Monday 27 February 2012

Little Bob the waiter

From a review of Jerry White's 'London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing' -
There aren't many lighter stories in this remarkable book, but I liked the one about the Cherokee chiefs who were invited to London by the government in 1762 and whose wives all left Marylebone pregnant "by little Bob the waiter to whom they took a fancy".