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18 maid servants, and lived most bravely; he made a park to keep deer in; near to his house he built a church and gave it the name of St. James’s church, because he killed the giant on that day, which is so called to this hour: He did many more good deeds, and became a public benefactor to all persons that lived near him.

CHAP. IV

How Tom kept a pack of Hounds: His Kicking

a Foot-ball quite away : Also how he had like

to have been robbed by Four Thieves, and how

he Escaped.

TOM having got so much money about him, and not being used to it; could hardly tell how to dispose of it, but yet he did use means to do it; for he kept a pack of hounds, and men to hunt with him; and who but Tom then. So he took such delight in sports, that