'Unrivalled in his native minstrelsy.' One of his sons, Charles, who had been unsuccessful as a farmer near Bury St. Edmund's, attempted, under Braham's auspices, to succeed as a singer: he made his _début_ either as Hawthorn in 'Love in a Village,' or as Young Meadows, at Covent Garden, on the 3rd October, 1829; but in this attempt, too, the poor fellow (who had a large family, and who had, moreover, a strong objection to the stage on moral and religious grounds) failed. Another son, Frank, became a well-to-do London tradesman; and a daughter married well, and settled in Sunderland. FOOTNOTES: [43] He was, however, christened on Christmas Day, 1763, at Upton-Helions, near Crediton, Devon. [44] When he first ran away to Plymouth, to go to sea, it was with a fellow-chorister--all their property 'tied up in a blue and white pocket-handkerchief;' but on this occasion they were overtaken at Ivy Bridge, and brought back to Exeter. [45] There is an engraved portrait of him, in which he is represented as singing this song. [46] Other authorities say October, but I have followed Parkes in the above dates; and this is a point on which he ought to have been accurate. [47] For minuter details of the singer's professional career, an article entitled 'Leaves from a Manager's Note-Book,' in the _New Monthly Magazine_, for 1838, may be advantageously consulted. [48] His third wife's name has not been traced by me. [49] The kitchen seems always to have had attractions for poor Incledon. One night, whilst at a friend's house, he was missed for a time, but was at length discovered helping the servants to 'pick parsley' for supper. Another of his peculiarities was a fondness for all sorts of quack medicines, and cough-drops, lozenges, and the like, of which he never failed to carry a large assortment in his pocket. [50] 'Era Almanac,' 1870. _THE KILLIGREWS_; DIPLOMATISTS, WARRIORS, COURTIERS, AND POETS. [Illustration: (beginning of chapter vignette.)] _THE KILLIGREWS_; DIPLOMATISTS, WARRIORS, COURTIERS, AND POETS. 'Fuimus.'