Blue Boar Inn, Holborn

The reviewer in the last "Quarterly" of Mr. Cunningham's *Handbook for London*, makes an error in reference to the extract from Morrice's *Life of Lord Orrery*, given by Mr. Cunningham under the head of "Blue Boar Inn, Holborn," and transcribed by the reviewer (*Qu. Rev.* vol. lxxxvi., p. 474.). Morrice, Lord Orrery's biographer, relates a story which he says Lord Orrery had told him, that he had been told by Cromwell and Ireton of their intercepting a letter from Charles I. to his wife, which was sewn up in the skirt of a saddle. The story may or may not be true; this authority for it is not…