Volume 1

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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    “ Winiiington is a hamlet in the parish of Alberbury, neere a place called the Welsh Poole, eight miles from Shrewsbury; from whence he was carried to Wim, a town of the Earle’s aforesaid ; and the next day to Shefnall, (a mannour house of his lordship’s) where they staid one night; from Shefnall they came to Woolverhampton, and the next day to Brimi- cham, from thence to Coventry, and although Master Kelley had much to do to keepe the people off that pressed upon him, in all places where he came, yet at Coventry he was almost oppressed: for they came in such multitudes to see the Olde Man, that those who defended him were almost tyred and spent, and the aged mart in danger to have been stifeled ; and, in a word, the rabble was so unruly, that Bryan was in doubt hee should bring his charge no further; (so greedy are the vulgar to harken to, or gaze after novelties.) “ The trouble being over, the next day they passed to Daventry, to Stoney Stratford, to Red-^ burn, and so to Condon, where he is well en¬ tertained and accommodated with all things^ having all the aforesaid attendants, at the sole charge and cost of his lordship,”