ANECDOTES

OF THE

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

OF

LONDON

DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY;

INCLUDING

THE CHARITIES, DEPRAVITIES, DRESSES, AND AMUSEMENTS, 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, FIURST, REES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1910.

914.21

M2432

ed. 2

665277

John Nichols and on, Printers,
Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.

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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