'New things produce new words, and thus Monteith
Has by one Vessel, sav'd his name from Death.'
Dr. King's Art of Cookery, etc., p. 37.
248: London Gazette, May 26/29, 1707.
249: Ibid. Oct. 20/24, 1713.
250: The Basset Table.
251: Tatler, No. 27.
252: Works of T. Brown.
253: An Account of the Behaviour, Confession and last Dying Speech of Sir John Johnson.
254: Lying Lover.
255: Charing Cross.
256: Prologue to Centlivre's Love's Contrivance.
257: A Stock Jobbing Coffee House in Change Alley.
258: Spectator, No. 454.
259: England's Newest way in all Sorts of Cookery, etc., by Henry Howard, and 'Royal Cookery, or the Complete Court Cook, by Patrick Lamb, Esq. Near 50 years Master Cook to their late Majesties King Charles 2. King James 2. King William and Queen Mary, and to Her present Majesty Queen Anne.'
260: There was 'the Royal Peace Pudding, Tickets 1s. each, Made on Thanksgiving Day, 1713, 9 feet long, 20-1/2 inches broad, and 6 inches deep,' and there were the famous 12d. Marrow puddings. Blood Puddings were also in vogue. See Trivia:—
'Blood stuff'd in Skins is British Christian Food,
And France robs Marshes of the croaking Brood;
Spongy Morells in strong Ragousts are found,
And in the Soupe the slimy Snail is drown'd.'
261: London Gazette, Oct. 31/Nov. 4, 1706.
262: The English Post, June 5/8, 1702.
263: Journal, March 6, 1712.
264: The Virtuoso.
265: Postman, June 9/12, 1705.
266: Spectator, No. 454.
267: Daniel Defoe.
268: Potatoes in any large quantity were 1/2d. per lb.
269: London Spy.
270: Journal to Stella, Nov. 29, 1710.
271: Luttrell's Diary, Jan. 24, 1710.
272: The Virtuoso.
273: Bedlam.
274: Tatler, 138.
275: Shadwell's Epsom Wells.
276: Spectator, No. 43.
277: Adam and Eve Stript of their Furbelows.
278: Spectator, 328.
279: Postman, April 27/30, 1706.
280: London Post, April 14/17, 1704.
281: At Leeds.
282: Raw hide packages.
283: Journal to Stella, Nov. 3, 1711.
284: See also Tatler, 140.
285: Centlivre's The Wonder, a Woman Keeps a Secret, ed. 1714.
286: Luttrell.
287: Journal to Stella, letter 14.
288: A nickname of Swift's—a play on his name.
289: The Tripe Club.
290: The Beaux' Stratagem, act. iii. sc. 2.
291: New View of London, 1708.
292: Atterbury's Correspondence, ed. 1784, vol. iii. p. 87.
293: His brother. Bishop Trelawney was also a baronet; and he had an unepiscopal habit of swearing occasionally, but when such a faux pas occurred he always said it was the baronet, not the bishop, that swore. The inconvenience of this arrangement was pointed out to him one day by a friend, who remarked that, if the baronet was damned for swearing, what would become of the bishop.
294: Spectator, No. 31.
295: Spectator, No. 87.
296: Hickelty Pickelty.
297: Spectator, 49.
298: The Scowrers.
299: Motteux, in the Preface to his Poem in Praise of Tea.
300: Spectator, No. 49.
301: Journal to Stella, Nov. 19, 1710.
302: Tatler, 247.
303: Spectator, 46.
304: Daily Courant, Aug. 4, 1704.
305: News of the peace.
306: An allusion to the story of the Pretender's being smuggled in a warming-pan, and evidence of Jenny's Hanoverian proclivities.
307: Comical View of London.
308: Spectator, No. 269.
309: Tatler, 78.
310: Tatler, No. 34.
313: A Comical View of London and Westminster.
314: Hickelty Pickelty.
315: Dryden's.
316: Tatler, 11.
317: Luttrell, Jan. 1, 1709.
318: London Spy.
319: Journal, Oct. 27, 1710.
320: 'Here is nothing drunk but Ale, and every Gentleman hath his separate Mug, which he Chalks on the Table, where he sits, as it is brought in; and every one retires when he pleases, as from a Coffee House.'—A Journey through England, 1722.
321: Tatler, 79.
322: London Spy.
323: Journal, Feb. 18, 1711.
324: Journal, Jan. 28, 1712.
325: Journal, April 13, 1714.
326: Brit. Mus. 1093, c. 73.
327: In the ninth ed., 1714, after 'Morefields' it goes on: 'Where an Axe hung up in the Club Room, and was reverenced as a principal Symbol in this Diabolical Sacrament. Their Bill of Fare was a large Dish of Calves-Heads, dressed several ways, by which they represented the King and his Friends, who had suffer'd in his Cause; a large Pike with a small one in his Mouth, as an Emblem of Tyranny; a large Cod's Head, by which they pretended to represent the Person of the King singly; a Boar's Head with an Apple in its Mouth, to represent the King, by this, as Beastial, as by their other Hieroglyphicks they had done Foolish and Tyrannical. After the Repast was over, one of their Elders presented an Ikon Basilike, which was with great Solemnity burn'd upon the Table, whilst the Anthems were singing. After this, another produc'd Milton's Defensio Populi Anglicani, upon which all laid their Hands, and made a Protestation in the form of an Oath, for ever to stand by, and maintain the same;' then the text goes on as above.
328: Gent. Mag. vol. v. p. 105.
329: Charing Cross.
330: Jacob transposed.
331: Journal to Stella, Jan. 9, 1713.
332: Ibid. Feb. 21, 1712.
333: Ibid. March 5, 1712.
334: There was an engraving made of these standards; and a handbill about it (Harl. MSS. 5996, 40) is curious, as showing how they pushed trade then. 'The Colours being only to be seen in Westminster Hall, several Gentlemen and Others have desired to share in the Commemoration thereof, by placing the Representation of 'em in their Halls and Houses: And now to accommodate those who are so disposed, the said Representation with the Imbellishments above mention'd, is done on fine Imperial Paper, and will in a Day or Two be left at your house for your Perusal, till call'd for next Day, when you are desired either to return it, or be pleased to pay Two Shillings and Sixpence to the Person that deliver'd the Same.'
335: Comical View of London and Westminster.
336: Tatler, No. 30.
337: Diary, Jan. 21, 1709.
338: The records were kept in the Tower until the present reign.
339: Spectator.
341: London Spy.
342: So called because in 1699 he played the part of Dicky in Farquhar's Constant Couple, or a Trip to the Jubilee.
343: Harl. MSS., 5931, 251.
344: Luttrell.
345: Postman, May 14/16, 1702.
346: Stow's Survey, ed. 1720.
347: Luttrell.
348: Tatler, No. 4.
349: Daily Courant, Nov. 28, 1703.
350: Diary of Ralph Thoresby, July 14, 1714.
351: Spectator, No. 28.
352: 'This is to satisfie all People that have been inform'd that the High German Tall Man, had kill'd a Man, and was to be hang'd; that it is all false, and has been given out by other Show Keepers, on purpose to take away his Credit and Good Name.'—The Post Boy, April 12/14, 1709.
353: Sort of bassoon.
354: Diary, Jan. 14, 1709.
355: Diary, July 14, 1712.
356: The English Post, March 23/25, 1702.
357: Daily Courant, Aug. 6, 1703.
358: A Walk round London and Westminster.
359: Introduction to A Second Tale of a Tub, ed. 1715.
360: Spectator, No. 14.
361: Groans of Great Britain.
362: Daily Courant, May 9, 1709.
363: Diary, Feb. 11, 1709.
364: Spectator, No. 168.
365: Tatler, 171.
366: This was before Powell removed to the Piazza, Covent Garden.
367: Merry Wives of Windsor, Act. 1. sc. 1.
368: This bear belonged to Henslow and Alleyn, proprietors of Paris Garden, near the Globe Theatre, Bankside.
369: Harl. MSS. 5931, 282.
370: These dogs were only a moderate size.
371: If too sharp, the bull's horns were covered with wooden sheaths.
372: Misson.
373: Gay, Fable 9.
374: Harl. MSS. 5931, 46.
375: Sacheverell.
376: A Looking-glass for Swearers, etc., 1708.
377: Tunbridge Walks.
378: Luttrell, Sept. 1, 1705.
379: Belonging to the Duke of Somerset.
380: Luttrell, Aug. 15, 1702.
381: Ibid., Aug. 28, 1705.
382: Stella.
383: Spectator, 115.
384: The Quaker's Art of Courtship, 1710.
385: Rural Sports, Gay, ed. 1713.
386: Ibid.
387: Spectator, No. 122.
388: Harl. MSS. 5961, 154.
389: Harl. MSS. 5931, 50.
390: Harl. MSS. 5931, 277.
391: De Sorbière.
392: Misson.
393: Comical View of London and Westminster.
394: Spectator, No. 436
395: Hockley in the Hole.
396: Misson.
397: John Parkes or Sparkes was buried at Coventry, and on his tombstone was inscribed, inter alia, that he was a man of mild disposition, a gladiator by profession, who fought 350 battles in different parts of Europe, when he retired. He died 1733.
