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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    and was just returned full of powder-plot and popery, with every separate tube of hair inflated with mischief; that its touch was contagious, and that it ought to be burned by the hands of the common hangman. However all the attempts of malice to throw a blot on my escutcheon proved fruitless, the credentials of my genealogy being too well authenticated. Now it has been contended that King William did not wear a wig, as in every account given of his person, from Rapin to Noble, his hair is said to be brown, I am happy to have it in my power to settle this point for ever, by appearing myself in evidence to prove that ever since he had the small pox, to prevent the ill effects of a defluxion on the eyes, which that disorder is apt to leave behind, he had his head shaved all but a lock in the nape of the neck, which was suffered to grow rather long, and retained its co- lour of a dark auburn to his last hour. Advanced to this regal state, “ how- “ ever bright the crown of England might
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