Transcriber's Notes: Words in italics in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. A row of asterisks represents a thought break. A complete list of corrections as well as other notes follows the text. ANECDOTES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF LONDON DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; INCLUDING THE CHARITIES, DEPRAVITIES, DRESSES, AND AMUSEMENTS, OF THE CITIZENS OF LONDON, DURING THAT PERIOD; WITH A REVIEW OF THE STATE OF SOCIETY IN 1807. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SKETCH OF THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE, AND OF THE VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METROPOLIS. ILLUSTRATED BY FORTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS. BY JAMES PELLER MALCOLM, F. S. A. AUTHOR OF "LONDINIUM REDIVIVUM," &c. &c. THE SECOND EDITION. VOLUME I. _LONDON_: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME. PATERNOSTER ROW. 1810. John Nichols and Son, Printers, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London. _CONTENTS_ OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Preface Page v CHAP. I. State of Parish Children--Anecdotes of various descriptions of Charity exercised in London between the years 1700 and 1800 1 CHAP. II. Anecdotes of Depravity, from 1700 to 1800 87 CHAP. III. Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of London, from 1700 to 1800 229 CHAP. IV. Anecdotes of Eccentricity 396 _PLATES_ TO THE FIRST VOLUME. Foundling Hospital Page 15 Bancroft's Almshouse 47 The Small-pox Hospital 48 PREFACE. I beg leave to return my sincere thanks to the community, for the flattering reception with which this undertaking has been honoured:--A more convincing proof of that approbation which every Author most ardently desires seldom occurs, and still more seldom is expressed in so short a period as between the dates of the first appearance of the book and the present preface (March 1808 and May 1809.)