Note 565 — Chapter XXV · TWO YEARS OF MARRIED LIFE AT MADELEY. 1782 AND 1783.
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Deep indentations in the stone pillars of the vicarage gate still exist, occasioned by the Sunday visitors to Madeley sharpening their knives to eat their dinners. (Randall’s “Lives and Usefulness of the Rev. J. and Mary Fletcher,” p. 33.)