=91=: 24. =New-fashioned petticoat.= The hooped petticoat has made its appearance, in various forms, at various times, throughout the history of British female attire. Sir Roger's grandmother apparently wore what was called the "wheel farthingale," a drum-shaped petticoat worn in the late sixteenth century. The form in vogue in Addison's time--it came in about 1707--was bell shaped, and of most liberal dimensions. For some admirable fooling upon it, see _Spectator_, No. 127, and _Tatler_, No. 116, both by Addison.
=92=: 4. =White-pot.= Made of cream, rice, sugar, and cinnamon, etc. It was a favourite Devonshire dish, as the famous "clotted cream" of Devon is now.
=93=: 9. =Sir Andrew Freeport has said.= Sir Andrew characteristically stands up for the citizens and the moneyed interest. Later on he reminds Sir Roger of the obligation of his family to trade. See _Spectator_, No. 174, XXVII of this volume.
=93=: 15. =Turned my face.= Note the delicate courtesy of the Spectator.
=94=: 20. =The battle of Worcester=, September 3, 1651, in which Cromwell defeated the Scots, supporters of Charles II.
=Motto.= "All things are full of horror and affright, And dreadful e'en the silence of the night."
=96=: 20. =Mr. Locke, in his chapter.= _Essay on the Human Understanding_, Bk. ii, Chap. xxxiii.
=98=: 12. =The relations of particular persons who are now living.= Addison's opinion as to the reality of ghosts and apparitions was shared by most people of his time, the thoughtful and educated as well as the ignorant.
=98=: 17. =Lucretius.= A Roman poet of the century before Christ, whose one work, _De Rerum Natura_, is a philosophic poem, showing much subtlety of thought. The "notion" referred to in the text is found in the early part of the Fourth Book of the _De Rerum Natura_.
=99=: 4. =Josephus= (37-95 A.D.). The Jewish historian. The passage is found in his _Antiquities of the Jews_, Bk. xvii, Chap. xiii.
=Motto.= "First honour the immortal gods, as it is commanded by law."--Pythagoras, _Fragments_.
=101=: 20. =Instruct them rightly in the tunes of the Psalms.= The service in the parish churches throughout England at this time was slovenly and spiritless. Samuel Wesley, father of John, who was then rector of the parish of Epworth, complains that his people prefer the "sorry Sternhold Psalms," have "a strange genius at understanding nonsense," and sing decently only "after it has cost a pretty deal to teach them."