Jane Williams had a lover trueAnd Edwards was his name,Whose visits to her father’s house,Had welcome now became.In marriage soon they would be bound,A loving man and wife,But John Hodges, a farmer’s sonWith jealousy was rife.One night he met her in the fields,And vile proposals made;How can I do this wicked thing,Young Jane then weeping said.He quickly threw her on the ground,He seized her by surprise,And did accomplish his foul actDespite her tears and cries.Her lover passing by that way,Discovered her in tears,And when he found what had been doneHe pulled the monster’s ears.Young Hodges with the bill-hook,Then cut young Edwards down;And by one fatal blow he felledJane Williams on the ground.There side by side the lovers layWeltering in their blood:Young Jane was dead, her lover lived,Though ebb’d away life’s flood.Old Williams sought his daughter dear,When awful to relate,He found her lifeless body there,Her lover’s dreadful fate.Now in one grave they both do lie,These lovers firm and true,Who by a cruel man were slainWho’ll soon receive his due.In prison now he is confined,To answer for the crime.Two lovers that he murdered,Cut off when in their prime.
Jane Williams had a lover trueAnd Edwards was his name,Whose visits to her father’s house,Had welcome now became.In marriage soon they would be bound,A loving man and wife,But John Hodges, a farmer’s sonWith jealousy was rife.One night he met her in the fields,And vile proposals made;How can I do this wicked thing,Young Jane then weeping said.He quickly threw her on the ground,He seized her by surprise,And did accomplish his foul actDespite her tears and cries.Her lover passing by that way,Discovered her in tears,And when he found what had been doneHe pulled the monster’s ears.Young Hodges with the bill-hook,Then cut young Edwards down;And by one fatal blow he felledJane Williams on the ground.There side by side the lovers layWeltering in their blood:Young Jane was dead, her lover lived,Though ebb’d away life’s flood.Old Williams sought his daughter dear,When awful to relate,He found her lifeless body there,Her lover’s dreadful fate.Now in one grave they both do lie,These lovers firm and true,Who by a cruel man were slainWho’ll soon receive his due.In prison now he is confined,To answer for the crime.Two lovers that he murdered,Cut off when in their prime.
A FunnyDIALOGUE
Butcher.—Well, Mr. Mackerel, pray let me ask you how you come to show your impudent face among those who don’t want to see you or any of your crew?
Mackerel.—That my company is not agreeable to many such as you I very well know; but here I am, and will keep my place in spite of you. Don’t think to frighten me with your lofty looks, Mr. Green. You are an enemy to the poor, I am their true friend, and I will be in spite of you.
Butcher.—I will soon see the end of you and your vain boasting. What’s the poor to me?
Mackerel.—I and thousands of my brethren are come to town for the sole good of the industrious poor. We will soon pull down your high prices, your pride and consequence, and Melt your fat off your overgrown Carcass. I am their sworn friend, and although you are biting off your tongue with vexation, yet I am determined they shall have a cheap Meal—good, sweet, and wholesome—put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Butcher.—Aye, aye. You are a saucy set, confound you altogether. Oddzbobs, I wish the Devil had the whole of your disagreeable tribe.
Mackerel.—I would advise you, Mr. Green, not to show your teeth when you can’t bite. Millions of my friends are on their way to town to make the poor rejoice. We have had a fine seed time, everything looks promising. Meat must and will come down. The poor will sing for joy, and you may go hang yourself in your garters.
Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth Court,Cards, Bills, &c., Printed on Low Terms.
Catnach, to the day of his retirement from business in 1838, when he purchased the freehold of a disused public-house, which had been known as the Lion Inn, together with the grounds attached at Dancer’s Hill, South Mimms, near Barnet, in the county of Middlesex, worked and toiled in the office of the “Catnach Press,” in which he had moved as the pivot, or directing mind, for a quarter of a century. He lived and died a bachelor. His only idea of all earthly happiness and mental enjoyment was now to get away in retirement to a convenient distance from his old place of business, so to give him an opportunity occasionally to go up to town and have a chat and a friendly glass with one or two old paper-workers and ballad-writers, and a few others connected with his peculiar trade who had shown any disposition to work when work was to be done. To them he was always willing to give or advance a few pence or shillings, in money or stock, and a glass—
“Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress;A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!”
