Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original Sources

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 infant...

Eloping with heiresses -- Marriage between children -- Tax on bachelors -- Valentines -- Marriage settlements -- Pin money -- Posies -- Drummers -- Private marriages -- Irregula...

Longevity -- Undertakers' charges -- Costliness of funerals -- Mourning -- Burial in woollen -- Burial Societies -- Burial by night -- A cheat -- Mourning rings -- Funeral pomp...

'Queen Anne' houses -- Vanbrugh's house -- Real 'Queen Anne' houses -- Hangings and wall papers -- Letting and rent -- Prevention of fire -- A fire -- Insurance companies -- Wat...

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...

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...

A beau -- An inventory of him -- Hats -- Wigs: their price: varieties -- Hair powder -- Robbery of wigs -- Natural hair -- Neck-cloths -- Shirts -- Open waistcoats -- Colonel Ed...

The Commode -- Description of ladies' dress -- The Petticoat -- The Bodice -- A costly wardrobe -- Underlinen -- Dressing like men -- Scents -- Patches -- Patching Whig and Tory...

Beer -- Hard drinking -- 'Whetters' -- Wines -- List of French and Spanish wines -- Wines of other countries -- Duties on wines -- Spirits -- Liqueurs -- Homemade wines -- Price...

Habit of smoking -- Women and children smoking -- Prices of tobacco -- Customs duty -- Origin of snuff-taking -- The Vigo expedition -- Snuff-rasps -- Ladies taking snuff -- Pro...

Universal use of coffee-houses -- Their convenience -- Company -- First coffee-house -- Number of them -- Anecdote of Bishop Trelawney -- Description of interior -- The news --...

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...

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 -...

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...

Challenges -- The stakes -- The combatants -- Description of fights -- General combativeness -- Boxing -- Cudgel-playing -- Pedestrianism -- Tennis -- Cricket -- Football -- Ska...

The theatres -- Dorset Gardens -- Its demolition -- Performances -- Lincoln's Inn Fields -- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane -- Its company -- Mrs. Tofts -- The Queen's Theatre, Haymar...

Introduction of Italian opera -- Its rapid popularity -- Mixture of Languages -- Handel -- His operas, and visit here -- Singers -- Abel -- Hughs -- Leveridge -- Lawrence -- Ram...

Wollaston -- Murray -- Hugh Howard -- Lewis Crosse -- Luke Craddock -- Charles Jervas -- Richardson -- Sir James Thornhill -- Sir Godfrey Kneller -- Closterman -- Pelegrini -- S...

Its infancy -- Virtuosi -- Gresham College -- Visit to the Royal Society's Museum -- Their curiosities -- Their new house -- Geology -- Experimental philosophy -- Courses of che...

Authors -- Public libraries -- Their condition -- George Psalmanazar -- Hack writers -- Poverty of authors -- Their punishment -- The Press -- _Daily Courant_ -- List of newspap...

List of diseases -- Quackery -- Bleeding, etc. -- Physicians -- Surgeons -- Apothecaries -- Dissension between the physicians and apothecaries -- The Dispensary -- Pharmacopœias...

Bath -- Manners of the company there -- Description of Bath -- Its gaieties -- Sale of the water -- Tunbridge -- Epsom -- Hampstead -- Other spas -- Turkish baths -- Controversy...

Inactivity of the Church -- Dulness of Sunday -- Contempt of the clergy -- Low estimation of a chaplain -- Dress of the clergy -- Church furniture -- Traffic in benefices -- For...

Use as a highway -- River slang -- Rates of watermen -- Description of wherries -- Pleasure parties and barges -- The Folly -- Its frequenters -- Gravesend tilt boat -- Fares at...

Size of London -- Pall Mall -- London in wet weather -- Early morning -- Street cries -- A list of them -- Roguery in the streets -- Orderly regulations -- State of the roads --...

Smithfield -- Horse coursers -- Waggons -- Stage coaches -- Travelling in them described -- Bad roads -- Posting -- Hackney coaches -- Their fares -- Hackney coachmen -- State c...

