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 forced to disclose the matter, to excuse my coldness to him in his 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 that I obtained leave from him to return to England, 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 in London.

Some time 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 her head, and I received several presents from him, as a, hundred guineas at one time, and 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