Very interesting to learn how humor has changed so over approximately 250 years. These jokes are incredibly basic and hardly appear funny today. Here's a joke I picked out (almost) randomly:
122. A Gentleman happening to turn up against an House to make Water, did not see two young Ladies looking out of a Window close by him, ’till he heard them giggling, then looking towards them, he asked, what made them so merry? O! Lord, Sir, said one of them, a very little Thing will make us laugh.
Really very interesting stuff. Interesting also to see which jokes preserve their humour, and which have turned bad. I liked this one:
Two Gentlemen disputing about Religion, in Button’s Coffee-House, said one of them, I wonder, Sir, you should talk of Religion, when I’ll hold you five Guineas you can’t say the Lord’s Prayer, done, said the other, and Sir Richard Steele shall hold Stakes. The Money being deposited, the Gentleman began with, I believe in God, and so went cleverly through the Creed; well, said the other, I own I have lost; I did not think he could have done it.