"the rat-trap," and was conducted by the Sisters of the Institute of Mary. In 1763 the Reverend Mother ("la directrice," vide Garnier, vi. 474) was Frances Gentil. Unfortunately the list of pupils does not appear to have been preserved in the Catholic archives, but Casanova is corroborated by John Taylor (vide 'Records of My Life,' i. 267), who states that Sophie Cornelys was placed in "a Roman Catholic seminary at Hammersmith."
Casanova speaks of visiting a "labyrinthe" in Richmond Park (Garnier, vi. 528). Probably this was the "labyrinth full of intricate mazes" which Queen Caroline, wife of George II., had constructed in the gardens of Richmond Lodge around a Gothic building called Merlin's Cave.
"M. Leïgh," banker, mentioned in Garnier, vii. 63, may have been Mr. Lee, a member of the firm of Brassy, Lee and Co., Lombard Street. Horace Bleackley.
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, 102.)
(An asterisk denotes that the house still exists as a tavern, inn or public-house
—in many cases rebuilt.)
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Waghorn's Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill 1720 Daily Courant, July 8.
1774 Dartmouth MSS., 1887, i. 372.
Report of House of Lords MSS., 1908, vol. iv.
Watson's Strand 1782 'Lives of the British Physicians,' 1830, p. 182.
Webb's Smithfield 1711 Post Bag, Feb. 24. Proposals for the Joynt Adventure in the £1,500,000 Lottery.
Welch Head Dyott Street, St. Giles Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916.
Larwood, p. 8.
Named after Saunders Welch, the High Constable of Holborn, and later a Justice of the Peace.
Well and Beckett Bethnal Green Road Larwood, p. 374.
Welsh Trooper Hammersmith 1745 Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916.
Also known as The Welsh Goat.
Wenman's Punch-house Near the Royal Exchange 1744 London Daily Post, Jan. 4.
West India Behind Royal Exchange 1749 General Advertiser, July 19.
Wheatsheaf Fleet Market 1776 J. T. Smith's 'Book for a Rainy Day,' 1905, p. 69.
Wheatsheaf Drury Lane 1789 'Life's Painter of Variegated Characters.'
Wheatsheaf Upper Tooting London Museum: sketch by J. T. Wilson (A22048).
Wheatsheaf Oxford Street 1789 'Life's Painter of Variegated Characters.'
White Bear Basinghall Street, east side 1677 Ogilvy and Morgan's 'London Survey'd.'
1708 'A New View of London,' i. 5.
1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 383.
1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'
1799 Harwood's 'Map of London.'
Harben, p. 58.
White Bear Bear Garden, Southwark London Museum: pewter tankards (A 2747 and 2751).
Kept by Richard King and afterwards by Thomas Ward.
*White Bear New End, Hampstead 1704 Baines's 'Hampstead,' p. 233.
1766 Hampstead and Highgate Express, Oct. 9, 1920.
White Bear and Whetstone The Mall, Chiswick Thornbury, vi. 557.
