[76] There is a view of it in Strype’s Stow (1754), which shows a sculptured phœnix over the doorway. The phœnix in the porch of No. 40, Great Ormond Street suggests the possibility of some connection with this house. [77] ‘Annals of Tennis,’ 1878. [78] Some of these servants, however, must have been exceedingly active. In the _London Evening Post_ for December 31, 1735, we are told that ‘General Churchill’s Running Footman ran against the Lady Molesworth’s, from the upper end of St. James’s Street to Edgworth Gate,’ and won, performing the distance, computed to be about eleven miles, in an hour and five minutes. [79] He is Volpone in Pope’s ‘Moral Essay’: ‘His grace’s fate sage Cutler could foresee And well (he thought) advised him “Live like me.” As well his grace replied, “Like you, Sir John? That I can do, when all I have is gone.”’ [80] ‘Some account of London,’ by Thos. Pennant, 3rd edition, pp. 372, 373. [81] In the _Public Advertiser_ for Wednesday, April 21, 1775, it is stated that ‘a trout was catched in the New River, near Sadler’s Wells, which weighed eight pounds and a half.’ [82] This roadway is 1,173 yards in length, and has cost £353,526, but the amount will be diminished by the sale of unused lands. Running under it is a subway for the conveyance of electric lighting, etc., high enough for a man to walk through. [83] The parish derived its name from a holy well, at which the parish clerks of London used annually to perform a miracle play. Its site was marked by a pump near the south-east corner of Ray Street, an illustration of which is given in Wilkinson’s ‘Londina Illustrata.’ The well still exists a few feet to the north, covered by a massive brick arch, under the floor of No. 18, Farringdon Road--formerly the parish watch-house. This quaint little tenement is now to be let on building lease. The whole neighbourhood seems in old days to have had a reputation for holy and medicinal wells. [84] In the _Post Boy_, and in the _Flying Post_ for June, 1697, we are told that ‘Sadler’s excellent steel waters at Islington, having been obstructed for some years, are now opened and current again,’ etc. [85] At the bar of the Sir Hugh Myddleton tavern there was formerly an interesting portrait group of frequenters of the old Myddleton’s Head, Mr. Rosoman being in the centre. [86] Pinks’s ‘History of Clerkenwell,’ 2nd edition, p. 427. [87] Both places are alluded to in an advertisement (dated 1747) of the Mulberry Garden, the site of which, says Pinks, was afterwards covered by the House of Detention. A print of it exists.