[144] ‘Life of Lord Hardwicke,’ i. 215.
[145] ‘An inquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers,’ &c. London: 1751.
[146] Fielding, ‘Robbers,’ p. 35.
[147] Soldiers in the Guards, after long and faithful service, were granted leave of absence from military duty in order to take civil situations which did not monopolize all their time. By this means they eked out their scanty pay.
[148] ‘A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis,’ by P. Colquhoun, LL.D. London, 1800.
[149] Fielding, p. xxviii.
[150] Ibid., p. xxix.
[151] Savage was tried before Sir Francis Page, commonly known as “the hanging judge,” and whose severity was most notorious. He afterwards admitted that he had been most anxious to hang Savage. In his old age when his health was inquired after, he is reported to have replied, “I keep hanging on, hanging on.”
[152] ‘Celebrated Trials,’ iii. 457. ‘Newgate Calendar,’ i. 39. Thornbury, in his ‘Old Stories Retold,’ calls it the King’s Arms, on what authority he does not say.
[153] “What do you bring this fellow here for?” Oneby had cried to the keeper of Newgate when he appeared with Hooper. “Whenever I look at him I shall think of being hanged.” Hooper had a forbidding countenance, but he was an inimitable mimic, and he soon made himself an agreeable companion to the condemned man.