 16 March, 17 March, 5 April, 8 April 1802.

112. The Pic-Nic, 1803; The Times, 5 April 1802, etc.

113. The Times, 12 Oct. 1802, 14 Jan, 28 Feb. 1803.

114. The Pic-Nic, 1803; The Farington Diary, ed. J. Greig, 1922–8, vol. 2, 18 Feb. 1803, p. 83.

115. The Times, 22 May 1804.

116. Ibid., 4 June 1806.

117. C.E.O., London and Middlesex deeds, 695A.

118. P.R.O., LC1/6, no. 343.

119. Mr. Greville's Statement of Mr. Naldi's Case, 1811 (B.M. pressmark 641d. 31.23).

120. P.R.O., CREST 6/108.

121. Ibid., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vol. I.

122. The Times, 18, 20 July 1807.

123. P.R.O., LC7/4, part 2.

124. The Alien; or, an Answer to Mr. Greville's statement with respect to Mr. Naldi's Action, 1811 (B.M. pressmark 839 h 35).

125. Holden's Triennial Directory, 1805–7.

126. The Times, 22 May 1809.

127. Works of Lord Byron, 1898, vol. I, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, lines 638–59.

128. The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904 ed., p. 230.

129. Boyle's Court Guide, 1812.

130. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1816, p. 564.

131. The Harmonicon, 1830, part I, pp. 130–1.

132. R. Elkin, Royal Philharmonic, [1947], p. 9.

133. [Royal] Philharmonic Society, Analytical Programmes, vol. I, prospectus (B.M. pressmark M.K.6d. 3).

134. Ibid., vols. 1–2.

135. Leigh's New Picture of London, 1818, p. 467.

136. The English Spy, 1826, vol. II, part XIV, 1 March 1825, pp. 39–40.

137. P.R.O., CREST 6/108; LR1/259, f. 203.

138. Ibid., CREST 6/108.

139. Ibid., LR1/274, ff. 52–4; The Harmonicon, 1830, part I, pp. 130–1.

140. Annals of the Fine Arts for MDCCCXX, ed. James Elmes, no. XVI, pp. 196–8.

141. The Times, 29 Feb. 1820.

142. D.N.B.

143. P.R.O., LR1/263, ff. 114–18.

144. Ibid., LR1/263, ff. 236–40.

145. Ibid., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index. vol. I; CREST 26/108; R.B.

146. Ibid., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vols. I, 2; LC7/4, s 2, letter dated 30 Nov. 1824.

147. R. Elkin, Royal Philharmonic [1947], p. 32; R. Elkin, The Old Concert Rooms of London, 1955, pp. 115–22; [Royal] Philharmonic Society, Analytical Programmes, vol. I (B.M. pressmark M.K. 6d. 3).

148. The Times, 6 Feb. 1830.

149. P.R.O., LR1/272, ff. 190–209; ibid., LR1/273, ff. 214–19; R.B.

150. F. H. Howson, London's Underground, 1951, p. 143; The Builder, 17 March 1906, pp. 279–82; information supplied by London Transport.

151. The Building News, 16 Feb. 1906, p. 240; The Builder, 5 Sept. 1908, p. 264; R.I.B.A. Journal, 26 Sept. 1908, p. 621.

152. Who Was Who, 1916–28, 1929.

153. E.S. 10414.

154. H. Clunn, London Rebuilt, 1897–1927, 1927, pp. 128–9; E.S. 91453; B.A. 32614.

155. Inscription on building.

CHAPTER XX (pp. 339–41)

Heddon Street Area

1. Kingsford, p. 148.

2. P.R.O., LR1/60, ff. 117–24.

3. Ibid., C10/290/26; MPA 69.

4. Ibid., C66/3099, no. 8.

5. Ibid., C5/610/200; Clarke, Square & Co., abstract of the leases of the estate of Sir William Pulteney.

6. P.R.O., C8/544/14.

7. Ibid., C66/3140, no. 23.

8. Ibid., C5/610/200.

9. Ibid., CREST 6/18, pp. 199–201.

10. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 1, 18 March 1692.

11. P.R.O., LR1/283, ff. 1–8.

12. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 3.

13. Ibid., loc. cit.; Sutton deeds, 1742 Survey, ff. XXXIII, XXXV, XXXVII, XXXIX.

14. Sutton deeds, 1742 Survey, ff. XXXII–XXXIII.

15. Ibid., ff. XXXIV–XXXV.

16. Ibid., box 3, bundle labelled 'Middlesex Freehold Title', Henry Guy's will.

17. Ibid., 1742 Survey, ff. XXXVI–XXXIX.

18. C.E.O., London and Middlesex deeds, 743.

19. M.L.R. 1733/4/228.

20. M.C.R.O., LV(W) passim.

21. The Builder, 21 July 1877, p. 747.

22. Procs. Hug. Soc., vol. VIII, 1905–8, George B. Beeman, Notes on the Sites and History of the French Churches in London, pp. 25–7; Pubs. Hug. Soc., vol. XXIX, 1926, Registers of the Churches of the Tabernacle, Glasshouse Street, and Leicester Fields, 1688–1783, p. IX; Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses in London, etc., 1814, vol. IV, pp. 39–42; R.B.

CHAPTER XXI (pp. 342–66)

Sackville Street

1. P.R.O., C66/3065, no. 17.

2. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 6, 5 March 1691/2.

3. Ibid., box 1, bundle 2, 26 May 1665.

4. P.R.O., C54/4165, no. 20.

5. Ibid., C54/4165, no. 18.

6. Ibid., C54/4165, no. 19.

7. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 6, 29 Aug. 1664.

8. Soane Museum, Court Orders of Sir Christopher Wren, ff. 39–40.

9. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 2, 18 Jan. 1666/7 and undated plan.

10. Ibid., box 2, bundle 6, 20 Nov. 1668.

11. Ibid., box 1, bundle 2, 20 March 1667/8; M.L.R. 1717/6/33; 1721/2/158.

12. P.R.O., PC2/63, pp. 70, 72.

13. Ibid., C54/4214, no. 40; C54/4213, no. 31.

14. Ibid., PC2/63, p. 236.

15. Ibid., PC2/63, p. 242.

16. Ibid., C5/60/2; W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's.

17. Kent Archives Office, U269 T 101/1.

18. R.B.; W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's; Burke's Peerages.

19. M.L.R. 1717/6/33.

20. J. Macky, A Journey through England, 3rd ed., 1723, vol. I, pp. 175–6.

21. R.B.

22. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 2, 28 July 1668.

23. Ibid., box 1, bundle 2, 28 April 1670; P.R.O., C5/460/171.

24. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 2, 28 April 1670; W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's.

25. P.R.O., C5/460/171.

26. W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's.

27. The Petty-Southwell Correspondence 1676–1687, ed. the Marquis of Lansdowne, 1928, pp. 147–50.

28. The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, vol. IV, pp. 56–60.

29. R.B.; W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's; D.N.B.

30. Burke's Peerages.

31. Soane Museum, Court Orders of Sir Christopher Wren, f. 42.

32. P.R.O., C8/352/72.

33. Roads out of London, ed. T. F. Ordish, 1911, Reprints from Ogilby's Britannia, p. 10.

34. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 43, p. 158.

35. R.B.; W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's.

36. Kent Archives Office, U269 A183/1.

37. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 83.

38. Lincolnshire Record Office, Nelthorpe 10/2/1.

39. P.C.C., Admon. Act Book 1736.

40. P.C.C., 90 Wake.

41. Sutton deeds, 1742 Survey, ff. XXX–XXXI.

42. M.L.R. 1730/5/396; 1731/4/7; 1733/1/100.

43. Ibid., 1732/1/393.

44. Ibid., 1733/1/343.

45. Lincolnshire Record Office, Nelthorpe 10/2/7

46. M.L.R. 1732/5/15.

47. Ibid., 1732/3/362.

48. Ibid., 1732/3/406.

49. Ibid., 1731/4/350.

50. Ibid., 1731/3/486–7.

51. Ibid., 1731/5/444.

52. Ibid., 1731/4/289.

53. Ibid., 1731/3/188.

54. Ibid., 1732/4/18.

55. Ibid., 1732/5/23.

56. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 10, 22 June 1732.

57. Ibid., 20 Mar. 1741/2.

58. M.C.R.O., LV(W) 49/20.

59. The Builder, 10 July 1931, p. 58 and plate.

60. The information in this list has been taken from ratebooks, directories, the Dictionary of National Biography, G.E.C., Burke's Peerages and The Army Lists.

61. Lincolnshire Record Office, Stubton IIIA, Sackville Street (2).

62. Ibid., Nelthorpe 10/2/10.

63. W.P.L., The Westminster Poll, 1749.

64. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, revised L. F. Powell, 1934, vol. I, p. 479; Annals of The Club, 1764–1914, 1914, p. 129.

65. R. B.; M.C.R.O., LV (W) 49/20.

66. The Builder, 19 June 1875, p. 550.

67. British Almanac, 1876, Companion to the Almanac, Part II, Architecture and Public Improvements, by J. Thorne.

68. P.O.D.

69. R.B.; G.E.C.

70. Colvin; James Paine, Plans, Elevations and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, vol. II, 1783, p. 32 and plate C.

71. James Paine, op. cit., p. 32 and plates XCIX, C.

72. The Court and City Register, 1746.

73. P.C.C., 248 Wake.

74. Soane Museum, Adam drawings, vol. II, no. 257.

75. A. T. Bolton, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, vol. II, 1922, pp. 157–62.

76. Survey of London, vol. XXX, 1960, p. 495.

77. P.C.C., 224 Nelson; D.N.B.

78. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 122; vol. XXX, 1960, plate 146.

CHAPTER XXII (pp. 367–89)

Albany

1. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 20 Nov. 1668.

2. W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's parish; H.M.C., MSS.of Lord Kenyon, 1894, p. 89.

3. P.R.O., E179/253/25.

4. P.C.C., 170 Irby.

5. H.M.C., 7th Report, Appendix, part I, Earl of Denbigh's MSS., 1879, p. 199b.

6. D.N.B.

7. H.M.C., Ormonde MSS., N.S., vol. VI, 1911, p. 249.

8. Ibid., 7th Report, Appendix, part I, ut supra, pp. 199b, 209a; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1690–1691, pp. 32, 35; 1694–1695, p. 11.

9. E. Hatton, A New View of London, 1708, vol. II, p. 624.

10. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 20–21 Jan. 1709/10.

11. Blenheim MSS., in box XVI (56).

12. R.B.

13. H. B. Wheatley, Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall, 1870, p. 26.

14. Blenheim MSS., loc. cit.; M.L.R. 1717/6/33.

15. J. Macky, A Journey Through England, 1st. ed., 1714, vol. I, p. 125.

16. Blenheim MSS., items in G1 (2) and XVI (56).

17. Macky, op. cit., 3rd ed., 1723, vol. I, p. 175.

18. H.M.C., 8th Report, Appendix, part I, 1881, re-issued 1907, p. 13b.

19. Transcript of Blenheim MS. F1 (56), kindly supplied by Earl Spencer.

20. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 18–19 June 1745.

21. Ibid., 15–16 April 1747.

22. Ibid., 18–19 March 1763.

23. A. I. Dasent, Piccadilly in Three Centuries, 1920, p. 60.

24. Soane Museum, drawer 43, set 3, no. 1.

25. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 31 March–1 April 1771.

26. B.M., Add. MS. 41134, ff. 33–4; 41 135, f. 21.

27. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 22 July 1771.

28. B. M., Add. MS. 41133, f. 65 v.

29. M.C.R.O., register of building affidavits, vol. II, no. 300.

30. B. M., Add. MS. 41133, f. 76 v.

31. Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, 3432 A 229.

32. B.M., Add. MS. 411 33, f. 114 v.

33. Ibid., Add. MS. 41135, f. 21 v.; R.B.

34. R.I.B.A. Library, Melbourne to Chambers, 13 Nov. 1774, quoted by Sheila Birkenhead, Peace in Piccadilly, 1958, pp. 9–10.

