Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . J?. 6 Jttfrji trJLJL J ( O±* ^v GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 73 THE FAT MAN OF MALDEN, IN ESSEX. MR. BRIGHT was descended from families greatlyinclined to corpulency, both on his fathers and hismothers side. Many of his ancestors and relationswere remarkably fat, though far inferior to him inbulk. He was always fat from a child, and yet verystrong and active, and used a great deal of exercise,both when a boy, and afte
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . J?. 6 Jttfrji trJLJL J ( O±* ^v GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 73 THE FAT MAN OF MALDEN, IN ESSEX. MR. BRIGHT was descended from families greatlyinclined to corpulency, both on his fathers and hismothers side. Many of his ancestors and relationswere remarkably fat, though far inferior to him inbulk. He was always fat from a child, and yet verystrong and active, and used a great deal of exercise,both when a boy, and after he became a man, whichhe continued to do till within the last two or threeyears of his life, when he became too could walk very well, and nimbly too, havinggreat strength of muscles; and could not only rideon horseback, but would sometimes gallop, after hewas grown to between thirty and forty stones used to go to London about his business, whichwas that of a grocer, till the journey of forty miles,and going about there, became too great a fatigue tohim ; and he left it off for some years before hedied. But he was grown to such a size before he
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