How piquantly that patch becomes the Mareschale's bloomly cheek to-day !

Why's he doing that?

Aſſiſe de Darrein Preſentment. The form of the writ of Darrein Preſentment for a common perſon is ſuch: The king to the ſheriff, greeting: If A. ſhall make you ſecure, &c. then ſummon, &c. twelve free and lawful men of the neighbourhood of B. that they be before our juſtices, &c. ready to recognize by oath what patron in time of peace preſented the laſt parſon, who is dead, to the church of C. or the last vicar, who is dead, to the vicarage of N. which is vacant, as is ſaid, and the advowſon whereof, he the ſame A. ſays, belongs to himſelf: […]

The Who start off ramshackle, draggy even. They pick up while on a run of Tommy songs; by Amazing Journey they sound much more like the fizzing fathers of freak-beat.