By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



Ill 



cross Row" (like Aubrey, in the now rare horn-book), was removed 

 for two years to a Mr. Moseley, a Baptist minister at Fosscote in 

 Grittleton, thence to schools successively at Yatton Keynell, 

 Draycote, and Chippenham. At thirteen he was taken away from 

 education to carry loaves about on horseback to neighbouring vil- 

 lages. The mother was active and managing, and strove hard 

 against misfortune : but bad debts, cheating millers, rivals in trade, 

 and the heavy family, were too much for her, and she died broken- 

 hearted. The father became idiotic ; John's brothers and sisters 

 were dispersed amongst relatives : and his own destiny was to be 

 taken to London in October 1787, by an uncle Samuel Hillier, who 

 after employing him for some time in his own house as a foot-boy 

 with horses to clean, apprenticed him for six years to a Mr. Mend- 

 ham of the Jerusalem Tavern, Clerkenwell. There, having paid 

 no apprentice fee, he was not initiated into the deeper mysteries of 

 the craft, but only into the duties of helper to a common porter, in 

 bottling, corking, and binning wine. 



The Jermuilem Taveiu winc-cclUir. 



To his dismal life of ton hours a day in tlio Clerkunwcll wine- 

 vaults, with the choice, when his work was over, of eilher roniainiu"- 



