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 Stone in Lancashire, and so taking coach, writ a letter, to my clerk to meet

me at Brickhill; there in a short time, he prevailed with me to marry him. The next day, from the window of the inn, I beheld my Lancashire husband with two others pass by; when soon after, they were all three pursued as highwaymen; but returning safely with my husband to town, I lived with him exceeding happy for the space of five years, by whom I had two children. Afterwards I rewarded my midwife for her fidelity to me. But my husband’s clerk robbing him, it flung him into such a grief, that it immediately ended