1865 April, “Our Beckford of the West”, in Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes[1], volume 9, A.H.Baily and Co, page 289:
Even at this distant day, a shilling token may be seen hanging round the neck of a flaxen-headed grandchild, and the faded shawl and well-thumbed Testament, with the ‘casus belli’ written on the fly-leaf, are preserved in remembrance of the time when ‘Mr Rissell (Russell) came down to Hollacombe brake to chiack that there owld fox of ourn.’
