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                               ANECDOTES

                                OF THE

                          MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

                                  OF

                                LONDON

                    DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY;


                               INCLUDING

         THE CHARITIES, DEPRAVITIES, DRESSES, AND AMUSEMENTS,
                      OF THE CITIZENS OF LONDON,
                          DURING THAT PERIOD;

                             WITH A REVIEW

                                OF THE

                       STATE OF SOCIETY IN 1807.


                          TO WHICH IS ADDED,

             A SKETCH OF THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE, AND OF
              THE VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METROPOLIS.


                 ILLUSTRATED BY FORTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS.


                   BY JAMES PELLER MALCOLM, F. S. A.

               AUTHOR OF "LONDINIUM REDIVIVUM," &c. &c.


                          THE SECOND EDITION.

                              VOLUME II.


                               _LONDON_:
              PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,
                           PATERNOSTER ROW.
                                 1810.




                    John Nichols and Son, Printers,
                Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.




_CONTENTS_

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.


CHAP. V.                                                    Page.

     Public Methods of raising Money exemplified in
     Notices relating to Lotteries, Benefit Societies, &c.      1


CHAP. VI.

     The Religious and Political Passions of the Community
     illustrated by Anecdotes of popular Tumults               11


CHAP. VII.

     Amusement--Detail of its principal Varieties since
     1700                                                     107


CHAP. VIII.

     Anecdotes of Dress, and of the Caprices of Fashion       312


CHAP. IX.

     Domestic Architecture traced from its origin to its
     present improved state in London--Lighting and
     improving of Streets--Obstructions in them--Ornaments,
     &c.                                                      358


CHAP. X.

     Sketch of the present State of Society in London         406




_PLATES_

TO

THE SECOND VOLUME.


     The Plates of Dress (chronologically)                    312

     Croydon Palace             }
     Brick Gateway near Bromley }                             364

     The Views of Antient and Modern Houses                   366

     The general Views                                        404




CHAP. V.

     PUBLIC METHODS OF RAISING MONEY EXEMPLIFIED, IN NOTICES
     RELATING TO LOTTERIES, BENEFIT SOCIETIES, &C.


The community of London had superior advantages an hundred years past
in the State Lotteries, though, if interested Office-keepers could be
credited, the Londoners of the present Century enjoy greater gaming
privileges than the world ever yet produced. The reader shall judge
between the schemes of 1709 and 1807. The