upon
themselves."

Note 10. Page 160.

I suppose myself to be alluding here to a very oppressive statute,
passed to clip the wings of such gentlemen as Mr. Snap, by which it is
enacted that, in actions for slander, if the jury find a verdict under
forty shillings, _e. g._ as in the case in the text, for one farthing,
the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover from the defendant only as
much costs as damages, _i. e._ another farthing; a provision which has
made many a poor pettifogger sneak out of court with a flea in his ear.
Since this was written, a still more stringent statute hath been made,
which, 'tis to be hoped, will put down the nuisance.

Note 11. Page 196.

"Can the author of Ten Thousand a-Year," asked some anonymous person
during its original appearance--"point out any class of Dissenters who
allow their members to frequent theatres?" The author believes that this
is the case with Unitarians--and also with many of the members of other
Dissenting congregations--especially the younger members of even the
stanchest Dissenting families.

Note 12. Page 212.

This fearful-looking word, I wish to inform my lady-readers, is an
original and monstrous amalgamation of three or four Greek
words--[Greek:kyano-chait-anthropo-poion]--denoting a fluid "_which can
render the human hair black_." Whenever a barber or perfumer determines
on trying to puff off some villanous imposition of this sort, strange to
say, he goes to some starving scholar, and gives him half-a-crown to
coin a word like the above; one which shall be equally unintelligible
and unpronounceable, and therefore attractive and popular.

Note 13. Page 243.

"Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloe,
Quaerenti pavidam----
Matrem.
---- et corde et genibus tremit."--Hor. i. 23.

Note 14. Page 264.

See _ante_, p. 138.

Note 15. Page 307.

So much curiosity has been excited among lay readers in this country and
in America, and also among professional persons in France and Germany,
as to the real nature of the species of action mentioned in the text,
that the author is induced here to give some further account of a matter
which enters so considerably into the construction of this story. The
action of Ejectment is described with minute accuracy in the text; has
been in existence for at least five hundred years, (_i. e._ since the
close of Edward II., or beginning of Edward III., A. D. 1327;) and its
venerable but tortuous fict