[30] A rare bronze ticket of oblong form, incised with the words, “London Spaw No. 19,” is in the possession of Mr. W. T. Ready, the London coin dealer. It may belong to about the middle of the last century.
[31] Rosoman Street was called after Mr. Rosoman, who about 1756 built the west side, which was then called Rosoman Row. Rosoman, who acted at the New Wells in 1744, was the well-known proprietor of Sadler’s Wells. Pinks (Clerkenwell) states that the houses numbered (in his time) 5 to 8 occupied the site of the Wells.
[32] The New Wells seem to have been already established in 1737. The earliest advertisement quoted in Pinks is of 1738, but there are earlier advertisements (W. Coll.), May to August 1737, in one of which reference is made to the alterations in the theatre that season.
[33] Daily Post, 3 July, 1742 (quoted in Gent. Mag. 1813, pt. ii. p. 561).
[34] Doran’s London in Jacobite Times, ii. pp. 148, 149.
[35] The English Grotto has escaped the minute research of Mr. Pinks, and his continuator Mr. Woods (cp. however, Daniel, Merrie England, i. chap. ii. p. 33). It is practically known only from the following views:—
(1) A view of the English Grotto, near the New River Head. Chatelain del. et sculp. 1760. Crace, Cat. p. 591, No. 60 (cp. engraving (circ. 1760), without artist’s name, in W. Coll.).
(2) The Grotto, near the New River Head, 1760. A drawing in Indian ink. Crace, Cat. p. 590, No. 59.
(3) A water-colour copy of No. 1 by R. B. Schnebellie. Crace, Cat. p. 591, No. 61.
[36] The continuator of Pinks (p. 740) quotes advertisements of 1769, without, however, specifying the newspapers referred to. J. T. Smith, Book for a Rainy Day, p. 70, refers to the Grotto Garden as being kept by Jackson in 1779. Pinks (p. 169) mentions the fountain and Grotto in 1780, and describes the site.