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19 outskirts of the woods, and was once very near taken, when Mr. Ivcs, the king’s huntsman, took out dryfooted hounds to find him; but perceiving them at a distance, before they had got sccntscent [sic] of him, he got up a tree, and saw them go underneath him, without noticing his retreat; upon which he at last took the resolution of going down into Yorkshire.

He took a large house at Brough, near market Cave in Yorkshire, form whence to Welton he earriedcarried [sic] on an extensive trade in horses, selling and exchanging; and at the time of the races he is said to have realized about one thousand pounds, which enabled him now to kcepkeep [sic] the first company stirring in those parts. On oncone [sic] of these occasional visits to Brough, he met the celcbratedcelebrated [sic] Dicky Dickson, thcthe [sic] hnmouroushumourous [sic] governor of Scarborough Spa, to whom he sold a horse, which four years afterwards was claimed by Squire Moore as his property, he he having lost it off the marshes in Lincolnshire

He went again to Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, where the people, he thought, would not know him; and as he abounded in money, he purposed to himsclfhimself [sic] to commencccommenee [sic] a dealer in horses. In his way thither hche [sic] mctmet [sic] a man on horseback, with a large box before him; and, upon enquiry, he found him to be a mountbank travcllingtravelling [sic] the country for the public good and his own. After a short introduction, Turpin proposed to kcepkeep [sic] him company, which was no sooner mentioned then agrcedagreed [sic] upon; and at the first stop they made, Turpin undertook the part of distributing the bills which in a few hours brought a number of persons round him. ThcThe [sic] ncxtnext [sic] being market day, and seeing a number of good horscshorses [sic] at the inn where he put up at, he madcmade [sic] free with oncone [sic], leaving his own in the same stall. His leather sack, hanging convcnientlyconveniently [sic] by the fireside, he turned out all the doctor’s compositions, and filled it from the box of a jew pedlar, with which