Chap-books of the eighteenth century . em agebat, eo vice Gladii usus; Rota, Clypei;invasores repulit ad ipsos quibus nunc funguntur in csemeterio Tilniensi, Sepulcrum sui pugilis, Axemcum Rota insculptum exhibens. Sir William Dugdale also says, They to this day shew alarge gravestone near the east end of the Chancel in TilneyChurchyard, whereon the form of a Cross is so cut or carved,as that the upper part thereof (wherewith the carver had adornedit) being circular they will therefore have it to be the gravestoneof Hickifrick as a memorial of his Courage. In Chamberss Histo
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . em agebat, eo vice Gladii usus; Rota, Clypei;invasores repulit ad ipsos quibus nunc funguntur in csemeterio Tilniensi, Sepulcrum sui pugilis, Axemcum Rota insculptum exhibens. Sir William Dugdale also says, They to this day shew alarge gravestone near the east end of the Chancel in TilneyChurchyard, whereon the form of a Cross is so cut or carved,as that the upper part thereof (wherewith the carver had adornedit) being circular they will therefore have it to be the gravestoneof Hickifrick as a memorial of his Courage. In Chamberss History of Norfolk, vol. L p. 492, it says, The stone coffin which stands out of the ground in TilneyChurchyard, on the north side of the Church, will not receive aperson above six feet in length; and this is shewn as belongingformerly to the giant Hickafric. The cross said to be a repre-sentation of the cart wheel, is a cross pattee on the head of astaff, which staff is styled an axletree. THE H ISTORY OF THOMAS HICKATHRIFT Part the First. Printed in Aldermary Church Yard. London Thomas Hickathrift. 195 Chap. i. Toms Birth and Parentage. In the reign of William the Conqueror I have read in antientrecords, there lived in the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, a mannamed Thomas Hickathrift, a poor labourer, yet he was anhonest stout man, and able to do as much work in a day as twoordinary men. Having only one Son he called him after hisown name Thomas. The old man put his son to School, buthe would learn nothing. God called the old man aside, his Mother being tender ofher son, maintained him by her own labour as well as shecould; but all his delight was in the chimney corner, and heeat as much at once as would serve five ordinary men. At tenyears old he was six feet high and three in thickness, his handwas like a shoulder of mutton, and every other part proportion-able ; but his great strength was yet unknown. Chap. 2. How Tom Hickathrifts great Strength came to be Known.
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