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