Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth centuryAshton, John
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Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth century
Ashton, John
Great Britain -- Social life and customs
Advt.--ASTROLOGY. _Mrs._ NEWTON respectfully informs her friends
and the Public, that she continues at No. 111 in Wardour St.
Soho, where she may be consulted on Planetary Influence, as it
relates to, involves, and guides all the Events and Occurrences,
as Marriages, Legacies, Possession of Wealth, Attainment of any
particular Desire, the State of an Absent Friend by Sea or Land,
or whatever can interest our Hopes, or agitate our Fears. The
private Door in Portland St., and the Name under the
one-pair-of-stairs window."--(_Times, May 6, 1795._)
Medicinal Waters were in great repute, and if there were any spring,
at all charged with mineral matter, near the Metropolis, it was a good
thing for the proprietor. They existed at the Beulah Spa, Norwood--Spa
fields, Bermondsey--Hampstead--Clerkenwell--Holywell Street, and at
this "Duck and Dog" St. George's Fields. This was a famous suburban
publichouse--much as the Welsh Harp is nowadays--where shooting
matches at small birds was a favourite pastime.
"Advt.--DOG AND DUCK SPA AND BATH, St. Georges Fields.--J. Hedger
respectfully informs the Public, that the Gardens of the above
Spa are open for the reception of those who wish to drink the
Waters on the spot, at the usual terms of 3d. each person. The
general salubrity of this Spa is well known: and its happy
medicinal effects in Scorbutic, Scrophulous, and eruptive
Complaints: as well as in the Gravel, and several other
Disorders, have been long and incontestibly established. It will
be sent to any part of the town in bottles, corked and sealed at
the pump, on receiving orders as above. The Bath and Bowling
Green are also open to Subscribers."--(_Times, May 26, 1795._)
The _Mr. Brothers_ mentioned in the following paragraph had been a
Lieutenant in the Navy--and held most extravagantly visionary
religious views--he pretended to have revelations from the Deity, and
set up as a Prophet. He was imprisoned in 1794 for fear he should
create some political disturbance.
"Many persons were yesterday not a little terrified by _St.
Paul's_ clock striking 10 three times within an hour, expecting
every moment, that Mr. _Brothers's_ prophecy was about to be
fulfilled, which had appointed some dreadful calamity to befal
the City of London before the 4th day of June instant."--(_Times,
June 4, 1795._)
In the next paragraph, we must bear in mind the difference in the
value of the Currency then and now.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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