CHAPTER III.--VOL. III., p. 36.

"_Running Footmen._"

MR. WEBER, in a note to "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," in his edition of the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, vol. I. p. 194, Edinburgh, 1812, observes, that "the running footmen were a fashionable piece of splendid folly prevalent at that time. They were still kept by some noblemen in Scotland about the middle of the last century, and are yet to be met with occasionally upon the continent. Like the jockeys, they are put upon a particular diet; and in order to prevent cramps, the calves of their legs are greased."