Note 162:1 — Chapter VI · NOTABLE EXECUTIONS
Reading edition
No. 45 of the North Briton charged the king with falsehood, and was the basis of the prosecutions; forty-five became in consequence a popular number with the patriots. Tradesmen called their goods "forty-five;" and snuff so styled was sold in Fleet Street for many years. Horne Tooke declares that the Prince of Wales aggravated his august father, when the latter was flogging him, by shouting "Wilkes and forty-five for ever!"