Note 104 — NEWES FROM MORE-LANE.
Reading edition
There was a singular mania in this century for chronograms, or making up dates out of words, which will be best explained in the annexed example. Jas. Hilton, Esq., has by dint of vast trouble and research, been enabled to collect a large quantity of these, and his book104 (of which only a very limited number were printed) will well repay the perusal of the curious.