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Rh inclined to ell it, he, in Conideration of the Aid Lady Margery had lent him during his Ditres, made her the firt Offer, and he purchaed the Whole, and threw it into different Farms, that the Poor might be no longer under the Dominion of two over-grown Men.

This was a great Mortification to Sir Timothy as well as to his Friend Grapall, who from this Time experienced nothing but Misfortunes, and was in a few Years o dipoeed of his Ill-gotten Wealth, that his Family were reduced to eek Subitence from the Parih, at which thoe who had felt the Weight of his Iron Hand rejoiced; but Lady Margery deired, that his Children might be treated with Care and Tendernes; for they, ays he, are no Ways accountable for the Actions of their Father. At