Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 207

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Mr Fawdington was here in the middle fifties, and later on drifted into stable keeping in premises opposite Tattersalls in Hereford St, which he built. Jacob Ladbrooke was his manager. Mr F. like many more indulged somewhat well, at times pretty heavily. Mr Robert Wilkin who was then looked upon as a man of large dealings in runs, sheep, machinery, seeds &c, wanted a Town Wool Store &c, and this would just suit him. The story used to go the sale was effected upon the terms of a pretty large annuity, little Fawdington, being a promising short life with his rippings. The little man took them in. He retired to Yorkshire, became quite a steady person, and for all I know is living still.

Gorby the pensioner, was simply the wearer of a nose (talk of Ally Sloper) indescribable. It bulged out into a grand bottle, throwing out beautiful excrescences at all points. When well fed up with hard stuff, it glistened and shone.

Major Atkinson had been an army man. He did not last long. Samuel Baswell, was a pensioner, having been wounded in the Crimea, and discharged on 1/1 a day. That he had drawn since 1854 – under a Provincial Act, wounded Crimean men got 30 acres of land in Canterbury, if applied for inside of three years. Baswell landed three days over time, and Mr Moorhouse did his best to bluff him out of it. The soldier however stick [sic] to them, got his 30 acres six miles from Town, which he sold in a year for £200