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92 SINGULAR HISTORY OF AN IMPOSTOR.
loss of 5001. which he experienced some years ago. He
has left part of it to purchase an additional bell for the
church at Madeley, and an annual salary for it to be rung
every night at nine o’clock during the autumn months,
and at eight in winter; a chandelier for the church; a
bell for the use of the free school; five pounds per an-
num towards the salary of the organist of that place; a
like sum for the organist of Drayton ; a farther sum to
be applied to the enlarging and repairing the alms house
of Madeley, and clothing and educating two poor children,
until of a proper age to be put apprentice; and to his
relations two shillings and six-pence each. He has nomi-
nated six executors, J. Crewe, Esq. of Crewe Hall, the
Rev. Offley Crewe, of Muxon, the Rev. B. Stoer, of Ma-
deley, the minister of Drayton, Mr. Wilkinson, of Madeley
Manor, and Mr. Taylor, Madeley Heath.
Singular History of a Remarkable Impostor, ivho
styled himself the Hereditary Prince of Modena.
Of all the impostors, who, by favour of an assumed
name, have obtained a greater or less degree of distinc-
tion on the theatre of the world, one of the most remark-
able, on account of the singular circumstances which fa-
voured his artifices, is a young man who about the middle
of the last century appeared at Martinico, by the title of
the Hereditary Prince of Modena. The following narra-
tive of facts, relative to this youth, is by an eye-witness,
who having never been deluded, like a great number, by
his artifices, cannot be suspected of having exaggerated
the very extraordinary circumstances which led to that
delusion.
At the beginning of the year 1748, when France was
still at war with Great Britain, a small merchant-man
from
loss of 5001. which he experienced some years ago. He
has left part of it to purchase an additional bell for the
church at Madeley, and an annual salary for it to be rung
every night at nine o’clock during the autumn months,
and at eight in winter; a chandelier for the church; a
bell for the use of the free school; five pounds per an-
num towards the salary of the organist of that place; a
like sum for the organist of Drayton ; a farther sum to
be applied to the enlarging and repairing the alms house
of Madeley, and clothing and educating two poor children,
until of a proper age to be put apprentice; and to his
relations two shillings and six-pence each. He has nomi-
nated six executors, J. Crewe, Esq. of Crewe Hall, the
Rev. Offley Crewe, of Muxon, the Rev. B. Stoer, of Ma-
deley, the minister of Drayton, Mr. Wilkinson, of Madeley
Manor, and Mr. Taylor, Madeley Heath.
Singular History of a Remarkable Impostor, ivho
styled himself the Hereditary Prince of Modena.
Of all the impostors, who, by favour of an assumed
name, have obtained a greater or less degree of distinc-
tion on the theatre of the world, one of the most remark-
able, on account of the singular circumstances which fa-
voured his artifices, is a young man who about the middle
of the last century appeared at Martinico, by the title of
the Hereditary Prince of Modena. The following narra-
tive of facts, relative to this youth, is by an eye-witness,
who having never been deluded, like a great number, by
his artifices, cannot be suspected of having exaggerated
the very extraordinary circumstances which led to that
delusion.
At the beginning of the year 1748, when France was
still at war with Great Britain, a small merchant-man
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