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 20 THE HISTORY came, and would have had me give him meat and drink, which I refuſed to do ; on which he immediately, by what means I know not, threw us all into ſuch a ſlothful fit of lazineſs, that we did not only neglect our afternoon work, but lay ſleeping all night in diſ- mal ſhowers of rain, which made us all look like drowned rats in the mor- ning. Judge. Lawrence you have heard the evidence, which is very full againſt you. Law. My Lord, they are very large in their charge againſt me; but there is nothing proved. Beſides, I can call many to my reputation. The first that was called was Tom At-reed, a weaver's eldeſt apprentice, who, addreſſing himſelf to the court, ſpoke thus : My Lord, I have known Lawrence for ſome time, and do take him to be one of the beſt friends we apprentices ever had ; for, my Lord, I live with Mr. Shuttle the weaver, and if it were not for Lawrence I ſhould have been worked to death: but he takes a walk with my maſter ſometimes, by which