NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON

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 th…