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epitaph cited in Chester Chron. 9 May (1800) 1/3: To the Memory of Kate Jones, a wealthy spinster, ag’d fourscore, Who’d many achs [...] Knelling her friends to the grave with a church-yard cough. Long hung she on Death’s nose, till one March morn, There came a cold north east, and blew her off. Chester Chron. 30 Oct. 4/2: To Mr Tom Tell-Truth, Sir, I thank you for the caution, and will write no more novels. Yours &c. Chester Chron. 20 Dec. 3/2: A poor barber [...] exhibited a scene of distress equal to that of [...] the living bag of bones which represents the monastic porter in the Duenna. Chester Chron. 29 Feb. 4/1: [She] brought down my old wig, that’s red as a carrot, And to it she went [...] with dripping and flour did so baste it and frizzle, The hairs all became of a beautiful grizzle [...] With comb, pins and paste [...] She triumph’d at last — and subdued the old caxon. Chester Chron. 14 Mar. 4/1: Madge had taken a drap, just to moisten her whistle. Chester Chron. 15 Apr. 4/1: Rural Jack Ketch. The following is a genuine copy of a man who acts as Jack Ketch for Oxfordshire. Chester Chron. 28 Jan. 2/1: I saw a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl, married to an ill-natured brute of a busband, what a pity it is [...] she paid too much for the whistle. Chester Chron. 3 Aug. 3/3: We have been favour’d with a lumping pennyworth from a poetical wight, who stiles himself ‘Tho. Lovetrue’. Chester Chron. 5 Dec. 4/2: Walter got fuddled. Chester Chron. 3 July 3/2: A theatrical hot-bed, or the Spouter confounded. Chester Chron. 1 Sept. 4/3: Then, Toby, we should not see Boxers and bruisers patronised by leather-fisted, and, I may add, leather-headed Beings. Chester Chron. 19 July 4/1: To a Sloven. I met you t’other day, ’tis true. And passed you (dirty dog!) / Your Face quite clean, and Linen too! Chester Chron. 9 May 1/3: The Joe Miller story of an irishman who, when travelling, always breakfasted over night to save time. Chester Chron. 29 Nov. 3/1: I don’t care a brass farthing for exaggeration. Chester Chron. 1 Aug. 4/3: So much for the wisdom of twelve honest men, with a noble knight of the shears and needle for their foreman. Chester Chron. 4 June 4/2: [of a horse] Sure-footed, sleek [...] Spanker [...] has neither sick, spleen, sitfast, snaggle teeth. Chester Chron. 29 June 12/6: The subject was to be the Moon Rakers, a story peculiar to Wiltshire. It is jocosely related that a custom house officer once observed a party of Wiltshire men raking a pond [...] which was only the moon in the water [...] The painter was instructed to add [...] a smuggler with two kegs of brandy on his shoulder. Chester Chron. 6 Sept. 2/1: The real juniper juice must have been the waters of inspiration. Chester Chron. 18 Dec. 4: You know now that I am a little what is vulgarly called baker-kneed. Chester Chron. 20 Nov. 4/5: The worthy knight had palmed upon him at Paris an old caxon of Cambaceres’ - which has wrought up his head into an admiration of Bonaparte. Chester Chron. 23 July 4/1: This is the day for toeing and heeling it, / All are promenading it from high to low. Chester Chron. 29 Jan. 3/5: These were noble sentiments [...] sentiments to which every smasher, trapper, kidlayer, ring-dropper [...] and forger of bank-notes present, would heartily subscribe . Chester Chron. 29 Jan. 3/5: In 1817, when th1ings went rather queer with him, and his Creditors pressed him a little too closely, what did Bill do? — hop the twig! Chester Chron. 29 Jan. 3/5: These were noble sentiments [...] sentiments to which every smasher, trapper, kidlayer, ring-dropper [...] and forger of bank-notes present, would heartily subscribe . Chester Chron. 29 Jan. 3/5: These were noble sentiments [...] sentiments to which every smasher, trapper, kidlayer, ring-dropper [...] and forger of bank-notes present, would heartily subscribe . Chester Chron. 23 July 4/1: Commodores with timber-toes are driven from their latitude. Chester Chron. 29 Jan. 3/5: These were noble sentiments [...] sentiments to which every smasher, trapper, kidlayer, ring-dropper [...] and forger of bank-notes present, would heartily subscribe . Chester Chron. 1 Dec. 4/4: Battle Royal. A half-grown cat, more bold, perhaps, than prudent, fastened upon a large rat. Chester Chron. 29 July 3/5: He came to him ‘as bold as brass’, with a pipe in his mouth, beastly drunk. Chester Chron. 9 Sept. 4/5: Why, Sir, Jone’s mother blackguarded me sorely.