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 116 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9-s. vi. AUG. n, isoa from the "Antelope" Inn in Sarum every Monday morning, and came to the "Bell Savage " Inn on Ludgate Hill on Wednesday, returning every Thursday morning by five o'clock (if God permit). There are many illus- trations of the inner and outer courtyards in the Grace Collection (B. Mus.), and in 'Old and New London" several prints from the Gardner and Grace collections have been reproduced. In the London Gazette for Feb- ruary, 1676, the " Bell Savage" is described as "an antient inn consisting of 40 rooms, with good cellarage, stabling for 100 horses, and other good accommodations, to be lett at a yearly rent or the lease sold, with or without the goods in the house. Enquire at the said inn, or of Mr. Francis Griffith, a scrivener in Newgate Street, near New- gate, and you may be fully informed." In 1721-2 Sam. Briscoe was publishing here literature of a character that Messrs. Cassell would to-day probably consider " no class," as ' An Essay in Praise of Knavery'; ' A Full, True, and Impartial Account of all the Robberies committed in City, Town, and Country, for several Years Past,' by William Hawkins; 'Whipping Tom, or a Rod for a Proud Lady'; ' The Parish Guttlers : a Merry Poem'; 'The Northern Cuckold,' <fec. Men- tion should not be omitted of the old carved stone sign of the " Elephant and Castle," or. as the profanum vulgus called it. the " Pig and Tinder-box," let into the wall of Messrs. Cassell's premises. Being the crest of the Cutlers' Company, adopted in allusion to the ivory furnished oy the elephant in the cut- lery trade, its presence is accounted for ir the circumstance that the "Bell Savage' Inn which stood here was bequeathed in trust to the Cutlers in 1568 for charitable purposes. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. 1 JOHN BULL,' A NEWSPAPER (9th S. v. 495) —In the library of this club we have some volumes of this newspaper; and in vol. xi. commencing with No. 525 (2 January to 25 December, 1831), I find that it was pub lished at No. 40, Fleet Street, by Ed ware Shackell. It consisted of eight pages, the size was demy folio, and the price (stamped was sevenpence; and I well remember—in the early forties, when a lad and a printer' apprentice—the office in Fleet Street, and the receptacle for "letters for the editor being a bull's head with a wide-open moutl to put them in. ROBERT BURNINGHAM. Junior Constitutional Club. Timperley, in his 'Dictionary of Printer and Printing' (1839), says this newspape was started in 1820 ; but the violence of it politics, and the scurrilities with whicl X) be repeatedly fined and imprisoned. On 4 November, 1821, Thomas Robert Weaver, rinter, and Thomas Arrowsmith and William shackell, alleged proprietors of the John Bull, were sentenced by the Court of King's Bench —Weaver to pay a fine of 1001. to the king, hackell and Arrowsmith 5001. each, and all ) be imprisoned nine months, to give ecurity for five years, themselves in 500Z., and two sureties of 2501. each, for a libel upon he memory of Lady Caroline Wrottesley. )n the 28th May following the same de- endants were brought up to receive judg- ment for several libels inserted in that paper on Queen Caroline, when the following sen- «nce was passed upon them. Arrowsmith ,o pay a fine of 30W., William Shackell and Weaver to be imprisoned three months and » pay a fine of 100/. Edward Shackell, the 11 November, 1837, at his residence at Wareham, Dorsetshire, aged forty-five years. [ cannot ascertain when the John Bull ceased X) be published, but it was in existence in 1885. Further and interesting particulars of the career of the newspaper will be found in ' Old and New London,' published by Cassell <fe Co., vols. i.-iv. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. According to Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates,' twentieth edition, the publication of the John Bull ceased in 1892. It had lasted from 1820. ST. SWITHIN. JOHN MOORE (9th S. v. 515; vi. 55).—It is very difficult to find any grounds for assuming the least military capacity in Col. Moore. He became colonel at a bound, probably on account of Nailer's plot, but nis mili- tary exploits were by no means the most reputable part of a thoroughly disreputable career. His personal courage must have been very questionable. He was with Ashton and Rigoy, the latter a kindred spirit, the former a good man, at the famous " Leaguer of Latnom." But his share in the actual opera- tions was little or nothing, being probably limited to sanctioning the fatuous plans to subdue the brave countess. As for Liverpool, there is little doubt that he betrayed the place to save his own property. The stormers entered at the Old Hall (formerly the " Moor Hall") end of the town. (The present" Stanley Hall " Buildings, in Oldhall Street, mark the site of this earlier home of the Moores, before they moved to Bank Hall.) Col. Moore got away in peace, leaving his troops to their fate. His scheme of river defence was little
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