Let this small monument record the name Of _Cadman_, and to future times proclaim How, by an attempt to fly from this high spire Across the _Sabrine_ stream, he did acquire His fatal end. 'Twas not for want of skill, Or courage, to perform the task, he fell: No, no,--a faulty cord, being drawn too tight, Hurry'd his soul on high to take her flight, Which bid the body here beneath, good night. A prelate being asked permission for a line to be fixed to the steeple of a cathedral church, for this daring adventurer, replied, the man might fix _to_ the church whenever he pleased, but he should never give his consent to any one's flying _from_ it. It seems that some exhibitor of the same kind met with a similar inhibition here in _London_. I learn from _Mist's_ Journal for _July_ 8, 1727, that a sixpenny pamphlet, intituled, "The Devil to pay at _St. James's_, &c."[6] was published on this occasion, Again, in _The Weekly Miscellany_ for _April_ 17, 1736. "_Thomas Kidman_, the famous Flyer, who has flown from several of the highest precipices in _England_, and was the person that flew off _Bromham_ steeple in _Wiltshire_ when it fell down, flew, on _Monday_ last, from the highest of the rocks near _The Hot-well_ at _Bristol_, with fire-works and pistols; after which he went up the rope, and performed several surprising dexterities on it, in sight of thousands of spectators, both from _Somersetshire_ and _Gloucestershire_." In this print also is a portrait which has been taken for that of Dr. _Rock_, but was more probably meant for another Quack, who used to draw a crowd round him by seeming to eat fire, which, having his checks puffed up with tow, he blew out of his mouth.[7] Some other particulars are explained in the notes to the poetical epistle already mentioned. [1] In the Craftsman, 1733, was this advertisment; "Mr. _Hogarth_ being now engraving nine copper-plates from pictures of his own painting, one of which represents the Humours of a Fair, the other eight the Progress of a Rake, intends to publish the prints by subscription, on the following terms: each subscription to be one guinea and a half: half-a-guinea to be paid at the time of subscribing, for which a receipt will be given on a new-etched print, and the other payment of one guinea on delivery of all the prints when finished, which will be with all convenient speed, and the time publicly advertised. The Fair, being already finished, will be delivered at the time of subscribing. Subscriptions will be taken in at Mr. _Hogarth's_, the _Golden Head_, in _Leicester Fields_, where the pictures are to be seen."