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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832 by Various
page 46 of 47 (97%)

Thomas Azbey, died .. 1737 aged .. 112
Captain Laurence .... 1765 ........ 95
Robert Cumming ...... 1767 ....... 116
Peter Dowling ....... 1768 ....... 102
A soldier who had fought
at the battle of the
Boyne ............... 1772 ....... 111
Peter Bennet, of Tinmouth
.................... 1773 ....... 107

_Cholera._--During the late panic, a coalheaver went into a
tobacconist's shop to purchase a halfpenny worth of pig-tail, when a
gentleman asked him if he was in any alarm about the cholera? "No,
measter," he said, "them says it's only among the lower classes like."

_Calves-Head Roll._--This is a Roll in the two Temples, in which every
bencher is taxed yearly at 2s., every barrister at 1s. 6d., and every
gentleman under the bar at 1s. to the cook, and other officers of the
house, in consideration of a dinner of calves-heads, provided in Easter.
P.T.W.

_Curious Registry._--The following entry occurs in the register of the
parish of Hanwell, Middlesex, viz.:--

"Thomas, _daughter/son_ of Thomas Messenger, and Elizabeth, his
wife, was born and baptized, October 24, 1731."

To which is added in the margin, "by the midwife, at the font, called a
boy, and named by the godfather, Thomas, but proved a girl." P.T.W.
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