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The lail' Money being all gone, I went one Night
and re-vifited that unhappy Office in Chancery-Lane, of
which I have already fpoken, but found nothing but
two or three Books, and fo came out again, felling them
for half a Crown, which kept me that Day, and at
Night I went into the Hole under the Stairs again, as if
I was refolv'd to run direftly into the Mouth of Dan-
ger ; for a Man who lodg'd above Stairs, coming in to
go to Bed about two in the Morning, faw me, and
laid Hold of me, and called Mr. Reynolds the Mafter of
the Tavern. They fent for my Father, who rifmg out
of his Bed came to them, and he promifing I fhould be
forth-coming in the Morning, they deliver'd me into
his Keeping, and he took me Home ; when we were at
Home, he afeed me about the CofFee-Houfe, faying,
The Maid and another had both defcrib''d me juji as i
nioas, fetting afide my Wig, ^which, they faid, nuas either
my o'v:n Hair, or a Wig made of my onun Hair, and
that it ivas Black. However I denied very ftifly that
I knew any Thing either of that or robbing the Office;
fo when Mr. Reynolds was up my father went to him,
and brought him to our Houfe, and he talk'd with me
himfelf, telling me, That he ivas firry I Jhould he Juf-
peiled of any fiich Thing after fo great a Delin)erance.
But I deny'd my having any Knowledge of what I was
charg'd with, and periifting ftrongly in my Innocence,
he faid, He hoped it ivas as I faid j however he would
have me go away from thence, for the Maflers in Chan-
cery had orderM him to profecute me, or they would
leave his Houfe, and have their Office fomewhere elfe;
but he faid. He ivould talk nvith them, and endeauoitr to
perfuade them I luas innocent ; fo defjring me to take
Care of my AiSions, he went away, and my Father
after exhorting me to have my Creator in Mind, and
to go to work honeftly for my Subfiftance, without
ufing any uiJawful Means. I promifing him I would,
telling him, that I had hired myfelf to a Smith's, (which
I mention'd before) but my Landlord detain'd me, (for
he had heard of that, and alk'd me about it). So ta-
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