[Footnote 139:  Foote’s amusing farce has immortalised this popular piece of folly; but those who desire to know more of the peculiarities and eccentricities of the election, will find an excellent account in Hone’s “Every-Day Book,” vol. ii., with some engravings illustrative of the same, drawn by an artist who attended the great mock election of 1781.]

[Footnote 140:  Their “brevets,” &c., are collected in a little volume, “Recueil des Pieces du Regiment de la Calotte; a Paris, chez Jaques Colombat, Imprimeur privilegie du Regiment.  L’an de l’Ere Calotine 7726.”  From the date, we infer that the true calotine is as old as the creation.]

[Footnote 141:  The lady is buried at Hollingbourne, near Maidstone, Kent.  The monument in Westminster Abbey is merely “in memoriam.”  She died 1697.]

[Footnote 142:  Was this thought, that strikes with a sudden effect, in the mind of Hawkesworth, when he so pathetically concluded his last paper?]

[Footnote 143:  The first edition was “printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship, in Paternoster Row,” as an octavo volume, in the early part of the year 1719.  The title runs thus:—­“The Life, and strange surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner,” and has a full-length picture of Crusoe, as a frontispiece, “Clarke and Pine, sc.”; which is the type of all future representations of the hero, who is depicted in his skin-dress upon the desolate island.  It is a very wretched work of art; the hook was brought out in a common manner, like all De Foe’s works.]

[Footnote 144:  Eccl.  Hist., book vii. p. 399.]

[Footnote 145:  Collier’s “Annals of the Stage,” i. 144.]

[Footnote 146:  Bale’s play, God’s Promises, and that called New Custome, reprinted in the first volume of Dodsley’s collection, are examples of the great license these dramatists allowed themselves.]

[Footnote 147:  It has been preserved by Hawkins in his “Origin of the English Drama,” vol. i.]

[Footnote 148:  Macrobius, Saturn., lib. iii. 1, 14.]

[Footnote 149:  Several of them have been reprinted by the Shakespeare Society since the above was written.  Particularly the work of Gosson here alluded to.]

[Footnote 150:  The “Historica Histrionica” notes Stephen Hammerton as “a most noted and beautiful woman-actor,” in the early part of the seventeenth century.  Alexander Goffe, “the woman-actor at Blackfriars,” is also mentioned as acting privately “in Oliver’s time.”]

[Footnote 151:  One actor, William Kynaston, continued to perform female characters in the reign of Charles II., and his performances were praised by Dryden, and preferred by many to that of the ladies themselves.  He was so great a favourite with the fair sex, that the court ladies used to take him in their coaches for an airing in Hyde Park.]

[Footnote 152:  Ben Jonson was one of their hardest enemies; and his Zeal-of-the-Land-busy, Justice Over-doo, and Dame Pure-craft, have never been surpassed in masterly delineation of puritanic cant.  The dramatists of that era certainly did their best to curb Puritanism by exposure.]