14. _Long Acre._ Mr. Cunningham, upon the authority of Parton's _History
of St. Giles's_, says:

"First known as the Elms, then called Seven Acres, and since
1612, from the length of a certain slip of ground, then first
used as a public pathway, as Long Acre."

The latter part of this statement is incorrect. The Seven Acres were
known as _Long Acre_ as early as 1552, when they were granted to the
Earl of Bedford. See _Strype_, B. vi. p. 88.

Machyn, in his _Diary_, printed by the Camden Society, p. 21., under the
date A.D. 1556, has the following allusion to the _Acre_:

"The vj day of December the Abbot of Westminster went a
procession with his convent. Before him went all the Santuary
men with crosse keys upon their garments, and after went iij for
murder: on was the Lord Dacre's sone of the North, was wypyd
with a shett abowt him for kyllyng of on Master West, squyre,
dwellyng besyd ... and anodur theyff that dyd long to one of
Master Comtroller ... dyd kylle Recherd Eggylston the
Comtroller's tayller, and kylled him in the _Long Acurs_, the
bak-syd Charyng Crosse."

15. _Norfolk House, St. James's Square._ The present Norfolk House was
built from a design by R. Brettingham, in 1742, by Thomas Duke of
Norfolk, and finished by his brother Edward in 1762. Mr. Cunningham
speaks as if the old house, in which George III. was born, was still
standing.