'E pur sono
Sventurata pastorella.'
478: Journal, Aug. 6, 1711.
479: Cavaliere di San Marco.
480: Spectator, 405.
481: 'Thou, O God, hast heard my vows.'
482: See Christ Church Bells, Appendix.
483: June 5, 1712.
484: The Royal Assent to this Act was given March 6, 1707.
485: ? Perti, who lived to the age of nearly 100, and was alive in 1744.
486: Tatler, 88.
487: Tatler, No. 4.
488: Postman, March 11/14, 1704.
489: Daily Courant, March 27, 1704.
490: Ibid., Aug. 6, 1705.
491: In the Postman, Feb. 3/6, 1711, is an advertisement of his, saying he intended retiring from business, and will sell his collection of pictures.
492: By P. A. Motteux.
493: Either Mary of Modena, Consort of James II., or Queen Mary.
494: A miniature painter, pupil of Sir Peter Lely, and nephew of Gibson, the dwarf painter.
495: Tatler, No. 216.
496: The Virtuoso, by Shadwell.
497: London Spy.
498: Thoresby.
499: No. 221.
500: Tatler, 236.
501: Daily Courant, Nov. 11, 1713.
502: The Miner's Friend, or, an Engine to raise Water by Fire described, &c. by Thomas Savery, Gent. London. 1702.
503: I.e. intricate and difficult to work.
504: The Duke of Marlborough's collection, sold 1882.
505: Journal, June 30, 1711.
506: Dunciad.
507: See Frontispiece.
508: The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Lond. 1705.
509: Daily Courant, Sept. 21, 1705.
510: The name of a principal character in the Duke of Buckingham's comedy of The Rehearsal.
511: Abel Roper, who then conducted the Post Boy.
512: Protestant Post Boy, Jan. 15/17, 1712.
513: Post Boy, Sept. 6/9, 1712.
514: Ridpath invented a manifold writer, which would take six or more copies at once.
515: Post Boy, Mar. 30/April 1, 1714.
516: Postboy, Sept. 12/15, 1713.
517: Howell's State Trials, ed. 1812, v. 14.
518: A scandalous practice then in vogue. 'Mr. Tutchin hereupon endeavoured to get a pardon from the people who had grants of lives, many of them 500, some 1000, more or less as they had interest with the King.' Again: 'For it was usual at that time for one Courtier to get a pardon of the King for half a Score, and then by the assistance of Jeffreys to augment the sum to fourscore or a hundred.' In these 'Bloody Assizes' 300 persons were condemned to death, and nearly 1,000 sold as slaves to the West Indian plantations.
519: Howell's State Papers, ed. 1812, pp. 1105-6.
520: Ibid. p. 1108.
521: Luttrell.
522: Journals of the House of Commons, vol. xvii. p. 514.
523: The part of this Act specially bearing upon newspapers was a stamp duty for thirty-two years from August 1, 1712: 'And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that there shall be Raised, Levied, Collected and Paid, to and for the Use of Her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, for and upon all Books or Papers commonly called Pamphlets, and for and upon all News Papers, or Papers containing Publick News, Intelligence or Occurrences, which shall, at any time or times within or during the Term last mentioned, be printed in Great Britain to be Dispersed and made Publick, and for and upon such Advertisements as are herein after mentioned the respective Duties following; That is to say.
'For every such Pamphlet or Paper contained in Half a Sheet or any lesser Piece of Paper, so Printed, the sum of One half penny.
'For every such Pamphlet or Paper (being larger than Half a Sheet, not exceeding one Whole Sheet) so printed, a Duty after the Rate of One Penny Sterling for every Printed Copy thereof.
'And for every such Pamphlet or Paper, being larger than One Whole Sheet, and not exceeding Six Sheets in Octavo, or in a Lesser Page, or not exceeding Twelve Sheets in Quarto, or Twenty Sheets in Folio, so Printed, a Duty after the Rate of Two Shillings Sterling for every Sheet of any kind of Paper which shall be contained in One Printed Copy thereof.
'And for every Advertisement to be Contained in the London Gazette or any other printed Paper, such Paper being Dispersed or made publick Weekly, or oftner, the Sum of Twelve Pence Sterling.' Acts of Parliament were exempt.
524: No. 445, July 31, 1712.
525: Daily Courant, Nov. 10, 1705.
526: Broth.
527: Harl. MSS. 5931-85.
528: Daily Courant, June 23, 1707.
529: The Dispensary, by Thos. Brown.
530: Spectator, No. 16.
531: London Spy.
532: The Dispensary.
533: Essay on Criticism.
534: A very long list of medical works of the time can be seen at the end of Dr. Garth's poem of The Dispensary, ed. 1699, B. M. 840 h. 6/2.
535: Miss Tempest, one of Queen Anne's Maids of Honour.
536: The Tatler, No. 44.
537: Journal, April 11, 1711.
538: Diary, July 14, 1714.
539: In the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall.
540: On this occasion there were 300.
541: These 'touch pieces' had on one side St. George overcoming the dragon, and were called 'angels.'
542: Oct 8, 1702.
543: Luttrell, March 20, 1703.
544: Journal, May 8, 1711.
545:
'If the pale Walker pants with weak'ning Ills,
His sickly Hand is stor'd with Friendly Bills:
From hence he learns the seventh born Doctor's Fame,
From hence he learns the cheapest Tailor's name.'
—Trivia, book 2.
546: London Spy.
