Note 49 — TABLE TALK; OR, ORIGINAL ESSAYS ON MEN AND MANNERS (continued 5)
Reading edition
This name was originally spelt Braughton in the manuscript, and was altered to Branghton by a mistake of the printer. Branghton, however, was thought a good name for the occasion, and was suffered to stand. ‘Dip it in the ocean,’ as Sterne’s barber says of the buckle, ‘and it will stand!’