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well who then (said his Grace) h you won it of of the same person (rep Rumbold) that I left the 600 pounds before you went to dinner,How said Grace will you get your winning ? qu Rumbold, of his ambassador too.So ing up with word and pistol in hand his Grace’s coach, he took l100 pounds ot of the seats thereof ,over and his own money which he had his hands to give to and rode off When Rumbold had possessed this booty ,by playing with one whose hapi- ness it was never to see ,without been- ing a very good convert indeed he bou him a place in Oxford's horse, but did leave off robbing;and for his better adv tage kept in fee with most of the host and of the chief inns in country, for forty miles about London that one day, being informed that a co of travellers lay at a certain inn in O brook, he arose early next morning went before to surprise them in Mai head-Thicket; but the travellers inst of riding to Reading went to Windsor, that Rumbold missing his prey, was ri bark very melancholy, when meeting his Colonel the late Earl of Oxford, one groom and a footman, he clapt hair into his mouth to disguise himsel his intended design, and attacks his