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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xir. DEC. 25, 1915,

working at the foundation of the present shop premises came across actual treasure. What it amounted to none outside the family ever knew. After descendants well preserved the secret.

ANEUBIN WILLIAMS.

CASANOVIANA. The following paragraph from The Public Advertiser of 3 Sept., 1766, shows that the adventures of Casanova had some interest for his English contem- poraries :

" They write from Warsaw that Mr. Casanova,the Italian, who had the duel there some time ago with Count Branicky, having again shown himself in that capital, the Court immediately sent him orders to retire."

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

VANISHING LONDON : BAKER'S CHOP- HOUSE. The announcement that Baker's Chop-House in 'Change Alley was to close its doors this month was received with feelings of deep regret alike by its patrons and lovers of Old London.

Hidden away from the noise of traffic on Cornhill and the crowds of hurrying pedes- trians in Lombard Street, this venerable establishment is one of the very few survivors of many famous City coffee-houses. There was, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a nest of these places of refreshment and entertainment in 'Change Alley and the adjacent courts, viz., Garra way's, " The Jerusalem," Sam's, and Jonathan's; and perhaps Baker's was one of the first. Of its early history little is kown. A Mr. Baker, clockmaker, is mentioned in The London Gazette of 1695, but the first mention of a coffee-house of this name is to be found in The Examiner and The Spectator of July, 1711, concerning the sale of gowns "at Mr. Baker's Coffee-House. "

The old building numbered amongst its clients many generations of influential City merchants and stockbrokers, and much animated discussion has been waged in its quaint old-world boxes over market fluctua- tions, as in the days of the South Sea Bubble, when fashionable London thronged 'Change Alley and fabulous fortunes were made (on paper), which, alas ! involved thousands in ruin.

The site of Baker's will be utilized, I understand, by a neighbouring bank for the enlargement of its premises, and thus will disappear another relic of Old London.

REGINALD JACOBS.

6, Templars' Avenue, Golder's Green, N. W.

PURITAN NAMES IN NEW ENGLAND, 1794- 1830. (See ante, pp. 399, 419, 439, 459,,

479).

Tabitha Reed. 28 Nov., 1810.

Tamar Thayer. 14 Oct., 1812.

Tamesin Phillips (woman). 6 Aug., 1806.

Tamina Upham. 2 Aug., 1815.

Tamison P. Copeland. 13 Sept., 1826.

Temperance Pond. 2 June, 1830. (She married

Mr. Brooks Drinkwater.) Terza Aldrich. 19 July, 1809. Thaddeus Chenery. 20 Dec., 1809. Thankful Mower (woman). 14 May, 1806. Thankful Sherman (woman). 8 June, 1805. Thirza Lumbard. 9 April, 1823. Tilla Chaffin (man). 19 April, 1815. Tilly Mede (man). 15 May, 1815. Tirzah Goodale. 9 Nov., 1814. Titus Doolittle. 16 April, 1806. Triphena Warner. 6 June, 1810. Tryphosa Densmore. 24 Oct., 1821, Tyrus Houghton. 24 Sept., 1817. Unice Turner. 22 Feb., 1804. Unity Daniels (woman). 7 Nov., 1821. Uranah Paine (woman). 1 May, 1811. Uriel Fuller. 7 Feb., 1821. Uzal Ogden. 29 Aug., 1798. Uzal Pierson. 4 Jan., 1804. Varanus Chapin. 27 Jan., 1830. Varnum Brigham. 16 Oct., 1822. Vashni Hemmenway. 18 May, 1808. Vashti Gaschet. 9 April, 1789. Wealthy M. Pond (woman). 22 Sept., 1824 Welcome A. 'Green (man). 15 Nov., 1826. Wing Spooner. 13 Feb., 1811. Zabdiel B. Adams. 18 May, 1814. Zaccheus Green. 7 Oct., 1801. Zadock Howard. 11 April, 1798. Zalman Green. 22 March, 1815. Zalumon Tobey. 10 Sept., 1817. Zarah Houghton (man). 21 Oct., 1829. Zebadiah Allen. 4 Jan., 1808. Zebedee Redding. 26 Aug., 1812. Zebina Montague (man). 4 March, 1801. Zebulon Delano. 11 Nov., 1801. Zelida E. Heywood. 20 Sept., 1826. Zenas Learned. 18 April, 1798. Zephaniah S. Moore. 10 Jan., 1798. Zephenia Beall (man). 29 July, 1801. Zerah Colburn. 7 Nov., 1810. Zerub Baldwin. 1 April, 1812. Zeruijah Dresser (woman). 12 Sept., 1821. Ziba Hill (man). 19 Jan., 1803. Zibiah Murdoch (woman). 28 July, 1824. Zillah Abbot (woman). 3 Nov., 1819. Zilpa Holman (woman). 9 Jan., 1811. Zimri Howe. 16 Aug., 1826. Zina Goodell (man). 26 Sept., 1821. Zipporah Holden. 14 Feb., 1827. Zorobabel Baldwin. 11 Feb., 1807. ZurrilLale G. Johnson (woman). 27 Sept., 1826.

And The Franklin Herald, of Greenfield, Mass., 13 April, 1824, informs us that Zur Hawks and Zenas Hawks were the executors of the last will of Zadock Hawks.

Arsenith. no doubt stands for Asenath, and Bathany for Bethany. But the origin of Casendiana, Icybinda, and Zurrillale is mysterious. Kiah, of course, is short for