Ragged Regiment", What remained of this collection was removed in 1839.
A correspondent sent to Notes and Queries of March 17th, 1866, the somewhat illogical argument that because an effigy of Mother Shipton had been exhibited in Fleet Street, therefore none was exhibited in Westminster Abbey. The following are his or her words:—
Mother Shipton was a conspicuous object among the wax figures, not in Westminster Abbey, but in Mrs. Salmon's once popular exhibition in Fleet Street. She was an especial favourite with the juvenile visitors, as she used to put out her leg and kick the shins of anyone who approached her near enough.—A.Pr.
Mr. Edward Hailstone, of Horton Hall, writes to Notes and Queries of September 11th, 1879:—
In the catalogue of Rackstraw's Museum, exhibited in Fleet Street, London, 1792, is this paragraph—"A figure of Mother Shipton, the prophetess, in which the lineaments of extreme old age are strongly and naturally marked. Also her real skull, brought from her burial place at Knaresborough, in Yorkshire."
The painter in oil colours has felt the attractions of the subject, for a writer in Notes and Queries of Aug. 1st, 1868, says that
