Sometimes they spread reports at coffee-houses that John and his wife were run mad; that they intended to give up house, and make over all their estate to Lewis Baboon; that John had been often heard talking to himself, and seen in the streets without shoes or stockings; that he did nothing from morning till night but beat his servants, after having been the best master alive.

As for his wife, she was a mere natural.

Sometimes John's house was beset with a whole regiment of attornies' clerks, bailiffs, and bailiffs' followers, and other small retainers of the law, who threw stones at his windows, and dirt at himself as he went along the street.

When John complained of want of ready-money to carry on his suit, they advised him to pawn his plate and jewels, and that Mrs.Bull should sell her linen and wearing clothes.
* Talk of peace, and the struggle of the party against it.
** The endeavours made use of to stop the Treaty of Peace.
*** Reflections upon the House of Commons as ignorant, who know nothing of business..