Note 28 — XXII.—HIGH HOLBORN FROM THE PARISH BOUNDARY TO LITTLE TURNSTILE.

No doubt the same afterwards occupied by Sir William and Lady Segar, and Lord Bothwell (see plan of 1658 in Black Books of Lincoln’s Inn, Vol, II.) The easternmost portion of the northern boundary of Purse Field is described as “the late garden wall of Sir William Seager, Knt.” in the grant of the field to Newton in 1638 (Patent Roll, 13 Charles I. (2775)), and as “the garden of Bothwell House” in the sale of that part of the field in 1653 (Close Roll, 1653 (3715))—(Indenture between Humfrey Newton and Arthur Newman).