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officer of the guard at S. James’s Palace put them both 
under arrest at their respective houses, to prevent any 
mischievous consequences, and sentinels were placed at 
their houses all night.” — Ihid. 
When shopkeepers still dwelt over their shops, 
and “merchant princes” resided at their places 
of business, there were few offices to be had in the 
city. The shipbrokers, agents, and smaller fry, 
therefore transacted their business at taverns. 
Thus : 
“ THE CHAnpots, Sloop, 
Tobias Jewers, Commander, 
Sails to-morrow morning for Rotterdam, now lying at 
St. Katherine’s to take in goods and passengers, and may 
be spoke with every day at Batson’s Coffee House, over 
against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, or at the Red 
Lyon and Sun, in Swithin’s Alley, or at John Dodmead’s 
at the King of Spain’s Head, near St. Katherine’s Stairs, 
and upon Exchange at Exchange time, and after Change 
at the White Lyon Tavern in Cornhill. 
“ JoHn TwyMav, for the Master.” 
Daily Courant, May 7, 1728. 
No wonder that John Twyman’s notions of the 
construction of sentences were rather obscure ! 
A quack medicine vendor lodging at a clergy- 
man’s, and requiring her patients to send a 
hackney coach to fetch her, is not a person to be 
met with every-day, so she shall introduce her- 
self : 
“ 4 Safe and Speedy Remedy to give Ease in the Gout. 
By a plaister that draws out the pain and strengthens the 
part; takes off the fitt in a night’s time. Several persons 
that have made use of it have never had the gout since. 
It is to be had of a gentlewoman that lives at the Rev. 
Mr. Sharp’s in Stepney Churchyard. 
“ N.B. — She goes not to any person out of the neigh- 
bourhood, without a coach being sent for her.” — Daily 
Postboy, Oct. 19, 1728. 
An exuberant Jacobite in his cups gets into 
trouble : 
“One John Rhodes, who was apprehended last week on 
a charge of cursing his Majesty and the Government, as 
also of drinking the Pretender’s health, &c., being ordered 
for tryal on Thursday at Hicks’s Hall, travers’d the same, 
in order to be try’d next sessions, and has given good se- 
curity for his appearance accordingly; and the Justices 
Cooke and Parsons, who committed him, are to manage 
the prosecution.” — Postman, Oct. 17, 1728. 
A part of the revenue of the Bishops of London, 
of the Duchess of Marlborough, &c., was derived 
from the tolls of the Putney and Fulham ferry : 
“The commissioners for building the new bridge from 
Fulham to Putney have concurred, pursuant to act of 
parliament, to allow the sum of 90002. to the Dutchess of 
Marlborough, Bishop of London, and others concerned in 
the ferries, on account of the loss they sustain by the said 
bridge being erected.” — Ibid. 
The hackney coaches were so liable to the at- 
tacks of street robbers, that — 
“Whereas a figure (plate) for driving of an hackney 
coach used lately to be sold for about 602, besides paying 
the usual duties to the commissioners for licensing them, 
they are at this time, for the reasons aforesaid, sold for 
312. per figure goodwill.” — Ibid, 
How suggestive is the following of a rule tot- 
tering to its fall: 
“ Lisbon, September 16. — On Monday last arrived here 
four Maltese men-of-war, having on board Count d’Har- 
rach, Ambassador Extraordinary of the Great Master of 
Malta.” — Daily Courant, October 22, 1728. 
The inconvenience which must have been ex- 
perienced by the want of numbers to the houses, 
1s apparent in the laborious description of the 
places at which some lately imported sturgeon 
could be had : 
“At a warehouse, the corner of Cross Lane on St. 
Dunstan’s Hill; at the Salmon and Lobster, under the 
Sun Tavern, near the Monument on Fish Street Hill; 
at a shop, the corner of the Market House, over against 
the Bull Head Ale House, in Hungerford Market; at a 
shop the corner of Newport Market, lately Capt. Mad- 
dock’s, where attendance will be daily given.” — Daily 
Courant, Nov. 9, 1728. 
The King of Sardinia appears to haye been 
actuated by the same liberal and tolerant spirit 
which distinguishes his present Majesty Victor 
Emanuel, and like him to have resisted the dic- 
tation of the Pope of Rome : 
“ Geneva, Oct. 29, N.S. — Letters from Turin say that 
the Pope has used a world of arguments to persuade the 
King of Sardinia to dismiss out of his service two Pro- 
testant regiments he kept many years; but his Sardinian 
Majesty, instead of complying with the desire of his 
Holiness in that respect, assured the colonels of the same 
that he is fully resolved to keep them on foot.” — Daily 
Postboy, November 12, 1728. 
ALEXANDER ANDREWS. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKSPEARE’S “SEVEN AGES 
OF MAN.” 
I have been exceedingly interested in the “ Il- 
lustrations of Shakspeare” which from time to 
time have appeared in your invaluable periodical. 
The following will perhaps be new to some of 
your readers, and will add one proof more to the 
fact, that the “Seven Ages of Man” have been a 
most fertile subject. It is from the pen of Jean 
de Courcy, a trouvére, from the neighbourhood of 
Falaise, in Normandy, who wrote early in the 
fifteenth century. Besides some historical work, 
he wrote a long poem, called “Le Chemin de 
Vaillance, containing instructions for young nobles 
in war, religion, manners, morals, &c., abounding 
in many amusing descriptions of the usages and 
customs of the time. A young disciple takes a 
long journey, and meets with many temptations 
and difficulties on his way to “ Vaillance.” The 
“ World” detains him, conducts him to his palace, 
and shows him, in one of the rooms, seven pictures, 
representing the seven ages of man, which are 
called Enfance; Puéritie; Adolescence ; Jeunesse ; 
Se 
