[139] The spectators brought their lunch with them.
[140] A coffee-house in Fleet Street, at the east corner of Inner Temple Lane.
[141] Charles Mather, the toyman (see Nos. [27], 113).
[142] Goldsmiths' receipts for coin lodged with them as bankers were sometimes transferred from hand to hand, but this was always limited to a few merchants.
[143] Deceived.
[144] A dragon is a small malacca cane, so called from its blood-red colour. It comes from Penang, Singapore, and other islands in the Straits of Malacca. A jambee, on the contrary, is a knotty bamboo of a pale brown hue. As an article of commerce it is now extinct. The "clouded cane" of Sir Plume was a large malacca artificially coloured (Dobson).
[145] Charles Mather.