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Vby a pair of tusks, with the tips joined and pointing downwards, and having above, at the roots of these, a metal plate with a ring 'bv which the object was hung. At the back, . on the wood, there is a pricked inscription said to read : " Win. Broke : Landlord of the Bore's Hedde Estchepe A.D. 1566." The eccentric spelling, the date, and the whole ^appearance of this " relic " suggests it to be .a fabrication of the post-W. H. Ireland .period.

The planning of the approaches to New London Bridge that occasioned this great
 * >local change was the subject of much

discussion and many pamphlets. Particu- larly active was George Allen, an architect at 69 Tooley Street, who issued plans, circulars,

\memorials, and designs innumerable.

An allied subject is the history of the

chapel in Miles Lane ; and, if we come to ^minute detail, the circulars, cards, and

engraved bill - heads of the fishing-tackle
 * shops of Crooked Lane are of interest.

Other than the church, the dominant

attraction was the Boar's Head at No. 2 Great Eastcheap, the site of which is covered by the statue of William IV. On its demolition in June, 1831, 1011. 10s. com- pensation was paid to Messrs. Hooper & Sharland. its proprietors, so the popular tradition that this was the pre-Great-Fire inn miraculously preserved was not esteemed very highly. To this inn, however, came Washington Irving on a hopeful pilgrimage, and on this, as well as on a more recent search for relics of the original Boar's Head, I would refer the reader to a delightful essay, ' The Quest of a Cup,' contained in a volume of appreciations of things English by Miss Alice Brown, published by Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1896. There is encouragement for present-day exploration in the fact that the frontages behind the statue are only outer shells screening some post-Great-Fire build- ings and relics. I can specially recommend to attention the narrow court ; but prompt action is necessary as all this site is scheduled for rebuilding. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

INNS

(See ante. p. 29, 59.)

^Fountain Inn Swans

.Fox and Bull ><Jarroway's

Minories Bishopsgate Street

Knightsbridge Exchange Alley

-Gaunt's,. George Inn. .

weorge's ^George's -George's

George's Tavern. . 'George and Blue

Boar Inn -George and Vulture

^George and Vulture

Tavern -Globe Tavern

St. James's Street, next to St. James's Coffee House 22 Aldermanbury

Upper End of Haymarket

Pall Mall

Corner of Strand and Dever- eaux Court

High Street, Southwark See Blue Boar.

N.E. corner of George Yard, Cornhill

Opposite Bruce Grove, Tot- tenham Craven Street, Strand

1709 1710 1711

1730 1745

1748

1751 1752

1752 1756 1737 1739 1752 1793

Thornbury, ii. 250, 252.

Hare, i. 295 ; Larwood, p. 217 ; Thornbury, ii. 161, 168.

Thornbury, v. 21.

Addison's Taller, Mar. 18.

Addison's Taller, Nos. 147, 256.

Swift's ' Journal,' Jan. 6.

Fielding's ' Temple Beau,' Act I. sc. iii.

' Life of Mrs. Cibber,' reprinted 1887, p. 12.

Plan of Great Fire, R. E. A. C., ' N. & Q.,' Dec. 9, 1916.

Fielding's ' Amelia,' iii. 10.

Humphrey's 'Memoirs,' p. 216; Cunning- ham, p. 194 ; Smollett's ' Adventures of an Atom.'

Wheatley's ' Hogarth's London,' p 298.

Harben's ' Dictionary of London,' 1918,

p. 265.

Humphrey's ' Memoirs,' p. 216. J. Fielding's ' Duke of Newcastle's Police.' Fielding's ' Eurydice,' a farce. Shenstone's ' Works," iii. 1. Fielding's C.G.J., No. 7. Roach's L.P.P., pp. 47, 49. Shelley's ' Inns,' p. 24.

1748 Plan of Great Fire, R. E. A. C., ' N. & Q.,' Dec. 9, 1 16, p. 461 ; Harben's ' Dic- tionary of London,' 1918, p. 256 ; Larwood, p. 289. Thornbury, v. 553.

1767 MacMichael's ' Charing Cross,' pp. 89, 90.

1768 Hickey, i. 119.