According to King 530,000. (1848.) In 1851 the population of London exceeded, 2,300,000. (1857.)
104. Macpherson's History of Commerce; Chalmers's Estimate; Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684. The tonnage of the steamers belonging to the port of London was, at the end of 1847, about 60,000 tons. The customs of the port, from 1842 to 1845, very nearly averaged 11,000,000£. (1848.) In 1854 the tonnage of the steamers of the port of London amounted to 138,000 tons, without reckoning vessels of less than fifty tons. (1857.)
105. Lyson's Environs of London. The baptisms at Chelsea, between 1680 and 1690, were only 42 a year.
106. Cowley, Discourse of Solitude.
107. The fullest and most trustworthy information about the state of the buildings of London at this time is to be derived from the maps and drawings in the British Museum and in the Pepysian Library. The badness of the bricks in the old buildings of London is particularly mentioned in the Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo. There is an account of the works at Saint Paul's in Ward's London Spy. I am almost ashamed to quote such nauseous balderdash; but I have been forced to descend even lower, if possible, in search of materials.
108. Evelyn's Diary, Sept. 20. 1672.
109. Roger North's Life of Sir Dudley North.
110. North's Examen. This amusing writer has preserved a specimen of the sublime raptures in which the Pindar of the City indulged:—
"The worshipful sir John Moor!
After age that name adore!"
111. Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684; Anglie Metropolis, 1690; Seymour's London, 1734.
112. North's Examen, 116; Wood, Ath. Ox. Shaftesbury; The Duke of B.'s Litany.
113. Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo.
114. Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684; Pennant's London; Smith's Life of Nollekens.
115. Evelyn's Diary, Oct. 10, 1683, Jan. 19, 1685-6.
116. Stat. 1 Jac. II. c. 22; Evelyn's Diary, Dec, 7, 1684.
117. Old General Oglethorpe, who died in 1785, used to boast that he had shot birds here in Anne's reign. See Pennant's London, and the Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1785.
118. The pest field will be seen in maps of London as late as the end of George the First's reign.
119. See a very curious plan of Covent Garden made about 1690, and engraved for Smith's History of Westminster. See also Hogarth's Morning, painted while some of the houses in the Piazza were still occupied by people of fashion.
120. London Spy, Tom Brown's comical View of London and Westminster; Turner's Propositions for the employing of the Poor, 1678; Daily Courant and Daily Journal of June 7, 1733; Case of Michael v. Allestree, in 1676, 2 Levinz, p. 172. Michael had been run over by two horses which Allestree was breaking in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The declaration set forth that the defendant "porta deux chivals ungovernable en un coach, et improvide, incante, et absque debita consideratione ineptitudinis loci la eux drive pur eux faire tractable et apt pur an coach, quels chivals, pur ceo que, per leur ferocite, ne poientestre rule, curre sur le plaintiff et le noie."
121. Stat. 12 Geo. I. c. 25; Commons' Journals, Feb. 25, March 2, 1725-6; London Gardener, 1712; Evening Post, March, 23, 1731. I have not been able to find this number of the Evening Post; I therefore quote it on the faith of Mr. Malcolm, who mentions it in his History of London.
122. Lettres sur les Anglois, written early in the reign of William the Third; Swift's City Shower; Gay's Trivia. Johnson used to relate a curious conversation which he had with his mother about giving and taking the wall.
123. Oldham's Imitation of the 3d Satire of Juvenal, 1682; Shadwell's Scourers, 1690. Many other authorities will readily occur to all who are acquainted with the popular literature of that and the succeeding generation. It may be suspected that some of the Tityre Tus, like good Cavaliers, broke Milton's windows shortly after the Restoration. I am confident that he was thinking of those pests of London when he dictated the noble lines:
"And in luxurious cities, when the noise
Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
And injury and outrage, and when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown With innocence and wine."
124. Seymour's London.
125. Angliae Metropolis, 1690, Sect. 17, entitled, "Of the new lights"; Seymour's London.
