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 performer, was well satisfied, and then spent the remainder of the day in mirth and jollity.

At Bristol he dressed himself like a poor mechanic, and then going on into the streets, acts the religious mad man. talking in a raving manner about Messrs Whitfield and Wesley, as though he was disordered in his mind by the preaching; calling in a furious manner every step, upon the Virgin Mary Pontius Pilate and Mary Magdalen and acting every part of a man religiously mad. Sometimes walking with his eyes fixed upon the ground, and then of sudden he would break cut into some passionate expression about religion. This behaviour greatly excited the curiosity and compassion of people, some of them talked to him, but he answered every thing they said in a wild and incoherent manner and as compassion is generally the forerunner of charity he was relieved by most of them

Next morning he appeared in a morning gown, still acting the madman and addressed himself to all the posts in the street, as if they were saints, lifting up his hands and eyes to heaven, in