Edmund Kean--Mystery of his Parentage--Saunders's Circus-- Scowton's Theatre--Belzoni--The Nondescript--Richardson's Theatre--The Carey Family--Kean, a Circus Performer--Oxberry, the Comedian--James Wallack--Last Appearance of the Irish Giant--Miss Biffin and the Earl of Morton--Bartholomew Fair Incidents--Josephine Girardelli, the Female Salamander--James England, the Flying Pieman--Elliston as a Showman--Simon Paap, the Dutch Dwarf--Ballard's Menagerie--A Learned Pig-- Madame Gobert, the Athlete--Cartlich, the Original Mazeppa-- Barnes, the Pantaloon--Nelson Lee--Cooke's Circus--The Gyngell Family 213 CHAPTER X. Saker and the Lees--Richardson's Theatre--Wombwell, the Menagerist--The Lion Fights at Warwick--Maughan, the Showman--Miss Hipson, the Fat Girl--Lydia Walpole, the Dwarf--The Persian Giant and the Fair Circassian--Ball's Theatre--Atkins's Menagerie--A Mare with Seven Feet--Hone's Visit to Richardson's Theatre--Samwell's Theatre--Clarke's Circus--Brown's Theatre of Arts--Ballard's Menagerie--Toby, the Learned Pig--William Whitehead, the Fat Boy--Elizabeth Stock, the Giantess--Chappell and Pike's Theatre--The Spotted Boy--Wombwell's "Bonassus"--Gouffe, the Man-Monkey--De Berar's Phantasmagoria--Scowton's Theatre--Death of Richardson 255 CHAPTER XI. Successors of Scowton and Richardson--Nelson Lee--Crowther, the Actor--Paul Herring--Newman and Allen's Theatre--Fair in Hyde Park--Hilton's Menagerie--Bartholomew Fair again threatened--Wombwell's Menagerie--Charles Freer--Fox Cooper and the Bosjesmans--Destruction of Johnson and Lee's Theatre--Reed's Theatre--Hales, the Norfolk Giant--Affray at Greenwich--Death of Wombwell--Lion Queens--Catastrophe in a Menagerie--World's Fair at Bayswater--Abbott's Theatre-- Charlie Keith, the Clown--Robson, the Comedian--Manders's Menagerie--Macomo, the Lion-Tamer--Macarthy and the Lions-- Fairgrieve's Menagerie--Lorenzo and the Tigress--Sale of a Menagerie--Extinction of the London Fairs--Decline of Fairs near the Metropolis--Conclusion 319 THE OLD SHOWMEN, AND THE OLD LONDON FAIRS CHAPTER I. Origin of Fairs--Charter Fairs at Winchester and Chester--Croydon Fairs--Fairs in the Metropolis--Origin of Bartholomew Fair--Disputes between the Priors and the Corporation--The Westminster Fairs--Southwark Fair--Stepney Fair--Ceremonies observed in opening Fairs--Walking the Fair at Wolverhampton--The Key of the Fair at Croydon--Proclamation of Bartholomew Fair.