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4. Ibid., 57 fo. 134.

5. P.R.O., C 66/2313/5.

6. P.R.O., C 54/2555/32.

7. Ibid., 2637/6.

8. Ibid., 2849/29.

9. P.R.O., L.R. 1/43 fo. 62.

10. P.R.O., E 178/1397.

11. P.R.O., L.R. 1/42 fo. 313.

12. P.R.O., C 66/1225.

13. P.R.O., L.R. 1/43 fo. 97.

14. P.R.O., C 54/1365.

15. Ibid., 3018.

16. P.R.O., E 321/14/4.

17. Hatfield MSS.

18. P.R.O., L.R. 1/39.

19. P.C.C., 9 Mellershe.

20. P.R.O., C.P. 25(2) 171 Mich. 13–14 Eliz.

21. P.C.C., 36 Pickering.

22. P.R.O., C.P. 25(2) 173 Trin. 41 Eliz.

23. P.R.O., C 142/266/83.

24. P.R.O., C 3/11/76.

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26. Cal. of Pat. Rolls.

27. P.R.O., C 47/4/4.

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30. Cal. L. and P. Hy. VIII.

31. Westminster Manor Accounts, P.R.O., E 36/251.

32. Stow, Survey of London, ed. Kingsford.

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47. P.R.O., C 3/44/76.

48. P.R.O., L.R. 1/43 fo. 110.

49. Ibid., 42 fo. 534.

50. Ibid., 55 fo. 141.

51. John Taylor, The Carriers Cosmographie.

52. Middx. Reg. 1729/n 1/209.

53. Ibid., 1749/11/687.

54. Survey of London, XVIII.

55. Report of the Commissioners on Charities, 1837. Report 32, Part 6.

56. Bethlem Hospital Muniments.

57. P.R.O., L.R. 1/270, fo. 175.

58. P.R.O., C 66/1046.

59. Ibid., 1759/9.

60. P.R.O., C 54/3332/3.

61. Middx. Reg. 1710/1/84.

62. Ibid., 1731/1/114.

63. P.R.O., L.R. 1/271.

64. P.R.O., C 54/3469/14.

65. Annual Register.

66. Act 7 Geo. IV c. 77.

67. John Summerson, John Nash.

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70. Westminster Abbey Muniments, Domesday Book.

71. Ibid., Deeds 17141–2.

72. P.R.O., Star Chamber 8/101/9.

73. John Everard, D.D., Gospel Treasury Opened, 1659.

74. P.C.C., 537 Pell.

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80. P.R.O., C 54/4524/29 and 30.

81. Act 13 and 14 Chas. II, c. 6.

82. Middx. Reg. 1737, IV, 595, etc.

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84. B. M. Egerton MSS. 2221.

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86. Middx. Sessions Rolls 11, p. 68.

87. P.R.O., E 351/3215.

88. P.R.O., S.P. 14/53.

89. P.R.O., L.R. 1/44.

90. P.R.O., Star Chamber Proc. 8/176/9.

91. P.R.O., C 66/2567/4.

92. Letters and Dispatches of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, ed. W. Knowles.

93. P.R.O., C 66/2964/15.

94. P.R.O., T 1/LXXXVI/75.

95. P.R.O., L.R. 1/61, fol 330.

96. P.R.O, T 54/26, p. 47.

97. Middx. Reg. 1723, II, 120.

98. Cal. of Treas. Books.

99. P.R.O., L.S. 13/173, p. 121.

100. Middx. Reg. 1752, II, 148.

101. Ibid., 1753, III, 224, etc.

102. Read's Weekly Journal, 25th Sept., 1731.

103. P.R.O., L.R. 1/64.

104. Middx. Reg. 1713, VI, 183.

105. Deeds in the possession of the London County Council.

106. Survey of London, XIV.

107. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, IV.

