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Rh as the event is commemorated before it occurs. From these embarrassments he has been kindly relieved by Mr. Matthews, who has written down his ideas on the subject, and from whose manuscript the following pages are exhibited to the reader.

“The assassins opened themselves by their voices to me about Michaelmas 1798, and for several years called their infamies, working feats of arms, but seldom using the term Event-working : though after four or five years, when I, by perseverance, had beat them out of their insolence of assumption, (for they assumed the right of interfering with every body having heraldic bearings particularly, and for this part of their villanies called themselves the efficient persons to all those having titles to colleges of arms,) and by such titles also they used the term event-working for their actions.