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 was gone to bed, the priſon-window, as before obſerved, being cloſe to the chamber-window, they began to ſing pſalms ſo loud, that the mayor could take no reſt; which made his cauſe one of his ſervants forbid them leave off ſinging. Tom Tram aidſaid [sic], TnatThat [sic] it was the mayor's good counsel that they ſhould ſing pſalms, and ſing they would, as long as they lived there. Which made the mayor bid the jailor turn them out of priſon, without paying their fees.

T happened that Tom was ſent on an errand forty miles from his abode, over heaths and pleins, where having diſpatched his buſineſs, he chanced to be lodged in a room that opened into a yard, where his hoſteſs kept many turkeys; which Tom ſeeing, he thruſts pins into two of their heads and in the night they died. The woman in the morning wondered how the fowls ſhould come to die, Tom perſuaded her that there was a great ſickneſs where he dwelt amongſt all manner of fowls, and wiſhed his hoſteſs to fling them away, the which ſhe did. Tom watched where ſhe