[525] Brathwaite’s Strapado for the Diuell, 1615. Notes in Percy Society edition.
[526] Newspaper cutting of the year 1762, probably from the London Register.
[527] “—heard groans from every side, but saw nobody who uttered them.”
[528] Junius’ Etymologia: “For those that take part in these games, besmear their faces with soot and adopt outlandish garments, so that they may look like Moors, or as if they had come from distant countries, and thence had introduced this quaint amusement.”
[529] Nicholl’s Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. i., p. 494.
[530] Harl. MSS., No. 2150, fol. 356.
[531] Harl. MSS., No. 5900.
[532] Roxburghe Ballads, vol. i., f. 375.
[533] Lewis’s History of Islington, p. 281.
[534] Ruckholt was a reputed mansion of Queen Elizabeth, at Leyton, in Essex. Being opened to the public in 1742, it became a fashionable summer drive during a couple of seasons; public breakfasts, weekly concerts, and occasional oratorios were numbered amongst its attractions. The house was pulled down in 1745. Old and New Sadler’s Wells relates to the well-known place in Islington, at that period a music house. Lord Cobham’s Head has been noticed on [p. 97].