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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. Excerpt: ... NOTES. MR. BICKERSTAFF ON HIMSELF. No. 1. P. 1, 1. 7. Grecian Coffee-House. In the first number of The Tatler, published on Tuesday, April 12, 1709, Steele, when describing the character and aims of the new paper, states that "all accounts of gallantry, pleasure and entertainment shall be under the article of White's Chocolate House; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of the Grecian; foreign and domestic news, you will have from St. James's Coffeehouse; and what else I have to offer on any other subject shall be dated from my own apartment." The Grecian Coffee-house was situated in a small street off the Strand, known as Devereux Court, closed in 1843. It was the favourite resort of the more staid and learned men of the period. Here Sir Isaac Newton had drunk coffee, Addison was a constant visitor, and in later times Goldsmith played his flute. 1. 8. from an unknown hand; there is another letter, a charming one, from this country friend in No. 112 of The Tatler. I. 14. bills of mortality: these were the earliest form of the record of births, deaths, and marriages in the British Isles, and were published weekly. In the Plague year, 1665, Pepys, in an entry under September, thus refers in his Diary to them, "To the Tower, and there sent for the weekly Bill and find 8,252 dead in all, and of these 6,978 of the Plague." It was not until 1836 that a reliable record was kept, when the Registrar-General's Department was instituted. The earliest attempt to compile such statistics is said to have been due to Cromwell, Henry VIII. 's minister. This passage then would mean, that Bickerstaff's name is more widely known than the mere record of his birth in the 'bills of mortality' could make it. 1. 18. out of a coffee-house, i.e. exce...
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