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The Tatler, Volume 4

INDEX (continued 3)

Reading edition

States-General, the, i. 72, 143, 173, 197, 198, 213, 229, 399; ii. 108, 127, 133; iii. 123, 318

Stationers' Hall, i. 64; iii. 71 note, 102 note

Statira, in Lee's Alexander the Great, played by Mrs. Bracegirdle, i. 17 note:

referred to, i. 139, 141; iv. 81

---- the victim of treachery in love, iii. 79 seq.

Steele, his age and position at starting of The Tatler, i. vii, viii:

originator and chief author of The Tatler, i. xiv:

his character, i. xx:

service to stage, i. 15 note:

with Doggett in control of Drury Lane, i. 17 note:

watch bequeathed to, by D'Urfey, i. 18 note, 19 note:

his Apology, i. 48 note; ii. 118 note:

discovered by Addison as author of Tatler, i. 57 note:

his dedication of The Drummer to Congreve, i. 155 note, 292 note; iii. 227 note:

his Lying Lover, i. 219 note; ii. 145 note:

his Ladies' Library, i. 266 note; iv. 264 note:

at Christ Church, i. 281 note:

letter to Miss Scurlock, i. 286, 287:

his Correspondence, i. 286 note:

criticisms by, ii. 141, 142 note:

his regiment the Coldstream, ii. 264 note, 267:

his Funeral, ii. 335 note:

governor of Theatre Royal, iii. 1:

his Lover, i. 192 note; ii. 255 note; iii. 161 note:

Life of Betterton dedicated to him, iii. 279 note:

Eucrates partly drawn from, iii. 322 seq.:

origin of his unmanly tenderness, iii. 350, 351:

his treatment of death, iii. 351 note:

Epistles of Obscure Writers to Ortuinus dedicated to him, iv. 21 seq.:

his Tender Husband, iv. 32 note, 249 note:

his Theatre quoted, i. 209 note; ii. 6 note:

Some English Grammars of his Time, iv. 196 note:

acknowledges authorship of Tatler, iv. 375

Author of Nos. 1-4, 6-17, 19-23, 25-31, 33-35, 39-41, 43-49, 51, 52, 55-62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 71-74, 76, 79, 80, 82, 83, 87-89, 91, 92, 94, 98, 99, 104, 105, 106, 115, 124, 125, 127, 128, 132, 134, 135, 137-141, 143-145, 149, 150, 159, 164, 166-182, 184-191, 195-198, 200-204, 206-208, 210-213, 215, 217, 225, 228, 231-234, 241, 242, 244-248, 251, 252, 258, 261, 263, 264, 266, 268-271

? Author of Nos. 36, 37, 38, 50, 53, 54, 68, 77, 78, 118, 136, 151, 194, 219, 235, 237

Steele and Addison, authors of Nos. 18, 42, 63, 75, 81, 86, 93, 101, 103, 110, 111, 114, 147, 160, ? 214, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, 260, 262, 265

and Swift, authors of Nos. 32, 66, 230, 238

Part of Nos. 59, 193, 223, 236

---- Richard, father of Steele, iii. 350 and note

Stella (Mrs. Johnson), i. 92 note, 107, 285 note; iii. 407

Stentor (i.e. Dr. Will Stanley), his loud voice in church, ii. 39 and note, 55, 127, 154

Stephen, toyshop-man, iv. 382

Stepney Churchyard, iv. 44 seq.

Sterne, his Tristram Shandy, ii. 316 note

Stevenson, Mrs. Anne, iii. 282 note

Stick, Lieutenant Jeffry, i. 232, 233

Stiffrump, Ezekiel, a Quaker, ii. 206, 207

Stockbridge, i. 298 note; iii. 158

Stocking, the ceremony of throwing, ii. 217

Stockjobbers of the Exchange, heirs to I. B.'s real estate, his bearskin, &c., i. 65

Stocks Market, statues in, i. 153 and note

Story-tellers, the Order of, iv. 44

Story's Gate in the Park, ii. 420

Stout, Richard, vendor of ass's milk, iv. 151 and note

Strand, the, i. 13 note, 170 note, 219 and note, 229 note; ii. 54, 264 note, 298; iii. 26 note, 158, 276 note, 299 note; iv. 150 note 372, 379

Stratonica, Queen, beloved of Antiochus, iii. 369, 370

Strephon, a master in the art of persuasion, ii. 78 seq.

---- a man of sense, iv. 260

---- his love-letters, iv. 250, 251

Strops for razors, iv. 149 and note

Strutt, his Complete Gamester, iv. 250 note

Stuart, John, Earl of Bute, ii. 1 note

Sturdy, honest Mr., i. 262 note, 268

Styx, iii. 24, 213, 214, 223

Sublime, the true, i. 351 seq.

Such-an-one, Jack, his character, iv. 65, 66

---- Lady, iv. 67

Suckling, Sir John, on love, i. 329:

his tragedy of Brennoralt, i. 329:

his Poems, iv. 240:

referred to, ii. 61, 70, 256

Suffenus, his happiness centred on a gilded chariot, iii. 171

Suffolk, Henry, fifth Earl of, i. 179 note

---- Street, resort of gamblers, ii. 89 and note, 91, 157 seq.

Summer-house, a covered, iii. 337 seq., 380 seq.; iv. 53

Sunderland, Lord (? Horatio), i. 45 and note

---- Robert, Earl of, ii. 87 note

"Supple men," iv. 101 seq.

