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 12 s. vm. JAN. 22, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 61 LONDON, JANUARY 22, mi. CONTENTS. No. 145. "NOTES : London Coaching and Carriers' Inns in 1732, 61 Letters of 1720 from the Low Countries and Hanover, 63 Among the Shakespeare Archives : Changes in Strat- ford on the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, 66 " Lucasia " Grey in sense of Brown " Rex illiteratus est asinu? coronatus," 68. 'QUERIES : New Style, 68-Snuff : " Prince's Mixture" Street Court. Kingsland, Herefordshire- Col. Bonhain (Falconer) Old Contribution to ' Chambers's Journal ' Douglas of Bornock Terrestrial Globes. 69 Dr. Wells -. Paper on 'The Dew and Single Vision' Lady Anne Graham Robert Darley Waddilove Sir John Wilson- Coats of Arms : Identification Sought San Severino Consecrated Roses in Coats of Arms Christma.s Pudding and Mince-pies Scoles and Duke Families. 70 Mayne and Knight Stonehenge " Wytyng "Andrew Forrester Stapleton : O'Sullivan T. Jones, Author of 'The Heart its right Sovereign,' <fec. John Scaife for Scafe) "Rigges" and " Granpoles." 71 Reference Wanted Authors of Quotations Wanted, 72. UEPLIES : " Franckinsence, " 72 The Handling of Sources A Few Warwickshire Folk Sayings -Prisoners who have Survived Hanging, 73 Vnucher=Railway Ticket William and Ralph Sheldon. 74 The British in Corsica- Matthew Paris Askell. 75 " Frankenstein "Friday Street The Rev. John Theophilus Desaguliers " Now, then V Kensington Gravel at Versailles Repre- sentative County Libraries, 76 Early Ascents of Mont Blanc The Green Man, Ashbourne Charles Pye, Engra- ver, 77 Kentish Boroughs " Heightem, Tighfcem and Scrub " Carlyle's ' French Revolution '- Daniel D^foe in the Pillory Pronunciation of Greek (and Latin) Family of Dickson, 78 -Books on Eighteenth-Century Life A Note on Samuel Pepys's ' Diary 'Stevenson and Miss Yonge Early Railway Travelling, 79. TfOTES ON BOOKS :' English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages ' ' Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association.' Notices to Correspondents. LONDON COACHING AND CARRIERS INNS IN 1732. YOUR correspondent, W. B. H., at 12 S. vii. 457 cites from a somewhat scarce hand- book of reference ' New Remarks of London .... Collected by the Company of Parish Clerks,' 1732. From this source I have selected, condensed and tabulated informa- tion buried within it relative to the travelling and transport facilities that radiated from the metropolis nearly two hundred years ago, when the Golden Cross at Charing Cross and the other celebrated coaching-houses of Piccadilly were as yet unknown. The precise locus of the inns mentioned below, save such as are preceded by an asterisk, will be found clearly mapped in Rocque's ' Survey ' : those unable to con- sult that valuable work may perhaps obtain -additional information from the Lists of Eighteenth-Century Taverns that have appeared in ' N. & Q. ' during 1920. I confine myself to one observation only. These lists afford evidence that Hogarth avoided personalities by purposely con- fusing incidents in his pictures. Describing the plate 'Night,' T. Clerk in his 'Works of Hogarth,' 1812, i. 144, wrote : " On each side are the Cardigan's Head and the Bummer Tavern The Salisbury Flying Coach which has just started from the inn is oversetting near a bon-fire." The information herewith attached shows that Flying Coaches at that date ran only to Bath, Bristol, and Northampton, and that the Salisbury Coach set out, not from Charing Cross, but from the Angel nigh unto St. Clement Danes Church. Expatiating on the first plate of the 'Harlot's Progress,' Clerk, at p. 61, re- marks : " The heroine of this tale, about sixteen years of age, is delineated as having just alighted from the York waggon : and the huge bell suspended over the door indicates the scene to be laid in the yard of the Bell Inn in Wood Street." Although, as will be seen below, the Bell in Wood Street was a carriers' inn of great resort, it is equally clear that at the precise date at which, Hogarth painted the intro- ductory picture to this famous series the York wagon patronized the Bear in Basinghall Street and the Red Lyon in Aldersgate. Angel : Back Side, St. Clement Danes. Coaches. M. W. F. Salisbury. T. Th. 8. Winchester. Th. . . Marlborough. Ax : Aldermanbury. Carriers. M.. . Ashby de la Zouch. Th. . . Ormskirk. F.. . Scarborough. Bear : Basinghall Street. Carriers. T.. . Hallifax [sic], York. F. .. Anwick (PAlnwick), Leeds, Rippon [sic] Roheram [sic]. Carrier. Th. . . Halstead. Bear and Bagged Staff : Smithfield. Carriers. M.. . Bridgnorth. F.. . Greton (? Gretton). Bell : Aldersgate Street. Coaches. T. Th. S. St. Albans.
 * Bear : Lime Street.