Battle : An account of a horrible dispute which took place between a cobler, and his wife the day after King Crispian's procession; for the cobler had that day got tiptinto [sic] his fob the price of heelingand [sic] soling a pair of shoes and went into a public house in the Grasmarket [sic] and where the wife catched him with an account of what happened.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh? : Printed for John Cameron,
ca. 1830?]
St Cripsin is the patron saint of shoemakers, due to the prominent part shoemaking plays in his life story and preaching. He was martyred on the 25th October, sometime in the 3rd century A.D. As a result, his processional day, organised by the shoemakers, cobblers and cordwainers' guild, and taken as holiday by them, occurs on this day.
Provenance: Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
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