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Roger Huggett, Conduct and Librarian of the College, who died in 1769. This is an unusually full and clear pedigree. One more, and I have done. This time it is a copy of the Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden, monk of Chester; it was the popular history of the world and of England for anyone who could read Latin in the fifteenth century.
An old mortar which formerly lay on Eridge Green, near Frant, is said to have been the first mortar made in England; only the chamber was cast, while the tube consisted of bars strongly hooped together. Although the local distich says that "Master Huggett and his man John They did cast the first cannon,"
Only one chap o the crew o the Curlew left alive to tell the tale poor Alf Huggett here alongside o me. Stove in a water-butt and hid in it didn't you, Alf?" There was a waiting silence. "It's broke him up surely, sir," whispered Reuben. "And I don't wonder. Saw enough through that bung-hole to keep him thinking for the rest of his life." "Fat George!" shivered a thin voice. "Fat George!"
Huggett was another cannon maker of repute; and Owen became celebrated for his brass culverins. Mr. Lower mentions, as a curious instance of the tenacity with which families continue to follow a particular vocation, that many persons of the name of Huggett still carry on the trade of blacksmith in East Sussex.
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