other places in this parish were also denominated from either
the names or titles of the Russell family--as _Russell_
Street, _Bedford_ Street and Bury, _Tavistock_ Street,
_Chandos_ Street, &c. _King_ and _Henrietta_ Streets were so
named in honour of Charles I. and his Queen; and _James_ and
_York_ Streets, of the Duke of York, afterwards James II.


[2] Stow's "Survey," p. 829, edit. 1618.

[3] Ibid. p. 130.

[4] Ibid.

[5] The church of St. Mary le Strand was first termed St. Mary le
Strand Cross; but, as the Protector Somerset, in the reign of
Edward VI. deprived the inhabitants of it, in order to afford
a site for his intended palace (Somerset House), our
historians have barely mentioned it, some of whom suppose it
to have been alluded to in the decretal sentence of Stephen,
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1222, already mentioned under the
name of the _Innocents_. The parishioners, thus deprived of
their place of worship, were compelled to find admittance at
the neighbouring churches, till the commissioners for
erecting fifty new ones determined this parish should contain
one of the number.--_Malcolm_.

[6] Stow's "Survey," p. 130, edit. 1618.

[7] The old May-pole often mentioned as in a state of decay in