mobbs

The Dutch were formeily noted for the large breeches of the men, and the jerkins, plain mobbs, (hort petticoats, and other oddities of the women; which, added to the na - tural thicknefs and clumfinefs of their perfons, gave them a very grotcfque appearance.

The geographical magazine, or, A new, copious, compleat, and universal system of geography [microform] : containing an accurate and entertaining account and description of the several continents, islands, peninsulas, isthmuses, capes, promontories, lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, gulphs, and bays of Asia, Africa, Europe, and America : divided into empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies, with the climate, situation, extent and boundaries of each ... 1783

I am much concerned for my inability to execute it as I their money and time, little to their own improvement, or the credit of their country, frequently col - ledting mobbs in the ftreets, by throwing money from their windows •, and in their daily adlions confirming Frenchmen in their unalterable opinions, that the Eng - li (h arc all immenfely rich; and conie -

The gentleman's guide, in his tour through France, wrote by an officer in the Royal-navy 1770