A SHIRT WITHOUT A SEAM.
At Dumferline, in the corporation chest is preserved a man's shirt, wrought in the loom about a century ago, by a weaver of the name of Inglis. The shirt was formed without a seam, and finished without any assistance from the needle; the only necessary parts he could not accomplish were the neck and sleeve buttons.
C.D.
In the days of King Henry VII. when the king demanded the tenth penny for carrying on the war in Britanny, and some of the courtiers in the House of Commons spoke of the king's want in a very high tone, Sir John Fineux, an eminent lawyer at that time, made use of this expression, "Mr. Speaker, before we pay anything, let us see whether we have anything we can call our own to pay with;" for which saying, the king immediately made him a judge; in which office he acted with as much integrity as in that of a representative in the Commons.
G.K.
Footnote 1: [(return)]
The reader may often have noticed in county advertisements the two sheriffs designated as one officer. Thus, in the advertisement of the recent Middlesex election:—
SIR CHAPMAN MARSHALL, } Sheriff of Middlesex.
SIR W.H. POLAND. }
Footnote 2: [(return)]This reminds one of the admiration of the Lord Mayor in Richard III. by George the Second, so ill-timedly expressed by the King to Garrick, the stage king:—
Footnote 3: [(return)]"Fine Lord Mayor! capital Lord Mayor! where you get such Lord Mayor?"
It is related, that in an election contest, in 1786, the tenant of one of the cottages had the integrity to reject £1,000 for his vote.
Footnote 4: [(return)]The great plague in 1347.
Footnote 5: [(return)]Who does not recollect the delightful narrative published some years since by Mr. Mariner, in his account of the Tonga Islands; the poem of "the Island," by Lord Byron; and countless dramatic representations of this unhappy affair. We remember an affecting version about seven years since at Sadler's Wells Theatre: and only a few weeks since a few of its incidents were embodied in a melo-dramatic piece called "Neuha's Cave, or the South Sea Mutineers," at Covent Garden Theatre.
Footnote 6: [(return)]Riocobaldi Ferrariensis Historia Imperatorum—in Muratori, vol. ix. p. 128.
Footnote 7: [(return)]Benvenuto da Imola. Comment on Dante book xx. c. 115.
Footnote 8: [(return)]Merlini Coccaii Macaronica, xviii, p. 273.
Footnote 9: [(return)]Notes to the lay of the Last Minstrel, p. 255.
Footnote 1: [(return)]
The reader may often have noticed in county advertisements the two sheriffs designated as one officer. Thus, in the advertisement of the recent Middlesex election:—
SIR CHAPMAN MARSHALL, } Sheriff of Middlesex.
SIR W.H. POLAND. }
Footnote 2: [(return)]This reminds one of the admiration of the Lord Mayor in Richard III. by George the Second, so ill-timedly expressed by the King to Garrick, the stage king:—
Footnote 3: [(return)]"Fine Lord Mayor! capital Lord Mayor! where you get such Lord Mayor?"
It is related, that in an election contest, in 1786, the tenant of one of the cottages had the integrity to reject £1,000 for his vote.
Footnote 4: [(return)]The great plague in 1347.
Footnote 5: [(return)]Who does not recollect the delightful narrative published some years since by Mr. Mariner, in his account of the Tonga Islands; the poem of "the Island," by Lord Byron; and countless dramatic representations of this unhappy affair. We remember an affecting version about seven years since at Sadler's Wells Theatre: and only a few weeks since a few of its incidents were embodied in a melo-dramatic piece called "Neuha's Cave, or the South Sea Mutineers," at Covent Garden Theatre.
Footnote 6: [(return)]Riocobaldi Ferrariensis Historia Imperatorum—in Muratori, vol. ix. p. 128.
Footnote 7: [(return)]Benvenuto da Imola. Comment on Dante book xx. c. 115.
Footnote 8: [(return)]Merlini Coccaii Macaronica, xviii, p. 273.
Footnote 9: [(return)]Notes to the lay of the Last Minstrel, p. 255.