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ADVERTISEMENT.
The passage of Past twelve o'clock told in my last, a
gentleman of undoubted reputation had from the coun try, but writing again for a more particular account of of it, received lately what is under written.
neral Ash Ash
one
in this country. Sir H— — ry end not Sir W. 1. The answer to my enquiry is this—SirK—ry 1 hid his coufin Mr. Ash 1 of Ash—t lo
Sir, There is a mistake as to' the person, and it is a ge
give his service to his coufin Va ry, and advise him not to be too hot, for that it was past twelve o'clock •with the church of England : And said the q— n was on their fide,
This is what Mr. Va— ry
February last or the beginning c/'March.
Now let all errors be corrected. That Past twelve
o'clock, &c. was cry'd stands still, who was the bell-man is all the dispute.
from ^at. May 19, to ^flt. May 26, 170? . N°4J-
I. Of the letter in /£r post-man concerning SirVS. Ash—t. 2. Of the weather-cock said to beset up in Oxford. 3. The extraordinary standard set up at Sandwich. With
Mr. MeadV fine speech. Wherein of the general attack made upon the church and the crown. 4. The story os Peter', not to be forgot. 5. The short and the longo»V.
l X H O U wast claw'd off last Saturday, and ( . ) Obs. f~r^ a letter printed in the Post-Man, &c. to prove thee a liar. I
C. But in mine of the fame day (which was before could see these papers ) the mistake was rectify d, and it was an innocent mistake, and no way afsecting the pur pose for which that story was told, which was only to shew the sense of a certain sort of people, and whether it
was W. or H. faid makes no difference in the case. O. But then was lie at least in the person from whom you had your intelligence. C. No,
meaning SirH y'/ fide*
told me last night, and I
heard him at otbtr fay
have
times. And this message nuas deliver 'd to Mr. Va—ry in
often
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C. No, as he tells in his Utter (which I have printed) it was a general mistake in that country, and he corrected it as soon as he knew it.
O. But in the Post-Man it is faid, that the intent was
as Vss supposed to prevent his (Sir William Ashurc's) elec tion.
C. It is there likewise faid, that these letters Sir W. Ash——t is malicioufy reported to be Sir William Ashurft. When men are not nam'd, they need not take it to them selves unless they please. And I give thee my word that I had no wno in telling that story upon his election, nor was it then in my head ; nor do I think it would have been any hindrance, but rather an advantage to his elec
tion, with a certain sort of men.
0. Thou giv'st thy word! who'll take thy word?
more than mine! and if we sind thee tripping but in the least circumstance, tho' nothing material . 'down goes the credit of thy paper for ever !
C. I consess I sight upon great disadvantage with thee and thy scandalous club, who have given themselves that isme, and glory in it.
It is like a woman of reputation engaging with a com mon prostitute. The least shadow of a reflection is a wound to the former ; but the other is scandal-proof.
Yet vertue gives this advantage, on the other hand, that what an honest woman fays will be believ'd; whereas the other is disbeliev'd, even because such a one fays it.
How many lies of thy telling have I disprov'd ? yet could never bring thee to be ashamd of one , or to repent. On the contrary, thou repeats them over again, and again, when thou know'st them to be false ! with such foul lies and flander are the papers of the \scandalous club stufFd every day.
(z. ) In ihe Review of the 8th Instant, Vol. z. N. 28. it is faid, Let the gentlemen of Oxford be ask'd what ex-
pofition they can give of their late excellent emblematick device of adding her majesty's motto to a new erected
sabrick there, and putting up the semper eadem ofthe royal arm under a weather-cock.
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Now I have a&'d, and receiIv'd the following account,
dated Oxon, May 13,
quiry about the truth of that scandalous story relating totht univerfity and the clergy amongst us, as ifthey hadset her
1705,
s motto, v'yl. semper eadem
cock inoneof the colleges.
a weathir-
with
majesty
I
upon have conversed
andfromseveralparts ofthe and art movd witb the indignation against the au
gentlemen ofdifferent colleges,
town, who are amaz'd at the impudence of the invention,
thor it. I of
think
utmost
that the author his van therefore, (sor
vindication, from being an incorrigible as well as insu mous libeller upon her majejly and the clergy) would do well
to name the I college
or the where this weather-cock place
him, that the the governors of
sands ; and
dare
promise
univerfity shall thank him for the discovery.
