[143]: The Tender Husband.
[144]: The London Gazette, Dec. 6/10, 1705.
[145]: The Busy Body.
[146]: The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, ed. 1705.
[147]: The London Spy.
[148]: Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the most famous Gamesters and Celebrated Sharpers in the Reigns of Charles 2, James 2, William 3, and Queen Anne, etc. By Theophilus Lucas. London, 1714.
[149]: The English Post, October 12/14, 1702.
[150]: Here is a sample of one of these traps to catch gulls: 'At Nixon's Coffee House, at Fetter Lane End in Fleet St, is open'd an Office call'd the Golden Office, where by putting in Monys, not exceeding 5 Guineas, may receive Cent per Cent in three Weeks time. Proposals may be had at the Place aforesaid.'—Postboy, April 26/29, 1712.
[151]: Luttrell.
[152]: Ibid. August 15, 1710.