[11] Ward describes the gambling places as an outhouse with sheds and a hovel adjoining.
[12] Islington Wells, or the Threepenny Academy.
[13] Cp. E. Ward, “The Infallible Predictor” (Works, ii. p. 355, ed. 1709).
[14] An advertisement of 23 May, 1712 (Percival’s Sadler’s Wells announces the performances from six to ten in the morning and from four till eight in the evening of two wonderful posture-makers, a man and a child of nine, to take place in the dancing-room of New Tunbridge Wells.
[15] Extract from family correspondence communicated by C. L. S. to Notes and Queries, 8th ser. vi. 1894, p. 69.
[16] In 1760 the breakfasting was ninepence, the afternoon tea sixpence, and the coffee eightpence. No stronger beverages were sold.
[17] A serious attempt seems to have been made to keep this rule. The London Daily Advertiser for 25 June, 1752, records that a beautiful though notorious woman, who had appeared at the dancing at New Tunbridge on June 24, was, on being recognised by the company, turned out by a constable.
[18] Dr. Russel, who analysed the water about 1733, says that it had a taste of iron and (unless mixed with common water) was apt to make the drinker giddy or sleepy. This was the experience of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who, however, expatiates on the benefit she had derived from the Spa.
[19] This was between the main part of the Spa gardens and St. John’s Street Road; cp. Wallis’s Plan, 1808.
[20] A band had played in the morning under Holland’s management (advertisement in the Public Advertiser, 5 May, 1775).