Surville, M. de, i. 199

"Swallowers" distinguished from the "Eaters," iv. 61

Swan, Captain, ii. 95 note

Swash, Sir Paul, Knight, indicted for discourtesy, iv. 348, 349

Swearers, iii. 126 seq.

Swearing, a cunning cure for, i. 118, 119

Sweden, King of, i. 72, 213, 399; ii. 67, 134, 135; iii. 85 note, 336

Sweething's Lane, iii. 352 note

Swift, his age and position at starting of The Tatler, i. vii, viii:

his contributions, i. xiv:

his coldness towards Steele and others, i. xxiv:

acknowledgements to, i. 3:

his verses on a Shower, ibid.:

his Description of the Morning, ibid., i. 81, 82, 111 seq.; iv. 216 note:

made name of Bickerstaff famous, i. 8, 22 note:

his Essay on Modern Education, i. 12 note:

described as Wagstaff, i. 81 seq.:

his Journal to Stella, i. 83 note, 92 note, 107, 285 note; ii. 122 note, 396 note; iii. 55 note, 299 note, 407 note; iv. 175 note, 211 note, 215 note, 254 note, 265 note, 294 note, 310 note, 320 note, 374 note:

hatred of Boyer, i. 157 note:

his Tale of a Tub, i. 209 and note; iv. 320 note:

the "Janus of the Age," i. 268:

his Polite Conversation, ii. 6 note:

his City Shower, iii. 58 note; iv. 215 note:

his Genteel Conversation, iii. 100 note:

on Mary Astell, iii. 274 note:

his treatment of Death, iii. 351 note:

his continuation of the Tatler, iii. 406 note:

his The Importance of the Guardian considered, iii. 407 note:

his Project for the Advancement of Religion, iv. 294 note:

his Directions to the Waiting-Maid, iv. 294 note:

his Journal of a Modern Lady, iv. 338 note

Referred to, i. 13 note, 22 note, 48 note, 49 note, 99 note, 112 note, 156 note, 228 note, 245 note, 263 note; ii. 4 note, 85 note, 146 note, 320 note; iii. 12, 390 note, 407 note; iv. 43 note, 93 note, 149 note, 194 note, 204 note, 206 note, 315 note, 343 note

Letters by (signed Obadiah or Tobiah Greenhat, Elizabeth Potatrix, Cato junior, and Aminadab), i. 259 and note, (?) 289; ii. 70 seq., 102 seq., 151 (?), 162, 163 (?); iii. 391, 392 (?); iv. 13 seq.

Part author of Nos. 32, 66, 67, 68 (?), 230, 238

Hawkesworth claims for him Nos. 66, 67, 74, 81; ii. 223 note:

an article not by him, ii. 186 note

Swiss, the (Heidegger), ii. 118

Switch, Tom, a letter from, i. 240

Switzerland, i. 50, 61, 62, 76:

described by Addison, ii. 300

Sylvia and Dorinda, dialogue by Mrs. Singer, i. 92 and note

Sylvia, her hard case, iii. 367 seq., 382 seq.

Sylvius (General Cornelius Wood), iii. 162 and note

Symes, Thomas, first husband of Steele's mother, iii. 350 note

Synge, Captain R., i. 334

T. R., a Welshman, iv. 301 seq.

Tabio, a rival of Bromeo, ii. 99 seq.

"Table of the Titles and Distinctions of Women," i. 89 note

Tacitus, his Annals quoted, i. 145; iii. 361

"Talc," iv. 250 and note

Tale of a Tub, i. 209 note; iv. 320 note

Talgol (in Hudibras), iii. 179 note

Talicotius, Gaspar, iv. 314, 320, 322 note and seq., 327

Talking, the art of, iv. 242 seq.:

the abuse of, iv. 342 seq.

Tallboy, a sharper, ii. 115, 116

Taming of the Shrew retold, iv. 181 seq.

Tapestry described, i. 32, 33

Taplash, John, a singing clerk, i. 337

Tarantula, its poison cured by dancing or music, i. 383 and note

Tasso, his Pastor Fido, iii. 236

Taswell (i.e. Caswell), Dr. William, minister, ii. 43 note

Tate, Nahum, his No Duke, iii. 409

Tatler, its forerunners, i. x, xi:

its origin, i. xi; its methods, i. xi-xiv, xviii seq.:

characters in, i. xvi:

Gay on, i. xvi seq.:

its teachings, i. xxii seq.:

causes of its discontinuance, i. xxiv:

its popularity, i. xxv-xxvii:

imitators and continuations, i. xxvii:

some account of the design of, i. 3 seq.:

contributions by Addison, i. 4 seq.:

subscribed to by every one eminent for wit, power, beauty, valour, or wisdom, i. 9:

title chosen in honour of the fair sex, i. 12:

price to be 1d., i. 12, 13, 46 note:

foreign news made interesting, i. 12:

service to stage, i. 15 note, 31:

French translation of, i. 34 note:

Annotations on, i. 52 note, &c.:

wit of, exhausted, i. 64:

will, burial and funeral, i. 65-67:

devoted to the fair sex, i. 142, 143; ii. 218:

increase of advertisements, i. 182 and note:

hush-money for, i. 219:

advice to, ii. 183 seq.:

defended, ii. 197 seq.:

the Female Tatler, ii. 247 note, &c.:

pirated Tatler, ii. 347 and note:

the censor of Great Britain, iii. 160, &c.:

the continuation of, by Swift and Harrison, iii. 406 note:

its rivals and critics, iv. 171 seq., 219 seq.:

Edinburgh reprint of, iv. 382

Tatler, Martha, a letter from, i. 293 seq.

