1: Seventeen times, in fact.
2: The Chronological Historian, &c., by W. Toone ed. 1826.
3: Tatler, No. 15.
4: Probably Sir John Floyer, who wrote several books on the wonderful cures made by cold-water bathing.
5: M. Misson's Memoirs and Observations in his Travels over England, &c., translated by Ozells, 1719.
6: The London Spy, ed. 1703.
7: Harl. 5931, 336.
8: Ibid. 121.
9: Collectanea Medica, by Wm. Salmon, M.D.
10: Collectanea Medica.
11: The Family Physitian, by Geo. Hartman.
12: Ibid.
13: Ibid.
14: Father of the celebrated painter.
15: Harl. MSS., British Museum.
16: There is a very large and beautiful engraving of this scene, from which are taken the illustrations of carriages, post.
17: The Queen recommended the design of charity schools to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, in a letter dated August 20, 1711: 'And forasmuch as the pious Instruction and Education of Children is the surest Way of preserving and propagating the Knowledge and Practice of true Religion, it hath been very acceptable to US to hear, that for the Attaining these good Ends, many Charity Schools are now Erected throughout the Kingdom, by the liberal Contributions of OUR Good subjects; WE do therefore earnestly recommend it to you, by all proper Ways, to encourage and promote so excellent a Work, and to countenance and assist the Persons principally concerned in it, as they shall always be sure of Our Protection and Favour.'
18: She was sister of Tutchin, of the Observator.
19: The Levellers, a dialogue between two young ladies concerning matrimony, &c.
20: The Scowrers, by Shadwell.
21: A pocket violin.
22: See Appendix. 'Lilli burlero' and 'Bullen a lah' are said to have been the watchwords used by the Irish Papists in their massacre of the Protestants in 1641. The ballad to this tune was written in 1686, when James II. made the Earl of Tyrconnel, a bigoted papist, Lieutenant of Ireland. The words are nonsensical, but the tune is catching, and became very popular. This song is said to have contributed greatly in bringing about the Revolution of 1688.
23: The Tender Husband (Steele).
24: Spectator, 66.
25: Ibid., 376.
26: Spectator, 67.
29: Tatler, 31.
30: Ibid., 24.
31: Luttrell's Diary, Sept. 12, 1710.
32: British Museum, 515, l. 2, 196.
33: The Counsellor's Plea for the Divorce of Sir G. D. and Mrs. F., 1715.
34: But it never has been changed, and is now in force.
35: Marriage Promoted, &c.
36: The Levellers.
37: The Tatler, 199.
38: Spectator, 295.
39: Ibid. 59.
40: Tunbridge Walks, by Thos. Baker, 1703.
41: Trivia, by Gay.
42: Post Boy, May 24/27, 1712.
43: There was a law against marrying the heiress of a noble family before the age of twenty-one years without the consent of her guardians.
44: Postman, August 28/31, 1703.
45: Judging by the 8th and 9th Wm. III. cap. 26, which took away their pretended privileges, these were White Friars, the Savoy, Salisbury Court, Ram Alley, Mitre Court, Fuller's Rents, Baldwin's Gardens, Montague Close, the Minories, Mint and Clink or Dead Man's Place; but there were many others.
46: Lansdowne MSS., 93-17.
47: The Postboy, October 13/16, 1711.
48: The Postboy, April 18/20, 1710.
49: Bacon's Abridgment, Tit. Baron and Feme.
50: Usually at the father's or guardian's of the lady.
51: This custom partially survives, and originated in a division among the guests of the ribbons worn by the bride and bridegroom. These favours were worn for some weeks in the hat, and were made of a pretty large knot of ribbons of various colours—gold, silver, carnation, and white.
52: This was absolutely necessary, and mourning was also temporarily left off, unless for a very near relation recently deceased.
53: The licence was generally shown the clergyman the day before the wedding, and an appointment made for the ceremony.
54: There was then, and may be now, a curious superstition that every pin about the bride must be thrown away and lost. There would be no luck if one remained. Nor must the bridesmaid keep one, for should she do so she certainly would not be married before Whitsuntide.
55: Pepys tells of a frolic Lady Castlemaine and the beautiful Frances Terese Stuart (the original of the Britannia on the copper coinage) had: 'That they two must be married—and married they were—with ring and all other ceremonies of Church service, and ribbands, and a sack posset in bed, and flinging the stocking.'
56: A mob was a déshabillé dress, scarcely ever mentioned in terms of commendation.
57: Guardian, No. 113.
58: Spectator, 479.
59: Daily Courant, April 9, 1706.
60: Trivia.
61: This and the following quotations are from The Funeral or Grief à la Mode, by Steele, ed. 1702.
