p. 261 _Twelve was the lucky_. Tom is quoting from _The Happy Night_, a piece which may be found in Vol. I of the _Works of the Earl of Rochester_ (1756), and in the early pseudo-Amsterdam editions. The following note is generally appended: ‘The late Duke of Buckinghamshire was pleased to own himself the Author of this Poem.’ p. 262 _fisking and giggiting. Both these words have practically the same signification, i.e., to frisk or scamper about heedlessly, cf. _Rules of Civility_ (1675), in _Antiquary_ (1880):--’Madam ... fisking and prattling are but ill ways to please.’ To giggit is a very rare verb. _The N.E.D_. only notices it as a modern U.S.A. colloquialism, quoting _Old Town Folks_ ‘While the wagon and uncle Liakim were heard giggiting away.’ p. 263 _Rakeshame_. A common word for a profligate in the 17th century. cf. Bishop Montagu, _Diatribae_ (1621), ‘Such roysterers and rakeshames as Mars is manned with.’ p. 269 _whipping Tom_. The use of a whipping boy punished for another’s fault is well known. Barnaby Fitzpatrick served that office for the young Edward VI, and Mungo Murray for Charles I. p. 273 _Intelligence_. Newspaper; diurnal. ‘Letters of Intelligence’ was an early and common name for a periodical. In 1662 we have _A Monthly Intelligence Relating the Affaires of the People called Quakers_. No. I, August--September 1. (The only number.) In 1665, _Publick Intelligence_, No. i, 28 November, 1665. By Sir Roger L’Estrange. (One number.) p. 277 _I saw how_. Tom is quoting these four lines from stanza vii of _The Disappointment_ vide Vol. vi. The same poem, yclept _The Insensible_, appears in various editions of Rochester’s _Works_, and is attributed to the Earl. _The Disappointment_ is again the title of another poem which directly precedes _The Insensible_. p. 278 _Enter Sensure_. cf. Shadwell’s _The Miser (1672)_, Act iv, where Squeeze escaping from Mother Cheatley’s house is exposed by being found to have donned Letrice’s red silk stocking in mistake for his own. It is said that when Shaftesbury’s house was searched for incriminating papers a lady of some little notoriety was found concealed under his bed, p. 281 _the City-Charter_. The Charter of the City of London was broken by the Crown in 1683. cf. Dryden’s _Prologue to the King & Queen ... upon the Union of the Two Companies _spoken at Drury Lane, 16 November, 1682:-- When men will needlessly their freedom barter For lawless power, sometimes they catch a Tartar; (There’s a damned word that rhymes to this, call’d Charter.) p. 282 _Crape-Goivnorums_. Clerics. Bailey (1755) defines crape as a “sort of thin worsted stuff of which the dress of the clergy is sometimes made”, cf. _Speculum Crape-Gownsorum; or, A Looking-Glass for the young Academicks (1682)_. An unpublished satire (Harleian MS.), _The Convocation (1688)_, has:-- Whole Troops of Crape Gowns with Curtains of Lawn In the Pale of the Church together are drawn.