=184=: 22. =His family had never been sullied by a trade.= It will be remembered that Sir Roger was sensitive on this point. See IX, p. 89. XXVII. SIR ROGER IN LONDON =Motto.= "Simplicity, in our age most rare." --Ovid, _Ars Amoris_, i. 241. =185=: 15. =Gray's Inn Walks.= The walks and gardens of Gray's Inn (see note, p. 221) were a favourite resort. =185=: 18. =Prince Eugene.= Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), a famous Austrian general. He had fought side by side with Marlborough through several campaigns in the great War of the Spanish Succession that was now drawing to a close. At this time Marlborough had just been dismissed from his command in the army (see p. 244), and the English Tory ministry were making negotiations for a peace. Prince Eugene visited London to urge the continuance of the war and the restoration of Marlborough, but his mission was futile. =186=: 5. =Scanderbeg.= Corrupt form of Iskander (Alexander) Bey; a noted Albanian chief, whose name was George Castriota, born 1404. He won many victories against the Turks. =186=: 24. =Out of Dr. Barrow.= See VI, p. 79. Dr. Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) was one of the most eloquent divines of his age. =187=: 1. =Tobacco stopper.= A small plug, made of wood or bone, to pack the tobacco in the bowl of a pipe. =188=: 14. =The late Act of Parliament=, the _Act to repress Occasional Conformity_, passed 1710. By the Test Act of 1673 it was required of every person filling any civil office that he should take the sacrament, at certain times, according to the forms of the Church of England. The object, of course, was to exclude all Romanists and all Dissenters from office. But it was found that many Dissenters did not feel themselves forbidden by conscience to take the sacrament occasionally from the hands of a priest of the Church of England, if only so they could qualify for office. A bill to prevent this "Occasional Conformity" was warmly urged through all the earlier years of the reign of Anne; but so long as the Whigs were in power, it was impossible to pass it. When the Tories came in, in 1710, they naturally passed it at once. =188=: 19. =Plum-porridge.= Extreme Dissenters looked with disfavour upon all Christmas festivities as savouring of Romish observance.