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 314 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.X.APRIL 22, 1922. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON" COFFEE- HOUSES AND TAVERNS (12 S. x. 202, and references there given). MR. PAUL DE CASTRO may like to have the following list, and though perhaps most of them are already included in his record, the precise dates attached may have some value. The names are mentioned in the briginal private and business letter- book, in my possession and now being edited, of Edward Strong, jun. (b. Jan. 11, 1675; 6 ; d. Oct. 10, 1741), son and associate of the master-mason of St. Paul's Cathedral, Edward Strong, sen. The letter-book covers the period August, 1730, to August, 1740. Years when COFFEE-HOUSES. mentioned. Jack's, near the Guildhall 1739-40 Mackrell'.s July 28, 1735 Tulman's, late Mackrell's Nov. 20, 1739 St. Paul's 1735-1738 Turk's Head, near Exeter Ex- change in the Strand. 1732 Will's, in Cornhill 1740 Edward Strong, jun., makes an appointment " to meet at Bartlet's Buildings, either at a house [of which he was the landlord, formerly let to Mr. John Morris, but from March, 1735, let to Mr. St. John] or at the Coffee HOUFP," presumably in these Buildings ; but perhaps Mackrell's Coffee-house is meant 1735 Coffee houses in the neighbour- hood of the Royal Exchange are alluded to, but not specified 1739 The Crown Coffee-house in Seven Oakes, Kent 1735 TAVERNS. The Angel, Lombard Street 1735 The Bedford Head, Covent Garden 1732 The Blue Perugue (sic), Bed Lyon Street, Holborn 1739 The Crown in Smithfield, also called West Smithfield, and in one letter called both ' Tavern and Inn 1733-1740 The Crown behind the Royal Ex- change, which with the estate adjoining thereto, belonging to George Jackson,* Esq., of Great Warley Place, near Brentwood, Essex, was mort- gaged to Edward Strong, jun. 1733-5 Lane, near Hick's Hall, d. between Nov. 1, 1734, and April, 1735, when his " sister," Mrs. Winifred Jackson, was of Great Warley Place, near Brent- wood. Her " brother," Mr. Thomas Jackson, is Mentioned in 1737. The George Inn, Southwark 1731 The Hoop, in the Strand 1733 The Two Round Lamps, Tavistock FC3 Street, Covent Garden 1735 HENRY CURTIS. 2, Richmond Terrace, Whitehall. The King's Arms, Holborn Bridge, is mentioned in The Gazette of Aug. 7, 1762 (see Southey's ' Commonplace Book,' 4th series, p. 373). Is this the King's Arms, Newgate Street, mentioned at vi. 105 ? The Red Lion, Southwark Park, is mentioned 1717/8 (op. cit., p. 378). The same book mentions other slightly earlier and later taverns, e.g., in 1682 the- Bowman Tavern, Drury Lane, and th& Queen's Arms Tavern, St. Martin-le-Grand (p. 374); in 1681, "William Adam's, commonly called the Northern Alehouse, in St. Paul's Alley, in St. Paul's Churchyard " (p. 373) ; and 'Feb. 20, 1801, the "Coach and Horses public-house, Mount Street, Grosvenor Square (p. 455). JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. OLD LONDON BRIDGE (12 S. x. 245). I fear that MR. WALTER RYE, in his ex- cellent note", has lost sight of the fact that a wooden bridge preceded that built by Peter of Colechurch, and therefore the early charter he cites has reference to it and is not good evidence, even by inference, permitting us to question the usual attri- bution of the second (or stone) bridge to the aforesaid Peter. Stow mentions both these bridges, their structure and relative positions. Colechurch is more probable than Cole- kirk, but Stow is not a reliable authority, as he says (edition of 1603, p. 266), " is the Parish Church of Saint Mary Cole- church, named of one Cole that builded it " ; and (edition of 1603, p. 286) " is Coleman Streete, so called of Coleman the first builder and owner thereof, as also of Colechurch, or Coleman Church agaynst the great conduit in Cheape." St. Mary de Colechurch is included in the list of churches mentioned in the 'Taxats' of Pope Nicholas IV. (1291) as " S. Marie de Colecherche (Cholcherch) " (vide ' London Churches before the Great Fire,' by Wilberforce Jenkinson (1917), p. 299). ALECK ABRAHAMS. THE ONE-LEGGED LORD MAYOR (12 S. x. 251). This was Sir Brook Watson, first baronet (1735-1807), whose leg was bitten off by a shark at Havana when he was a boy. There is a mezzotint by Valentine Green,
 * Mr. George Jackson, who was also of St. John's