... to all current theorists of Menippean satire, the direct social progenitor of this genre. In Dryden, such an influ- ence takes the form primarily of the Christmas revels traditional at the Inns of Court, revels that have their origins in the carnival cults of ancient...

... expressions. Francis Hayman’s frontispiece to the second volume of Roder- ick Random displays Roderick discovering Bowling at an inn in Boulogne (figure 6). Hayman stresses Roderick’s surprise and joy at reuniting with his long-­lost uncle by showing Roderick with his arms flung wide dramatically...

... as essen- tial to forward suits and claims. Lobbying and solicitation could be del- egated to agents, but succeeded best when undertaken by the principal. Those intending to practice at the Irish bar were obliged to spend terms at one of the London Inns of Court. Qualifying for other vocations...

... and in the newer streets and squares toward the west. Lawyers worked and often lived in the Inns of Court, while from the City of London, merchants conducted far-flung trading operations with Ireland, continental Europe, and overseas colonies. In their households and their offices, Irish Catholics employed...

... their eyes to debtors’ prisons, they have usually depicted them as operating a custodial system that allowed debt- ors great freedoms. Joanna Innes, in an infl uential essay, studied the King’s Bench Prison in the later eighteenth century, not as an example of medieval squalor and cruelty...

..., Sir Roger s likeness appears on a sign identifying an inn on his property. As the portrait was being painted, Sir Roger, apprehensive at the commer- cialization of his visage, attempted to disguise his features as a Saracen, a popular figure for such signs at inns and taverns.19 After Sir Roger asks...

... Tonson’s brother, Richard, and Thomas Bassett, to publish The informations of Robert Jenison of Grayes Inn, Esquire. Relating the horrid Popish Plott, as they were given in writing upon oath to the Honourable House of Commons on Tuesday the 9th day of November, 1680 (London: Richard Tonson and Thomas...

... 2018 by Duke University Press 84 8 5 Figure 1. Hogarth, Paul before Felix, painting (1748), Lincoln’s Inn. Photo author’s collection. There are useful appendices. We learn from Mrs. Hogarth’s sale...

... The London Irish and the Antients Grand Lodge 111 Covent Garden; nearly 50 were to the east of Covent Garden, in an area from Drury Lane to Gray’s Inn and north to Holborn; and about the same number to the south of Covent Garden, in the Strand and Temple Bar. A further 40 or so members lived...

... 2. [woman and child in front of round tower; river and bridge in background], by S. Smith (1 Feb. 1770). Coll: V&A 3. [bridge, fisherman in foreground], by S. Smith. Coll: BM 1948-12-8-12 4. [landlord greeting visitor to inn], by S. Smith...

... Memoirs appeared, on the 5th of February 1749, Cannon came into the offi ces of W. Foster in Serjeants’ Inn, which was connected to the Court of King’s Bench, to lodge a complaint. In the affi davit, Cannon claimed “that he is well Acquainted with the handwriting of John Cleland now a prisoner...

... Inn Fields, pointing out the eighteenth-century buildings and other sites of interest, an apposite invi- tation given the rising popularity of tourism in the period. Superficially, this shows that Georgian architecture and activities remain integral to our experi- ence of the modern city...

..., imaginatively, in an empty space, just like her Genius in The Scottish Village. This manipulation of perspective is carried over into the opening scene of the play, which is not a rustic inn or the countryside, but “A Garden” on a country estate, a civilized space with the pleasures of the rural...

... is eloquent about Fielding’s “witty, tolerant, morally reliably, consistent voice” (141), and has an incisive analysis of what he calls the “mag- netism of the inn” in both Tom Jones and Don Quixote, the way inns collect and entangle storylines—effects, he notes, of both authors’ apprenticeships...

..., this custom took the more sober form of distributing cash doles.8 As fine studies by Donna Andrew, Sarah Lloyd, Hugh Cunning- ham, Joanna Innes, and others have shown, in the eighteenth century, charitable practices and the parish system of poor relief the old poor law before its reform in 1834...

..., in the spring 1732, at the Little (or New) Theater in the Haymarket, and then from the autumn of 1732 at the the- ater in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Susannah was a lead singer in the English Opera Company, a company that, beginning as a profit-­sharing venture between her father, Henry Carey, and Johann Lampe...

... Majesty's Ship Orford, in Louisbourg Harbour, by Valentine Nevill, Esquire, of Greenwich in Kent, Secretary to the Honourable Admiral Townsend . Portsmouth: Printed for J. Wilkinson; and Sold by T. Osborne in Gray's Inn; and W. Owen, near Temple-Bar, London. A Sailor. Bite upon the miser: Or, Trick...

.... The play's action concerns the fate of two “Gentlemen of broken Fortunes” ( D.P. , 1–2), Aimwell and Archer, seeking amelioration. Their opportunistic heiress hunting leads them to an inn in the prosperous cathedral city of Lichfield in Staffordshire, where their origins are matters of much local speculation...

.... Any would-be lawyer from Ireland was required to spend terms at a London Inn of Court before returning to Dublin for call.14 Middle Temple was packed with Irishmen throughout the eighteenth century, and Fitzmaurice would be among friends who often experienced jaunty professional prejudice from...

... office, carriers at the Swan Inn, an inattentive- cou rier, or an address “rather too Laconic” — Cowper’s faith in the mail remains intact.11 The post, furthermore, continues to support Hesketh’s writing on a whim, as well as by weekly habit. Parcels in particular were susceptible to being...