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"Five guineas and a crown, Spanking Roger laid it down"
- It was a song said to have been sung in the streets of Manchester in the late eighteenth century and commemorated one of the town’s most glorified villian and all round cad. Roger Aytoun, better known as Spanking Roger, scandalised eighteenth century society when he married Barbara Minshull, widow of Thomas, a noted apothecary. The pair, it is rumoured met while Roger was taking part in a race on Kersal Moor.Barbara, it is said, attracted to his physique and Rogre, finding that she was the possessor of great wealth lost no time in getting her approval for marriage.
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