This is the second part of his Shortest way with the dis
He wrote it with a design to have it pasi
did) for the work of the high-church, and so to have them expos'd and mob'd thro' the nation. He deny'd himself to be the author, till found out the hand of juseice, and he set in the pillory for it. Thou thy self (my scandalous master) faid'st in thy Obscrvator of Dec. z6, 1702, Vol.
N. . that was wrote by a clergyman. Thus all
chiming into the grand d. sgn which in all probability had taken efsect, had not been detected the vigi lance and care of the E. of N. then secretary ofstate. For which he has been ever since persecuted to the utmost
the tongues and pens of the faflion.
Now here's another arrow out of the fame quiver
The q^ueen vilify and made weather-cock and this
put upon the learned and loyal univerfity of Oxford! This to separate the queen from her bestfriends and render
them both odious to the nation. Other construction cannot bear and must lie either upon Oxford, or upon the Rei-iew and his club. The issue short and fair
and he cannot shew where that weather-cock stands, he ought to be exalted in the room of it. This the preacher up ofpeace and union And these are his methods
have made particular in
several
senters.
of pursuing it.
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disprove.
The letter bears date at Sandwich the 1 3th
meeting-house
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O. I should be afraid of seeing my friend once more pees thro' a Scotch-casement, if not like another peeper, a» I would have all the tackers in England ; but that 'tis now past 1 2 o'clock with the church of England ; and that
WE're now got above laws, or any prosecution.
(3. ) C. Well then, losers have leave to talk, if we have no other remedy. I'll tell thee another story, which I have from a good hand, and give thee full liberty to
of H. there was one display'd at or near the Anabaptist
this month, and is as follows. On the day of our election
here, befides many other flags hung up for the great Sir
in the market-place, whereon was decypher'd tm Old COMMON-WEAlTH BREECHES, and the CROWN refers 'd'under them. And these colours were preservdfrom
those times by one Francis Hook, whose hand appears to the cutting off the blessed martyr'/ head ; and then de- tlar'd himself much concern" d that he had not his hyde, as be termd it, to make himself a pair of boots with. This . wretch appear'd also in the maIrket-place, where these
scarp about bis middle which he had worn in those dnys ; wherein
be subscrib'd himself Franc is Hook esquire, though a shoe-maker in this town at that time. We have also one John Branch of this place, who is an independent, and married our new knight's fifter ; this spark being told, that his brother in law would be thrown out by a committee of elections for, Sec. reply d with vety foul language, That bis brother shouldfit in the house in Jpite of the queen, and all the Jacobites in England, and even the king of France too. Which words were taken in writing, to be prov'd when
there is occafion.
Thus the letter. I have set down names at length, with
time and. place, to give all room that may be for a disproof; our cause having no need of invention, or any indirect methods.
There is anothery? ary agrees with this, which I have attest ed under the hands of two witnesses, and more may be had) that the notorious Mr. Rob. Mead in Theviej-Jnn cefee
ls
colours were expos'd,
am with a (as told)
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in Holhorn, the day before he went down to the I
house
Ailsbury election, faid,
Iwill make the
thous ashamd of what they have done.
last house of comtil And a gentleman
asking him whether Mr. Harcourt was likely to come in t
at Ail/bury, answer'd, No boys ! •we'll fendyou Mr. Meyne, TM the sou of me of the glorious ludges -asking Charles tit
First.
The same word runs thro' the forty. Now think of
what I told you before, of some body's •white neck, and then judge whether, if it be past 1 2 o'clock with the mitre, it is not, in these men's opinion, hear fun-set with the crown? when besides their hearts boiling over in their
words, they dare expose the crown pubHckly as tumbled down, with the heels upmost, under the arms of the com
monwealth; and this in the market-place, in so great a concourse of people of all ranks as appear at an eleSion.