35. B. M., Add. MS. 41 133, f. 65.

36. Ibid., Add. MS. 41133, f. 97 v.; R.I.B.A. Library, Melbourne to Chambers, 13 Nov. 1774.

37. B.M., Add. MS. 41133, f. 109 v.; 41134, ff. 34 v.–35.

38. Ibid., Add. MS. 41133, ff. 97 v., 107, 114v.

39. Ibid., Add. MS. 41133, f. 80.

40. W. M. Torrens, Memoirs of the Right Honourable William Second Viscount Melbourne, 1878, vol. I, p. 18.

41. B.M., Add. MS. 41133, ff. 114v., 116v.; James Paine, Plans, Elevations and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, vol. II, 1783, plates XCIX and C.

42. B.M., Add. MS. 41135, f. 8.

43. Ibid., Add. MS. 41133, f. 107.

44. Ibid., Add. MS. 41135, f. 50 v.

45. Ibid., Add. MS. 41134, f. 34.

46. Ibid., Add. MS. 41135, f. 51.

47. Ibid., Add. MS. 41135, f. 21 v.

48. Ibid., Add. MS. 41135, f. 52 v.

49. Ibid., Add. MS. 41135, f. 21.

50. Ibid., Add. MS. 41133, f. 114 v.

51. R.I.B.A. Library, Melbourne to Chambers, 13 Nov. 1774.

52. Ibid., 16 Nov. 1784, quoted in Birkenhead, op. cit., p. 29.

53. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 24–25 March 1789.

54. Birkenhead, op. cit., pp. 8–9.

55. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele, The Memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley, 1787, vol. II, pp. 203–4.

56. G.E.C.

57. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 26 Feb. 1785.

58. Birkenhead, op. cit., p. 7.

59. Torrens, op. cit., vol. I, p. 34.

60. Birkenhead, op. cit., p. 29.

61. Deeds of Albany Trustees, 10–11 April, 30 Oct. 1775.

62. Ibid., 20–21 July 1792.

63. Ibid., 6–7 Nov. 1792.

64. Ibid., abstract of title, recited deeds of 28–29 Sept. 1803.

65. Ibid., 5 Jan. 1793.

66. Thomas Malton, A Picturesque Tour Through the Cities of London and Westminster, 1792–, vol. II, p. 106.

67. E. H. Coleridge, The Life of Thomas Coutts, Banker, 1920, vol. II, p. 34; cf. archives of Coutts and Co., Duke of York to Thomas Coutts, 4 and 8 May 1799.

68. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 222.

69. Ibid., Albany, no. 219.

70. Ibid., Albany, nos. 219, 221.

71. Ibid., Albany, no. 223.

72. Ibid., Albany, no. 224 (abstract of title).

73. Birkenhead, op. cit., p. 45. The conditions for the proviso's coming into effect are not included in the abstracted agreement in the archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 224.

74. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 206.

75. Archives of Albany Trustees; B.M., Crace Maps, portfolio XII, no. 32.

76. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 205a.

77. Ibid., Albany, no. 203.

78. Quoted by H. Furniss, Paradise in Piccadilly, 1925, p. 2.

79. Deeds of Albany Trustees, abstract of title, recited deed of 29 Sept. 1803; archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 227.

80. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 204.

81. Ibid., Albany, nos. 210, 211, 215.

82. Ibid., Albany, no. 214.

83. Photostat, in possession of Albany Trustees, of item in archives of Coutts and Co., agreement, 3 Feb. 1803, Alexander Copland and General Budé.

84. Deeds of Albany Trustees, abstract of title, recited deeds of 28–29 Sept. 1803; Holden's Triennial Directories, 1802–7.

85. Albany Trustees' minute book, 1808.

86. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 224 (abstract of title), recited item of 26 Aug. 1802.

87. Photostat, in possession of Albany Trustees, of item in archives of Coutts and Co., private ledger.

88. Deeds of Albany Trustees, abstract of title, recited deed of 29 Sept. 1803.

89. Archives of Albany Trustees, minutes of the general meetings of the proprietors of Albany, 22 April 1803.

90. Albany Trustees' minute book, 28 April 1803.

91. A. E. Richardson, Robert Mylne, Architect and Engineer, 1733 to 1811, 1955, p. 196.

92. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, nos. 212, 227.

93. Archives of Albany Trustees, copy agreement between the Trustees and proprietors of Albany with the Rules and Regulations annexed, 28 Feb. 1804.

94. Letter from Cyril Ray in The Manchester Guardian, 20 March 1956, citing information from Mr. William Stone.

95. Albany Trustees' minute book, 24 Aug. 1804.

96. Ibid., 26 June 1812.

97. Ibid., 14 Aug. 1819.

98. Ibid., 2 Feb. 1804, 21 Feb. 1812.

99. The Farington Diary, ed. James Greig, 1924, vol. IV, p. 206.

100. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, no. 212.

101. Deed in possession of Albany Trustees.

102. Photostat, in possession of Albany Trustees, of item in archives of Coutts and Co., 24 March 1814.

103. Albany Trustees' minute book, 22 Dec. 1810.

104. Ibid., 26 June 1805.

105. Ibid., 23 Dec. 1815, 13 March, 12 May, 19 Nov. 1818.

106. Ibid., 24 June 1820.

107. Ibid., 12 May, 7 July 1868.

108. Ibid., 13 May 1873, and printed particulars of sale, 2 April 1873, in possession of Albany Trustees.

109. Albany Trustees' minute book, 2 Nov. 1887.

110. Ibid., 10 April, 10 July 1893.

111. Ibid., 29 Nov. 1894.

112. Ibid., 16 Jan. 1889.

113. Furniss, op. cit. (78 above), p. 191.

114. Albany Trustees' minute book, 13 March, 10 April 1889.

115. Furniss, op. cit., list of tenants.

116. Albany Trustees' minute book, 1889–92, passim; Annual Report of The Royal Academy for the Year 1892, 1893, p. 7.

117. The Times, 8 May 1929.

118. Albany Trustees' minute book, 20 June 1894 et seq.; archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, nos. 230–1; Birkenhead, op. cit. (34 above), pp. 215–18.

119. Albany Trustees' minute book, 1, 30 May and Oct. 1895.

120. Birkenhead, op. cit. (34 above), pp. 217–18.

121. Albany Trustees' minute book, 7 March 1894.

122. Ibid., 9, 30 Oct. 1895.

123. Furniss, op. cit., pp. 103, 105.

124. Albany Trustees' minute book, 24 Jan., 29 Nov. 1894.

125. The Builder, 9 May 1903, p. 480.

126. Archives of Coutts and Co., Albany, nos. 235–6.

127. E.S. 15905.

128. T. P. 5055; The Builder, 8 Jan. 1937, pp. 119, 123.

129. Birkenhead, op. cit. (34 above), pp. 235–6.

130. The Crown Journal (staff magazine of Messrs. Higgs and Hill), no. 65, April 1952.

131. Information kindly supplied by Captain Charles Adams, Secretary to the Albany Trustees.

132. Soane Museum, drawer 43, set 3, nos. 2–9.

133. Archives of Albany Trustees.

134. Soane Museum, drawer 17, set 7, no. 5.

135. Ibid., drawer 17, set 7, no. 4.

136. Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, 7074.1.Q2c.

137. Ibid., 3422, A.229.

138. Ibid., 2216.40, A. 108.

139. Country Life, 14 May 1938, Christopher Hussey, Renishaw Hall, II, p. 510; James Paine, Plans, Elevations and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, vol. II, 1783, plate XCLX.

140. Soane Museum, drawer 18, set 8, no. 9.

141. The Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham Written By Himself, 1871, passim.

142. Boyle's Court Guide.

CHAPTER XXIII (pp. 390–429)

Burlington House

1. P.R.O., C66/3065, no. 17.

2. Ibid., C54/4165, no. 19.

3. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 6, 29 Aug. 1664.

4. Soane Museum, Court Orders of Sir Christopher Wren, ff. 39–40.

5. Sutton deeds, box 1, bundle 2, 18 Jan. 1666/7; P.R.O., CP25(2)/690.

6. P.R.O., C10/162/76.

7. H.M.C., Ormonde MSS., N.S., vol. III, 1904, p. 217.

8. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1665–1666, p. 354.

9. Diary of Samuel Pepys, 10 June, 26 Sept., 8, 13, 14 Oct. 1666.

10. P.C.C., 57 Penn.

11. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1666–1667, p. 220.

12. H.M.C., Hastings MSS., vol. II, 1930, p. 373; The Rawdon Papers, ed. Rev. Edward Berwick, 1819, p. 227; Diary of Samuel Pepys, 10, 12 Nov. 1666, 7, 8 Jan. 1666/7; The State Letters of … the first Earl of Orrery, ed. Rev. Thomas Morrice, 1742, p. 219.

13. P.R.O., C10/146/60; C10/162/70; C10/162/76; Chatsworth MSS., first Lord Burlington's diary, 18 May 1667.

14. P.R.O., C10/146/60.

15. Colvin, pp. 195, 746, 761.

16. Wren Society, vols. X, XIII, XVI, passim.

17. Althorp MSS., Burlington letters.

18. Colvin.

19. The Architecture of Sir Roger Pratt, ed. R. T. Gunter, 1928, p. 157.

20. Diary of Samuel Pepys, 28 Sept. 1668.

21. Cal. Treasury Books, vol. V, pp. 1, 197; Chatsworth MSS., deed, Burlington House, 16 Feb 1687/8.

22. H.M.C., 11th Report, Appendix, part II, MSS. of the House of Lords, 1678–1688, 1887, p. 103; see also A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. F. A. Inderwick, vol. III, 1901, pp. 114–18.

23. P.C.C., 227 Vere.

24. Cal. Treasury Books, vols. VI–VIII, passim; H.M.C., Hastings MSS., vol. II, 1930, p. 335.

25. H.M.C., 7th Report, MSS. of Sir Fergus Graham, 1879, pp. 308b, 379a.

26. Colvin; Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 317.

27. Chatsworth MSS., first Lord Burlington's diary, 18 May 1667.

28. Survey of London, vols. XXIX, XXX, 1960, pp. 26, 492.

29. Chatsworth MSS., first Lord Burlington's diary, 30 Jan. 1667 [/8].

30. Walpole Society, vol. 16, 1928, Horace Walpole's Journals of Visits to Country Seats, ed. Paget Toynbee, p. 22.

31. The Architecture of Sir Roger Pratt, ed. R. T. Gunter, 1928, pp. 153–5, 157.

32. Chatsworth MSS., first Lord Burlington's diary, 4 Feb. 1667/8.

33. Ibid., 16 April 1668.

34. Ibid., [30 June] 1668.

35. Ibid., 13 Jan. 1667/8.

36. P.C.C., 259 Lort.

37. Kingsford, p. 104.

38. P.R.O., E179/253/25.

39. Cal. S. P. Dom. 1699–1700, p. 254; P.R.O., MS. index to Patent Rolls 1–14 Wm. III, pp. 510–511.

40. P.R.O., SP44/238, p. 289.

41. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 6, counsel's opinion 5 April 1767.

42. P.C.C., 88 Ash.

43. G.E.C.

44. Walpole Society, vol. 18, 1930, p. 38; vol. 22, 1934, p. 73; vol. 26, 1938, p. 74 (George Vertue Note Books).

45. Ibid., vol. 16, 1928, Horace Walpole's Journals of Visits to Country Seats, ed. Paget Toynbee, p. 39.

46. The Daily Courant, 26 Jan. 1715/16.

47. John Cooke and John Maule, An Historical Account of the Royal Hospital … at Greenwich, 1789, p. 98.

48. Disegni e dipinti di Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini 1675–1741. Catalogo della Mostra a cura di Alessandro Bettagno, Venice, 1959, p. 15.

