[191] Lysons’s Magna Britannia, vol. iii. 1724, p. 44.
[192] This lady had made an earlier appearance at Cuper’s Gardens; see Welsted’s Epistle on False Fame.
[193] The spring at this time was adjacent to the Great Room, and was in this position, i.e. on the opposite side to the existing fountain, at any rate as late as 1806.
[194] In Bickham’s Musical Entertainer (1733, &c.).
[195] Evelina (1778), letter li.
[196] The house, No. 17 in Well Walk, which is just behind the existing fountain, has a shallow well supposed to contain the source of the original spring.
[197] MS. History of Middlesex, 1752, quoted by Park.
[198] A Modern Sabbath, 1797, p. 53; see also Woodward’s Eccentric Excursions, 13.
[199] Dickens, Pickwick Papers, cap. xlvi.
[200] Cp. The Idler, No. 15, July 1758.