THE END _Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, London and Bungay._ FOOTNOTES: [1] Some of the rarer items of the collection which it seemed desirable to cite as authorities are marked W. or W. Coll. [2] Several London pleasure gardens were in existence _before_ the Restoration, the Mulberry Garden on the site of Buckingham Palace and the Spring Gardens at Charing Cross being well-known instances. But in the present volume only such seventeenth-century gardens as survived till the succeeding century are noticed. [3] The English Grotto. [4] Cp. _The Idler_, No. 15, July 1758. [5] At Vauxhall fireworks were not introduced till 1798, but illuminations were always a feature of the gardens. [6] Bermondsey Spa and Finch’s Grotto, above mentioned, might be classed among the spas and springs, but their amusements resembled those of Vauxhall. [7] _Islington Wells, a song of all the virtues of those old waters newly found out._ London, 1684 (Brit. Mus.), cp. _A morning ramble; or Islington Wells burlesqt._ London, 1684 (Cunningham, _London_, 1850, s.v. “Islington”). [8] _London Gazette_, 24 September, 1685. [9] Nearly all modern writers--Mr. Pinks is an exception--have in some way or other confused Sadler’s Wells with New Tunbridge Wells (Islington Spa). The mistake may have first arisen from the circumstance that Sadler, in his printed prospectus concerning the discovery of the wells on his premises, describes them as “Sadler’s New Tunbridge Wells near Islington.” The sub-title of New Tunbridge Wells never, however, took root at Sadler’s, though it was soon permanently adopted (as is stated in our text) by the rival Islington Wells, _i.e._ Islington Spa. [10] The following details are mainly derived from _Islington Wells, or the Threepenny Academy_, 1691, and from Edward Ward’s _Walk to Islington_, 1699, fol. (Ward’s _Works_, ii. 63, ff. ed. 1709). [11] Ward describes the gambling places as an outhouse with sheds and a hovel adjoining. [12] _Islington Wells, or the Threepenny Academy._ [13] Cp. E. Ward, “The Infallible Predictor” (_Works_, ii. p. 355, ed. 1709). [14] An advertisement of 23 May, 1712 (Percival’s Sadler’s Wells announces the performances from six to ten in the morning and from four till eight in the evening of two wonderful posture-makers, a man and a child of nine, to take place in the dancing-room of New Tunbridge Wells. [15] Extract from family correspondence communicated by C. L. S. to _Notes and Queries_, 8th ser. vi. 1894, p. 69. [16] In 1760 the breakfasting was ninepence, the afternoon tea sixpence, and the coffee eightpence. No stronger beverages were sold. [17] A serious attempt seems to have been made to keep this rule. The _London Daily Advertiser_ for 25 June, 1752, records that a beautiful though notorious woman, who had appeared at the dancing at New Tunbridge on June 24, was, on being recognised by the company, turned out by a constable.