[82] Among other Bills which then received the Royal Assent was one for purchasing Sloane Museum and the Harleian MSS., and for providing a general repository for the same—by means of a lottery—the commencement of the British Museum.
[83] ‘Parliamentary History,’ Hansard, vol. xv, p. 154.
[84] ‘Eight Letters to his Grace—Duke of Newcastle—on the custom of Vails-giving in England, &c.,’ 1760, p. 20.
[85] ‘The East Neuk of Fife,’ by Rev. Walter Wood. Edinburgh, 1862, p. 208.
[86] Tickled the palms of their hands.
[87] ‘The English Treasury of Wit and Language,’ etc., ed. 1655, pp. 223, 224.
[88] Or surfel—to wash the cheeks with mercurial or sulphur water.
[89] Face-washes and ointments.
[90] Edition 1699, p. 19. The poem had reference to the College of Physicians, establishing a dispensary of their own, owing to the excessive charges of the apothecaries. The institution did not last very long.
[91] Gold.