Tattle, Jasper, a talkative fellow, iv. 247 seq.

Taylor, Jeremy, his Art of Living and Dying, iv. 350

Tears, cause for shedding, ii. 138 seq.

Tearshift, an unjust judge i. 124

Tee Zee Neen Ho Ga Prow, an Iroquois chief of the Maquas, Emperor of the Mohocks, iii. 299 note, 301

Telemachus among the shades in Fénélon's Télémaque, iii. 222 seq.

Tempest, Miss (? Hebe), maid of honour, i. 355 note and seq.

Tempest, The, iii. 409

Temple, the i. 161; ii. 363

---- Sir Richard, i. 102 note, 291

---- Sir William, his Memoirs of what passed in Christendom from 1672 to 1679, ii. 351 and note

---- Bar, i. 348; ii. 156 note, 215, 260; iii. 98 note, 127, 264; iv. 372

---- Gates, iii. 61 note

Tender Husband, The, by Steele, iv. 31 note, 249 note

Tenoe, Mr., a music-master of Hampstead, ii. 61 note

Teraminta, i. 66:

the reigning toast of I.B.'s youth, ii. 311

Teraminta, her unhappy fate, i. 363, 364, 365

Terence quoted, ii. 322:

Hecyra quoted, iii. 5; iv. 256:

Eunuchus, iii. 73; iv. 77:

Andria, iii. 234:

Phorm, iii. 194

Terentia, wife of Cicero, iii. 239 seq.

Terms, different, at Oxford and Westminster, i. 315 seq.

Terræ filius, i.e. undergraduate who makes extempore speeches at degree-giving, i. 366 note

—— or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford, by Amherst, i. 366 note

Terrour, Tom, a gamester, i. 128

"Tetrachymagogon," a physician's sign, iv. 225 seq.

Tewin-water; or, The Story of Lady Cathcart, by Edward Ford, iv. 261 note

Texel, the, i. 20, 198, 276

Thackeray quoted, i. xxi; iii. 351 note; iv. 74 note

Thais, iv. 81

Thalestris, i. 270

---- a plain woman set off by jewels and colours, iii. 195, 196

Thames, the, i. 158, 219 note; iv. 268 note

---- Street, i. 232, 390; ii. 29 note

Thatched House, ii. 118

Thaun, General, i. 70

---- Count Henry, i. 71, 182, 399; ii. 48, 73, 200

Theatre, lamentable history of the, i. 109, 110:

its effect on manners of the age, i. 111:

at Amsterdam, i. 171, 172:

moral influence of, ii. 334; iii. 353 seq.:

fair sex in front boxes, gentlemen of wit and leisure in side-boxes, substantial cits in pit, ii. 6 note:

visited for effects of light, ii. 388:

evil effects of having two, ii. 335:

at Oxford, Hogarth's picture of, i. 366 note

Theatre, The, quoted, i. 209 note; ii. 6 note; iv. 58 note, 91 note

Themistocles, a repartee of, iii. 197

Theory and Regulations of Love, by John Norris, i. 262 and note

"Thermometer," description of, by Addison, i. 4

Theron, his happiness centred on a running horse, iii. 171

Thersites, a myrmidon, ii. 52 seq.

Theseus, i. 256; ii. 129, 232

Thesse, Marshal de, i. 35, 94, 95

Thickett, Orson, a savage huntsman, ii. 330

Thiers, his treatise on perukes, iv. 372 note

Thimble, Rachael, a waiting-maid, iii. 124

Thomas, Sir, a waiter at White's, i. 138, 141, 214, 298, 379

---- Mrs. Elizabeth (? Sappho), known as Corinna, i. 55 note:

her Pylades and Corinna, i. 380 note; ii. 19 note; iii. 263; iv. 194:

her conquest of Henry Cromwell, i. 380 note

Thoresby, Ralph, his Diary quoted, i. 13 note, 345 note

Thorold, Sir Charles, i. 106

---- Sir George, i. 106

Thouy, Marquis de, ii. 34

Threadneedle Street, iv. 149 note

Threadpaper, Sarah, waiting-maid, iii. 124

Thrifty, John, a letter from, ii. 257

Thumb, Tom, history of, ii. 351

Thungen, General, i. 71

Tickell, Thomas, his The Prospect of Peace, i. 382 note:

as Tom Mercett, iv. 123 note:

referred to, ii. 3 note, 178 note, 223 note, 257 note, 317 note, 346 note, 405 note; iii. 178 note; iv. 283 note, 287 note

Tillotson, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 350 and note

Tilney Churchyard, Norfolk, ii. 316 note

Tiltyard, i. 318

Timbs, his Clubs and Club Life in London, i. 12 note, 280 note; ii. 260 note

Timoleon on the origin of titles, iii. 298 seq.:

referred to, iii. 300, 301

Timon, Lord, i. 84 seq.; iii. 369 note

Timothy and Philatheus, by Oldisworth, ii. 9 note, 12 note

Timothy [Tittle], Sir (Henry Cromwell), the critic, i. 380 note; iii. 270 seq.

