CHAPTER I

1 3 Job xiii. 5.

4 20 "The Compleat Constable. Directing all Constables, Headboroughs, Tithing men, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Highways and Scavengers in the Duty of their several Offices, according to the Power allowed them by the Laws and the Statutes." 3rd edition. London. Printed for Tho. Bever at the Hand and Star, near Temple Bar. 1708.

8 16 "Shakespeare's Europe. Unpublished chapters of Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, being a survey of the condition of Europe at the end of the sixteenth century. 1903." At p. 67.

9 24 Smollett. "Roderick Random." Chap. XXIII.

12 6 The Trial of Richard Weston at the Guildhall of London for the Murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 19th October, 13 James 1st, A.D. 1615. Howell's "State Trials," II., 914.

13 21 Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Edited by Birkbeck Hill. II. 130.

14 29 Boswell's "Life of Johnson." IV. 188.

17 8 _Manchester Guardian_, Saturday, January 24th, 1824.