Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze (44 page)

23
   Sherlock,
A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London to the clergy and people of London and Westminster on occasion of the late earthquakes
, 1750, p9

24
   
A Trip through the Town
, 1735

25
   de Saussure,
A Foreign View of England
, 16 December 1725

26
   Defoe,
Complete English Tradesman
, i, pp312–5

27
   Grosley,
A Tour to London
, i, p55

28
   Earle,
A City Full of People
, p82

29
   Burke,
The Streets of London
, p59

30
   de Saussure,
A Foreign View of England
, 29 May 1727

31
   Egmont Diary, iii, p279

32
   Burrington,
An Answer to Dr William Brackenridge’s Letter concerning the Number of Inhabitants within the London Bills of Mortality
, 1757

33
   Wrigley and Schofield,
The Population History of England, 1541–1871
, 1981

34
   Fielding,
An Inquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
, p83

35
   OBPP, 7–10 September 1720

36
   Earle,
A City Full of People
, p206

CHAPTER THREE: South Sea Mountain

  
1
   20 February 1720, quoted in Chancellor,
Devil Take the Hindmost
, p64

  
2
   21 April & 24 June 1720, quoted in Cohen,
The Edge of Chaos
, pp201 & 214

  
3
   
A Letter to the Patriots of Change Alley
, 1720

  
4
   
Mist’s Journal
, 26 March 1720

  
5
   
Mercure Historique et Politique
, July 1720

  
6
   
Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal
, 5 August 1720

  
7
   Cohen,
The Edge of Chaos
, p207

  
8
   Cohen,
The Edge of Chaos
, p244

  
9
   Speck,
Stability and Strife
, p197ff

10
   
Weekly Journal
, 1 October 1720

11
   
Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal
, 1 October 1720

12
   
London Gazette
, 25–29 April 1721

13
   
Weekly Journal
, 18 November & 28 October 1721

14
   LMA, Middlesex Order Book, MJ/OC/1/fol.s 126–8

15
   Shoemaker, ‘Reforming the City: The Reformation of Manners Campaign in London’ in Davison, Hitchcock, Kiern and Shoemaker,
Stilling the Grumbling Hive
, p100

16
   Curtis and Speck,
The Societies for the Reformation of Manners
, p46

17
   Woodward,
An Account of the Rise of the Societies for Reformation of Manners
, 1698

18
   Shoemaker, ‘Reforming the City: The Reformation of Manners Campaign in London’ in Davison, Hitchcock, Kiern and Shoemaker,
Stilling the Grumbling Hive
, p101

19
   Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, 1736, quoted in Porter, ‘English Society in the Eighteenth Century Revisited’, p279

20
   Pope,
A Farewell to London. In the Year 1715

21
   Johnson,
London

22
   Short,
New Observations … on City, Town, and Country Bills of Mortality
, 1750

23
   Fielding,
An Inquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
, p17

24
   
Craftsman
, 13 December 1735

25
   Gordon and Trenchard,
Cato’s Letters
, 1720–22

26
   Beattie,
Crime and the Courts in England
, pp516–7

27
   de Saussure,
A Foreign View of England
, February 1726

28
   
Daily Journal
, 5 February 1726

29
   Pope,
Epilogue to the Satires
, Dialogue I, 159ff

30
   
The Occasional Monitor
1731, p8

31
   
London Magazine
, January 1737

32
   Andrew,
Philanthropy and Police
, p22ff

33
   Porter,
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
, p90

34
   Andrew,
Philanthropy and Police
, p24

35
   Bulstrode,
A Charge delivered at the General Quarter Sessions

36
   LMA, Middlesex Sessions Papers, 1721/May/2

CHAPTER FOUR: The Magistrates

  
1
   LMA, Middlesex Sessions Papers, 1721/May/2

  
2
   Landau,
Justices of the Peace
, p202

  
3
   Fielding,
Voyage to Lisbon
, footnote to introduction

  
4
   Babington,
A House in Bow Street
, p36

  
5
   LMA, Westminster Order Book, January 1726

  
6
   LMA, Westminster Order Book, WJ/OC/1

  
7
   LMA, Middlesex Sessions Papers, 1721/Oct/8–9

  
8
   LMA, Middlesex Order Book, MJ/OC/1/fols 126–8

  
9
   LMA, Middlesex Sessions Papers, 1721/May/2

10
   LMA, Middlesex Sessions. Papers, 1721/Oct/8–9; also in Middlesex Order Book, MJ/OC/l/fol.181

11
   
London Journal
, 20 January 1721

12
   Curtis and Speck,
The Societies for the Reformation of Manners
, p55

13
   
The Poor Man’s Plea to all the Proclamations, Declarations, Acts of Parliament, etc …. for a Reformation of Manners
, 1703, quoted in Burtt,
Virtue Transformed
, p60

14
   Mandeville,
The Fable of the Bees
, vol. 1, Remark G, p82ff

15
   LMA, Westminster Order Book, WJ/OC/1, 15 February 1725, p75

16
   Dolins,
Two Charges of Sir Daniel Dolins
1725

17
   LMA, Middlesex Sessions Papers, 1725/Dec/48–51

18
   LMA, MR/LV/34/3

19
   
The Tavern Scuffle
, 1726

20
   
Of the Use of Tobacco, Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, and Drams
, 1722, Section VII

