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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL FEB. e, 190*

Fur.,' 852-3. But, as in so many cases with Burton, the obvious source is not the true one.

The two lines of Seneca were adopted by Gaulmin (lib. vi. p. 244), and that Burton took them from him is at once evident when we read what follows : " Diuites denique, mendici ; domini, serui ; segri, sard ; felices, infelices ; eodem omnes incommodo macti sunt." Here we have the origin of " rich, poore, sicke, sound, Lords, seruants, eodem omnes incommodo macti."

This passage, like the other quotations, is found for the first time in the third edition of the ' Anatomy,' the earliest after the publication of Gaulmin' s book.

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

SIGNS OF OLD LONDON.

(See 10 S. vi. 45, 424 ; vii. 445 ; viii. 288 ; ix. 228.)

THE following list of Aldersgate signs is taken from a presentment of the Wardmote Inquest bearing date 1837. Notwithstanding the comparative modernity of the references, I have ventured to include them under the above heading, if only because many of the signs have as much vanished as if they had belonged to " Old London " proper the London before the Great Fire.

The Ward Within.

Fountain, Foster Lane.

Bell, Noble Street.

Royal Mail, Noble Street.

Mourning Bush, St. MartinVIe-Grand.

Bull and Mouth, ditto.

Queen's Head, ditto.

The Ward Without.

Cock and Crown, Little Britain.

Swan and Horseshoe, ditto.

Rose and Crown, ditto.

White Horse, ditto.

Old Parr's Head, Aldersgate Street.

Owain Glwnda (sic), ditto.

Ben Johnson (sic), ditto.

Albion Tavern, ditto.

Coach and Horses, ditto.

Old White Bear, ditto.

Portland Arms, Long Lane r

Red Lion Inn, Aldersgate Street,

White Horse, Farm Street.

Three Cups, Aldersgate Street.

White Bear, Barbican.

" The Still," dittov

Blue Boar and Grapes, Aldersgate Street.

Adam and Eve, Jewin Street.

Star, Aldersgate Street.

King's Arms, ditto.

Castle and Falcon, ditto.

Any one familiar with the topography of the ward will at once see that the signs in the " Without " list are taken in order along the western side from St. Botolph's Church on the south, returning from the City boundary at Fann Street, along the eastern side, to the (lately demolished) 1 " Castle and Falcon."

WILLIAM McMunRAY.

The following list, taken from the official narrative of the Rye House Plot, may be of interest. The places named were haunts of the conspirators.

Mitre Tavern, within Aldgate.

Dolphin Tavern, in Bartholomew Lane, behind the Royal Exchange.

Salutation Tavern, in Lombard Street.

Sun Tavern, behind the Royal Exchange.

Fortune Tavern, at Wapping.

Horseshoe Tavern, on Tower Hill.

King's Head Tavern, in Atheist Alley, near the Royal Exchange.

Angel Tavern, near the Old Exchange.

George Tavern, on Ludgate Hill.

Sign of the Sugar-Loaf, near the Devil 1 Tavern.

The Siracusa House.

Amsterdam Coffee-House.

King's Head, in Swithin's Alley, inCornhill.

Richard's Coffee-House, near Temple Bar.

Joseph's Coffee-House, in Exchange Alley.

Angel and Crown Tavern, Threadneedle Street.

Kidal's Coffee-House.

Castle Tavern, in Fleet Street.

Green Dragon Tavern, on Snow Hill.

Young Devil Tavern, in Fleet Street.

George and Vulture Tavern, on Ludgate Hill.

Will's Coffee-House, in Covent Garden.

Roebuck, corner of Bartholomew Lane.

Flanders Coffee-House.

King's Head Tavern, in Chancery Lane.

Blue Anchor, by Wapping Dock.

The date of the narrative from which these are taken is 1685.

JOHN WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

The allusion to "The Finder of Wake field" (10 S. ix. 228) reminds me that at 1 S. ii. 228 it was stated that a stone was " still to be seen, let into the wall over what was formerly the garden entrance" to