49. Commentari, April-June 1951, Ornella Osti, Sebastiano Ricci in Inghilterra, p. 120; see also Rosalba Amerio in Arte Veneta, vol. 13–14, 1960, pp. 228–9.

50. Disegni e dipinti … Catalogo, p. 15; Le Gallerie Nazionali Italiane. Notizie e Documenti. Anno IV, 1898, p. 112 (letter 39).

51. Ornella Osti, op. cit. (49 above), pp. 119–20; Le Gallerie, ut supra, p. 109 (letter 32).

52. The Burlington Magazine, March 1963, Benedict Nicolson, Sebastiano Ricci and Lord Burlington, pp. 121–5.

53. B.M., Add. MS. 39167, pp. 73–85; W. T. Whitley, Artists and their Friends in England, 1700–99, 1928, vol. 2, p. 243.

54. Royal Bank of Scotland, Burlington Gardens, title deed no. 1, 8 Dec. 1719.

55. B.M., Add. MS. 39167, p. 80, etc.

56. P.C.C., 227 Vere and 182 Lisle; The Daily Post, 18 Nov. 1741; The Gentleman's Magazine, May 1749, p. 236.

57. The Art of Painting by C. A. Du Fresnoy … Translated … by Mr. Dryden. Also a Short Account of the most Eminent Painters … by R[ichard] G[raham], Esq.; The Second Edition, 1716.

58. R.B.; L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/3 and 5.

59. Chatsworth MSS., letter 154.1.

60. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/3 and 5; R.B., sub 'Burlington Street'.

61. H.M.C., Stuart Papers, vol. II, 1904, p. 93.

62. Soane Museum, 'A Manuscript by Mr. Gibbs', p. 90.

63. John Gay, Poems, 1720, vol. II, p. 306, Epistle to Paul Methuen.

64. H. B. Wheatley, Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall, 1870, p. 51 n.

65. Chatsworth MSS., Graham and Collier's account book, 11 Sept. 1719.

66. H.M.C., Stuart Papers, vol. V, 1912, p. 42.

67. Burlington School, Trustees' minute book, 1714–45, 6 Aug. 1719; O. E. Deutsch, Handel. A Documentary Biography, 1955, p. 94.

68. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 6, 1943, R. Wittkower, Pseudo-Palladian Elements in English Neo-Classical Architecture, p. 156; Chatsworth MSS., letter 1540.

69. P.R.O., C33/363, f. 319 v.

70. Chatsworth MSS., Graham and Collier's account book, 25 June 1719.

71. Ibid., passim.

72. MSS. of the late Captain P. C. D. Mundy in possession of the Society of Genealogists of London, Kent to Massingberd, 19 Jan. 1719/20.

73. Chatsworth MSS., Graham and Collier's account book, Feb. 1719/20, May 1720.

74. J. Macky, A Journey through England …, 2nd ed., 1722, vol. I, p. 190.

75. MSS. of the late Captain Mundy, ut supra, 10 Dec. 1719.

76. Ibid., 10 Feb. 1719/20, 3 June 1720.

77. Chatsworth MSS., Graham and Collier's account book, Feb. 1720/1.

78. Ibid., letter 154.0.

79. Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. I, 1715, plate 15.

80. Ibid., plate 13.

81. Ibid., plate 16.

82. Ibid., p. 4.

83. William Chambers, A Treatise on Civil Architecture, 1759, p. 63.

84. Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. III, 1725, p. 2.

85. Anecdotes of Painting in England … By Mr. Horace Walpole, vol. IV, 1771, p. 109.

86. Chambers, op. cit., p. 69.

87. The Architectural Review, vol. XXX, Sept. 1911, R. Phené Spiers, The Alterations to Burlington House, Piccadilly, pp. 122–6.

88. H.M.C., MSS. of the Earl of Carlisle, 1897, p. 125.

89. Chatsworth MSS., letter 206.9, Kent to Burlington, 12 Sept. 1745.

90. P.C.C., 333 Searle.

91. John Gwynn, London and Westminster Improved, 1766, p. 82.

92. Chatsworth MSS., item in box 73 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

93. Sutton deeds, box 2, bundle 6.

94. A. S. Turberville, A History of Welbeck Abbey and its Owners, 1939, vol. II, p. 52.

95. Chatsworth MSS., 'Articles of Furniture removed from Burlington House to Devonshire House, October 1st 1770', in paper bound folio.

96. R.B.; H.M.C., MSS. of the Earl of Carlisle, 1897, p. 571.

97. Wheatley, op. cit. (64 above), p. 63; Turberville, op. cit., vol. II, p. 319.

98. W.P.L., deeds, 20/1, no. 2.

99. L.C.C. print collection.

100. Chatsworth MSS., letters, fifth Duke's group, 1928 and 1929.

101. H.M.C., Bathurst MSS., 1923, pp. 90, 92.

102. W.P.L., deeds 20/1, no. 1; R.B.

103. R.B. and cf. W.P.L., deeds 20/1, no. 10.

104. Chatsworth MSS., three plans for redevelopment of Burlington House site by Samuel Ware, 12 July 1811, Samuel Ware's Report, 26 July 1814 (box 86, section 1), letters and bills from William Atkinson, Humphrey Repton, Samuel Ware, John White and Son, and Mr. Wooding's executors; Royal Academy Library, collection of Lord Chesham; W.P.L., deeds 20/1, no. 10.

105. Chatsworth MSS., bill dated 30 Jan. 1811; W.P.L. deeds, 20/1, no. 9.

106. Royal Academy Library, collection of Lord Chesham.

107. Ibid., loc. cit.; Chatsworth MSS., July 1811, plans.

108. Chatsworth MSS., list of bills, N.D.

109. Ibid., box 86, section 1, Heaton to Lord George Cavendish, 21 Nov. 1811.

110. P.C.C., 123 Collingwood.

111. R.B.

112. Chatsworth MSS., letters, fifth Duke's group, 2008.

113. Ibid., box 86, bundle in section 1.

114. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. XXXVI, 1916, A. H. Smith, Lord Elgin and his Collection, p. 313.

115. Ibid., pp. 350–1.

116. Chatsworth MSS., letters, sixth Duke's group, 38.

117. John Timbs, Curiosities of London, 1855, p. 484.

118. P.R.O., Lord Chamberlain's MS. theatrical index, vol. I, f. 35.

119. M.L.R. 1816/2/222; Ministry of Works deeds, recital in sale of 31 Oct. 1854.

120. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. XXXVI, ut supra, p. 319.

121. Ibid., p. 323.

122. Chatsworth MSS., box 86, bundle in section 1, 12 April 1815.

123. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1815, p. 640.

124. Ibid., Aug. 1815, p. 231.

125. Chatsworth MSS., letter 371.0.

126. B.M., Crace Maps, portfolio XII, no. 4.

127. Royal Academy Library.

128. R.I.B.A. Library, L6/5.

129. Recital in Ministry of Works, deed 31 Oct. 1854.

130. The Builder, 24 Dec. 1870, p. 1024.

131. Chatsworth MSS., box 16, no. 5.

132. P.C.C., 321 Teignmouth.

133. R.B.; Royal Academy Library, collection of Lord Chesham, plan by Samuel Ware.

134. The Builder, 5 April 1851, p. 221.

135. P.R.O., Works 12/165, memo, 23 March 1902.

136. Hansard, vol. CXXV, 26–7 July 1854, cols. 797–799, 873–80.

137. D.N.B., article on Pennethorne by Arthur Cates.

138. Ministry of Works deeds.

139. The Builder, 22 April 1854, p. 206.

140. The Jubilee of the Chemical Society of London … with an Account of the History … of the Society 1841–1891, 1896, pp. 164–5; The Record of the Royal Society of London, fourth ed., 1940, p. 64; Joan Evans, A History of the Society of Antiquaries, 1956, p. 314.

141. The Builder, 7 June 1856, p. 321.

142. The Record, ut supra, p. 65.

143. The Builder, 7 June 1856, p. 321; 14 March 1857, p. 153.

144. The Jubilee … ut supra, p. 166; A. T. Gage, A History of the Linnean Society of London, 1938, p. 51.

145. Gage, op. cit., p. 54.

146. The Builder, 27 June 1857, p. 368; Hansard, vol. CXLVI, 19 June 1857, cols. 77–88.

147. Hansard, vol. CLII, 8 Feb. 1859, cols. 181, 184.

148. Ibid., vol. CLII, 4 March 1859, col. 1251.

149. The Builder, 23 April 1859, p. 277.

150. Ibid., 2 June 1860, pp. 342–4.

151. Ibid., 23 April 1859, p. 277; R.I.B.A. Library, OS 79/35; Rev. Alfred Barry, The Life and Works of Sir Charles Barry, 1867, pp. 281–4.

152. P.R.O., Works 2/30, pp. 243–4.

153. Hansard, vol. CLX, 16 Aug. 1860, cols. 1359–60.

154. Ibid., vol. CLX, 18 Aug. 1860, cols. 1531–46; 20 Aug. 1860, cols. 1590–3.

155. P.R.O., Works 30/529, 530.

156. Hansard, vol. CLXXI, 18 June 1863, col. 1048.

157. Ibid., vol. CLXXV, 5 May 1864, cols. 21–2; 6 June 1864, cols. 1297–1332.

158. The Builder, 25 March 1871, p. 217.

159. Hansard, vol. CLXXV, 6 June 1864, col. 1300.

160. The Builder, 11 June 1864, p. 431.

161. Hansard, vol. CLXXV, 13 June 1864, cols. 1637–1639.

162. Minutes of Senate of London University, 1870, p. 91; P.R.O., Works 2/28, pp. 380–1.

163. Ministry of Works, file OA2/12803, part I, 5 June 1865; Hansard, vol. CLXXIX, 8 June 1865, col. 1273; The Times, 12 May 1866.

164. Ministry of Works, ut supra, 31 July 1865.

165. Ibid., 23 and 26 March 1866.

166. P.R.O., Works 1/81, p. 157; 2/30, pp. 7–8, 41.

167. The Builder, 3 March 1866, p. 145.

168. Royal Academy, Statement by Sir Francis Grant to General Assembly, 29 Aug. 1866, letter no. 1.

169. Hansard, vol. CLXXXIII, 30 April 1866, cols. 184–93.

170. For the following see Country Life, 7 June 1962, John Steegman, The Royal Academy's Second Founder. Sir Francis Grant's Crucial Role, pp. 1372–3.

171. P.R.O., Works 1/82, p. 19; Ministry of Works, file OA2/12803, part I, 22 June 1866.

172. Royal Academy, Statement by Sir Francis Grant to General Assembly, 29 Aug. 1866.

173. Hansard, vol. CLXXXIV, 8 June 1866, cols. 51–75; 23 July 1866, cols. 1303–22; The Times, 17 May 1866; The Builder, 9 June 1866, p. 430; but cf. Hansard, vol. CLXVI, 19 June 1857, col. 81.

174. Hansard, vol. CLXXXIV, 8 June 1866, col. 67.

175. Ibid., vol. CLXXIV, 23 July 1866, col. 1322.

176. Ministry of Works, file OA2/12803, part I, 27 July 1866.

177. Ibid., 31 July 1866.

178. Report from the Council of the Royal Academy … for the Years 1865, 1866, 1867, p. 33; Royal Academy, Statement, ut supra.

