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232 ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH AND BURIAL
died a prisoner in the Fleet, April 1549; yet it is pro-
bable, not for debt, because he left in his will, two houses
at Lynn, in Norfolk, and his goods and chattels in his
house at Winchester, to one Richard Matthew, whom he
constituted his heir, without any mention of kindred at all.
In the first chapter of his Introduction to Knowledge,
he has characterized an Englishman; and there is a wooden
print of a naked man, with a piece of cloth hanging on his
right arm, and a pair of sheers in his left hand. Under the
print is an inscription in verse.—These are the four first
lines :
“ I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here,
“ Musyng in my mynde what rayment I shall were :
“ For now I will were thys, and now I will were that,
u And now I will were, 1 cannot tell what, &c.”
He had such promptitude in writing, that it is said, he
wrote his Treatise on Astronomy in four days, and with an
old pen, without mending.
Account of the Death and Burial of the notorious
Mrs. Bridger, Female Chimney Sweeper.
This woman died on the 24th of November 1802, ata
great age, at her house in Swallow-street; she was com-
monly known by the name of Mother Brownrigg. The
morning previous to her departure, she had taken a pint
of gm. The conviction of her foreman, for his cruel usage
to Peter Cavanage, a kidnapped child, for which he was
sentenced to six month’s imprisonment, made her, as she
said, low-spirited, and therefore she drank harder than
usual; for, at every ten minutes she had recourse to her
glass, to keep up her drooping spirits. She knew that
she must be brought, to trial, and (from what appeared on
the trial of her foreman) what she had to expect. Since
the death of Bridger, about nine or ten months ago, with
whom she lived as a wife, and whose name she bore, this
cruel
died a prisoner in the Fleet, April 1549; yet it is pro-
bable, not for debt, because he left in his will, two houses
at Lynn, in Norfolk, and his goods and chattels in his
house at Winchester, to one Richard Matthew, whom he
constituted his heir, without any mention of kindred at all.
In the first chapter of his Introduction to Knowledge,
he has characterized an Englishman; and there is a wooden
print of a naked man, with a piece of cloth hanging on his
right arm, and a pair of sheers in his left hand. Under the
print is an inscription in verse.—These are the four first
lines :
“ I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here,
“ Musyng in my mynde what rayment I shall were :
“ For now I will were thys, and now I will were that,
u And now I will were, 1 cannot tell what, &c.”
He had such promptitude in writing, that it is said, he
wrote his Treatise on Astronomy in four days, and with an
old pen, without mending.
Account of the Death and Burial of the notorious
Mrs. Bridger, Female Chimney Sweeper.
This woman died on the 24th of November 1802, ata
great age, at her house in Swallow-street; she was com-
monly known by the name of Mother Brownrigg. The
morning previous to her departure, she had taken a pint
of gm. The conviction of her foreman, for his cruel usage
to Peter Cavanage, a kidnapped child, for which he was
sentenced to six month’s imprisonment, made her, as she
said, low-spirited, and therefore she drank harder than
usual; for, at every ten minutes she had recourse to her
glass, to keep up her drooping spirits. She knew that
she must be brought, to trial, and (from what appeared on
the trial of her foreman) what she had to expect. Since
the death of Bridger, about nine or ten months ago, with
whom she lived as a wife, and whose name she bore, this
cruel