… licenced victualler, but he was also partial to a convivial encounter. His Vade Mecum for Malt Worms; or a Guide to Good Fellows (1720) catalogued public houses across the length and breadth of the capital, displaying an encyclopaedic …
… games (cards and dice, mainly, sometimes chess), drinking too much and finding themselves in debt. For instance, Thomas Fellows, sugar baker of London, claimed he was drawn against his will into drinking and gaming by an old school friend. …