Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his having made the first wig for the Prince of Orange, and in the very house which was afterwards dignified by the sign of the Green Canister ; I was made a present to his brother-in-law, who, not- withstanding I had abated somewhat of my train, when, as I said before, I was cut down like a ninety-gun ship to a seventy-four, finding in me some valu- able materials still, took me to pieces, laid me once more on the stocks, and launched me a wig of the very first rate, with the title of Revolution, and being put into commission, I was fitted out to grace the head of His Majesty King William the Third, of glorious memory, but not without considerable enlargement and additions, particularly of such hairs as have a natural tendency to curl, to supply the place of those, which I before noted had been porcupined on the head of the Western circuit executioner, and this curly accession, from its uncommon crispness, was supposed to have come from a very ancient branch of our family
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