Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze (45 page)

16
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 26 August 1735

17
   PH, 8 March 1736, p1037ff

18
   Egmont Diary, ii, 8 March 1736, p240

19
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 16 March 1736

20
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 16 March 1736

21
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 23 February 1736

22
   
A letter from a Member of Parliament to his friend in the country
, 1736, p8ff

23
   
A letter from a Member of Parliament to his friend in the country
, 1736

24
   
Occasional Remarks upon the Act for laying a duty upon the retalers of spirituous liquors
, 1736, p9ff

25
   PH, 16 February 1736

26
   PH, 22 & 24 March 1743, p1241

CHAPTER NINE: Summer Riots

  
1
   Quarrell and Mare,
London in 1710. From the Travels of ZC von Uffenbach
, p73

  
2
   PH, 1737, p1282

  
3
   Sedgwick,
Lord Hervey’s Memoirs
, p136

  
4
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 15 July 1736

  
5
   PRO, TS 11/1027

  
6
   PH, 1737, p1282ff

  
7
   PRO, TS 11/1027

  
8
   Rogers,
Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain
, p25

  
9
   PRO, SP 36/39 fol 48 (formerly 91)

10
   Ch(H) P70/2/2 & P70/2/14

11
   OBPP, October 1736, pp199–204

12
   Ch(H) P70/2/14

13
   Ch(H) P70/2/14

14
   PH, 1737, p1285

15
   Ch(H) P70/1

16
   PRO, SP 44/130, pp109–14

17
   Ch(H) P70/2/2

18
   Ch(H) P70/2/14

19
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 14 September 1736

20
   
An Account of the Melancholy Circumstances of Great Britain
, 1743

21
   
Craftsman
, 5 June & 14 August 1736

22
   Battestin,
Henry Fielding
, p209

23
   De Veil,
Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Thomas Deveil, Knight
, p43

24
   
Daily Gazetteer
, 17 August 1736

25
   Ch(H) P70/2/1

26
   Ch(H) P70/2/7

27
   CUL, SPCK Minutes, 28 September 1736

CHAPTER TEN: The Death of Madam Geneva

  
1
   
Daily Journal
, 30 September 1736

  
2
   
London Magazine
, October 1736

  
3
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 29 September 1736

  
4
   Sedgwick,
The House of Commons 1715–54
, p174

  
5
   PH, 1737, p1287

  
6
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 4 October 1736

  
7
   
Grub Street Journal
, 30 September 1736

  
8
   Ch(H) P70/2/4

  
9
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 28 September 1736

10
   
Daily Post
, 24 September & 1 October 1736

11
   
London Evening Post
, 30 September 1736

12
   PH, 1737, p1287

13
   
Craftsman
, 11 September 1736

14
   GL, MS6207/1A, General Quarterly Court, 12 July 1737

15
   
Grub Street Journal
, 23 September 1736

16
   
Craftsman
, 2 October 1736

17
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 28 September & 4 October 1736

18
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 23 October 1736

19
   
Daily Post
, 15 November 1736

20
   
Daily Post
, 4 December 1736 &
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 27 November 1736

21
   
Daily Journal
, 14 October 1736

22
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 2 November 1736

23
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 22 October 1736

24
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 23 October 1736

25
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 29 October 1736

26
   De Veil,
Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Thomas Deveil, Knight
, p2

27
   Quarrell and Mare,
London in 1710. From the Travels of ZC von Uffenbach
, p53

28
   Ward,
London Spy
, VI, p110

29
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 22 October 1736

30
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, 15 November 1736

31
   Coxe,
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole
, iii, p357, Robert Walpole to Horace Walpole, 20–31 August 1736

32
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 25 & 30 October 1736

33
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 1 November 1736

34
   
Daily Journal
, 22 September 1736

35
   
Daily Post
, 2 December 1736

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Bootleg

  
1
   Bradstreet,
The Life and Uncommon Adventures of Captain Dudley Bradstreet
, p78ff

  
2
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 18 February 1738

  
3
   PH, House of Lords debate, 24 March 1743, p1243

  
4
   Porter, ‘English Society in the Eighteenth Century Revisited’, p254

  
5
   Quarrell and Mare,
London in 1710. From the Travels of ZC von Uffenbach
, p146ff

  
6
   Sedgwick,
Lord Hervey’s Memoirs
, p201

  
7
   
A Brief Description of London
, pxxiii

  
8
   Phillips,
Mid-Georgian London
, p166

  
9
   Linebaugh,
The London Hanged
, p187

10
   Linebaugh,
The London Hanged
, p67

11
   Porter, ‘English Society in the Eighteenth Century Revisited’, p253

12
   Gilmour,
Riots, Risings and Revolutions
, p9

13
   Fielding,
Covent Garden Journal
, 20 June 1752

14
   Wilson,
Distilled Spirituous Liquors the Bane of the Nation
, 1736

15
   Cooper,
The Complete Distiller
, chapter LV

16
   Boyle,
The Publican’s Daily Companion

17
   Bystander,
The Consequences of Laying an Additional Duty on Spirituous Liquors, candidly considered
, 1751, p16

18
   
Craftsman
, 29 April 1738

19
   Thomas Cooke, Distiller’s Notes, BS Add MSS 39,683

20
   Tucker,
An Impartial Enquiry into the Benefits and Damages … from the present very great use of low-priced Spirituous Liquors
, 1751, p7

