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ANECDOTES

OF THE

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

OF

LONDON

DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY;

INCLUDING

THE CHARITIES, DEPRAVITIES, DRESSES, AND AMUSÈ-
MENTS, 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 I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1810.

John Nichols and Son, Printers,

Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.

BRITISH

State of Parish Children-Anecdotes of various

descriptions of Charity exercised in London

between the years 1700 and 1800

CHAP. II.

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1

Anecdotes of Depravity, from 1700 to 1800 87

CHAP. III.

Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of Lon-

don, from 1700 to 1800 .....

CHAP. IV.

Anecdotes of Eccentricity....

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229

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