179. Royal Academy, Statement, ut supra, letter no. 6.

180. Ibid., letter no. 7.

181. Ibid., letters nos. 11 and 12; P.R.O., Works 1/82, p. 160.

182. Report from the Council … ut supra, p. 34.

183. P.R.O., Works 1/82, p. 260.

184. Horace B. Woodward, The History of the Geological Society of London, 1907, pp. 242, 244.

185. P.R.O., Works 1/82, p. 390; 2/30, pp. 243–4.

186. Hansard, vol. CLXXXV, 18 Feb. 1867, col. 502.

187. Royal Academy, Sir Francis Grant to Charles Barry, 28 Dec. 1866; P.R.O., Works 1/83, p. 108.

188. Hansard, vol. CXCII, 15 May 1868, cols. 392–400.

189. Royal Academy, Sir Francis Grant to Charles Barry, 6 Jan. [1867].

190. M.L.R. 1867/6/351.

191. Ministry of Works, file OA2/12803, part I, 4 Jan., 8 Feb. 1867; Report from the Council … ut supra, p. 59.

192. Report from the Council … ut supra, for … 1867, 1868, pp. 7, 37.

193. The Builder, 6 April 1867, p. 251.

194. Hansard, vol. CXCII, 15 May 1868, col. 392.

195. Sir Walter Lamb, The Royal Academy, 1951, pp. 51–2.

196. Royal Academy, Accounts of the New Building, 'Academy Book'.

197. P.R.O., Works 1/82, p. 260; The Jubilee of the Chemical Society, etc. (140 above), pp. 172–3.

198. P.R.O., Works 1/83, p. 59.

199. Ibid., Works 1/83, p. 108.

200. Ibid., Works 30/543, 17 Jan. 1867.

201. For the following see Royal Academy, letters from Sir Francis Grant to Messrs. Banks and Barry, 1866–8; the letters, deposited with the Academy by Sir Albert Richardson, P.P.R.A., are discussed by him in Country Life, 5 July 1962, A Painter's Views on Architecture, p. 14.

202. The Builder, 10 Aug. 1867, p. 594.

203. Hansard, vol. CXC, 12 March 1868, cols. 1454–1455.

204. Ibid., vol. CXCII, 5, 9 June 1868, cols. 1183, 1335.

205. Wheatley, op. cit. (64 above), pp. 52–3; British Almanac, 1875, p. 137, and 1884, p. 145; The Builder, 20 Oct. 1883, p. 512.

206. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Historic Buildings Section file.

207. Hansard, vol. CXCII, 15 May 1868, cols. 392–400.

208. W.P.L., box 48, no. 38.

209. The Builder, 13 Dec. 1873, p. 986.

210. Ibid., 25 March 1871, pp. 217–18.

211. Ibid., 17 May 1873, p. 378; 13 Dec. 1873, p. 986; Gage, op. cit. (144 above), p. 62.

212. The Jubilee of the Chemical Society, etc. (140 above), p. 176; Woodward, op. cit. (184 above), p. 248; History of the Royal Astronomical Society 1820–1920, ed. J. L. E. Dreyer and H. H. Turner, 1923, p. 186.

213. Evans, op. cit. (140 above), pp. 315–16.

214. Ministry of Works, file OA2/12803, part I, 23, 28 Feb., 14 June, 29 July 1872; Sidney C. Hutchison, The Homes of the Royal Academy, 1956, p. 27.

215. The Builder, 30 Nov. 1872, p. 950.

216. Gage, op. cit. (144 above), p. 61.

217. Annual Report from the Council of the Royal Academy … for the Year 1873, 1876, p. 8.

218. Annual Report … for … 1876, 1879, p. 5; ibid., 1878, 1879, p. 8.

219. Ibid., 1873, 1876, pp. 9–10.

220. Ibid., 1875, 1878, p. 6.

221. Royal Academy, Council Minutes, 1876–7, pp. 4, 11.

222. Annual Report … for … 1880, 1881, p. 21.

223. Ibid., 1881, 1882, pp. 6, 25.

224. Ibid., 1880, 1881, p. 7.

225. Ibid., 1881, 1882, pp. 5, 6.

226. Ibid., 1883, 1884, pp. 5–6, 62–4.

227. Ibid., 1885, 1886, pp. 5–6, 17.

228. Ibid., 1886, 1887, p. 5.

229. Ibid., 1891, 1892, pp. 6–7.

230. Ibid., 1891, 1892, p. 8; 1894, 1895, p. 5.

231. Ibid., 1899, 1900, pp. 6–7, 55; 1900, 1901, pp. 6, 47.

232. Ibid., 1899, 1900, pp. 6, 9.

233. Ibid., loc. cit.; 1900, 1901, p. 6.

234. Lamb, op. cit. (195 above), p. 61.

235. Hutchison (214 above), loc. cit.

236. B.M., Department of Prints and Drawings, J. W. Archer's views of London, portfolio XIII.

237. The Architectural Review, vol. XVI, Oct. 1904, R. Phené Spiers, Burlington House, Piccadilly, 1, p. 155.

238. Hutchison, op. cit. (214 above), p. 11.

239. Journal of the London Society, Nov. 1958, H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, Victorian Conservanda, pp. 39–52; H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, English Architecture since the Regency, 1953, p. 115.

240. Gage, op. cit. (144 above), p. 62.

241. P.R.O., Works 30/543, 17 Jan. 1867.

242. Ibid., Works 30/662–3, April 1867.

243. Cf. contract drawing, Piccadilly elevation, P.R.O., Works 30/535, architect's first signature, 1 May 1869.

244. Evans, op. cit. (140 above), p. 329.

245. The Builder, 25 March 1871, p. 217.

246. The Illustrated London News, 30 March 1867, p. 311.

CHAPTER XXIV (pp. 430–4)

Burlington Arcade

1. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, pp. 242, 249.

2. Royal Academy Library, collection of Lord Chesham.

3. Chatsworth MSS., box 86, bundle in section 1.

4. The Gentleman's Magazine, 1817, part II, p. 272.

5. The Builder, 24 Dec. 1870, p. 1024.

6. R. B.

7. Chatsworth MSS., box 86, bundle in section 1; ibid., Burlington Arcade rental.

8. Robson's London Commercial Directory, 1828.

9. Peter Cunningham, Handbook of London, 1850, p. 90.

10. Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 1862, vol. IV, pp. 217, 222.

11. The Builder, 20 Feb. 1864, pp. 132–3.

12. The Morning Herald, 28–29 March 1836.

13. The Builder, 26 Aug. 1871, p. 676.

14. The Architectural Review, Aug. 1911, p. 103.

15. The Times, 9 Aug., 29 Sept., 28 Oct. 1926.

16. M.L.R. 1926/2/514.

17. The Times, 14 Jan. 1931.

18. The Builder, 24 July 1931, p. 146.

19. R.I.B.A. Library, Beresford Pite drawings.

20. The Architectural Review, July 1931, p. 32.

21. The Builder, 4 June 1937, pp. 1164, 1191.

22. The Times, 17 Sept. 1954.

23. The Daily Telegraph, 11 Sept. 1950.

24. The Builder, 17 Sept. 1954, pp. 450–4; The Times, 17 Sept. 1954.

25. Tallis, London Street Views, c. 1839; James Elmes, Metropolitan Improvements, 1827; Country Life, 14 Feb. 1931, p. 194; The Builder, 4 June 1937, p. 1164.

26. Tallis, op. cit.; R.I.B.A. Library, Beresford Pite drawings.

27. The Builder, 17 Sept. 1954, pp. 450–4.

CHAPTER XXV (pp. 435–41)

The University of London at No. 6 Burlington Gardens

1. Sessional Papers of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Session 1871–2, 1872, p. 58.

2. Hansard, vol. CLXXIX, 2 June 1865, col. 1212.

3. D. W. Logan, The University of London: An Introduction, 1956, p. 38.

4. Hansard, vol. CXL, 4 Feb. 1856, col. 151.

5. H. B. Wheatley, Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall, 1870, p. 69; University of London archives, box 28, 'Accommodation, Burlington House', 3 June 1856, Treasury to Senate; The Builder, 7 June 1856, p. 321.

6. Minutes of Senate of London University, 1863, pp. 86–7; Hansard, vol. CLII, 4 March 1859, cols. 1249–53; P. Dunsheath and M. Miller, Convocation in the University of London, 1958, p. 157.

7. Minutes of Senate, 1863, p. 86.

8. Ibid., 1864, pp. 49–53.

9. Ibid., 1864, p. 93; 1870, pp. 91–3.

10. P.R.O., Works 2/28, pp. 380–1.

11. Minutes of Senate, 1865, pp. 28–9.

12. Ibid., 1865, pp. 96–7.

13. Ibid., 1866, p. 2.

14. P.R.O., Works 2/29, pp. 362–3.

15. Minutes of Senate, 1870, pp. 91–3.

16. Hansard, vol. CLXXXIII, 30 April 1866, cols. 184–93.

17. Sessional Papers of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Session 1871–2, 1872, p. 59.

18. Hansard, vol. CLXXXIV, 23 July 1866, cols. 1303–22.

19. P.R.O., Works 1/82, p. 109; Minutes of Senate, 1870, pp. 91–3.

20. The Times, 9 May 1870.

21. P.R.O., Works 1/82, pp. 190, 194.

22. The Builder, 8 Sept. 1866, p. 664.

23. Hansard, vol. CLXXXVI, 5 April 1867, quoted in speech of H. Layard, cols. 1234–5.

24. P.R.O., Works 1/83, p. 287.

25. University of London archives, box 29, 'Accommodation, New Buildings, Burlington Gardens'.

26. University of London Minutes of Committees, 1867–1880, p. 225.

27. Minutes of Senate, 1867, p. 27.

28. Hansard, vol. CLXXXVI, 5 and 8 April 1867, cols. 1232–47, 1267.

29. Ibid., vol. CLXXXVII, 31 May 1867, cols. 1463–1469.

30. Ibid., vol. CLXXXVII, 6 June 1867, col. 1661.

31. Ibid., vol. CLXXXVIII, 9 July 1867, cols. 1263–1264.

32. P.R.O., Works 1/84, p. 288.

33. Hansard, vol. CLXXXVI, 8 April 1867, col. 1267.

34. The Builder, 23 Nov. 1867, pp. 853–5.

35. Minutes of Senate, 1867, p. 87.

36. Ibid., 1868, pp. 23, 25.

37. Hansard, vol. CXCII, 15 May 1868, cols. 392, 395–6.

38. Minutes of Senate, 1868, pp. 55–6.

39. The Times, 12 May 1870.

40. The Builder, 14 May 1870, pp. 377–8.

41. Sessional Papers of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Session 1871–2, 1872, p. 60.

42. Minutes of Senate, 1868, p. 23.

43. Ibid., 1871, 10 and 12 Jan. 1871.

44. University of London archives, box 28, 'Accommodation, Burlington House'.

45. Annual Report from the Council of the Royal Academy … for … 1890, 1891, pp. 5–6; 1891, 1892, pp. 5–6.

46. Dunsheath and Miller, op. cit. (6 above), pp. 63, 162.

47. Annual Report from the Council of the Royal Academy … for … 1899, 1900, pp. 10–11.

48. P.O.D.

49. Information kindly supplied by the Secretary, Civil Service Commission.

50. British Academy, Annual Report, 1928–9, pp. 12–13.

51. There are three engravings in The Illustrated London News: Burlington Gardens front, 14 May 1870, p. 500; lobby and staircase, 21 May 1870, p. 533; lecture theatre, 2 Dec. 1871, p. 524.

52. P.R.O., Works 33/1809, alteration drawing dated 16 Dec. 1898.

53. Cf. P.R.O., Works 33/1750, contract drawing first dated 9 Dec. 1867 and Works 33/1809, alterations drawing dated 16 Dec. 1898.

54. P.R.O., Works 33/1771, detail of windows in south front, signed and dated by Pennethorne, 20 Feb. 1867 and 17 March 1868.

CHAPTER XXVI (pp. 442–572)

Cork Street and Savile Row Area

1. Pollen deeds, 29 June 1622.

2. 4 Geo. I, c. 11, private.

