The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832 by Various
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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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