[18] Sometimes the word 'York' is erased from the plate 'Transforming a Footboy into a Captain.'

[19] During the Parliamentary enquiry Mrs. Clarke appeared at the Bar of the House dressed in a pelisse and skirt of light blue silk, trimmed with white fur, with a white muff, and wearing a hat and veil of white, the latter turned up to show her face. Her features are described as more pleasing than handsome, according to recognised standards of regular types of countenance. Her complexion was remarkably clear and animated; and her eyes, which were blue, were large and full of light and vivacity. She was somewhat small in stature, her figure was well turned; and as her arms were much admired for their shapely form, she was partial to attitudes which showed them off to advantage.

[20] The Duke of York was reinstated in the office of Commander-in-Chief, May 26, 1811.

[21] Townshend, the Bow Street Runner.

[22] The satirical humours of this sign, which dates back from a recondite period, find a place in Larwood's valuable History of Signboards, who gives us further particulars from his own exhaustive researches. 'In Holland, in the seventeenth century, it was used, but the king was left out, and a lawyer added. Each person said exactly the same as our signboards, but the farmer answered:—

You may fight, you may pray, you may plead,
But I am the farmer who lays the eggs—

i.e. finds the money.

'This enumeration of the various performances coupled with the word all has been used in numerous different epigrams; an address to James the First, in the Ashmolean MSS., No. 1730, has:-

'This again seems to have been imitated from a similar description of the state of Spain in Greene's Spanish Masquerade, 1589:—