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 what he had 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 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 after wards parted after mutual instruction had parted 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 direction) a letter was sent to me from out of Lancashire; which had been directed there by the clerk of the bank; who told me that he had obtained a decree against his wife, and that he was at my service. To this 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 brave boy, which, with much difficulty I allowed her to dispose of, I went to