eral entries, commencing with 1763--"At night,
Mr. Johnson and I supped in a private room at the Turk's Head
Coffee-house, in the Strand; 'I encourage this house,' said he,
'for the mistress of it is a good civil woman, and has not much
business'." Another entry is--"We concluded the day at the Turk's
Head Coffee-house very socially." And, August 3, 1673--"We had our
last social meeting at the Turk's Head Coffee-house, before my
setting out for foreign parts."

The name was afterwards changed to "The Turk's Head, Canada and
Bath Coffee-house," and was a well frequented tavern and hotel.

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At the Turk's Head, or Miles's Coffee-house, New Palace-yard,
Westminster, the noted Rota Club met, founded by Harrington, in
1659; where was a large oval table, with a passage in the middle,
for Miles to deliver his coffee.[360]

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For many years previous to the streets of London being completely
paved, "Slaughter's Coffee-house" was called "The Coffee-house on
the Pavement." Besides being the resort of artists, Old Slaughter's
was the house of call for Frenchmen.

St. Martin's-lane was long one of the headquarters of the artists
of the last century. "In the time of Benjamin West," says J.T.
Smith, "and before the formation of the Royal Academy,
Greek-street, St. Martin's-lane, and Gerard-street, was their only
colony. Old Slaughter's Coffee-house, in St. Martin's-lane, was
their grand resort in the evenings, and Hogarth was a constant
visitor." He lived at the Golden Head, on the eastern side of
Leicester Fields, in the northern half of the Sabloniere Hotel. The
head he cut out himself from pieces of cork, glued and bound
together; it was placed over the street-door. At this time, young
Benjamin West was living in chambers, in Bedford-street, Covent
Garden, and had there set up his easel; he was married in 1765, at
St. Martin's Church. Roubiliac was often to be found at Slaughter's
in early life; probably before he gained the patronage of Sir
Edward Walpole, through finding and returning to the baronet the
pocket-book of bank-notes which the young maker of monuments had
picked up in Vauxhall Gardens. Sir Edward, to remunerate his
integrity, and his skill, of which he