Dyot Street

Diet street, on the Nly side of St. Gile's high str. in the broad part.

Maiden head lane on the S. side of Great Russel str. near the W. end.

Dyot Street also cometh out of Great Russel Street, and falleth into St. Giles's, almost against Monmouth Street. And at the end next St. Giles's is the Maidenhead Inn, of great resort by Mealmen and Country Waggons. It is very long, with Buildings and Inhabitants answerable to the rest of these Streets. And at the upper end of this Street, Eastwards, is Nottingham Street, which falleth into Plumb Tree Street, but short, narrow, and ordinary.

Dyot street, St. Giles's Broad street.

George-St., is on the south side of Great Russell-street and the last coach turning westward before coming to Tottenham-court-road. It reaches into High-street, St.-Giles's, and is the street celebrated in the song, under the name of "Dyott-street, Bloomsbury-square," which name of wretchedness and infamy it has abandoned for that of our late king, George the Fourth.

Dyot Street, St. Giles's, named after Richard Dyot, Esq., a parishioner of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. "Curll's Corinna," Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, lived with her mother in this street.¹ A friend of Dryden's tracked her to her house "somewhere about St. Giles's," and she printed Dryden's letter in which this is stated with Pope's letters to Cromwell. Even then Dyot Street must have been somewhat disreputable, as she falsely prints the letter as addressed to herself at Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury.² At the Black Horse and Turk's Head public-houses in this street, Haggerty and Holloway, in November 1802, planned the murder of Mr. Steele on Hounslow Heath, and here they returned after the murder. At the execution of the murderers, at the Old Bailey in 1807, twenty-eight people were crushed to death. The name was changed from Dyot Street to George Street in consequence of a filthy song which attained wide popularity, but the original name was restored in 1877.

In 1710 there was a certain "Mendicants' Convivial Club" held at the "Welch's Head" in this street. The origin of this club dated as far back as 1660, when its meetings were held at the Three Crowns in the Poultry.—Dr. Rimbault in Notes and Queries, 1st S., vol. i. p. 229.

On the east side of the upper part of Dyot Street are the Model Lodging Houses for forty-eight families, designed, 1849–1850, by Henry Roberts, architect, the first of this sort of structure for the benefit of artisans and others. The entrance is in Streatham Street.

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¹ Malone's Dryden, vol. ii. p. 97.
² Scott's Dryden, vol. xviii. p. 166.

Dyott Street

This is to certifie, That I had a Child extremely afflicted with Pain in Breeding of Teeth, but upon Application of a Remedy prepared by Mr. Perronet, Surgeon, in Diot-street, Bloomsbury, it proved so great and admirable, that I cannot attribute the Safety and happy Preservation of my Child's Life (next under God) but to the Use of that most excellent Medicine. Witness my Hand, W. Clarke, Perriwig-Maker, at the white Wig in Great Queen-street by Lincolns-Inn-fields. This Remedy is sold by the Author aforesaid, and at Mr. Alcroft's, Toy-shop, at the Blew-Coat Boy against the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, at 2 s. 6 d. per Vial, with Directions.

—The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. 139 (February 25–28, 1709)

 

This is to certifie, that my Child being violently afflicted with Pain and other Disorders, by the hard Breeding of Teeth, that famous Remedy prepared for those Cases by Mr. Perronet Surgeon, was used with so much Success, that I cannot attribute the happy Preservation of my Childs life, next under God, but to the Use of that excellent Medicine. Witness my Hand,

William Clarke,

at the White Peruke in Great Queen-street by Lincolns-Inn-fields, Peruke Maker. This Medicine is sold at 2 s. 6 d. per Vial, by the Author Mr. Perronet aforesaid, at the Surgeons Arms, against the End of Dyot Street in St. Giles's in the Fields, and by Mr. Alcroft, Toy-shop, at the Blue-Coat-Boy against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill; at which Places may be had Sir Kenelm Digby's Apoplectick Powder, or Snuff, which effectually cures all Pains, Vapours, Dizziness, Heaviness, Imposthumes, Stoppages and Drowsiness of the Head, Defluxion of Rheum, upon the Eyes, Loss of Smell, and Thickness of Hearing. Price 1 s. 6 d.

—Great Britain. Sessions (City of London and County of Middlesex), The Proceedings on the Queen's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-delivery of Newgate, Held for the City of London and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey (London, 1714)

 

Included in "A New Alphabetical List of the Honourable and Worshipful Gentlemen that are Acting Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, and City of London" in Daniel Defoe's The Political State of Great Britain (1721) is "Colonel John Rotheram, Dyet Street, St. Giles's." (p. 527).