[14] Outlying districts; so called because they enjoyed certain municipal immunities, or liberties. Until recent years, a portion of Philadelphia was known as the "Northern Liberties."
[15] Attempts to believe the evil lessened.
[16] Was.
[17] Were.
[18] The chief executive officer of the city of London still bears this title.
[19] One of the many instances in which Defoe mixes his tenses.
[20] Whom. We shall find many more instances of Defoe's misuse of this form, as also of others (see Introduction, p. 15).
[21] Used almost in its original sense of a military barrier.
[22] Whom.
[23] See Matt, xxvii. 40; Mark xv. 30; Luke xxiii. 35.