398: Spectator, No. 115.
399: Luttrell, Sept. 13, 1709.
400: Trivia, book 2.
401: Misson.
402: This illustration, although from the 1709 edition of Cotton's Compleat Gamester, is of older date; indeed, it is identical with the first edition of 1674. The fact of its being a text-book in Anne's reign shows that the game had not then been modified.
403: Spectator, No. 173.
404: Tunbridge Walks.
405: Hickelty Pickelty.
406: Epsom Wells.
407: The Theory and Practice of Gardening, by J. James, 1712.
408: Spectator, No. 414.
409: Tunbridge Walks.
410: Spectator, No. 119.
411: The Shepherd's Week—The Ditty, ed. 1714.
412: London Spy.
413: Daily Courant, April 30, 1703.
414: Daily Courant, Oct. 22, 1706.
415: By George Farquhar.
416: Daily Courant, June 8, 1703.
417: By N. Rowe.
418: Can this be an early work of Carey's? See Appendix.
419: By Colley Cibber.
420: Daily Courant, Oct. 5, 1703.
421: By J. Crowne, 1677.
423: Daily Courant, June 28, 1712.
424: Ibid., Dec. 14, 1703.
425: Ibid. Feb. 8, 1703.
426: Lady Sunderland, second daughter of the Duke of Marlborough. See p. 22.
427: Roscius Anglicanus, 1712.
428: Daily Courant, Feb. 4, 1708.
429: All for Love, or the World well Lost, by Dryden.
430: Postman, Feb. 5/8, 1704.
431: A translation from the Ecole des Femmes of Molière, and attributed to John Caryll.
432: By Edward Ravenscroft, 1697.
433: Daily Courant, March 9, 1704.
434: London Gazette, Feb. 1/5, 1705.
435: Spectator, No. 48.
436: Ibid. No. 45.
437: Spectator, No. 240.
438: Humours of the Army, Chas. Shadwell, 1713.
439: The Stage, N. Rowe.
440: Daily Courant, July 26, 1704.
441: By Thos. Otway.
442: Daily Courant, July 6, 1704.
443: Spectator, No. 44.
444: By Beaumont and Fletcher.
445: Supplement to Cibber.
446: Roscius Anglicanus, 1708.
447: Tatler, 167.
448: Harl. MSS. 5996, 100.
449: Comparison between the two Stages.
450: Tatter, 22.
451: No. 468.
452: Comparison between the two Stages.
453: Spectator, 370.
454: Tatler, 188.
455: By Thos. Shadwell.
456: Harl. MSS. 5931, 251.
457: 'For the Benefit of Will. Bullock.
'At the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, on Whitson Monday, being the 5th of June, will be reviv'd a Diverting Comedy call'd the Miser [Thomas Shadwell]. Written by the Author of the Squire of Alsatia; the part of Timothy Squeez the Scriveners foolish Son to be acted by Will. Bullock. With Entertainments of Dancing by Monsieur du Ruell. And Mr. Clinch of Barnet will perform these several Performances, first an Organ with three Voices, then the Double Curtel, the Flute, the Bells, the Huntsman, the Horn, and Pack of Dogs, all with his Mouth; and an old Woman of Fourscore Years of Age nursing her Grand Child; all of which he does open on the Stage. Next a Gentleman will perform several Mimick Entertainments on the Ladder, first he stands on the top round with a Bottle in one hand and a Glass in the other, and drinks a Health; then plays several Tunes on the Violin, with fifteen other surprizing Performances which no man but himself can do. And Will Pinkeman will dance the Miller's Dance and speak a comical joking Epilogue on an Ass. Beginning exactly at five a Clock by reason of the length of the Entertainments. At Common Prices.'—Daily Courant, June 2, 1704.
458: Diary, Jan. 7, 1661.
459: The History of the English Stage.
460: By Beaumont and Fletcher.
461: Pepys, Feb. 12, 1661.
462: By the Earl of Orrery.
463: By Thos. Otway.
464: By Dryden.
465: Tatler, 212.
466: Battista Draghi.
467: Daily Courant, Jan. 16, 1705.
468: Ibid. Dec. 6, 1707.
469: An Essay on the Operas after the Italian manner, 1706.
470: Tatler, No. 4.
471: Spectator, 13.
472: Ibid. 5.
473: Daily Courant, Feb, 24, 1711.
474: Ibid. Jan. 24, 1713.
475: Postman, May 9/12, 1702.
476: From the opera of 'Camilla.'
477: Sic in orig., but it should read—