Street, Strand; _written by a Parishioner of St. Mary, Savoy_.

_Maiden Lane, Covent Garden._--The well known "Cider Cellar" in this
lane was opened about 1730. There is a curious tract, entitled
_Adventures under Ground_, 1750, which contains some strange notices of
this "Midnight Concert Room."

_Salisbury Change._--Cibber, in the amusing _Apology for his Life_, has
the following:--

"Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings, and fly from
one public spectacle to another so wantonly, that I have been
informed by those who remember it, that a famous puppet-show in
_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