[456] “Wine one pint for a pennie, and bread to drink it was given free in every tavern.”—Note by Stow. The imperfect tense shows that this excellent custom had already fallen into disuse in Stow’s time.
[457] Will Herbert, “History of the Twelve Great Living Companies,” vol. ii. p. 197.
[458] Weekly Journal, April 26, 1718.
[459] Ibid., July 12, 1718.
[460] Harl. MSS. 5910, part II.
[461] “Account of London,” p. 60, 1813.
[462] Pepys’s Memoirs, Sept 18, 1660.
[463] “London Spy,” 1706.
[464] Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata.”
[465] Boswell’s Life of Johnson, vol. i., p. 272.