_Stepony Ale_ (Vol. ii., p. 267.).--The extract from Chamberlayne certainly
refers to ale brewed at _Stepney._ In Playford's curious collection of old
popular tunes, the _English Dancing Master_, 1721, is one called "Stepney
Ale and Cakes;" and in the works of Tom Brown and Ned Ward, other allusions
to the same are to be found.