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306 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 12 s. is. OCT. is, 1921. be fairest pictures . . ." and then the follow- ing letter : My Noble Lord, Yor Ldship hath highly fauorti my vnworthynes both in yor Remembrance & gift, the memory whereof will encrease my admiracon, of your Ldships singular humanity, & my affeccon to these studyes wherunto yor Ldship giues both countence & perfection. The great aduantage I haue made of this change, Diuinity for Poetry (besides the addition of the language & yor Lordships fauor) makes me remember the Judicious Ld Verulams pitty of the Heathen Theology, whose only Fathrs were the Poets. I humbly thank yor Ldship for this & other vndeserued courtesy es ther, wher I had only that <fe my boldnes to authorize my welcome. The like obligation I must acknowledg in the behalf of my ingenious chamber fellow,* albeit

  • Side-note in MS., ' Mr. Cowley.'

now absent. He hath been as yett a Poett in Decimo sexto, but is now enlarging the Edition : An English Pastorall & a Latin Comedy prsented here : We haue as yett receiued neither them nor himselfe. But I transgresse against yor Lord- ) ships occasions & my manners. I was bold besides vsing this liberty in Prose, to signify that this poor peice of Poetry was no fiction, but the gratefull acknowledgment of Yor Ldships humble & most obliged seruant, B. CRESWELL : Trin: Coll. May 12, 1638. The ' English Pastorall ' was ' Love's Riddle,' the * Latin Comedy,' ' Naufra- gmm Joculare.' Half a dozen poems by Robert Cresswell are preserved in MSS. Rawlinson, Poet. 147 and 246. G. C. MOORE SMITH. Sheffield. PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (See 12 S. vii. 485; ix. 85, 105, 143, 186, 226, 286.) (An asterisk denotes that the house still exists as a tavern, inn or public-house in many cases rebuilt.)

  • Magpye
  • Magpye and Punch-

bowl Magpye and Stump . , Maid's Maidenhead Maidenhead Man in the Moon . Man's Man waring' s Margarets . . Marine Without Bishopsgate Corner of darks' Place, Bishops- gate Within Old Bailey Bow Lane Great Knightrider Street Bam Alley, leading into the Inner Temple Whitechapel Over against Lincoln's Inn Gate in Chancery Lane Faulcon Court against St. Dun- stan's Church, Fleet Street Cheapside Castle Court, Birchin Lane Marlborough Marlborough Street, Carnaby Market 1729 Lane's 'Handy Book,' p. 177. 1743 Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916. Larwood, p. 388. City Press, Oct. 6, 1897. 1715 Larwood, p. 221. ' London Topographical Becord,' 1907, iy. 105. 1677 Shown in Ogilvy and Morgan's ' London Survey' d.' 1745 Bocque's ' Survey.' 1744 General Advertiser, April 6. 1735 M.C.B. Sessions Books, Nos. 902-931. 1719 Daily Courant, June 13. 1720 Daily Courant, July 9. 1732 Diary of Viscount Percival, i. 273. 1711 Daily Courant, Feb. 21. "All persons who have been defrauded by Faggots and others who are listed in the Foot Guards are desired to leave their particular cases in writing at Margarets Coffee House next the Feathers Tavern in Cheap - side and care shall be taken to lay the same before the committee of the Honourable the House of Commons appointed to enquire into these abuses." 1719 Daily Courant, June 1. 1744 General Advertiser, Mar. 20. 1733 Daily Journal, Jan. 6. "For sale by Candle at the Marine Coffee House in Birchin Lane, near the Boyal Ex- change, on the 9thinst., at 4 o'clock, 66 chests, fine new Mad era Citrons in time. Henry Gambia, Broker." 1748 Plan of Great Fire, B.E.A.C. 1780 Public Advertiser, Jan. 5.