Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze (46 page)

48
   
London Magazine
, January 1737

49
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, 1738, p698

50
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 10 May 1737

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Women

  
1
   
A Dissertation on Mr Hogarth’s Six Prints Lately Publish’d
, 1751, p10ff

  
2
   
A Dissertation on Mr Hogarth’s Six Prints Lately Publish’d
, p9

  
3
   P Clark,
The English Alehouse
, p167

  
4
   Defoe,
Life of Colonel Jack
, 2nd ed., 1723

  
5
   
Grub Street Journal
, 27 January 1737

  
6
   
Universal Spectator
, 17 December 1737

  
7
   
Low-life, or One Half of the World Knows not how the Other Half Live
, p55

  
8
   
A Dissertation on Mr Hogarth’s Six Prints Lately Publish’d
, p12

  
9
   
The Occasional Monitor
, 1731, p6

10
   Trotter,
An Essay Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness
, p65ff

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Repeal

  
1
   All quotes for debate are from PH, 1743, p1199ff

  
2
   
London Evening Post
, 24 February 1743

  
3
   Hanbury Williams,
S — s and J — l, a New Ballad
, 1743

  
4
   
Champion
, 1 March 1743

  
5
   GL, MS6207/1, Court, 10 April 1744

  
6
   LMA, MR/LV/6/65

  
7
   
London Evening Post
, 31 March 1743

  
8
   
London Evening Post
, 12 & 17 February 1743

  
9
   Smollett,
History of England
, 1757

10
   PRO, CUST 48/13, 31 January 1744

11
   GL, MS6207/1, General Quarterly Court, 4 January 1746

12
   
Considerations, humbly offered to the honourable the House of Commons, in behalf of the distillers of London, Westminster, and parts adjacent
, 1746

13
   PRO, CUST 48/13, 31 January 1744

14
   Beattie,
Crime and the Courts in England
, p233

15
   Davison, Hitchcock, Kiern and Shoemaker,
Stilling the Grumbling Hive
, p83

16
   
Whitehall Evening Post
, 17 January 1749

17
   
Letters of Horace Walpole
, Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, November 1749, January 1750, March 1752

18
   
Low-life, or One Half of the World Knows not how the Other Half Live

19
   Smollett,
History of England

20
   
Letters of Horace Walpole
, Horace Walpole to Horace Mann, 2 April 1750

21
   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

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Gin Lane

  
1
   
Low-life, or One Half of the World Knows not how the Other Half Live

  
2
   Smith,
State of the Gaols in London, Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark
, 1776, p49

  
3
   Lackington,
Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington
, p59

  
4
   Rule,
Albion’s People
, p110

  
5
   Fielding,
An Inquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
, p96

  
6
   Phillips,
Mid-Georgian London
, p279

  
7
   Battestin,
Henry Fielding
, p148; Babington,
A House in Bow Street
, p96

  
8
   Battestin,
Henry Fielding
, p435

  
9
   Babington,
A House in Bow Street
, p72

10
   Boswell,
London Journal
, 6 July 1763

11
   
Whitehall Evening Post
, 8 January 1751

12
   Babington,
A House in Bow Street
, p73

13
   Fielding,
Voyage to Lisbon
, introduction

14
   Maddox,
The Expediency of Preventative Wisdom
, 1751, p14

15
   
Diaries of Thomas Wilson
, 17 April 1750

16
   
London Magazine
, 8 February 1751

17
   Hogarth,
Autobiographical Notes

18
   Lindsay,
Hogarth, His Art and His World
, p94

19
   Hogarth,
Autobiographical Notes

20
   Morris,
Observations on the Past Growth and Present State of the City of London
, 1751

21
   Tucker,
An Impartial Enquiry into the Benefits and Damages … from the present very great use of low-priced Spirituous Liquors
, 1751

22
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, 30 April 1751

23
   
London Magazine
, March 1751, pp125–6

24
   
Whitehall Evening Post
, 4 April & 21 February 1751

25
   
London Magazine
, March 1751, pp125–6

26
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 2 February 1751

27
   Lecky,
History of England in the Eighteenth Century
, p481

28
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, April 1751, p165

29
   CLRO Misc. MSS.82/17

30
   Sedgwick,
The House of Commons
, p362

31
   Horace Walpole,
Memoirs of the Reign of George II
, p66

32
   Maddox,
The Expediency of Preventative Wisdom
, 1751

33
   Fitzsimmonds,
Free and Candid Disquisitions, on the nature and execution of the laws of England, with a postscript relating to spirituous liquors
, 1751, postscript

