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17 one servant of each sex, whom he locked up every night. His last employment of an evening was to go round his premises, let loose his dogs, and fire his gun. He lost his life as follows: Going one morning to let out his servants, the dogs fanned upon him suddenly, and threw him into a pond, where he was found dead. His servants heard his call for assistance, but being locked up, they could not lend him any. He had 30 gowns and cassocks, 100 pair of breeches, 100 pair of boots, 400 pair of shoes, 80 wigs, yet alway wore his own hair, 58 dogs, 80 waggons and carts, 80 ploughs, and used none, 50 saddles, and furniture of the stable, 30 wheel-barrows, so many walking-sticks, that a toyman in Leicester-fields offered £8 for them, 60 horses and mares, 200 pickaxes, 200 spades and shovels, 74 ladders, and 249 razors.

“Dear Brother Tom,

"This cums hopein to find you in good helth as it leaves me safe anchor’d here yesterday at 2 after a pleasant voyage tolerably short and few squalls—Dear Tom, hopes to find poor old Father Stout, and am quite out of pig-tail—Sights of pig-tail at Gravesend, but unfortunately not fit for a dog to chor—Dear Tom, Captain’s boy will bring you this and put pig-tail in his pocket when bort—Best in London at the black boy in 7 diles, where go, acks for