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( 13 ) ſhort wigs, black cloths, or dark camblet trimmed with black, and mourning gloves and hatbands who met on certain days at each tavern ſucceſſively, and kep a ſort of moving club. Having often met with their faces, and obſerved a certain linking way in their dropping in one after another, I had the curioſity to inquire into their characters. being the rather moved to it by their agreeing in the ſingularity of their dreſs; and I find upon due examination they are a knot of pariſh-clerks who have taken a fancy to one another and perhaps ſettle the bills of mortality over their half-pints. I have ſo great a value and veneration for any who have but even an aſenting Amen in the ſervice of religion, that I am afraid leſt theſe perſons ſhould near ſome ſcandle by this practice; and would therefore have them, without rallery, adviſe, to ſend the florence and the purlets home to their own houſes, and not pretend to live as well as the overſeers of the poor.

I am yours, &c.

Another Letter.

SIR

I WAS laſt Wedneſday night at a raveren in the city, among a let of men who call themselves the Lawyers-club. You muſt know, Sir, this club conſists only of attorneys; and at this meeting every one propoſes the cauſe he has taen in