“His father was a Butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's Trade, but when he kill'd a Calfe he would doe it in high style, and make a Speech.”

—  John Aubrey , book Brief Lives

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Brief Lives

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English writer and antiquarian 1626–1697

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