Tinbreast, Mr., of Cornwall, i. 301

Tindal, Dr., on Rights of the Christian Church, ii. 12 and note

Tintoret, Tom, a notable vintner, iii. 95, 134

Tipstaff, i. 102, 103, 104

Tiptoe, Mr., his dancing-school, iii. 348

Tiresias, iii. 200 seq.

Tit for Tat, iv. 172 and note

Titles, historical origin of, iii. 298 seq.

Tittle, Sir Timothy (i.e. Henry Cromwell), i. 380 note; iii. 270 seq.

To a Lady on her Parrot, i. 226, 227

Toast, a, history and definition of, i. 201 seq., 259:

visit from a top toast, ii. 286 seq.:

referred to, ii. 166, 315; iii. 42, 76 note

Tobacco, iii. 63 note

Tockenburg, i. 62, 76, 204; ii. 47

Tofts, Mrs. Catherine (Camilla), singer, i. 171 and note, 346; iii. 6 note:

rival of Margerita, iii. 191 note

Toilet, Mrs., tirewoman, ii. 214

Torcy, M., i. 88, 96, 97, 120, 121, 130, 143, 144, 155, 164, 173, 174 note, 184, 197, 204; iii. 123

---- and Mme. Maintenon, i. 165, 166

Toland, John, his Christianity not Mysterious, ii. 417

Toledo, the sword-blades of, i. 282 and note

Tom Brown's Ghost; or, Gazette à la Mode, iv. 172 and note

Tom's Coffee-house, ii. 277 and note; iv. 327 and note

Tombs in Westminster Abbey, i. 247 and note

Tompion, watchmaker, iii. 60 note

"Tongue pad," countryfolks' name for the witty Emilia, ii. 56

Tonson, Jacob, publisher of Miscellany Poems, i. 92 note:

founder of Kit-Cat Club, i. 92 note:

his edition of Hudibras, iv. 314:

referred to, i. 112, 380 note; iii. 249 note

Tooke, Ben., Swift's bookseller, ii. 223, 260 and note

Tooly, Deputy, ii. 179 note

"Top," the, a dice trick, ii. 143

"Topping" fellows, i. 321, 322

Toricellius, inventor of common weather-glass, iv. 129

"Torner" (i.e. Turner), Richard, founder of Dick's Coffee-house, ii. 260 note

Torrington, Lord, iii. 85 note

Toss, Mrs., a great coquette, i. 225 seq.

Tothill-Fields, i. 232 and note

----, Chapel, ii. 171 note

Touchhole, Major (i.e. Mr. Gregory), a train-band major, ii. 79 and note, 80

Touchstone, The, by James Ralph, ii. 335 note

Touchwood, Lady Penelope, her delicacy, iv. 317

Touchy, Colonel, complains of assault, iv. 346 seq.

Toulon, i. 182, 372, 400

Tournay, i. 19 note, 43, 174, 269, 290, 291, 299, 304, 313, 331, 332, 337, 339, 354, 362, 377, 378, 399; ii. 34, 48, 67 note, 73, 92, 96, 97, 108; iii. 317

Tower of London, i. 19; ii. 372 note:

lions at, i. 247 and note

---- Hill, i. 387

---- Street, iv. 359 note

Town, The, by Leigh Hunt, i. 136 note

Town, the, inclined to Periodical Essays, by Swift, i. 3:

Tatler to reform, i. 7:

low amusements of, i. 107:

popularity in, i. 199:

terms of, explained to country gentlemen, i. 175, 198 seq., 201 seq., 223 seq.:

celebrated characters in, i. 241 seq.

Townly, Lady, claims a call from Mrs. Flambeau, iv. 334

Townshend, Lord, i. 89, 129, 143, 155, 166

Tradescant, John, senior, founder of the Ashmolean, i. 282 note

---- John, junior, founder of the Ashmolean, i. 282 note

Traffic, Richard, a letter from, iv. 99-101

"Tragedian," iv. 277 and note

Tragedy, decline of, i. 385:

how to write, ii. 32 seq.:

the source of, ii. 139 seq., 233 seq.

Tranquillus, honest Felix, lover of Jenny Distaff, ii. 212, 250 seq., 366; iii. 365; iv. 369, 370

Transition, the art of, ii. 134

Trapp, Professor Joseph (Parson Dapper), his character, ii. 121 note and seq.:

his A Character of the Present Set of the Whigs, ii. 121 note

Travels in England, by Misson, iii. 275 note

Treatise by an Elephant against receiving Foreigners into the Forest, ii. 80

Treatall, Timothy, indicted for madness, iv. 331 seq.

Trelooby, Humphrey, iv. 233

Trencher-caps, the, ii. 172, 173

Trick-track (Sir Henry Colt), an unjust judge, i. 123, 124 and note

Trimalchio, the banquet of, ii. 14 and note

Trimmer, a man undone by cards, i. 107

Trinculo in The Tempest, iii. 409

Trinity College, Cambridge, iv. 3 note

Trip to the Jubilee; or, The Constant Couple, i. 125 note:

performed, i. 163 and note

Trippet, Sir Taffety (i.e. Henry Cromwell), the fortune-hunter, his history and conduct at Epsom, i. 380 note and seq.

