[160] Cal. T. B. & P., 1731-34, p. 539; W. Thornbury, Old and New London, ii, p. 209; W. Lewins, Her Majesty's Mails, ed. 1865, pp. 104-12.
[161] Joyce, pp. 155, 162.
[162] Cal. T. B. & P., 1730-41, pp. 449-450.
[163] Country letters were those sent through London. Cal. T. B. & P., 1739-41, p. 450.
[164] Cal. T. B. & P., 1734-41, pp. 445, 450; W. Thornbury, Old and New London, ii, p. 209.
[165] He is the man to whom Pope alluded in the couplet,
"Let humble Allen, with an honest shame,
Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame."
Allen and the poet had a falling out just before the death of the latter. In his will, Pope left his quondam friend £150 to pay a "few little debts." Allen is said to have remarked that if Pope had added another figure, it would have represented better the "few little debts." W. Lewins, Her Majesty's Mails, pp. 104-12.
[166] Cal. T. B. & P., 1742-45, pp. 102-235; Maitland, Survey of London, p. 998; Noorthouck, Hist. of London, 1773, p. 658.
[167] J. Latimer, Annals of Bristol, 1893, p. 235; London and its Environs, 1761, v, pp. 209-222.