£ s. d. 20 20 0 0 Desser 2 0 0 Deu sorte de Glasse 1 4 0 Glasse pour 6 0 4 0 5 Boutelle de Champagne 4 0 0 7 Boutelle de harmetage 5 5 0 1 Boutelle de Hok 0 15 0 4 Boutelle de Port 1 6 0 4 Boutelle de Maderre 2 0 0 22 Boutelle de Bordeaux 15 8 0 2 Boutelle de Bourgogne 1 12 0 [Not legible] 0 14 0 Soder 0 2 0 Biere e Ail 0 6 0 For la Lettre 0 2 0 Pour faire une prune 0 6 0 Pour un fiacre 0 2 0 — — — 55 6 0 Waiters 1 14 0 — — — £57 0 0 Amongst the curious old clubs of the eighteenth century, the Kit-Kat, founded about 1700, deserves attention. This was composed of thirty-nine noblemen and gentlemen zealously attached to the House of Hanover, among them six Dukes and many other peers. The club met at a small house in Shire Lane, by Temple Bar, where a famous mutton-pie man, by name Christopher Katt, supplied his pies to the club suppers and gave his name to the club, although it has been stated that the pie itself was called “kit-kat.” The extraordinary title of the club is explained in the following lines: “Whence deathless Kit-Kat took its name, Few critics can unriddle; Some say from pastrycook it came. And some from Cat and Fiddle. “From no trim beaux its name it boasts, Grey statesmen or green wits. But from the pell-mell peck of toasts Of old cats and young kits.”