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Rh Misfortunes which he met with in Buines, and the wicked Perecution of Sir Timothy Gripe, and an overgrown Farmer called Grapall, he was effectually ruined.

The Cae was thus. The Parih of Mouldwell where they lived, had for many Ages been let by the Lord of the Manor into twelve different Farms, in which the Tenants lived comfortably, brought up large Families, and carefully upported the poor People who laboured for them; until the Etate by Marriage and by Death came into the Hands of Sir Timothy.

This Gentleman, who loved himelf better than all his Neighbours, thought it les Trouble to write one Receipt for his Rent than twelve, and Farmer Grapall offering to take all the Farms as the Leaes expired, Sir Timothy agreed with him, and in Proces of Rh