[509]: Daily Courant, Sept. 21, 1705.
[510]: The name of a principal character in the Duke of Buckingham's comedy of The Rehearsal.
[511]: Abel Roper, who then conducted the Post Boy.
[512]: Protestant Post Boy, Jan. 15/17, 1712.
[513]: Post Boy, Sept. 6/9, 1712.
[514]: Ridpath invented a manifold writer, which would take six or more copies at once.
[515]: Post Boy, Mar. 30/April 1, 1714.
[516]: Postboy, Sept. 12/15, 1713.
[517]: Howell's State Trials, ed. 1812, v. 14.
[518]: A scandalous practice then in vogue. 'Mr. Tutchin hereupon endeavoured to get a pardon from the people who had grants of lives, many of them 500, some 1000, more or less as they had interest with the King.' Again: 'For it was usual at that time for one Courtier to get a pardon of the King for half a Score, and then by the assistance of Jeffreys to augment the sum to fourscore or a hundred.' In these 'Bloody Assizes' 300 persons were condemned to death, and nearly 1,000 sold as slaves to the West Indian plantations.