. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. Let me extol a cat on oysters fed,Ill have a party at the Bedford Head. And again, in his Sober Advice, he expresseshimself in terms which would seem to imply thatthe house was well known for its good fare :â When sharp with hunger, scorn you to be fed,Except on pea-chicks at the Bedford Head ? And this is confirnied by the fact that PaulWhitehead ordered for himself and a party of gayroisterers a greatsupper at the Bedford Head,*as .Horace Walpole tells his correspondent, Sir;Horace Mann, under date November, 1741.
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. Let me extol a cat on oysters fed,Ill have a party at the Bedford Head. And again, in his Sober Advice, he expresseshimself in terms which would seem to imply thatthe house was well known for its good fare :â When sharp with hunger, scorn you to be fed,Except on pea-chicks at the Bedford Head ? And this is confirnied by the fact that PaulWhitehead ordered for himself and a party of gayroisterers a greatsupper at the Bedford Head,*as .Horace Walpole tells his correspondent, Sir;Horace Mann, under date November, 1741. Therer 120 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [The Strand; is now a Bedford Head in this street, but it is anew tavern, and does not inherit the traditions ofthe former house. In Exchange Court, on the north side, betweenNos. 419 and 420, Strand, near Bedford Street, ara band. They were first organised in the year 1859,and at the end of 1874 their strength was a httleunder 500 men, of whom all but 90 were employedin various parts of London. On what is now Southampton Street stood the. THE OLD BEDFORD HEAD. the head-quarters of the Corps of Commissionaires,a set of men who, having served in the army, thenavy, or the ])olice, and having good charactersand being in the receipt of pensions, are willing toearn a livelihood by going on messages, deliveringcirculars, or being detailed off on private are permanently and others temporarily em-ployed. They are all amenable to the authorityof an adjutant, and wear a uniform. They have amess-room, reading-room, &c., and also a military ancient mansion of the Earls and Dukes of is described by Strype as having been a largebut old-built house, with a great yard before it forthe reception of carriages ; with a spacious garden,having a terrace-walk adjoining to the brick wallnext the garden, behind which were coach-housesand stables, with a conveyance into Charles Street,through a large gate. This house and gardenbeing demolished i
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