East out of Gray's Inn Lane to Leather Lane (P.O. Directory).
In parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, outside the City boundary, and within the precincts of the old Manor of Portpool, afterwards known as Gray's Inn.
Said to have been erected by Richard Baldwin in 1589, gardener to Queen Elizabeth, as recorded on a stone set into one of the houses before they were rebuilt (N. and Q. 11th> S. VI. p. 14).
Petition with reference to building there in 1626 (L. and P. Chas. I. I. 524).
" Baldwin's Rents " mentioned 1640 (ib. XVII. p. 13).
The privileges of sanctuary possessed by the inhabitants were abolished 1695-7.
A Dictionary of London. Henry A Harben. 1918.