[89] Dodsley’s _London_ (1761), s.v. “Stepney.” There are modern
streets known as Garden Street and Spring Garden Place, but these are
some distance _south_ of the Mile End Road, not far from St.
Dunstan’s, Stepney.
[90] See Crace, _Cat._, p. 616, No. 80.
[91] “The back entrance was from the fields, beyond which, north, was a
narrow winding passage, with garden palings on each side, leading into
High Street” (Smith’s _Book for a Rainy Day_, p. 39).
[92] Pulled down in 1791. Devonshire Mews was built on the site.
[93] These lines, often erroneously attributed to Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu, occur in Pope’s _The Basset-table, an Eclogue_. The
allusion in the second line is to Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham.
[94] Gough issued, 1738–9, silver tickets at 12_s._ each,
admitting two persons for the season. In 1740 the silver season-ticket,
admitting two, cost £1 1_s._ There are extant silver (or rather
base silver) season tickets of 1766 (Wilkinson, _Londina_, vol.
ii., last plate, No. 19) and of 1767 (Brit. Mus.). These later tickets,
admitting two, cost £1 11_s._ 6_d._, or two guineas. There
are copper tickets of 1770 (specimen in Brit. Mus.). In 1774 the ticket
for two cost two guineas.
[95] The use of the old spelling which occurs in all the advertisements
and contemporary notices must be conceded.
[96] J. T. Smith and several modern writers state that Trusler was
proprietor in 1751. It would appear, however, from the newspapers that
in 1754 John Sherratt was proprietor, and in May 1755 Mr. Beard was
stated to have “lately taken the Gardens.” Trusler was undoubtedly
manager from 1756–1763. He died before October 1766.
[97] Cp. _Vocal Melody_, Book iii. _A favourite collection of
songs and dialogues sung by Master Arne and Miss Faulkner at Marybone
Gardens, set by Mr. Arne._ Published 15 August, 1751, by J. Walsh,
Catherine Street, Strand.
[98] The name is variously spelt; usually Falkner.
[99] See Trusler’s _Memoirs_, p. 63, ff.; cp. _Dict. Nat.
Biog._, art. “Dunk, George Montagu, second Earl of Halifax,”
1716–1771.
[100] _The Servant Mistress, a burletta translated from the
Italian._ Price 6_d._, printed at Marybone Gardens.
[101] Hone’s _Year Book_, pp. 500–503.
[102] Trusler’s _Memoirs_, p. 57.
[103] Two men were executed 15 June, 1763, at Tyburn for robbing, in
Marybone Fields, the waiters belonging to Marybone Gardens.
[104] Indenture between Robert Long and Thomas Lowe, dated 30 August,
1763. The lease was for fourteen years. Trusler ceased to reside at the
Gardens in 1764 when he went to Boyle Street, Saville Row, and Miss
Trusler carried on business as a confectioner.
[105] The vocalists 1763–1767, besides Lowe, were--1763, Mrs. Vincent,
Mrs. Lampe, Miss Catley, Miss Hyat, Miss Smith, Miss Plenius (1763?),
and Mr. Squibb (Sig. Storace and Miss Catley had benefits); 1764, Mrs.
Vincent, Mrs. Lampe, Miss Moyse, Miss Hyat, Mr. Squibb; 1765, Mrs.
Vincent, Mrs. Collett, Miss Davis, Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Legg; 1766, Mr.
Taylor, Mr. Raworth, Mrs. Vincent, Miss Davis; 1767, Mrs. Gibbons.
[106] The vocalists in 1768 were Reynoldson, Taylor, Phillips, Miss
Davis, Miss Froud.
[107] Performers in 1769: Pinto, leader; Hook; Park, hautboy.
Vocalists, Mrs. Forbes, Miss Brent, Mr. Herryman, Mr. Reynoldson.
[108] Performers, 1770: Barthelemon (violin); Hook; Reinhold, Charles
Bannister; Mrs. Thompson; Mrs. Barthelemon; Mrs. Dorman. It is well
known that Thomas Chatterton the poet wrote a burletta called _The
Revenge_, which he sold to the management of Marybone Gardens for
five guineas. It was not published till 1795, when it was issued as
_The Revenge, a burletta acted at Marybone Gardens, MDCCLXX._ In
the Marybone Gardens’ advertisements of 1770 (and of later dates) no
burletta bearing the name of _The Revenge_ appears, and the writer
of the article “Chatterton” in _Dict. Nat. Biog._ thinks that the
burletta must have been performed at some time subsequent to 1770,
the year of Chatterton’s death. In _The Revenge_ as published,
the _dramatis personæ_ are Jupiter, Mr. Reinhold; Bacchus, Mr.
