[Footnote 274:  See Nos. 1, 10, 16.]

[Footnote 275:  This letter is probably by Anthony Henley; see advertisement at end of No. 25.  At this time Henley was M.P. for Weymouth, and a friend of the wits belonging to the Whig party.  He died in 1711.  See Nos. 11, 193.]

[Footnote 276:  No. 21.]

[Footnote 277:  Wall and the others named were quack doctors.]

[Footnote 278:  Sintelaer, who lived in High Holborn, published in Feb. 1709, “The Scourge of Venus and Mercury.  With an appendix in answer to Mr. John Marten’s reflections thereupon” (Postman, Feb. 24 to 26, 1709).]

[Footnote 279:  “AEneid,” i. 460.  Steele alters Virgil’s “terriss” to “villa.”]

[Footnote 280:  A sort of periwig, with a short tie and small round head.  See No. 30, end.  In the Spectator (No. 319), Dorinda describes a humble servant of hers who “appeared to me in one of those wigs that I think you call a ‘night-cap,’ which had altered him more effectually than before.  He afterwards played a couple of black riding wigs upon me, with the same success.”]

[Footnote 281:  The elaborate canes used by the beaux commonly had a ribbon to enable them to be hung on the button of the waistcoat.  Thus we find among the advertisements for lost canes, “A cane with a silver head and a black ribbon in it, the top of it amber, part of the head to turn round, and in it a perspective glass.”]

[Footnote 282:  Men of fashion wore very high-heeled shoes, and their red heels are often satirised by Steele and Addison (cf. Spectator, No. 311).  In No. 16 of the Spectator Addison said, “It is not my intention to sink the dignity of this my paper with reflections upon red-heels or topknots.”]

[Footnote 283:  See Nos. 19, 23.]

[Footnote 284:  Probably Sir John Vanbrugh.]

[Footnote 285:  A bazaar on the south side of the Strand, between George Court and Durham Street, and opposite Bedford Street.  There were two long and double galleries, one above the other, containing shops, with pretty attendants.  The New Exchange was a favourite lounge, and is frequently mentioned in the Restoration literature; it was pulled down in 1737.  See Spectator, Nos. 96, 155, and Steele’s “Lying Lover,” act ii. sc. 2, where Young Bookwit says, “My choice was so distracted among the pretty merchants and their dealers, that I knew not where to run first.”  On the other hand, we find complaints that young fops hindered business by lolling on the counter an hour longer than was necessary, and annoyed the young women who served them with ingenious ribaldry.]

[Footnote 286:  Vauxhall, or Fox-hall, Gardens were formed about 1661, on the Surrey side of the Thames, and were at first called the New Spring Gardens, to distinguish them from the Old Spring Gardens at Charing Cross.  At the end of the seventeenth century Vauxhall was a favourite place for assignations, and Pepys was scandalised at scenes he there witnessed.  The gardens were reopened in 1732, after being closed, it would seem, for some years, and they continued to be a place of fashionable resort until the end of the reign of George III.]