[381] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 394.

[382] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. i. p. 139.

[383] Archenholz, Tableau de l’Angleterre, vol. ii. p. 164, 1788.

[384] Burnet, vol. ii. p. 53, ed. 1823.

[385] Annual Register (1810).

[386] Cobbett’s State Trials, vol. xvii. p. 160.

[387] Archenholz, vol. i. p. 166.

[388] Daily Advertiser, 1731.

[389] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. i.

[390] v. 85.

[391] Hogarth’s Works (Nicholls and Steevens), vol. i. p. 162.

[392] Smith’s London, vol. i. p. 141.

[393] Notes and Queries (vol. vi., 1858), p. 364.

[394] Dunciad, B. iv. 30.

[395] Pope’s Works (edited by R. Carruthers), vol. ii. p. 314.

[396] Stow, p. 167.

[397] Report, May 16, 1844.

[398] Smith’s London, vol. i. p. 133.

[399] Dr. Waagen, vol. i. p. 6.

[400] Waagen, vol. i. p. 322.

[401] Ibid. vol. i. p. 331.

[402] Cunningham, nearly always correct, says £10,000 (vol. ii. p. 577).

[403] Waagen, vol. ii. p. 329.

[404] Cunningham’s London, p. 428.

[405] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. i. p. 153.

[406] Rate-books of St. Martin’s (Cunningham).

[407] MSS., Birch, 4221, quoted in the notes of the Tatler.

[408] “Country Wife.”

[409] “The Scowrers.”

[410] State Poems.

[411] “The Hind and the Panther Transversed.”

[412] “The Relapse.”

[413] The Art of Cookery.

[414] Weekly Journal, Nov. 21, 1724.

[415] London Gazette, June 4, 1688.

[416] Dunciad, B. ii. v. 411.

[417] Flying Post, June 23, 1716.

[418] Pope’s Works (Carruthers), vol. ii. pp. 309, 310.

[419] Leigh Hunt’s Essays on the Theatres (1807), p. 64.

[420] Philips’s Life of Milton, p. 32, 12mo, 1694.

[421] Cunningham (1850), p. 107.

[422] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 163.

[423] Royal Guide to the London Charities, 1878-79.

[424] Life of Dr. John North.

[425] Whitelock, p. 470, ed. 1732.

[426] Burnet, vol. ii. p. 70, ed. 1823.

[427] Boswell (Croker), vol. iii. p. 213.

[428] Willis’s History of the See of Llandaff.

[429] Bartholomew Fair (Ben Jonson).

[430] Gifford’s Ben Jonson, iv. p. 430.

[431] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 505.

[432] The World, Nov. 29, 1753.

[433] Robson: a Sketch (Hotten, 1864).

[434] Aubrey, iii. 415.

[435] “Treacherous Brothers,” 4to, 1696.

[436] St. James’s Chronicle, April 24, 1762.

[437] Ibid. May 26, 1761.

[438] Edwards’ Anecdotes, pp. 116, 117.

[439] Rate-books of St. Martin’s.

[440] Lord Orford’s Anecdotes of Painting.

[441] J. C. Jeaffreson’s Book about Doctors, p. 109.

[442] Ath. Ox. vol. ii.

[443] Gifford’s Ben Jonson, vol. ix. pp. 48, 63, 64.

[444] Aubrey’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 332.

[445] Recital in grant to the parish from King James I.

[446] Cunningham’s London (1849), vol. ii. p. 526.

[447] Burnet’s Own Times, vol. i. p. 327, ed. 1823.

[448] Allan Cunningham’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 290.

[449] Biog. Brit.

[450] Smith’s Life of Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 233.

[451] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, pp. 251, 252.

[452] Prologues to the Satires, v. 180.

[453] Dr. Johnson’s Life of Ambrose Philips.

[454] Smith’s Nollekens and his Times, vol. ii. p. 222.

[455] Cunningham (1850), p. 450.

[456] Smith’s Streets, vol. ii. p. 208.

[457] Smith, vol. ii. p. 97.

[458] Smith, p. 211.

[459] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 212.

