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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    giving* me a fair hearing, do not let your avarici¬ ous guardians unjustly fright you with a false ac¬ count of a forfeiture, but let the great Sewell and Rivet’s opinions convince you to the contrary; and that I am now in legal possession of these estates, and with the spirit of ah heroine command my 300,000/. and rank above half the ladies in our imperial kingdom. By your Ladyship’s di¬ recting a favorable line to me, Sir John Dinely, Baronet, at my house, in Windsor Castle, your attorney will satisfy you, that if I live but amonth, 11,000/, a year will be your ladyship’s for ever.” In the Ipswich Journal, August 21, 1802. ‘‘ To the angelic fair of the true JEnglish breed. Worthy notice. Sir John Dinely, of Windsor Castle, recommends himself and his ample fortune to any angelic beauty of good breed, fit to become and willing to be a mother of a noble heir, and keep up the name of an ancient family, ennobled by deeds of arms and ancestral renown. Ladies at a certain period of life need not apply, as heir¬ ship is the object of the mutual contract offered by the Ladies’ sincere admirer. Sir John Dinely. Fortune favors the bold. Such Ladies as this advertisement may induce to apply, or send theif