Benjamin Marriot (also John or William Marriott), English lawyer and alleged glutton, died 1653. An old man carrying three sheep's heads, hearts and offal is chased by two boys. From a rare woodcut in George Fidge's defamatory pamphlet The Great Eater of Gray's Inn,

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