[134]

There are several sneers at the members of the Royal Society in the Tatler.

[135]

See [No. 1].

[136]

See [No. 4].

[137]

William Bullock was a comic actor whose abilities are praised by Gildon and others. He was the original Sir Tunbelly Clumsy in Vanbrugh's "Relapse." Later on in this number (p. 70), Steele says that Bullock had a peculiar talent of looking like a fool, and in No. 188 he compares Bullock and Pinkethman in a satirical vein.

[138]

Perhaps Colonel Hunter, afterwards Governor of New York; or Colonel Brett, one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre.

[139]

See [No. 34].

[140]

The pun is, of course, on the word "unmarred."

[141]

By Thomas Shadwell, 1676.

[142]

See note on p. 67, above.