But Jemmy knew the men that were “skulkers,” as he termed them, and there was no coin, stock, or a glass for them. He invariably drank whiskey, a spirit not in general demand in England in those days. Gin was then, as now, the reigning favourite with the street folks. When the question was put to him in reference to his partiality to whiskey, he always replied—the Scotch blood proudly rising in his veins, and with a strong Northumberland burr, which never wholly forsook him, particularly when warmed by argument or drink—that, “He disdained to tipple with ‘stuff,’ by means of which all the women of the town got drunk. I am of Catnach. Yes! there’s Catnach blood in me. Catnach—King Catnach—Catnach, King of thePicts. We descend in a right straight line from the Picts. That’s the sort of blood-of-blood that flows in the veins of all the true-bred Catnachs.” Jemmy would be for continually arguing when in his cups, and the old and the more artful of the street-folk would let him have all the say and grandeur that he then felt within him on the subject, well knowing that they would be much more likely to have their glasses replenished by agreeing with him than by contradicting him. Even in his sober moments Jemmy always persisted, right or wrong, that the Catnachs, or Catternachs, were descended direct from a King of the Picts. Yet, what is somewhat anomalous, he was himself a rigid churchman and a staunch old Tory, “one of the olden time,” and “as full of the glorious Constitution as the first volume of Blackstone.”
On Catnach’s retirement from the business, he left it to Mrs. Annie Ryle, his sister, charged, nevertheless, to the amount of £1,000 payable at his death to the estate of his niece, Marion Martha Ryle. In the meanwhile Mr. James Paul acted as managing man for Mrs. Ryle. This Mr. Paul—of whom Jemmy was very fond, and rumour saith, had no great dislike to the mother—had grown from a boy to a man in the office of the “Catnach Press.” He was therefore, well acquainted with the customers, by whom he was much respected; and it was by his tact and judgment that the business was kept so well together. He married a Miss Crisp, the daughter of a publican in the immediate neighbourhood.
Catnach did not long enjoy or survive his retirement. After the novelty of looking, as the poet Cowper puts it, and no doubt in his case found it, “Through the loop-holes of retreat, to see the stir of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd,” had wornitself out, “James Catnach, Gentleman, formerly of Monmouth Court, Monmouth Street, Printer,” grew dull in his “Old Bachelor’s Box;” he was troubled with hypochondriasis, and a liver overloaded with bile, and was further off than ever from being a happy man. He had managed to rake and scrape together—as far as we can get any knowledge—some £5,000 or £6,000, although £10,000 and upwards is mostly put down to him. However, he had grabbed for and caught a fair amount of “siller and gold,” but it failed to realize to him—
An elegant sufficiency, content,Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,Ease and alternate labour, useful life,Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
No! all he had realized was that unenviable position so popularly known as of a man not knowing what to do with himself. His visits to town were now much more frequent and of longer duration, and for hours he would sit and loiter about the shops and houses of his old neighbours, so that he might catch a glimpse, or enjoy a friendly chat with his old friends and customers. At length he got sick at heart, “wearied to the bone,” and sighed for the bustle of London Life.
From the following letter written to his sister, Mrs. Ryle, in 1840, and now before us, we glean something of his state of mind and bodily health:—
July, 4th, 40.Dear Sister,—I have been very ill for these last three weeks. I was obliged to send for Dr. Morris to cup me, which did some good for a few days, since then the pains have gone into my breast and ribs, and for the last three days I have kept my bed, and could take nothing but a little tea and water-gruel. I wish you to procure me 6 Bills to stick on my window shutters, outside and in, “This House to be Let,” and send them with ½lb Tea as soon as possible—but do not send them by Salmon’s Coach, for he will not leave them atJackson’s as Wild does, but sends a boy with it, which costs me double porterage. I feel the loss of my jelly now I am so ill, and can eat little or nothing, it would have done my throat good. I have a great crop of black and red berries [currants] if you choose I will send them up, and you can make some jelly for us both; let me know as soon as you can, say Wednesday morning and I will make the Postwoman call for the parcel at Jackson’s. I also wish you to enquire of Carr what is the lowest he will take for the rooms over Mrs. Morgan, by the ½ year.I have nothing more to say but to be remembered to Mary and Paul, and remainYours truly James CatnachPray send a paper of the execution of the Valet, and the trial of Oxford—Mrs. Westley has not sent me 1 paper since I was last in town—neither has Thornton.Mrs. Ryle,2 & 3, Monmouth Court,Compton Street, London.
