[141] Bartholomew sold his interest in White Conduit House 25 March, 1795.
[142] About 1772 these performances were prohibited on Sundays.
[143] See a bill in the London Sections Collection, Guildhall Library, and cp. Rogers’s Views of Pleasure Gardens of London, p. 55; also G. Cruikshank’s Ivan Ivanitz Chabert, a print published 13 March, 1818. Hone’s Every Day Book, ii. p. 771, ff.
[144] Born 1769, died 1838.
[145] Till May of 1829 the old building was still standing.
[146] Hone’s Every Day Book, ii. p. 1204.
[147] Cp. the White Conduit concert described in the Sketches by Boz (“The Mistaken Milliner,” cap. viii.).
[148] The Variety Stage, by Stuart and Park, p. 8; 103.
[149] The place appears to be referred to as early as 1633 as “the bowling place in Islington Fields” (Pinks, p. 710).
[150] Mrs. Dobney died at about the age of ninety on 15 March, 1760.