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 or doubtful meaning after my life and my opinions shall have been read over, (now don't forget the meaning of the word) by all the world;—which, betwixt you and me, and in spight of all the gentlemen reviewers in Great-Britain, and of all that their worships shall undertake to write or say to the contrary,—I am determined shall be the case.—I need not tell your worship, that all this is spoke in confidence.

looking into my mother's marriage settlement, in order to satisfy myself and reader in a point necessary to be clear'd up, before we could proceed any farther in this history;—I had the good fortune to pop upon the