[473] The Plague, by De Foe.
[474] Beaufoy Trades Tokens.
[475] A proclamation of Queen Elizabeth restricted the length of the sword, rapier, and such like weapons to “one yard and half a quarter of the blade at the uttermost,” and the point of the buckler not above two inches in length, under the penalty of a “fine at the Queen’s pleasure, and the weapon to be forfayted, and if any such persons shall offend a second time, then the same to be banished from the place and towne of his dwelling.”
[476] Misson’s Travels, p. 307.
[477] Stow’s Chronicle, Thom’s edition, p. 83.
[478] Merry Jests of old Hobson the Londoner, 1611
[479] J. T. Smith’s Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, edited by Charles Mackay, 1846.
[480] Nicolas’s Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, p. 7.
[481] Ned Ward’s Frolic to Horn Fair, 1703.
[482] Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, p. 132.