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 neighbour who was in friendishp with their father (the apples proper for making this cyder not growing on their own farm) ſhe publiſhed another edict, obliging them to pay her a certain ſtipend for every barrel of cyder uſed in their families. To this likewiſe they ſubmitted: Not yet ſeeing the ſcope of her deſigns againſt them.

this manner ſhe proceeded, impoſing taxes on them on various pretences, and receiving the fruits of their induſtry with both hands. Moreover ſhe perſuaded her huſband to ſend amongſt them from time to time a the moſt lazy and uſeleſs of his ſervants, under the ſpecious, [sic] pretext of defending them in their ſettlements and of aſſiſting to deſtroy the wild beaſts; but in fact to rid his own houſe of their company, not having employment for them; and at the ſame time to be a watch and a check upon the people of the new farm.

was likewiſe ordered that theſe protectors as they were called, ſhould be ſupplied with bread and butter cut in a particular forms. But the head of one of the families refuſed to comply with this order. He engaged to give the gueſts, thus forced upon him, bread and butter ſufficient; but inſiſted that his wife ſhould have the liberty of cutting it in what ſhape ſhe pleaſed.