| Quote | Category | Chapter | Notes | Queries |
| Metropolis | miscellaneous | 1 | nickname for London | |
| ebony and ormolu pier tables | miscellaneous | 2 | ormolu is an imitation gold made of an alloy of copper and tin; often used for decorative embellishments to furniture | |
| Upper House | miscellaneous | 2 | House of Lords | |
| mortification of the flesh | miscellaneous | 2 | Biblical reference? What book, chapter, verse? | |
| snuff | miscellaneous | 4 | inhaleable tobacco | Is snuff still taken today? |
| herd of cows in Green Park | miscellaneous | 5 | ||
| disimburse | miscellaneous | 5 | is this a real word? | |
| magistrate | miscellaneous | 6 | Who were magistrates during the Regency and what did they do? | |
| the Room | miscellaneous | 6 | gathering/dining place for servants belowstairs | |
| Wards in Chancery | miscellaneous | 7 | Legal reference | What was Chancery? |
| professorial class | miscellaneous | 6 | meaning? | |
| tambour-frame | miscellaneous | 7 | relation to tambourine? Were they made from discarded embroidery hoops? | |
| quadrille | miscellaneous | 7 | Dancing reference: Webster's: "A square dance of French origin, consisting of several figures, performed by four couples" | More detailed description of dance? |
| waltz | miscellaneous | 7 | Dancing reference | |
| vouchers for Almack's | miscellaneous | 11 | One needed to purchase a subscription before one could get tickets. The membership fee around the beginning of the nineteenth century was 10 shillings. This gave the bearer a three month membership during the season with a supper once a week for 12 weeks. This was during the season from March to Early June. A male subscription was transferrable, but a female subscription could only be used for her. | |
| Grand Strut | miscellaneous | 12 | society promenade in Hyde Park | |
| knotting a fringe | miscellaneous | 14 | crocheting? | |
| Botticelli's Birth of Venus | miscellaneous | 14 | Art reference; famous painting by Florentine Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510). Sir Mark Lyneham, Charis' admirer from afar, says "one is tempted to fancy that in another incarnation she (Charis) must have sat for him when he painted his Birth of Venus." | |
| rusticated | miscellaneous | 15 | Academic reference: sent away from Oxford; suspended | |
| Watch-house | miscellaneous | 15 | Legal reference | Any history on the Watch? |
| passing Responsions | miscellaneous | 16 | Academic reference: Responsions are the first of the three Academic exams that students at Oxford must pass for their BA. | |
| mandarins | miscellaneous | 18 | ||
| post-road | miscellaneous | 20 | road upon which posting houses lay; main road | |
| coloured wafers | miscellaneous | 21 | Dictionary definition: "a small adhesive disk, as of paper, dried paste, gelatin, etc., used as a seal on letters, documents, etc." | what did a wafer look like? Was it ever made of wax? |
| special licence | miscellaneous | 27 |