[233]: Female Folly, or the Plague of a Woman's Riding Hood and Cloak, 1713.
[234]: London Spy.
[235]: The Tatler, No. 238.
[236]: The Female Tatler, Dec. 12.
[237]: Trivia, book 1.
[238]: The Fan, by Gay, ed. 1714.
[239]: Journal to Stella, letter 11.
[240]: Why Taunton dean ladies I am at a loss to say, unless, as Somersetshire was then considered as the 'ultima Thule' of civilisation, it is meant that the dresses were as fine and gaudy as a country belle would wear, in contradistinction to the better taste of her town-bred sister.
[241]: In reality it was 1704. In the old style of reckoning 1704 did not begin till the 25th of March, and the London Gazette of this reign always kept to the old style.
[242]: 'Moco' stones are what are now called moss agates.