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sequence of which nobody will venture to the forge the next day. A master found these visits of his Satanic Majesty so frequent and so troublesome, that at last he declared he would turn off the first man who should see the Devil. One fellow saw the ghost of a waggon with a great light in it, in a place where no mortal waggon could have got.

A WELSHMAN here had 500 tobaccoboxes made at Birmingham with this inscription in Welsh, “He is an Englishman, take care of him." The man had been cheated by an Englishman.

THERE are several weddings there every Sunday. The bridegroom leads the bride by a pocket-handkerchief to church, preceded by a harper. At a funeral there are always several hundred followers.

A MADMAN was conveyed from Rye to Bedlam. They slept in the Borough, and he suspected whither they were taking him. He rose before sun-rise-went to Bedlam

and told the keepers there that the next day he should bring him a patient," but that in order to lead him willingly he had been persuaded that I am mad, accordingly I shall come as the madman. He will be very outrageous when you seize him, but you must clap on a strait waistcoat." Accordingly the sane man was imprisoned and the lunatic returned home. He entered a room full of his relations and friends, told the story with exceeding glee, and immediately relapsed into his madness. The other man had a strait waistcoat for about four days before he was exchanged.

AT Merthyr, Danvers used a plaister poll-parrot for an extinguisher.

THE Pool smugglers who were hung for the most cruel murder I remember to have read of, told the judge, who dwelt upon the guilt of murder, that " nobody could have a greater abhorrence of murder than

they had they had only killed some Custom House officers."

Ar Tunbridge, while the Sexton was showing me the church, somebody brought him the news of a townsman's death. "Is he dead? is he dead at last? thank God for it! it's the best piece of news I've heard this many a day." He was asked why he was so glad at the man's death?" Why" he replied," he has left me five shillings on condition that I bury him in a particular corner of the church-yard."

GOING from Abergavenny we entered into conversation with a well dressed man in one of the most delightful spots I had ever

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WILKINS the clergyman at Pill sent to a poor man for his Easter dues. They amounted to two shillings. The man returned for answer that he "could not then pay the money, but on the Saturday next he should have his pay and would bring it." The poor fellow had offended a servant who had influence over his master, Wilkins, and prevailed upon him to put him in the Bishops' Court. Here the fees and expences daily increased, and when Saturday came, amounted to a sum which he could not pay. He was arrested and carried to Ivelchester: it was a cold season - he lay upon straw in the prison-he was seventy-eight-died there, and was buried in the grave with a felon who had been hanged. Mr. Kift related this at Danverses this evening. He had ascertained the facts. June 26, 1799.-Smart, the man's name, a tyler, the debt was two shillings, the law charges £30, and more, he ran away and was taken on venturing

to see his wife. His wife was seventyfour.1

WALKING from Sapey to Ledbury with Edmund Seward, he pointed out a cottage on a common. The cottager had planted two apple trees before his door on the common, to him important in value as furnishing him with cyder. The manor came to a clergyman, and he went with a man to cut down the trees.

* RETURNING to Brixton I saw two instances of English credulity. A woman was shown for a wild Indian. I heard her singing in a true cracked St. Gileses voice. A child was shown as the most surprizing large child that ever was seen: 'twas a four years body, backward in mind, exhibited for one of eighteen months forward in body.

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* AT Bristol I saw a shaved monkey shown for a fairy; and a shaved bear, in a check waistcoat and trowsers, sitting in a great chair as an Ethiopian savage. This was the most cruel fraud I ever saw. The unnatural position of the beast, and the damnable brutality of the woman-keeper who sat upon his knee, put her arm round his neck, called him husband and sweet-heart, and kissed him, made it the most disgusting spectacle I ever witnessed. Cottle was

with me.

My father's Aunt Hannah had a life-hold

estate, held at last upon the life of one labouring man. This fellow found out the importance of his life, and never would

strike a stroke of work afterwards-he run up a bill at the alehouse-then away went his wife to Aunt Hannah her husband

The latter paragraph is of more recent date, -but not much. I may note here, that in Southey's early MSS. he wrote " Danverses," and "Gileses," &c. unmodernized.

2 I saw the like disgusting exhibition in Wol verhampton about the year 1817. The poor beast was then called, as I well recollect, the Polo Savage.-J. W. W.

