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Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, With a Catalogue of His Works

Note 31 — HOGARTH.

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The fire began at the house of Mrs. Calloway, who kept a brandy-shop. This woman was committed to Newgate, it appearing among other circumstances, that she had threatened "to be even with the landlord for having given her warning, and that she would have a bonfire on the 20th of June, that should warm all her rascally neighbours."

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