Georgian London: Into the Streets (49 page)

‘
Madness is a distemper
’:
Remarks on Dr. Battie’s Treatise of Madness by John Monro
(London, 1758).

‘
experts … Air Loom
’: quoted in John Haslam,
Illustrations of Madness
(London, 2003), xxxii.

‘
motley assemblage … by botchers
’: John Thomas Smith,
Nollekens and his Times: Volume I
(London, 1829), 213.

‘
jobbing tailors
’: Denton,
Records of St Giles’
, 104.

‘
as it was a Screen … unguarded Youth
’: quoted in Rictor Norton,
Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700–1830
(Stroud, 2006), 126.

At noon on Thursday 8 February
: the account of the London earthquake is from T. D. Kendrick’s
The Lisbon Earthquake
(London, 1957).

‘
natural explanation … of earthquakes
’: John Wesley,
The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes
(London, 1750).

‘
a lunatic lifeguardsman
’: Horace Walpole quoted in Kendrick,
The Lisbon Earthquake
, 11.

‘
730 coaches
’: ibid., 13.

‘
with slow and gradual majesty … spectators
’: Rose Macauley,
The Minor Pleasures of Life
(London, 1936), 90.

‘
the harbour of the skies
’: as recounted by the curator in the Strawberry Hill tour, from material in the Yale archive.

In 1800, it was the site
: as reported in
The Albion
of July 1800.

‘
ye poets, ragged and forlorn
’: see Jonathan Swift’s poem of 1726, ‘Advice to the Grub Street Verse-Writers’.

‘
Mercury-woman
’: Paula McDowell,
The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678–1730
(Oxford, 1998), 55.

‘
through Seas of Scurrility … of a Woman
’: ibid., 217.

In 1798
: David R. Green,
Finsbury: Past, Present & Future
(London, 2009), 6.

‘
All manner of gross
’: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 4 February 2012), trial of Margaret Clap (July 1726), tl7260711-54.

‘
typical homosexual
’: Norton,
Mother Clap’s Molly House
, 19.

‘
sly reforming hirelings
’: Ned Ward,
The Field Spy
(London, 1714), 16.

‘
marrying room … blessed
’: Old Bailey Proceedings Online, trial of Margaret Clap.

‘
I was no stranger … my own Body
’: ibid. (accessed 18 January 2012), trial of William Brown (July 1726), tl7260711-77).

‘
Though the earth
’:
The Works of John Locke: Volume 2
(London, 1727), 166.

‘
Four beds … part of the coterie
’:
The Phoenix of Sodom; Or the Vere Street Coterie
(London, 1813), 12–13.

‘
A vast concourse
’:
The Annual Register or a View of History, Literature and Politics for the Year 1811
(London, 1811), 28.

‘
in an improper
’:
The trial of Josiah Phillips for a libel on the Duke of Cumberland and the proceedings previous thereto, in 1810
(London, 1833), 9.

‘
He was a prodigy
’: the story of Chatterton’s life is taken from Linda Kelly,
The Marvellous Boy: The Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton
(London, 1971); Nick Groom, ‘Thomas Chatterton Was a Forger’,
The Yearbook of English Studies
, vol. 28 (Eighteenth Century Lexis and Lexicography, 1998), 276–91.

‘
it is wonderful
’: James Boswell,
Life of Samuel Johnson
(London, 1833 edition), 68.

‘
affords in its central enclosure
’: Edward Walford, ‘Lincoln’s Inn Fields’,
Old and New London
:
Volume 3
(London, 1878), 44.

‘
who disabled himself
’: Richard Steele,
Spectator
, no. 6 (7 March 1711).

‘
Rich gay
’: Thomas Dibden,
The London Theatre
(London, 1815), 3.

‘
common bricklayer … for fame
’: Timothy Hyde, ‘Some Evidence of Libel, Criticism, and Publicity in the Architectural Career of Sir John Soane’,
Perspecta
, vol. 37 (Famous, 2005), 144–63.

‘
I presume
’:
Morning Post
, 30 September 1812.

‘
glaring impropriety … modern works
’: quoted in David Watkin,
Sir John Soane, Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures
(Cambridge, 1996), 76.

‘
adapted for spectacle
’: John Britton,
The Union of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting
(London, 1827), 44.

‘
in perpetuity … a megalomaniac
’: John Summerson, ‘Change, Decay and the Soane Museum’,
Architectural Association Journal
(October 1949), 50.

‘
talked with a vivacity
’: James Boswell,
Life of Samuel Johnson
(London, 1833 edition), 292.

‘
the art of addressing a jury
’:
Edinburgh Review
, vol. 16 (1810), 109.

‘
of the most determined integrity
’: Edward Foss,
The Grandeur of the Law: Or, the legal peers of England: with sketches of their professional career
(London, 1843), 138.

‘
Old Mother Shipton
’: Walter Thornbury, ‘Fleet Street: General
Introduction’,
Old and New London: Volume 1
(London, 1878), 32–53.

They drank heavily
: Dan Cruickshank,
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
(London, 2009), 181.

‘
unable to speak
’:
Philosophical experiments and observations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke, F.R.S.
(London, 1726), 210.

‘
Little White Alley
’: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 18 January 2012), Ordinary of Newgate’s account (November 1744), OA17441107.

‘
luscious … and Temple
’: Hallie Rubenhold,
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies
(London, 2005), 48–9.

‘
why so wretched
’: John Gwynne,
London and Westminster, Improved
(London, 1766), 8.

‘
Gentleman Schollars … Youth and Quality
’: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 18 January 2012), Ordinary’s account (August 1679), o16790827-1.