July, 4th, 40.
Dear Sister,—
I have been very ill for these last three weeks. I was obliged to send for Dr. Morris to cup me, which did some good for a few days, since then the pains have gone into my breast and ribs, and for the last three days I have kept my bed, and could take nothing but a little tea and water-gruel. I wish you to procure me 6 Bills to stick on my window shutters, outside and in, “This House to be Let,” and send them with ½lb Tea as soon as possible—but do not send them by Salmon’s Coach, for he will not leave them atJackson’s as Wild does, but sends a boy with it, which costs me double porterage. I feel the loss of my jelly now I am so ill, and can eat little or nothing, it would have done my throat good. I have a great crop of black and red berries [currants] if you choose I will send them up, and you can make some jelly for us both; let me know as soon as you can, say Wednesday morning and I will make the Postwoman call for the parcel at Jackson’s. I also wish you to enquire of Carr what is the lowest he will take for the rooms over Mrs. Morgan, by the ½ year.
I have nothing more to say but to be remembered to Mary and Paul, and remain
Yours truly James Catnach
Pray send a paper of the execution of the Valet, and the trial of Oxford—Mrs. Westley has not sent me 1 paper since I was last in town—neither has Thornton.
Mrs. Ryle,2 & 3, Monmouth Court,Compton Street, London.
Ultimately Catnach hired the rooms he speaks about in the body of his letter to his sister, which were on the first floor of No. 6, Monmouth Court. All the vacant space in his old premises being now fully occupied by Mrs. Ryle, and her assistants, now “the humble cottage fenc’d with osiers round,” which to his leisure afforded no pleasure, was entirely deserted, and in London he fretted out the remaining portion of his life. He soon grew peevish, and his brain got a little out of balance, then he listlessly wandered in and out of the streets, courts, and alleys, “infirm of purpose.” On stormy days and nights to stand and view the lightning from Waterloo Bridge was his special delight, and wonder. His temper and liver were now continuallyout of order, and which whiskey, even “potations pottle deep,” failed to relieve. At length he died of jaundice, in the very London court in which he had muck’d and grubbed for the best part of his life, on the first day of February, 1841. Like other great men of history he has severallocalesmentioned as his final resting-place—Hornsey, Barnet, South Mimms, &c.
Urbes, certarunt septem de patria Homeri,Nulla domus vivo patria fuit.Seven cities strove whence Homer first should come, When living, he no country had nor home:—Tom Nash, 1599.Seven Grecian cities vied for Homer dead,Through which the living Homer begged his bread.Seven cities vied for Homer’s birth, with emulation pious,—Salamis, Samos, Colophon, Rhodes, Argos, Athens, Chios.—From the Greek.
Urbes, certarunt septem de patria Homeri,Nulla domus vivo patria fuit.
Seven cities strove whence Homer first should come, When living, he no country had nor home:—Tom Nash, 1599.
Seven Grecian cities vied for Homer dead,Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Seven cities vied for Homer’s birth, with emulation pious,—Salamis, Samos, Colophon, Rhodes, Argos, Athens, Chios.—From the Greek.
But Catnach lies buried in Highgate Cemetery, in one of the two plots that Mrs. Ryle purchased sometime previous to her brother’s death. The official number of the grave is 256,Square29, over which is placed a flat stone, inscribed:—
IN MEMORY OFJAMES CATNACH,Of Dancer’s Hill.DIED 1st FEBRUARY, 1841,Aged 49.ANNE RYLE,Sister to the above, and widow of Joseph Ryle, who died inIndia, 10th October, 1823. She died 20th April, 1870,Aged 75.Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
The freehold in the other plot of ground, after Catnach’s death, was transferred to Mr. Robert Palmer Harding, the accountant of London, who married Catnach’s niece. The stone records the death ofElizabeth Cornelia, third daughter of Robert Palmer Harding and Marion Martha Harding, born 9 June, 1848, died 8 of November, 1848; andGreville, second son of the above, born 29 May, 1856, died 3 September, 1856. This grave is now numbered 5179. We have been thus minute in respect to Catnach’s grave, from the circumstance of our having received so many contradictory statements as to its whereabouts. But however, we have removed all doubt from our mind by a personal visit to the Highgate Cemetery where under the guidance of the very civil and obliging superintendent of the grounds, Mr. W. F. Tabois, we were conducted to the spot we required, then introduced to Mr. Marks, the sexton, “here man and boy thirty years,” and whom we found very intelligent and communicative on varioussubjects—
“Fromgraveto gay, from lively to severe.”
