[20] We hope to see these interesting accounts of real "curiosities of literature" reprinted in a separate volume.
[21] S. P. Dom. James I., vol. lxxvii., quoted in Pinks's History of Clerkenwell, Appendix.
[22] See The End of All Things, by the author of Our Heavenly Home, 1866.
[23] "New Materials for Lives of English Engravers," by Peter Cunningham. Builder, 1863.
[24] Sketches of Imposture, Deception and Credulity. Second Edition. 1840.
[25] Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity. Second Edition. 1840.
[26] Dr. Richard Reece was the son of a clergyman, and was articled to a country surgeon. In 1800 he settled in practice in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and published The Medical and Chirurgical Pharmacopœia; and having received a degree of M.D. from a Scotch university, he exercised the three professions of physician, apothecary, and chemist. He likewise published several volumes upon various medical subjects; and established himself in the western wing of the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly. He assailed quackery with much boldness; hence his mistake as to Joanna Southcote was made the most of. He had also considerable practice, by which he gained money. He published A Plain Narrative of the Circumstances attending the last Illness and Death of Joanna Southcote.
[27] One of Joanna's London residences was at No. 17, Weston Place, opposite the Small Pox Hospital.
[28] Selected and abridged from an excellent paper on Huntington's Works and Life, attributed to Southey; Quarterly Review, No. 48.
[29] Huntington resided in the house built by the Swiss doctor De Valangin, who had been a pupil of Boerhaave, and practised in Soho Square. He removed thence to Cripplegate, and about 1772 he purchased ground at Pentonville, and there built himself a villa, which he named, from the discoverer of chemistry, Hermes Hill, then almost the only house on or near the spot, except White Conduit House. One of his medicines, The Balsam of Life, he presented to the Apothecaries' Company. He had, by his first wife, a daughter, who, dying at nine years of age, was buried in the garden at Hermes Hill, in a very costly tomb.