12 s. ix. NOV. 12, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 385
Pane of Glass. Monocle.
Rear up. To get angry.
Red Hussar. A brand of ration cigarette. Any cigarette.
Rumble. Disturb, annoy, upset.
Skint. Without money.
Stung. Caught financially, swindled.
Swagger-stick. Cane for walking out.
Tails up (they've got their). They are in good spirits.
Tick off. Reprimand, find fault with. "A ticking off."
Toke. Bread.
Tooter the sweeter. The sooner the better.
Van blanc anglays. Whisky.
Wulla. Voilà.
PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
(See 12 S. vii. 485; ix. 85, 105, 143, 186, 226, 286, 306.)
(An asterisk denotes that the house still exists as a tavern, inn or public-house—in many cases rebuilt.)
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Opera Adjoining the Haymarket Opera House 1744 London Daily Post, Jan. 9.
Orange On site of St. Barnabas Church, Pimlico Thornbury, v. 45.
Ordnance Old Palace Yard, Westminster 1739 London Evening Post, Nov. 13.
Oxford Strand 1793 Rouch's 'L.P.P.,' p. 50. "Though it bears a kind of classical denomination, this coffee-house is the rendezvous of young fellows whose knowledge in general is much better suited to the studies of Bacchus than the sentiment of Homer."
Pack Horse and Talbot Chiswick Green Faulkner's 'History of Brentford and Chiswick,' 1845, p. 464.
Painters Bucklersbury 1700 Reports of the House of Lords MSS., 1908, vol. iv.
Palgrave Head Palgrave's Court 1711 Daily Courant, Feb. 19.
Bell's 'Fleet Street in Seven Centuries,' p. 506.
Pantheon Oxford Street 1772 London Museum: Print A 6917.
Paul's Head Ludgate Street 1731 Sadler's 'Life of T. Dunckerley,' 1891, pp. 104, 108.
Paul's Head Cateaton Street, near the Guildhall. 1720 Daily Post, Dec. 29.
1753 Heirons' 'Ancient Freemasonry,' 1921.
1764 'Clockmakers' Company,' p. 194.
1777 Public Advertiser, June 27.
1780 London Evening Post, Sept. 7.
1782 Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916.
1798 Prideaux, ii. 298. "Here the fortuned voluptuary may indulge his appetite not only with all the natural dainties of every season but with delicacies produced by means of preternatural ingenuity." 1793.
*Peacock Whitecross Street 1777 Public Advertiser, June 25.
1780 Public Advertiser, Sept. 14.
Peacock Clare Market 1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 385.
Perkins Blowbladder Street, St. Paul's Churchyard. 1720 Daily Courant, Aug. 9.
Perry's Putney 1751 Heiron's 'Ancient Freemasonry,' 1921.
Pewter Platter Norton Folgate 1754 Heiron's 'Ancient Freemasonry,' 1921.
Pewter Pot Leadenhall Street, south side 1677 Shown on Ogilvey and Morgan's 'London Survey'd.'
1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 383.
1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'
Pheasant Stangate, Lambeth 1788 Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1916.
