But the frequenters of taverns were not all so respectable as these examples; and Brown supplies particulars of another section of society. 'A _Tavern_ is a little _Sodom_, where as many Vices are daily practised, as ever were known in the great one; Thither _Libertines_ repair to drink away their Brains, _Aldermen_ to talk Treason, and bewail the loss of Trade; _Saints_ to elevate the Spirit, hatch Calumnies, coin false News, and reproach the Church; _Gamesters_ to shake their Elbows; Thither _Sober Knaves_ walk with _Drunken Fools_ to make Cunning Bargains and overreach them in their Dealings; Thither _Young Quality_ retire to spend their Tradesmens Money; Thither _Bullies_ Coach it to Kick Drawers, and invent new Oaths and Curses; Thither run _Sots_ purely to be drunk, _Beaux_ to shew their Vanity, _Cowards_ to make themselves valiant by the Strength of their Wine, _Fools_ to make themselves witty in their own Conceits, and _Spendthrifts_ to be made Miserable by a Ridiculous Consumption of their own Fortunes.' There were lower depths yet: there were the _purl houses_, where 'Tradesmen flock in their Morning gowns, by Seven, to cool their Plucks,' and the _mug houses_,[320] which in George the First's time were made into political clubs. 'King George for Ever' was then the mug-house cry, which the coffee-houses countered with 'High Church and Ormonde; no Presbyterians; no Hanover; down with the Mug.' [Footnote 320: 'Here is nothing drunk but Ale, and every Gentleman hath his separate Mug, which he Chalks on the Table, where he sits, as it is brought in; and every one retires when he pleases, as from a Coffee House.'--_A Journey through England_, 1722.] The following is a list of the principal taverns then in existence, for some of which I am indebted to Timbs' 'Club Life of London.' 'The Bear,' at the foot of London Bridge, Southwark and west side, which was in existence in 1463, was not pulled down till 1761. The 'Boar's Head,' in Eastcheap; Pontack's, in Abchurch Lane; and the 'Pope's Head' tavern in Pope's Head Alley, were all standing; and the 'Cock,' in Threadneedle Street, was only destroyed in 1851. There was the 'Salutation' in Newgate Street, where Wren used to smoke his pipe, whilst St. Paul's was rebuilding. Dolly's chop-house, in Paternoster Row, was established in Queen Anne's reign. The 'White Hart' in Bishopsgate Without, which bore the date 1480, was not pulled down till 1829. The 'King's Head,' in Fenchurch Street, at the corner of Mark Lane, was the hostel at which Queen Elizabeth is _said_ to have dined in May 1554. The 'Devil,' in Fleet Street, now occupied by Childs' bank, was flourishing, and Steele describes it[321] as 'a place sacred to mirth tempered with discretion, where Ben Jonson and his Sons used to make their liberal meetings,' and he says that in the Apollo room were the rules of Ben's Club, painted in gold letters over the chimney piece.