It is quite possible the tradition is true.
FOOTNOTES: [6:1] Fuller's _Worthies_ (1662), p.

159.
[8:1] "The Fuller Worthies Library," 4 vols., 1872.

Hereafter referred to as _Grosart_.
[8:2] _Mr.Smirke or the Divine in Mode._--Grosart, iv.

15.
[11:1] _Autobiography of Matthew Robinson_.

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