3. the sickness. The plague, which was at Dantzick in 1709.
5. a hackney-coach. A coach let out on hire, the precursor of the modern cab. The hackney-coach was introduced into London in 1625, and in 1715 their number had to be restricted to seven hundred. Cf. p. 105, 1. 22, hackney-boat.
15. engaged in my affections, not betrothed. Cf. p. 13, 1. 13.
34. Sir Cloudesly Shovel, the admiral, who was wrecked off the Scilly Isles in 1707.
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2. Dr. Busby, the famous flogging head master, who ruled Westminster School for fifty-five years, 1640-95.
6. the little chapel on the right hand. St. Edmund's Chapel.
9. the lord who had cut off the king of Morocco's head, or who was supposed to have done so on the evidence of his crest.
'a Moor's head orientally crowned,' was Sir Bernard Brocas, a knight of the fourteenth century.
12. the statesman Cecil, in the Chapel of St. Nicholas. Lord Burleigh was Secretary of State to Edward VI., and Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth.