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 what he spent in his equipage in courting me.

He therefore lent me as much money as would bear my charges up to London, discharged me from the marriage; left a letter for me upon the table, and I went away the next morning. But after he had discharged his servants he returned at night to my joy, and accompanied me as far as to Dunstable, where we afterward parted after mutual instruction had passed for our future course of life.

At London I lodged at an old midwife’s, as being big with child, where (as I had given directions) a letter was sent to be out of Lancashire; which had been directed there by the clerk of the bank; who told me he had obtained a decreet against his wife and he was at my service. I returned an immediate answer under a cover that I would be in town the latter end of the year. And indeed after having opened the matter to the midwife, and being delivered of a fine boy, which, with much difficulty, I allowed her to dispose of I went to