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James and Horace Smith, joint authors of 'Rejected Addresses,' were, I believe, born at No. 36, next door, lately pulled down. On a four-storied brick house, No. 68, exactly opposite to that last described, above the centre first-floor window, which was ornamented by pilasters at the sides and a projecting cornice, I observed the date 1671. On a rainK pipe to the left were the initials "WV" and the date 1694. The house was demolished in 1887. On the staircase of the old house No. 32, Botolph Lane, now used as the Billingsgate and Tower Ward School, is the date 1670. A room on the ground floor is decorated with pictures on panel, signed "R. Robinson 1696." At the Bouverie Street entrance of the "Bolt in Tun Inn," Fleet Street, was a tablet inscribed "Bolt in Tun, William Harris, 1765." It was cleared away in 1875. The inn is now a railway booking office; its front has not been rebuilt. On a two-storied building, then about to be demolished, in Butler Street, Milton Street (late Grub Street), I observed on Sept. 11, 1886, a stone inscribed as follows: "Gresham House, once the residence of Sir Rich Whittington, Lord Mayor, 1406, Rebuilt 1805." This and five other houses occupied the site of the curious old mansion in Sweedon's Passage, Grub Street, of which two illustrations are given by J. T. Smith in his 'Ancient Topography of London.' At No. 54, Carter Lane there is a stone with the initials and date "R J 1795." In Crown Place, at the back of No. 21, Aldgate High Street, a little west of the entrance to the old Bull Inn Yard (now converted into Aldgate Avenue), there is a rain-pipe having "1688 WO." On the house over the entrance to Fleur-de-lys Court, Fetter Lane, there was a stone with the words, "Here lived John Dryden ye poet, Born 1631, Died 1700-Glorious John." It has been asserted that this was apocryphal; but Leslie Stephen, in his article on Dryden in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' says :-" He (Dryden) had lived from 1673 to 1682 in Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, where the house pulled down in 1887 had a tablet in commemoration." Nos. 8 and 9, Great St. Helen's, originally one house, which was destroyed in 1892, had on the L pilasters "AJ 1646," the initials referring to the names of the owner, Adam Lawrence, and his wife Judith. The former bequeathed it to his nephew, Sir John Lawrence, Lord Mayor in the year of the Great Plague. The house numbered 148 and 150, King's Road, Chelsea, at the south-west corner of Markham Street, though somewhat modernized in front, is evidently of considerable age. Let into the wall H is a small stone inscribed as follows, "JA Box Farm 1686." This is a curious survival. I have as yet made no further research. Can any of your readers find such a farm marked in some old map of the district? Faulkner does not mention it. At Nos. 1 and 2, Laurence Pountney Hill there are a pair of porches with projecting hoods richly carved, perhaps the best of the kind remaining in London. One of them bears the date 1703. In Lordship Place, Cheyne Row, is a red-brick house, which has between the first-floor windows a с tablet inscribed "JT 1706." Lordship Place was |