[460] Smith, vol. ii. p. 224.

[461] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. ii. p. 226.

[462] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 178, a curious and amusing book, the truth in which is spoiled by an injudicious and eccentric mixture of fiction.

[463] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. pp. 93, 94.

[464] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 233.

[465] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 238.

[466] Ibid. p. 241.

[467] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 143.

[468] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 244.

[469] Ibid. p. 250.

[470] Recollections of O’Keefe, vol. i. p. 108.

[471] Knowles’s Life of Fuseli, vol. i. p. 57.

[472] Passages of a Working Life, by Charles Knight, vol. i. pp. 114, 115.

[473] Hume’s Learned Societies, pp. 84, 85.

[474] Dr. Hodges’ Letter to a Person of Quality, p. 15.

[475] Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.

[476] Dr. Hodges’ Loimologia, p. 7 (from the reprint in 1720, when the plague was raging in France).

[477] Ibid. pp. 19, 20.

[478] Howes, p. 1048.

[479] Bagford, Harl. MSS. 5900, fol. 50.

[480] Walpole’s Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii. p. 25.

[481] Evelyn’s Diary (1850), vol. ii. p. 59.

[482] Evelyn’s Diary, vol. ii. p. 153 (1850).

[483] Life of Lord Herbert (1826), p. 304.

[484] Horace Walpole.

[485] Aubrey’s Lives, vol. ii. p. 387.

[486] Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting (Dallaway), vol. ii. p. 593.

[487] Richardson.

[488] Walpole, vol. ii. p. 563 (partly from Dallaway’s version of the same story).

[489] Dallaway.

[490] Walpole, vol. ii. p. 594.

[491] Spence.

[492] Aubrey, vol. ii p. 132.

[493] Dallaway’s Notes.

[494] Clarendon, B. ii. p. 2117.

[495] Ibid. B. i. p. 116.

[496] Clarendon, B. viii. p. 694.

[497] Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 452.

[498] Doran’s Her Majesty’s Servants, vol. ii. p. 51.

[499] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 226.

[500] Ibid. p. 226.

[501] Hazlitt’s Criticisms of the English Stage, p. 49.

[502] O’Keefe’s Life, vol. i. p. 322.

[503] Leigh Hunt, p. 226.

[504] Life of Benjamin Franklin (1826), p. 31.

[505] Life of the Duke of Ormond (1747), pp. 67, 80.

[506] Macaulay, vol. ii. p. 560.

[507] Bramston, p. 339.

[508] Annual Register (1780), pp. 254-287.

[509] Life of Inigo Jones, by P. Cunningham, p. 22 (Shakspere Society).

[510] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 90.

[511] Cibber’s Lives, vol. ii. p. 10.

[512] Ibid. p. 11.

[513] Cunningham’s London, vol. ii. p. 501.

[514] Dryden’s Works (Scott), vol. i. p. 204.

[515] Scott’s Dryden, vol. xiii. p. 7.

[516] Cibber’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 293.

[517] Wine and Walnuts, vol. ii. p. 277.

[518] Cibber’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 47.

[519] Cibber’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 47.

[520] Mrs. Bray’s Life of Stothard, p. 47.

[521] Defoe’s Journey through England.

[522] Wine and Walnuts, vol. ii. p. 167.

[523] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 27.

[524] Times, Sept. 26, 1796.

[525] Talfourd’s Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, vol. i. p. 56.

[526] Burke’s Landed Gentry (1858), p. 320.

[527] Pennant.

[528] Lingard, vol. vi. p. 607.

[529] Walton’s Lives (1852), p. 22.

[530] Angel in the House, by Mr. Coventry Patmore.

[531] Dedication to Translation of Juvenal.

[532] Donne’s Poems (1719), p. 291.

[533] Miss Benger’s Memoirs of the Queen of Bohemia, vol. ii. p. 322.

[534] Miss Benger’s Memoirs of the Queen of Bohemia, vol. ii. p. 428.

[535] Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 723.

[536] Benger, vol. ii. p. 457.

[537] Ibid., Preface.