Scourers, etc. -- Bully Dawson -- Two outbreaks -- That in 1712 -- Hawkubites -- Exploits of the Mohocks -- Sir Roger de Coverley -- Swift's fear of them -- Emperor of the Mohoc...

Its prevalence -- Bullying -- Fielding's duels -- Favourite localities -- Its illegality -- Col. Thornhill and Sir Cholmley Dering -- Their quarrel and duel -- Duke of Hamilton...

Sale of commissions -- General practice -- Its illegality -- Arrears of pay -- Descriptions of officers -- Army chaplains -- The rank and file -- Description of them -- Irregula...

Capital punishment -- Its frequency -- An execution described -- Behaviour on the scaffold and way to execution -- Revival after hanging -- 'Peine forte et dure' -- Hanging in c...

Dreadful condition of prisons -- Bridewell -- Description of -- Flogging -- Houses of Correction -- Compters -- Description of the Poultry Compter -- 'Garnish' -- Newgate -- Des...

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 infant...

Girls were not all educated at home--though, doubtless, the majority of them were, with the exception of their dancing lessons--but had boarding schools of their own; and the sc...

Eloping with heiresses -- Marriage between children -- Tax on bachelors -- Valentines -- Marriage settlements -- Pin money -- Posies -- Drummers -- Private marriages -- Irregula...

Longevity -- Undertakers' charges -- Costliness of funerals -- Mourning -- Burial in woollen -- Burial societies -- Burial by night -- A cheat -- Mourning rings -- Funeral pomp...

'Queen Anne' houses -- Vanbrugh's house -- Real 'Queen Anne' houses -- Hangings and wall papers -- Letting and rent -- Prevention of fire -- A fire -- Insurance companies -- Wat...

The quantity of servants in vogue at that time, especially of male servants, seems to us to be excessive, but when we look how useful they were, apart from their menial duties,...

Passing to the social habits of the people, it is difficult where to commence the description. The men of the time were humdrum and prosaic--they went nowhere, at least accordin...

And how did the women fare? We have seen that among the middle classes the domestic virtues were encouraged and highly extolled, and to be a 'notable housewife' was a legitimate...

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...

It is not for us to decry the superstition of that age--we should look to ourselves in this matter. Perhaps they were more open in their expression of belief in the supernatural...

There was one social habit that the two sexes had in common, and that was in taking snuff: nay, it was more than hinted that some of the fair sex smoked--not nice little fairy '...

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...

A beau -- An inventory of him -- Hats -- Wigs: their price: varieties -- Hair powder -- Robbery of wigs -- Natural hair -- Neck cloths -- Shirts -- Open waistcoats -- Colonel Ed...

The commode -- Description of ladies' dress -- The petticoat -- The bodice -- A costly wardrobe -- Underlinen -- Dressing like men -- Scents -- Patches -- Patching Whig and Tory...

In the matter of food, people were not _gourmets_ as a rule. The living was plentiful, but plain, and a dinner was never more than two courses; as Addison wrote, 'two plain dish...

Beer -- Hard drinking -- 'Whetters' -- Wines -- List of French and Spanish wines -- Wines of other countries -- Duties on wines -- Spirits -- Liqueurs -- Homemade wines -- Price...

Habit of smoking -- Women and children smoking -- Prices of tobacco -- Customs duty -- Origin of snuff-taking -- The Vigo Expedition -- Snuff rasps -- Ladies taking snuff -- Pro...

Universal use of coffee-houses -- Their convenience -- Company -- First coffee-house -- Number of them -- Anecdote of Bishop Trelawney -- Description of interior -- The news --...

The name of Club is undoubtedly taken from the practice of a jovial company to 'club,' or divide the whole expenses of the entertainment; and 'the payment of our Clubs'[322] is...

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...

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 curiositie...

But all amusements at this time were not so innocent as the foregoing: there were fiercer and more blood-stirring excitements for the men. Take bear and bull baiting. The former...

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...

