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Thomas Holcroft was deprived of his Fellowship of Clare College on account of his Puritan principles. He started to form assemblies of other dissenters and one of these was at the home of a Mrs Petit in St Michael’s Parish, possible at this location in Green Street.
See Green Street
On the site of the houses numbered 5,4, and 3 stood an old Independent Chapel, dating back to 1688, generally known as the Old Green Street Meeting House, but later referred to Stittle’s Chapel, after the Rev John Stittle, who served his congregation here from 1781 until his death.
(unnumbered) Charles Thrott Green, 35, carpenter, b Chesterton
Frederick Vinton, 44, copperplate engraver, b London
Mary, 47, sister, housekeeper, b London
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Mrs L Lambeth, lodging house keeper
George Strickland & Sons, tailors
Modish
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