(Downing Hall by Moses Griffith, National Library of Wales, on Wikimedia Commons)
“To prevent all disputes about the place and time of my birth, be it known that I was born on June 14th, 1726, old style, in the room now called the Yellow Room; that the celebrated Mrs Clayton, of Shrewsbury, ushered me into the world, and delivered me to Miss Jenny Parry, of Merton, in the parish; who to her dying day never failed telling me. ‘Ah, you rogue! I remember you when you had not a shirt to your back’”.
Pennant, The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell (1796)
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