Thomas Britton, the musical small coal-man, 1644-1714. Famous for his concerts, library of antiquarian music, collection of musical instruments. Depicted with his coal sack and measure. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by R. Page from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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