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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 26. 
of Mr. Collier to communicate to the world the 
proofs he has obtained of the poet's identification 
with the Norton monument. I would, however, 
further add, that so late as 1606, the Dedication to 
The Praise of Vertuous Ladies is dated ‘ From 
my Chamber in the Blacke-Fryers,” and that not 
one of his later productions is dated from Norton, 
which probably would have been the case had he 
been resident there. 
I regret that I am unable to afford Mr. Collier 
any information respecting the “ Crossing of Pro- 
verbs,” beyond the fact of the late Mr. Rodd being 
the purchaser of Mr. Heber's fragment, but whether 
on commission or not, I cannot say, nor where it 
now is. The same kind of proverbs are given in 
Wit's Private Wealth, 1603, and in some other of 
his works. 
Nicholas Breton, besides being a pleasing and 
polished writer of lyric and pastoral poetry, ap- 
pears to have been a close and attentive observer 
of nature and manners,—abounding in wit and 
humour —and a pious and religious man. He was 
also a soldier, a good fisherman, and a warm ad- 
mirer of Queen Elizabeth, of whom he gives a 
beautiful character in “ A Dialogue full of pithe 
and pleasure, upon the Dignitie or Indignitie of 
Man,” 4to., 1603, on the reverse of Sig. ¢. iil. 
As it is sometimes desirable to know where 
copies of the rarer productions of a writer are to 
be met with, I may state, that among some five or 
six-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 be- 
twixt 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 Isaac 
Walton first took the idea of his Complete Angler. 
Tuomas Corser. 
Stand Rectory, April 16, 1850. 
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, pre- 
fixed 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 be- 
witcht, 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 gentle- 
men, and others that are of that name, that, at William 
Adams’, commonly called ‘The Northern Alehouse,’ 
in St. Paul’s Ailey, in St. Paul’s Church Yard, there 
will be a weekly meeting, every Monday night, of our 
namesakes, between the hours of 6 and 8 of the clock 
in the evening, in order to choose stewards to revive 
our antient and annual feast.”— Domestic Intelligence, 
1681. 
St. Paul’s Churchyard.— 
“In St. Paul’s Church Yard were formerly many 
shops where music and musical instruments were sold, 
for which, ‘at this time, no better reason can be given 
than that the service at that Cathedral drew together, 
twice a day, all the lovers of music in London; not to 
mention that the chairmen were wont to assemble 
there, where they were met by their friends and ac- 
quaintance.”— Sir John Hawkins’ History of Music, 
vol, v. p. 108. 
The French Change, Soho.—A place so called 
in the reign of Queen Anne. Gough, in a MS. 
note, now before us, thought it stood on the site 
of the present Bazaar. 
Epwarp F. Risavrr. 
NOTES ON THE DODO. 
T have to thank “ Mr. 8S. W. Srncer” (No. 22. 
p. 353.) for giving some interesting replies to my 
“Dodo Queries” (No. 17. p. 261.). I trust that 
Mr. S. will be induced to pursue the inquiry fur- 
ther, and especially to seek for some Portuguese ac- 
count of the Mascarene Islands, prior to the Dutch 
expedition of 1598. I am now able to state that 
the supposed proof of the discovery of Bourbon 
by the Portuguese in 1545, on the authority of a 
stone pillar, the figure of which Leguat has copied || 