---- Mrs. Sissy, iv. 127

Trippit, Simon, a puny coxcomb, his petition, ii. 360, 361

---- William, gentleman-usher to the play-house, iv. 333

Tristram, little Sir (Sir Francis Child), a banker whose folly will do him good service, ii. 58 seq., 75

Tristram Shandy, ii. 316 note

Triumph, a flaw in the Roman, ii. 98, 99, 106

Triumph of Love, an Italian opera, i. 110 note

Trivia, by Gay, i. 234 note, 327 note; ii. 204 note; iii. 102 note

Trojans, the, i. 58, 59, 60, 256; ii. 52; iii. 104

Tron Church, Edinburgh, iv. 383

Trosse, Francis, overseer, ii. 43 note

Trot, Tom, the penny-post, iv. 373

Trotter, Dr., an astrologer, iii. 313

Trouin, Mons. du Guy, i. 137

Troy, i. 59, 64; ii. 231; iii. 202, 215

Truby, Will, always ready to laugh, ii. 101, 102, 138

Trueman, Charles, hero of domestic life, iv. 100, 101

Truepenny, old, giveth excellent advice, ii. 56

Truman, Mr., i. 241, 331: letter from, i. 270: on tragedy, ii. 32 seq.

Trump, Tom, in defence of gamesters, ii. 57 seq.

Trumpet, the, in Shire Lane, account of, iii. 98 note and seq.:

the society at, iv. 47:

referred to, ii. 260 note, 279; iii. 75

Truncheon, Col. Alexander, a hero of invincible stupidity, ii. 82:

foreman of jury in the Court of Honour, iv. 283

Trusty, Will (John Hughes), on dogs, ii. 175 seq.

---- Sam (? Jabez Hughes), iv. 351

Truth, the mirror of, ii. 341 seq., 353 seq.

"Tube" for the eye, ii. 364

Tudor, Mary, daughter of Charles II. and Mary Davis, iv. 140 note

Tulliola, daughter of Cicero, iii. 239, 240, 243

Tully (Cicero), ii. 390, 412; iii. 103, 142, 280, 347; iv. 220:

on the Fable of Gyges, iii. 131; iv. 238

Tumbril, ridden by Orlando, ii. 13 and note

"Tun" of Wapping. See Hogshead, iv. 85

Tunbridge, i. 380; ii. 111, 378

Turin, i. 35, 70, 182; ii. 133

Turnbull, Andrew, iv. 382

Turkey, a merchant of, whose Greek servant founded the "Grecian," i. 13 note:

the Emperor of, his gratitude to his horse, iii. 43:

referred to, iii. 111, 220, 222, 246

Turners, the, city ladies (Lady Autumn and Lady Springly), i. 293 and note

Tuscany, Duke of, iv. 227

Tusculan Disputations, Dr. Bently on, i. 66 note

Tutchin, John, tried for libel, i. 158 note

"Tutty," iv. 353 and note

"Twelvepence a peck, oysters," a London cry, i. 41 note

Twicestaff, another name for Distaff, i. 104

Twig, Mrs. Biddy, ii. 247

---- Offspring, a letter from, ii. 88, 89

Two Crowns and Cushion, Thomas Arne's sign, iii. 301

Twoshoes, Giles, a monied wag, ii. 58, 59

Twysden, Heneage, author of genealogy of the house of Bickerstaff, i. 4:

his death and monument, ibid.:

referred to, i. 101 note, 102 seq.

---- Sir William, i. 101 note

---- Josiah, i. 102 note

---- John, i. 102 note

Typhonus, a giant, i. 256

Ubi, Will, company for anybody, ii. 56

Ukrania, i. 71, 236

Ulysses, i. 59, 60; ii. 53, 232; iii. 104, 222; iv. 288:

his voyage to the regions of the dead, iii. 200 seq.

Umbra, a coxcomb, i. 311, 312

---- the genius of credit, i. 391 seq.

Umbratilis, a pretender, iv. 245

"Umbrello," an, iii. 12 and note

Under a Lady's Picture, by Waller, verses in which every woman thinks herself described, iii. 137, 138

Underhill, Cave, a famous comedian, i. 188 and note:

as the grave-digger, i. 188 note, 189

Union Coffee-house, iv. 154 note

Unnion, a corporal, his story, i. 52 seq.

Upholders, the Company of, claim to bury all the dead, ii. 337:

a letter from, ii. 338, 339:

referred to, ii. 352, 365, 381, 399 seq., 402, 416, 419; iii. 45, 257; iv. 327.

See "Walking Dead"

"Upholsterer, the political," iii. 218, 244, 332 seq., 336, 343; iv. 18, 185 seq.

Urbanus, an excellent companion, iv. 244

Ursula, Mrs., iv. 353

Urwin, Will, proprietor of Will's Coffee-house, from whom it was named, i. 12 note

Vafer, Will, a sharper, ii. 51

Vainglorious Glutton, The, by Mr. Fuller, iv. 59 note

Valenciennes, i. 174, 339; ii. 200; iii. 317

Valentia, an esteemed woman, ii. 46

Valentine, a sentinel, i. 52 seq.

----, in Love for Love, ii. 163 note

----, I. B.'s, iii. 149:

referred to, iii. 130 and note

Valentini Urbani, Signior, singer, i. 345 and note

Valerius Maximus, ii. 62 note, 262 note

---- honest, iii. 241

Van Konsbruch, i. 61

Vanbrugh, Sir John, architect of the Haymarket, i. 110 note, ii. 334 note:

his Confederacy, i. 111 note:

his Relapse, i. 29 note, 67 note:

locked in Bastille, i. 218 and note

Vandals, i. 257; ii. 337; iv. 22

Vanderbank, Peter, his tapestries, i. 32 note, 33 note

---- William, son of Peter, i. 33 note

---- Instructions to, i. 32 and note

Vandyck, iv. 109 note

Vanity, condemned, i. 8:

the Temple of, iii. 50, 54

Vanity Fair quoted, iv. 74 note

Varick, the widow, her advertisement, iv. 148 note

Varillus, his true modesty, ii. 26

Varnish, Tom, a talker, iv. 243:

his history; iii. 120 seq.