Bannister; Cupid, Master Cheney; Juno, Mrs. Thompson. Reinhold,
Bannister, and Mrs. Thompson sang at the Gardens 1770–1773, and Cheney
in 1770. I may add that a burletta called _The Madman_, performed
at the Gardens in 1770, has a plot quite distinct from that of _The
Revenge_.
[109] Performers, 1771: Hook; solo violin, Mons. Reeves; Charles
Bannister; Mrs. Thompson; Miss Esser; Miss Harper (afterwards Mrs. John
Bannister); Miss Thomas; and Miss Catley who sang “The Soldier tired
of War’s Alarms”; “Sweet Echo,” from _Comus_ (the echo “sung by a
young gentleman”), &c.
[110] According to J. T. Smith (_Rainy Day_, p. 52, n.), Torré
was a print-seller in partnership with Mr. Thane, and lived in Market
Lane, Haymarket. Other fireworkers at the Gardens at this period were
Clitherow (1772); Clanfield (1772 and 1773); Caillot of Ranelagh (1773,
1775, 1776).
[111] Performers, 1772: Hook, organ; Charles Bannister, Culver,
Reinhold, Mrs. Calvert, Mrs. Forbes, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Cartwright and
Mrs. Thompson.
[112] On his own benefit night in July 1772, Torré gave a
representation of Hercules delivering Theseus from Hell, in addition to
the Forge of Vulcan.
[113] Performers, 1773: Charles Bannister; Reinhold; Phillips;
Barthelemon (leader); Miss Wilde; Mrs. Thompson; Mrs. Barthelemon. “Mr.
Dibdin, of Drury Lane Theatre,” was announced to sing in Barthelemon’s
“La Zingara, or the Gipsy” on Barthelemon’s benefit night.
[114] Also on 13 June, 1774.
[115] Performers, 1774: Fisher (violin), Dubellamy, Reinhold; Mons.
Rodell, “musician to the King of Portugal,” German flute; Miss
Wewitzer, Miss Trelawny, Miss Wilde.
[116] A large printed bill referring to this entertainment is in the
possession of Mr. H. A. Rogers, and is reproduced in his _Views of
Pleasure Gardens of London_, p. 30.
[117] _Nollekens_, i. 33, chap. ii.
[118] At a bazaar held in the Portman Rooms, Baker Street, in 1887
(Nov. 22–26), for the benefit of the charities of Marylebone Church,
an ingenious reproduction was attempted, under the direction of Mr.
Thomas Harris, the architect, of the latticed alcoves, lamp-hung trees,
&c., of the old Marybone Gardens (see _A Booke of ye olde Marybone
Gardens_, 1887 (sold at the bazaar); _Daily Telegraph_ for 23
November, 1887).
[119] An account of the robbery and murder in 1808 of Mr. William
Joachim in the Marylebone Fields mentions that he was on his way home
to Lisson Grove, after a visit to the Jew’s Harp Tavern to see the
skittle-playing (F. Miller’s _St. Pancras_, p. 238).
[120] Wheatley, _London Past and Present_, s.v. “Yorkshire
Stingo,” states on the authority of Cooke’s _Old London Bridge_,
p. 7, that a bridge designed by the celebrated Thomas Paine, being the
second cast-iron bridge ever constructed, was brought to London in
1790 and set up in the bowling-green of the Yorkshire Stingo; it was
afterwards taken back to Rotherham (where it had been made in 1789) and
broken up in 1791.
[121] _The Picture of London_, 1802, p. 370, mentions the
Yorkshire Stingo as a house many years celebrated for rustic sports on
May Day.
[122] Newspaper cuttings in W. Coll.; cp. Hollingshead’s _My
Lifetime_, i. 24, and _see also_ Stuart and Park, _The
Variety Stage_, p. 38, who mention Cave and Glindon as the comic
vocalists. The saloon, which was in the rear of the tavern, had a
small but capable orchestra directed by Love, afterwards leader at the
Princess’s Theatre under Charles Kean. Miss Tunstall of Vauxhall was at
one time a singer there.
