Squire's; Introduction, Section 12. Staked, impaled on a stake or fence; p. 129, 1. 23.

Started, p. 185, 1. 19: good starts; p. 65, 1. 8; hunting terms. Steele; Introduction, Sections 6, 12, 27, 28-33.

Steenkirk, a signal defeat of the English king, August 3, 1692, by the French army, though he had at first surprised and routed them. To commemorate the celerity with which the French generals had dressed themselves for battle the Parisian fops wore their cravats in apparent disorder and called them Steenkirks. The English fops soon imitated their example. The battle therefore had some social distinction; p. 214, 1. 25.

Stomach, disposition, especially a haughty disposition; p. 119, 1. 3. Stone-horse, a stallion (archaic and colloquial); p. 129, 1. 22. Stop-hounds. "When one of these hounds found the scent, he gave notice of his good fortune by deliberately squatting to impart more effect to his deep tones and to get wind for a fresh start."-W. H. Wills. The stop-hound was actually used only in stag-hunting; p. 129,

1. 27.

Stories of a cock and a bull,

cock and bull stories; p. 188, 1. 22. Streets; Introduction, Section 2. Street signs; Introduction, Section 2.

Stripped; have his livery taken off him, lose his place, be dismissed; p. 85, 1. 12.

Stuarts; Introduction, Section 20. Such a, a certain (a colloquial phrase); p. 98, 1. 19.

"Supplement," a periodical newspaper; p. 205, 1. 1. Swift, Jonathan; Introduction, Sections 11, 19, 26.

Sydenham, Thomas, from 1660 to 1670, the chief physician of London; p. 126, 1. 26.

Tansy, p. 116, 1. 24; "Take about a dozen new-laid eggs, beat them up with three pints of cream, strain them through a coarse linen cloth. and put in of the strained juices of endive, spinach, sorrel, and tansy each three spoonfuls; half a grated nutmeg, four ounces of fine sugar. and a little salt and rose-water. Put it, with a slight laying of butter under it, into a shallow pewter dish. and bake it in a moderately heated oven. Scrape over it loaf sugar. sprinkle rose-water, and serve it up."-A Closet of Rarities, 1706. Target of the gentlemen, the shield; came within the target, struck the shield with his lance; p. 95, 1. 18.

Tatler, The: Introduction, See tions 30, 31.

Templar; see INNS OF COURT, also Introduction, Section 9. Temple Bar, a famous gateway in London dividing Fleet Street from the street called the Strand; p. 225, 1. 7. Tenement, ย piece of property; p. 230, 1. 6. Tenement falls; often in the law of this period, when a tenant wished to turn over the lease of his property (or tenement as it was legally called) to another man, he was obliged to pay a sum of money or fee (legally called a fine) to the landlord for the privilege. This money Sir Roger often used to establish or settle old servants comfortably for life. When SO used Steele designates the money a "settlement"; p. 86, 1. 18. Terminates his satisfactions within the supply of his own necessities, is perfectly happy so long as his own selfish desires are supplied; p. 64. l. 17. That; such . . that such

...

as; p. 175, 1. 22. That [passage] of Martial; a common ellipsis in the days of the Spectator; p. 117, 1. 10.

Theatre, The; Introduction, Sec

tions 8, 9, 10.

This Way, in this way; p. 129, 1. 16.

Those kings; kings mentioned by Josephus in his Antiquities just before he reaches the passage which Addison quotes; p. 105, 1. 6. Till; either "so long" should be omitted in this sentence or "that" should be substituted for "till"; p. 157, 1. 22.

Tilt Yard Coffee House; Introduction, Section 12. Tithe-stealers; tithes are a tax levied on the agricultural produce of a parish for the support of its clergy. A tithe-stealer is one who wrongfully withholds part of the tax; p. 109, 1. 17.

To; used much more freely in the eighteenth century than today, as in the following cases: to a point, about a point: p. 53, 1. 24; to a visit, on the way to making a visit: p. 56, 1. 22; takes notice to you, calls your attention to: p. 61, 1. 5; oblige him to, force him into: p. 62, 1. 5; smelling, notifying, fronting to, smelling, notifying, fronting : p. 188, I. 16; p. 189, l. 1; p. 190, 1. 17.

Tobacco-stopper, a contrivance

of

for pressing down tobacco in a pipe. The smokers of the last century prided themselves on the fanciful shapes of their tobacco-stoppers. Fairholt gives a list of some them; among them, a bear's tooth tipped with silver. Dr. Henry Sacheverel in full canonicals carved in ivory, a boot, a horse's hind leg, Punch, a milkmaid, a countryman with a flail, a soldier in armor, a bust of Charles I., a bust of Cromwell; p. 202, 1. 7. The tobacco of this period was commonly prepared in the form of a twisted rope and made up in rolls; p. 210, 1. 10. Took off the dress he was in,

took off the livery he was in, it

being a badge of service; p. 88, 1. 10. See STRIPPED, and note the distinction in significance between the two terms.

Tories and Whigs; Introduction, Sections 6, 10, 20, 21.

Travel; Introduction, Section 15. Triumvirate; p. 72, 1. 6. See Shakspere's Julius Caesar, iv. 1. Trunk-maker; Introduction, Section 8.

Tulip-root; in Holland in the sev

enteenth century the price of tulips rose above that of most of the precious metals. Men gambled in them as men now gamble in stocks. Even in Will Wimble's day, though the "bubble had burst", tulips still retained a factitious value; p. 90,

1. 22. Tully, the eighteenth century name for Marcus Tullius Cicero, now known as Cicero; p. 57, 1. 14. Turn at Will's, take a; play a game or so of cards there; p. 57, 1. 28.