Vauxhall (or Fox-Hall), originally the new Spring Gardens, i. 219 and note; ii. 126 note

Vegetable, a reverend, ii. 258

Vellum, in The Drummer, i. 158 note

Venice, Doge of, i. 95:

all soldiers from, are mercenaries, i. 231:

letter from, i. 27:

referred to, i. 171 note, ii. 301

Venice Preserved, by Otway, Belvidera in, played by Mrs. Barry, i. 16 note:

referred to, iii. 105, 409

Venus, i. 59, 138, 227; ii. 79 note, 281, 294; iii. 341; iv. 7, 261, 262:

her help sought by Juno, iii. 176, 177:

her girdle or cestus, iii. 176:

a tale of, iv. 321

Vendôme, Duke of, i. 20, 229; iv. 158

Verbruggen, Mrs., Cibber on, i. 30 and note:

Aston on, i. 31 note

---- Mr., i. 16 note, 30 note, 31 note

Verdier, Mr., iv. 380

Verelst, John, his pictures of the Indian kings, iii. 299 note

Verisimilis, guardian-spirit of Honour, i. 389 seq.

Vernon, Mr. Secretary, i. 124 note

Verono (i.e. the Earl of Wharton), i. 45 and note

Verses on His own Death, by Swift, ii. 396 note

Verus (Sir John Holt), magistrate, his character, i. 123 and note

"Very Pretty Fellow," a character of a, i. 198 seq.:

a true woman's man, i. 199: referred to, i. 322, 324, 366; iii. 256

Very pretty gentleman, a, i. 14

Vickers, Mr., iv. 381

Vienna, i. 27, 49, 61, 70, 95, 182, 213, 236; ii. 133

Vignolles, Major, i. 184

Villaria (i.e. Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland), ii. 7 note and seq., 14, 87 and note

Villars, Marshal, i. 19 note, 197, 205, 229, 244 note, 269, 290, 291, 299, 313, 339; ii. 49, 105; iii. 316 note, 317, 333

---- Mrs., a bad woman, ii. 4 note

Villiers, Will., Viscount Grandison, father of Duchessof Cleveland, ii. 7 note

---- George, Duke of Buckingham, Dryden on, ii. 16 note

Vincent, Dr. Nathaniel, his long wig, iv. 372 note

Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, i. 21 note, 22 note

Viner, Sir Robert, i. 153 note

Virgil, compared to Homer, i. 57 and note:

in the Chamber of Fame, ii. 229:

Æneid continued by Mapheus Vegius, ii. 281 note:

on a future life, iii. 211 seq., 235

his Æneid, i. 215, 257; ii. 142, 146, 399, 405; iii. 16, 22, 105, 107, 108, 109, 125, 129, 130, 199, 211, 222, 236, 348, 380, 390; iv. 104, 159, 238, 262, 283, 293, 362

his Georgics, i. 137, 336; ii. 276; iii. 27, 337; iv. 101, 106, 141

his Eclogues, iii. 93, 165; iv. 114, 197, 235, 298

Referred to, i. 77, 136; ii. 100; iii. 44, 234, 236, 309; iv. 220, 222, 234, 261

Virgin Muse, by Greenwood, iv. 296 note

Virginity, time of reckoning, iv. 84, 96

Virgulta, receives Delamira's fan, ii. 20 seq.

Virtue and pleasure, a fable of, ii. 324 seq.:

effectively recommended by poetry, ii. 331 seq.:

men of, allowed to look in the "Mirror of Truth," ii. 344:

the Temple of, iii. 49

Virtuoso, complaints of, iii. 152 seq.:

the whims of, iv. 110, 111:

the will of a, iv. 112, 113

Visits, unseasonable, ii. 279 seq.:

the art of paying, ii. 394 seq.

Vitry, ii. 317, 320

Vivarez, the, i. 332, 337

Voisin, M., i. 229

Volpone; or, The Fox, by Ben Jonson, i. 172 note

Volscius, Prince, in The Rehearsal, i. 172 note

Voluble, Will, a fine talker, iii. 315 seq.

Von Hutten, Ulrich, author of Epistles to Ortuinus, &c., iv. 22 note

Vossus, his De Poematum Cantu et Viribus Rhythmi, i. 282 note

Voyage to the Island of Cajamai, by Dr. W. King, iv. 208 note

Vulgar, the truly, ii. 144 seq.

