A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data
Oliver Heywood. 1883. The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A., 1630-1702, Vol. 3/4. Ed. J. Horsfall Turner. Bingley: T. Harrison. Get it:
.There is a boy about two miles from Tadcaster that is not five years of age, whose stature is above an ell high, his thigh is three quarters about, his face is like a man’s, with much hair upon it, he hath capacity for employment as a man, and eats as much as another ordinary man, as is able to carry the third part of a full horse-load of any thing. This November 1, 1664. Many people go to see him, a gentleman offered his father £40 to let him take up his son to London, and keep him well, and deliver him safely to him again, but he refused.
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There is a boy about two miles from Tadcaster that is not five years of age, whose stature is above an ell high, his thigh is three quarters about, his face is like a man’s, with much hair upon it, he hath capacity for employment as a man, and eats as much as another ordinary man, as is able to carry the third part of a full horse-load of any thing. This November 1, 1664. Many people go to see him, a gentleman offered his father £40 to let him take up his son to London, and keep him well, and deliver him safely to him again, but he refused.
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