226 LOVERS OF CATS. 



that they were to dine at the Cabin-table, and lap their 

 Wine afterwards. Yet these happy dogs do not engross 

 the wko/e of their good Lady's Affection ; she has also, in 

 Jamaica, Forty Cats, and a Husband." 



''The Partiality to the domestic QdX^ has been thus estab- 

 lished. Some Years since, a Lady of the name of Greggs, 

 died at an advanced Age, in Southampton Row, London. 

 Her fortune was Thirty Thousand Founds, at the Time of 

 her Decease. Credite Fosteri ! her Executors found in her 

 House Eighty-six Hiding, and Twe7ity-eight dead Cats. Her 

 Mode of Interring them, was, as they died, to place them 

 in different Boxes, which were heaped on one another in 

 Closets, as the Dead are described by Pennant, to be in the 

 Church of St. Giles, She had a black Female Servant — to 

 Her she left One hundred and fifty pounds per a?inum to 

 keep the Favourites, whom she left alive""^ 



The Chantrel family of Rottingdean seem also to be 

 possessed with a similar kind of feeling towards cats, exhi- 

 biting no fewer than twenty-one specimens at one Cat Show, 

 which at the time were said to represent only a small portion 

 of their stock; these ultimately became almost too numerous, 

 getting beyond control. 



Signor Foli is a lover of cats, and has exhibited at the 

 Crystal Palace Cat Show. 



Fetrarch loved his cat almost as much as he loved 

 Laura, and when it died he had it embalmed. 



Tasso addressed one of his best sonnets to his female 

 cat. 



Cardinal Wolsey had his cat placed near him on a chair 

 while acting in his judicial capacity. 



Sir I. Newton was also a lover of cats, and there is a 

 good story told of the philosopher having two holes made 

 m a door for his cat and her kitten to enter by — a large one 

 for the cat, and a small one for the kitten. 



Feg Woffington came to London at twenty-two years of 

 age. After calling many times unsuccessfully at the house 

 of John Rich, the manager of Covent Garden, she at last 

 * Daniel's "Rural Sports," 1813. 



