[30] Slang for a burial-ground.
[31] Harper is probably the name of the keeper of a burial-ground.
[32] This occurs often in the Diary, and was evidently a favourite place for meeting. It was, doubtless, the entrance to some burial-ground, but there is no evidence by which the place can be definitely determined.
[33] i.e. a body which had had a post mortem performed on it was obtained from the burial-ground attached to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
[34] Watched to see what funerals were taking place during the day.
[35] Probably Michael Mordecai, who kept an old curiosity-shop in New Alley, and was a noted receiver.
[36] Probably the landlord of a public-house.
[37] i.e. all the gang.
[38] The “Green Churchyard” was an addition to the Churchyard of St. Giles, Cripplegate. “Green Churchyard” is a name which we find repeated in other parishes; for instance, it was given to the higher portion of St. James’, Piccadilly, and to the little piece by St. Bartholomew the Great, approached through the present south transept. Holmes, loc. cit. It is impossible to say which of these is here meant.
[39] Bunhill.