[225] Hone’s Every-Day Book, Oct. 17, fol. 1. [226] Rev. J. Richardson, LL.B., Recollections of the Last Half Century. See also under STUNNING JOE BANKS in the Slang Dictionary, recently issued by the publisher of this work. [227] _Gentleman’s Magazine_, March 1842. [228] _See_ under RELIGIOUS SIGNS. [229] _London Gazette_, Oct. 2-6, 1673. [230] Childe Harold, canto I. lxx. [231] Hone’s Every Day Book, Jan. 17, vol. ii. [232] “I wear horns, which everybody sees, But many a one wears horns and does not know it.” [233] Bagford Bills. Bib. Harl. 5962. [234] _Postman_, February 1-3, 1711. [235] Richardsoniana, p. 168. [236] Timbs, Curiosities of London, p. 402. [237] As quoted by Strutt in “Gliggam,” &c. [238] Printed in Leland’s Collectanea, pp. 270, 272. [239] A MS. of the sixteenth century, Bib. Harl. 2150, fol. 356, gives full particulars of this _fête_ and procession. [240] “At the White Horse, horses are shod with iron, Pity the same cannot be done to men, for then they would need no shoes.” [241] Crowns exactly similar to this, made of box, tinsel, and coloured paper, are yearly hung out by the fishmongers in Holland on the first arrival of the salt herring after the summer fishery. [242] Pennant’s Account of London, p. 423. [243] _Gentleman’s Magazine_, March 1842; and _London Gazette_, Dec. 30, 1718. [244] Lloyd’s _Evening Post_, Jan. 16-19, 1761. [245] Brand’s Popular Superstitions. [246] Robert Herrick, Hesperides, p. 234. [247] Aubrey, Anecdotes and Traditions, p. 3. [248] _Postman_, June 1703. [249] _Intelligencer_, May 30, 1681. [250] Bagford Bills. Bib. Harl. 5964. [251] Hence we have 7 ages, 7 churches, 7 champions, 7 penitential psalms, 7 sleepers of Ephesus, 7 years’ apprenticeship, 7 cardinal virtues and deadly sins, 7 make a gallows-ful, boots of 7 leagues, 7 liberal arts, and innumerable other instances. [252] Collier’s Annals, vol. iii. p. 271, and Halliwell’s Introduction to Tarlton’s Jests, p. 16. [253] _Spectator_, No. 509. [254] “He went about almost naked in the rage of hunger,” says Dr Johnson, “and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffeehouse asked him for a shilling; and Otway going away bought a roll and was choked with the first mouthful.” [255] Lewis’s Islington, p. 160. [256] The History of the Plague, by Defoe. [257] There is still a BULL’S HEAD public-house in this street, built on the site of the house of Thomas Britton, the Musical Small-Coal Man, where he gave his celebrated concerts for a period of 36 years, powdered duchesses and fastidious ladies of the Court tripping through his coal repository, and climbing up a ladder to assist at these famous meetings. [258] Randolph’s Muses’ Looking-Glass.