A little girl named Frazer, who appears to have had
ventriloquial powers, was the principal cause of the noises,
scratchings, &c., thought to be supernatural.
[190] 'Bampfield Carew:' Bampfylde Moore Carew, the famous king of the
gypsies. His life used to be a favourite with schoolboys.
[191] 'Moll Squires:' Mary Squires, a gypsy, and one of Carew's
subjects.
[192] 'College:' that of the fifteen Augurs in Rome.
[193] 'Campbell:' a deaf and dumb fortune-teller.
[194] 'Butcher-row:' an old street in London, now removed.
[195] 'Drugger:' Abel Drugger, in Jonson's 'Alchymist.
[196] 'Stuarts:' James the Second's dastardly conduct at the battle of
the Boyne.
[197] 'Sackvilles:' Lord George Sackville, accused of cowardice at
the battle of Minden, afterwards degraded by a court martial, but
ultimately raised to promotion as a Peer and Secretary of State.
[198] 'Faden and Say:' two anti-Wilkite editors.
[199] 'Baker:' Sir Richard Baker, the famous chronicler.
[200] 'Tofts:' Mary Tofts of Godalming, who first dreamed of, and was
at last brought to bed of, rabbits! She confessed afterwards that it
was a fraud.
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