3. P.R.O., E317/Middlesex 39.

4. Ibid., MR 325.

5. Pollen deeds, 19 April 1664.

6. P.R.O., C54/4165, no. 19.

7. Sutton deeds, box I, bundle 2, 26 May 1665, 1 May 1667.

8. Chatsworth MSS., abstract of Duke of Devonshire's title, recital of deed of 29 March 1670 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

9. Ibid., recital of deed of 3 May 1670.

10. Pollen deeds, 'No. 3', 24 Jan. 1670, 22 Chas. II, and enclosed indenture of fine.

11. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra, recital of deed of 22 Sept. 1670.

12. W.P.L., ratebooks of St. Martin's.

13. Cal. S. P. Dom. 1671, 10 May 1671, p. 226.

14. P.R.O., PC2/63, pp. 70, 72.

15. Ibid., C66/3140, no. 23.

16. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra, recital of deed of 30 March 1676.

17. Ibid., recital of deeds of 27 April 1676 and 6 May 1682 (cf. P.R.O., C8/334/141).

18. P.R.O., C8/253/46.

19. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra, recital of deed of 28 Feb. 1677/8; P.R.O., C8/334/141.

20. P.R.O., C8/334/141.

21. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra, recital of deed of 6 May 1682.

22. Ibid., recital of deed of 3 March, 35 Chas. II.

23. Pollen deeds, 'No. 5', 17 Jan. 1687, 3 Jas. II.

24. R.B.

25. Cal S. P. Dom. 1698, p. 91.

26. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra, recital of deed of 23 March 1695.

27. Cal. S. P. Dom. 1698, p. 36.

28. Ibid., 1699–1700, p. 80.

29. P.R.O., C11/2435/6; 4 Geo. I, c. 11, private.

30. P.C.C., 88 Ash.

31. P.R.O., C11/2435/6; cf. Pollen deeds, 'No. 8', 8 April 1712.

32. Pollen deeds, 'No. 8', 8 April 1712.

33. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 570/3.

34. Ibid., WCS 48, p. 434.

35. H.M.C., 12th Report, Appendix, Part VII, 1890, p. 355; Richard Graham's Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Burlington, prefaced to The Art of Painting by C. A. Du Fresnoy … Translated … by Mr. Dryden, 2nd ed., 1716.

36. Finch papers (in custody of H.M.C.), box VII, bundle 27, Lady Nottingham to William Finch, 19 Jan. 1720/1.

37. H.M.C., Hodgkin MSS., 1897, pp. 17–18; MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, Egmont Diaries, vol. II, 1923, p. 452.

38. P.R.O., C11/2435/8.

39. Ibid., loc. cit., and C11/2435/6.

40. Ibid., C33/363, f. 319v.

41. Ibid., C11/2435/6.

42. H.M.C., Stuart Papers, vol. V, 1912, p. 42.

43. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra (8 above), recital of deed of 10 Oct. 1717.

44. 4 Geo. I, c. 11, private; Journals of the House of Lords, vol. XX, pp. 580–1, 591, 612, 634, 663.

45. Chatsworth MSS., letter 154.1.

46. P.R.O., C11/2435/2; C33/363, f. 318; M.L.R. 1720/5/377.

47. Chatsworth MSS., Graham and Collier's account book 1719–22, 9 Jan. 1719/20.

48. P.R.O., C11/2435/2; C33/363, f. 320.

49. Chatsworth MSS., declaration, 16 May 1720, in box 18, no. 309.

50. P.R.O., C11/2435/8; M.L.R. 1726/1/214 (wrongly dated 4 March 1720[/1]).

51. M.L.R. 1721/4/279.

52. Ibid., 1726/1/227.

53. See for following P.R.O., C11/2435/2, 6 and 8; C11/2439/8; C33/363, ff. 317v.–24.

54. Burlington School for Girls, Trustees' minute book 1714–45, 18, 25 Dec. 1723.

55. Chatsworth MSS., letter 154.0.

56. Hoare's Bank, ledger H, f. 438.

57. Ibid., money ledger 1718–43, f. 33.

58. Ibid., ledger I, f. 3.

59. P.R.O., C11/2414/14.

60. The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., ed. Sir Walter Scott, vol. XVII, 1814, p. 105.

61. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra (8 above), recital of deed of 25 March 1727; M.L.R. 1727/2/45–46.

62. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra (8 above), recital of deeds of 12–13 May 1727.

63. Ibid., recital of deed of 24 June 1730; M.L.R. 1730/2/205.

64. M.L.R. 1720/5/377; 1722/3/228; 1730/2, 85.

65. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 51, pp. 288–9, 292–4.

66. 7 Geo. II, c. 6, private; Journals of the House of Lords, vol. XXIV, pp. 355, 377, 426.

67. See for following P.R.O., C11/2435/2, 6 and 8; C33/363, ff. 317v.–24.

68. Ibid., C11/2435/2.

69. Ibid., C33/363, ff. 317v.–24.

70. Ibid., C33/367, f. 492v.

71. Chatsworth MSS., letter 200.3.

72. H.M.C., Denbigh MSS., pt. v, 1911, p. 201.

73. Ibid., MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, Egmont Diaries, vol. II, 1923, p. 452.

74. The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., ed. Sir Walter Scott, vol. XIX, 1814, p. 213.

75. Chatsworth MSS., ut supra (8 above), recital of deed of 21 April 1740; M.L.R. 1740/1/317.

76. M.L.R. 1748/1/17.

77. P.C.C., 333 Searle.

78. Sutton deeds, 1742 Survey, ff. XXX–XXXI.

79. Ten Books on Architecture by Leone Battista Alberti Translated … into English by James Leoni, ed. Joseph Rykwert, 1955, p. 75.

80. J. Ralph, A Critical Review of the Publick Buildings … In and about London and Westminster, 1734, p. 102.

81. Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Vestry of … St. James, 1894, p. 139.

82. The Daily Post, 12 March 1733 (1732/3).

83. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart leases (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie); L.C.C.R.O., BRA 277.

84. J. Macky, A Journey Through England, 3rd ed., 1723, vol. I, p. 175.

85. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart leases; Royal Bank of Scotland, Burlington Gardens site, deed no. 4, 22 March 1736/7.

86. Colvin.

87. M.L.R. 1744/2/171; 1746/2/262–3.

88. Hoare's Bank, account of Earl of Huntingdon, 1735–40.

89. P.C.C., 119 Strahan.

90. M.L.R. 1719/6/24; Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease 24 June 1736, inscription on appended elevation (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

91. M.L.R. 1723/1/208.

92. Ibid., 1742/1/286.

93. Ibid., 1733/3/497.

94. Ibid., 1721/2/92.

95. Ibid., 1736/3/205.

96. Ibid., 1737/1/109.

97. Ibid., 1719/6/246, 248; 1720/5/53; 1721/3/289.

98. Ibid., 1741/2/283.

99. Ibid., 1722/3/101.

100. Norwich Central Library, NRS 21140, 75 × 3.

101. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease of No. 12 New Burlington Street, 10 March 1736/7 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

102. B.M., Stowe MS. 412, no. 96, f. 116.

103. M.L.R. 1722/3/259; 1722/6/343; 1724/1/374; 1724/4/322; 1724/6/417; 1725/2/417; 1733/3/466; 1737/1/5–6.

104. H.M.C., MSS. of the Earl of Egmont, Egmont Diaries, vol. II, 1923, p. 238.

105. P.R.O., C11/2435/2 and 8; cf. C33/363, ff. 318, 320.

106. Chatsworth MSS., box 21, no. 8.

107. Cf. ibid., loc. cit. and rental c. 1800 in box 73, bundle 1.

108. 12 Geo. III, c. 119, private; Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XXXIII, index.

109. Chatsworth MSS. (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

110. Ibid., rental, c. 1770; plan of Old Burlington Street, c. 1773.

111. Pollen deeds, estate plan 1796.

112. W.P.L., D1835 A.

113. P.R.O., CREST 26/156.

114. Robson's London Commercial Directory, 1828.

115. P.O.D.

116. The Builder, 22 Nov. 1862, p. 837.

117. Ibid., 16 April 1864, p. 273.

118. Ibid., 20 Feb. 1864, pp. 132–3.

119. Ibid., 10 Jan. 1863, p. 36.

120. Ibid., 27 Feb. 1864, p. 160.

121. Ibid., 7 May 1870, pp. 377–8.

122. G.E.C.

123. O. E. Deutsch, Handel. A Documentary Biography, 1955, p. 91.

124. B.M., Stowe MS. 412.

125. Ibid., Stowe MS. 412, no. 88, ff. 107v.–108v.

126. M.L.R. 1726/1/214.

127. The Painting of Leon Battista Alberti … by James Leoni, vol. III, 1726, plate 15.

128. R.I.B.A. Library, B.D.C. VI/6 (1, 2).

129. See Arte Veneta, 1954, Professor R. Wittkower, Giacomo Leoni's Edition of Palladio's Quattro Libri Dell' Architettura, p. 313.

130. Survey of London, vol. II, 1909, pp. 50, 55.

131. Royal Bank of Scotland, Drummonds Branch, bank account of Commissioners for building church of St. Martin in the Fields.

132. P.C.C., 166 Strahan.

133. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446 ED 340.

134. J. Macky, A Journey Through England, 2nd ed., 1722, vol. I, p. 191.

135. B.M., Stowe MS. 412, no. 89, ff. 108v.–109v.

136. MSS. of the late Captain P. C. D. Mundy in possession of Society of Genealogists, William Kent to Burrell Massingberd, 8 June and 16 Aug. 1718.

137. M.L.R. 1722/4/361.

138. Royal Bank of Scotland, deed no. 1.

139. MSS. of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry at Drumlanrig, from information kindly supplied by Mr. Mark Girouard; see also his article in Country Life, 8 Sept. 1960, Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire, III, pp. 488–9.

140. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 571/2.

141. Country Life, loc. cit.

142. Royal Bank of Scotland, Drummonds Branch, ledgers 1724–5 onwards.

143. J. Ralph, A Critical Review of the Publick Buildings … In and about London and Westminster, 1734, pp. 102–3.

144. Royal Bank of Scotland, deeds nos. 2 and 3; see also M.L.R. 1732/5/463.

145. Royal Bank of Scotland, deed no. 4.

146 Ibid., deed no. 5.

147. The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., ed. Sir Walter Scott, vol. XVII, 1814, p. 267.

148. H.M.C., 8th Report, Appendix, part I, Section 111, MSS. of Earl of Denbigh, 1881, reissued 1909, p. 569a.

149. P.C.C., 462 Hay.

150. J. H. Jesse, George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, vol. III, 1844, pp. 345–6.

151. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446 EF 44/1.

152. Royal Bank of Scotland, deeds nos. 7 and 8.

153. Colvin sub John Vardy (d. 1765). The Christian name of Lord Uxbridge's architect is given in P.N.P. 'Garth, misc. 1788–91', plasterer's account.

154. J. Britton and A. Pugin, Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London, 1825 ed., vol. I, pp. 80–2.

155. See Ralph Edwards and Margaret Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, 1944, pp. 51–5; Sir Ambrose Heal, The London Furniture Makers, 1953, p. 104; Peter Ward-Jackson, English Furniture Designs of the Eighteenth Century, 1958, pp. 25, 54–5.

156. P.N.P., box XLIV; Victoria and Albert Museum, E383–1929.

157. Victoria and Albert Museum, E391–1929.

158. P.N.P., box 'misc. 1789–90'.

159. Royal Bank of Scotland, Drummonds Branch, Lord Uxbridge's bank account.

160. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H30/3.

161. P.N.P., box XL.

162. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H30/5.

163. Ibid., Acc. 446/H30/6.

164. P.N.P., box XXXVI, 'correspondence 1787'.

165. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H30/4; P.N.P., 'Mr. Sanderson and Lord Uxbridge 1792–93', 16 Aug. 1792.

166. P.N.P., 'Garth, misc. 1788–91'.

167. Gunnis.

168. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H29.

