335, foot. The immortal Grimaldi. Joseph Grimaldi (1779–1837), the clown. He did not actually leave the stage until 1828, but his appearances had been only occasional for several years.
Page 336, second stanza. "Berkeley's Foote." This was Maria Foote (1797?-1867), the actress, afterwards Countess of Harrington, who was abandoned by Colonel Berkeley after the birth of two children, and whose woes were made public through a breach-of-promise action brought by her against "Pea Green" Hayes a little later.
Page 337. The Religion of Actors.
New Monthly Magazine, April, 1826. Not reprinted by Lamb; but known to be his by a sentence in a letter to Bernard Barton. This paper is of course as nonsensical as that on Liston.
Page 337, line 4 of essay. A celebrated tragic actor. Referring to the action for criminal conversation brought by Alderman Cox against Edmund Kean, in 1824, in which Kean was cast in £800 damages, and which led during the following seasons to hostile demonstrations against him both in England and America. For many performances he played only to men.
Page 337, line 11 of essay. Miss Pope. See note on page 465.
Page 338, line 1. The present licenser. George Colman the younger, whose pedantic severity was out of all proportion to the freedom which in his earlier play-writing and verse-writing days he had allowed himself. In his evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, in an inquiry into the state of the drama in 1832, he admitted having refused to pass the term "angel," addressed by a lover to his lady, on the ground that "an angel was a heavenly body."
Page 338, line 3. Fawcett. This would be John Fawcett (1768–1837), famous in bluff parts. He was treasurer and trustee of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund for many years.
Page 338, line 3. The five points. The Five Points of Doctrine, maintained by the Calvinists, were Original Sin, Predestination, Irresistible Grace, Particular Redemption and the Final Perseverance of the Saints.
Page 338, line 4. Dicky Suett. Richard Suett (1755–1805), the comedian of whom Lamb wrote so enthusiastically in "The Old Actors."
Page 338, line 7. Br——'s "Religio Dramatici." I imagine that John Braham, the tenor (1774?-1856), né Abraham, had put forth a manifesto stating that he had embraced the Christian faith; but I can get no information on the subject. See Lamb's other references to Braham in the Elia essay "Imperfect Sympathies."
Page 338, line 8 from foot. Dr. Watts. Dr. Isaac Watts' version of the Psalms, 1719, takes great liberties with the originals, evangelising them, omitting much, and even substituting "Britain" for "Israel."
Page 338, foot. St. Martin's … St. Paul's, Covent Garden. The two parishes in which the chief theatres were situated.
Page 339, line 3. Two great bodies. The Covent Garden Company and the Drury Lane Company.
Page 339, line 7. Mr. Bengough … Mr. Powell. Two useful actors in their day.
Page 339, line 18. Notorious education of the manager. Charles Kemble (1775–1854), then manager of Covent Garden, had been educated at the English Jesuit College at Douay, where his brother, John Philip Kemble, had preceded him.
Page 339, line 20. Mr. T——y. This would probably be Daniel Terry (1780–1829), then manager, with Yates, of the Adelphi. The allusion to him as a member of the Kirk of Scotland probably refers to his well-known adoration and imitation of Sir Walter Scott, whom he closely resembled.
Page 339, line 25. Mr. Fletcher. The Rev. Alexander Fletcher, minister of the Albion Chapel in Moorfields, who was suspended by the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in 1824 for his share in a breach-of-promise case.
Page 339, lines 29 and 30. Miss F——e and Madame V——s. Miss F——e would probably be Miss Foote (see note on page 521). Madame Vestris (1797–1856), the comedienne and wife of Charles James Mathews. It might not be out of place to state that Sublapsarians consider the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil, and Supralapsarians view it as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.
Page 339, lines 32 and 33. Mr. Pope … Mr. Sinclair. Alexander Pope (1752–1835), the comedian. John Sinclair (1791–1857), the singer.
Page 339, line 33. Mr. Grimaldi. See the note on page 521. Grimaldi's son Joseph S. Grimaldi made his début as Man Friday in 1814 and died in 1832. The Jumpers were a Welsh sect of Calvinist Methodists.
Page 340, line 7. Mr. Elliston. Robert William Elliston (1774–1831), the comedian, who had been manager of Drury Lane, 1821–1826. Lamb's Elia essays on this character lend point to his suggestion that Elliston leaned towards the Muggletonians, a sect which by that time was almost extinct, after two centuries' existence.
Page 340. A Popular Fallacy.
New Monthly Magazine, June, 1826, where it formed part of the series of "Popular Fallacies," of which all the others were reprinted in the Last Essays of Elia. Lamb did not reprint it.
The unnamed works referred to are The Register of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1724, by John Anstis (not Anstey), Garter King-at-Arms, and Elias Ashmole's Institutions, Laws and Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter, 1672. In the passage quoted from William Hay's Deformity, an Essay, 1754, the author is speaking of his experiences when in a mob.
Page 342. Reminiscences of Juke Judkins, Esq.
New Monthly Magazine, June, 1826. Signed "Elia." Not reprinted by Lamb.
Lamb seems to have intended to write a story of some length, for the promise "To be continued" was appended to the first instalment. But he did not return to it.
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