Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    of De-Ia-mere. Not longf before the abdication of King James, the wall spoken of tumbled down, and fell towards the rising hill on the side of it; and, in removing the rubbish, the bones of a man of more than ordinary size were found. A pond at the same time ran with water of a reddish colour, and was never known to have done so before or after. Headless-cross, in the forest, which was several feet high, is now sunk within a foot of the ground. O In the parish of Budworth, a boy was born, about twenty years ago, with, three thumbs ; the youth is still living there, and the miller Peter lives in Nagginshire Mill, in expectation of ful¬ filling his prophecy on the person of Perkin; he hath also two heels on one foot, but I find he does not intend to make use of them, for he is a bold Briton, and a loyal subject to king George, zealous for Protestant succession in the illustri¬ ous house of Hanover, has a vote for the knights of the shire, and never fails to give it on the right side; in a word, Peter will prate or box for the good cause to which Nixon has raised