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 Jack Oakum, & Tom Splicewell.

Kings, who are Fathers, live but in their People,

T the conclusion of the war, Jack Oakum and Tom Splicewell, two sailors, who had been some time on shore, and had spent the produce of their last voyage; after a small time their Wapping Landlady, who was called Mother Double-Chalk, began not only to look coolly upon them, but also according to custom, when their money was gone, to behave roughly towards them; and they not being entered again into any service, began to how they should raise a little money for their present use; and, after several proposals made between them, that still met some objections, one of them at length said  messmate, what think you of a trip or two, for a venture,  about these coasts a little? in my mind we