House of Commons Journal Volume 8 24 March 1662 Privilege. Ordered, That one Richard Chase, who was committed for a Breach of Privilege in seizing and detaining Mr. Whorwood, a Member of this House, shall upon Security given to the Serjeant at Arms for his Appearance the First Day of the next Sitting of this House, have his Liberty in the mean Time. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 24 March 1662', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 393-94. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26487&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. ***************************************************** List of the Servants for the King's Children. "Pankeeper,Samuel Vance, Anne Chase,vi l. xiii s. iiii d. From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 6: 19 March 1644', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 6: 1643 (1802), pp. 474-76. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37477&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. ******************************************************* Settlement and building From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Village or Great Chelsea In 1695 there were four houses rated on the western side of Lawrence Street, followed by two on the eastern side. In 1704 John Lawrence leased to Samuel Chase of St Giles-in-the-Fields, bricklayer, two pieces of land at the northern end of the Lawrence property adjoining the glebe, presumably the site of the four houses which closed off Lawrence Street on the north and were later collectively known as Monmouth House. Chase also leased some glebe land in 1704 on the north side to create gardens for the two central houses, which were larger than the rest and faced down Lawrence Street, with a passage between them to the garden, hidden behind a pair of doors with a pedimented doorcase. (Footnote 5) They were first rated in 1705-6 as two houses at £28 each and two at £18. The centre house on the east was let from 1715 to Anne, duchess of Buccleuch (d. 1732), widow of James Scott, duke of Monmouth (d. 1685), and from 1718 she also took the adjoining house at right angles: (Footnote 6) her residency there gave the house its popular name of Monmouth House, but that led later writers to assume that the block had originally been built as a single mansion. The duchess was in Chelsea from at least 1714, and entertained royalty there in 1716, but spent her later years in Scotland. (Footnote 7) The house was rated to her daughter, Lady Isabella Scott, in 1735. (Footnote 8) The westernmost house of the group, occupied by Alexander Reid in 1722 and empty in 1735, was rated to Nicholas Sprimont in 1751 when the next house, presumably the western central house, was rated to Tobias Smollett, and the Duchess of Buccleuch's former house to Sprimont as a house and outbuildings, which he used as a showroom for the Chelsea Porcelain works. (Footnote 9) Smollett lived in Chelsea from 1750 to 1763, though he never identified his house in his letters. (Footnote 10) Nos 23 and 24 Lawrence Street, facing Justice Walk and still standing in 2003, had twin doorways in a single doorcase, similar to the arrangement shown on Monmouth House c. 1833, (Footnote 1) and probably date from the development of c. 1690, which has otherwise left no trace, except for the stuccoed remains of Church Row at nos 62 and 63 Cheyne Walk. (Footnote 2) Perhaps because of lack of demand, not all the site was built over in the late 17th century. A factory was built for the Chelsea Porcelain works in 1750 on the west side of Lawrence Street on an empty site between the house at the corner of Justice Walk and Chase's houses at the top of the street, (Footnote 3) while a plot of land opposite at the top of Lawrence Street on the east side was still not built on by 1836. In 1714 Richard Culliford bought the lease of the house on the east side near the top, on a site 32 ft to Lawrence Street and 145 ft back to Cheyne Row, built by Thomas Hearne in 1688, and in 1720 he obtained a 20-ft wide strip of the vacant land which lay between him and the wall of the Duchess of Buccleuch's house at the northern end. (Footnote 4) The illustration of 'Monmouth House' in 1833 shows the ground still unbuilt, although with a high wall around it. (Footnote 5) From: 'Settlement and building: From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Village or Great Chelsea', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 31-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28690&strquery=Chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 6: 19 March 1644', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 6: 1643 (1802), pp. 474-76. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37477&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005.