OF BOTTLED ALE

Colonist, Issue 18, 22 December 1857, Page 4

OF BOTTLED ALE

Alexander Newell, Dean of St. Paul's, and Master of Westminster School, in the reign of Queen Mary, was an, excellent angler. But (says Fuller) while Newell was catching. of fishes* Bishop Banner was catching of Newell, and would certainly have sent him to the shambles,, had not a good London merchant conveyed him away upon the seas.- Ne\yell , was fishing upon the banks of the Thames when he received the first intimation of liis. danger, which, was so pressing, ;tha]t.he.4are.^ot gp;back to his own;house-to make^ ftnyprepariation for his flight. •,. Like «n lipn^tanglerj-he had taken with him provision for the. day; and when, in^England's deliverance, He returned to his country and his old haunts, he remembered that, on the day of his flight, he had left a bottle of beer in a safe place on the bank: there he looked for it, and 'found it no bottle, but a gun —such the sound at the opening: thereof; and this (says Fuller) is believed (casualty is the mother of more invention than industry) the origin of Bottled Ale in England.'