62: Pope's Moral Essays, Epistle i. This is said to refer to Mrs. Oldfield, the famous actress of Anne's reign, who (vide Gentleman's Magazine for March 1731) 'was buried in Westminster Abby, in a Brussels lace Head dress, a Holland Shift, with Tucker and double Ruffles of the same Lace, and a Pair of new Kid Gloves.' 'Betty' was her old and faithful servant, Mrs. Saunders, herself an actress, taking widows' and old maids' parts.
63: Daily Courant, Sept. 30, 1713.
64: Appendix.
65: Diary of Ralph Thoresby, April 15, 1702.
66: Diary, May 26, 1703.
67: Daily Courant, March 5, 1705.
68: The Crown and Sceptre in St. Martin's Street.
69: The handsomest was let out on hire for twenty-five or thirty shillings.
70: Called Pall-bearers—some six friends or so—and accounted a special honour.
71: A hearse.
72: The Flying Post and Medley, July 27, 1714.
73: A New View of London, 1708.
74: See Meditations upon a Broomstick and Somewhat Beside, Swift, ed. 1710.
75: The same lady satirised in The Reverse.
76: Vanbrugh was Comptroller General of Works.
77: Postman, December 10/12, 1702.
78: The London Gazette, June 14/18, 1705.
79: Journal to Stella, letter 4.
80: Ibid. letter 21.
81: Diary of Ralph Thoresby, August 22, 1712.
82: The London Spy.
83: Afterwards Northumberland Street, Strand.
84: London Gazette, Feb. 27/Mar. 1, 1714.
85: Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 26, 1702.
86: Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 13, 1703.
87: Ibid. Nov. 20, 1703.
88: Daily Courant, Jan. 21, 1713.
89: Daily Courant, Nov. 27, 1704.
90: Harl. 5996, 147.
91: Thoresby's Diary, May 24, 1714.
92: Harl. 5996, 87.
93: Ibid. 5961, 326.
94: Spectator, 214.
95: Tunbridge Walks, ed. 1703.
96: The Perplexed Lovers, by Mrs. Centlivre, ed. 1712.
97: Spectator, No. 299.
98: Ibid. 143.
99: The Basset Table, sc. i., ed. 1706.
100: Journal to Stella, letter 10.
101: Postboy, Jan. 21/23, 1714.
102: Spectator, No. 45.
103: The Tatler, No. 132.
104: Tatler, No. 245.
105: The Virtuoso, ed. 1704.
106: The London Spy.
109: Fiddles.
111: The Baboon A-la-mode, A Satyr against the French, ed. 1704.
112: The Virtuoso.
113: Construe and parse.
114: Almonds for Parrots, ed. 1708.
115: Tunbridge Walks.
116: Tatler, No. 13.
117: The Beau's Duel.
118: Tatler, No. 2.
119: St. James's Park, a Satyr, 1709.
120: Tunbridge Walks.
121: Love Makes a Man.
122: The Virtuoso.
123: Spectator, No. 45.
124: The English Lady's Catechism. I have seen the original edition, dated 1703.—J. A.
125: This settles the date as being early in Anne's reign, as the galleons were captured at Vigo in 1702, and everything from Vigo was fashionable.
126: Spectator, No. 323.
127: By Dryden.
128: The Heroine in Aurenzebe.
129: Duncan Campbell, who pretended to tell fortunes by second sight.
130: See Spectator, No. 60.
131: Journal to Stella, letter 23.
132: The London Spy.
133: The Works of Thomas Brown, ed. 1708, vol. iii. p. 86.
134: Spectator, No. 337.
135: The Lying Lover.
136: The London Spy.
137: The Tatler, No. 88.
138: Ward's Adam and Eve stript of their Furbelows.
139: Journal to Stella, letter 53.
140: Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.
141: 'The Gaming Lady, or Bad Luck to him that has her,' in Adam and Eve stript of their Furbelows.
142: Epilogue to The Gamester, ed. 1705.
143: The Tender Husband.
144: The London Gazette, Dec. 6/10, 1705.
145: The Busy Body.
146: The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, ed. 1705.
147: The London Spy.
148: Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the most famous Gamesters and Celebrated Sharpers in the Reigns of Charles 2, James 2, William 3, and Queen Anne, etc. By Theophilus Lucas. London, 1714.
149: The English Post, October 12/14, 1702.
150: Here is a sample of one of these traps to catch gulls: 'At Nixon's Coffee House, at Fetter Lane End in Fleet St, is open'd an Office call'd the Golden Office, where by putting in Monys, not exceeding 5 Guineas, may receive Cent per Cent in three Weeks time. Proposals may be had at the Place aforesaid.'—Postboy, April 26/29, 1712.
151: Luttrell.
152: Ibid. August 15, 1710.
153: Harl. MSS. 5931, 231.
154: Harl. MSS. 5931, 233.
155: Ibid. 5931, 236.
156: The London Spy.