21
   Petition of Royal College of Physicians, 19 January 1726

22
   GL, MS6207/1, General Quarterly Court, 5 January 1725

23
   GL, MS6207/1, General Quarterly Court, 12 July 1726

24
   Defoe,
Brief Case of the Distillers
, 1726, p2

25
   
Daily Journal
, 5 February 1726

CHAPTER FIVE: The First Gin Act

  
1
   Gonson,
Five Charges to Several Grand Juries
, 1728, Charge to the Grand Jury of Tower Hamlets, 16 July 1728

  
2
   LMA, Middlesex Order Book, MJ/OC/3 fol.151

  
3
   PH, vol VIII, 25 February 1729, p710

  
4
   Croker,
Lord Hervey’s Memoirs
, p124

  
5
   Ch(H), P28/6 & P28/25

  
6
   PH, House of Lords debate, 24 March 1743, p1257

  
7
   Brown,
The Interest of the Compound Distiller Consider’d
, 1733, p13ff

  
8
   
The Case of the Master, Wardens and Company of Distillers of London
, 1729

  
9
   
A Proposal most humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons to prevent the excessive drinking of spirituous liquors
, 1729

CHAPTER SIX: Corn

  
1
   GL, MS6207/1, 6 May & 30 May 1729

  
2
   GL, MS6207/1, General Quarterly Court, 8 July 1729

  
3
   GL, MS6207/1, General Court, 30 September 1729

  
4
   
The Distillers Petitions to His Majesty
, 1729

  
5
   Blunt,
Blunt to Walpole: A familiar epistle in behalf of the British Distillery
, 1730

  
6
   Thompson, ‘The Moral Economy of the English Crowd’, p85

  
7
   Defoe,
Review
, 9 May 1713

  
8
   Ch(H), P28/6

  
9
   PH, House of Lords debate, 23 February 1743

10
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 17 November 1735

11
   Allen,
Ways and Means to Raise the Value of Land
, 1736

12
   PH, House of Lords debate, 22 March 1743

13
   Defoe,
Brief Case of the Distillers
, 1726, p5

14
   Defoe,
Complete English Tradesman
, ii, part 2

15
   
The Farmer Restored, or the Landed Interest Preserved
, 1739, p12

16
   Ormrod,
English Grain Exports
, p68

17
   PRO, T 64/274/58–9

18
   
True State of the British Malt-distillery
, 1760, p33

19
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, October–November 1752

20
   Mathias,
The Brewing Industry
, p435

21
   
A Collection of Letters Published in the Daily Papers
, 1736, letter ii

22
   
An Inquiry into the Causes of the Present High Prices
, 1767, quoted in Mingay, ‘The Agricultural Depression’, p326

23
   Speck,
Stability and Strife
, p126

24
   Allen,
Ways and Means to Raise the Value of Land
, 1736

25
   Mingay, ‘The Agricultural Depression’, p324

26
   
The Occasional Monitor
, 1731

27
   2 Geo2 c17

28
   PH, House of Lords debate, 22 March 1743, p1217

29
   Brown,
The Interest of the Compound Distiller Consider’d
, 1733, p8

30
   PRO, T 27/25, Treasury Out Letter Book, 10 March 1731, & PRO T 29/27, Treasury Minute Book, 23 March 1731 & 25 March 1731; GL, MS6207/1A, General Court, 25 March 1731

31
   GL, MS6207/1A, General Quarterly Court, 11 July 1732

32
   GL, MS6207/1A, General Quarterly Court, 11 January 1732

33
   CJ, 19 February 1733

34
   2 Geo2 c17

35
   Eboranos,
Reasons for Promoting the British Distillery
, 1733

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Christians

  
1
   OBPP, 27 February–1 March 1734, pp82–4

  
2
   Burtt,
Virtue Transformed
, p58

  
3
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, p47, footnote

  
4
   Allan and Scholfield,
Stephen Hales
, pp109–12

  
5
   Allan and Scholfield,
Stephen Hales
, p81

  
6
   Hales,
A Friendly Admonition to the Drinkers of Brandy
, 1734

  
7
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 19 December 1731

  
8
   CUL, SPCK Minutes, vol. xvi, 1734–6 (SPCK.MS.A1/16), 29 April 1735

  
9
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 13 December 1735

10
   CWAC, St James’s Parish Vestry Minutes, June 1735, fol 99

11
   Sedgwick,
The House of Commons 1715–54
, p174

12
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 19 August 1735

13
   Presentment of the Grand Jury of Tower Hamlets, 6 October 1735

14
   Presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, 25 September 1735

15
   CUL, SPCK minutes;
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 28 October 1735; LMA, Middlesex Order Book, MJ/OC/4/fol.s 47–8

CHAPTER EIGHT: Prohibition

  
1
   LMA, Middlesex Order Book, MJ/OC/4/fol.s 54–7

  
2
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 19 January 1736

  
3
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 14 March 1736

  
4
   Egmont Diary, ii, 5 February 1736, p229

  
5
   
A Collection of Letters Published in the Daily Papers
, 1736, letter ii

  
6
   
Daily Post
, 30 March 1736

  
7
   
Daily Journal
, 1 April 1736

  
8
   
Daily Gazetteer
, 19 February 1736

  
9
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, March 1736, p166

10
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 29 March 1736

11
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 29 March 1736

12
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 19 August 1735

13
   
The Case of the Distillers Company and Proposals for Better Regulating the Trade
, 1736

14
   Philanthropos,
The Trial of the Spirits
, p19

15
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 15 February 1736