[4] In 1643 Thomas Case became the first London clergyman to host Morning Exercises, a special service set aside to pray for those fighting in the Parliamentarian army.

[6] His replacement Thomas Vincent continued the Presbyterian tradition in the parish until being removed for failing to comply with the Act of Uniformity on 24 August 1662.

[9] Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532, then later executed by Henry VIII in 1535 for opposing his split from the Catholic Church, was born in Milk Street in February 1478.

[14] Another was his wife Mary Moundeford (née Hill), who died aged 94 in 1656 and was godparent to Rachel Speght, who dedicated her poem Mortalities Memorandum to her.

The regicide Sir John Bourchier died nearby whilst awaiting trial, and was interred in the church graveyard in August 1660.