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 186 NOTES AND QUERIES. rational as yt of ye Apothecary's Prentice at Edinburgh and had they but a Foundation, Exhibitions or any such incouragement to invite young men to stay long enough wth ym they wd send 'em forth very compleat Scholars. You'll easily believe ye specimen I have given of my indefatigableness in scribbling yt I cd a long time dwell on ys subject, but T dare not proceed lest you shd think me so much byass'd in favour of Scotld and it's University as to forget my affection for Engd and my own Alma Mater : but to convince you I have not, I fully intend to pay my Duty to her e'er long upon ye conditions above mention' d and to heighten my complimt shall wait upon her in ye winter till wch time I shall reserve ye remainder of my narrative and furnish out ye long winter evenings wth a hantle * of unco thengs ye like of whilk ye never heard on ava at Queen's College in Oxford ; for aw you were maist o you born wthin less yn a hundred meiles o' ye bonny bra' Toun of Edin- burgh. P.S. I have dwelt so much upon Intellectual Entertainments yt Passion o' me I have run on, wn eating shd be thought on, and drinking too wthall : Linnen and Bedding where I lay and for my Horse ye Corn and Hay, His Litter and his Stall.* In truth I must needs say yt better Hay, Corn and Stabling is not met wth in Engld yn we met wth there. Our Beds and Linen very good. Scotch wine and brandy you'll not dispute : but their small Fi'penny as they call it, wch is ye only malt drink they have in their publick houses, tasted abominably to our English Palates, so that we were forc'd to drink french wine (for there's no port to be got) at [?] 20d 2s or 2 and 6 pence a Bottle wth our victuals, and yt went deep in our Cash (4 16 and odd did I spend in ye 9 days I was in Scotld). As for their eatables they are very well dress'd, and wd they but put more salt in their Butter, everything wd be very palatable, cd we have perswaded ye maid, wn she brought it in, to have put on her stockings at least. I am your affect. Friend and humble servt Ri : YATES. V. B. CROWTHER-BEYNON, F.S.A. to be a verse ; but whether original, a quotation, or a parody, I know not. PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (See 12 S. vii. 485; ix. 85, 105, 143.) (An asterisk denotes that the house still exists as a tavern, inn or public-house in many cases rebuilt.) Garrard's Hall Garrick's Head Garter Genoa Arms Gentleman and Porter George Inn ") George (St. George and Dragon) George George George George George George (George and White Hart) Basing Lane Bow Street Behind Royal Exchange Hayes Court Fleet Street, near Temple Bar Leather Lane, west side Holborn Charing Cross Upper End of Haymarket Coleman Street, west side Butcher Bow Whitechapel, south side ; east of St. Mary's Church and north of Mulberry Gardens Grub Street Aldersgate Street, east side 1732 ' Parish Clerks' Bemarks of London,' p. 393. 1746 Rocque's ' Sitrvey.' 1784 Gomme's G.M.L., part xv., p. 270. ' N. & Q.' Aug. 23, 1879, p. 253. 1786 Annual Feast of the Society of Artists. 1720 Daily Courant, Oct. 18. 1739 London Daily Post, Nov. 16. Bimbault's * Soho,' p. 189. 1754 Levander, A.Q.C., vol. xxix., 1910. 1720 Daily Courant, Nov. 23. 1745 Bocque's ' Survey.' 1723 Lane's ' Handy Book,' p. 167. 1752 Humphreys's ' Memoirs,' p. 46. Garrards, p. 24. 1745 Rocque's ' Survey.' 1731 Lane's ' Handy Book,' p. 181. 1745 Rocque's ' Survey.' 1745 Rocque's ' Survey.' 1720 Daily Courant, Sept. 26. 1732 ' Parish Clerks' Remarks of London,' p. 385. 1745 Rocque's ' Survey.' 1745 Daily Advertiser, Jan. 9.
 * HantU, a handful. Vide ' E.D.D.'
 * The passage " eating . . . Stall " appears
 * George (" New