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Footnote 1: [ (return) ] Stow—These have lately been re-opened.—ED. M.
Footnote 2: [ (return) ] Parish Books.
Footnote 3: [ (return) ] Hist. and Antiq. Paroch. Church, St. Saviour, Southwark, 4to. 1818.
Footnote 4: [ (return) ] This Screen is about to be partially restored at an expense of about £800. now in course of subscription among the more respectable and intelligent parishioners.
Footnote 5: [ (return) ] Where did the Sportsman's Letters come from?—ED.
Footnote 6: [ (return) ] See Mirror, vol. xvi p. 201.
Footnote 7: [ (return) ] The recital of these circumstances induced O'Keefe to introduce the incident in the part of Nipperkin, in Springs of Laurel, or "Rival Soldiers".
Footnote 8: [ (return) ] Oxberry appeared on the stage for the last time, this night, as Corporal Foss.
Footnote 9: [ (return) ] At or near Mickleham, by the way, the writer might have commanded a distant view of the burning City. On a fine, clear day we have often discerned the dome of St. Paul's from one of the hills rising from Mickleham to Norbury Park.
Footnote 10: [ (return) ] Evelyn, speaking of this night, says, that it was "light as day for about ten miles round about, after a dreadful manner."—Memoirs, vol. i. p. 391. second edit 4to. Sir Ralph does not seem to make the light so strong, though he does not absolutely say it was otherwise. Perhaps Evelyn speaks of a later hour. The flames appear to have become visible afterwards to the distance of forty miles.—Edit.
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