[619]. F. Beach, Psychology in John Hunter’s Time; “they served as a sport to visitors at assizes, fairs, and other times,” p. 4. Hunterian Oration. London, 1891.
[620]. For an account of these wandering Tom o’ Bedlams, see Isaac D’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, ii. p. 343. London, 1849.
[621]. “Come, march to wakes and fairs and market-town. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.”—Lear, iii. 6.
[622]. Lear, iii. 4.
[623]. Walter Besant, London in the Eighteenth Century, p. 378. London, 1902.
[624]. This lasted right into the nineteenth century; see D. H. Tuke, Chapters in the History of the Insane, p. 128. London, 1882.
[625]. See, for instance, W. Besant, London in the Time of the Stuarts, p. 236. London, 1903. And for a particularly filthy mixture advised “For a man haunted by apparitions,” Cockayne, i. p. 365.
[626]. Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wort Gunning, and Starcraft, pp. 361, 365. London, 1864.
[627]. Cockayne, pp. 101, 161, 169.
[628]. Cockayne, i. p. 249.