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CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION .
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The Duke of Gloucester -- The Queen's refusal to marry again -- Treatment of children after birth -- Baptismal feasts -- A christening -- 'Daffy's Elixir' -- Treatment of infantile diseases -- The nursery -- Toys -- Children's books -- Horn-books -- Private tuition -- Boarding and day schools -- Free schools -- Classical education -- School-books -- Penmanship -- Runaway boys -- College education -- Charity schools 1
CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION .
Boarding schools -- Town and country educations -- Pastry schools -- Dancing -- Toasts -- 'The Little Whig' -- Madame Spanheim 17
MARRIAGE.
Eloping with heiresses -- Marriage between children -- Tax on bachelors -- Valentines -- Marriage settlements -- Pin money -- Posies -- Drummers -- Private marriages -- Irregular marriages -- Fleet parsons -- Marriage Act -- Facility of marriage -- Liability of husbands -- Public marriages -- Marriage customs -- Bride's garters -- Throwing the stocking -- The Posset -- Honeymoon 22
DEATH AND BURIAL.
Longevity -- Undertakers' charges -- Costliness of funerals -- Mourning -- Burial in woollen -- Burial Societies -- Burial by night -- A cheat -- Mourning rings -- Funeral pomp -- Monuments -- Description of a funeral -- A Roman Catholic funeral -- Widows 35
HOUSES, FURNITURE, ETC.
'Queen Anne' houses -- Vanbrugh's house -- Real 'Queen Anne' houses -- Hangings and wall papers -- Letting and rent -- Prevention of fire -- A fire -- Insurance companies -- Water supply -- Thames Water Works -- New River -- Coals -- Furniture -- China -- Bedsteads 46
SERVANTS.
Number of servants -- Footmen -- Wages -- Liveries -- 'How d'ye' -- The Upper Gallery -- Footmen's Parliament -- Accomplishments -- White slaves from Barbary -- Negro slaves -- Runaways -- Apprentices 58
DAILY LIFE .
Out-of-door amusements -- A holiday -- Hatred of French fashions -- Beaus' oaths -- Kissing -- Fops: their daily life 63
DAILY LIFE .
Receiving in bed -- A lady's life -- A fine lady's diary -- Walking -- Visiting -- Tea-table scandal -- Shopping -- Daily church -- Pets -- Dancing -- Books on ditto -- A dancing-master 68
GAMBLING AND SPECULATION.
Games at cards -- Curious cards -- Price -- Tax on cards -- Female passion for gambling -- The Groom Porter's -- Gaming houses -- Gamesters -- Noted gamesters -- Debts of honour -- Speculation -- Life insurances -- Marine and other insurances -- Shopkeepers' lotteries -- Government lotteries -- Prizes and winners 78
SUPERSTITION.
Astrologers -- Their advertisements -- Their tricks -- Witchcraft -- Cases of witchcraft 89
COSMETICS, ETC.
Habit of snuff-taking -- Perfumes -- Charles Lillie -- List of Scents -- Soaps -- Wash-balls -- 'Complections' -- Tooth powder -- Hair-dye -- Spectacles 95
TRADE, ETC.
The penny post -- Dockwra's vindication of himself -- Abolition of penny post -- Post days and rates -- Halfpenny post -- Method of doing business -- The Exchange -- Description of frequenters -- Bankers -- Curious advertisement of Sir Richard Hoare's 99
MEN'S DRESS.
A beau -- An inventory of him -- Hats -- Wigs: their price: varieties -- Hair powder -- Robbery of wigs -- Natural hair -- Neck-cloths -- Shirts -- Open waistcoats -- Colonel Edgworth -- Coats -- Cheap clothiers -- Stockings -- Boots and shoes -- Shoeblacks and blacking -- Handkerchiefs -- Muffs -- Swords -- Walking-sticks -- Watches -- Overcoats -- Night-caps -- Night-gowns 104
WOMEN'S DRESS.
The Commode -- Description of ladies' dress -- The Petticoat -- The Bodice -- A costly wardrobe -- Underlinen -- Dressing like men -- Scents -- Patches -- Patching Whig and Tory -- Masks -- The hood -- High-crowned hats -- Furs -- Umbrellas -- Pattens -- The fan -- Mobs -- Shopping -- Stuffs -- List of Indian stuffs -- Lace -- Linens -- Tallymen -- Jewellery -- Diamonds -- Plate -- Children's jewellery 123
FOOD .
