p. 18 _Glass Coach_. Coaches with glasses were a recent invention and very fashionable amongst the courtiers and ladies of the Restoration. De Grammont tells in his _Memoirs_ how he presented a French calash with glasses to the King, and how, after the Queen and the Duchess of York, had publicly appeared in it, a battle royal took place between Lady Castlemaine and Miss Stewart as to which of the two should first be seen therein on a fine day in Hyde Park. _The Ultimum Vale of John Carleton_ (4to, 1663) says, ‘I could wish her coach ... made of the new fashion, with glass, very stately, ... was come for me.’ p. 20 _Tom Dove_. A well-known bear so named and exhibited at the Bear Garden. Besides this passage there are four other allusions to him to be found. Dryden’s _Epilogue to the King and Queen_ at the Union of the Two Companies, 1682, has:-- Then for your lacquies ... They roar so loud, you’d think behind the stairs, Tom Dove, and all the brotherhood of bears. His prologue to Vanbrugh’s alteration of _The Pilgrim_ (1700) begins:-- How wretched is the fate of those who write! Brought muzzled to the stage, for fear they bite; Where, like Tom Dove, they stand the common foe. In Southerne’s _The Maid’s Last Prayer_ (1693) Act ii, II, Granger on receiving an invitation to dinner cries: ‘Zounds! a man had as good be ty’d to a stake and baited like Tom Dove on Easter Monday as be the necessary appurtenance of a great man’s table!’ D’Urfey in the epilogue (spoken by Verbruggen) to Robert Gould’s _The Rival Sisters; or, The Violence of Love_, produced at Drury Lane in 1696, writes:-- When the dull Crowd, unskilled in these Affairs, To day wou’d laugh with us, to morrow with the Bears: Careless which Pastime did most Witty prove, Or who pleas’d best, Tom Poet, or Tom Dove. Tom Dove has been wrongly described as ‘a bearward.’ p. 22 _Southampton House_. Southampton House, Bloomsbury, occupied the whole of the north side of the present Bloomsbury Square. It had ‘a curious garden behind, which lieth open to the fields,’--_Strype_. A great rendezvous for duellists, cf. Epilogue to Mountfort’s _Greenwich Park_ (Drury Lane, 1691) spoken by Mrs. Mountfort:-- If you’re displeased with what you’ve seen to-night Behind Southampton House we’ll do you right; Who is’t dares draw ‘gainst me and Mrs. Knight? p. 39 _Nickers_. Vide note (p. 456) Vol. I, p. 398, _The Roundheads_. p. 41 _Courant_. A quick, lively dance frequently referred to in old dramatists. p. 43 _A Jigg_. There were, in Post-Restoration times, two interpretations of the word Jig. Commonly speaking it was taken to mean exactly what it would now, a simple dance. Nell Gwynne and Moll Davis were noted for the dancing of Jigs. cf. Epilogue to Buckingham’s _The Chances_ (1682):--