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 THE

MERRY LIFE AND MADE EXPLOITS

OF

CAPTAIN JAMES HYND.

CAPTAIN James Hynd, the ſubject of our enſuing diſcourſe, was born at Chipping-Nortoun, in Oxfordſhire.-His father having no more children but him, put him to ſchool, intending to make him a ſcholar; but he minding his waggiſh paſtimes more than his books, which his father perceived, bound him apprentice to a butcher: But he being of a roving diſpoſition, ſoon grew weary of that alſo; and, in concluſion, run away from his maſter, and went to London; where he became acquainted with a company of roving and debauched companions, who, by their examples, made him as bad as themſelves.- In ſhort, as they ſeldom abounded with