34
   
The Rambler
, March 1751

35
   
Daily Post
, 3 April 1736

36
   
London Evening Post
, 29 June 1751

37
   
The Rambler
, 20 April 1751

38
   Bystander,
The Consequences of Laying an Additional Duty on Spirituous Liquors, candidly considered
, 1751, p5

39
   
Gloucester Journal
, quoted in
London Evening Post
, 23 December 1738

40
   GL, MS6207/1, 24 May 1748 & 29 May 1751

41
   Bystander,
The Consequences of Laying an Additional Duty on Spirituous Liquors, candidly considered
, p18

42
   Horace Walpole,
Memoirs of the Reign of George II
, p106

43
   
Westminster Journal
, quoted in
Gentleman’s Magazine
, July 1751, p321

44
   
Whitehall Evening Post
, 2 March 1751

45
   LMA, Middlesex Order Book MJ/OC/5fol.235;
Gentleman’s Magazine
, 31 October & 26 July 1751

46
   Fielding,
Covent Garden Journal
, 10 March 1752

47
   Burrington,
An Answer to Dr William Brackenridge’s Letter concerning the number of inhabitants within the London Bills of Mortality
, 1757, p35

48
   Hanway,
A Candid Historical Account of the Hospital for exposed and deserted young children
, p11

49
   Hanway,
A Candid Historical Account of the Hospital for exposed and deserted young children
, p11

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Middle Classes

  
1
   Holmes and Szechi,
The Age of Oligarchy
, pp119 & 121

  
2
   Porter,
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
, p48

  
3
   Rule,
Albion’s People
, p155

  
4
   Smollett,
Humphrey Clinker

  
5
   Grosley,
A Tour to London
, i, p73

  
6
   Josiah Tucker quoted in McKendrick, Brewer and Plumb,
Birth of a Consumer Society

  
7
   
Low-life, or One Half of the World Knows not how the Other Half Live

  
8
   de Saussure,
A Foreign View of England
, letter xii, p295

  
9
   McKendrick, Brewer and Plumb,
Birth of a Consumer Society
, p203

10
   Defoe,
Robinson Crusoe
, 1719, p12

11
   
Low-life, or One Half of the World Knows not how the Other Half Live

12
   Fielding,
Tom Jones
, p636

13
   Fielding,
Tom Jones
, p265

14
   
A Dissertation on Mr Hogarth’s Six Prints Lately Publish’d
, 1751, p25

15
   
The Vices of the Cities of London and Westminster Traced from their Original
, 1751, p7

16
   Ch(H) P70/2/14

17
   
A Brief Description of London
, pxxiii

18
   Baretti,
A Journey from London to Genoa
, i, p43

19
   Landers,
Death and the Metropolis
, p65

20
   Rudé,
Hanoverian London
, p135

21
   Porter,
The Enlightenment
, p44

22
   Gray,
Considerations on Several Proposals Lately Made for the Better Maintenance of the Poor
, 1751

23
   Brown,
An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
, 1757, p15

24
   McClure,
Coram’s Children
, p19

25
   Andrew,
Philanthropy and Police
, p19

26
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, 1754, quoted in Porter, ‘English Society in the Eighteenth Century Revisited’, p270

27
   George,
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
, 1925, rev. 1965, p49

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Devil’s Pact

  
1
   Sir Charles Smith, quoted in Ormrod,
English Grain Exports
, p125

  
2
   
Short animadversions on the difference now set up between gin and rum, and our mother country and colonies
, 1760, p4

  
3
   
The Monitor
, 12 January 1760

  
4
   
True State of the British Malt-distillery, being a Defence of Mr M-wb-y’s Queries
, 1760, p24

  
5
   
Considerations Occasion’d by an Act of this Present Parliament, To prevent the excessive use of spirituous liquors
, 1760, p20

  
6
   
London Chronicle
, 9 April 1760, p339

  
7
   
Read’s Weekly Journal
, 15 March & 5 April;
London Chronicle
, April 1760

  
8
   
True State of the British Malt-distillery, being a Defence of Mr M-wb-y’s Queries
, 1760, p2

  
9
   
Gentleman’s Magazine
, January 1760

10
   
Considerations Occasion’d by an Act of this Present Parliament
, 1760, p2

11
   
Daily Post
, 1 April 1736

12
   John Fielding,
An Account of the Origins and Effects of a Police
, 1758, pxii

13
   Jackson,
An Essay on Bread
, 1758

14
   
Low-life, or One Half of the World Knows not how the Other Half Live
, p93

15
   Pennant,
A Tour of London
, p33

16
   
The Monitor
, 1 March 1760

17
   UDV, TG-737, William Currie’s Stock Book

18
   
The Corn Distillery Stated to the Consideration of the Landed Interest
, 1783

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

20
   UDV, TG-738, William Currie’s Export Letter Book, letter to Pike and Spicer, 20 September 1760

21
   Campbell,
The London Tradesman
, p33

22
   UDV, TG-737, William Currie’s Stock Book

23
   Red Hot,
An Appeal to the Public concerning the Distilling Trade; with a rational scheme to extirpate it from the nation
, 1757

24
   UDV, TG-738, William Currie’s Export Letter Book, letter to Thomas Foxcroft, 1 November 1760, and letter to John Welch, 12 August 1760

25
   Porter,
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
, p17

26
   Egan,
Life in London

27
   Place,
Improvement of the Working People. Drunkenness–Education
, 1829, p14ff

28
   Webb and Webb,
The History of Liquor Licensing in England
, p116