The novelist and playwright Henry Fielding (1707-54) got himself into a scrape in Lyme Regis in 1725. He tried to run away with Sarah Andrew, the ward of a merchant, Andrew Tucker. His attempt was repulsed: the next day Fielding publicly posted this notice and left town in a hurry.

 
The notice says, 'This is to give notice to all the World that Andrew Tucker and his son John Tucker are Clowns and Cowards. Witness my hand Henry Feilding' (He later settled for spelling his name Fielding.)