The _first_ Royal Exchange, Sir Thomas Gresham’s Bourse, was opened by Queen Elizabeth, January 23rd, 1570, and destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The _second_ was commenced on May 6th, 1667, and burnt on January 10th, 1838. The present building, the _third_, was opened by Queen Victoria Oct., 28th, 1844. The “Old Exchange,” often referred to in ballads, was Gresham’s. But the “New Exchange” was one, erected where the stables of Durham House in the Strand had stood: opened April 11th, 1609, and removed in 1737. King James I. had named it “Britain’s Bourse.” Built on the model of the established Royal Exchange, it had “cellars, a walk, and a row of shops, filled with milliners, seamstresses, and those of similar occupations; and was a place of fashionable resort. What, however, was intended to rival the Royal Exchange, dwindled into frivolity and ruin, and the site is at present [1829] occupied by a range of handsome houses facing the Strand” (T. Allen’s _Hist. and Antiq. of London_, iv. 254). In the ballad it is sung of as “Haberdashers’ Hall.” Cp. Roxb. Coll., ii., 230. Pages 152, 378. _There is a certain, &c._ This is an imperfect version of “A Woman’s Birth,” merely the beginning, four stanzas. The whole fifteen (eleven following ours) are reprinted by Wm. Chappell, in the Ballad Society’s _Roxburghe Bds._, iii. 94, 1875, from a broadside in Roxb. Coll., i. 466, originally printed for Francis Grove [1620-55]. 2nd verse reads:—Her husband _Hymen_; 4th. _Wandring ~eye~; insatiate_. The gifts of Juno, Flora, and Diana follow; with woman’s employment of them. Page 172. _Blind Fortune, if thou, &c._ We find this in MS. Harleian, No. 6396, fol. 13. Also two printed copies, in _Parnassus Biceps_, 1656, 124; and in _Sportive Wit_, same year, p. 39. We gained the corrections, which we inserted as _marginalia_, from the MS.; “_Ceres_ in _hir_ Garland” having been corrupted into “_Cealus_ in _his_.” “_Aglaura_,” Sir John Suckling’s play, (printed originally in 4to. 1639, with a broad margin of blank, on which the wits made merry with epigrammes, “By this wide margent,” &c.), appeared on April 18th, 1638, and is here referred to. Probably the date of the poem is nearly as early. On p. 175 the “Pilgrimage up _Holborn_ Hill” refers to a journey from Newgate to Tyburn. (See p. 365). Pages 180, 379. _Heard you not lately of a man._ The Mad-Man’s Morrice; written by HUMFREY CROUCH: For the second part of the broad-sheet version we must refer readers to vol. ii. page 153, of the Ballad Society’s reprint of the _Roxburghe Ballads_ (now happily arrived at completion of the first massive folio vol. of Major Pearson’s original pair; the bulky third and slim fourth vols. being afterwards added). We promised to give it, and gladly would have done so, if we had space: for it is a trustworthy picture of a Bedlamite’s sufferings, under the harsh treatment of former days. Date about 1635-42.