[326] MSS. Birch, 4221, quoted in the Notes of the Tatler, ut supra, vol. i., p. 208.
[327] Life of Prior in the "Lives of the Poets."
[328] New Monthly Magazine, vol. xvii., p. 140.
[329] Memoirs of the Life and Writings of De Foe, 1829, vol. ii., p. 116.
[330] Pennant, p. 110.
[331] Extracted from Salisbury's Flying Post, of October 27, 1696, in Malcolm's Manners and Customs of London to the year 1700, vol. i., p. 396.
[332] See State Trials, ut supra, "Egerton's Memoirs of Mrs. Oldfield;" "Swift's Great and Mean Figures," vol. xvii., 1765; and the "History of Orlando the Fair, in the Tatler," as above, Nos. 50 and 51. "The author of Memoirs of Fielding in the Select Trials," says a note on the latter number, "admits, that for all the ludicrous air and pleasantry of this narration (Steele's), the truth of facts and character is in general fairly represented."
[333] Discourses delivered at the Royal Academy. Sharpe's Edition, vol. ii., pp. 113, 115.
[334] Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in the "Autobiography," p. 79.
[335] Chambers, short guns, or cannon, standing upon their breaching without carriages, chiefly used for festive occasions; and having their name most probably from being little more than chambers for powder. It was by the discharge of these chambers in the play of Henry VIIIth. that the Globe Theatre was burnt in 1613. Shakspeare followed pretty closely the narrative of Cavendish.—Singer.