[157] Fob. Small pocket.
[158] Smutting one another. Blacking one another’s faces in sport.
[159] Act of Parliament. Act of Occasional Uniformity, 1710.
[160] Rigid dissenter ... plum porridge. Many Puritans refused to observe Christmas Day, regarding it as smacking of Popery.
[161] Pope’s procession. An annual Whig demonstration.
[162] Baker’s Chronicle. Chronicle of the Kings of England (1643), by Sir Richard Baker.
[163] Waited on. Accompanied.
[164] Boys. Waiters.
No. 329. Tuesday, March 18
Ire tamen restat, Numa quo devenit, et Ancus.
Hor. Ep. vi. l. i. ver. 27.