[611] Witt’s Recreation, 1640.
[612] Banks collection of shopbills, where amateurs of tobacco curiosities may find a very rich collection of all sorts of tobacco-paper rhymes, signs, &c.
[613] In the Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain, London 1816, vol. iii., p. 116, such a paper is given, entitled: “The triumphant victory of the Imperyall Mageste against the Turkes the xxvi day of Septembre, the yere of our lord mcccccxxxii. in Steuermarke by a Capytayne named Michael Meschsaer.”
[614] Boswell’s Johnson, vol. i., p. 304.
[615] Ibid., vol. i., p. 327.
[616] Moser’s Memorandum-Book, M.S. dated 1799, as quoted in Notes and Queries, December 22, 1849.
[617] Gent.’s Mag., March 1842.
[618] Dr King’s Anecdotes, p. 117.
[619] Selden’s Table-Talk.