public were informed that
——At one Mr Packer’s, in Crooked Lane, next the Dolphin, are very good Lodgings to be let, where there is freedom from noise, and a pretty garden.
Freedom from noise and a pretty garden in a street leading from Eastcheap to Fish Street Hill! Shortly after Houghton calmly observes:—
——I now find advertisements of schools, houses and lodgings in and about London are thought useful.
He then starts other subjects:—
——I believe some advertisements about bark and timber might be of use both to buyer and seller.
* I find several barbers think it their interest to take in these papers, and I believe the rest will when they understand them.
The barber’s shop was then the headquarters of gossip, as it took a long time to shave the whole of a man’s beard and curl a sufficient quantum of hair or wig, as worn in