[152] _Turn._ Stroll.
[153] _Prince Eugene._ Prince of Savoy (1663-1736), who aided
Marlborough at Blenheim and elsewhere, and was at this time on a visit
to London.
[154] _Scanderbeg._ George Castriota, a famous Albanian leader against
the Turks (1403-68).
[155] _Hemming._ Clearing his throat.
[156] _Merks._ A merk is 13s. 4d., but only as a measure of value, not
an actual coin. Compare our present use of a guinea.
[157] _Fob._ Small pocket.
[158] _Smutting one another._ Blacking one another's faces in sport.
[159] _Act of Parliament._ Act of Occasional Uniformity, 1710.
[160] _Rigid dissenter ... plum porridge._ Many Puritans refused to
observe Christmas Day, regarding it as smacking of Popery.
[161] _Pope's procession._ An annual Whig demonstration.
[162] _Baker's Chronicle._ _Chronicle of the Kings of England_ (1643),
by Sir Richard Baker.
[163] _Waited on._ Accompanied.
[164] _Boys._ Waiters.