Turtle [dove]; p. 77, 1. 19. Two first; modern usage now requires "first two"; p. 104, 1. 13.

Uncapable; modern usage requires "incapable"; p. 92, 1. 27. Upon, about; p. 103, 1. 5.

Vapors, a nervous disease. characterized by hallucinations and depression of spirits; Introduction, Section 5.

Vermin, a term once applied to obnoxious animals even of consider able size, but now more limited in its scope: p. 129. 1. 12. Vietor; Introduction, Section 32. Visitant, visitor (now seldom used except to designate supernatural visitors); p. 77, 1. 6.

Vulgar (from the Latin vulgus, people), the rank and file of people, the common people; p. 121, 1. 25.

Wall; Introduction, Section 2.

Watermen; the river Thames was

a favorite method of getting to distant parts of the city,this, notwithstanding the ribaldry and blasphemy for which the watermen along the route were notorious; p. 224, 1. 2.

Way; see RIGHT WE HAD, etc. Weeds, garments, as in the phrase "widow's weeds"; p. 136, 1. 30. Westminster; the city of Westminster included the part of London in the vicinity of Westminster Abbey. As Westminster Abbey was once a cathedral or head church of a diocese, the municipality in which it was situated became, according to English law, a city; p. 186, 1. 10.

Westminster Abbey, p. 208, 1. 2; here the most celebrated of the English dead are buried together with others whose fame was but ephemeral. Sir Cloudesley Shovel, p. 210, 1. 16, an English admiral who took part in the victory of La Hogue, was shipwrecked and drowned off the Scilly Islands in 1707. "Sir Cloudesley Shovel's Monument has very often given me great Offence: Instead of the brave rough English admiral, which was the distinguishing char· acter of that plain, gallant Man, he is represented on his Tomb by the Figure of a Bean, dressed in a long Periwig, and reposing himself upon Velvet Cushions under

Canopy of State."-Spectator, No. 26. Dr. Busby, p. 210, 1. 18, for fifty-five years head-master of Westminster School; reputed to have whipped more great men than any other teacher of England, nevertheless he was loved and venerated by his pupils. Statesman Cecil upon his knees, p. 210, 1. 30, William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, kneeling at the base of his wife's tomb. That martyr to good housewifery, p. 211, 1. 2, "one of the hundred lies which the attendant is said to have told Goldsmith's Cit izen of the World without blushing". Two coronation chairs, p. 211, 1. 9; the more recent of these two chairs was placed in the Abbey for the coronation of Mary as joint sovereign with her husband, William III. The stone "under". or properly speaking, set into the other. was called Jacob's pillar because tradition asserted that it was on this Stone that Jacob had rested his head in the wilderness when he Saw the angels of God ascending and descending". Thence, so Scotch legends ran. it had gone to Spain, thence to Ireland and thence to Scotland. As an actual fact, it was а piece of Common rough Scotch sandstone, set into the chair in which the kings of Scotland were crowned; it was seized by Edward I. of England in his conquest of Scotland and conveyed to the Abbey. Whoever sat in this chair must have had to pay a special fee or "tip" to the guide. Edward III. (p. 211, 1. 26,) and his son, the Black Prince, were the heroes of Crecy. The present motto of the successive Princes of Wales. Ich dien, commemorates this victory. The sword referred to is seven feet long and weighs eighteen pounds. Touched for the evil (or scrofula). p. 212, 1. 3. on the sup

position that a king's touch would effect a miraculous cure. This superstition was very prevalent at this time. Without an head, p. 212, 1. 6; Henry V.; the head of solid silver was stolen, the rest of the figure, which was plated, was stripped of its metal. Interpreter, p. 212, 1. 25; the guide. Whisperer, tale-bearer, informer; p. 142, 1. 11.

Whitepot, a dish made of cream, sugar, rice, currants, cinnamon, etc.; p. 96, 1. 16.

White witch; see MOLL WHITE. Who have; this should properly be "which has"; p. 68, 1. 10. The grammar throughout this issue of the Spectator is defective in the matter of pronouns. Any intelligent reader can correct it, however. Widow Trueby's water; "one of the innumerable strong waters drunk. it is said (perhaps libellously) chiefly by the fair sex as an exhilarant, the excuse being the colic and the vapors."-W.

H.

Wills. The base of most of these waters was brandy; p. 208, 1. 17. William the. Conqueror's time, p. 50, 1. 3; an amiable bit of vanity like the tracing of one's American ancestry back to the landing of the Mayflower. When the Conqueror had distributed the land of England among his aristocratic Norman followers, he had a census or survey taken, which, when com

pleted in 1086, formed the first great English record to be published by the nation.

Will's, Child's, St. James's, Grecian, Cocoa Tree, Jonathan's; London coffee-houses; Introduction, Sections 11, 12. See also turn at Will's.

Wills, W. H., quoted: Introduction, Section 18, footnote. Wimble; there is an adjective "wimble" meaning active, nimble. What other proper names in these papers have been selected with a purpose? p. 89, 1. 3. Winked; Sir Roger is unwilling to

think that any one closely related to him could ever engage in trade; p. 97, 1. 24.

Wishes, hopes (note that the old

idiom here is the more accurate); p. 187, 1. 2.

Wit; look up this word in the dictionaries. It means not quite the same thing to the eighteenth century that it means to the nineteenth; p. 56, 1. 29.

With his service to him; a phrase of courtesy analogous to "with his compliments"; p. 89, 1. 5. Woman; Sir Roger here recurs to the widow; p. 144, 1. 19. Woman of fashion; Introduction, Section 5.

Younger sons; Introduction, Section 14.