By E. LI. Gwillim. 39 



Pound Close and King's Head Close. From a lease, 27th Aug , 

 1656, to W. Dickman. 



" All such part of a certen tenement called Pound Close att the upper end 

 and on the E. side of Kingsbury Streete as adioneth to a meadow called 

 Kinges Hed close on the N. and E. parts." 



Workhouse and Hermitage Close. From a lease, 30th Sept., 1 658, 

 to W. Willing. 



"A tenement over against the Workhouse betwene the street on the S. 

 and W. partes, and a garden now used with the same tenement parcell of 

 Hermitage Close on the N. 



The Katherine Wheel. From a lease, 28th Feb., 1666, to W. Church. 



A. messuage lately erected called the Katherine Wheele in Kingsbury 

 Street in the parish of St Mary, " between the land of Nicholas Liddeard 

 on the S., the land of Walter Randoll on the N, Kingsbury Street on the 

 W., the land of the Mayor and Burgesses of the Devizes on the E. " The 

 Catherine Wheel " is now known as " The Cricketers." It was at one time 

 called the " Barleymow," at another " The George and Dragon," and is said 

 to have been once " The Freemasons' Arms." 



The Holy Lamb. From a lease, 27th July, 24° Car. II. (1672), to J. 

 Lyme. 



A messuage in Hurd Street on the E. side, " nowe an Alehouse known 

 by the signe of the Holy Lamb." 



The Three Swans. From a lease, 20th Oct., 2° Jac. II. (1686), to W. 

 Hill. 



" A tenement in St. Martins called the Three Swans lyeing next the house 

 of Gabriell Mills on the E., and the widowe Garlicks on the W. 



The Angel. From a lease, 28th Dec, 1687. 

 "Mr. T.Hunt of the Angell. 



Laney's Close. In a lease, 5 Jan., 3° Jac. II., (1688), to J. Foster. 



Laney's Close first occurs at this date by this name in the Survey Book. 

 Bic. Laney, however, occupied this close as early as 1565. See above, 

 " Laney's Close," p. 36. 



The Bear. From a lease, 4th June, 1687, to W. Greinfeild. 



A tenement in the High Ward " betwene the dwelling house of Humphry 

 Wall, gent, heretofore a common inne caled the Beare on the W., the newe 

 dwelling house of T. Seymour draper on the E., and extendeth from the 

 street on the N. unto the land of the said W. Greinfeild being a waye that 

 leadeth from the Marsh on the E., unto the back or yarde late belongeinge 

 to the Beare on the S." ("A tenement called Le Bere, with an orchard 

 and garden, and a certain way leading to a way called Kingsbury-street.'' 

 Court Book D. fo. 32, A.D. 1525.) Now No. 3, High Street. Mr. Joshua 

 Sacheverell (father to Dr. H. S.) soon after he became rector of St. Peter's, 

 Marlborough (1669) prefixed to St. Peter's register this " Memorandum : 

 that Mr. Humphrey Wall and heires, occupants of the dwelling and lands 

 formerly known by the signe of the Bear, are by Composition to pay to th e ' 



