P. 166. Dulwich Gallery.—­This is amongst the unfortunate consequences of taking lists upon trust.  Poor Tom Hurst[1] has not been in the churchyard these last eight years—­except the three last in his grave.  The last five years of his life were spent in a comfortable asylum, as “a poor brother of the Charterhouse.”  He was one of the victims of the “panic of 1825;” and though the spirit of speculation never left him, he always failed to recover his position.  He is referred to here, however, to call Mr. Cunningham’s attention to the necessity, in a Hand-book especially, of referring his readers correctly to the places at which tickets are to be obtained for any purpose whatever.  It discourages the visitor to London when he is thus “sent upon a fool’s errand;” and the Cockney himself is not in quite so good a humour with the author for being sent a few steps out of his way.

P. 190. Rogers—­a Cockney by inference.  I {291} should like to see this more decidedly established.  I am aware that it is distinctly so stated by Chambers and by Wilkinson; but a remark once made to me by Mrs. Glendinning (the wife of Glendinning, the printer, of Hatton Garden) still leads me to press the inquiry.

P. 191.—­The Free Trade Club was dissolved before the publication of this edition of the Handbook.

P. 192.—­And to Sir John Herschel, on his return from the Cape of Good Hope.

P. 210. Royal Society.—­From a letter of Dr. Charles Hutton, in the Newcastle Magazine (vol. i. 2nd series), it appears that at the time of Dr. Dodd’s execution the Fellows were in the habit of adjourning, after the meetings, to Slaughter’s Coffee House, “to eat oysters,” &c.  The celebrated John Hunter, who had attempted to resuscitate the ill-fated Doctor, was one of them.  “The Royal Society Club” was instituted by Sir Joseph Banks.

P. 221. Hanover Square.—­Blank date.

P. 337. Millbank Prison.—­It was designed, not by “Jeremy Bentham,” but by his brother, the great mechanist, Sir Samuel Bentham.  In passing, it may be remarked that the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, is constructed on the same principle, and, as was stated in the Mechanics’ Magazine, on authority, a year or two ago, by the same engineer.  General rumour has, however, attributed the design to his gracious Majesty George III; and its being so closely in keeping with the known spirit of espionage of that monarch certainly gave countenance to the rumour.  It may be as well to state, however, that, so designed and so built, it has never yet been so used.

P. 428.—­Benbow, not a native of Wapping, but of Shrewsbury.  A life of him was published nearly forty years ago, by that veteran of local and county history, Mr. Charles Hulbert, in the Salopian Magazine.