[257] Ibid., vol ii. p. 19. [258] British Monachism, vol. ii. pp. 32, 33. [259] Ibid., pp. 42-47. [260] Ibid., p. 177. [261] Jeaffreson’s Book about the Clergy, vol. i. p. 91. [262] Canons of Œlfric, A.D. 970; Discipline of Drink, p. 150. [263] Decree of Giles of Bridport, Bishop of Salisbury, A.D. 1256, against “Scot-ales,” _loc. cit._, p. 176. [264] Synod of Kilkenny, A.D. 1614, _loc. cit._, p. 180. [265] Nationalneigung zum Trunke, p. 97. [266] Nugæ Antiquæ, i. 348-350; in Lingard’s History of England, vol. ix. p. 109 n., 2d ed., 1825. [267] Macaulay’s History of England, vol. i. chap. i, Longmans, 1873; Scott’s Peveril of the Peak; Brooke’s Manners and Customs of the English, Blackwood, &c. [268] John Evelyn, one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society, A.D. 1620-56, quoted in Doran’s “Table Traits,” p. 458. Bentley. [269] Kindly given to the author by Sir Sydney Waterlow, Bart., M.P. [270] From Memoires de l’Angleterre, A.D. 1698, in Homes of Other Days, p. 473. [271] Doran’s Table Traits, p. 66. [272] Doran’s “Table Traits,” where a more detailed account is given of the clubs here named, along with many others. [273] Alphonse Esquiros, “The English at Home.” [274] Those who are curious to know which of the political and social leaders of the period were drunkards should read Lecky’s “History of England in the Eighteenth Century,” vol. i. chap. iii. pp. 476-482. Longmans & Co., 1878. [275] Morewood, p. 25. [276] The Chemistry of Wine, p. viii., by C. J. Mulder. Churchill. [277] Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, vol. i. p. 42, 6th ed. [278] Morewood, p. 560. [279] The table is compiled from Mulder’s “Chemistry of Wine” (Appendix), Bloxam’s “Chemistry,” and the author’s own article on “Beer Scientifically and Socially Considered,” Quarterly Journal of Science, 1870, vol. vii. p. 315, and from other sources. [280] Rev. Dawson Burns, M.A., Metropolitan Superintendent of the United Kingdom Alliance. From the Journal of the Statistical Society, March 1875, p. 13. [281] Morewood, p. 560. [282] Macfarlane and Thomson’s History of England, vol. iii. p. 258; Lecky’s History of England during the Eighteenth Century, pp. 476-482. [283] It should be mentioned that in 1751 more stringent regulations were enacted, but none that in any degree approached the “Gin Act” in severity. [284] Fraser’s Life of Berkeley, pp. 332, 333, in Lecky’s History of England. [285] The Upas Tree in Marybone Lane, by James Smith (1775-1839). [286] The High Street of Edinburgh, by Sir Alexander Boswell, the oldest son of Johnson’s biographer (1775-1822). [287] Meaning Welshman. [288] From an old poem, in the “Discipline of Drink,” p. 84. [289] A.D. 1678. Ibid., p. 182. [290] Jeaffreson’s Book about the Clergy, vol. i. p. 91 n. [291] Lecky’s History of England, vol. ii. p. 93. [292] A.D. 1698-1762. [293] The Court of Death. Gay lived 1688-1732. [294] Lecky’s History of England, p. 476 and notes, where numerous authorities are quoted.