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 i2S.ix.Aoa.2o.mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 143 delay him long ; Lord Godolphin wrote on September 3/14 to Robert Harley : " I have left off expecting the foreign letters. Mr. Aglionby, who was here yesterday, told me he stayed at the Brill forty days for a wind."* With this reference to postal services the life of Aglionby appropriately ends. He died on November 28/December 7, 1705-t Besides the pamphlet of 1690 which has been mentioned, his literary works were three : ( 1) ' The Present State of the United Provinces of the Low Countries,' in three books, by W. A., Fellow of the Royal Society (1669, second edition 1670) : a work much inferior to the famous * Observations ' of Sir William Temple, which superseded it in 1673. (2) 'Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, containing Observations upon f 'New State of Europe' November, 1705; Boyer, ' History of the Reign of Queen Anne,' Appendix, p. 40. the Art, together with the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters ' (1686, reprinted in 1719 with the title ' Choice Observations upon the Art of Painting, &c.'). The Lives are translated from Vasari and the dialogues are intended " to make painting familiar to the nobility and gentry of the nation!" (3) * The Opinion of Padre Paolo given to the Lords the Inquisitors of State, in what manner the Republic of Venice ought to govern themselves, &c.' (1689). The personal description of Aglionby in the ' Characters ' attributed to John Macky is this : " He hath abundance of wit, and understands most of the foreign languages well, knows how to tell a story to the best advantage ; but has an affected manner^of conversation ; is thin, splenetick and tawny complexioned, turned of sixty years old."* Swift adds, " He had been a papist. "f G. N. CLARK. t Works, ed. Scott (1814), x. 315. PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (See 12 S. vii. 485; ix. 85, 105.) ( An asterisk denotes that the house still exists as a tavern, inn or public-house in many cases rebuilt.) Cow and Calves Cross Keys. . Cross Keys. . Cross Keys. . Cross Keys Bagnio Crown Crown Crown Crown Crown Blackland's Lane, GLelsea Common Opposite the " Cock and pie " in Drury Lane Mag- Barbican, north side Pish Street Hill St. John's Street, close to Old Hicks' Hall Wood Street, west of Honey Lane Market, Cheapside Little Russell Street, Drury lane Holborn, east side of Purnival's Inn Cripplegate Bow Lane, Cheapside Basing Lane " Over against King Edward's Stairs, Wapping " Silver Street (now Beak Street), Golden Square 1769 Beaver's ' Memorials of Old Chelsea.' 1892, p. 341. 1754 Simpson's ' London Taverns and Masonry ' ; Lane's * Handy Book,' p. 189. 1745 Rocque's ' Survey.' 1724 The Daily Po.-rf, Oct. 9. 1732 ' Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 383. 1745 Rocque's ' Survey ' ; Hare i. 199. 1732 4 Parish Clerks' Remarks of London/ p. 383. 1745 Rocque's 'Survey.' 1768 Hickey, i. 104. 1732 Parish Clerks' Remarks of London/ p. 382. 1745 Rocque's ' Survey/ 1723 Lane's ' Handy Book/ p. 167. 1749 I.evander, A.Q.O., vol. xxix., 1916. 1753 Levander, A.Q.O., vol. xxix., 191. 1730 ' Lor don Topographical Record/ 1907, iv. 90 1732 ' Parish Clerks' Remarks of London/ p. 384. 1719 Daily Covrartt, June 19. 1723 Lane's ' Handy Book/ p. 167 ; Hare, i. 216. 1769 Lane's 'Masonic Records,' 1886, p. 105.
 * Longleat Papers, i. 74.
 * Macky, pp. 153-4.
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