[62] A cant Word for giving some Money in order to show a Lodging.
[63] Which is One Pound, Six, and Eightpence, and then you are entitled to a bed on the Master’s-side, for which you pay so much per Week.
[64] Mount-scoundrel, so-call’d from its being highly situated, and belonging, once, to the Common-side, tho’ lately added to the Master’s; if there be room in the House, this Place is first empty, and the Chamberlain commonly shows this to raise his Price upon you for a better.
[65] Half-a-guinea.
[66] A Bed-fellow so call’d.
[67] When you have a Chum, you pay but fifteen Pence per Week each, and, indeed, that is the Rent of a whole Room, if you find Furniture.
[68] The Upper Floors are accounted best here, for the same Reason as they are at Edinburgh, which, I suppose, every Body knows.
[69] It is common to mention the Fleet by the name of the Place, and I suppose it is call’d the Place by way of Eminence, because there is not such another.
[70] A Cant Word for a Dram of Geneva.
[71] A Chew of Tobacco—supposed to be given him.