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Biography.
BIOGRAPHY .
ODDITIES OF MR . HAGEMORE ,
THE Rev . Mr . Hagemore , of Calthorp , Leicestershire , died the istof January 174 6 , possessed of the following effects , viz . 700 I . per annum , and ioool . in money , which ( he dying intestate ) fell to a ticket-porter in London . He kept one servant of each sex , whom he locked up every night . His last employment in an evening was to round his preim ' et
go ses ^ loose his dogs , and fire his gun . I-Ie lost his life as follows ; going one morning to Iet ' out his servants , the dogs fawned upon him suddenl y , and threw him into a pond , where he was breast-high . The servants heard him call out for assistance , but , being locked up , could not lend him any . He had thirty gowns and cassocks , fifty-ei ght dogs , one hundred of breeches hundred
pair , one pair of boots , four hundred pair of shoes , eighty wigs , yet always wore his own hair , eightv waggons and carts ' erghtyploughs , and used none , fifty saddles andfurniture for the menage , thirty wheel-barrows , so many walking-sticks that a toyman in Leicester-fields bid his executor ei ght pounds for them , sixty horses and . mares , three hundred pickaxes , two hundred spades and shovels , ' seventy-five ladders , and two hundred and forty razors .
An Account of certain English People , who , in the year 1569 , makinc •' a Voyage to the East Ladies , were cast away , and wrecked upon an uninhabited Lsland , near the Coast of Terra Austral is Incognita , and all drowned except one Man and four Women . Given by ' Cornelius van Sloetten , Captain of a Dutch Ship , which was driven there by foul Weather in the Tear 166 7 , who found their Posterit y ( speakhur lishlo the Amount
good Eng ) often or twelve thousand Souls . . | pERTAIN English merchants , encouraged by the great adyan-V ^ tages arising from the Eastern commodities , in the vetu- i <; 6 g having obtained Queen Elizabeth ' s roval licence , furnished out for the EastIndies four shi
- ps , of which English was chosen factor who embarked , on the third of April , O . S . with his wife and family ' consisting of a son of twelve years old , a daughter of fourteen two iriaid servants , a female negro slave , and George Pine , his bookkeeper , on board one of the said ships , called the East-India Merchant , of co tons , being provided with all manner of necessaries and convemencies , in order to settle a factory there . By the 14 th 0 f M ^ y they were in si ght of the Canaries ; and soon
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Biography.
BIOGRAPHY .
ODDITIES OF MR . HAGEMORE ,
THE Rev . Mr . Hagemore , of Calthorp , Leicestershire , died the istof January 174 6 , possessed of the following effects , viz . 700 I . per annum , and ioool . in money , which ( he dying intestate ) fell to a ticket-porter in London . He kept one servant of each sex , whom he locked up every night . His last employment in an evening was to round his preim ' et
go ses ^ loose his dogs , and fire his gun . I-Ie lost his life as follows ; going one morning to Iet ' out his servants , the dogs fawned upon him suddenl y , and threw him into a pond , where he was breast-high . The servants heard him call out for assistance , but , being locked up , could not lend him any . He had thirty gowns and cassocks , fifty-ei ght dogs , one hundred of breeches hundred
pair , one pair of boots , four hundred pair of shoes , eighty wigs , yet always wore his own hair , eightv waggons and carts ' erghtyploughs , and used none , fifty saddles andfurniture for the menage , thirty wheel-barrows , so many walking-sticks that a toyman in Leicester-fields bid his executor ei ght pounds for them , sixty horses and . mares , three hundred pickaxes , two hundred spades and shovels , ' seventy-five ladders , and two hundred and forty razors .
An Account of certain English People , who , in the year 1569 , makinc •' a Voyage to the East Ladies , were cast away , and wrecked upon an uninhabited Lsland , near the Coast of Terra Austral is Incognita , and all drowned except one Man and four Women . Given by ' Cornelius van Sloetten , Captain of a Dutch Ship , which was driven there by foul Weather in the Tear 166 7 , who found their Posterit y ( speakhur lishlo the Amount
good Eng ) often or twelve thousand Souls . . | pERTAIN English merchants , encouraged by the great adyan-V ^ tages arising from the Eastern commodities , in the vetu- i <; 6 g having obtained Queen Elizabeth ' s roval licence , furnished out for the EastIndies four shi
- ps , of which English was chosen factor who embarked , on the third of April , O . S . with his wife and family ' consisting of a son of twelve years old , a daughter of fourteen two iriaid servants , a female negro slave , and George Pine , his bookkeeper , on board one of the said ships , called the East-India Merchant , of co tons , being provided with all manner of necessaries and convemencies , in order to settle a factory there . By the 14 th 0 f M ^ y they were in si ght of the Canaries ; and soon