‘
a stately veneer … and crime
’: Cardinal Wiseman,
An Appeal to the Reason and Good Feeling of the English People on the Subject of Catholic Hierarchy
(London, 1850), 30.

On a Saturday in 1762
: Tim Hitchcock,
Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London
(London, 2004), 32.

‘
so called from a mill
’: Edward Walford, ‘The City of Westminster: Introduction’,
Old and New London: Volume 4
(London, 1878), 1.

‘
the evening is devoted
’: John Pinkerton,
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World: Volume 2
(London, 1808), 92.

‘
I was ashamed
’: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 18 January 2012), trial of John Loppenberg (October 1740), tl7401015-66.

In the hard winter months
: Lynn MacKay, ‘A Culture of Poverty? The St Martin in the Fields Workhouse, 1817’,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
, vol. 26, no. 2 (Autumn 1995), 214.

The women made up
: ibid., 221.

St Sepulchre’s installed
: Hitchcock,
Down and Out
, 139.

Martin’s Mendicity Studies
: ibid., 3–7.

Quasi-charitable bodies
:
The Reports of the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity, established in London, 1818
(London, 1821).

‘
the ancient Horse-ferry
’: Thomas Pennant,
An Account of London
(London, 1790), 57.

Around half the money
: details of this story taken from Peter Cameron: ‘Henry Jernegan, the Kandlers and the client who changed his mind’,
The Silver Society Journal
(Autumn 1996).

‘
designed and made a silver cistern
’: quoted in C. L’Estrange Ewen,
Lotteries and Sweepstakes: An Historical, Legal and Ethical Survey of Their Introduction, Repression and Establishment in the British Isles
(London, 1932), 142.

‘
a very great ornament … into the river
’:
The Gentleman’s Magazine
quoted in ‘Westminster Bridge’,
Survey of London, Volume 23. Lambeth: South Bank and Vauxhall
(London, 1951), 67.

‘
was to prevent the suicide
’: Pennant,
An Account of London
, 91.

On one visit
: Giacomo Casanova,
History of My Life: Volume 9
(Baltimore, Maryland, 1997 edition), 319–23.

‘
Mademoiselle Charpillon
’: Ian Kelly,
Casanova
(London, 2008), 266.

‘
was formerly made use of
’:
A New View of London
(London, 1708), 68.

‘
length is … 
gothic
’: Pennant,
An Account of London
, 83.

‘
It is said
’: William John Loftie,
The Inns of Court and Chancery
(London, 1895), 123.

Waghorn’s had
: see the print by Edward Pugh (1763–1813) ‘The Houses of Parliament with the Royal Procession’.

She accused fellow prisoners
: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 4 February 2012), trial of Edward Wooldridge and John Nichols (March 1720), tl7200303-43.

In the 1757 trial
: ibid., trial of Daniel Lackey (April 1757), tl7570420-42.

Throughout the eighteenth century
: Antony Simpson, ‘Vulnerability and the age of female consent: legal innovation and its effect on prosecutions for rape in eighteenth-century London’, in G. S.
Rousseau and Roy Porter (eds.),
Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment
(Manchester, 1987), 181–205.

‘
not to be subject to
’: John Locke,
Two Treatises on Government
(London, 1821 edition), 206.

‘
a Black … dare not say criminal
’:
The Diary and Letters of his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780)
(Boston, 1884), 276.

‘
Fiat justitia
 … heavens fall
’: William M. Wiecek, ‘Somersett: Lord Mansfield and the Legitimacy of Slavery in the Anglo-American World’,
The University of Chicago Law Review
, vol. 42, no. 1 (Autumn 1974), 102.

‘
ingenious Africans … as a Slave
’: Donna T. Andrew (ed.),
London Debating Societies 1776–1799
(London, 1994), 221.

When he died
: Ruth Paley, ‘Imperial Politics and English Law: The Many Contexts of “Somersett”’,
Law and History Review
, vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 2006), 663.

‘
the negroe cause
’: this phrase originated with ‘Considerations on the Negroe Cause Addressed to Lord Mansfield’, in 1773, by Samuel Estwick, Assistant Agent to the Island of Barbados, printed in Pall Mall.

‘
unsuccessful contest at cribbage
’:
www.brycchancarey.com/sancho/letter2.htm
.

He was a prolific letter writer
: details of the letters of Ignatius Sancho are from Vincent Carretta (ed.),
Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
(Kentucky, 1996).

‘
the Extraordinary Negro
’: Joseph Jekyll,
The Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African, to which are prefixed memoirs of his life
(London, 1782), i.

‘
A man can never be great
’:
The North Briton
, issue no. 144.

‘
How is it that we hear
’: James Boswell,
Life of Samuel Johnson
(London, 1833 edition), 204.

‘
were, and are, all mad … capering pig
’: Christopher Hibbert,
King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780
(London, 1958), 1.

‘
occupying every avenue
’:
The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds, Written by Himself, in Two Volumes: Volume 1
(London, 1827), 124.

‘
Popish birds
’: Hibbert,
King Mob
, 61.

‘
London seemed a second Troy
’: William Cowper, ‘Table Talk’ in
Poems
(London, 1782), l. 323.

‘
Such a time of terror
’: quoted in Hibbert,
King Mob
, vi.

‘
the effect of Accident
’:
London Courant
, 26 August 1780.

‘
She gets out of her carriage
’: Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander and Frances E. G. Boscawen,
Admiral’s Widow: Being the Life and Letters of the Hon. Mrs Edward Boscawen from 1761 to 1805
(London, 1943), letter dated 12 April 1784.