[173] Old form for “rode.”

[174] See the last sentence of the next paragraph but one.

[175] Roadstead, an anchoring ground less sheltered than a harbor.

[176] Substitute “that they would not be visited.”

[177] The plague.

[178] St. Margaret’s.

[179] Nota bene, note well.

[180] Dul’ich.  All these places are southward from London.  Norwood is six miles distant.

[181] Old form of “dared.”

[182] Small vessels, generally schooner-rigged, used for carrying heavy freight on rivers and harbors.

[183] London Bridge.

[184] This incident is so overdone, that it fails to be pathetic, and rather excites our laughter.

[185] Supply “themselves.”

[186] Barnet was about eleven miles north-northwest of London.

[187] Holland and Belgium.

[188] See Luke xvii. 11-19.

[189] Well.

[190] With speed, in haste.

[191] This word is misplaced.  It should go immediately before “to lodge.”

[192] Luck.

[193] Whom.

[194] A small sail set high upon the mast.

[195] “Fetched a long compass,” i.e., went by a circuitous route.

[196] The officers.

[197] Refused.

[198] Nearly twenty miles northeast of London.

[199] He.  This pleonastic use of a conjunction with the relative is common among illiterate writers and speakers to-day.

[200] Waltham and Epping, towns two or three miles apart, at a distance of ten or twelve miles almost directly north of London.

[201] Pollard trees are trees cut back nearly to the trunk, and so caused to grow into a thick head (poll) of branches.

[202] Entertainment.  In this sense, the plural, “quarters,” is the commoner form.

[203] Preparing.

[204] Peddlers.

[205] “Has been,” an atrocious solecism for “were.”

[206] To a miraculous extent.

[207] “Put to it,” i.e., hard pressed.

[208] There are numerous references in the Hebrew Scriptures to parched corn as an article of food (see, among others, Lev. xxiii. 14, Ruth ii. 14, 2 Sam. xvii. 28).

[209] Supply “(1).”

[210] Soon.

[211] Substitute “would.”

[212] Whom.

[213] Familiar intercourse.

[214] Evidently a repetition.

[215] “For that,” i.e., because.

[216] Singly.

[217] Supply “to be.”

[218] Buildings the rafters of which lean against or rest upon the outer wall of another building.

[219] Supply “of.”

[220] The plague.

[221] “Middling people,” i.e., people of the middle class.

[222] At the mouth of the Thames.

[223] Awnings.

[224] Two heavy timbers placed horizontally, the upper one of which can be raised.  When lowered, it is held in place by a padlock.  Notches in the timbers form holes, through which the prisoner’s legs are thrust, and held securely.