The story went that on the night of her death hundreds of persons saw the Devil enter her house. On the site rose the inn which bore her portrait as its sign. Smith’s mention of the terror with which it was regarded may have reference to its loneliness and gruesome traditions. In his own day the inn was a pleasant resort. “Then the old Mother Red Cap was the evening resort of worn-out Londoners, and many a happy evening was spent in the green fields round about the old wayside houses by the children of poorer classes. At that time the Dairy, at the junction of the Hampstead and Kentish Town roads, was not the fashionable building it is now, but with forms for the pedestrians to rest on, they served out milk fresh from the cow to all who came” (John Palmer, _St. Pancras_). This dairy, so long a landmark to North Londoners, has just disappeared in favour of a “Tube” railway station. [47] This curious work may still be seen in Little Denmark Street, where its forty or fifty writhing figures, incrusted with grime, look at a little distance like some ordinary floral design. The original “Resurrection Gate” was erected about the year 1687, in accordance with an order of the vestry. The bill of expenses is extant, and its terms were contributed by Dr. Rimbault to _Notes and Queries_ of June 23, 1864, showing the cost to have been £185, 14s. 6d., of which £27 was paid for the carving to an artist named Love. In 1900, the present Tuscan gate in Little Denmark Street was erected with the old carving inserted. [48] Probably Charles Harriot Smith, the architect, who was at first a stone-carver. He died in 1864. [49] The Reverend James Bean was Vicar of Olney, Buckinghamshire, and assistant librarian at the British Museum. He died in 1826, and was buried in St. George’s, Bloomsbury, burial-ground. [50] Strype says these almshouses bore the inscription, “St. Giles’s Almshouse, anno domini 1656.” They were removed in 1782. [51] Originally Queen Anne’s Square and now Queen Anne’s Gate. [52] The Pound stood, as Smith indicates, in the broad space where St. Giles High Street, Tottenham Court Road, and Oxford Street met; it was removed in 1765. [53] This song, entitled “Just the Thing,” is valuable as a portrait of the eighteenth-century “hooligan,” ancestor of Mr. Clarence Rook’s nineteenth century “Alf” in _Hooligan Nights_:-- “On Newgate steps Jack Chance was found, And bred up near St. Giles’s Pound, My story is true, deny it who can, By saucy, leering Billingsgate Nan. Her bosom glowed with heartfelt joy When first she held the lovely boy. Then home the prize she straight did bring, And they all allow’d he was just the thing. At twelve years old, I have been told, The youth was sturdy, stout, and bold; He learn’d to curse, to swear, and fight, And everything but read and write.