After Catnach’s death, Mr. James Paul entered into partnership with Mrs. Ryle, and then the business was carried on under the title and style of A. Ryle and Paul. In 1845 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Paul receiving £800 in settlement. He then entered into the public line taking the Spencer’s Arms, at the corner of the Monmouth Court. A son that was born to him in 1847, he had christened James Catnach Paul. He died in the year 1870, just six weeks after Mrs. Ryle, and lies buried in the next grave but one to Catnach and his sister.
After Mr. Paul had left the business it was carried on as Ryle & Co., and ultimately became the property of Mr. W. S. Fortey, who still carries on the old business in the same quarter.
For the purpose of clearing up, if possible, some contradictory statements, a few years ago we made personal search through the musty-fusty red-tapeism of Doctor’s Commons for the Will and Testament—or “Last Dying Speech” of “James Catnach, of Dancer’s Hill, South Mimms, in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman, formerly of Monmouth Court, Monmouth Street, Printer,” an office copy of which, together with Probate and Administration Act, we give below, by which it will be seen that the Personal Effects are sworn to as under three hundred pounds. But this gives us no idea of the value of his “Freehold, Copyhold, or Leasehold Estate” mentioned in the body of the Will.
“Extracted from the principal Registryof Her Majesty’s Court of Probate.
“In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury—
“This is the last Will and Testamentof me JAMES CATNACH of Dancers Hill, South Mimms in the County of Middlesex Gentleman formerly of Monmouth Court Monmouth Street Printer I direct that my just debts funeral and testamentary expences be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease and subject thereto I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal Estate whatever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever to my Sister Anne the Widow of Joseph Ryle now residing in Monmouth Court aforesaid her heirs executors and administrators according to the nature and qualities thereof respectively In trust nevertheless for her Daughter Marion Martha Ryle her heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively when she shall attain theage of twenty one years absolutely with power in the meantime to apply the rents interest dividends or proceeds thereof for and towards the maintenance education and advancement of the said Marion Martha Ryle and notwithstanding the private means of my said Sister may be adequate to such purpose but if the said Marion Martha Ryle shall depart this life before she shall attain the age of twenty one years then I give devise and bequeath all my said real and personal Estate to my said Sister her heirs executors administrators and assigns absolutely I hereby direct that during the minority of the said Marion Martha Ryle it shall be lawful for the said Anne Ryle her heirs executors administrators to demise or lease all or any part of my freehold copyhold or leasehold Estate for any term consistent with the tenure thereof not exceeding twenty one years so that on every such demise the best yearly rent be reserved that can be obtained for the property which shall be therein comprised without taking any fine or premium and so that the tenant or lessee be not made dispunishable for waste I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said Sister sole Executrix of this my Will and hereby revoking all former and other Wills by me at any time heretofore made I declare this to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the twenty second day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine—JAMES CATNACH—Signed and acknowledged by the above named James Catnach as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto set our names as Witnesses—William Kinsey 13 Suffolk St. Pall Mall Solr.—Wm. Tookey his Clerk.”
[The Probate and Administration Act.]
“Extractedfrom the principal Registryof Her Majesty’s Court of Probate.
“In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury—
April, 1842.
“JAMES CATNACH—On the second day of April administration (with the Will annexed) of the Goods Chattels and Credits of James Catnach formerly of Monmouth Court Monmouth Street Printer but late of Dancers Hill South Mimms both in the county of Middlesex Gentleman deceased was granted to William Kinsey Esquire the Curator or Guardian lawfully assigned to Marion Martha Ryle Spinster a Minor the Niece and usufructuary Universal Legate until she shall attain the age of twenty one years and the absolute Universal Legatee on attaining that age named in the said Will for the use and benefit of the said minor and until she shall attain the age of twenty one years have been first sworn duly to administer Anne Ryle Widow the Sister sole Executrix Universal Legatee In trust and the contingent universal Legatee named in the said Will and also the natural and lawful Mother and next of kin of the said minor having first renounced the probate and execution of the said Will and the Letters of administration (with the said Will annexed) of the goods of the said deceased and also the Curation or Guardianship of the said Minor and consented (as by Acts of Court appear)—
EFFECTS UNDER THREE HUNDRED POUNDS.
