[152] ‘Celebrated Trials,’ iii. 457. ‘Newgate Calendar,’ i. 39. Thornbury, in his ‘Old Stories Retold,’ calls it the King’s Arms, on what authority he does not say. [153] “What do you bring this fellow here for?” Oneby had cried to the keeper of Newgate when he appeared with Hooper. “Whenever I look at him I shall think of being hanged.” Hooper had a forbidding countenance, but he was an inimitable mimic, and he soon made himself an agreeable companion to the condemned man. [154] ‘Calendar,’ i. 146. [155] The husband of the Lady Macclesfield, who was mother to Richard Savage. See _ante_, p. 340. [156] ‘Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke,’ by George Harris, i. 176. [157] Where Lambeth Suspension Bridge now stands. [158] The crime of petty treason was established when any person out of malice took away the life of another to whom he or she owed special obedience--as when a servant killed his master, a wife her husband, or an ecclesiastic his superior. The wife’s accomplices in the murder of a husband were not deemed guilty of petty treason. [159] The infamous Judge Jeffries in 1685 sentenced Elizabeth Gaunt to be burnt alive at Tyburn, for sheltering persons concerned in Monmouth’s rebellion. [160] As barristers often preferred to do business at their own homes, chambers in the Temple were rather at a discount just then, and their landlords, “preferring tenants of no legal skill to no tenants at all, let them out to any that offered, ...” consequently many private people creep about the Inns of Court.--‘Newgate Calendar,’ i. 470. [161] ‘Newgate Calendar,’ i. 189. [162] “Beau” Fielding, who was tried at the Old Bailey in 1706 for committing bigamy with the Duchess of Cleveland, is one of the most remarkable instances of this. See ‘Celebrated Trials,’ iii. 534. Also see the trial of the Duchess of Kingston, ‘Remarkable Trials,’ 203. She was tried by the House of Lords, found guilty, but pleaded her peerage and was discharged. [163] Hackham was present at Dr. Dodd’s execution a short time previously. His remarks on the subject will be found in vol. ii. chap. i. [164] Quin could not resist the chance of making a sharp speech. When desired by the manager of Covent Garden to go to the front to apologize for Madame Rollau, a celebrated dancer, who could not appear, he said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Madame Rollau cannot dance to-night, having dislocated her ancle--I wish it had been her neck.” [165] At this date abroad, Mr. Baretti pointed out, it was not the custom to put knives on the dinner-table, so that even ladies carried them in their pockets for general use. [166] The boot was the usual punning allusion to Lord Bute in the caricatures of the day; and the petticoat no doubt referred to his undue influence over the Princess of Wales, mother of the reigning sovereign, George III. See _ante_, p. 238. [167] Cant names of the period for drinks. [168] Walpole’s Letters to Sir Horace Mann.