[200] A reversible dress material of mingled silk and worsted,
produced at Norwich, and therefore called Norwich crape. It attained
such popularity early in the present century, says Beck's "Drapers'
Dictionary," that it superseded bombazine.
[201] See No. 59.
[202] See No. 74.
[203] See _Tatler_, No. 74, Sept. 29 (Steele).
[204] William Gregg, a clerk in Harley's office, was detected in
a treasonable correspondence with the French Government, and was
executed. He left behind him a paper exonerating Harley, who had been
suspected of complicity.
[205] This letter may, as Nichols suggested, be by John Hughes. See
letters in Nos. 64, 66, and 73.