The foregoing is illustrated with a quaint wood-cut, roughly executed. It is reproduced in Mr. Mason Jackson’s “Pictorial Press,” (London, 1885), and by his courtesy we are able to include it in this work.
FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES.
Copy of an engraving from a broadside entitled: “Great Britain’s Wonder, London’s Admiration. Being a True Representation of a prodigious Frost, which began about the beginning of December, 1683 and continued till the fourth day of February following.” etc.
The following is a copy of a broadside preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. It was printed for J. Shad, London, in 1684.
A WINTER WONDER; OR THE THAMES FROZEN OVER, WITH REMARKS ON THE RESORT THERE.
When Neptune saw a wondrous bridge built o’er
His silver Thames, that reach’d from shore to shore,