Wadsworth, Mary, spinster, ii. 4 note

Wag, a tiresome, ii. 216, 217:

the class, iii. 365

Wager, Admiral Charles, iii. 84 note, 85 note

Wagg, Mr., Lord Steyne's toady, iv. 74 note

Wagstaff, Walter, translator of Bournelle's Annotations on the "Tatler," i. 52 note; ii. 211 note

---- Humphrey (i.e. Swift), of the Staffs, a new and original writer, i. 81 seq., 89 note; iv. 216 seq., 343

---- Lepidus, his suitable discourse, ii. 215, 216

---- Mrs. Rebecca, i. 89 note, 130

Wagstaffs, i. 102, 103

Waldeck, Prince, i. 156

Wales, ii. 193; iv. 53

Walker, Obadiah, Master of University College, Oxford, ii. 171 note

---- Dr. Thomas, Headmaster of Charterhouse, ii. 331 note

Walking dead, the, allowed in certain places at certain times, ii. 420:

resurrection of, iii. 24:

referred to, ii. 318 seq., 352, 353, 381, 399 seq.; iii. 21, 313

Wall, Dr., a celebrated quack, i. 215 and note; iv. 323

Waller, his Instructions to a Painter, and his Advice to a Painter, i. 34 note:

his Under a Lady's Picture, iii. 137, 138:

referred to, iii. 260 seq.

Walloon Guards, i. 106, 120, 269

Walpole, Horatio, quoted, i. 33 note, 34 note; iv. 109 note:

Secretary at the Hague, i. 164:

referred to, ii. 182 note

---- Sir Robert, i. 164 note

Walsh, Will, critic and man of fashion, ii. 249 and note

Wands not of the family of the Staffs, i. 105

Wapping, i. 170; ii. 372 note; iii. 147, 265; iv. 154 note:

the beauties of, iv. 291

Warren, Mrs. (Mrs. Lucy), i. 286 note

Wartenberg, Count, iv. 56, 57

Warton's Court, iv. 152

Warwick Street, ii. 339

---- Lane, iv. 169 note:

the College of Physicians in, iv. 39 and note

Watson, James, printer, iv. 383

Way of the World, by Congreve, iv. 367

Wealth, iii. 54

Wealthy, Lady, ii. 87

Webb, Lieutenant-General, ii. 109, 113

Wedding, a Grecian, iii. 364

Wedlock may be a most impudent prostitution, ii. 289

Weekly Packet, The, iv. 376 note

Wenman, Viscount, an idiot, i. 325

---- Lady, his mother, i. 325

Wentworth, Peter, letters from, i. 146 note, 293 note, 297 note, 325 note, 371 note, 377 note, 386 note

Papers quoted, i. 147 note, 293 note, 297 note, 323 note, 325 note, 343 note, 355 note, 371 note, 377 note, 386 note; ii. 5 note, 313 note; iii. 6 note, 55 note; iv. 84 note, 204 note

---- Lady, letter from, ii. 5 note; iii. 6 note, 151

---- Lady Anne, ii. 313 note

Wentworth, Lady Hariot, ii. 313 note

Wesell, General, iv. 85

West, of Chelsea, ii. 267

West Indies, i. 234 note; iii. 221, 277

Westminster, i. 31 note, 232 note, 371, 392; ii. 8, 12 note, 150, 163 note, 171 note, 180, 209; iii. 126, 162, 164; iv. 3 note

Westminster Abbey, monument to Mr. Twysden in, i. 4:

tombs in, i. 247 and note:

Betterton's funeral in, iii. 279 note and seq.:

referred to, iii. 149

---- Hall, shop-keepers' stalls in, iii. 139 note:

two shepherdesses in, iii. 139, 169:

as a dining-room, iii. 151:

referred to, iv. 176, 267, 338

---- a Prebendary of, iv. 204 note

Westmorland, the lovers of, ii. 236

Westphalia, Treaty of, i. 174

Wexford, Earl of, ii. 315 note

Wharton, Thomas, Earl of (Verono), i. 45 and note, 57 note; iii. 90

Whatdee'call, Mr., his buttons, i. 184; ii. 127

Wheat Sheaf, the, iv. 327 and note

Wheel of Fortune, The; or, Nothing for a Penny, iii. 58 note

Wheelbarrow, Sir Giles, knight, ii. 257 seq.

Whetstone, George, his English Mirror, i. 340

"Whetters," iii. 133, 134, 147 seq.

Whipstaff, i. 130

"Whisperer," iv. 172 and note

Whiston, his Prælections Physicæ Mathematicæ sive Philosophia clarissimi Newtoni Mathematica illustrata, i. 350 note

White Cross Street, i. 334

"White pots," iv. 250 and note

Whitaker, Admiral, i. 50

---- Sir Edward, i. 182

Whitefriars, refuge for debtors, ii. 126 note

Whitehall, iii. 127 and note, 295

---- Gardens, iii. 296 note

White's Chocolate-house, accounts of gallantry and pleasure from, i. 12 and note:

costs a man 6d. a day, i. 13:

referred to, i. 107, 119, 134, 138, 214, 216, 297 note, 300; ii. 123, 277, 297, 419

Whitestaff, i. 102, 103

Whitlocke, Sir William (Will Shoestring), i. 310 note, 311

Whittington, Alderman Dick, in the Chamber of Fame, ii. 208:

referred to, iv. 207

Whittlestick, Lady, the virtuous, ii. 246 seq.

Whole Art of Life, The; or, The Introduction to Great Men, illustrated in a pack of cards, i. 37

Whole Duty of Man, The, ii. 184

Why-not, Will, a questioner, i. 336 seq.

Widows, beautiful, in the Mirror of Truth, ii. 356 seq.

Wife, the case of a distressed, i. 167 seq.:

her virtue, like the merits of a poet, never rightly valued till after death, ii. 38

Wig, combing it, an act of gallantry, i. 310 and note, 311 note

Wildacre, Sir Geoffrey, iv. 281

Wildair, Tom, of the Inner Temple, his reformation, ii. 74 seq.

