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 of a wench, with a ſpit in her hand. They ſeeing it neither ſafe nor honourable to ſally out, ſhut the door and ſtanding upon the defenſive part, began to conſult what to do.

HE Gentlemen forſeeing a quarrel betwixt my Lord and the Vintner, immediately diſpatched their own landlord to tell them both, that they had caught the rogue that had abuſed them, and that they had him in ſafe cuſtody, praying my Lord to know if they ſhould wait upon him. The Landlord runs in all haſte, and coming to the houſe, and found it all in a horrid uproar; the ſervant knowing him, allowed him to go up ſtairs, where he no ſooner came, but he told his brother vintner that they were all in a miſtake, that the rogue was catched, and in his houſe; whereupon calling aloud to my Lord, informed him of the whole buſineſs. Immediately a ceſſation of arms was proclaimed, the ſwords ſheathed, the Spits, Fire-forks and Fire ſhovels diſbanded, and an end happily made of a terrible war. The nobleman and his company drinking friends with the vintner, promiſed to be a friend to his houſe for the time to come, but reſolved to go along with their peace-maker to the Tavern where Swalpo was,