ABSTRACT
The Society’s first office was in Nicholas Lane, which originally ran from Lombard Street to Cannon Street, before King William Street was built, in the parsonage of St Nicholas Acons. The church had been destroyed in the great fire of 1666 and had not been rebuilt but the parsonage was rebuilt, next to the churchyard, and was in the possession of the Rev. Jeremiah Milles, dd, who from 1746 until his death in 1784 was rector of the combined parishes of St Nicholas Acons and St Edmund the King and Martyr in Lombard Street. Milles was also Dean of Exeter Cathedral.
