] John Thorpe says that he knows the General becasue "I have met him forever at the Bedford." My footnote says that this is "No doubt the Bedford Coffee House in Covent Garden" in London.

I looked into two different editions of NA, in one of them the note says 'Probably the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden, London.' In the other it says 'The Bedford was a coffee-house in London's Covent Garden.'