[538] Brayley’s Londiniana, vol. iv. p. 301.

[539] Walpole’s Anecdotes, p. 210.

[540] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 204.

[541] Wilson’s Life of James I. (1653), p. 146.

[542] Aubrey’s Anecdotes and Traditions, p. 3.

[543] Trivia.

[544] Rate-books of St. Martin’s, quoted by P. Cunningham.

[545] Granger’s Biographical History of England (1824), vol. v. p. 356.

[546] Pepys’s Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 75.

[547] Curll’s History of the English Stage, vol. i. p. III.

[548] Miscellaneous Works by the late Duke of Buckingham, etc., p. 35 (1704).

[549] Miscellaneous Works by the late Duke of Buckingham, etc., vol. i. p. 34.

[550] Burnet’s History of his own Times (1753), vol. i. p. 387.

[551] Leigh Hunt’s Town (1859), p. 282.

[552] Evelyn’s Mems. vol. ii. p. 339.

[553] Collier, iii. 328.

[554] Prynne’s Histrio-Mastix (1633).

[555] Pepys (May 8, 1663).

[556] Cibber’s Apology, p. 338. ed. 1740.

[557] Doran, vol. i. p. 57.

[558] Dec. 7, 1666.

[559] Jan. 23, 1667.

[560] April 20, 1667.

[561] Doran, p. 97.

[562] Doran, vol. i. p. 79.

[563] Leigh Hunt, p. 267.

[564] Cibber’s Apology, 250.

[565] Doran, vol. i. p. 466.

[566] Tatler, No. 182.

[567] Doran, vol. i. p. 464.

[568] Cumberland’s Memoirs, p. 59.

[569] Davies’s Miscellanies, vol. i. p. 126.

[570] Doran, vol. ii. p. 126.

[571] Ibid. p. 149.

[572] Doran, vol. i. p. 511.

[573] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 7.

[574] Dr. Doran, vol. ii. p. 277.

[575] Dr. Doran’s Knights and their Days.

[576] Elia, p. 217.

[577] Doran, vol. ii. p. 330.

[578] Leigh Hunt’s Essays on the Theatres, p. 124.

[579] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 47.

[580] Elia, p. 216.

[581] Moore’s Sheridan, p. 140.

[582] Ibid. p. 181.

[583] Murphy’s Garrick.

[584] Doran, vol. ii. p. 489.

[585] Leigh Hunt’s Essays on the Theatres, p. 124.

[586] Ibid. p. 78.

[587] Hazlitt’s Criticisms of the Stage, p. 441.

[588] Elia, p. 221.

[589] Doran, vol. ii. p. 476.

[590] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 47.

[591] Hazlitt’s Criticisms, pp. 49, 50.

[592] Elia (1853), p. 206.

[593] Elia, p. 232.

[594] Ibid. p. 213.

[595] Moore’s Life of Sheridan, p. 637.

[596] Moore’s Sheridan, p. 637.

[597] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 113.

[598] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 51.

[599] Ibid. p. 212.

[600] The Georgian Era, vol. iv. p. 43.

[601] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 49.

[602] Lounger’s Commonplace Book, vol. ii. p. 137.

[603] Dunciad, B. iii. p. 199.

[604] Lounger’s Commonplace Book, vol. ii. p. 141.

[605] The Intelligencer, No. 3.

[606] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 248.

[607] Fly Leaves (Miller), vol. i. p. 96.

[608] Disraeli’s Miscellanies, p. 77.

[609] Wine and Walnuts, vol. ii. p. 150.

[610] Jeaffreson’s Book about Doctors (2d ed.), p. 85.

[611] The very earliest was granted to Philip the Hermit, for gravelling the road at Highgate.

[612] Rymer’s Fœdera.

[613] Fuller’s Church History.

[614] Vaughan’s Life of Wickliffe.

[615] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 11.

[616] Ibid. (1829), p. 2.

[617] Pennant (4th ed.), p. 3.

[618] Butler’s Lives of the Saints.

[619] Aggas’s Map, published in 1578 or 1560.

[620] Stow’s Survey, 1595.

