Eighteenth Century Waifs

Then valued at four shillings each, or eight pounds in all.

80

Gay, in his ‘Trivia,’ book i, says, ‘Let Persian Dames th’Umbrella’s Ribs display, To guard their Beauties from the Sunny Ray.’

81

‘A Review of the proposed Naturalization of the Jews.’

82

Among other Bills which then received the Royal Assent was one for purchasing Sloane Museum and the Harleian MSS., and for providing a general repository for the same – by means of a lottery – the commencement of the British Museum.

83

‘Parliamentary History,’ Hansard, vol. xv, p. 154.

84

‘Eight Letters to his Grace – Duke of Newcastle – on the custom of Vails-giving in England, &c.,’ 1760, p. 20.

85

‘The East Neuk of Fife,’ by Rev. Walter Wood. Edinburgh, 1862, p. 208.

86

Tickled the palms of their hands.

87

‘The English Treasury of Wit and Language,’ etc., ed. 1655, pp. 223, 224.

88

Or surfel – to wash the cheeks with mercurial or sulphur water.

89

Face-washes and ointments.

90

Edition 1699, p. 19. The poem had reference to the College of Physicians, establishing a dispensary of their own, owing to the excessive charges of the apothecaries. The institution did not last very long.

91

Gold.

92

‘The Female Physician, &c.,’ by John Ball, M.D. – London, 1770, pp. 76, 77.

93

This water, as its name implies, was supposed to be a sovereign remedy for gunshot wounds. It was also called aqua vulneraria, aqua sclopetaria, and aqua catapultarum.

94

Now called an entire horse, or stallion.

95

‘The London Spy,’ ed. 1703, p. 124.

96

An allusion to the dispensary which the College of Physicians set up in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and which was the subject of Sir S. Garth’s satirical poem, called ‘The Dispensary.’

97

A seventh son of a seventh son is supposed to be endowed with extraordinary faculties of healing, and many of these quacks pretended to such a descent.

98

‘The London Spy,’ ed. 1703, p. 64.

99

A covering, or gaiter, to protect the legs from dirt or wet.

100

‘The Liturgy and other Divine Offices of the Church.’ London, Bosworth, 1880, p. 638.

101

‘The Liturgy and other Divine Offices of the Church,’ p. 584.

102

General Advertiser, March 26, 1782.

103

General Advertiser, May 1, 1783.

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