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Rh him Encouragment to teal Hores, and purue his new Trade in Epping Foret on Horeback; which he had continued about ix years. Having been out one whole Day, without meeting any Booty, and being very much tired, he laid himelf down in the Thicket, and turned his Hore looe, having firt taken off the Saddle; when he wak'd, he went to earch after his Hore, and meeting with Mr. Thompons's Servant, he enquired, if he had een his Hore? To which Thompons Man anwer'd, That he knew nothing of Turpins, Hore, but that he had found Turpin; and accordingly preented his Blunderbus at Turpin, who intantly jumping behind a broad Oak, avoided the Shot, and immediately fir'd a Carbine at Thompon's Servant, and hot him dead on the Spot; one Slug went through his Bret, another thro' his Right Thigh, and a third thro' his Groin. This done, he withdrew to a Yew Tree hard by, Where he conceal'd himelf o cloly, that though the Noie of Mr. Thompon's Man's Blunderbus and his own Carbine had drawn together a great Number of People about the Body, yet he continued undicover'd two whole Days and one Night in the Tree; when the Company was all dipers'd, he got out of the Foret, and took a Black Hore out of a Cloe near the Road, and there being People working in the Field at a Ditance, he threw ome looe Money amongt them, and made off; but afterwards the ame Evening tole a Chenut Mare, and turning his Black Hore looe made the bet of his Way for London. Some