1. Theodosia Crowley & Co. was an ironmongery on Thames Street.

2. These were probably handles made of boxwood, which was much used in the eighteenth century.

3. GW’s invoice to Robert Cary & Co. of 20 Sept. 1759 calls this “Wheel Rights Buz.”

4. Edward Hippisley was a merchant on Lime Street.

5. Crocus was a coarse cloth like gunny or burlap.

6. Richard Lomax Clay was an oilman on Fishstreet Hill, London.

7. A pottle is a liquid measure of four pints.

8. A firken is a cask roughly one-quarter of a barrel.

9. John Moseley was a slopseller on Lower Thames Street. Slops was cheap clothing.

10. Francis Nalder was a cheesemonger at no. 4 Honey-Lane Market.

11. Benjamin Kenton had his wine and beer business at no. 152 Minories, near Aldgate.

12. In 1771 H. Freake succeeded the late Mr. Scherzberg at the Golden Lion in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.

13. “Shanaell” is chenille.

14. Hesketh & Hawkes were mercers at the Wheatsheaf in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.

15. This was a kind of headdress with wires forming the outstretched wings of a large butterfly.

16. Lappets were ribbon strips made to hang from a woman’s headdress.

17. Cypress was a silk gauze dyed black.

18. GW wrote “Take.”

19. Millinet is a coarse, thin muslin.

20. Chevaux de frise was a name for jagged edges of women’s dresses and caps.

21. Rickards & Yerbury were hosiers and hatters on Fenchurch Street.

22. Lardner & Baratty were haberdashers and tobacconists at no. 36 Borough, Southwark.

23. Beledin may be either raw silk or cotton yarn.

24. Edward Loxham was a hatter and sword cutler at the corner of Sweeting’s Alley, no. 88 Cornhill.

25. Richard Weale was a cutler in Cannon Street.

26. Pocket knives frequently were made with buffalo-horn handles.

27. Mount & Page were stationers, Tower-hill.

28. Harry playing cards are of better quality than Highlanders and of less quality than Moguls.

29. A. Gresham, shoemaker, was at the Crown in Covent Garden.

30. Rebecca Wintle has not been identified.

31. William Hill was a merchant in Smithfield.

32. Joseph Cartony & Sons, at Longacre, sold tea and china.

33. Charles Brown was a cooper at no. 270 Old Fish Street.

34. Velvet corks were corks of high quality.

35. John Davidson & Dennis were saddlers in Chiswell Street.

36. James Laman has not been identified.

37. Thomas Johnson has not been identified.

38. John Drinkwater has not been identified.

39. William James, the mercer, was in Cheapside, opposite Gutter Lane.

40. Alepine was a fabric made in eighteenth-century England, with silk warp and worsted filling.

41. This may be pattern.

42. This was a close-fitting coat for men, originally worn for riding.

43. Buckram is a coarse fabric used as padding or a stiffener between the lining and the surface cloth of a garment.

44. Joseph Etherington’s apothecary shop was at Gracechurch Street.

45. Sir Henry Cheere had a “Statuary” at Old-Palace-Yard, Westminster, and John Cheere’s was at Hyde Park Corner.

46. For GW’s description of the busts he wished to have, see Invoice to Robert Cary & Co., 20 Sept. 1759. A comma appears in the letter book after “Vestall.”

47. Samuel Steemson has not been identified.

48. Alexander & Shrimpton’s brass foundry was on Wood Street, Cheapside.

49. Thomas Newnham & Co. were grocers in Watling Street, near St. Paul’s.

50. Edward Box has not been identified.

51. John & Anthony Fonblanque’s mercantile house was at no. 22 Water-Lane, Great Tower Street.

52. John Box, the corn factor, was at Cattle-Baynard Wharf, Thames Street.

53. William Bennett has not been identified.