English fare -- Time of dining -- Pontack's -- Other ordinaries -- Books on cookery -- Receipts -- Pudding -- Fish -- Oysters -- Poultry -- Assize of bread -- Markets -- Vegetables -- Lambeth gardeners -- Fruit -- Dried fruit 141
FOOD .
Beer -- Hard drinking -- 'Whetters' -- Wines -- List of French and Spanish wines -- Wines of other countries -- Duties on wines -- Spirits -- Liqueurs -- Homemade wines -- Prices of tea -- Adulteration -- Price of coffee -- Chocolate -- Its price -- Duty on 150
TOBACCO.
Habit of smoking -- Women and children smoking -- Prices of tobacco -- Customs duty -- Origin of snuff-taking -- The Vigo expedition -- Snuff-rasps -- Ladies taking snuff -- Proper use of the snuff-box -- Use of a spoon -- Prices of snuffs -- List of ditto -- Duty on snuff 156
COFFEE-HOUSES AND TAVERNS.
Universal use of coffee-houses -- Their convenience -- Company -- First coffee-house -- Number of them -- Anecdote of Bishop Trelawney -- Description of interior -- The news -- Advance in price -- Chocolate-houses -- Famous coffee-houses -- Button's Lion -- Lloyd's -- Sales by candle -- Jenny Man -- Don Saltero's collection -- Taverns -- Noblemen frequenting them -- Drinking own wine -- Purl houses -- List of old taverns 161
CLUBS.
Origin -- October Club -- Calves' Head Club -- Kit Cat Club -- Other clubs -- Suggested clubs 179
SIGHT-SEEING AND FAIRS.
Royal visits to the City -- Lord Mayor's show -- The lions at the Tower -- The Armoury -- Tombs at Westminster -- Bartholomew Fair -- Description -- Shows -- Tight-rope dancing -- Natural curiosities -- Theatrical performances, etc. -- Abolition -- May Fair -- Lady Mary -- Pinkethman -- Shows -- Visit to -- Abolition -- Southwark Fair -- Its Shows 185
OTHER SIGHTS.
The Lincolnshire ox -- The large hog -- The whale -- Monkeys and wild beasts -- 'The Lest Man and Hors in the World' -- Performing horse Dwarfs and giants -- Human curiosities -- Helen and Judith -- Conjurers -- Posture masters -- Mr. Clinch -- Waxwork -- Mrs. Salmon, etc. -- Westminster Abbey wax-figures -- Powell's puppets -- Moving pictures -- Glass-blowing -- Miraculous fountain -- Winstanley -- His waterworks -- The four Indian chiefs 201
ROUGH SPORTS.
Bear-baiting -- Bear-gardens -- Bull-baiting -- Description -- Extraordinary bull-bait -- Cock-fighting -- Cock-pits -- Value of matches -- Training 223
HORSE-RACING, HUNTING, SHOOTING, ETC.
The Queen's love of racing -- Visit to Newmarket -- Queen's plates -- Value of matches -- Race meetings -- Tregonwell Frampton -- His horse Dragon -- The Queen's love of hunting -- Sir Roger de Coverley -- Fox-hunting -- Stag-hunting -- Hare-hunting -- Coursing -- Packs of hounds -- Fishing -- Hawking -- Netting -- The Game Act -- Shooting sitting and flying -- Match shooting -- Archery 228
SWORD-PLAY AND OTHER SPORTS -- GARDEN, ETC.
Challenges -- The stakes -- The combatants -- Description of fights -- General combativeness -- Boxing -- Cudgel-playing -- Pedestrianism -- Tennis -- Cricket -- Football -- Skating -- Billiards -- Country wakes -- Bowling -- Bowling greens -- Formal gardening -- Clipping trees -- Books on gardening -- Trees and Flowers -- Town and country life -- Country labourers 237
THE DRAMA.
The theatres -- Dorset Gardens -- Its demolition -- Performances -- Lincoln's Inn Fields -- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane -- Its company -- Mrs. Tofts -- The Queen's Theatre, Haymarket -- Its foundation stone -- Its operas -- Pinkethman's theatre at Greenwich -- The Queen and the stage -- Her reforms -- Strolling players -- Behaviour at the theatre -- Orange wenches -- Stage properties -- Actors -- Betterton -- Verbruggen -- Cave Underhill -- Estcourt -- Dogget -- Colley Cibber -- Wilks -- Booth -- Pinkethman -- Minor Actors -- Actresses -- Mrs. Barry -- Mrs. Bracegirdle -- Mrs. Oldfield -- Mrs. Verbruggen -- The ballet 243
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