LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912.
seem to have been built upon until the reign
of Charles II.
The leases to the Earl of St. Albans'
trustees expired in 1740, and further leases
of the seventeen houses were granted by
the Crown for terms which expired in 1810.
The houses were stated to be in a ruinous
condition in 1739, and were then to be
rebuilt. Ultimately the houses came into
the possession of the Prince of Wales
(George IV.), and were occupied by some
of the members of his establishment up to
about 1826, when he relinquished the occu-
THE forthcoming extension of the United
Service Club at the expense of the adjoining
property, No. 118 and No. 119, Pall Mall,
suggests a note on the lines of the interesting
articles which the late MR. W. E. HARLAND-
OXLEY contributed from time to time on
changes in Westminster, and may help that
desirable work, a history of Pall Mall to
date.
Through the courtesy of the Office of
Woods, I learn that the site of the doomed
houses is within the bailiwick or manor of
St. James's-in-the-Fields, which was pur-
chased by the Crown from the Abbot of
Westminster in the reign of Henry VIII.
Part of the manor was granted on leases by
Queen Henrietta Maria and her trustees,
and by Charles II., to trustees for Henry
Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans, who granted
sub-leases of a plot of land at the east end
of the south side of Pall Mall, with seventeen
small houses thereon. No. 118, Pall Mall,
stands on part of this ground, which does not
William Cobbett, who enlisted in the 54th
Foot in 1783. He started publishing in 1796,
his shop (in 1800) being at "The Crown and
Mitre," 18, Pall Mall. He disposed of his busi-
ness in March, 1803, to a man named Hardy,
who was succeeded at the end of the same
year by John Budd (Edward Smith's 'Wil-
liam Cobbett,' i. 308). In June, 1810,
Cobbett was prosecuted, along with Budd,
Hansard, and Bagshaw, for an article in
The Register (of 1 July, 1809) on flogging
in the Army, and the four of them were
sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment,
Budd getting two months. At this time
Budd was at 100, Pall Mall. In 1813 the
business belonged to E. Budd, and in 1814
the firm became Budd and Calkin, and
moved to 98, Pall Mall in 1822.
Budd was
probably a Cornishman, and may have been
connected with Edward Budd (1771-1853)
of the West Briton, Truro (Boase's 'Collec-
tanea Cornubiensia,' p. 115: Add. MSS. 29,
281, f. 187).
On 5 July, 1827, a ninety-nine years'
lease was granted to George William Budd