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ship, with the terrifying words, Stand and deliver, withal swearing, that if he made any resistance, he was dead man.Such expostulations the earl used, to save what hs had were wholly in vain; however he swore that since he must lode what the had, Rumbold should search his packets himself, for he would not be at that trouble. Hereupon commanding his Lordships ser- vaht to keep at above an hungred foot dis- tanee upon pain of death, he took the pains of searching his Colonel, he found nothing but several boxes and dice in the pockets of his coat and waistcoat, he be- gan to read the skies, with many oaths, us wearing also be believed he was the groom porter, or else some gaming sharper going to bite the poor ignorant people at country fairs, and markets; till searching his Breeches, he found in them a good gold watch, and six guineas, changed his an- gry countenance, and giving his Lordship 18 pence, bad him be of good cheer, go up to his regiment (then at London) as fast as he could, and do his duty as he ought, and when he next met him, he would give him better encouragement. Rumbold was a remarkable facetious fellow, as appears by the following relation. Being at an inn in Buckinghamshire, and hearing how unmercifully the hostler would cheat the poor horses of their provender,