[166] The legal meaning of "hamlet" in England is a village without a church of its own: ecclesiastically, therefore, it belongs to the parish of some other village. [167] All Protestant sects other than the Established Church of England. [168] A groat equals fourpence, about eight cents. It is not coined now. [169] A farthing equals one quarter of a penny. [170] About ten miles down the Thames. [171] The _t_ is silent in this word. [172] Hard-tack, pilot bread. [173] Old form for "rode." [174] See the last sentence of the next paragraph but one. [175] Roadstead, an anchoring ground less sheltered than a harbor. [176] Substitute "that they would not be visited." [177] The plague. [178] St. Margaret's. [179] _Nota bene_, note well. [180] Dul'ich. All these places are southward from London. Norwood is six miles distant. [181] Old form of "dared." [182] Small vessels, generally schooner-rigged, used for carrying heavy freight on rivers and harbors. [183] London Bridge. [184] This incident is so overdone, that it fails to be pathetic, and rather excites our laughter. [185] Supply "themselves." [186] Barnet was about eleven miles north-northwest of London. [187] Holland and Belgium. [188] See Luke xvii. 11-19. [189] Well. [190] With speed, in haste. [191] This word is misplaced. It should go immediately before "to lodge." [192] Luck. [193] Whom. [194] A small sail set high upon the mast. [195] "Fetched a long compass," i.e., went by a circuitous route. [196] The officers. [197] Refused. [198] Nearly twenty miles northeast of London. [199] He. This pleonastic use of a conjunction with the relative is common among illiterate writers and speakers to-day. [200] Waltham and Epping, towns two or three miles apart, at a distance of ten or twelve miles almost directly north of London. [201] Pollard trees are trees cut back nearly to the trunk, and so caused to grow into a thick head (_poll_) of branches. [202] Entertainment. In this sense, the plural, "quarters," is the commoner form. [203] Preparing. [204] Peddlers. [205] "Has been," an atrocious solecism for "were." [206] To a miraculous extent. [207] "Put to it," i.e., hard pressed. [208] There are numerous references in the Hebrew Scriptures to parched corn as an article of food (see, among others, Lev. xxiii. 14, Ruth ii. 14, 2 Sam. xvii. 28). [209] Supply "(1)." [210] Soon. [211] Substitute "would." [212] Whom. [213] Familiar intercourse. [214] Evidently a repetition. [215] "For that," i.e., because. [216] Singly. [217] Supply "to be." [218] Buildings the rafters of which lean against or rest upon the outer wall of another building. [219] Supply "of." [220] The plague. [221] "Middling people," i.e., people of the middle class. [222] At the mouth of the Thames. [223] Awnings.