[35] The guests paid a small sum each into a pool (generally the snuffer tray) for every new pack of cards used, and this was popularly supposed to be a perquisite of the servants.
[36] “The Gaming Calendar,” by Seymour Harcourt: Lon. 1820.
[37] Life, Adventures, and Opinions of Col. George Hanger, written by himself. London, 1801.
[38] In some houses in this age the lady of the house is paid fifty guineas each night by the proprietor of the Faro table.—G. H.
[39] Reminiscences, 1st Ser.
[40] Reminiscences, 3rd Ser.
[41] Reminiscences, 4th Ser
[42] The Greeks—a poem, by Ελλην. Lon. 1817. 8vo.
[43] Reminiscences, 3 Ser.
[44] After Crockford’s death the club-house was sold. It was re-decorated in 1849, and opened as “The Military, Naval, and County Service Club,” but this only lasted till 1851, when it was turned into a dining-house, called the “Wellington.”