Volume 2

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    very rich within ; Captain Holmes having, at different times, found large bowls filled with guineas and half-guineas, and parcels of bank¬ notes stuffed under covers of old chairs ! He died October, 1794. Since his death, large jugs of dol¬ lars and shillings have been found in the stable. At the dead of night he has been known to go to this place, but for what purpose even old Griffiths could not tell. It now appears, how¬ ever, that he used to rob one jug to add to the bowl, which was found buried in the kitchen. Mr. Dancer’s principal acquaintance, and the most congenial to his soul, was the miserable Jemmy Taylor, of the Borough. They became acquainted at the Stock Exchange, where they chanced to meet; from this, their visits to each other became frequent. Jemmy was quite as great a miser as Dancer, but used not to go so shabbily dressed.—And here we leave them, sad instances of the weakness and insignificance of man!