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burying-ground rather than, as suggested, to their bejng remains of Plague victims.

There was another " Salutation " in Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, where Taylors School are desir'd to meet .... on special Affairs " (Daily Advertiser. 25 Sept., 1741).
 * ' The Gentlemen educated at Merchant

Stock Exchange pedestrianism is not an entirely original idea, for

"on Saturday Morning, a Gentleman walk'd, for a very considerable Wager, from the Salutation Tavern in Lombard-street, to the Mermaid at the Marsh Gate at Hackney, which he was to perform in an Hour, but he came in 11 Minutes before the Time was expired." St. James's Evening Post, 20-23 Oct., 1733.

Near another "Salutation," in Cowley Street, Westminster a tavern still existing, I think, but more correctly described as being in Barton Street, which leads into Cowley Street slave-purchasing was trans- acted, as follows :.

"To be Sold, The Time of a little Black Boy, between five and six Years old, and bound till of Age, a pretty sharp Child, and speaks nothing but English. Any Person minded to purchase him, may be further inform 'd by the Owner, next door to the Salutation Tavern in Cowley-Street, West- minster." Daily Advertiser, 15 March, 1742.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

It may be permissible to give an abstract of an entry relating to this tavern which I have encountered in the Corporation records while engaged upon researches therein in connexion with my history of St. Anne and St. Agnes, &c., elsewhere referred to :

10 Dec., 1667. The petition of " Cord- well Hammond, the Cittyes Tenant of the late Salutacon Taverne nere Billingsgate," for liberty to erect warehouses upon the yard of the same is referred to the alderman and deputy of the ward for their considera- tion. It is stated that opposition to the proposed buildings was offered by neigh- bours claiming (what we should now call)

ancient lights " (Repertory of the Court of Aldermen, No. 73, fol. 37).

If the tavern stood in St. Botolph's, Billingsgate, it was gone by 1863, for an official plan of the parish drawn up in that year (and contained in Guildhall MS. 941) shows two taverns only. These are " The Bell," situated on the south side of Lower Thames Street, at the corner of Fresh Wharf Gateway; and "The White Hart," which is shown lying on the eastern side of the parish, over against the St. Mary-at-Hill boundary. Perhaps one of these succeeded " The Salutation." LWILLIAM_MCMURRAY.

OBSOLETE ENGLISH GAMES (10 S. vii. 361, 402). Under the title ' Coteswold Games ' Arliss" 1 Pocket Magazine for September, 1822, gives an interesting account of some old English sports which took place on the Cotswolds at Whitsuntide, vulgarly called an Ale or Whitsun-Ale. Perhaps (inter- poses the contributor) the true word is Yule, for in the time of Druidism the feasts Yule or the Grove were celebrated in the months of May or December. These sports were resorted to by great numbers of young people of both sexes, and were conducted in the following manner :

" Two persons are chosen previous to the meeting to be lord and lady of the Yule, 'who dress as suitably as they can to the characters they assume.' The dancing or games take place in an empty barn or other building called the lord's hall, where the lord also holds his court, being attended by ' the steward, sword - bearer, purse - bearer, and mace- bearer, with their several badges or ensigns of office. They have likewise a train-bearer or page, and a jester, dressed in a party-coloured jacket, whose ribaldry and gesticulation contribute not a little to the entertainment."'

The next three paragraphs are given in the magazine within quotation marks, but the source of the quotation does not appear :

"'All these figures, handsomely represented in basso relievo, stand in the north wall of the nave of Cirencester Church, which vouches sufficiently for the antiquity of the custom. Some people think it a commemoration of the ancient Drinklean, a day of festivity formerly observed by the tenants and vassals of the lord of the fee, within his manor, the memory of which, on account of the jollity of those meetings, the people have thus preserved ever since. It may, notwithstanding, have its rise in Druidism, as on those occasions they always erected a may-pole, which is an eminent sign of it.'

" ' The Mace and Spice. I shall just remark that the mace is made of silk, finely platted with ribbands on the top and filled with spices and perfume, for such of the company to smell at as desire it. Does not this afford some light towards discovering the original use, and account for the name of the mace, now carried in ostentation before the steward of the court, on court days, and before the chief magistrate in corporations, as the presenting of spices by great men at their entertainments was a very ancient practice ? '

"'Dover Games. Mr. Robert Dover, who lived in the reign of King James I., instituted certain diversions on the Coteswold, called after his name, which were annually exhibited about Willersey and Campden. Even now there is certain to be seen of them, every Thursday in Whitsun-week, at a place about half a mile from Campden, called Dover's Hill.' "

G. YARROW BALDOCK.

In addition to those mentioned by MR. JAMES WATSON, permit me to add the following.

Crimp. A game of cards to which Addison refers in The Spectator, No. 323,