[69] It is common to mention the Fleet by the name of the Place, and I suppose it is call’d the Place by way of Eminence, because there is not such another. [70] A Cant Word for a Dram of Geneva. [71] A Chew of Tobacco--supposed to be given him. [72] When there are Holes above Heel, or the Feet are so bad in a Stocking that you are forced to pull them to hide the Holes, or cover the Toes, it is call’d Coaxing. [73] As the Prison is often called the College, so it is common to call a Prisoner a Collegian; and this Character is taken from a Man who had been many Years in the Place, and like to continue his Life. [74] The Name of the Cook of the Kitchen. [75] A place in the Cellar call’d Bartholomew Fair. [76] Who goes out? is repeated by Watchmen Prisoners from half-an-hour after nine till St. Paul’s Clock strikes Ten, to give Visitors Notice to depart. [77] While St. Paul’s is striking Ten, the Watchman don’t call Who goes out? but when the last stroke is given they cry All told! at which time the Gates are lock’d and nobody suffer’d to go out upon any Account. [78] A werst is one thousand and sixty-seven metres. [79] Then valued at four shillings each, or eight pounds in all. [80] Gay, in his ‘Trivia,’ book i, says, ‘Let _Persian_ Dames th’_Umbrella’s_ Ribs display, To guard their Beauties from the Sunny Ray.’ [81] ‘A Review of the proposed Naturalization of the Jews.’ [82] Among other Bills which then received the Royal Assent was one for purchasing Sloane Museum and the Harleian MSS., and for providing a general repository for the same--by means of a lottery--the commencement of the British Museum. [83] ‘Parliamentary History,’ Hansard, vol. xv, p. 154. [84] ‘Eight Letters to his Grace--Duke of Newcastle--on the custom of Vails-giving in England, &c.,’ 1760, p. 20. [85] ‘The East Neuk of Fife,’ by Rev. Walter Wood. Edinburgh, 1862, p. 208. [86] Tickled the palms of their hands. [87] ‘The English Treasury of Wit and Language,’ etc., ed. 1655, pp. 223, 224. [88] Or surfel--to wash the cheeks with mercurial or sulphur water. [89] Face-washes and ointments. [90] Edition 1699, p. 19. The poem had reference to the College of Physicians, establishing a dispensary of their own, owing to the excessive charges of the apothecaries. The institution did not last very long. [91] Gold. [92] ‘The Female Physician, &c.,’ by John Ball, M.D.--London, 1770, pp. 76, 77. [93] This water, as its name implies, was supposed to be a sovereign remedy for gunshot wounds. It was also called _aqua vulneraria_, _aqua sclopetaria_, and _aqua catapultarum_. [94] Now called an _entire horse_, or _stallion_. [95] ‘The London Spy,’ ed. 1703, p. 124. [96] An allusion to the dispensary which the College of Physicians set up in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and which was the subject of Sir S. Garth’s satirical poem, called ‘The Dispensary.’