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necessary to send a detachment of sixty soldiers from Kensington to protect the house of Sir Joseph Jekyll, the Master of the Rolls, in Chancery Lane, from the violence threatened by the populace against this eminent lawyer. Two soldiers with their bayonets fixed were planted as sentinels at the little door next Chancery Lane, and the great doors were shut up, the rest of the soldiers kept garrison in the stables in the yard. This agitation gave rise to many a ballad and broadside, such as the ''Fall of Bob," or the Oracle of Gin," a tragedy; and " Desolation, or the Fall of Gin," a poem. The Lamentable- Fall of Madame Geneva. — 29 Sept.y 1736.^ The Woman holds a song to y^ tune, to y*^ Children in y^ Wood. " Good lack, good lack, and Well-a-day^ That Madame Gin should fall Superior Powers she must obey. This Act will starve us all." The Man has the second part to y^ same tune.

•* Th' Afflicted she has caus'd to sing, The Cripple leap and dance All those who die for love of Gin Go to Heaven in a Trance."

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Madame Geneva, Sept. 29, 1736." The other is a Memorial, "To the Mortal Memory of Madame Geneva, who died Sept. 29, 1736. Her weeping Servants and loving Friends, consecrate this Tomb."