It is gratifying to be able to record that what the late Mr. Catnach was to the masses in the way of news provider some fifty years ago, the penny papers are now, with this exception, that the former tended to lower and degrade their pursuit after knowledge, the latter, on the contrary, improve and elevate them while they amuse and instruct all who peruse their contents. With the march of intellect, and the thirst for knowledge blended with the desire for truth, out went, to a great extent, the penny broad-sheet. Several persons made the attempt to revive it long after the death of the great original Jemmy Catnach, but without success.
FINIS.
THE INDEX. The be-all and the end-all here.
INDEX.
Adelaide, Queen,89A Funny Dialogue,294Alnwick—The Borough of,1"St. Michael’s Church,2"Parish Register,2"Catnach’s shop in,3"Register of Death,3"Printing Press in,4"The Catnach Press,4"The Castle,6"The Abbey,6"Davison’s business,9"Election at,74Attack on William IV,88Ballads:—Banks of the Nile,239"Crazy Jane,240"Death of Nelson,236"Drink to me eyes,228"Gallant Sailor,224"Meet me Willow Glen,227"Mistletoe Bough,229"Mountain Maid,226"O Rare Turpin,225"Rose will cease to blow,230"Scarlet Flower,237"Sun that lights Roses,233"The Thorn,238"True Hearted Sailor,231"When Bibo though fit,232"Woodpecker, The,234"Ye Topers all,235Benton, Mrs.neeElizabeth Catnach,38Bewick, T., wood-engraver,14Bewick Collector, The,16Bewick:—SeeBooksBewick’s Illustrations—SeeBooks.Bishop and Williams,84Black Sal and Dusty Bob,45Books printed by John Catnach:—"Beauties of Natural History4"Chevy Chase,34"Cock Robin,8"Dr. Johnson’s Works,34"Hermit of Warkworth,5"Life of Thompson,34"Stockdale’s Poems,4——By Catnach and Davison:—"Beattie’s Minstrel,9"Blair’s Grave,9"Burn’s Poems,13"Gray’s Elegy,9——By Davison:—"Crazy Jane,12"Ferguson’s Poems,14"Guess Book, The,17,32"Halfpenny Books,16"Northumberland Minstrel,15"Repository, The,11——Illustrated by Bewick."Beauties of Natural History,4"Burn’s Poems,13"Blair’s Grave,9"Hermit of Warkworth,5"Repository, The,11"Stockdale’s Poems,4Brown, Mrs., murdered,91Brunswick Theatre, The,77Burkers, The,84Burnie, Sir Richard,43Burradon Ghost, The,4Caroline, Queen, The trial of,46Verses on,47,48,50Death of,49,51Cato Street Conspiracy, The,45,46Catchpennies:—Apparition, The,261"Burning Shame,281"Cruel Murder,264"Execution of Ward,273"Extraordinary Marriage,285"Horrid Murder,267"Liverpool Tragedy,270"Murder by a Soldier,269"Murder of Capt. Lawson264"Murder of Two Lovers,291"Secrets Revealed,269"Scarborough Tragedy,265"Shocking News,289"Shocking Rape,291Catnach, John—the father, born,1"Married,2"At Alnwick,3,4,5,8"At Newcastle,33"A Bankrupt,35"In London,35,36"Death of,37Catnach, James, born 1792,2"His early life,38"Arrives in London,40"Imprisoned for 6 months,43"Queen Caroline,47"Verses on Caroline,48"Life in London,57,63"At Alnwick,75,76"And Mother Cummins,81"His education,94"Nursery books,94"Christmas Carols,242"His Woodcuts,257"Dying Speeches,258"His Retirement,295"At Dancer’s Hill,296"Letter to his sister,297"Return to London,298"Death of,299"Will of the,301Charlotte, The Princess of,42"""Death of,43Christmas Carols,241 to 255Collins, Dennis,88Copy of Affectionate Verses,65,66,67,68,80,292Clennell, Luke,4Corder, Wm., The murderer,79""Execution of,80Cruikshank, George,54Cruikshank, Robert,55Cubitt’s Treadmill,64Cummins “Mother”,81and Catnach,81-2-3Davison of Alnwick:—Davison and Catnach,1"Partnership,9-11"His chemistry,9"Death of,15Dennis Collins,88Earl Grey,87Executions—Public of:—Bishop and Williams,85Courvoisier,92Corder,92Fauntleroy, Mr. H., banker,73Five