The rigadoon was a dance for two persons. Cf. Guardian, No. 154: "We danced a rigadoon together."
On the site of Eaton and Belgrave Squares. See Spectator, No. 137: "The Five Fields towards Chelsea."
In "Bartholomew Fair," act ii. sc. i. Overdo went to the Fair in disguise, and being mistaken for a cutpurse, was well beaten.
Salter, a barber, opened a coffee-house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, in 1695. Sir Harry Sloane, whose servant he had been, gave him some curiosities to start a museum. Others, including Admiral Munden and his fellow-officers, added to the collection, and the first catalogue appeared in 1729. The more startling curiosities were, of course, not genuine. The remains of the collection were sold in 1799 for about £50. A view of Salter's house will be found in Timbs' "Clubs and Club Life in London." Verses of a more or less coarse nature by Don Saltero appeared not unfrequently in the "British Apollo," in 1709.
By Dr. Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where Steele matriculated.