[123] Pulled down about 1895.
[124] Woodward’s _Eccentric Excursions_, p. 18.
[125] Before 1702.
[126] _The Country Journal, or the Craftsman_, 7 March, 1729–30.
If an allusion in a pamphlet of 1735--_A seasonable examination
of the pleas and pretensions of ... Playhouses erected in defiance
of Royal Licence_ (London, printed for T. Cooper, 1735)--may be
relied on, Pancras Wells had about that time some kind of (unlicensed)
theatrical or “variety” entertainments resembling those of Sadler’s
Wells.
[127] According to Roffe (_St. Pancras_), Pancras Wells occupied
the south side of Church Hill from its base to its summit. Palmer
in his _St. Pancras_, published in 1870, says the Well “is now
enclosed in the garden of a private house, neglected and passed out of
mind.”
[128] It is shown in the bird’s-eye view of Pancras Wells of 1730. In
April 1731, James Dalton, a notorious footpad, robbed a linenpedlar
at night near the Adam and Eve after drinking with him at the tavern
(Pinks’s _Clerkenwell_, p. 549).
[129] _The Connoisseur_, 1754, No. 26.
[130] Five of these pier-glasses were stolen from the long room in 1778
(_London Evening Post_, 11–14 July, 1778).
[131] Advertisement of 1786 quoted in Clinch’s _Marylebone and St.
Pancras_, p. 157.
[132] There are advertisements of the Adam and Eve issued (at the end
of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century?) by G.
Swinnerton, Junr. and Co., and by George Lambert (quoted in Walford,
vol. v. p. 338). The _Picture of London_, 1805, mentions the Adam
and Eve Tea-gardens, bowling-green, &c., but the conversion of the
gardens into the cemetery (authorised by Act of Parliament in 1803)
appears to have been already carried out in 1804.
[133] There is a mention of the inn in 1725: the Assembly Rooms were
certainly in existence in 1750, and perhaps at an earlier date. The
original sign of the inn appears to have been the Black Bull; see
_Notes and Queries_, 1st ser. viii. p. 293; W. Elliot’s _Some
Account of Kentish Town_ (1821), p. 65.
[134] The new or altered building contained the circular structure
shown in so many views of the place.
[135] The White Conduit meadow long continued in use as a cricket
ground. About 1784 and subsequently a club composed of gentlemen and
men of rank played its matches there. Among the players were the Duke
of Dorset, Lord Winchilsea, Lord Talbot, Col. Tarleton, and Thomas
Lord, who afterwards established the Marylebone Cricket Club.
[136] A poem by W. W[oty] printed in the _London Chronicle_, 1760,
vol. vii. p. 531.
[137] “White Conduit Loaves” was a London cry till about 1825.
[138] Forster’s _Life of Goldsmith_; cp. Goldsmith’s _Citizen of
the World_, Letter 122.
[139] “An Awkward Position,” a painting by A. Solomon, depicts the
situation. This was exhibited in the Royal Academy, and reproduced in
the _Illustrated London News_, 14 June, 1851.
[140] Ashton, _The Fleet_, p. 66.
[141] Bartholomew sold his interest in White Conduit House 25 March,
1795.
[142] About 1772 these performances were prohibited on Sundays.
[143] See a bill in the London Sections Collection, Guildhall Library,
and cp. Rogers’s _Views of Pleasure Gardens of London_, p. 55;
also G. Cruikshank’s Ivan Ivanitz Chabert, a print published 13 March,
1818. Hone’s _Every Day Book_, ii. p. 771, ff.
[144] Born 1769, died 1838.
[145] Till May of 1829 the old building was still standing.
[146] Hone’s _Every Day Book_, ii. p. 1204.
[147] Cp. the White Conduit concert described in the _Sketches by
Boz_ (“The Mistaken Milliner,” cap. viii.).
[148] The _Variety Stage_, by Stuart and Park, p. 8; 103.
[149] The place appears to be referred to as early as 1633 as “the
bowling place in Islington Fields” (Pinks, p. 710).
[150] Mrs. Dobney died at about the age of ninety on 15 March, 1760.
