There was another Angel inn, in St. Clement’s, Strand, ’behind St. Clement Kirk.’ To this also was attached a galleried yard, but, according to the woodcut in Diprose’s ’St. Clement Danes,’ there were galleries to the first and second floors on one side of the yard only. And from this house also seven or eight mail-coaches were despatched nightly, and from here also the royal mails used to start on the King’s birthday for the West of England. Concerning the public conveyances of those days, the following curious announcement reads amusing: ’On Monday the 5th April, 1762, will set out from the Angel Inn, behind St. Clement’s Church, a neat flying machine, carrying four passengers, on steel springs, and sets out at four o’clock in the morning and goes to Salisbury the same evening, and returns from Salisbury the next morning at the same hour; and will continue going from London every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and return every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Performed by the proprietors of the stage coach, Thomas Massey, Anthony Coack. Each passenger to pay twenty-three shillings for their fare, and to be allowed fourteen pounds’ weight baggage; all above to pay for one penny a pound. Outside passengers and children in lap to pay half fare. N.B.—The masters of the machine will not be accountable for plate, watches, money, jewels, bank-notes, or writings, unless booked as such, and paid for accordingly.’ Why the proprietors should have called their coach a ’machine’ is a riddle, and as it took a whole day, from four in the morning till the evening, to get over the eighty-four miles between London and Salisbury, its rate of progress could hardly be called a ’flying’ one. The Angel inn was of very ancient origin, being mentioned in a correspondence dated 1503. In the _Public Advertiser_ of March 28, 1769, appeared the following advertisement: ’To be sold a Black Girl, the property of J.B., eleven years of age, who is extremely handy, works at her needle tolerably, and speaks English perfectly well; is of an excellent temper and willing disposition. Inquire of Mr. Owen, at the Angel Inn, behind St. Clement’s Church.’ The inn was closed in 1853, the freehold fetching £6,800, and on its site the legal chambers known as Danes Inn were erected. In Philip Lane, London Wall, anciently stood the Ape, an inn with a galleried yard; all that now remains of this ancient hostelry is a stone carving of a monkey squatted on its haunches and eating an apple; under it is the date 1670 and the initial B. It is fixed on the house numbered 14. The courtyard, where the coaches and waggons used to arrive and depart, is now an open space, round which houses are built. A view of the Ape and Cock taverns as they appeared in 1851 is in the Crace collection.