[189] 'The Ghost:' the famous Cock-lane Ghost, a conspiracy of certain parties in London against one Kent, whose paramour had died, and whose ghost was said to have returned to accuse him of having murdered her. A little girl named Frazer, who appears to have had ventriloquial powers, was the principal cause of the noises, scratchings, &c., thought to be supernatural. [190] 'Bampfield Carew:' Bampfylde Moore Carew, the famous king of the gypsies. His life used to be a favourite with schoolboys. [191] 'Moll Squires:' Mary Squires, a gypsy, and one of Carew's subjects. [192] 'College:' that of the fifteen Augurs in Rome. [193] 'Campbell:' a deaf and dumb fortune-teller. [194] 'Butcher-row:' an old street in London, now removed. [195] 'Drugger:' Abel Drugger, in Jonson's 'Alchymist. [196] 'Stuarts:' James the Second's dastardly conduct at the battle of the Boyne. [197] 'Sackvilles:' Lord George Sackville, accused of cowardice at the battle of Minden, afterwards degraded by a court martial, but ultimately raised to promotion as a Peer and Secretary of State. [198] 'Faden and Say:' two anti-Wilkite editors. [199] 'Baker:' Sir Richard Baker, the famous chronicler. [200] 'Tofts:' Mary Tofts of Godalming, who first dreamed of, and was at last brought to bed of, rabbits! She confessed afterwards that it was a fraud. [201] 'Betty Canning:' a woman who pretended, in 1753, that she had been confined in a garret by a gypsy woman, for twenty-seven days, with scarcely any food, but turned out to be an impostor. [202] 'Fisher's:' Catherine Fisher, better known by the name of Kitty Fisher, a courtezan of great beauty. [203] 'Lennox:' Mrs Arabella Lennox, the author of some pleasing novels, and a friend of Dr Johnson's. See Boswell and Hawkins. [204] 'Lauder's;' William Lauder, the notorious forger and interpolator of Milton, detected by Dr Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury. [205] 'Polypheme:' Johnson, who at first took Lauder's side. See Boswell. [206] 'Fanny:' the supposed ghost. [207] 'Pride's command:' The Countess-Duchess of Northumberland was celebrated for the splendour of her parties. [208] 'Nine knocks:' a curious anticipation of modern spirit-rappings! [209] 'Immane Pomposo:' Dr Johnson; 'humane,' referring to Virgil's _'Monstrum horrendum immane_;' and ridiculing Dr J.'s Latinisms. [210] 'C----'s:' not known. [211] 'Garden:' Covent, where a set of low and mercenary wretches, called _trading justices_, superintended the administration of police. [212] 'Avaro:' Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, a favourite object of Churchill's ire, as some of the previous poems prove. [213] 'Moore:' the Rev. Mr Moore, then curate of St Sepulchre's, who had a share in the Cock-lane conspiracy.