Note 600 — Chapter XIII · GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY.
Reading edition
Aubrey, Remains of Judaisme and Gentilisme. MS. Lansdowne Collection.
[601] See Gent.’s Mag., Jan. 1819, where the conditions are given in extenso.
[602] “At the abbey of Saint Milaine, near Rennes, there has been for more than 600 years a flitch of bacon, still perfectly fresh and good; yet it is promised and ordered to be given to the first couple that has been married for a year and a day without quarrelling, scolding, or regretting that they were married.”—Contes d’Eutrap.
[603] Creame—Dutch, kraam—a temporary booth erected in fair-time to serve as a shop. Even at the present day those men that go from village to village selling cheap jewellery and other articles, which they carry in a box or basket, are called mars-kramers—apparently from marcher, to walk, and the above kraam.
[604] Skene, De Verborum Significatione at the End of his Lawes and Actes. Edinburgh, 1597.
[605] See in this same chapter, p. 417, for particulars of a signboard at the Cape, exhibited by Farmer Peek.
[606] “Fly Leaves,” 1854.
[607] Parliamentary History, vol. i., p. 1195.
[608] See Gent’s Mag., Jan. 1792, p. 19.
[609] Tho. Decker’s A Knight’s Conjuring.
[610] Quoted in Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, p. 356.
[611] Witt’s Recreation, 1640.
[612] Banks collection of shopbills, where amateurs of tobacco curiosities may find a very rich collection of all sorts of tobacco-paper rhymes, signs, &c.
[613] In the Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain, London 1816, vol. iii., p. 116, such a paper is given, entitled: “The triumphant victory of the Imperyall Mageste against the Turkes the xxvi day of Septembre, the yere of our lord mcccccxxxii. in Steuermarke by a Capytayne named Michael Meschsaer.”
[614] Boswell’s Johnson, vol. i., p. 304.
[615] Ibid., vol. i., p. 327.
[616] Moser’s Memorandum-Book, M.S. dated 1799, as quoted in Notes and Queries, December 22, 1849.
[617] Gent.’s Mag., March 1842.
[618] Dr King’s Anecdotes, p. 117.
[619] Selden’s Table-Talk.
[620]
“Joshua prayed to the Lord from the bottom of his heart, That the sun and moon might stand still. The best Varinas and good tobacco in the leaf Are sold here at the Indian.”
[621] Sir Richard Baker’s Chronicles, anno 1588.
[622] See Secret History of the Calves’ Head Club. London, 1705.
[623] Country Journal, or Craftsman, Saturday, April 25, 1730.
[624] “On entering the good town of Nogent by sunset, I put up at the Jerusalem, which offers good accommodation for travellers, wine of Vaulx, and that good.”
[625] The landlord.
[626] Read’s Weekly Journal, March 31, 1739.