/Richard Parker, the Mutineer/ 355 /Benjamin Kennicott/, /D.D./ 369 /Captain John Avery/ 375 /Joanna Southcott/ 390 /The Stoke Resurrectionists/ 405 /“The Beggars’ Opera” and Gay’s Chair/ 414 /Bampfylde-Moore Carew/ 425 /William Gifford/ 436 /Benjamin R. Haydon/ 457 /John Cooke/ 478 /Savery and Newcomen, Inventors/ 487 /Andrew Brice, Printer/ 502 /Devonshire Wrestlers/ 514 /Two Hunting Parsons/ 529 /Samuel Prout/ 564 /Fontelautus/ 581 /William Lang, of Bradworthy/ 594 /William Cookworthy/ 600 /William Jackson, Organist/ 608 /John Dunning, First Lord Ashburton/ 618 /Governor Shortland and the Princetown Massacre/ 633 /Captain John Palk/ 700 /Richard Weekes, Gentleman at Arms and Prisoner in the Fleet/ 709 /Steer Nor’-West/ 718 /George Peele/ 726 /Peter Pindar/ 737 /Dr. J. W. Budd/ 754 /Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, Bart./ 772 ILLUSTRATIONS /Maria Foote, afterwards Countess of Harrington/ _Frontispiece_ From an engraving by Thomas Lupton, after a picture by G. Clint, /A.R.A./ to face page /Hugh Stafford/ 2 From the original painting in the collection of the Earl of Iddesleigh /The Roasted Exciseman, or the Jack Boot’s Exit/ 4 From an old print /The Tyburn Interview: a New Song/ 8 By a Cyder Merchant, of South-Ham, Devonshire. Dedicated to Jack Ketch /The Misses Durnford. The Alphington Ponies/ 16 From a lithograph /The Misses Durnford. The Alphington Ponies/ (Back View) 18