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ACCOUNT OF MR. THOMAS COOKE. 297
Verdict for the plaintiffs, to the amount of the total loss
of the vessel, and of the average loss on the seal skins, in-
j ured by the upsetting of the vessel.
Lowrieston is a young man, about 28, apparently much
injured in his health, from the hardships he had sustained,
and the wretched diet on which he had so long subsisted;
we understand his owners have contributed humanely to
his comforts, and have resolved to set on foot a subscrip-
tion for his future subsistence.
AUTHENTIC AND INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF THE LATE
MR. THOMAS COOKE,
THE CELEBRATED MISER OF PENTON VILLE.
The subject of this memoir was in truth a singular cha-
racter. Misers, in general, conceal their wealth, but Mr.
Cooke always boasted of his immense property; the ava-
ricious, likewise, deny themselves common necessaries; but
this extraordinary man took care to live well—at the expense
of others.
Mr. Cooke is said to have been born near Norwich, but ac-
cording to his own account, Clewer, a village near Windsor,
gave him birth, about the year 1/26. His father was an itine-
rant fiddler, who got his livelihood by playing at country fairs
and in alehouses; he died while his son was an infant, and an
aged grandmother, who lived at Swannington, near Norwich,
took care of young Cooke, till he was able to provide for him-
self. He was then employed in a manufactory, where there
were a great many other boys, who were paid a certain sti-
pend, according to their work, out of which they procured
their own subsistence.
In this his tender age, Thomas gave strong proofs of par-
simony. These boys always clubbed a certain sum from their
weekly earnings, for the purpose of establishing a mess,
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Verdict for the plaintiffs, to the amount of the total loss
of the vessel, and of the average loss on the seal skins, in-
j ured by the upsetting of the vessel.
Lowrieston is a young man, about 28, apparently much
injured in his health, from the hardships he had sustained,
and the wretched diet on which he had so long subsisted;
we understand his owners have contributed humanely to
his comforts, and have resolved to set on foot a subscrip-
tion for his future subsistence.
AUTHENTIC AND INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF THE LATE
MR. THOMAS COOKE,
THE CELEBRATED MISER OF PENTON VILLE.
The subject of this memoir was in truth a singular cha-
racter. Misers, in general, conceal their wealth, but Mr.
Cooke always boasted of his immense property; the ava-
ricious, likewise, deny themselves common necessaries; but
this extraordinary man took care to live well—at the expense
of others.
Mr. Cooke is said to have been born near Norwich, but ac-
cording to his own account, Clewer, a village near Windsor,
gave him birth, about the year 1/26. His father was an itine-
rant fiddler, who got his livelihood by playing at country fairs
and in alehouses; he died while his son was an infant, and an
aged grandmother, who lived at Swannington, near Norwich,
took care of young Cooke, till he was able to provide for him-
self. He was then employed in a manufactory, where there
were a great many other boys, who were paid a certain sti-
pend, according to their work, out of which they procured
their own subsistence.
In this his tender age, Thomas gave strong proofs of par-
simony. These boys always clubbed a certain sum from their
weekly earnings, for the purpose of establishing a mess,
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