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*DR. GRAHAM. I saw this half-knave, halfenthusiast twice: at one time he was buried up to the neck in earth in the midst of his patients; at another, sitting up to the chin in warm mud, with his hair in full pigeon-wing dress. As he was haranguing upon the excellent health he enjoyed from the use of earth-bathing, I asked him why he was then in the mud-bath if he wanted no relief? it puzzled him why-he said, —“ Why—it was-it was-to show people that it did no harm—that it was quite innocent—that it was very agreeable-and -it gives me a skin as soft as the feathers of Venuses doves." A farmer once emptied a watering pot upon his head when he was buried, “to make him grow " he said. Latterly Graham was an evident enthusiast — he would madden himself with opium rush into the streets, and strip himself to clothe the first beggar he met; but the electrical bed was the infamous pandarism of a scoundrel. He lived upon vegetables, and perpetually declaimed against making the stomach the grave, the charnel house of slaughtered bodies: in one of his pamphlets there is a page of epithets for wheat.

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*IN 1797 there was a fellow, an old man, who professed himself to be the Wandering Jew. He did not adhere to the legend, but laid claim to higher antiquity; he had "been with Noah in the ark" he said, "and received from the he-goat a blow on the forehead" of which the scar still remained. Some person asked him what country he preferred of all that he had visited? he answered, " Spain." The questioner remarked that that was singular as he was a Jew.

"God bless you," replied the ready rogue, "it was long before Christianity that I was in Spain, and I shall not go there again till it is all over." Mr. Sloper told

me these circumstances on the faith of the person who asked him this question.

*THERE is actually now in Bond-street a man who teaches gentlemen for half a guinea to tie their cravatts! Many persons can remember a man who went in his own carriage to dress sallads at the same price.

* AT Royston in 1793, I saw a hand-bill announcing that a man whose name I do not remember, would give his annual dinner, on a specified day, where every person should be welcome. I learnt that he believed himself wrongfully kept out of a large estate that he worked at some day labour, and lived very frugally the whole year, to spend his collected savings in this way, on his birthday every year, at an inn upon the estate which he claimed. - In childmy hood there was a man at Bristol possessed with the same idea. He had vowed never to wash himself, or put on clean linen, or comb his hair, cut his nails or shave till he had recovered his right. He kept the vow and died in his dirt they called him black John.

THE Christ Church Smugglers say when a drowned comrade is enquired for, "he's on the other side the water."

THE mother of Pat who nursed me lived in service at London, in 1745. It was near Tower Hill, and on the day that some of the rebel lords were executed she was sent for beer to a pot house in that neighbourhood. While she was there a man brought in some liver, which he gave to be drest, affirming with bitter curses that it was the liver of one of the rebels. How have such stories been circulated against the French, as if the mad brutality of an individual characterized his nation! But this was probably the lie of a brutal bravo.

ONE day in 1795, when Coleridge and I were dining at the ordinary at the Ship, Small-street, Bristol, we heard a loud quar

rel between the stable-boy, and young Hanmer the grocer next door. A lady had lost a "curious" pigeon, and employed Hanmer to get it cried and pay a reward of five shillings if it was recovered. The stable-boy had a hawk which he carried to the bell-man-the bell-man looked-" God bless my soul! it is a curious pigeon!" and away they went to Hanmer.-" Well! this is the most curious pigeon I ever saw! I don't wonder the lady offered five shillings for it," — and he pays the stable-boy the reward. The lady however knew a hawk from a pigeon- and Hanmer was now come to abuse the stable-boy for a rogue and recover the money - which he had wisely spent.

*WHEN Mrs. Danvers lived at Cirencester a fellow showed for a penny the fork that belonged to the knife with which Margaret Nicholson attempted to kill the king.

NEAR ROwnham I once met two men, who were carefully lifting a square box over a stile. I asked them what was in it? they told me "the little woman," whom they were carrying to show some lady at the Wells. They carried it with short poles like a little sedan something, and gimlet holes were the only air avenues for the people would have seen her for nothing had there been a window!

Copied from the original. It is in Miss Barker's possession and was sent to her uncle's house near Llandaff.

A MESSENGER and inviter I am to the landlord and landlady of the house, and the rest of the family, as they arise and sleep, them that likes the journey, to the wedding of David Rees, millman at Cyfarthfa, and Gwenny Davies, sérvant maid at Richard Crawshays Esq., against Saturday the 14th of May, she come out of her own house where they goes to live in burch grove, and he comes out of the next door, to Merthyr church to be married, and back

to their own house to enjoy the wedding. There will be meat and drink and all other attendance such as they can afford; it shall be ready for you, not for you to take it an excuse further that you should not be invited to the bride or the bridegroom separately. I do invite you for them both, and you go to which you please. There will be two musicks to divert while you are at meat, and to divert you to dance as long as you chuse to stay after meat: if you don't chuse to dance, you shall have pipes and tobacco to divert you, with ale, either plain ale or sweet ale only acquaint the waiter. There will be a large box of snuff to wait on you if you chuse to take a pinch.

