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… later Medmenham Abbey. The latter location became the source of much speculation, both in the press and in literature. John Wilkes’ description of the gardens, which he provided in a letter to his friend John Almon, was widely disseminated, and if not for the public fallout between him and another Medmenhamite, John … general populace, however, that he earned himself the nickname ‘Jeremy Twitcher’, linking him to a character from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728). 20 20 . Town and Country Magazine, November 1769, pp. 561-562. The meetings of the …
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