King's Coffee-house, Covent Garden

As an addition to "Mr. RIMBAULT's" Notes on Cunningham's *Handbook*, the following extract from Harwood's *Alumni Etonenses*, p. 293., in the recount of the boys elected for Eton to King's College may be interesting:— "A.D. 1713, 12." "Thomas King born at West Ashton in Wiltshire; went away scholar, in apprehension that his fellowship would be denied him, and afterwards kept that coffee-house in Covent Garden which was called by his own name."