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 me, he left me as much money as would bear my charges to London, diſcharged me from the marriage, left a lette for me on the table, and went away in the morning; but after he had diſcharged his ſervants, he ret- urned at night, to my great joy, and accompanied me as far as Dunſtable, where we parted, after mutual infſru- ctions for our future courſe of life, and wiſhes for our well-being. At London I lodged in an old mid, wife's houſe, I being then big with child, where, as I had given inſtruc- tions, a letter was ſent me from Lan- caſhire, which had been directed thi- ther by the clerk of the Bank, who told me he had obtained a decreet againſt, his wife, and that he was at my ſervice. I ſent an anſwer under a cover, that I ſhould be in town the latter end of the year. At length having opened this mat- ter to my landlady, the midwife, who propoſed to aſſiſt me in the affair, and being delivered of abrave boy, which with much difficulty, I allowed her to diſpoſe of. I went to Lancaſhire, and there taking a coach, wrote a