Note 106 — XXVIII-XXIX. Nos. 181 and 172, HIGH HOLBORN (Demolished).

Blott’s statement that here “stood the mansion house of the Christmasse family, with its pasture land and orchard bordering the King’s Highway, Oldborne, the domain reaching to Ficquet Fields,” goes beyond the evidence, and his imaginative history, based on an identification of “John of Good Memory,” late chaplain of St. Giles, mentioned in Henry II.’s Charter (not the original foundation charter, as Blott says), with a John Christmas = John de Cruce the elder = John de Fonte the elder (all equally hypothetical persons) is absolutely unjustifiable (Blemundsbury, pp. 333–4).