Note 248 — No. 263. [Steele. From Tuesday, Dec. 12, to Thursday, Dec. 14, 1710.
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Coal carried by sea from the colliery, as was then the case with all the coal used in London. In the country wood was burned; and Will Honeycomb, after his marriage to a farmer's daughter, said that had his steward not run away, he would still have been "immersed in sin and sea-coal" in London, with its smoke and gallantries (Spectator, No. 530).