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A scarce book containing information relating mostly to Sudbury in Suffolk from 1857 to 1859. 6.60" x 4.25" x 0.50". A small book full of local adverts stories poems and useful information. Contents include: The People's Penny Library. One Hundred Tales Number III. Salvator Rosa And The Last Of The Chittimachas. pp.63-pp.104 (followed by a leaf of adverts for the Penny Library; Fulcher's Additional Tables [Sudbury, Suffolk], 1857 pp.84; Fulcher's Additional Tables [Sudbury, Suffolk], 1858 pp.84; Fulcher's Additional Tables [Sudbury, Suffolk], 1859 pp.84Each of the Fulcher's Additional Tables include: Assessed Taxes; Sudbury Union; Conveyances From Sudbury; Fairs in Suffolk; Fairs in Norfolk; Weather Table; Short Questions for Long Evenings; Register of Events . Each register of events, not only include national events but also local happenings. For example: From Nov 1865 to Nov. 1857 include; 18. Several Hundred old coins found by some labourers in a wood at Boxford, chiefly half-crowns, shillings, and gold nobles of the reign of Elizabeth; 27. Meeting of the Lodge of Freemasons at Clare, when it was unanimously resolved to remove the Lodge to Sudbury; 31. Supposed murder of Mr. Butcher, farmer, at Colne Engaine, on his return from Colchester Market. *** George Williams Fulcher (1795-1855), was an English poet and miscellaneous writer. He carried on the business of a bookseller, stationer, and printer at Sudbury in Suffolk, where in 1825 he issued the first number of the 'Sudbury Pocket Book,' an annual which he continued to publish during his life, and to the pages of which, besides Fulcher himself, Bernard Barton, William and Mary Howitt, James Montgomery, and other less-known writers contributed. A selection from these contributions appeared under the title of 'Fulcher's Poetical Miscellany' in 1841, 12mo, reprinted in 1853. Fulcher also started in 1838 a monthly miscellany of prose and verse, entitled 'Fulcher's Sudbury Journal,' but this was not continued beyond the year. He made a courageous effort to treat pauperism poetically, publishing 'The Village Paupers, and other Poems,' London, 1845. 'The Village Paupers' is in the heroic couplet, and betrays in almost every line the influence of Crabbe and of Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village. Of the miscellaneous poems 'The Dying Child' is the best. Fulcher also published 'The Ladies' Memorandum Book and Poetical Miscellany,' 1852 and following years; 'The Farmer's Day-book,' which reached a sixth edition in 1854, and he was engaged on a life of Gainsborough, a Sudbury man, at his death on 19 June 1855. Fulcher was throughout life a diligent student, particularly of Crabbe and Cowper. Boswell's Johnson was also one of his favourite books. He was a practical botanist, and very sensitive to the beauties of nature. He took an active interest in local affairs, being one of the magistrates of the borough of Sudbury, president of the board of guardians, and several times mayor. He gave much to charities. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Gregory, Sudbury, the townspeople closing their shops, and the mayor, corporation, and magistrates of the borough following the bier. N° de ref. del artículo 40380
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