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Page 87, line 13. has cast.

Defeated in a lawsuit.

Page 87, line 15. going upon the old business of the willow-tree. Tom Touchy was probably going to the county assizes to continue a long-standing lawsuit involving a willow

tree.

Page 90, line 14. Saracen's Head. The English took pleasure in picturing the Saracens with ugly faces.

PAPER No. XVI.

Page 92, line 23. particular. Individual.

Page 93, line 10. Plutarch. A Greek writer living in first century A.D. His best known work is his Parallel Lives of Greeks and Romans.

Page 93, line 19. great rule. Luke vi. 27-32.

The Guelphs

Page 95, line 21. Guelphs and Ghibellines. claimed that the Popes, the spiritual heads, should also be at the head in temporal affairs; the Ghibellines demanded the supremacy of the emperors; and for three centuries during the Middle Ages the two factions involved Germany and Italy in a disastrous struggle. (See "House of Hohenstaufen" in any History of the Middle Ages.)

Page 95, line 23. the League. The “Catholic League” (1576) formed "to uphold the Catholic Church; to suppress heresy; and to maintain the honor, the authority, and prerogatives of the most Christian king and his successors. (See History for Ready Reference, Vol. II., p. 1206.)

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PAPER No. XVII.

Page 99, line 2. Cassandra. A prophetess, daughter of Priam. Apollo, angry with her, commanded people not to beieve her predictions.

Page 99, line 12. line of life. Line in the hand called the life line.

PAPER No. XVIII.

Page 104, line 18. "White Witch." Distinction was usually made between the white and the black witch. The white, or good witch, helped to prevent or cure diseases in men or beasts; the black, or bad one, caused them.

Page 107, line 7. Commonwealth's men. Addison here means men who are tired of the rule of one person and wish for a government by the people.

PAPER No. XIX.

Page 111, line 19. right we had of taking place. Roads were often so bad that one team must stop before another could pass. The rule was that the one going to London should have right of way, and the one coming from the city must turn aside.

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PAPER No. XX.

Ramage de la Ville. Warblers of the town. crack. Crank.

Cries of London. The streets were alive

with the numerous cries of the venders of food, old clothes,

household articles, ranging from "Delicate cowcumbers to pickle " to "Maids, buy a Mopp.' (See Ashton's Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Chap. XXXV.)

Page 114, line 16. freeman. One who has the right to sell his goods.

Page 115, line 7. note above ela. Above A.

PAPER No. XXI.

Page 120, line 12. Prince Eugenio. A celebrated Austrian general, who distinguished himself during the war of the Spanish succession (1701-1714). (See Gardiner's Student's History of England, Chap. XLIV.)

Page 120, line 14. Scanderbeg. An Albanian commander of the fifteenth century.

Page 123, line 11. securing the Church of England. By requiring all holders of office under the crown to belong to the Church of England.

Page 124, line 1. Procession. To show opposition to the Catholic religion the Pope's head in effigy was carried in the procession.

Page 125, line 2. Supplement. Extra edition.

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of 1709.

PAPER No. XXII.

the tombs. (See Spectator, No. 26.) sickness being at Dantzic. Great plague

Page 128, line 4. admiral.

Sir Cloudesley Shovel. An English

Page 128, line 8. Busby. Richard Busby, an English instructor of the seventeenth century.

Page 128, line 18. Cecil. Lord Burleigh.

Page 128, line 20. figure. Statue of Elizabeth Russell. Story referred to is not authentic.

Page 129, line 4. coronation chairs. There are two. The old coronation chair was made for Edward I.; the new one was made in 1689 for Queen Mary. The English monarchs are all crowned in the old coronation chair.

Page 130, line 2. evil. King's evil, or scrofula. "Anne was the last of a long line of sovereigns, from Edward the Confessor, who exercised the supposed royal gift of healing." (See Ashton's Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne.)

Page 130, line 16. Sir Richard Baker. An English writer of the seventeenth century, author of Chronicle of the Kings of England. (See Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. III.)

PAPER No. XXIII.

Page 131, line 9. new tragedy. The Distressed Mother, by Ambrose Philips.

Play by Sir Robert Howard.

Page 131, line 12. Committee. Page 131, line 21. Mohocks. A lawless gang who made it their business to be on the streets assaulting people and destroying movable property. Ashton says the name probably came

Spectator.)

from the North American Indians. (See essay No. 324 in

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Page 140, line 20. lines. Paradise Lost, Book X., 888-908.

PAPER No. XXV.

Page 143, line 8. Vauxhall. Vauxhall Gardens, sometimes called Spring Garden, was a pleasure resort on the Thames River. It is now built over.

Page 144, line 4. fifty new churches. These were built by Act of Parliament.

PAPER No. XXVI.

Eustace Budgell in the Bee (February, 1773) said of Sir Roger de Coverley, "Mr. Addison was so fond of this character that a little before he laid down the Spectator (foreseeing that some nimble gentleman would catch up his pen the moment he quitteit it), he said to an intimate friend, with a certain warmth in his expression which he was not often guilty of. I'll kill Sir Roge, that nobody else may murder him.'

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