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 forced to disclose the matter to excuse my coldness to him in my embraces. Upon hearing this he fell into so deep a melancholy, that twice he attempted to hang himself but was prevented; and it was with very much difficulty before I could obtain leave to return to England from him, which I did in the month of August, after eight years continuance in that country, landing at Milford Haven in Wales, and in nine weeks arrived at London.

Sometime after I went to Bath, where making my circumstances known, my landlady lodged and boarded me at a very cheap rate, till the spring, when I was courted by a gentleman who had a wife distempered in the head, and I received several presents from him, as a hundred guineas at one time, & fifty at another, for taking care of him in an illness. In short I found him my best friend, taking several journies with him, till at length, he got me with child, and was delivered of a fine boy, going by the name of Sir Walter Cleave’s Lady. From Bath we returned to Hammersmith, near London. Six years I lived with this gentleman, by whom I had