Mr. Cunningham, in his Chronology, says the mews was taken down in 1827.  In the body of the book he gives the date, perhaps more correctly, 1830. {212}

11. Brownlow Street, Holborn. This should be “Brownlow Street, Drury Lane;” George Vertue the engraver was living here in 1748.

12. White Conduit House. The anonymous author of The Sunday Ramble, 1774, has left us the following description of this once popular tea-gardens: 

“The garden is formed into several pleasing walks, prettily disposed; at the end of the principal one is a painting, which serves to render it much larger in appearance than it really is; and in the middle of the garden is a round fish-pond, encompassed with a great number of very genteel boxes for company, curiously cut into the hedges, and adorned with a variety of Flemish and other painting; there are likewise two handsome tea-rooms, one over the other, as well as several inferior ones in the dwelling-house.”

“White Conduit Loaves” were for a long time famous, and before the great augmentation in the price of bread, during the revolutionary war with France, they formed one of the regular “London cries.”

13. Vauxhall Gardens. A curious and highly interesting description of this popular place of amusement, “a century ago,” was printed in 1745, under the title of A Sketch of the Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall, in a letter to a Noble Lord, 8vo.  My copy is much at Mr. Cunningham’s service for any future edition of his Handbook.

Edward F. Rimbault.

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DEVOTIONAL TRACTS BELONGING TO QUEEN KATHERINE PARR.

In your Number for August 10th, I observe an inquiry regarding a MS. book of prayers said to have belonged to Queen Katherine Parr.  Of the book in question I know nothing, but there has lately come into my possession a volume of early English printed devotional works, which undoubtedly has belonged to this Queen.  The volume is a small duodecimo, bound red velvet, with gilt leaves, and it has had ornamental borders and clasps of some metal, as the impressions of these are still distinctly visible upon the velvet covering.  The contents of this volume are as follows: 

1.  “A sermon of Saint Chrysostome, wherein besyde that it is furnysshed with heuenly wisedome and teachinge, he wonderfully proueth that No man is hurted but of hym-selfe:  translated into Englishe by the floure of lerned menne in his tyme, Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, 1534.”

At the bottom of this title-page is written, in the well-known bold hand of Katherine Parr,—­“Kateryn the Quene, K.P.,” with the equally well-known flourish beneath.

2.  “A svvete and devovte sermon of Holy Saynet Ciprian of mortalitie of man.  The rules of a Christian life made by Picus, erle of Mirandula, both translated into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyght.  Londini, Anno verbi incarnati MDXXXIX.

    3.  “An exhortation to yonge men, &c., by Thomas Lupsete,
    Londener, 1534.