[249] It could not have been the Marriage Act that put an end to it, as that was not passed till 1753, and Sion Chapel had ceased to be before 1725.
[250] Connoisseur.
[251] Dr. Arbuthnot died in March, 1734-35.
[252] He was a Scotchman. Letter of Mr. Pulteney to Swift. See ‘Correspondence.’
[253] I am told that this custom is still maintained.
[254] This is precisely the language of Jonas Hanway, the traveller, and introducer of that useful article, the umbrella. This was also the favourite argument of the clergy, when preaching against the use of tea, as they also did against vaccination.
[255] I am told by an old resident that as late as 1830 there was but one butcher’s shop in Hampstead.
[256] A ridiculous custom, of which an account will be found in Hone’s ‘Table Book.’
[257] Connoisseur.
[258] Quoted in ‘Hampstead and the Heath,’ which appeared in Sharpe’s Magazine early in the sixties.