169. Information kindly supplied by the Secretary of the Bank of England.

170. The Builder, 9 Feb. 1878, p. 149.

171. P.N.P., box XLI.

172. Ibid., boxes XXXVII–XXXVIII.

173. Ibid., box 'Harrison, misc. 1784, 1786, 1787'.

174. Ibid., box XXXVI, 'correspondence 1787'.

175. Ibid., box XLIII.

176. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H30/5, 6; P.N.P., 'Garth, misc. 1788–91', Joseph Rose's statement of account.

177. P.N.P., letter 21 March 1789.

178. The Marquess of Anglesey, One-Leg, 1961, p. 347.

179. Victoria and Albert Museum, E391–1929, reproduced in Country Life, 19 Oct. 1961, M. I. Wilson, The Vogue of the Chamber Organ, p. 889.

180. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H29, p. 15.

181. P.N.P., 'Mr. Sanderson and Lord Uxbridge 1792–93'.

182. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H30/8.

183. Ibid., Acc. 446/H29, p. 5 (inserted receipt from Richard Westmacott); Acc. 446/H30/3, 4, 6.

184. P.N.P., box XLIV.

185. Ibid., 'Garth, misc. 1788–91'; M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/H30/3.

186. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446, Ed343–4.

187. P.R.O., CREST 2/534, 6 Jan., 21 Oct. 1829; see also Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 429 (the stables of 'Newman the Liveryman' there referred to were probably the Newman's Yard shown on the 1870 Ordnance Survey map west of Regent Street between Vigo and Leicester Streets).

188. Marquess of Anglesey, op. cit., p. 114.

189. Ibid., p. 327.

190. Royal Bank of Scotland, deeds nos. 10, 11, 12.

191. Marquess of Anglesey, op. cit., pp. 234, 280.

192. Royal Bank of Scotland, deed no. 16.

193. Ibid., deed no. 20.

194. The Builder, 28 July 1855, p. 360.

195. Royal Bank of Scotland, deed no. 23.

196. The Illustrated London News, 6 Oct. 1855, p. 413.

197. Information kindly supplied by the Agent, Royal Bank of Scotland, Western Branch.

198. Information kindly supplied by the Secretary of the Bank of England; The Builder, 9 Feb. 1878, p. 149.

199. Royal Bank of Scotland, deed no. 38.

200. Ibid., deed no. 41.

201. Ibid., deed no. 43.

202. M.L.R. 1721/1/16.

203. L. B. Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III, 2nd ed., 1957, p. 418 and note.

204. The Saturday Review, 8 Feb. 1908, pp. 166–7.

205. Deutsch, op. cit. (123 above), p. 96.

206. Deeds in possession of Messrs. Finnis, Downey, Linnell and Price, 19 July 1892.

207. B. M., Add. MS. 34741, ff. 174, 290; M.L.R. 1722/5/155; 1723/1/208.

208. Cf. L.C.C.R.O., WCS 571/2, pp. 50–1.

209. B.M., Add. MS. 34741, ff. 262v., 288–9; M.L.R. 1723/1/208–9.

210. R.B.; B.M., Add. MS. 34741, f. 296.

211. B.M., Add. MS. 34741, ff. 288–9; M.L.R. 1734/5/163–4.

212. B.M., Add. MS. 34741, ff. 288–9, 296, 306.

213. R.B.; Millan's Universal Register, 9th ed. 1751, p. 86.

214. B.M., Add. MS. 34741, ff. 293–4.

215. The Builder, 13 Aug. 1853, p. 524.

216. Ibid., 21 July 1883, p. 99.

217. Deed in possession of Lloyd's Bank, 11 Feb. 1911.

218. Information kindly supplied by Messrs. Longmans, Green and Company.

219. M.L.R. 1719/6/278.

220. Ibid., 1719/3/265.

221. Ibid., 1720/5/156; 1721/2/59.

222. Ibid., 1721/1/115–16.

223. Burke's Landed Gentry.

224. Hoare's Bank, ledger 24, f. 154v.

225. Ibid., ledger 26, f. 384v.; ledger 27, f. 322v.

226. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease 2 Sept. 1782 (information kindly supplied by Miss M.H. Mackenzie).

227. M.L.R. 1723/3/145.

228. P.C.C., 346 Strahan.

229. Walpole Society, vol. 22, 1934 (Vertue Note Book III), p. 31.

230. Ibid., vol. 22, 1934, p. 57.

231. Ibid., p. 141; Walpole Society, vol. 24, 1936 (Vertue Note Book IV), p. 178; Walpole Society, vol. 26, 1938 (Vertue Note Book V), p. 43.

232. See B.M., Add. MS. 39167, ff. 73–85.

233. Walpole Society, vol. 26, 1938 (Vertue Note Book V), p. 43.

234. William A. Bartlett, The History and Antiquities of Wimbledon, 1865, pp. 88–9, 123–4.

235. Victoria County History of Essex, vol. IV, 1956, pp. 79–80.

236. Bartlett, op. cit., pp. 88–9, quoting memorial inscription on Walker's tomb in Wimbledon churchyard.

237. M.L.R. 1732/2/3–4.

238. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. II, 1903, p. 348 and note.

239. Chatsworth MSS., letter 260.98.

240. P.C.C., 403 Simpson.

241. D.N.B.

242. Deeds of J. Lyons and Co., 23–4 April 1830.

243. Ibid., 12 Sept. 1867.

244. Ibid., 5 Aug. 1882.

245. Information kindly supplied by J. Lyons and Co.

246. B.A. 69324.

247. M.L.R. 1720/6/173.

248. Ibid., 1720/5/190.

249. Ibid., 1721/6/89–90.

250. Ibid., 1736/5/667.

251. Ibid., 1741/4/480–1.

252. P.C.C., 92 Cheslyn, will of Lord Folkestone.

253. Lord Bath's Settled Estates, deeds 30–31 Aug. 1809 in possession of Farrer and Co.

254. A. E. Richardson and C. L. Gill, London Houses from 1660 to 1820, 1911, plate XXXIII.

255. Lord Bath's Settled Estates, plan attached to deed of 24 June 1880 in possession of Farrer and Co.

256. M.L.R. 1724/6/340 (where the date is wrongly given as 1724); Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 30 July 1784 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

257. M.L.R. 1724/6/364.

258. Ibid., 1725/2/417.

259. Worcestershire Record Office, Sandys records, 18 Dec. 1725, Martin Sandys to Samuel Sandys (information kindly supplied by Mr. E. H. Sargent).

260. M.L.R. 1724/3/145; counterpart lease in Chatsworth MSS. (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

261. M.L.R. 1724/1/374.

262. See The Saturday Review, 1, 8 Feb., 7 March 1908, G. A. B. Dewar, An Eighteenth-Century Gentleman: Charles Wither, M. P., where, however, Wither's death is wrongly dated 1732 (cf. the probate of his will, P.C.C., 317 Isham); see also Rev. R. F. Bigg-Wither, Materials for a History of the Wither Family, 1907, pp. 73–6.

263. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 30 July 1784 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

264. James Carrick Moore, The Life of Lt. Gen. Sir John Moore, K. B., 1835, vol. I, pp. 32, 37, 104, 108, 171, 232.

265. M.L.R. 1724/3/144; Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 13 July 1780 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

266. M.L.R. 1724/5/164, 274; 1732/5/591.

267. Deutsch, op. cit. (123 above), pp. 303–4, 380.

268. Country Life, 19 March 1948, p. 598; information kindly supplied by Captain H. J. Buckmaster.

269. L.C.C. print collection.

270. E.S. 102541.

271. M.B.W. case 29802; P.O.D.

272. B.A. 35135.

273. R.B.; B.A. 31667; E.S. 97897.

274. T.P. 51558.

275. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 23 June 1780 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

276. M.L.R. 1721/2/123.

277. C. Dalton, George the First's Army 1714–27, vol. I, 1910, p. 334.

278. M.L.R. 1724/6/111–12; 1725/3/207.

279. Survey of London, vol. II, 1909, pp. 43–4.

280. Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn, 1956, vol. IV, pp. 165, 177, 237.

281. The Builder, 29 Sept. 1860, p. 632.

282. Chatsworth MSS., agreement 1 Nov. 1735 accompanying counterpart lease, 25 Aug. 1735 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

283. Glyn Mills Bank, Elias Bird MSS.

284. R.B.; M.L.R. 1735/3/148; 1735/5/640; 1737/3/225.

285. B.M., Stowe MS. 412, no. 90, f. 109v.–113r., no. 91, f. 113r.–114v., no. 96, f. 116.

286. K. Downes, Hawksmoor, 1959, p. 266.

287. Walpole Society, vol. 19, 1930–1, Geoffrey Webb, The Letters and Drawings of Nicholas Hawksmoor Relating to the Building of the Mausoleum at Castle Howard 1726–42, pp. 129, 142.

288. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 29 Jan. 1735/6 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

289. M.L.R. 1736/5/285–6.

290. Castle Howard MSS., Lady Irwin to the Earl of Carlisle, 5 Feb. 1736/7, information by courtesy of Major G. A. G. Howard kindly supplied by Mr. Rupert Gunnis.

291. H.M.C., 11th Report, Appendix, part IV, MSS. of Marquess Townshend, 1887, p. 248.

292. Derek Hudson, Martin Tupper, his Rise and Fall, 1949, pp. 16–17.

293. W.P.L., D135 (152–5).

294. N.B.R.

295. B.M., Stowe MS. 412, no. 90, f. 190v.–113r.

296. Survey of London, vol. XXIX, 1960, p. 122.

297. B.M., Stowe MS. 412, no. 90, f. 109v.–113r.; Glyn Mills Bank, Elias Bird MSS.

298. J. Summerson, Georgian London, 1945, p. 63.

299. B.M., Stowe MS. 412, no. 91, ff. 113r.–114v.

300. Yale University Library, Joseph Banks MSS.

301. Isaac Ware, A Complete Body of Architecture, 1756, plate 69.

302. B.M., Stowe MS. 412, no. 90, ff. 109v.–113r.; Ibid., no. 91, ff. 113r.–114v.

303. B.A. 53162.

304. Essex County Record Office, Audley End Papers, D/D By A37/13.

305. Soane Museum, Adam drawings, vol. 14, nos. 40–2; vol 23, nos. 123–6; vol. 53, no. 40.

306. E.S. 13911.

307. B.A. 38154.

308. The Builder, 8 Sept. 1883, p. 339.

309. M.L.R. 1722/3/228–9.

310. Ibid., 1722/6/343.

311. Ibid., 1722/5/247.

312. Dalton, op. cit. (277 above), vol. I, pp. 125, 187, 364–5; R.B.

313. M.L.R. 1723/6/68.

314. P.R.O., C11/355/1; D.N.B. sub Richard Bellings.

315. A. I. Dasent, The History of St. James's Square, 1895, p. 221.

316. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 1 Sept. 1780 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

317. M.L.R. 1721/3/34.

318. Ibid., 1722/2/9.

319. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 28 April 1778 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

320. M.C.R.O., LV(W) 1793.

321. The Builder, 26 Aug. 1882, p. 292.

322. M.L.R. 1721/1/15.

323. R.B.; P.O.D.

324. M.L.R. 1720/5/347–9.

325. Essex County Record Office, Rebow Papers, box XVII.

326. Chatsworth MSS., box 73, bundle 1.

327. J. Ralph, op. cit. (143 above), 1734, pp. 103–4.

328. Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, 1820, vol. I, p. 172.

329. R.I.B.A. Library, B.D.C. VI/5(3).

330. Register House, Edinburgh, Clerk of Penicuik MSS., note to 1727 version of Sir John Clerk's poem The Country Seat (information kindly supplied by Miss Mary Cosh); see also John Fleming, Robert Adam and his Circle, 1962, p. 31.