[151] Pinks states that Price had been starring at the Three Hats,
Islington, prior to his performance at Dobney’s in 1767 (cp. _Memoirs
of J. de Castro_ (1824), p. 29, who says that Price, Thomas Johnson,
and old Sampson exhibited at the Three Hats). This may have been the
case, though from 1758 to the spring of 1767, Thomas Johnson was
certainly the chief equestrian performer at the “Three Hats.”
[152] _London Evening Post_, August 1776. The Pantheon is the
tea-house in Exmouth Street.
[153] Tomlins in his _Perambulation of Islington_, published in
1858, but written in part about 1849, describes Prospect House as still
existing behind Winchester Place, though the bowling green (he says)
had been already covered by Winchester Place.
[154] Busby’s Folly is first mentioned in 1664 as a meeting-place of
the Society of Bull Feathers Hall, a fraternity of Odd Fellows. It is
supposed to have derived its name from Christopher Busby, landlord of
the White Lion Inn, Islington, in 1668.
[155] Prologue written and spoken by Mr. Gibson before the Orphan at
the New Theatre in the Haymarket on 31 May, 1762 (_Owen’s Weekly
Chronicle or Universal Journal_, June 5 to 12, 1762). The “wonder
of a Chelsea field” mentioned in this prologue is evidently Coan,
the dwarf (called “the jovial pigmy”), who attracted visitors to the
Dwarf’s Tavern in Chelsea Fields (see _infra_, Star and Garter,
Chelsea).
[156] According to Nelson and Lewis, the house facing to the south at
the northern termination of Colebrooke Row, was occupied about 1772
by the Rev. John Rule, who there kept a school, of some repute, for
gentlemen’s sons. The Castle Inn was the adjoining house and a house
next to the Castle was supposed by a doubtful tradition (cp. J. Knight,
art. “Cibber” in _Dict. Nat. Biog._) to be that in which Colley
Cibber died 12 December, 1757 (_see_ Nelson and Lewis). The old
house with a red-tiled roof, still existing, though divided into the
dwelling houses Nos. 56 and 57 Colebrooke Row, was apparently the
Castle Inn. The southern end of Colebrooke Row was built in the present
century. The Row also now extends a little farther to the north than
when Nelson wrote, so that Rule’s house is not now at the extreme
northern end of the Row.
[157] Sampson’s Riding School at Islington is mentioned in the
_Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine_ for January 1773, p. 162,
together with Astley’s and Hughes’s.
[158] They were probably in existence before this date, but are
not marked in the survey of Islington of 1735. An advertisement in
_The Morning Herald_ of 22 April, 1786, announces the sale
of the ground-rents of an Islington copyhold estate. This estate,
situated “in the Lower Street, opposite Cross Street, Islington, and
extending down to Frog Lane,” comprised a brick mansion and garden,
four dwelling-houses and gardens, and the Barley Mow Tea House and
Gardens. A plan of the estate was to be seen at Mr. Spurrier’s, the
auctioneer’s, Copthall Court, Throgmorton Street. The estate was
therefore between the present Essex Road, where it is touched by Cross
Street, and Popham Road.
[159] See the survey of roads in Islington parish in 1735 (Nelson’s
_Islington_, p. 20).
[160] Hone, _Every Day Book_, i. p. 860. Tomlins
(_Islington_, 204, 205) discovered that in 1753 it was occupied
by a currier, and supposes, therefore, that it was not a place of
entertainment till after that date. The meeting of the Highbury Society
there before 1740 seems however to bear out Hone’s assertion that
Copenhagen House was already an inn in the first half of the eighteenth
century.
[161] Map in Gibson’s edition of Camden’s _Britannia_, 1695.
[162] Hone, however, shows (_op. cit._ 860) that there is some
reason for supposing that Copenhagen House was not in existence until
after 1624.
[163] On the Highbury Society, see note _infra_ under Highbury
Barn.
[164] The graphic account in Hone (_op. cit._ 862) is worth
reading, though too long for quotation here.
[165] Hazlitt’s memoir is published in the _Examiner_ for February
17, 1819; most of it is reprinted in Hone’s _Every Day Book_, i.
865, ff.
[166] _Picture of London_, 1823 and 1829; Hone’s _Every Day
Book_, i. 859, 870.
[167] The hay-harvest is referred to in Nelson’s _Islington_,
1811, 74. A view of 1809, published by Cundee in the _Juvenile
Tourist_, 1810, shows cockney visitors playing in the hay.