[621] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 46.

[622] Evelyn’s Diary.

[623] Brayley’s Londiniana.

[624] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, pp. 58, 59.

[625] Defoe’s History of the Plague.

[626] Maitland’s History of London.

[627] Dr. Sydenham.

[628] Dr. Hodgson’s Journal of the Plague.

[629] Dr. Hodges on the Plague.

[630] Fuller’s Church History.

[631] Hume.

[632] Fuller.

[633] Parliamentary Report.

[634] Ralph.

[635] Rowland Dobie’s History of St. Giles’s, p. 119.

[636] Pennant’s London, p. 159.

[637] Cunningham’s London, vol. i. p. 339.

[638] Annual Register, 1827.

[639] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 367.

[640] Strype.

[641] Strype.

[642] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 225.

[643] Cunningham’s London, vol. i. p. 384.

[644] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, p. 21.

[645] Stow, p. 164.

[646] Pennant.

[647] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, p. 29, date 1774.

[648] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day is one of the best works of a clever London antiquarian, to whose industry, as well as to Mr. Peter Cunningham’s, the author is much indebted, as his foot-notes pretty well show.

[649] Dryden’s Limberham.

[650] Love for Love.

[651] Stow.

[652] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 66.

[653] Parton’s account of St. Giles’s.

[654] Parton.

[655] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 130.

[656] Archenholz, p. 117.

[657] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, p. 74.

[658] Dobie’s History of St. Giles’s, p. 204.

[659] Bell’s Life in London, July 12, 1829.

[660] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 565.

[661] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 566.

[662] Sketches by Boz, p. 44.

[663] Sketches by Boz, p. 45.

[664] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 362.

[665] T. Hudson Turner, Archæological Journal, Dec. 1848.

[666] Sir G. Buc in Stow, by Howes, p. 1072 (ed. 1631).

[667] Pennant, p. 176.

[668] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 480.

[669] Walpole, by Dallaway, vol. ii. p. 37.

[670] Lloyd’s State Worthies.

[671] State Trials, iv. 445, fol. ed.

[672] Hudibras, part iii. c. 3.

[673] Granger’s Biography in art. “Margaret Roper.”

[674] Dr. Birch’s Life of Tillotson.

[675] Hale’s Life, by Burnet.

[676] Biog. Brit., by the Hon. and Rev. F. Egerton.

[677] Preface to Thurloe’s State Papers, 1742.

[678] Biog. Brit.

[679] Session of the Poets.

[680] Johnson’s Lives.

[681] Ath. Ox. vol. ii.

[682] Foote’s Life of Murphy.

[683] Campbell’s Lives of the Chief Justices, vol. iii. p. 221.

[684] Dr. Johnson.

[685] Pennant, p. 176.

[686] Evelyn’s Diary, vol. ii. p. 60 (1850).

[687] The Devil is an Ass.

[688] Aubrey.

[689] Gifford’s Ben Jonson, vol. i. p. 9.

[690] Fuller’s Worthies, vol. ii. p. 112.

[691] Gifford, vol. i. p. 14.

[692] Moore’s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 211.

[693] Poems on Affairs of State, vol. i. p. 147.

[694] Cunningham.

[695] Rymer’s Fœdera, vol. xvii. p. 120.

[696] Wilkinson’s Handbook for Egypt, p. 185.

[697] Cunningham’s Life of Inigo Jones, p. 23 (Shakspere Society).

[698] Canting Academy, 1674 (Malcolm).

[699] Cunningham.

[700] Rate-books of St. Clement’s Danes (Cunningham).

[701] Wharton’s Works.

[702] Life of Lord W. Russell, by Lord John Russell, 3d ed. vol. ii. p. 18.

[703] Fox’s History of the Reign of James II. (Introduction).

[704] Lord John Russell, vol. i. p. 121.

[705] Raplin, vol. xiv. p. 333.

[706] Burnet’s History of his own Times (1725), vol. ii.

[707] Letters of Lady Russell, 7th ed. 1819.

[708] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 522.

[709] Daily Journal, July 9, 1735.

