[508] Stow. p. 128.
[509] The court before which persons aggrieved in the Fair might have a “speedy relief.”
[510] H. Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 237. See also Hone’s Every-day Book, Sept. 5, vol. i.
[511] Boswell’s Life of Johnson, vol. ii., p. 63.
[512] Formerly a dangerous pond in Old Street Road, in which a number of people were drowned, whence it obtained its name of perilous Pond. In 1713 it was walled in by one Kemp, who on that occasion altered its name into Peerless Pool, by a similar process as the Pontus αξενος, inhospitable, was called ευξεινος, hospitable, by the Greeks.
“Tobacco is a noble weed, as many can testify.
Numbers of people who were long since weaned begin to suck again.”
“Here at the Milkmaid of Gouda
You will receive good articles and civil treatment,
Here you may smoke at your ease
Tip-top Varinas and Virginia tobacco.”