[316] General Magazine, Jan. 1747.
[317] It was sketched by George Cruikshank; and a wood-cut of it may be seen in Morley’s “Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair,” p. 488.
[318] “Coffeehouse Jests,” 1688, p. 128.
[319] Delaune’s “Present State of London,” 1681.
[320] Bossewell’s “Works of Armourie,” 1589, p. 65.
[321] Stow, p. 62. A striking instance of the depreciation of money within the last three centuries. At the present day, 40s. would scarcely keep an Oxford or Cambridge student in cigar-lights.
[322] Moser makes a slight error. The heir-apparent to the throne of France did not assume the title of Dauphin till 1349, when Humbert II., Dauphin of Vienne, having no posterity, retired to a monastery, and sold his estates to Philip VI., King of France, on behalf of his grandson, afterwards Charles V.
[323] Delaune’s “Present State of London.”
[324] “Mercurius Publicus,” Aug. 30; Sep. 6, 1660.
[325] “If I go to the Palace of Justice, all those clerks are constantly after me; one takes me to the Three Fishes, the other to the Pine Cone.”—Comedy of the Widow, a. iii. s. 3.