Robert Cadman

A History of Lincoln (1815) notes that, in this period, he went from a cathedral tower "to the castle hill near the Black Boy Inn"" and another descent from 'Newark spire' in Nottinghamshire.

Cadman walked some 250 metres up the rope that connected the 68-metre-high spire of St Mary's Church with an anchor in the ground in Gay Meadow, Shrewsbury.

When at the top, near the pinnacle of the spire, he donned a wooden breastplate with a central groove and hurtled to earth along the rope.

It reads: Let this small Monument record the nameof Cadman, and to future time proclaimHow by'n attempt to fly from this high spireacross the Sabrine stream he did acquireHis fatal end.

'Twas not for want of skillOr courage to perform the task he fell,No, no, a faulty Cord being drawn too tightHurried his Soul on high to take her flightWhich bid the Body here beneath good NightFeb.ry 2nd 1739 aged 28[4]This article about a British entertainer is a stub.