[108] The author of “Crispin Anecdotes,” p. 127, says, “Praise-God Barebones was a shoemaker, but from all the writer can learn he was a leather-seller; and Bloomfield is reported as saying that Secretary Craggs was a chip of leather. On what authority it is hard to say. His father, the postmaster-general, is more likely to have been in such a position; but his trade was that of a country barber.”—Grainger, Noble’s continuation, vol. iii.
[109] Pepys’ Diary, note, January 25th, 1659-60.
[110] Part I. Canto II., 409-430, etc.
[111] Part I. Canto II., 409-430, etc.
[112] Part I. Canto III, 118, 119.
[113] Quoted in Chambers’s “Book of Days,” August 15th. W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh.
[114] Evelyn’s “Diary” of this date.
[115] Pepys, see above.
[116] Grainger’s “Biographical History of England,” vol. iii.
[117] “History of England,” vol. i. p. 316 (People’s Edition).