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feme Children, but they had all the good Fortune to
die before him. He faid he had ferv'd a well known
JNobleman, who went abroad a few Years ago, to re-
turn no More; and that he underftood the Peruke-ma-
ker's Bufmefs, and had got Money by ferving Men of
Quality in that Way : He likev/ife faid, that about
the Time of the late Rebellion, he did feveral good
Services, kept fome Gentlemen from joining in thr.t
unnatural Rebellion, and travelled over beft Part of
England ^nA Scotland, upon that Occafion.
His Father was pofleflcd of an Eftate, and kept a
good Farm in the Country, and had given him feveral
Sums of Money, of which he never made any good
Ufa; for tiiat Reafon he had not much left him by Jiis
Father at his Death, and was the lefs efteem'd by his
Relations. He faid that he had always been a fober
Man, and hated Curfmg and Swearing, and other Vi-
ces, that he ever ihunn'd idle Company, and lov'd a
quiet, peaceable Life.
The Account he gave of the Murder of Robert Or-
mei, for which he died, was to this Purpofe.
On the 19th Day of Jfril 1731, which was Enfler-
Monday, he walk'd out alone as far as Chelfca, for his
Diverfion j when he was upon his Return to Town, the
Sun was pretty hot, and he being thirfty, went into
En Ale-houfe in Chelfea-Fiekis, where there was a
Company of People, altogether Strangers to him, who
fwore and blafphem'd very much ; he gently reprov'd
them, faying, that there could be no Profit in ufmg
fuch execrable Oaths, and that it v/ou!d be much better
to be more fmooth in their Converfation, and not to
provoke God by fuch vain and very fmful Language ;
they told him he had no Bufmefs to reprove tliem, and
provok'd him to call them Scrubs, infilling on it that
Jie was a Gentleman and a Scholar, and repeated Si
Deus efl Jnhniis, S;c. They bid him pay his Reckoning
and be gone, and faid, they doubted if he had any
Money in his Pocket, i^'c. feveral Satyrical ExprelTi-
ons having paft, he was weary of their Company, paid
his