NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi.
Vby a pair of tusks, with the tips joined and
pointing downwards, and having above, at
the roots of these, a metal plate with a ring
'bv which the object was hung. At the back,
. on the wood, there is a pricked inscription
said to read : " Win. Broke : Landlord of the
Bore's Hedde Estchepe A.D. 1566." The
eccentric spelling, the date, and the whole
^appearance of this " relic " suggests it to be
.a fabrication of the post-W. H. Ireland
.period.
The planning of the approaches to New London Bridge that occasioned this great
- >local change was the subject of much
discussion and many pamphlets. Particu- larly active was George Allen, an architect at 69 Tooley Street, who issued plans, circulars,
\memorials, and designs innumerable.
An allied subject is the history of the
chapel in Miles Lane ; and, if we come to ^minute detail, the circulars, cards, and
engraved bill - heads of the fishing-tackle
- shops of Crooked Lane are of interest.
Other than the church, the dominant
attraction was the Boar's Head at No. 2
Great Eastcheap, the site of which is covered
by the statue of William IV. On its
demolition in June, 1831, 1011. 10s. com-
pensation was paid to Messrs. Hooper &
Sharland. its proprietors, so the popular
tradition that this was the pre-Great-Fire
inn miraculously preserved was not esteemed
very highly. To this inn, however, came
Washington Irving on a hopeful pilgrimage,
and on this, as well as on a more recent
search for relics of the original Boar's Head,
I would refer the reader to a delightful essay,
' The Quest of a Cup,' contained in a volume
of appreciations of things English by Miss
Alice Brown, published by Houghton Mifflin
& Co., 1896. There is encouragement for
present-day exploration in the fact that the
frontages behind the statue are only outer
shells screening some post-Great-Fire build-
ings and relics. I can specially recommend
to attention the narrow court ; but prompt
action is necessary as all this site is scheduled
for rebuilding. ALECK ABRAHAMS.
PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
INNS
(See ante. p. 29, 59.)
^Fountain Inn
Swans
.Fox and Bull
><Jarroway's
Minories
Bishopsgate Street
Knightsbridge Exchange Alley
-Gaunt's , .
George Inn . .
weorge's ^George's -George's
George's Tavern . .
'George and Blue
Boar Inn -George and Vulture
^George and Vulture
Tavern -Globe Tavern
St. James's Street, next to
St. James's Coffee House
22 Aldermanbury
Upper End of Haymarket
Pall Mall
Corner of Strand and Dever- eaux Court
High Street, Southwark
See Blue Boar.
N.E. corner of George Yard, Cornhill
Opposite Bruce Grove, Tot-
tenham
Craven Street, Strand
1709
1710
1711
1730 1745
1748
1751 1752
1752
1756
1737
1739
1752
1793
Thornbury, ii. 250, 252.
Hare, i. 295 ; Larwood, p. 217 ; Thornbury, ii. 161, 168.
Thornbury, v. 21.
Addison's Taller, Mar. 18.
Addison's Taller, Nos. 147, 256.
Swift's ' Journal,' Jan. 6.
Fielding's ' Temple Beau,' Act I. sc. iii.
' Life of Mrs. Cibber,' reprinted 1887, p. 12.
Plan of Great Fire, R. E. A. C., ' N. & Q.,' Dec. 9, 1916.
Fielding's ' Amelia,' iii. 10.
Humphrey's 'Memoirs,' p. 216; Cunning- ham, p. 194 ; Smollett's ' Adventures of an Atom.'
Wheatley's ' Hogarth's London,' p 298.
Harben's ' Dictionary of London,' 1918,
p. 265.
Humphrey's ' Memoirs,' p. 216. J. Fielding's ' Duke of Newcastle's Police.' Fielding's ' Eurydice,' a farce. Shenstone's ' Works," iii. 1. Fielding's C.G.J., No. 7. Roach's L.P.P., pp. 47, 49. Shelley's ' Inns,' p. 24.
1748 Plan of Great Fire, R. E. A. C., ' N. & Q.,'
Dec. 9, 1 16, p. 461 ; Harben's ' Dic-
tionary of London,' 1918, p. 256 ;
Larwood, p. 289.
Thornbury, v. 553.
1767 MacMichael's ' Charing Cross,' pp. 89, 90.
1768 Hickey, i. 119.