108. P.R.O., T 29/32.

109. Middx. Reg. 1757, III, 42.

110. Ibid., 1780, IV, 192.

111. Mercurius Politicus Redivivus. B.M. Add. MSS. 10, 116.

112. P.R.O., Rentals and Surveys 11/42.

113. P.R.O. L.C. 5/134.

114. Cal. of Treas. Books and Papers.

115. P.R.O., C 82/2374.

116. P.R.O., Works 5/25–32.

117. Luttrell, Brief Relation …

118. P.R.O., L.R. 1/64, fo. 111–2.

119. Letters of Lady Mary Wort ley Montague, ed. Thomas.

120. P.R.O. T 55/2.

121. London Evening Post, Dec. 1732.

122. J. Fielding, Description of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1776.

123. The Farington Diary.

124. Sixth Report of H.M. Commissioners of Woods and Forests.

125. W. H. Pyne, The History of Carlton House.

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128. Beckles Willson, American Ambassadors to England.

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130. Bulwer Lytton, Life of Lord Palmerston, III.

131. Cambridge History of Foreign Policy, III.

132. Heading for the Abyss, Prince Lichnowsky.

133. Lord Morley, Life of Gladstone, 11

134. P.C.C., 10 Fetipkce.

135. London and Middlesex Fines.

136. P.R.O., E 357/3224.

137. P.R.O., Parl. Survey E 317 Middx. 86.

138. P.R.O., L.R. 1/62.

139. Hist. MSS. Com., MSS. of S. H. Le Fleming, p. 74.

140. P.R.O., L.R. 1/63.

141. Middx. Reg. 1741,1, 288.

142. Report from the Select Committee on Crown Leases.

143. J. Elmes, Metropolitan Improvements.

144. P.R.O., P.C. 2/55, p. 365.

145. Act 14 Chas. II, c. 2.

146. P.R.O., S.P. 29/71, No. 52.

147. P.R.O., C 66/3304/14.

148. Act 8 & 9 Wm. III, c. 17.

149. Minutes of Commissioners for the Haymarket. At the Middlesex Guildhall.

150. Act 2 Wm. & Mary, c. 2.

151. Minutes of the Westminster Commissioners of Sewers. In the possession of the London County Council.

152. Middx. Reg., 1741, II, 269.

153. E. W. Brayley, London Theatres, 1826.

154. Middx. Reg. 1729, VI, 379.

155. Contemporary Pamphlet.

156. Appendix to Fourth Report H.M. Woods and Forests.

157. P.R.O., E 317 Parl. Survey, Middx., 38.

158. P.R.O., S.C. 12/3/13.

159. P.R.O., E 315/219.

160. B.M. Harl. Ch. 77, fo. 44.

161. P.R.O., C.P. 25(2) Middx. 171 East. 5 Eliz.

162. P.R.O., Exch. Spec. Com. 2973.

163. P.R.O., C.P. 25(2) 324 East. 17 Jas. I.

164. Ibid., 457 Hil. 13 Chas. I.

165. P.R.O., C 66/2567/4.

166. C. L. Kingsford, Piccadilly, Leicester Square, and Soho.

167. P.R.O., E 317 Middx., 73.

168. P.R.O., C 54/4383/32.

169. James Elmes, Life of Sir Christopher Wren.

170. P.R.O., C 54/4168/26.

171. Ibid., 4317/24.

172. Middx. Reg. 1712, IV, 55, etc.

173. Allardyce Nicoll, 18th Century Drama, 1700–1750.

174. Middx. Reg. 1790, II, 63.

175. R. W. Frere, History of Orange Street Chapel.

176. P.R.O., C 66/1711.

177. Ibid., 2632 and Vestry Minutes.

178. Middx. Reg. 1711, IV, 85.

179. Act 12 Geo. III, c. 35.

180. Strand Union Board Minutes, 1871.

181. Private Act 2 Geo. II, c. 9.

182. The House of Harrison.

183. Middx. Reg. 1738, III, 129; 1741, I, 117, etc.

184. Sir Hugh Platt, The Garden of Eden, Part II, 1659 (from a MS. written c. 1600).

185. Middx. Reg. 1754, I, 356.

186. Ibid., 1754, III, 172.

187. Wriothesley's Chronicle, Camden Society.

188. P.R.O., E 317, Middx. 81.

189. P.R.O., S.C. 8/313.

190. Westminster Abbey Muniments, 28794