The use of apostrophes to indicate possessive case is not consistent in the original. The placement of quotation marks is not consistent in the original. Apostrophes and quotation marks have been left as in the original except where noted below. The following corrections have been made to the original text: Page xiii: vary with the internal feelings,'[quotation mark missing in original] Page xv: exhibiting any proofs on this occasion[original has "ocasion"] Page xx: requires notice as much as their peculiarities[original has "pecularities"] Page 12: collection for the Chapel amounted to 596_l._[period missing in original] Page 37: and advantageous to the publick[original has "pub" and "lick" on separate lines without a hyphen] Page 39: as to their improvements of[original has "of of"] every sort Page 60: at the same time[original has "time time"] crying out Page 77: [quotation mark missing in original]"535 persons discharged, together with 245 wives Page 164: disgraced the annals of turpitude.[original has ".."] Page 189: [original has extraneous quotation mark]Sir John Fielding, being asked what number Page 199: rather by sufferance than[original has "that"] by right Page 246: Lord Steward of the King's Household[original has "Houshold"] Page 252: acknowledged to have been a superb spectacle[original has "spectable"] Page 260: advice to parents and masters previous[original has "previ" and "ous" on separate lines without a hyphen] to the holidays Page 274: we sit till six, then[original has "that"] we go to the play Page 332: women with inflaming liquids:[original has a period] Page 344: _John Paterson_."[quotation mark missing in original] Page 346: 10 Ditto[original has heading "Dishes" carried over from previous page] fine green peas Page 358: our drinking-houses are refined:[original has a period] they no longer Page 358: 'This is not the Punch-bowl Inn.'"[double quote missing in original] Page 364: neglect of other duties,[original has a period] and it behoves Page 379: eight feet, but[original has "hut"] did not break Page 385: crowd having soon surrounded[original has "surrouded"] him Page 397: Eccentricity may[original has "my"] exist in the brain On page 368, the original has "with _paternal candour_ every plea [large white space] we have to offer". The transcriber has been unable to locate a copy of the book that has a word or words in the space. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. I (of 2), by James Peller Malcolm