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 THE HISTORY YOUNG BEATMAN.

CHAP. I.

J, ſon of a gentleman in Nottingham-ſhire, a perſon well educated; but by his father's too great liberality, poſſeſed of no great fortune riding one day through Clifton, a few miles from Nottingham, he happened to caſt his eyes on a comely maid ſtanding at the door of a finer ſeemly houſe, with thoſe innocent and comely features