[168] Plan in Lewis’s _Islington_.
[169] J. Hollingshead’s _My Lifetime_, i. 13. The cricket ground
was between Copenhagen House and Maiden Lane.
[170] Tomlins, _Perambulation of Islington_, p. 205.
[171] F. Miller, _St. Pancras_, 269.
[172] Highbury Barn, _i.e._, the grange or farm of Highbury
Manor, is mentioned by that name at an early period, and there are
extant various leases of it of the fifteenth century, granted by
the Prior and Convent of St. John of Jerusalem (_e.g._ “our
certain grange, situate upon the site of our manor of Highbury called
Highbury Barn”--see Tomlins’s _Perambulation of Islington_). The
name Highbury Barn is, therefore, much older than the date of the
incorporation of the large barn of Highbury Farm with the Highbury
Tavern premises.
[173] The site of the Prior’s house was occupied by a private residence
called Highbury House built in 1781 and immediately opposite the
Highbury Barn Tavern.
[174] The Highbury Society, formed by Protestant Dissenters to
commemorate the abandonment of the Schism Bill at the end of the reign
of Anne, met at first at Copenhagen House, but about 1740 assembled at
Highbury Barn. The members beguiled their pilgrimage from Moorfields
to Highbury by bowling a ball of ivory at objects in their path. This
society was dissolved about 1833.
[175] The younger Willoughby was certainly proprietor in 1792 and
later, and Lewis says he succeeded his father on the death of the
latter in December 1785. In May 1789 Highbury House (Nichols,
_Canonbury_, p. 31, note) opposite the Tavern was sold by auction,
as were also Highbury Tea House with gardens and bowling-green and
two good messuages adjoining, together with many fields in the
neighbourhood. This sale does not, however, necessarily imply any
change in the management of Highbury Barn, which may at that time have
been only rented by Willoughby from the owner of Highbury House and the
adjoining property.
[176] A few years previous to 1811 Willoughby cultivated at one end
of the gardens a small plantation of hops, and afterwards erected
a brewery on the premises. Highbury Barn was sometimes called
“Willoughby’s Tea Gardens” (_Picture of London_, 1802).
[177] Lysons, Nelson and Lewis all identify the moated house called
in the Survey of 1611 “The Devil’s House” or the “Lower House” with
the old Tallington or Tollington Manor House. In the survey of the
roads of Islington (Nelson’s _Islington_, p. 20), however, both
Tallington House and Devil’s House are separately marked, the two being
divided by Heame Lane, a lane running at right angles to Tallington
(Devil’s) Lane. This Tallington House must therefore have been an
eighteenth-century residence and not the old Manor House.
[178] Nelson (_Islington_), writing about 1811, says that about
thirty or forty years before his time (1776?) the landlord’s name was
Fawcett.
[179] This seems to be implied by Nelson (_Islington_, 1811), who
says that in his time the old “house had been fitted up in the modern
taste.”
[180] Lewis’s _Islington_, 1841, mentions the house as still
existing, and it is described as still standing in Tomlins’s
_Perambulation of Islington_, a work published in 1858, but in
part written nine years before the date of publication.
[181] Tea-drinking on Sunday at Little Hornsey is mentioned in the
_Connoisseur_, No. 68, May 15, 1755, and Hornsey Wood is referred
to in _The Idler_, No. 15, July 1758, in a way which implies
that its reputation as a place of Sunday recreation was already well
established. It appears from a passage in _Low Life_, referred to
in the next note, that in or before 1764 the sign of the tavern was The
Horns. The place was, however, usually known as Hornsey Wood House, and
in its latest days as Hornsey Wood Tavern.
[182] _Low Life_ (1764), p. 46.
[183] Mr. Rose, the “citizen at Vauxhall,” described in the
_Connoisseur_, May 1755, No. 68, used to grumble when his wife and
daughters went “to Little Hornsey to drink tea.”
[184] Newspaper cutting, 1753 (W. Coll.).
[185] See Boyne’s _Trade Tokens_, ed. Williamson, ii. p. 818. This
token is undated. The only dated token of Hampstead is one of 1670.
[186] The “Mirmillo” of Garth’s _Dispensary_.
