AN ECCENTRIC CLERGYMAN.
The Rev Mr Hangmore, of Catshage, Leicestershire, was a singular character. Ha died on January 1,1776, possessed of the following effects£7oo par annum ajid £1(100 in money, wh\ch, P }jo died jnteßpate, fejl to a tippet oplleptqr in London, He kept one servant of each sex, wliom ho locked'up every night, Hi? last employment of an evening was to go round his premises, let loose Mb dogs, and fire off his gun, Going one morning to let out his servants, the dogs fawned upon him suddenly,. and threw him into a poudwherehewasfounddead. Hisservants heard him call for assistance, but being locked up they could not aid him. He had 30 guns, 100 pairs of breeches, 400 pairs of shoes, 80 wigs (yet always wore his own hair), 58 dogs, 80 waggons and carts, 80' ploughs (and used nonijJ, ,56 saddles anc} furnjturij fqp tie ymagi, w wheelbarrows, so many walking sticks that a toyman in Leicester .offered £8 for them, GO horses and mares, 200 pickaxes, 200 spades and shovels, 74 ladders, and 249 razors,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2156, 27 November 1885, Page 2
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178AN ECCENTRIC CLERGYMAN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2156, 27 November 1885, Page 2
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