[101] The title of Cooper’s novel seems to have taken hold of the popular fancy to an astonishing degree: not only are there several public-houses who have adopted it as their sign, but also race-horses, ships, and locomotive engines have been named after it. There is even a baked potato-can in the streets of London, decorated with that name; it is built in the shape of a locomotive-engine, japanned red, and wheeled about the streets by an old woman. The name on a brass plate is screwed to the can, similar to the names of locomotive-engines.
[102] Introduction to Tarlton’s Jests, by J. O. Halliwell.
[104] Gray’s Letter to Chute. Mitford, ii. 138.
[106] This is engraved in Caulfield’s Portraits of Remarkable and Eccentric Characters, as well as the wooden figure in the Tower.
[108] Fairholt, Remarkable and Eccentric Characters, p. 56.
[109] Fuller’s Worthies, _voce_ Monmouthshire.
[110] This is an old “dodge,” mentioned long ago by Decker in his “Seven Deadly Sins, seven times pressed to Death,” &c.:--“Then you have another brewing called Huff’s ale, at which, because no man must have _but a pot at a sitting_, and so be gone, the restraint makes them more eager to come in, so that by this policie one may huffe it four or five times a day.”
[111] Journey through England, vol. i. p. 175.
[112] Metamorphosis of the Town; or, a View of the Present Fashions. London: Printed for J. Wilford at the THREE FLOWER DE LUCES, behind the Chapter House in St Paul’s Churchyard, 1730.
[113] Oddly enough, both Cave and Ponto are terms of some games at cards.
[114] There is a copy in the British Museum.
[115] This _motto_ was: “Misura della Colonna di Christo n^{ ro},” _i.e._, Measure of the column of our Saviour.
[116] A brother Boniface, Adams, “at the ROYAL SWAN in Kingsland Road, leading from Shoreditch Church,” (1756) had also a _knackatory_, which, from his catalogue, looks very like a parody on the Don’s. He exhibited, for instance, “Adam’s eldest daughter’s hat;” “the heart of famous Bess Adams, that was hanged with Lawyer Carr, January 18, 1736-37;” “the Vicar of Bray’s clogs;” “an engine to shell green peas with;” “teeth that grew in a fish’s belly;” “Black Jack’s ribs;” “the very comb that Adam combed his son Isaac’s and Jacob’s head with;” “rope that cured Captain Lowry of the headach, earach, toothach, and bellyach;” “Adam’s key to the fore and back door of the garden of Eden,” &c., &c., and 500 other curiosities.