Pirates, The,92Greenacre,92Muller,92Mannings,92Pegsworth,91Thurtell,72False News, circulating of,14Flying Stationer, The,66Fortey, Mr.,242-300George the III, death of,45George the IV,45Goldie, Mr., of Alnwick,94Graham, printer, Alnwick,39Greenacre and Gale,91Gurney, Mr. Baron,89Haines, Mrs.neeMary Catnach,38“Hanging Matches”,65Hugo, Rev. Thomas,13,15"his Bewick collector,16,39Jane Williams,292Juvenile Books:—A Apple Pie,177Butterfly’s Ball,163Cinderella,203Cock Robin,199Easter Gift, The,171Golden Pippin, The,113Good Child’s Alphabet,207Guess Book, The,17Jack Jingle,197Jerry Diddle,129Jumping Joan,145Mother Hubbard,187New Year’s Gift,205Nurse Love-child’s,97Nursery Rhymes,193Red Riding Hood,201Simple Simon,195Kent, Duke of, his death,45Life in London, by Pierce Egan,52on the Stage,54Catnach’s version57,63Thackeray on,64Likeness of the Murderer,69""William Corder,79Lindsay, Printer, &c.,4Long, Song Seller, The,221Marten, Maria, Murder of,78""Verses on,80Mayhew’s “London Labour”,69,92Morgan, John, Poet!,43,47,82Paul, Mr.,296,300Pitts, John,40"Old Mother,41Pizzey, Sausage Maker, The43,44Pocock, Mr. C. J. of Brighton,57Red Barn, The,78Reform Bill, The,87Ryle, Mrs. Anne,296,297"death of,299"Marion Martha,296Sarah Gale,91Seven Dials, The Bards of,40,41""The Trade in,42""and Queen Caroline,47Shocking Rape and Murder,291Smith, Mark, of Alnwick:—"Apprenticed to Catnach,9"in London,35"in Alnwick,74"his autograph,39"the death of,74Songs, 3 yards-a-penny,222Thistlewood, The Conspirator,46Thompson, John, Life of,34Thurtell, and Weare,70"Execution of,72Tom and Jerry,53,55"the Tears of,55Treadmill, The,64Vestris, Madame,89Vint, John, Printer, &c.,4Walker, Mr., Paternoster Row,35Weare, Mr., Murder of,70William the IV,88Willoughby family Alnwick,36
Footnotes:
[1]Friendly Lead, a gathering at a low public-house, for the purpose of assisting some one who is “in trouble,”i.e., in prison, or who has just “come out of trouble,” or who is in want of a “mouthpiece” to defend him, and so forth.
[2]This is an error—See page 76.
[3]The numbers at the close of the Poll on Saturday, 24th March, at three o’clock, stood as under:—
[4]Mr. George Skelly—Alnwick.
[5]At an interview which we had in 1877 with
E Benton
Née.Elizabeth Catnach, the last survivor of the family of John and Mary Catnach, she informed us that the MS. book alluded to above, remained in the family for many years, and was last known to be in the possession of the sister Mary—Mrs. Haines, of Gosport, to the date of about 1863.
[6]Pitts, a modern publisher of love garlands, merriments, penny ballads,
“Who, ere he went to heaven,Domiciled in Dials Seven!”—G. Daniel’s“Democritus in London.”
[7]The late John Camden Hotten’s Introduction to the new edition of “Life in London.” Chatto & Windus: Piccadilly.
[8]Our thanks are due, and are hereby given to Mr. Crawford John Pocock, of Cannon Place, Brighton, for the loan and use of his—what we feel almost inclined to consider—unique copy of Catnach’s broadside of “Life in London.”
[9]The above copied,verbatimAt our request, by Mr. George Skelly, of Alnwick.
[10]E. L. Blanchard, in an article entitled, “Vanished Theatres,” in theEra Almanack, 1877.
Text of Image onpage 96.
Little Boys and Girls will findAtCatnach’ssomething to their mind,From great variety may choose,What will instruct them and amuse;The prettiest plates that you can find,To please at once the eye and mind,In all his little books appear,In natural beauty, shining clear,Instruction unto youth when given,Points the path from earth to heaven.He sells by Wholesale and Retail.To suit all moral tastes can’t fail.
Text of Image onpage 193.
THERoyal Book.
OFNursery Rhymes.