547: Spectator, No. 154.
548: Epsom Wells, Shadwell.
549: The Tatler, No. 59.
550: The London Spy.
551: Spectator, 112.
552: Spectator, 383.
553: 'A Satyr Address'd to a Friend that is about to leave the University, and come abroad in the World,' by Mr. John Oldham, ed. 1703.
554: Tatler, 255.
555: The English Lady's Catechism.
556: Journal to Stella, Oct. 6, 1711.
557: Tatler, 370.
558: Journal to Stella, May 5, 1711.
559: Banks Coll., Brit. Mus., 1890, e. The Combatants are Bishop (then Dr.) Hoadly and Dr. Sacheverell—the Seconds, Drs. Burgess and Harris.
560: This statement was afterwards modified in the Globe of June 21, 1882. 'The Report of the auditor, Mr. Charles Garlant, states that the cost of administration of the bounty fund is approximately 17s. 6d. per cent. on the receipts and payments generally, and £2 10s. per cent. if items on capital account are altogether excluded.'
561: The Weekly Comedy, Jan. 2, 1708.
562: The Protestant Post Boy, Nov 17/20, 1711.
563: Luttrell, Jan. 25, 1705.
564: Flying Post., Feb. 17/20, 1705.
565: Luttrell, Sept. 26, 1704.
566: The Flying Post, July 17/20, 1714.
567: The Common people call them Seventh Day Men.
568: Journal to Stella, Jan. 15, 1712.
569: Spectator, 21.
570: A Comical View of London and Westminster.
571: Lives of the Lord Chancellors, etc., Lord Campbell.
572: 'An Useful Companion: or a Help at Hand. Being a Convenient Pocket Book.' Lond. 1709.
573: The Lying Lover, ed. 1704.
574: A Touch of the Times.
575: A Walk Round London and Westminster.
576: An Useful Companion.
577: Trivia.
578: Tatler, No. 7.
579: A play upon the word unmarred (unspoilt).
580: Tatler, 238.
581: Ibid., No. 9.
582: Habits and Cryes of the City of London, 1709.
583: Pies.
584: Rabbit.
585: Raree Show.
586: Glass Horns.
587: An itinerant pastrycook, mentioned in Spectator, 362, &c.
588: The London Spy.
589: Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London.
590: Tatler, 166.
591: Misson.
592: Diary, June 15, 1712.
593: At every tenth house.
594: The invention of Edmund Heming.
595: Misson.
596: Tatler, Nov. 19/22.
597: British Curiosities in Nature and Art, 1713.
598: London Spy.
599: The Beau's Duel, Mrs. Centlivre.
600: Love's Contrivance, Mrs. Centlivre.
601: At Kensington.
602: Luttrell's Diary, Dec. 10, 1709.
603: The Gamester.
604: Bully Dawson is supposed to be the original of Captain Hackum in Shadwell's play of 'The Squire of Alsatia,' and is mentioned by Steele in No. 2 of the Spectator, when he speaks of Sir Roger de Coverley having 'kick'd Bully Dawson in a publick Coffee House for calling him Youngster.'
605: Tatler, 77.
606: Brit. Mus. 816 m. 19/74.
607: A tuck was a short sword.
608: Spectator, 324.
609: Spectator, 347.
610: London Spy.
611: Daily Courant, Sept. 18, 1704.
612: Luttrell's Diary.
613: Journal to Stella, May 9, 1711.
614: Brit. Mus. E. 1992/4.
615: Brit. Mus. 515 l. 2/215.
616: Luttrell, June 12, 1708.
617: A Walk round London and Westminster.
618: The Funeral.
619: Tunbridge Walks.
620: The Recruiting Officer.
621: A Walk round London and Westminster.
622: The London Spy.
623: Post Boy, Oct. 7/9, 1712.
624: Gazette, Sept. 23/27, 1712.
626: Luttrell, March 12, 1706.
627: Tatler, No. 28.
628: Flying Post, April 2/4, 1702.
629: Ibid., April 4/7, 1702.
630: Daily Courant, March 4, 1703.
631: Luttrell, July 14, 1709.
632: Ibid., Oct. 31, 1702.
633: The Basset Table.
634: A Walk round London and Westminster.
635: A Voyage to the South Sea and round the World perform'd in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, etc.
636: Tyburn.
637: Usually three.
638: History of the Lives of the most noted Highwaymen, etc., by Capt. Alexander Smith, 1714.
639: Ibid.
641: Brit. Mus. E. 625/14.
642: Smith's Lives of Highwaymen.
643: Ibid.
644: Gagged.
645: Black letter, which was of later date than that text now termed Gothic.
646: Luttrell, Aug. 31, 1706.
647: Smith's Lives of Highwaymen, etc.
648: Spectator, 130.
649: This of course should read 1708.
650: The Post Boy, March 5/8, 1709.
651: Luttrell, Aug. 14, 1703.
652: Misson.
653: Misson.
654: The Shepherd's Week—The Dumps.
655: Hickelty Pickelty.
656: Hatton's New View of London, 1708.
657: London Spy.
659: The Lying Lover.
660: Smith's Lives of Highwaymen.
661: Hall's Memoirs.
662: New View of London.
663: Spectator, 82.
664: London Spy.
665: Luttrell's Diary.
666: A narrow alley leading from Lincoln's Inn Fields to Holborn.
667: The figure half round is the Hey half round, the whole figure is the Hey all four round.