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Rh by all their Countrey-men counted too far about; and that therefore their uſual way was to make a ſhort cut of it, and to climb over as they had done.

Chr. But will it not be counted a Trefpaſs, againſt the Lord of the City whither we are bound, thus to violate his revealed will?

Form, and Hyp, They told him, $d$ That as for that, he needed not to trouble his head thereabout: for what they did, they had cuſtom for; and could produce, if need were, Teſtimony that would witneſs it, for more then a thouſand years.

Chr. But, ſaid Chriſtian, Will your Practice ſtand a Trial at Law?

Form. & Hyp. They told him, That Cuſtom, it being of ſo long a ſtanding, as above a thouſand years, would doubtleſs now be admitted as a thing legal,by any Impartial Judge. And beſides, ſaid they, ſo be we get into the way, what's matter which way we get in; if we are in, we are in: thou art but in the way, who, as we perceive, came in at the Gate; and we are alſo in the way, that came Rh