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Have broke open my Letter to inform you, that I miss'd the Opportunity of sending it by the Messenger, who I ex­pected would have called upon me in his Return through this Village to York, so it has laid a Week or ten Days by me.

I am not sorry for the Disappoint­ment, because something has since hap­pened, in Continuation of this Affair, which I am thereby enabled to transmit to you, all under one Trouble.

When I finished the above Account, I thought (as did every Soul in the Parish) Trim had met with so thorough a Rebuff from John the Parish-Clerk and the Town's Folks, who all took against him, that Trim would be glad to be quiet, and let the Matter rest.

But, it seems, it is not half an Hour ago since Trim sallied forth again; and, having borrowed a Sow-Gelder's Horn, with hard Blowing he got the whole Town round him, and endeavoured to raise a Disturb­- Rh