[187] The modern public-house in Well Walk called the Wells Tavern,
though at one period, (before 1840) bearing the sign of the Green Man,
is probably on the site of the original tavern.
[188] Sion Chapel (the exact site of which is unknown) is of course
distinct from the Episcopal Chapel into which the Great Room was
converted in 1733.
[189] Baker’s comedy, _Hampstead Heath_, London, 1706.
[190] _The Country Journal, or the Craftsman_ for 16 October,
1736, has the notice:--“On Sunday between seven and eight in the
evening one Mr. Thomas Lane, a farrier of Hampstead, going home from
the Spaniards upon the Heath near the house called Mother Huff’s,” was
attacked and robbed and stripped naked by three men who jumped out of
the bushes.
[191] Lysons’s _Magna Britannia_, vol. iii. 1724, p. 44.
[192] This lady had made an earlier appearance at Cuper’s Gardens;
_see_ Welsted’s _Epistle on False Fame_.
[193] The spring at this time was adjacent to the Great Room, and was
in this position, _i.e._ on the opposite side to the existing
fountain, at any rate as late as 1806.
[194] In Bickham’s _Musical Entertainer_ (1733, &c.).
[195] _Evelina_ (1778), letter li.
[196] The house, No. 17 in Well Walk, which is just behind the existing
fountain, has a shallow well supposed to contain the source of the
original spring.
[197] MS. _History of Middlesex_, 1752, quoted by Park.
[198] _A Modern Sabbath_, 1797, p. 53; see also Woodward’s
_Eccentric Excursions_, 13.
[199] Dickens, _Pickwick Papers_, cap. xlvi.
[200] Cp. _The Idler_, No. 15, July 1758.
[201] Lysons, _Environs_, ii. 527.
[202] Evelyn (_Diary_, 2 June, 1676) describes the gardens as very
large and woody, but ill kept.
[203] _E.g._ “Galloway Races” in 1725 and 1729.
[204] _Ambulator_, 1774; Dodsley’s _London_, 1761.
[205] From the manuscript history of Middlesex quoted by Park
(_Hampstead_), the spring would appear to have been discovered
about 1742; the date on the reservoir containing the water was,
however, 1714, and Walford (v. 245) states that the spring was known
before 1600. But there is no evidence that Kilburn Wells was a place
of entertainment earlier than about 1742, though the Bell tavern dated
from about 1600.
[206] Richard Owen Cambridge, _Dialogue between a master and his
servant_ (1752). “Kupers” = Cuper’s Gardens, Lambeth.
[207] _Picture of London_, 1802 and 1829.
[208] Gibson, _View of the Gardens near London_, Dec. 1691.
[209] Lord Ranelagh’s house remained standing till 1805, and was used
in connexion with the Ranelagh entertainments.
[210] Robinson lived at Prospect Place adjoining the gardens. He died
on 3 March, 1777.
[211] Cp. Walpole’s letter to Mann of 26 May, 1742: “The building and
disposition of the gardens cost sixteen thousand pounds.”
[212] Walpole to Mann, 26 May, 1742.
[213] Walpole to Conway, 29 June, 1744.
[214] Walpole to Montagu, 26 May, 1748.
[215] Gray to Chute, July 1745 (Gray’s _Works_, ed. Gosse, ii.
125, ff.).
[216] _Works_, ed. Gosse, ii. 139.
[217] See especially Kearsley’s _Strangers’ Guide_ (1793?).
[218] This was the number about 1793.
[219] Burney says that the first organist was Keeble, who was succeeded
by Butler. Burney himself was organist in 1770.
[220] Boswell, _Life_, chap. xxvi. p. 236, ed. Croker.
[221] _Life_, 1777–1778, chap. lxi. p. 561, ed. Croker.
[222] In the early days, sometimes one shilling and two shillings,
including the breakfast and the morning concert. On special nights when
fireworks were displayed, the price was raised to three shillings or
more. Tickets costing from half a guinea to two guineas were issued for
the masquerades.
[223] Sometimes it was advertised as open “every evening.” People were
allowed to walk in the gardens and view the Rotunda during the day-time
for one shilling.
[224] “Harlequin in Ranelagh,” _London Magazine_, May 1774.
[225] Cp. _Gent. Mag._ 1764, p. 247.
[226] _Ranelagh House: a satire_, 1747.
[227] _London Magazine_, 1774.