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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[12 S. IX. Nov. 12, 1921.

Pie Tavern Mare Street, Hackney 1762 An existing and dated water-colour drawing.

Pied Bull Without Aldgate 1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 383.

Pitt's Head Bermondsey 1784 'Ars Quatuor Coronatorum,' vol. xxix., p. 65.

Plough Princes Street, Leicester Fields 1757 Daily Advertiser, May 6. "For Lincoln, Stamford, Grantham or places adjacent a four-wheel post-chaise with able horses will set out from the Plough Inn, Princes Street, Leicester Fields, to-morrow or Sunday."

Plough Rogue's Lane, Limehouse 1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'

Plough Essex Road, Mile End Old Town 1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'

Plough Lordship Lane Thornbury, vi. 295.

Poole's Without Bishopsgate 1720 Daily Courant, Nov. 23.

Pope's Head Pope's Head Alley, Fleet Street Chancellor's 'Fleet Street,' pp. 99, 261.

Portugal Swithen's Lane 1739 London Evening Post, Nov. 22. Kept by Joseph White.

Prince's Head Pell Mell 1719 Daily Courant, May 5.

Pursell's Next the Nag's Head, Cheapside 'London Topographical Record,' 1907, iv. 53.

Queen's Arms Newgate Street 1778 Gazetteer, Oct. 24.

1780 Public Advertiser, June 11. The Society for Free Debate met here.

London Museum: water-colour drawing by J. T. Wilson (A 22052).

Queen's Arms Ludgate Hill 1732 Read's Journal, May 27.

'London Topographical Record,' 1903, p. 82.

Queen's Head Billingsgate 1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 382.

Queen's Head Turnstile, Holborn 1723 Lane's 'Handy Book,' p. 167.

Queen's Head Duke's Court, Bow Street Jacob, p. 56.

Humphrey's 'Memoirs,' p. 205.

Queen's Head West of Gray's Inn Lane and north of Baldwin's Gardens 1745 Rocque's 'Survey.'

Queen's Head Holles Street, Oxford Square 1725 Lane's 'Handy Book,' p. 171.

*Queen's Head and French Horn Little Britain Larwood, p. 339.

Queen's Head and Sugar Loaf Wormwood Street, London Wall 1732 'Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 17.

Queen of Bohemia Magpie Alley, Drury Lane 1787 Sadler's 'Lifeof T. Dunckerley,' 1891, p. 73.

Timbs's 'Clubs,' p. 425.

(To be continued.)




"Kultur."—The decivilized word "Kultur" has met with so many "terminological" vicissitudes that it may almost be looked upon itself as a slang germ-culture, and in this aspect the following French definition by M. Lucien Cornet, Sénateur, in his 'Histoire de la Guerre' (quoted by The Army Quarterly Review, October, 1921, merits attention:—

It educated thinkers to prevent them from thinking; it tied them up to parcels of printed sheets; it trained them to specialize ad nauseam; and it meditated sub-dividing them, so as to make them organs of an organism.

A. F. S.


An Unpublished Letter of Sir William Hamilton (Treasury Papers, 1/487, fo. 243).—As an unpublished letter of Lady Hamilton (Home Office, 42/127), appeared recently (12 S. ix. 88), it seems fitting that the subjoined holograph letter of Sir William Hamilton should find a place in 'N. & Q.' too.

Kings Mews, Novr 7th, 1771.
William Hamilton, Esqr, being returned home from the Court of Naples (where he has resided for these seven years past as His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary), humbly requests of the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of The Treasury, their