Salmagundi (Huddesford, 1791)/Explanatory Notes

(a) St. Leonard's Hill, in Windsor Forest, the residence of the Honourable General Harcourt.

(b) Cartoon.—The Death of Ananias, in the Royal Apartments at Windsor Castle.

(c) Cartoon.—Paul preaching at Athens.

(d) Cartoon.—Paul and Barnabas at Lystra.

(e) The Victories of Edward the Third, and Edward the Black Prince painted by Mr. West.

(f) "Morning.—The Season Winter. Cold as it may appear to be, we have here an Old Maid, going to seven o'clock Prayers, with her half-starved, shivering servant behind her, carrying her Prayer Book, dressed in a single lappet and without an handkerchief, &c. a well pointed satire on such persons as make themselves Singular with respect to Public Worship, merely to attract the notice of their neighbours, &c. &c."

(h) A Latin Song called "Domum," sung with musical accompaniment, on the day before the commencement of their Whitsuntide Vacation, by the Scholars of Winchester College. The words "Matin Hymn, &c." in the preceding couplet refer to other ancient customs of that Venerable Seminary.

​(i) The late Lord Talbot, Steward of the Household.

For an account of the Monastery of Medenham, the Reader (if he thinks it worth his while) may consult the third volume of "Chrysal," or the Adventures of a Guinea.

(k) See Percy's Reliques of Antient Poetry.

(m) The Old Pewter Platter, a pot-house in the neighbourhood of Hatton Garden.

(n) Golgotha, "The place of a Scull," a name ludicrously affixed to the Place in which the Heads of Colleges assemble.

(o) Electrical sparks elicited by friction from a cat's back.

(p) The sociable Porker here alluded to, is well known to have been the assiduous companion of Lord M—t Edg———'s excursions.

(q) On the death of Cibber the place of Poet Laureate was offered by Lord John Cavendish, at the desire of the late Duke of Devonshire then Lord Chamberlain, to Mr. Gray, who refused to accept it.

See Mason's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Gray.

(r) Rutterkin.—A Cat of this name was Cater-cousin to the great great great great great great great great great grandmother of Grimalkin; and First Cat in the Caterie of an old woman who was tried for bewitching the Daughter of the Countess of Rutland in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century.

(s) "Moreover she confessed that she took a Cat and christened it, &c. &c. and that in the night following, the said Cat was conveyed into the middest of the ​sea by all these Witches sayling in their Riddles^{[errata 1]}, or Cives, and so left the said Cat right before the towne of Leith in Scotland. This doone, there did arise such a tempest at Sea as a greater hath not been seen, &c."

"Againe it is confessed that the said christened Cat was the cause of the Kinges Majestie's shippe, at his comming forthe of Denmarke, had a contrarie winde to the rest of the shippes then being in his companie, which thing was most straunge and true, as the Kinges Majestie acknowledgeth, for when the rest of the shippes had a fair and good winde, then was the winde contrarie and altogether against his Majestie, &c."