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102 NOTES AND QUERIES. t s.xito.ii,iM. nor ye raisse of his friends, nor ye unhappinesse of his necessitous condition are halfe so burden- some to him as ye apprehension of having fallen into your highness displeasure. Which would discourage your petitioner from humbly beseeching your highness to accept of sufficient baile for his inlargement if he had not a hope that your highness' great compassion and generosity will extend it selfe to your petitioner, whose gratitude and inocensie shall ever be ex- pressed in ye returne of his obedience and harty wishes for your highness prosperitie. And further sheweth that >our petitioner is still an humble suitor to your highness, as he formerly hath beene, that your highness would be graci- ously pleased to grant him licence to transport a competent number of Irish men for ye service of ye Venetians against ye Turkes, he ingaging himselfe for ye faithfull performance of such pro- positions as he hopes will prove as acceptable to your highness as they shall be humbly offered by him. Who shall ever pray etc., RICHD. WILLYS. August the Tenth 1654. His Highness' plea- sure is hereby to referre the consideration of this petition to the Councill. Lisle. Long. [Marginal note in a third handwriting] Richard Willys Prisoner in ye Tower. Reed. 18 Aug. 54. Why this reference to " proposals " ? Had they anything to do with the transport of Irishmen ? And why was Willys arrested at all, if not to squeeze him into a compliant frame of mind ? After this we get some curious entries in Cromwell's Council's Order Books. Under the date Dec. 18 in the Calendar for 1655 there is the following : Order on petition of Sir Richard Willis, prisoner at Lyme, that he have leave to go beyond seas, on security not to return without licence. Willys did not go beyond seas. And on p. 16 of the Calendar for 1658- 1659, under the date of May 11 (1658) the Council advised Cromwell to order for trial for " treason " by the tribunal called a " High Court of Justice " a number of per- sons, amongst whom was Sir Richard Willys. He was not tried. Evidently Cromwell's Council was not in the secret. J. G. M. (To be continued.) PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (See 12 S. vi. and vii. passim; ix. 85, 105, 143, 186, 226, 286, 306, 385, 426, 504, 525; x. 26, 66.) (An asterisk denotes that the house still exists as a tavern, inn or public-house many cases rebuilt.) Tom's Spring Garden, Charing Cross . . 1711 Tossier's Toy .. Blackheath Hampton Court Triumphal Chariot . . Near the present Hamilton Place Truby's St. Paul's Churchyard Tun ,. ... Strand Daily Courant, Feb. 21. " Lost on Sunday last from a lady's side at St. James' Church a plain gold watch. Whoever brings it to Tom's Coffee House in Spring Garden, Charing Cross, shall have two guineas reward and no ques- tions asked." 1725 Daily Post, Feb. " Masquerade habits to be let, at five shillings per habit, being very curious and comick, at Tom's Coffee House, next door to Young Man's Coffee House, Charing Cross." 1735 London Daily Post, July 30. 1785 Sadler's ' Life of T. Dunckerley, 1891, p. 126. Larwood, p. 505. Hickey, i. 100. Dasert's ' Piccadilly in Three Cen- turies,' 1920, p. 266. 1713 Swift's 'Author upon Himself.' " At Child's or Truby's never once had been : Where town and country vicars flock in tribes, Secured by numbers from the layman's gibes, And deal in vices of the graver sort, Tobacco, censure, coffee, pride and port." 1739 London Evening Post, Nov. 17.