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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    him; and if he does not do the business, it must be admitted that no man bids fairer for it; which the Lady Egerton was so apprehensive of, that wishing well to another restoration, she often endeavoured to persuade her husband to turn him out of the mill; but he looked upon it as mere caprice ; so Peter continues there, in hopes of being as good a knight as Sir Philip, his land¬ lord, was. Of this*Peter I have been told that the Lady Narcliff, of Chelsea, and the Lady St. John, of Battersea, have often been heard to talk, and that they both asserted the truth of this prophecy and its accomplishment, with particulars that are more extraordinary than any I have yet mentioned. This account, as whimsical and romantic as it is, was told to the Lady Cowper, in the year 1670, by Dr. Patric, late Bishop of Ely, then chaplain to Sir Walter St. John ; and that lady had the following particulars relative to this prophecy, and the fulfilling of many parts of it from Mrs. Chute, sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, of Vale-royal, who affirmed—That a multitude of people gathering together to see the eagle before-mentioned, the bird was frightened from her