Challenges -- The stakes -- The combatants -- Description of fights -- General combativeness -- Boxing -- Cudgel-playing -- Pedestrianism -- Tennis -- Cricket -- Football -- Ska...

The theatres -- Dorset Gardens -- Its demolition -- Performances -- Lincoln's Inn Fields -- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane -- Its company -- Mrs. Tofts -- The Queen's Theatre, Haymar...

Introduction of Italian opera -- Its rapid popularity -- Mixture of languages -- Handel -- His operas, and visit here -- Singers -- Abel -- Hughs -- Leveridge -- Lawrence -- Ram...

Wollaston -- Murray -- Hugh Howard -- Lewis Crosse -- Luke Cradock -- Charles Jervas -- Richardson -- Sir James Thornhill -- Sir Godfrey Kneller -- Closterman -- Pelegrini -- Se...

Its infancy -- Virtuosi -- Gresham College -- Visit to the Royal Society's Museum -- Their curiosities -- Their new house -- Geology -- Experimental philosophy -- Courses of che...

Authors -- Public libraries -- Their condition -- George Psalmanazar -- Hack writers -- Poverty of authors -- Their punishment -- The press -- _Daily Courant_ -- List of newspap...

List of diseases -- Quackery -- Bleeding, etc. -- Physicians -- Surgeons -- Apothecaries -- Dissension between the physicians and apothecaries -- The dispensary -- Pharmacopœias...

Bath -- Manners of the company there -- Description of Bath -- Its gaieties -- Sale of the water -- Tunbridge -- Epsom -- Hampstead -- Other spas -- Turkish baths -- Controversy...

Inactivity of the Church -- Dulness of Sunday -- Contempt of the clergy -- Low estimation of a chaplain -- Dress of the clergy -- Church furniture -- Traffic in benefices -- For...

Speaking of lawyers, Addison says:[569] 'The Body of the Law is no less encumbered with superfluous Members, that are like _Virgil's_ Army which he tells us was so crouded, many...

Use as a highway -- River slang -- Rates of watermen -- Description of wherries -- Pleasure parties and barges -- The Folly -- Its frequenters -- Gravesend tilt boat -- Fares at...

Size of London -- Pall Mall -- London in wet weather -- Early morning -- Street cries: a list of them -- Roguery in the streets -- Orderly regulations -- State of the roads -- R...

Smithfield -- Horse courses -- Waggons -- Stage coaches: travelling in them described -- Bad roads -- Posting -- Hackney coaches: their Fares -- Hackney coachmen -- State coache...

Scourers, etc. -- Bully Dawson -- Two outbreaks -- That in 1712 -- Hawkubites -- Exploits of the Mohocks -- Sir Roger de Coverley -- Swift's fear of them -- Emperor of the Mohoc...

terror. 'Did I tell you of a race of Rakes, called the Mohocks, that play the devil about this town every night, slit peoples noses, and bid them, &c.... Young Davenant was tell...

The senseless custom of duelling was much in vogue in this reign, although perhaps it had not reached to the height it afterwards did. The custom of wearing swords rendered the...

Sale of commissions -- General practice -- Its illegality -- Arrears of pay -- Descriptions of officers -- Army chaplains -- The rank and file -- Description of them -- Irregula...

Capital punishment -- Its frequency -- An execution described -- Behaviour on the scaffold and way to execution -- Revival after hanging -- _Peine forte et dure_ -- Hanging in c...

Dreadful condition of Prisons -- Bridewell -- Description of -- Flogging -- Houses of Correction -- Compters -- Description of the Poultry compters -- 'Garnish' -- Newgate -- De...

The London Workhouse, in Bishopsgate Street, was, perhaps, one of the first of these municipal institutions, and there the rogues, vagrants, and sturdy beggars were really set t...

Adam's, Chancery Lane. Adlamb's, Little Turnstile. Admiralty, next the Admiralty Office. Adulan's, Lincoln's Inn Fields. African, Leadenhall Street. Alder's, Maiden Lane. Alder'...

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