Perth.
_Long Meg of Westminster_ (Vol. ii., pp. 131. 172.; Vol. v., p.
133.).--As an instance of this title being applied (as Fuller has it)
"to persons very tall," I subjoin the following notice of a death,
which appeared in a newspaper of September, 1769:
"At London, Peter Branan, aged 104. He was six feet six inches
high, and was commonly called _Long Meg of Westminster_. He had
been a soldier from eighteen years of age."
This notice is extracted in the _Edinburgh Antiquarian Magazine_, but
without mentioning the quarter from which it was taken.