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 There were not, perhaps, many more unhappy Perons, than poor Partridge. He had lot the bet Part of his Income by the Evidence of his Wife, and, yet was daily upbraided by her for having, among other Things, been the Occaion o depriving her of that Benefit; but uch was his Fortune, and he was obliged to ubmit to it.

Tho’ I called him, poor Partridge, in the lat Paragraph, I would have the Reader rather impute that Epithet to the Compaion in my Temper, than conceive it to be any Declaration of his Innocence. Whether he was innocent or not, will perhaps appear hereafter; but if the Hitoric-Mue hath entruted me with any Secrets, I will by no means be guilty of dicovering them till he hall give me Ieave.

Here therefore, the Reader mut upend his Curioity. Certain it is, that whatever was the Truth of the Cae, there was Evidence more than ufficient to convict him before Allworthy; indeed much les would have atisfied a Bench of Jutices on an Order of Batardy; and yet, notwithtanding the Poitivenes of Mrs. Partridge, who would have taken the Sacrament upon the Matter,