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Brewer's: Hewson
Old Hewson the cobbler. Colonel John Hewson, who (as Hume says) “rose from the profession of a cobbler to a high rank in Cromwell's army.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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