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[69] This press is now preserved at the Patent Office in Washington.
[70] A French expression meaning "welcome."
[71] Pieces in a font of type.
[72] "A printing house used to be called a chapel by the workmen, and a journeyman, on entering a printing house, was accustomed to pay one or more gallons of beer 'for the good of the chapel,'"—W. F. Franklin, quoted by Bigelow.
[73] "Never making," etc., i.e., never making a holiday of Monday. The heavy drinkers of Saturday night and Sunday needed Monday to recover from their excesses.
[74] The woman who, according to legend, wiped the face of Jesus on his way to Calvary, and carried away the likeness of his face, which had been miraculously printed on the cloth.
[75] A suburb of London, north of the Thames.
[76] Don Saltero had been a servant to Sir Hans Sloane, and had learned from him to treasure curiosities. He now had a coffeehouse at Chelsea.
[77] A name given to a part of London. The distance Franklin swam was about three miles.