Citation - New York Gazette (Bradford): 1731.06.07

NYG(B.731.013
31 May-7 Jun 1731:21 (293)
If you do not put six new half-pence, in form,
Into an old shoe, (we speak for no harm)
And place it upon the very + stone
Of Christ Church high spire, at midnight alone;
. . . [12 more lines by Tad Hodkin in an article from
Norwich, dated February 20, sent to Mr. Henry Crosgrove, the
printer of the Norwich Gazette.]  [+ means the top stone,
309 feet from the ground]