The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . sticks of marking stones of ruddle, with 38 the words Stop Thief, so that, if stolen, the thief should atonce be detected and detained. For this, and many other cu-rious particulars respecting the lowest classes of the inhabitantsof St. Giles in the Fields, the writer is much indebted to histruly respectable friend, the late William Packer, Esq. ofChai--lotte Street, Bloomsbury, and afterwards of Great Baddow,in Essex, who was born, and resided for the great part of hislife, upon the spot. For the h
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . sticks of marking stones of ruddle, with 38 the words Stop Thief, so that, if stolen, the thief should atonce be detected and detained. For this, and many other cu-rious particulars respecting the lowest classes of the inhabitantsof St. Giles in the Fields, the writer is much indebted to histruly respectable friend, the late William Packer, Esq. ofChai--lotte Street, Bloomsbury, and afterwards of Great Baddow,in Essex, who was born, and resided for the great part of hislife, upon the spot. For the honour of this gentlemans fa-mily, it may be here acknowledged that his father, who wasalso a truly respectable man, was one of the promoters of thebuilding of Middlesex Hospital, which, before the erection ofthe present building, was an establishment held in WindmillStreet, leading from Tottenham Court Road to Percy Chapel,in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place. The house which theHospital occupied, standing on the South side of the street, hassince been made use of as a French charity si^M/y (c^J>€UhP. BUY A BRUSH, OR A TABLE XI. X HE Engraving from which the accompanying Plate was co-pied was one of a set published by Overton, but withoutdate. Judging from the dress, it must have been madeeither in the reign of King James the First or in thatof the succeeding monarch. The inscription over the figureis, Buy a Brush or a Table Book. The floors were notwetted, but rubbed dry, even until they bore a very highpolish, particularly when it was the fashion to inlay staircasesand floors of rooms with yellow, black, and brown woods. Onthe landing ])laces of the great staircase in the house built byLord Orford, now the Grand Hotel, at the end of KingStreet in Covent Garden, such inlaid specimens are still re-maining, in a beautiful state of preservation. There aremany houses of the nobility where the floors consist of smallpieces of oak arranged in tessellated form
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