EXTRACTS FROM RAYMOND'S LIFE OF ELLISTON THE COMEDIAN
... A theatrical row of the tailors. Dowton hnd chosen for his benefit Foote's burlesque piece, entitled The Tailors, or, •* A Tragedy for Warm Weather, in which the fraternity of the thimble were not treated with the respect which their importance in all ages appears to have enjoyed and they now resolved, like the Knights of tbe Shoulder Knot at Bath, some years before (on the representation ...