_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 behind Piccadilly."--_Harl. MS_. 5900.
_London House Yard._--Here was formerly the town house of the Bishop of
London, which, being consumed in the great fire, the house in Aldersgate
Street, formerly called _Petre House_, was rented for the town residence
of the bishop, since which it obtained the title of _London House_.