[10] Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, 1865, p. 115.
[11] Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, p. 501.
[12] We know an instance of an old Baronet advertising twenty years for a wife; at last he succeeded in marrying an out-and-out Xantippe.
[13] Condensed from The Book of Days, vol. ii. pp. 285-288.
[14] Family Romance. By J. Bernard Burke. Vol. ii.
[15] Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, 1865, p. 110.
[16] Abridged from Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, No. 25.
[17] Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, No. 34.
[18] See a pamphlet of 1794; Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, Nos. 20 and 21.
[19] Honest Jack Fuller, who is buried in a pyramidal mausoleum in Brightling churchyard, in Sussex, gave as his reason for being thus disposed of, his unwillingness to be eaten by his relations after this fashion: "The worms would eat me, the ducks would eat the worms, and my relations would eat the ducks."