331. Deutsch, op. cit. (123 above), pp. 91, 199.

332. H.M.C., Various Collections, vol. VIII, 1913, p. 183.

333. Walpole Society, vol. 26, 1938 (Vertue Note Book V), p. 65.

334. M.L.R. 1729/3/402.

335. Ibid., 1735/5/354–5.

336. R.I.B.A. Library, B.D.C. VI/5 (1–3).

337. Ibid., B.D.P. XVIII, II.

338. N.B.R., copyright of Messrs. Gordon Jeeves.

339. R.I.B.A. Library, B.D.C. VI/7 (1–2).

340. William Chambers, A Treatise on Civil Architecture, 1759, p. 21.

341. R.I.B.A. Journal, 15 Oct. 1927, Fiske Kimball, Burlington Architectus, pp. 684–6.

342. Chatsworth MSS., letter 372.0, translated by Professor R. Wittkower, The Earl of Burlington and William Kent (York Georgian Society, Occasional Paper no. 5, 1948).

343. H. Kania, Die Architektur der Stadt Potsdam in 18 Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1909, p. 23.

344. H. L. Manger, Baugeschichte von Potsdam, vol. I, Berlin und Stettin, 1789, p. 202.

345. Information kindly supplied by Doctor Margaret Kühn, of the Verwaltung Der Ehem. Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten, Berlin-Charlottenburg, to whom and to Doctors Sperlich and Mielke of the same institution we are indebted for assistance. The house is illustrated in Kania, Friedrich der Grosse, Berlin, 1923, p. 29.

346. The Georgian Society Records of … Dublin, vol. 3, 1911, p. 51.

347. P.C.C., 402 Bogg.

348. Burke, Extinct Baronetcies, 1844.

349. F. Milizia, The Lives of Celebrated Architects, transl. Mrs. Edward Cresy, 1826, vol. II, p. 295 n.

350. H. B. Wheatley, Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall, 1870, pp. 78–9.

351. Sir Edward Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, 1913, vol. I, p. 507; Cecil WoodhamSmith, Florence Nightingale 1820–1910, 1950, passim.

352. Basil Williams, Cecil Rhodes, 1921, pp. 233, 251.

353. The Times, 6, 7 April 1932.

354. Ibid., 5 Feb. 1935.

355. Ibid., 5, 20 July 1935.

356. T.P. 2736.

357. The Architect and Building News, 11 Oct. 1935, p. 42.

358. M.L.R. 1726/1/214.

359. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XVIII, p. 751.

360. Chatsworth MSS., letter 147.0.

361. Hoare's Bank, account of Jabez Collier.

362. M.L.R. 1725/5/16.

363. Ibid., 1725/6/102.

364. Lincolnshire Record Office, Mon. 28B/11/1/113 (information kindly supplied by Mrs. Varley).

365. Country Life, 15, 23 Sept. 1923, Christopher Hussey, Culverthorpe, Lincolnshire, pp. 350–356, 386–91.

366. Ibid., 23 Sept. 1923, p. 388.

367. The Georgian Society Records of … Dublin, vol. 2, 1910, p. 16.

368. Chatsworth MSS., letters 146.0, 147.0.

369. Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660–1860, 1952, p. 129.

370. M.L.R. 1726/1/214.

371. R.I.B.A. Library, B.D.C. VI/4.

372. The Designs of Inigo Jones … Publish'd by William Kent, vol. I, 1727, plate 57.

373. Francis Lenygon, Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770, 1914, figs. 144, 145, 202, 203.

374. Country Life, 4 Aug. 1950, Christopher Hussey, Buxted Park, Sussex, p. 377.

375. Information kindly supplied by Mr. John Harris.

376. Country Life, 2 March 1945, Christopher Hussey, Godmersham Park, Kent, III, p. 379.

377. Berkshire Record Office, D/Est., T20, 11 April 1724.

378. Colvin, pp. 579–80.

379. Berkshire Record Office, ut supra, 4 Oct. 1725.

380. West Suffolk Record Office, Ickworth MSS. 941/47/2 (information kindly supplied by Mr. M. P. Statham).

381. M. L. R. 1730/3/261.

382. Ibid., 1732/2/288–9.

383. West Suffolk Record Office, contemporary copy in Ickworth MSS. 941/47/4, p. 323 (information kindly supplied by Mr. M. P. Statham). Printed on p. 124 of Lord Hervey and His Friends 1726–38, 1950, ed. the Earl of Ilchester, who dates the letter in 1731.

384. M.L.R. 1726/2/195.

385. The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn, 1956, vol. I, p. 475.

386. Ibid., pp. 467–8, 488 note 5.

387. Ibid., p. 488.

388. Chatsworth MSS., letter 143.3, printed in The Correspondence, ut supra, vol. I, p. 516.

389. Chatsworth MSS., letter 143.4, printed in The Correspondence, ut supra, vol. II, pp. 1–2.

390. The Correspondence, ut supra, vol. I, p. 488, note 5.

391. B.M., Add. MS. 4808, f. 30v.

392. P.C.C., 243 Abbott.

393. Ibid., 84 Pinfold, Henry Pelham's will.

394. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XXII, pp. 291–2, 299.

395. L.C.C.R.O., BRA/437/8.

396. M.L.R. 1738/1/59.

397. Deed in possession of Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. M. Cartwright, 21 April 1864.

398. M.L.R. 1722/2/235.

399. P.C.C., 199 Isham.

400. B.M., Egerton MS. 1973, ff. 104–8.

401. R.I.B.A. Library, 728.3 (42.13), photostat of original in Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University.

402. J. B. Owen, The Rise of the Pelhams, 1957, pp. 51–2.

403. P.C.C., 333 Searle, 259 Hutton.

404. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. II, 1903, p. 420.

405. Lord Hervey and His Friends 1726–38, ed. the Earl of Ilchester, 1950, p. 73.

406. Althorp MSS.

407. M.L.R. 1726/1/16.

408. Nottingham University, Galway MSS., box 85/12363.

409. Ibid., box 84/12323; R.I.B.A. Library, ut supra in 401.

410. Nottingham University, Galway MSS., box 79/12367.

411. Country Life, 9 Sept. 1916, H. Avray Tipping, Compton Place, Sussex, 11, p. 298.

412. Nottingham University, Galway MSS., box 84/12323; box 85/12363.

413. Ibid., box 79/12367; box 84/12323.

414. Ibid., box 85/12367.

415. Walpole Society, vol. 22, 1934 (Vertue Note Book III), p. 68; Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England, ed. R. N. Wornum, 1888, p. 48.

416. Nottingham University, Galway MSS., box 79/12367, 23 May 1726.

417. D.N.B., sub Charles, 2nd. Viscount Townshend.

418. A.P.S.D.

419. M.L.R. 1824/4/25.

420. R.B.; P.C.C., 321 Teignmouth, will of Lord George Cavendish (Earl of Burlington).

421. Chatsworth MSS., deed 12 June 1841, registered in M.L.R. 1841/4/775.

422. The Builder, 30 May 1874, p. 470.

423. Ibid., 2 Oct. 1875, p. 896.

424. Ibid., 6 Feb. 1884, p. 93.

425. B.A. 9541.

426. J. Ralph, op. cit. (143 above), p. 103.

427. Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. III, 1725, plate 45.

428. John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, vol. II, bk. VI, p. 84.

429. Royal Bank of Scotland, deed of 8 Dec. 1719; M.L.R. 1719/6/248.

430. Royal Bank of Scotland, deed of 22 March 1736/7 (Queensberry House); Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 29 July 1732 (Nos. 13–14 Old Burlington Street), (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

431. 19 Chas. II, c. 3, public.

432. 7 Anne, c. 17, public.

433. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart leases, 24 June 1736 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

434. Norwich Central Library, NRS 21140, 75 × 3; the price was reported in The Daily Courant of 21 Feb. 1734/5 as £3000.

435. Norwich Central Library, NRS 21089, 71 × 3.

436. Ibid., NRS 21140, 75 × 3.

437. John Gwynn, London and Westminster Improved, 1766, p. 82; Thomas Malton, A Picturesque Tour Through … London and Westminster, 1792–, vol. II, p. 106.

438. The Times, 20 Dec. 1929.

439. L.C.C. Minutes, 23 June 1931, p. 1124.

440. The Times, 14 Oct. 1931.

441. Ibid., 14 Nov. 1936.

442. Ibid., 4 Dec. 1937.

443. T.P. 11538.

444. Ibid., 30004.

445. Photograph, Royal Geographical Society.

446. L.C.C. collection.

447. N.B.R.

448. Ibid., and L.C.C. collection.

449. Hanslip Fletcher, Changing London, 1933, drawing facing plate XXXII; B.A. 63504.

450. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 21 March 1731/2 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

451. R.B. sub Sackville Street.

452. Althorp MSS., Burlington letters, 16 Sept. 1732.

453. Chatsworth MSS., sketchbooks of William Kent.

454. Ibid., letter 143.74.

455. Althorp MSS., Burlington letters, Countess to Earl of Burlington, 23 Sept. 1735.

456. Walpole Society, vol. 30, 1955 (Vertue Note Book VI), p. 146.

457. John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. V, 1812, pp. 326–7.

458. A Catalogue of the Genuine and Valuable Collection of … Pictures of the Honourable Bryan Fairfax Esq., 1756 (B.M. pressmark C119 h 3 (34)).

459. M.L.R. 1738/5/250.

460. Walpole Society, vol. 22, 1934 (Vertue Note Book III), p. 151.

461. P.R.O., C11/2435/6.

462. Althorp MSS., 12 Sept., 10 Nov. 1738, Kent to Lord Burlington, printed in The Architectural Review, vol. 63, May 1928, pp. 180–3; Chatsworth MSS., 7 Oct. 1738, same to same.

463. Chatsworth MSS., 12 Nov. 1745, Kent to Burlington.

464. Ibid., letter 214.6

465. Letters to and from the Countess of Suffolk, [ed. J. W. Croker], 1824, vol. I, p. 385.

466. The London Evening Post, 3–6 April 1756.

467. P.C.C., 9 Lisle.

468. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. V, 1904, p. 54.

469. P.C.C., 48 Strahan.

470. Namier, op. cit. (203 above), pp. 409–17.

471. M.L.R. 1745/2/28–9.

472. A Catalogue of the Genuine and Valuable Collection of Greek, Roman and English … Coins, 1751 (B.M. pressmark 603 C4 (2)).

473. Deeds of Hawkes and Co., 6–7 Aug. 1756.

474. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 10 March 1798 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

475. Deeds of Hawkes and Co., 23–4 Oct. 1818.

476. Ibid., 8–9 Feb. 1819.

477. Ibid., 9–10 Oct. 1840.

478. Ibid., 20 Dec. 1865.

479. Ibid., 10 March 1866.

480. Ibid., Particulars, Plans and Conditions of Sale, 1870.

481. Ibid., 29 Sept. 1870.

482. Clements R. Markham, The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society, 1881, pp. 113–14.

483. Ibid., loc. cit.; H. R. Mill, The Record of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–1930, 1930, p. 93.

484. Royal Geographical Society, Council minutes, 8 May 1871; ibid., building committee minutes, 21, 29 Nov. 1870 (information kindly supplied by Mr. G. R. Crone and Mr. G. A. Langdon of the Royal Geographical Society).

485. Mill, op. cit., p. 143.

486. Ibid., p. 79.

487. Ibid., pp. 116–17.

488. Deeds of Hawkes and Co., 23 Dec. 1912.

489. The Universal British Directory, 2nd ed., vol. I, 1793.

490. Notes on the history of the firm in possession of Hawkes and Co.; information kindly supplied by Mr. Philip White.

491. Horwood's map, 1819 ed.; W.P.L., D1835A.

492. N. Pevsner, London. The Cities of London and Westminster, 1957, p. 483.

493. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 13 Aug. 1792 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

494. Ibid., lease, assignment and mortgage, 29 Sept. 1733, 11–12 Oct. 1734 (information kindly supplied by Miss M. H. Mackenzie).