The musicians are David James, harper, and Wm. Jones, fidler.

And Henry Morgan is the Inviter.1

JOSEPH WHITE of Poole was an uncommonly wealthy merchant. His will was very extraordinary. He left each of his ships to the captain who commanded it for seven years, after which they were to return them in good condition to his brother. His brother was to use them with the rest of his fortune seven years at the end of the fourteen Joseph expected to return to life and reclaim his property.—A sailor in one of his vessels heard on his arrival, of his employer's death and was affected. Howbeit, land, air, and an alehouse abated his feelings they operated singularly — he went to the merchant's grave · and lay down upon it-" Joe," said he, "Joe-Joe White-what-no answer ?-not a word to an old servant!-here, Joe-change me a shilling"-and he threw one upon the grave. "No answer- -Ah poor Joe-such a rich fellow-and now canst not give change for a shilling! -" Captain Stokes, whom I met at Faro, and who told me this, was once when a boatswain with a very wicked

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The reader should refer to the notes on "Bride-Ale," in Sir H. ELLIS's edition of BRAND'S Popular Antiquities. In my younger days these things were common in North Wales, as I dare say they are now.-J. W. W.

captain. One night, in calm weather, the helmsman came to him,-"Boatswain" said he, "I wish I was out of this ship. Just now there came a boat along side with only one man in it-and he went round the vessel under the cabin window- and then they disappeared but the captain directly came up storming and cursing like a mad man." This fellow shocked his whole crew-he used to look up to heaven, and curse the sky and the sun and moon and stars.

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Stokes was most amusingly superstitious. He said many ships were haunted, and sailors who knew their character would not embark in them. A captain told him that his mate at daybreak called him, to say three vessels were in sight. After some time he came down again-he did not know what to make of the vessels-whether they were French or English-they vere 'em on-and he was coming up to them. At eight in the morning he again roused the captain—they were close and in danger – they were three pinnacle rocks like the Eddystone. It was between the Azores and Cape St. Vincent. Stokes sailed in that course as near as possible to look for them -but in vain.

A NAVY surgeon loved to prescribe salt water. He fell overboard one day: "Zounds, Will," says a sailor, "there's the doctor tumbled into his own medicine chest."

"DAMN the French!" said an Irish sailor," they are such ignorant rascals!· here now," and he took off his hat and pointed to it: "What do you think they call this that I have in my hand?" "That! -why a hat I suppose." "No-damn their eyes-they call it a chapeau!"

A MAN advertises an Infirmary for dogs - single dogs taken in to board and nurse at half a guinea per week.

GREAT reputation of Señor Joseph Miller for wit.

THE prospectus for the Beauties of Sentiment says that the Extracts are always complete sense-and not very long.

HYMN after Sore Eyes. Price 6d. 1759.

I NEXT with rapture view'd the meadow round

Which I—an oblique plain triangle found. JOHN LEWIS, Schoolmaster of Syston. London Mag. 1759.

IN the Lady's Diary 17.., all the ladies' last years rebus's are answered by

in an Elegy on his Father's Death.

* A WOMAN in Herefordshire bakes two cakes annually on Good Friday, and lays them by.1 People come far and near for the crumbs of these cakes to cure diarrhoea. Faith says they never mould and never fail as a remedy.

*A MAN in the Strand advertises that he will contract with any person who will send him game from France, Norway or Russia!

*THE female Esquimaux when she stood under the dome of St. Paul's, knowing it to be a temple, was imprest with the strongest awe, and leant upon the gentleman who took her, as though she were sinking. At last she asked, "Did man make it--or was it put here?" Major Cartwright told me this.

Ir is a trade to write advertisements. A fellow wrote to Duppa, who he observed, had not leisure to attend to the science. It was his profession: he wrote four for halfa-guinea. Another fellow called upon him, said he was intimate with the nobility and could serve his work. "I suppose, Sir, you allow centage." Dr. Thornton had ac

This Paschal Loaf is still common in Sussex, and, I dare say, in Herefordshire. It is renewed each year; and the remarkable point is, that many superstitiously keep it who cannot be persuaded to communicate.-J. W. W.

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