157: Spectator, No. 117.
158: British Museum, 515, l. 2./15.
159: British Museum, 515, l. 2./199.
160: Spectator, No. 272.
161: Daily Courant, Feb. 14, 1708.
162: The Gentleman Cully, ed. 1702.
163: Tunbridge Walks, ed. 1703.
164: Besides the six great offices for taking in letters, there were 600 smaller ones in different parts of London, for the convenience of correspondents.
165: Daily Courant, January 11, 1703.
166: Daily Courant, October 30, 1707.
167: A Comical View of London and Westminster, ed. 1705, p. 100.
168: Hickelty Pickelty.
169: London Spy.
170: The Careless Husband, 2nd ed., 1705.
171: Hickelty Pickelty.
172: Tatler, No. 113.
173: Love Makes a Man, C. Cibber, ed. 1701.
174: Spectator, 319.
175: Ibid.
176: Ibid.
177: The Roving Husband Reclaim'd, ed. 1706.
178: The Baboon à la Mode, A Satyr against the French.
179: Protestant Mercury, July 10, 1700.
180: London Spy.
181: Daily Courant, Oct. 17, 1712.
182: Postman, Nov. 13/16, 1708 (? misprint for 1707).
183: The Levellers, a Dialogue.
184: The Gamesters.
185: London Spy.
186: The Gentleman Cully, ed. 1702.
187: Postman, Sept 23/26, 1710.
188: Journal to Stella, let. 13.
189: Spectator, No. 319 (Budgell).
190: Trivia, book 1.
191: Ibid. book 3.
192: Harl. MSS. 5931, 242.
193: Guardian, No. 10.
194: Small curls on the forehead.
195: Tatler, No. 166.
196: Journal to Stella.
197: Tatler, No. 95.
198: Ibid. 246.
199: Ibid. 151.
200: Journal to Stella, letter 6.
201: Postboy, Feb. 25, 1714.
202: Epilogue to Mrs. Centlivre's Love's Contrivance, ed. 1703.
203: Spectator, No. 145.
204: Postman, Nov. 15, 1707.
205: Harl. MSS. 5931, 205.
206: Spectator, 129.
207: Ibid. 16.
208: Trivia, book 1.
209: Guardian, No. 143.
210: Trivia, book 1.
211: A Joseph, a Wrap Rascal, etc.
212: Trivia, book 1.
213: Journal to Stella, letter 8.
214: Journal to Stella, letter 8.
215: It is said to have had its origin in a hunting party, where the hair of the royal favourite got loose. She hurriedly tied her laced handkerchief round her head; and the effect produced was so pretty, and artistic, that it delighted Louis XIV., who begged her to keep it so arranged for the remainder of the day—a hint not wasted on the other ladies, who next day appeared 'coiffées à la Fontange.'
216: Spectator, No. 98, June 21, 1711.
217: London Spy.
218: The extremely bouffée furbelows were called rumpt furbelows, and the brooches inserted in the centre were called rump jewels or rumphlets.
219: The Petticoat; an Heroi-Comical Poem, by Joseph Gay (pseudo for J. Durant de Brevel), 1716.
220: Tatler, 116.
221: Spectator, 331.
222: Ibid. 435.
223: The Virtuoso.
224: The Fan.
225: The Lying Lover.
226: The Platonick Lady.
227: The Virtuoso.
228: Spectator, 81.
229: Epilogue to The Modish Husband, ed. 1702.
230: London Spy.
231: No. 265.
232: Feuille-mort.
233: Female Folly, or the Plague of a Woman's Riding Hood and Cloak, 1713.
234: London Spy.
235: The Tatler, No. 238.
236: The Female Tatler, Dec. 12.
237: Trivia, book 1.
238: The Fan, by Gay, ed. 1714.
239: Journal to Stella, letter 11.
240: Why Taunton dean ladies I am at a loss to say, unless, as Somersetshire was then considered as the 'ultima Thule' of civilisation, it is meant that the dresses were as fine and gaudy as a country belle would wear, in contradistinction to the better taste of her town-bred sister.
241: In reality it was 1704. In the old style of reckoning 1704 did not begin till the 25th of March, and the London Gazette of this reign always kept to the old style.
242: 'Moco' stones are what are now called moss agates.
243: See ante, 'Rumps.'
244: Probably what we call 'Bristol diamonds.'
245: London Gazette, Dec. 23/27, 1708.
246: Ibid. Jan. 8/11, 1704-5.
247: A Monteith was a kind of punch-bowl, with scallops or indentations in the brim, the object of which was to convert it into a convenient tray for bringing in the wine-glasses. These being placed with the brims downwards, radiating from the centre, and with the handles protruding through the indentations in the bowl, were easily carried without much jingling or risk of breaking. Of course the bowl would then be empty of liquor.