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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    OF LOUSE-HALL, NEAR OXFORD. This g-ood woman, like many other alewives, is reported to have been as fond of a drop of her own ale as any of her customers. The house she kept near Oxford was called Louse-hall^ and was the constant visiting place of the students of the University, who very much approved of her beverage. It is imagined her armorial bearings were the result of her name, and drawn by some of the humorous scholars of the University who frequented her house. Louse-hall has been many years quite for¬ gotten as an antiquity, but in her time it contain¬ ed the best sprigs of divinity to be found in that celebrated seminary. Before her death she was deprived of her licence by the Chancellor of the University, but is said to have been in good circumstances.