495. M. L. R. 1734/4/449, 495.

496. Ibid., 1734/5/36.

497. Dalton, op. cit. (277 above), vol. I, p. 327.

498. Survey of London, vol. XXVII, 1957, chapter XIII.

499. L.C.C. Architect's Dept., Historic Buildings Section file.

500. M.L.R. 1733/4/97; 1735/1/242.

501. Deeds of London Life Assurance Society, 30 March 1809.

502. The Personal Life of George Grote by Mrs. Grote, 1873, p. 185.

503. L.C.C. Members' Library, files 221, 1163.

504. See Mrs. Ambrose Rathbone (ed.), Letters from Lady Jane Coke to her friend Mrs. Eyre at Derby 1747–1758, 1899; C. W. James, Chief Justice Coke. His Family and Descendants at Holkham, 1929, p. 220.

505. Country Life, 15 Sept. 1923, Christopher Hussey, Culverthorpe, Lincolnshire, 1, pp. 350–6.

506. Walter Sichel, Sheridan, 1909, vol. II, p. 382.

507. Yvonne ffrench, Here Lived, 1948.

508. The Poetical Works of John Gay, ed. John Underhill, 1893, vol. I, p. LXII.

509. The Pictorial Handbook of London, c. 1853, p. 587; P.O.D.

510. P.R.O., Works 1/84, p. 280.

511. B.A. 40057.

512. The Archaeological Journal, vol. CII, 1945, R. Wittkower, Lord Burlington and William Kent, p. 163, note 36.

513. M.L.R. 1733/5/269.

514. P.C.C., 99 Boycott.

515. M.L.R. 1736/1/180–1; 1740/1/256.

516. Walpole Society, vol. 22, 1934 (Vertue Note Book III), p. 116.

517. Chatsworth MSS., letter 247.1.

518. Country Life, 23 Sept. 1923, Christopher Hussey, Culverthorpe, Lincolnshire, 11, p. 388.

519. W.P.L., extra-illustrated copy of Pennant, vol. II, no. 158.

520. The Universal British Directory, 1793.

521. J. R. Robinson, The Last Earls of Barrymore, 1769–1824, 1894, p. 104; The Times, 19 March 1791.

522. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, vol. XIV, 1905, pp. 272–3.

523. The Times, 13 Jan. 1792.

524. Robinson, op. cit., p. 211.

525. The Times, 19 March 1791.

526. Geoffrey Rawson, The Count. A Life of Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, K.C.M.G, Explorer and Scientist, 1954, p. 173.

527. The Builder, 12 June 1880, p. 747.

528. Deeds of Westminster City Council.

529. P.O.D.; information kindly supplied by Mr. G. B. Brown, F.R.I.C.S., F.A.I.

530. Hanslip Fletcher, Changing London, 1933, plate XXXI.

531. The Sunday Times, 1 Dec. 1929.

532. The Daily Graphic, 17 Dec. 1907.

533. Information kindly supplied by the Chief Architect and Surveyor, Metropolitan Police.

534. The Saturday Book, no. 18, 1958, Donald Macandrew, The Prince of Tailors, pp. 170–171; The Tailor and Cutter, 15 July 1897, p. 357.

535. The Saturday Book, loc. cit.; P.O.D.

536. The Saturday Book, loc. cit.

537. Ibid., no. 18, 1958, pp. 170, 175, 180.

538. Ibid., p. 175; The Tailor and Cutter, loc. cit.

539. M.B.O., District Surveyors' Returns, 1851, ser. 19.

540. R.B.; W.P.L., D1836, ff. 29, 36.

541. L.C.C. Street Naming plan 280.

542. Information kindly supplied by Mr. S. H. H. Cundey.

543. The Tailor and Cutter, loc. cit.

544. Archives of Henry Poole and Co., lease, 19 May 1868.

545. The Tailor and Cutter, loc. cit.; R.B.

546. Archives of Henry Poole and Co., scrapbook.

547. The Tailor and Cutter, 22 July 1897, p. 370.

548. Ibid., 15 July 1897, p. 357.

549. The Saturday Book, no. 18, 1958, p. 191.

550. The Tailor and Cutter, 22 July 1897, pp. 369–70 and illustration.

551. Ibid., 17 March 1961.

552. The Merchant Tailor, new series, vol. 4, no. 15, 14 April 1961.

553. Cf J.-F. Jules Paulet du Parois, Nouveau Manuel Complet du Blason on Code Héraldique, 1854, fig. 136 and p. 164.

554. A Chapter in English Church History, ed. E. McClure, 1888, pp. 33, 52, 67.

555. Burlington School for Girls, Trustees' minutes, 9 July 1700.

556. Ibid., 7 April 1707, 21 June 1715.

557. An Account of Charity-Schools … London, Printed and sold by Joseph Downing, 1706, p. 7.

558. Trustees' minutes, 3 Dec. 1705.

559. Marion Ardern Burgess, A History of Burlington School, N.D., pp. 21–2, 51.

560. Ibid., pp. 21, 24; Trustees' minutes, 11 Feb. 1714, 3 May 1715.

561. Trustees' minutes, 20 May 1718.

562. Ibid., 6 Jan. 1718/19.

563. Ibid., 16 March 1718/19.

564. Ibid., 12 May 1719.

565. Ibid., 14 Nov. 1719.

566. Ibid., 29 May 1719.

567. Chatsworth MSS., counterpart lease, 7 Aug. 1719.

568. Burlington School, audit book 1776–1831.

569. Trustees' minutes, 24 July 1719.

570. Ibid., 12 Aug. 1719.

571. Ibid., 12 Aug., 9, 29 Oct. 1719, 10 April, 11 May 1722, 31 March 1723.

572. Ibid., 9 Jan. 1721/2.

573. Ibid., 23 July, 13 Nov. 1723.

574. Ibid., 11, 18 Dec. 1723.

575. Ibid., 3 July 1712.

576. Ibid., 11 March 1723/4.

577. P.R.O., C54/6117, no. 23.

578. M.L.R. 1810/5/760.

579. Burgess, op. cit., pp. 26, 35–6.

580. Trustees' minutes, 6 Aug. 1719.

581. Ibid., 7 Aug. 1719.

582. Ibid., 26 Aug. 1719.

583. Ibid., 14 Jan. 1719/20.

584. Ibid., 5 Feb. 1719/20.

585. Ibid., 4 March 1719/20.

586. Ibid., 16 March 1719/20.

587. Ibid., 11 Feb. 1720/1.

588. Ibid., 6 Jan. 1719/20.

589. Ibid., 6 Jan., 16 March 1718/19.

590. Ibid., 11 Jan. 1719/20.

591. Ibid., 7 Feb. 1721/2.

592. Ibid., 18 June 1720.

593. Ibid., 7 June 1720.

594. Ibid., 24 March 1719/20.

595. Ibid., 11 Sept. 1719.

596. Ibid., 2 May 1721.

597. Ibid., 13 April 1722.

598. Ibid., 31 March 1723.

599. Ibid., 20 Nov., 4 Dec. 1723.

600. Ibid., 18, 25 Dec. 1723.

601. J. Macky, A Journey Through England, 3rd ed., 1723, vol. I, p. 175.

602. An Account of Several Work-Houses … As also of several Charity-Schools … London, Printed and sold by Joseph Downing, 1725, p. 23.

603. Trustees' minutes, 16 June 1840, giving numbers admitted before and after Lady Day 1725.

604. M.C.R.O., Acc. 446/ED 340.

605. Burgess, op. cit., p. 28.

606. See M. G. Jones, The Charity School Movement, 1938, p. 93.

607. An Account, ut supra (602 above), 1732 ed., pp. 54–5.

608. Trustees' minutes, 20 June, 2 July 1829; audit book 1776–1831.

609. Burgess, op. cit., p. 51.

610. Endowed Charities (County of London), vol. V, 1903, p. 138.

611. Burgess, op. cit., pp. 45–6, 55.

612. Endowed Charities, ut supra, p. 148.

613. Burgess, op. cit., p. 56; Endowed Charities, ut supra, p. 149.

614. Trustees' minutes, 20 May, 22 June 1863, 18 Jan. 1864.

615. Burgess, op. cit., p. 56.

616. Burlington School, Annual Report, 1868.

617. Ibid.; Burgess, op. cit., pp. 33, 53.

618. Burgess, op. cit., pp. 58–9; Endowed Charities, ut supra, pp. 149–52; Trustees' minutes, 20 Oct. 1876.

619. Burgess, op. cit., p. 63.

620. Trustees' minutes, 19 April–20 Oct. 1876.

621. Endowed Charities, ut supra, p. 153.

622. Ibid., p. 155.

623. Ministry of Education, file Ed 35/1789; Burgess, op. cit., pp. 66–8.

624. Burlington School, Report of Second Inspection, Board of Education, 1911.

625. Ibid., report of inspection, 1922.

626. Trustees' minutes, 2 Feb. 1864.

627. Burgess, op. cit., p. 74.

628. Burlington School, Report to L.C.C. Education Committee, 1929.

629. Burgess, op. cit., p. 72.

630. Ibid., pp. 72–4; L.C.C. Minutes, 25 Nov. 1930, 30 Oct., 27 Nov. 1934, 21 May 1935.

631. The Times, 27 Nov. 1935.

632. T.P. 11538.

633. B.M., Add. MS. 34741, f. 174.

634. Ibid., f. 190.

635. Ibid., f. 290.

636. M.L.R. 1719/3/265.

637. Ibid., 1723/3/263.

638. Ibid., 1719/5/304.

639. Ibid., 1721/4/210.

640. Ibid., 1724/6/118.

641. Ibid., 1719/6/246.

642. Ibid., 1719/6/247.

643. Ibid., 1719/4/86.

644. Ibid., 1739/3/269.

645. Ibid., 1736/5/75.

646. Ibid., 1739/3/269.

647. Ibid., 1736/5/75, 1737/1/199.

648. Ibid., 1734/3/215.

649. L.C.C.R.O., BRA 277.

650. M.L.R. 1737/1/109.

651. Ibid., 1738/4/551, 1740/3/481.

652. Ibid., 1720/4/44.

653. Ibid., 1722/3/228.

654. Ibid., 1722/5/247.

655. Ibid., 1720/5/53.

656. Ibid., 1720/4/356.

657. Ibid., 1720/5/53, 1721/2/48.

658. Ibid., 1721/2/92.

659. Ibid., 1721/3/289.

660. Ibid., 1724/4/322.

661. Ibid., 1724/1/98.

662. Chatsworth MSS., rentals c. 1770 and c. 1800.

663. M.L.R. 1726/1/16.

664. Ibid., 1734/2/496.

665. Ibid., 1733/4/97.

666. Ibid., 1735/3/226.

667. Ibid., 1735/3/78.

668. Ibid., 1734/4/445, 1737/1/41.

669. Ibid., 1737/1/5–6.

670. Ibid., 1733/4/149.

671. Ibid., 1736/3/205.

672. Ibid., 1744/2/171.

673. Ibid., 1732/5/121, 168.

674. Ibid., 1746/2/262–3.

675. Dalton, op. cit. (277 above), vol. II, 1912, p. 412.

676. H. B. Wheatley, op. cit. (350 above), 1870, p. 79.

677. Edward Smith, The Life of Sir Joseph Banks, 1911, pp. 9, 12.

678. The Universal British Directory, 1793.

679. Dalton, op. cit. (277 above), vol. I, 1910, p. 198.

680. Robert Wright, The Life of Major-General James Wolfe, 1864, pp. 96, 101, 113, 161, 166, 172.

681. H.M.C., MSS. of J.B. Fortescue, vol. I, 1892, pp. 214–15.

682. Walter Sichel, Sheridan, 1909, vol. I, p. 537, vol. II, p. 379 note.

683. A Memoir of The Reverend Sydney Smith by his Daughter Lady Holland, 1855, vol. I, pp. 192, 243, 247; The Letters of Sydney Smith, ed. Nowell C. Smith, vol. I, 1953, pp. 412 note, 469, 471, 489.