Many towns have been disfranchis'd for less insolence than this, un-reprov^d, un-punisFd, and therefore we must suppose allow d of and encourag'd by the magistrates.
These are the saints (the vipers ) whom all the succeed ing kings since the royal martyr have warntd\ii their i»- foms ; and every one of them have been fiung by them.
These are the true penitents, and deserving all favour f who have taken such care to preserve these precious ri- licks of their rebellion and triumph over their martyr dso vereign, the scarfs and the standards, &c. bat have not
//ct/V to fjepo/e them till now
. now, but that they think their party so strong as not to 'beopfoo'd ; and therefore, that now is the time to hang out the flag of defiance, to encourage theirfriends, and dis pirit thejr enemies.
Their trumpeters have been employ'd ever since the revolution to sound an alarm against the church and the
succession, but have not appear'd so bare-fac d against the crown as wo w ; from what encouragement I will not exa mine. Thou gav'st warning to thy countrymen (Vol. 2. "if. to get themselves compleatly arm'd-, and to fhew in what cause they were to ^%Ær, thou nam'st the goad
protestant muskets, and basket hilt swords that were used
! nor durst have done it
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at Marston-Moor ^WEdge-Hill. Aud (Vol. 2. N. 89. ) thou justifies the murtber (or de-collation, as thou in sultingly call'st it) of king Charles I. and makes a jest of the cal<ues4>ead feasts . And no w y o u R banners are p. ub-
lickly display 'd at Sandwich ! your lie that perceives not, in the whole rraÆ «f
proceedings, a form'd to attack both the church and the monarchy, cannot see the woodfor trees.
O. This letter from Sandwich fays, that France
Hooke's appears to the cutting offthe bleffed martyr's head. Was he one of the king's judges, and then but a
Jhoe-maker ?
C. Why not as well as blind Hewfon the cobler ? but
he was got to be a colonel then. See what mechanicks that
revolution raised to be above the / bleffed reformation i
liberty ! and property !
But after the murtber of the Æ/*g-, there was an instru
ment fe^it thro' England for the saints to subscribe, wherein they own'd the legality of the soar/ ofjustice, and of their sentence against the ; that they might be
throughly guilty of his blood ; and that it might lie upon them and their children. Here it was that thisspare ofa
shew'd his zeals which you see continues hot and flaming unto this day ! and yet it is one of the cryers- tUt for MOdERATION.
A threatning moderation! with which most of their declamations for peace and union end. As the wea- tber-cock Review before nam'd concludes with a very in- Suu&iBg story of one Peter, who having got a fellow un der him, was boxing him. Thefellow cry'd out, pay me Peter, pay me Peter, ''twill be my turn by and by. And at last thefellow got Peter under him, and maul'd Peter to content. Then he makes his application to the church, in. the fame terrible words of his shortest way (he is still
fond of that performance ! ) of gallows and galleys ; he fays, Ifye willie mad, if ye will be all persecution, and
conformity or nothing must be the case, dragoon them into it at once, shew your selves fairly, set up the gallows and gal leys, fend the parents to gaol, and confiscate their estates,
shoe-maker
(4. )
N2 take
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take their children from them, and educate them isjw
Mil blessedprinciples, affront the queen, dispshve thesettle Ient, king and declare your minds. But thin
m
beseech
his fellow.
C. No, we will notforget it !
But there
thee. you Have
O. Yes.
further instruction in for let me ask not full and free toleration
restore James
you, gentlemen, do not forget the Peter and
ber d! Here we see what a character you draw of the thurch; and then what she is to expect at your hands next time you get into the saddle ! even the fame she met with before ! which you have described exactly. And this is a good argument not! ) for Peter to let that
fellow get up again We will not forget the story of Pe ter; we thank you for it.
story os
it is to be remem worthy
not confirm to
you
C.
can be given, that is, an act
by as great security as parliament
O. Yes, but may be repealed.
C. Can you have any greater security for that than the assurances from the queen, the lords, and the commons?
O. No Yes.
C. What dost mean
O. By no mean, that there no othersecurity can
yes mean, that there further security, and that we are not secure while we have a queen upon the throne whose heart entirely English, who has been educated from her
infancy in the church of England, and expects to save her soul in who has promised to support and maintain
and to transmit fasely secured and settled to posterity, and to bestow her favours chiefiy upon those who are most
zealous for it. And we doubt not she will be, in all these things, semper eadem.
We cannot be secure while we have bench of bishops and set of temporal lords as zealous for the church as her majesty.
be asked, or given as the cafe now stands. But
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While we have so many tackers and higb-fliers in the
house of commons, who are continually pressing for new se curities to the church.
C. They are not new, only to guard those fences that the law has already made for her security, which You have most jesuitically eluded.
0. I care not — new or old — 'tis security still, and that will never do our business. What! to have the church
fim'ilC. Then t\ie and
on't you can have over-turn' root tend and the mitre as well as the crown lie inverted and eclipsed under the shadow of the trunk-hose of your
(y. )
no security
short
till the government
long
branch
old puss
And till then all the indulgence and toleration can be
given you, till you can ask no more; and all the secu rity that in the power of the law or government to grant, cannot please you, nor fop your mouths from the
fry of persecution, dragooning, gallows, and galleys com ing upon you! This to enfiame the mob, and hinder all peace or union, while this government stands.
This
tmse. upon
the plain English on't, and the short issue of the Let any man in the world put other construction he can you have all that you can ask, or
the government grant yet, persecution persecution /——— That is, you think you cannot secure the share you
have the government, without gaining the w hole.
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From •f>at. May 26, to &at. June 2, iyoe. N° 44.
1 . The different virtues ofthose who are for and against the church, in the elections. 2. On which fide tbefi-
pists are. particularly
Abington.
3. 72s agreement 0/' whigs and didentas ; on Good- Friday at RatclifF-Cross and
4. The different appearance at elections.
An instance ofthat at Honiton. 5. Ofsplitting Free holds; and the remedy. 6. The behaviour os the quakers in the elections.
(1. ) Coun. f~T^HE present elections have silled both
town and country with multitude ofpam
JL
phlets and papers upon the occafion. Those against the
church and the crown have sll agreed to airy on a general cry, that the papists, &c. are on the side of the church. And this with nub, if believ'd, will determine the enusk at once ! whatever side the pepishes axe on mufi he naught The Review of the 1 9th last month, Vol. 2. N. is-ixf*, Ok which side shall the papists, the atheists, the DrUNKEN, SWEARING, and most vicious of the ptopl*
vote? .
Is by all mankind, and in every place in Englamo it it
not given against you, andproved, that ail these generally are for the high-church men, tackers, &C TU
for ever lay down this cause, and have not one word more to fay to it.
O. I fay the fame, and so we fay all ; and thou would'st
would'st thou
C. I'll cesire no fairer issue. Let the cause then be
termin'd this And to begin our reckoning give your list of any Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Jew or Gentile En gland, that not against the tackers, and the hill which they tacked.
Then for the other class of drunken, swearing, Sec. the . kit-cat for that. Can you shew such another virtuous cUi
disprove
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flui among the high-church? so pretty witty and pro- phane !
Who was it built the temple of Venus in Hay-Market f And who fung the /« P<ean at the dedication ?
Who go into churches, and tear and common-
prayer-books, pollute the ct//ar and pulpit, and sing /nW ye^fs to the people assembled for devotion ?
Are there any high-church-men, or any who •vote for tuckers, to be found among these sort of •virtuofoes ?
(2. ) O. We can dispense with all these ! they hurt not
oar cause ; but thou hast not faid a word of the papish, 1.
O these papishes ! They are all for your high-church and the tackers.
C. The quite contrary of which is the f>-«/£. I told thee before, Num. 42, that the papists in Snsfoli made all the interest they could against the tackers. They did the fame in Essex, in Lanc^Jhire, notoriously ; and I doubt not the like will be found in other places all over the kingdom. Can'st thou give any instance to the con trary ?
O. No, not I. Why? am I! bound tohunt upand down M sind instances far thee i but WI fay it f isn'tthat enough? our party can take our •word, like gentlemen,
without />nw/'.
($4 But thou deals, very jtfidticalfy in the argument
you biing as to ouk godbnefi f show speaks only of •£z'/- tat and the whigs, who tbo' at present cut dear confe derates, and ,/az'a/s (for wi must own none other) yet no body takes them fox extraordinary Christians! ' But what
fay'st thou as to our dissenter st there's' men of fbict lift, prohity, and every thing ! and it was of theft Review
meant to make the comparisim-wahjoar high-church-men,
in what thou hast quoted above. you C The comparison he, and the rest of
make upon this point of elections, is only as to the voters ; and therein vou have the whole body o£ •whigs, atheists, kit-cat and
all ! they're all on the side of the diffenters, and the pa pists too, as I have shew'd.
But when you're all together, and doing the fame N 4 thing.
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thing, who can distinguish you ? Which were the -whip, and which the dissenters, at the Sb/p-Tavem at Ratclif
last Good-Friday? of which I told thee before
N. 38.
Whkh were the wbigs, and which the dijsenters, the
fame Good Friday at Abington, when you were all beastly
drunk, about concerting your election there ? and in di stance of the day, got all the fiddles in town to glory in your delauch, and contempt of the passion of Christ, which the high-fiers were remembering at church, with fasting and prayer ; but the 7/•rio and Jews, the whigs and •i/- make it their trtating-day ! Whether can it be
Cross
fenters
more truly faid of the whig or the dissenter ?
Who with more care keep boly-diy
The wrong, than others the right way.
They're so very like one another, in all these things,
That put ,em in a bag, andshake 'cm,
Yourselfotb-sudden wouldmistake 'em.
(4. ) But there is another difference very observable 'twixt those that are for or against the tackers and higb-church. The former are attended to their election by the body of the
principal gentry, both for estates and reputation. The other by tag, rag, and long tail, the refuse and scum, the ta^i of the people. Every body took notice of this, almost in as/ the elections, especially for the counties ; and I believe
there are very sew exceptions as to the boroughs. I
could sill my papers with instances since the elections began ; I
told thee of a sew, Suffolk, Hertford, Coventry, Exeter, Honiton. And because thou did'ft sputter grievously about the last, and put it upon mob, that Sir John Elwill was affronted, and heads broken, upon his coming there to make interest for his election, I'll now tell thee how it
proceeded upon the election-day, which I have in a letter thence dated the I gth last month, from one present, acd concern'd in the election.
Thursday about 8 in the morning Sir John Elwill
'/
cam M horseback to our town, accompanied by about 200 burst
ti his
And now
quarters. Iwill
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os allsorts, but I think there wcre not fix centlemen among them. About half an hour after came in Sir Wal
ter Young accompanied by several gentlemen and farmers of the neighbouring country. At nine came in Sir William
Dr a kb (•who was a tacker^ accompanied by all the
neighbouring GENTlEMEN and ClIrG Y, and near a thou sand horse. He was met at the end of the borough by the
•voteri who were sor him. They wcre led by the bailiff of the borough, with ten constables, who marched in order, with laurels in their hats, and tackers in gold letters. The
poilfor Sir William Drake was 256, for Sir Walter Younc z$6,for Sir John F. lwill i6z, for Capt. Blay--
Bon 164. Upon which all Sir John ElWlll's/rswwSr sneak'd away, not one of them being left to accompany him
a little
you to judge of their honesty by their actions. They brought
shew
of
their and leave dealings,
to be polsd several fellows from Oaters, Olscomb, Buckerel, Monton, Cotley, Branscomb, and'
other places, some of whose faces he employed to make ther return never saw before, with witnesses to prove their boil ing of the pot ; and threatened him, if he did not take their votes, to make him answer for itsomewhere else ; this was in my presence ; this 1 saw andheard. In short, there was not a dissenter in the parish but they brought within the borough ; and not one young fellow of 2 1 years of age, but they produc'd for votes, 20 shillings a vote was given, ar was prov'd at the poll, befides drink. They arrested all that were in debt to any of their party, &c.
Thus the letter. And the like has been their practice in other places, which may be examin'd in a committee of elections.
O. But Review has observ'd, that those tackers who-
have carried their elections, have met with more than usual
difficulties, and carried it by a less majority than formerly, C. And yet those sew who lost poll'd more con
siderable numbers thanformerly.
