[62] He was afterwards reinstated.
[63] Used also for the concerts of Ancient Music.
[64] This marks, as much as anything, the manners of the times. Fancy the upper ten, nowadays, ordering their supper from a tavern!
[65] The famous ballet-dancer of that time.
[66] Otherwise Willis’s Rooms.
[67] This Collection was sold in March, 1810—vide Morning Post, March 22, 1810: “The sale at Pidcock’s, Exeter ’Change, has been well attended. The skeleton of the famous elephant was put up at 20 guineas, and knocked down at 55. The skeleton of the spermaceti whale, sixty-six feet long, which formerly appeared in Rackstraw’s Museum, sold for nine guineas. Many scarce and beautiful birds sold at low prices, and the whole collection, consisting of 205 lots, produced about £140.”
[68] Afterwards known as “The Rotunda.”
[69] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society—the “guinea stamp” of a scientific man, at the age of 21.
[70] See “A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanic Arts” by Dr. Thomas Young. 2 vols. 1807.
[71] Thirty-six bushels, similar to the sealed measure kept at the Guildhall, heaped up; average weight, 28½ cwt. The Newcastle chaldron weighed 53 cwt.