tea-gardens:

"The garden is formed into several pleasing walks, prettily
disposed; at the end of the principal one is a painting, which
serves to render it much larger in appearance than it really is;
and in the middle of the garden is a round fish-pond,
encompassed with a great number of very genteel boxes for
company, curiously cut into the hedges, and adorned with a
variety of Flemish and other painting; there are likewise two
handsome tea-rooms, one over the other, as well as several
inferior ones in the dwelling-house."

"White Conduit Loaves" were for a long time famous, and before the great
augmentation in the price of bread, during the revolutionary war with
France, they formed one of the regular "London cries."

13. _Vauxhall Gardens._ A curious and highly interesting description of
this popular place of amusement, "a century ago," was printed in 1745,
under the title of _A Sketch of the Spring-Gardens, Vaux-hall, in a
letter to a Noble Lord_, 8vo. My copy is much at Mr. Cunningham's
service for any future edition of his _Handbook_.

Edward F. Rimbault.

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DEVOTIONAL TRACTS BELONGING TO QUEEN KATHERINE PARR.

In your Number for August 10th, I observe an inquiry regarding a MS.
book of prayers said to have belonged to Queen Katherine Parr. Of the