FOOTNOTES
Reading edition
“By danger we’re encompass’d round; Pray, lend a hand, our ship’s aground.”
It may here be added that formerly, throughout the town, the public houses had illustrated signs and poetic effusions. Thus the “Bell,” in Russell Street, now the “Nelson,” had for its sign, an inverted bell, and the annexed inscription:—
“Good liquor here is to be found; The Bell for luck’s turn’d upside down.”
“White Hart, Russell Street, Brighton.
1824. The Honourable Churchwardens of Brighton.
To Phinehas Jupp.
£ s. d.
March 25th.—61 Pots of Beer 1 10 6
1 Pint do. 0 0 3
June 25th.—74 Pots of Beer 1 17 0
Sept. 29th.—89 Pots of Beer 2 4 6
Decr. 25th.—82 Pots of Beer 2 1 0
£7 13 3
Jany. 21, 1825.
Received of the Churchwardens, the sum of seven pounds 13s 3d, as per bill, for Beer for workmen at the Parish Church.
£7 13s 3d. Phinehas Jupp.”
Whether the recipients were permitted to indulge in their libations. ad libitum, is not on record.
Her baptism is thus recorded in the parish register of Pyecombe, Sussex, the village in which she was horn:—December 26, 1758: Baptised Richard and Jane, children of Robert Marchant and Sarah his Wife.
She in affliction bore a son, The milk forsook her breast, Her legs they mortified and run, But hope she’s now at rest.