[195] 'Drugger:' Abel Drugger, in Jonson's 'Alchymist.
[196] 'Stuarts:' James the Second's dastardly conduct at the battle of the Boyne.
[197] 'Sackvilles:' Lord George Sackville, accused of cowardice at the battle of Minden, afterwards degraded by a court martial, but ultimately raised to promotion as a Peer and Secretary of State.
[198] 'Faden and Say:' two anti-Wilkite editors.
[199] 'Baker:' Sir Richard Baker, the famous chronicler.
[200] 'Tofts:' Mary Tofts of Godalming, who first dreamed of, and was
at last brought to bed of, rabbits! She confessed afterwards that it
was a fraud.
[201] 'Betty Canning:' a woman who pretended, in 1753, that she had
been confined in a garret by a gypsy woman, for twenty-seven days,
with scarcely any food, but turned out to be an impostor.
[202] 'Fisher's:' Catherine Fisher, better known by the name of Kitty
Fisher, a courtezan of great beauty.
[203] 'Lennox:' Mrs Arabella Lennox, the author of some pleasing
novels, and a friend of Dr Johnson's. See Boswell and Hawkins.
[204] 'Lauder's;' William Lauder, the notorious forger and interpolator
of Milton, detected by Dr Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury.