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My dear mother and […] loving sisters —
I
could not allow myself to leave […]
without
bidding you farewel and offering
my advice
The Prince had his horse shot under him
that I should leave you in a worse way
having spent my own
and
made
some encroachments upon poor Cicie’s stock
But […] this was not by any luxury or riot
You'll easily see it was no mercenary view
from the point of a rock a young seal
swimmed directly to the barge
as if it had been frighted
the Prince said, 'How long is it, Ned, since you turned cowardly?'
And even poverty
rightly weigh'd
is not so very sad a condition
What is it but to wear coarse cloaths
And what great harm in this?
My dear mother and sisters, these considerations […]
my dying exhortation to you
Let no worldly consideration prevail with […] you
to join with schismaticks of whatever kind
'I cannot' [he said] 'see a Christian perish for want of food or raiment'
Then he prayed
God […] support
the poor and needy etc.
I forgive all my enemies […], particularly Clerk Miller
Edward Burk leaning over the side of the boat, pulled the seal into the boat;
May God grant him repentance
but
it died soon after
May […] God pardon […] your offences
correct
whatever is amiss in […] you
my dear mother and sisters
vouchsafe […] such
temporal blessings as He sees […] convenient
[F]or greed of the linen or whatever
was wrapped about them
[T]he sodgers came
calling her
a rebel-bitch
[F]or greed of the linen, or whatever
[he] diverted himself with a young child in the house,
carrying him in his arms and singing […]
said perhaps
the child might live
to be of […] use
she was obliged to bribe a serjeant
particularly George Miller
And more especially
[…] the Elector of Hanover
turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just
[T]hat
was a common practice
The Prince had his horse shot under him, the Prince
had his horse shot
under (fn1, not true)
to raise the bodies of man,
woman, and child [up]
out of the graves