QUERIES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON

We promised to make a few QUERIES on this amusing volume, and thus redeem our promise. Mr. Cunningham has been the first to point out the precise situation of a spot often mentioned by our old dramatists, which had baffled the ingenuity of Gifford, Dyce, and in fact of all the commentators,—the notorious Picthatch. He thus describes it:— "*Picthatch*, or *Pickehatch*.—A famous receptacle for prostitutes and pickpockets, generally supposed to have been in *Turnmill Street*, near Clerkenwell Green, but its position is determined by a grant of the 33rd of Queen Elizabeth, and a survey of 1649. Wh…