FOOTNOTES:
[43] He was, however, christened on Christmas Day, 1763, at Upton-Helions, near Crediton, Devon.
[44] When he first ran away to Plymouth, to go to sea, it was with a fellow-chorister—all their property 'tied up in a blue and white pocket-handkerchief;' but on this occasion they were overtaken at Ivy Bridge, and brought back to Exeter.
[45] There is an engraved portrait of him, in which he is represented as singing this song.
[46] Other authorities say October, but I have followed Parkes in the above dates; and this is a point on which he ought to have been accurate.
[47] For minuter details of the singer's professional career, an article entitled 'Leaves from a Manager's Note-Book,' in the New Monthly Magazine, for 1838, may be advantageously consulted.
[48] His third wife's name has not been traced by me.
[49] The kitchen seems always to have had attractions for poor Incledon. One night, whilst at a friend's house, he was missed for a time, but was at length discovered helping the servants to 'pick parsley' for supper. Another of his peculiarities was a fondness for all sorts of quack medicines, and cough-drops, lozenges, and the like, of which he never failed to carry a large assortment in his pocket.
[50] 'Era Almanac,' 1870.