[710] Ireland Inns of Court, p. 129.

[711] Macaulay’s History of England, vol. i. p. 353.

[712] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 167.

[713] Pennant, p. 238.

[714] Lady M. W. Montague’s Letters.

[715] Burney’s Hist. of Music, vol. iv. p. 667.

[716] Lord Chesterfield (Mahon), vol. ii. p. 264.

[717] Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, p. 192.

[718] Pugh’s Life of Jonas Hanway (1787), p. 184.

[719] Lounger’s Commonplace Book, vol. i. p. 361.

[720] Macaulay’s Essay on Walpole’s Letters.

[721] Walpole’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 169.

[722] Campbell’s Lives of the Lord Chancellors, vol. vi. p. 105.

[723] Campbell’s Chief Justices, vol. ii. p. 563.

[724] Pepys, vol. ii. p. 272.

[725] Ibid. p. 282.

[726] Hatton’s New View of London (1708), p. 627.

[727] Clarendon, vol. vi. pp. 89, 90.

[728] Grosley’s Tour to London, vol. ii. p. 309.

[729] Walpole’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 137.

[730] Walpole’s Letters, vol. vii. p. 223.

[731] Ibid. vol. ix. p. 307.

[732] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 228.

[733] Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs, p. 92.

[734] Ibid. p. 94.

[735] Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs, pp. 300, 301.

[736] Moore’s Diary, vol. iv. p. 193.

[737] Ibid. p. 35.

[738] Coleridge’s Table Talk.

[739] Townsend, vol. i. p. 91.

[740] “The Alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., King of Egypt, now in Sir John Soane’s Museum. Drawn by Joseph Bonomi, and described by Samuel Sharpe.” London: Longmans and Co. 1864.

[741] Annual Register (1837).

[742] Chapone’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 68.

[743] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 237.

[744] Malone, pp. 135, 136.

[745] Grammont’s Mems. (1811), vol. ii. p. 142.

[746] Doran’s Her Majesty’s Servants, vol. i. p. 80.

[747] Pepys, vol. iii. p. 136.

[748] Pepys, vol. iv. p. 2.

[749] Cibber’s Apology, chap. v.

[750] Ibid.

[751] Doran, vol. i. p. 119.

[752] Doran, vol. i. p. 149.

[753] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 245.

[754] Cibber’s Apology, 2d. ed. p. 138.

[755] Baker’s Biog. Dram., vol. i. p. 270.

[756] Doran, vol. i. p. 542.

[757] Doran, vol. i. p. 424.

[758] Ibid. p. 446.

[759] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 427.

[760] Cunningham (1850), p. 406.

[761] Doran, vol. i. p. 327.

[762] Whincop’s Scanderberg, p. 80 (1747).

[763] Fly Leaves, by John Miller, p. 20.

[764] The name of Strahan, Paul, and Bates’s firm was originally Snow and Walton. It was one of the oldest banking-houses in London, second only to Child’s. At the period of the Commonwealth Snow and Co. carried on the business of pawnbrokers, under the sign of the “Golden Anchor.” The firm suspended payment about 1679 (as did many other banks), owing to the tyranny of Charles II. Strahan (the partner at the time of the last failure) had changed his name from Snow; his uncle, named Strahan (Queen’s printer?) having left him £180,000, making change of name a condition. It is curious that on examining Strahan and Co.’s books, it was found by those of 1672 that a decimal system had been then employed. Strahan was known to all religious people. Bates had for many years been managing clerk. The firm had also a navy agency in Norfolk Street. They had encumbered themselves with the Mostyn Collieries to the amount of £139,940, and backed up Gandells, contractors who were making railways in France and Italy and draining Lake Capestang, lending £300,000 or £400,000. They finally pledged securities (£22,000) to the Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Prebendary of Rochester. Sir John Dean Paul got into a second-class carriage at Reigate, the functionaries trying to get in after him; the porter pulled them back, the train being in motion! Paul went to London alone, and in spite of telegraph got off, but at eight o’clock next night surrendered. The three men were tried October 26 and 27, 1858.