21
   Filby,
A History of Food Adulteration and Analysis
, p222

22
   
Grub Street Journal
, 27 January 1737

23
   PH, 10 February 1737, p1281ff

24
   PH, 10 February 1737, p1294

25
   Davison, Hitchcock, Kiern and Shoemaker,
Stilling the Grumbling Hive
, p41

26
   
Daily Post
, 27 April 1737

27
   
London Magazine
, January 1737

28
   PRO, Board of Excise Minutes, CUST 47/165, 14 January 1737, p129

29
   PRO, CUST 48/13, 19 August 1737, p179

30
   
Daily Journal
, 1 October 1736

31
   
London Evening Post
, 16 August 1737

32
   
Daily Post
, 27 November 1736

33
   
Daily Post
, 30 October 1736

34
   
Old Whig
, 24 June 1737

35
   PRO, T 29/28, 30 August 1737; CUST 48/13, 31 August 1737, p179

36
   
London Evening Post
, 29 October 1737

37
   
London Evening Post
, 3 November 1737

38
   
Daily Post
, 4 November 1737

39
   
London Evening Post
, 5 November 1737

40
   
London Evening Post
, 10 November 1737

41
   
London Evening Post
, 19 November 1737

42
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 23 December 1737

43
   
London Evening Post
, 7 March 1738

44
   
Craftsman
, 3 December 1737

45
   
London Evening Post
, 5 January 1738

CHAPTER TWELVE: Clamp-down

  
1
   
London Evening Post
, 24 January 1738

  
2
   
London Evening Post
, 24 January 1738

  
3
   
London Evening Post
, 30 March 1738

  
4
   PRO, PC/1/5/15, Westminster

  
5
   
London Evening Post
, 16 August 1737

  
6
   
London Evening Post
, 6 May 1738

  
7
   
Daily Post
, 13 May 1738

  
8
   Blackerby,
The Speech of Nathaniel Blackerby Esq
, 1738

  
9
   PRO, PC/1/5/15, Westminster, April 1738

10
   De Veil,
Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Thomas Deveil, Knight
, p38ff

11
   
London Evening Post
, 11 May 1738

12
   De Veil,
Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Thomas Deveil, Knight
, p38ff

13
   PRO, PC/1/5/15, Westminster, May 1738

14
   
London Evening Post
, 19 August 1738

15
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 8 April 1738

16
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, 1738, p698

17
   
London Evening Post
, 13 May 1738

18
   
London Evening Post
, 8 July 1738

19
   Beattie,
Crime and the Courts in England
, p302

20
   
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
&
London Evening Post
, 27 July 1738

21
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 22 July 1738

22
   PRO, PC/1/5/15, Westminster, July 1738

23
   PRO, PC/1/5/15, Westminster, October 1738

24
   
Daily Post
, 8 May 1738

25
   PH, House of Lords debate, 22 March 1743

26
   
A Short History of the Gin Act
, 1738

27
   
London Evening Post
, 9 May, 1 July & 29 August 1738

28
   
London Evening Post
, 29 April 1738

29
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 12 August 1738

30
   Sabourn,
A Perfect View of the Gin Act
, 1738

31
   OBPP, October 1738, p155ff

32
   
London Evening Post
, 17 August & 19 September 1738

33
   PRO, Board of Excise minutes, CUST 47/166, 26 February 1737

34
   
London Evening Post
, 31 December 1737, 5 January, 16 & 21 February 1738

35
   PRO, CUST 47/165, 31 August 1736; CUST 47/167, 10 August 1737; & CUST 47/170, 16 November 1738

36
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 20 August 1737

37
   Hardwicke Papers, BL Add MSS 35600, fol 94ff

38
   PRO, PC/1/5/15

39
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 6 January 1739

40
   
London Evening Post
, 25 December 1738

41
   
London Evening Post
, 16 & 21 December 1738

42
   PRO, T 1/309, 4 December 1742;
Gentleman’s Magazine
, 21 December 1738

43
   
London Evening Post
, 5 August 1738

44
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 29 July 1738

45
   Stevenson,
London in the Age of Reform
, p9

46
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 22 July 1738

47
   De Veil,
Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Thomas Deveil, Knight
, p38; LMA, MJ/OC/4, fol.107, 13 April 1738