---- Humphrey, the wise father of Tom W., ii. 75 seq.

---- Sir Harry, in Farquhar's Constant Couple, i. 163 note; iii. 356; iv. 42

Wildfire, Sir Harry, i. 248

Wilks, Robert, actor, as Wildair, i. 163 note, 164:

as Macbeth, ii. 140:

his salary, ii. 164 note:

should not imitate Betterton, iv. 42 and note:

head of the stage, iii. 355 seq.:

as Othello, iii. 380, 384:

referred to, i. 125 and note; iii. 282 note, 365

William III., i. 31 note, 188 note; ii. 272 note, 285, 351 note; iv. 3 note, 93 note, 251 note

---- nephew of I. B., i. 247 seq.

---- his youth compared to that of his sister Mrs. Elizabeth, iii. 319

Willit, Sir Harry, his quarrel with his wife, ii. 213 seq.

Will's Coffee-house, accounts of new poetry dated from, i. 12 and note:

resort of Dryden, i. 13 note:

costs a man 2d. a day, i. 13:

referred to, i. 373; ii. 110, 277; iii. 209, 270, 275, 336; iv. 131

Winchester House, i. 349 note

Windmill, Andrew, Esq., ii. 257 seq.

Wine-brewers, complaints against, iii. 92 seq.

Winifred, a country girl, i. 375

---- daughter of a Kentish yeoman, iii. 382

Winstanley, Henry, his water theatre, ii. 181, 182 note

---- Hamlet, father of Henry W., i. 181 note

Wirtemberg, i. 44, 73

Wisdom, Walter, a new "fortune," ii. 330

Wit, a new way of, i. 107 seq.:

men of, used to be men of virtue, i. 136:

a character of, i. 241 seq.:

and breeding are wholly local, ii. 56:

made useful, ii. 110:

defined by Dryden, ii. 92 note and seq.:

a determined wit, iv. 246:

bequeathed by I. B., i. 66

Wit and Mirth, by D'Urfey, iii. 192 note

Witches, satire on the belief in, i. 180, 181

Withers, General Henry, at Tournay, i. 378 note:

Pope's Epitaph on, i. 378 note

Wits, the, The Tatler appeals to, i. 5 seq.:

absorbed in frivolous affairs, i. 151, 152:

a hospital for the decayed, i. 173 and note:

wits to be discouraged, i. 347 seq.:

the manners of possessed, iv. 123 seq.

Wives, beautiful, in the Mirror of Truth, ii. 356 seq.

Woffington, Mrs., i. 110 note

Wolfembuttel, i. 44, 73

---- Duke of, iv. 271

Wolstenholm, Sir John, ii. 19 note

Woman, destroying fiend or guardian angel, iv. 40:

a beautiful romantic animal, iii. 16

Wood, Anthony, his Athenæ Oxonienses quoted, i. 87 note:

his Fasti, iv. 169 note:

referred to, iv. 372 note

---- Gen. Cornelius (Sylvius), his life and distinction, iii. 1628 note, 163 note:

referred to, i. 20 and note; iv. 376 note:

? as "Martius," a brave invalid, iii. 324, 325

---- Rev. Seth, father of Gen. W., iii. 162 note

Wood, Walter, overseer, ii. 43 note

Woodby, Lady, the learned, i. 342

Woodford, a school at, iv. 196 note

Wooing, the extravagances of, iii. 136 seq.

Woolfe, Sir Joseph, knight, i. 333 seq.

Woollen Act, iii. 22

Woolsack, the sign of the, iv. 304 note

Wootton, Sir Henry, iv. 180

Works and Days, by Hesiod, ii. 326 note; iv. 58

Works of the Learned, iv. 194 note, 195 note

World, The, quoted, iv. 109 note

Wouldbe, Lady Betty, accused of painting, iv. 318, 319

Wrathful, Justice, i. 42

Wren, Sir Christopher (Nestor), ii. 24 and note, 25 and note

Writers, strange scarcity of, i. 32:

their skill in transition, ii. 133, 134

Writing-masters, iv. 329 seq.

Wroughton, Susannah, i. 325 note

---- Seymour, i. 325 note

---- Francis, i. 325 note

Wycherley, his Country Wife, i. 29 seq:

his Plain Dealer, i. 243 note; ii. 246 note:

his Love in a Wood, i. 311 note:

on easy writers, i. 81:

his definition of a coxcomb, i. 309:

referred to, i. 380; ii. 334 note

Wynendale, victory at, ii. 113 note

Xenophon, conductor of Socrates, ii. 228

Xerxes, his robes, i. 346:

he weeps, ii. 323

Yalden, his verses to Mackworth, ii. 84 note

Yes, when a young virgin should say "yes," ii. 244

Yokefellow, Bridget, question on the education of her children, iv. 282

---- Ralph, question on the education of his children, iv. 282

Young, Mrs., i. 29 note

---- Boorwit in Steele's Lying Lover, i. 219 note

Young Man's Coffee-house, i. 261 and note; iii. 276

---- Dr. Margery (alias John), a kind of Amazon in physic, iv. 159 seq.

"Young Maid's Portion, The," a song in D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, iii. 192 note

Youth, I. B.'s kindness for, i. 247:

devoted to lust, iii. 32

York Buildings, ii. 61 note; iii. 192 note, 276 note, 299 note

---- Duke of, iii. 100 note

Zealand, i. 20, 129

Zinzendorf, Count, i. 61, 95

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