ANECDOTES

OF THB

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.

914.21 M243a

ed. 2 665277

Jolin Nichols and Lion, Priaters, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.

CHAP. I.

State of Parish Children-Anecdotes of various

descriptions of Charity exercised in London

between the

years

1700 and 1800 ....

............ I

CHAP. II.

Anecdotes of Depravity, from 1700 to 1800

.... 87

CHAP. III.

Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of Lon-

don, from 1700 to 1800

229

CHAP. IV.

Anecdotes of Eccentricity.

396