© 2017 Whippet Records
Copyright Control MCPS/PRS
William was a great reader but his writings, like his brother Jonathan’s, tended to be ungrammatical...
"You see gentlemen I am not a learned Man;
my grammar bad, my spelling the same;
yet nevertheless my God doth cause
my pen to go with a heavenly flame.”
(William Martin)
In his latter years, throughout the 1840s, William was a very conspicuous figure on the streets of Newcastle, where he would parade continually, dressed in an eccentric and peculiar manner, hawking his various pamphlets to passers-by.