Item, paide to joyners and labowrers abowt
         the takying downe and new reformyng of the
         Roode Loft, &c. xxxvij_l_. x_s_. ij_d_. 
       Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and
         other neccessaries belonging to the saide
         loft xiiij_l_. xiij_s_. ix_d_.

Item, paide to a paynter for payntyng the
same xij_d_.

“1562.  For bearinge stones for the muringe up of the
         dore of the late rood lofte viij_d_.”

The rapacious Puritans, of course, did not suffer any portion of the church-goods to escape their sacrilegious and itching palms, if convertible into money, so we read—­

“1645.  Received of Arthur Condall in part of 5li for
         the screen and Organ-loft 1_s_.”

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

S.M.W., Dec. 22. 1849.

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NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM’S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.

The Bagnio in Long Acre.—­Mr. Cunningham mentions the Queen’s Bagnio in Long Acre.  Query, was this the same as the Duke of York’s Bagnio?  S. Haworth published, in a small 12mo. volume, without date, “A Description of the Duke of York’s Bagnio, in Long Acre, and of the Mineral Bath and new Spaw thereunto belonging.”

Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.—­Richard Leveridge, the celebrated singer, after his retirement from the stage, kept a tavern in this street.  Here he brought out “A Collection of Songs, with the Music, by Mr. Leveridge.  In two volumes.  London, Engrav’d and Printed for the Author in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 1727.”  The frontispiece was designed and engraved by Hogarth.

Duke Street, Westminster.—­Miss Hawkins, in her Anecdotes, p. 186., speaking of Lady Lucy Meyrick, says, “On quitting her husband’s family, she came to reside in Duke Street, Westminster, and lived in that house which had been Prior’s, and which exactly faces Charles Street.”

Richmond Buildings, Soho.—­Horne Tooke resided here in 1775.  He afterwards removed to Frith Street.

Clare Market, originally called New Market, was established about the year 1660, by Lord Clare.

“The city and my lord had a great lawsuit, which lasted many years, to the great expence of the city; but from the inequity of the times the city and my lord agreed, and gave it up to the lord; and now it is become one of the greatest markets in the adjacent parts; and from the success of this noble lord, they have got several charters for the erecting of several others since the year 1660; as that of St. James, by the Earl of St. Alban’s; Bloomsbury, by the Earl of Southampton; Brook Market, by the Lord Brook; Hungerford Market; Newport Market; besides the Hay Market, New Charingcross, and that at Petty France at Westminster, with their Mayfair in the fields