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No XI. put a topp to it hortly, I worrant ye: I beleave I holl do vary well, if you wull but end me t'other crowne; for I have pent all my mony at my freh treat, (as they caul itt,) which is an abomminabel Ectortion, but I coud not help itt, when I cum intoo the cuntry, I'le tell yow all how it is. So no more att this preent; but my arvice to our paron, and my love to brother Nick and iter Kate; and o I ret

Your ever dutiful and obedent Son,

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When he had done reading, the look'd very gravely upon one another for ome time, till at length Dr. Fautus, late of New College, got up and poke to them in the following manner.

Gentlemen,

The words of this letter are o very plain and intelligible in themelves, that I wih there is no latent and myterious meaning in them. How do we know what he means by the, which he thanks his mother for? or how do we know that he means nothing ele by it, but a ? Then, he deires his mother to end him t'other ; now what, I conjure you all to tell me, can he mean by that other Crown but the Elector of Hanover; epecially ince he tells us on the outide of his letter, that the is dead? Thee Rebels and Roundheads are very ly in every thing they do: they know we have a trict eye over