[211] 'Garden:' Covent, where a set of low and mercenary wretches,
called _trading justices_, superintended the administration of
police.
[212] 'Avaro:' Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, a favourite object of
Churchill's ire, as some of the previous poems prove.
[213] 'Moore:' the Rev. Mr Moore, then curate of St Sepulchre's, who
had a share in the Cock-lane conspiracy.
[214] 'Fanny's tomb:' it had been stated that her tomb had been
disturbed, and an expedition actually took place to ascertain the
truth.
[215] 'Not he:' Paul Whitehead, the profligate satirist.
[216] 'Laureate:' William Whitehead, the poet laureate.
[217] 'Play': alluding to Whitehead's comedy of the 'School for
Lovers.'
[219] 'Hunter:' Miss Hunter, one of Queen Charlotte's maids of honour,
eloped on the day of the coronation with the Earl of Pembroke.
[220] 'Funeral Pomps:' alluding to certain improprieties at the
interment of George the Second, which took place the 11th of November
1760.
[221] 'Coronations:' the coronation of George the Third on the 22d of
September 1761.
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