-and-twenty of this author's pieces, besides the _Auspicante
Jehova Maries Exercise_, 8vo. 1597, already mentioned, of which I know
of no other copy than my own, I possess also the only one of _A small
handfull of Fragrant Flowers_, 8vo. 1575, and _A Floorish upon Fancie_,
4to. 1582, both reprinted in the Heliconia; _Marie Magdalen's Loue_,
with _A Solemne Passion of the Soules Loue_, 8vo. 1595, the first part
in prose, the latter in six-line stanzas, and very rare; _Fantastics:
seruing for a Perpetual Prognostication_, 4to. 1626; and _Wit's
Trenchmour, In a conference had betwixt a Scholler and an Angler.
Written by Nich. Breton, Gentleman_, 4to. bl. lett. 1597, the only copy
known and not included in Lowndes's list, which, from the style of its
composition and the similarity of some of the remarks, is supposed to
have been the original work from which Izaac Walton first took the idea
of his _Complete Angler_.

THOMAS CORSER.
Stand Rectory, April 16. 1850.

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NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.

_Baldwin's Gardens._--A passage upon the east side of Gray's Inn Lane,
leading into Leather Lane. Tom Brown dates some introductory verses,
prefixed to Playford's _Pleasant Musical Companion_, 1698, "from Mr.
Steward's, at the Hole-in-the-Wall, in _Baldwin's Gardens_." There is
extant a single sheet with an engraved head, published by J. Applebee,
1707, and called,--

"The English and French Prophets mad, or bewitcht, at their
assemblies in _Baldwin's Gardens_."

A Letter of Anthony Wood's, in the writer's collection, is thus
addressed:--

"For John Aubrey, Esq. To be left at Mr. Caley's house, in
_Baldwin's Gardens_, neare Gray's Inne Lane, London."

_The White Hart, Bishopsgate Street._--A tavern said to be of very
ancient date. In front of the present building, the writer of the
present notice observed (in 1838) the date cut in stone, 1480.

_The Nag's Head, Cheapside._--A view of this tavern is preserved in a
print of the entry of Mary de Medici, when she paid a visit to her
son-in-law and daughter, the unfortunate Charles I. and his queen.

_St. Paul's Alley._--

"Whereas, the yearly meeting of the name of Adam hath of late,
through the deficiency of the last stewards, been neglected,
these are to give notice to all gentlemen, and others that are
of that name, that, at William Adams', commonly called 'The
Northern Alehouse,'