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 horse for his Majesty's service so long as there is ne hackney coach in town. This made his Grace smile, and Ogle returned the horse again to the coachman.

Another time Ogle being at Lockit's ordinary, where he played at hazard, with many of the nobility, and had very good success. He therefore ordered a porter to go up and down the streets, and bring to him there as any poor people as he could get, and in a short time he brought upwards of one hundred beggars. Upon this Mr. Ogle ordered them each one a shillings worth of meat and drink. By the time they had made an end of their Allowance (they praying the Lord might send Ogle good luck he had broke all the persons of quality, and discharged the mumpers reckonings giving them each sixpence beside. As he was going into Spring Gardens he met the Duke of Monmouth, who asked Ogle where he had been ? Been, said he, why I have been fulfilling the scripture, Fulfilling the scripture! said the Duke, I believe you know nothing of the matter. But I believe I do, though, said Ogle, for I have fed the hungry, and the rich I have sent empty away; for by all that is good, out of twenty Earls and Lords at Lock. there is not one has got a farthing to pay his reckoning.

The epitaph written upon Mr. Ogle's tomb shone, in the church-yard of Henley upon Thames, in Oxfordshire, where he was interested in the third year of the reign of King William III. Here