_Salisbury Change_ (then standing where _Cecil Street_ now is),
so far distressed these two celebrated companies, that they were
reduced to petition the king for relief against it."

_The New Exchange._--A good description of this once popular mart may be
found in Lodwick Rowzee's _Treatise on the Queene's Welles_, Lond. 1632.
It is as follows:--

"We went to see the _New Exchange_, which is not far from the
place of the Common Garden, in the great street called the
Strand. The building has a facade of stone, built after the
Gothic style, which has lost its colour from age, and is
becoming blackish. It contains two long and double galleries,
one above the other, in which are distributed several rows great
numbers of very rich shops, of drapers and mercers, filled with
goods of every kind, and with manufactures of the most beautiful
description. There are, for the most part, under the care of
well-dressed women, who are busily employed in work, although
many are served by young men, called apprentices."

_The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden._--In 1763 appeared a small
volume under the title of _Memoirs of the Bedford Coffee House, by
Genius, dedicated to the most Impudent Man alive_.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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ORIGINAL LETTER OF PETER LE NEVE.

The following was a letter from Le Neve to a Mr. Admall, a herald
painter at Wakefield, found in a book of arms belonging to the latter,
which came into my possession a few months ago.

E. HAILSTONE.

"Mr. Admall,

"I understand by Mr. Mangay, my deputy at Leeds for the West
Riding, that you contemn my lawfull autority of Norroy King of
Arms, and have done and will doe as you say, things relating to
heraldry, contrary to my prohibition, &c.; these are therefore
to acquaint you, that if you continue in the same mind and will
usurp on my office, I intend to make you sensible of the wrong
you doe me in my office, by taking out process against you, and
making you pay for your transgression. I shall give you no hard
words, but shal be as good as my word if there is law in England
to restrain you; so chose whether you will due to me good or
evill; you shall find me according your friend or open enemy.

"PETER LA NEVE, Norroy.

"College of Arms, in London,

"28th May, 1719."

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