O. That seems contradiction.
(5. ) C. Your godly deeds cNan explain dhiidin;
estates
it, by
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estates intosree-hJds of40/. only for the time ofelrjka^ and taking bonds of refignation, as you practise upon (flil
clergy. , where you have attvowfons. By this means-, mak J ing hundreds of the poor people forswear themselves. But they whoscruptc not at sacrilege, wirl never beggit at PERJURy.
But we may have lists printed ofthefree-Boldtrs in seve
ral counties, where this trick has been most practisU ; 1 whereby the nenx. ones will appear.
And if all these free-holds be consirm'd by aeJ aspar liament, and the sham-conditions voided, it will be a good bar for the future ; especially if they make the
qualification 1 o pounds at least, instead of 40 fallings ; and' if the house of commons throw out all who have come in by siich motes, which are declar'd to be void and of none ef
fect, by an act 7th and 8th of K. William.
.
if you a church of England oi
you have been baffled and exposed vtCt, till you are become
the contempt of the nation ; your impeachments are ajiyf/> I my self, John Tutchin, have stood it out bluff againft
all your prosecution, tho' the jury found' me guilty How many have you order to be prosecuted, for this and" /Æa/? and has one •uw•/beeir faid to any one of them They /«ajÆ at you, and despise you in every companyP Don't shew your teeth more, till you can bite. '
(6. ) The very quakers, like rats, have quit falling; house. brag and of them in mine of 26 last month*
Vol. N. 16. The whole body of them have appeared,
every where, on our side, against the church, ar these
elections and to Ihew their integrity beyond the corrupt tion of bribes, they threw out, by their mates, the very man who brought the bill to make them peers, to have
their aff,rmation equivalent to the oaths of other plebeians. C. No other return has the church met with, or can.
ever expect* for the favours fhe shews to any of you Ms1 senters,\vho are her sworn enemies principle and inclination,
tho' you one another, as the quakers were served• New-
O. Ay
get
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mons, you'll reform matters !
will
house
ye
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h civ-England, when my sort of you have the power i and tho' the quakers complained heavily ofpersecution, in your reign before the rejiauration, 1660, and their pro-, fhets, particularly James Nay lor, was then bord thro' the tongue and set in the pillory ; yet all these things, and all things possible, cannot alter the nature of the beast. Dis senters, of all forts, will ever bandy against the church-, is-HerodmA Pontius Pilate agreed against her mafier.
And if the church carmot stand upon her own legs, and be supported, under God, by her truesons who love and reverence her ; she will find the help ofwhigs, dissenters, and occafional conformists, what a great man very appo-
fitly term'd it,
A wooden leg.
The letter from. Ipswich in last Obser•vator will be spoke to in my next. In the mean time the Observator is de-. sired to name his nine baronets, &e. it being no prejudice to them, and the fact is denied by eye witnesses ; as also that there were not ;o clergy who poWd, as that letter fays, for it is still insisted upon, that they were 200, and the poll-books are appeal'd to.
Note, The truth of the advertisement concerning S. H. . . Ash — t N. 42 requires, as I'm told, further consirma tion, which shall be done in my next, and justice done to S. H.
.
From §>QL June 2, to &at. June 9, 1 70? . N° 45
l. Concerning Sir H. Ash—— t. 2. Of the letter from . Ipswich, j. Of the weather-cock at Oxford. 4. The Observator's story from Northampton confuted.
5. Down with the church at Chester. 6. The peace able election at Exeter. '
(1. ) Coun. ' I "'HE following paper I received from a X friend, on the behalf of Sir H. /sh—t, with a desire it might be inserted in the Rehearsal. The
;
paper is as follows,
N 6 Whereat.
276 The REHEARSAL.
Whereas in my saper on igth instant, I inserted an ad vertisement, that it was not Sir W. Jsh t, but Sir H. Ajb 1 thatsent a message to Mr. Vaudre, that it
was past 12 a clock with the church of England, lSe. 1 am fince by credible persons inform' d that it was a mistake, and that Sir H.