Gents Mag 1760 p.317
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Gentleman's Magazine 1760 p.317
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Robert Walker
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Robert Walker of
Seathwaite
These letters were also published in the Annual Register 1760, and are believed to be about Robert Walker of Seathwaite. BUT: the letters refer to Mr W of L? L for Lancashire? ... ... Mr URBAN, THE following Letters being authentic, deserve, I think, to be inserted, as a remarkable Instance of the happy Effects of indefatigable and cheerful Industry. I have only to put the initial Letters of the names mentioned and am Yours &c. To Mr ---- C---ne, July 26, 1754. SIR, I Was the other day upon a party of pleasure about five or six miles from this place, where I met with a very striking object, and of a nature not very common. Going into a clergyman's house (of whom I had frequently heard, but with whom I had never any personal acquaintance) I found him sitting at the head of a long square table, such as commonly used in this country by the lower class of people, dressed in a course blue frock, trimmed with black horn buttons; a check'd shirt, a leather strap about his neck for a stock, a course apron, and pair of great heavy wooden sol'd shoes, plated with iron to preserve them (what we call clogs in these parts) with a child upon his knee eating his breakfast: His wife, and the remainder of his family, which consists of nine children, were some of them employed on waiting on each other, the rest in teazing and spinning wool, at which trade he himself is a great proficient: And, moreover, when it is made ready for sale, will lug it by 16 or 32 pounds weight at a time upon his back, and on foot seven or eight miles to market, even in the depth of winter. I was not much suprized at all this, as you may possibly be, having |
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