then the greatest criminals I could name in thefe refpects, are Roman-Catholic priests. Let this affertion of mine be fet overagainst the character the Abbé Le Blanc gives the English proteftant minifters. Con-. fider all I have faid, when you read this mass-priest's fifty-eighth letter, and then judge of our reformation and clergy (10).

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word or twe relating to tranfubftantiation.

(10) Note, reader, in the fourth volume of a work, called, Notes relating to Men, and Things, and Books, you will find fome more of my remarks on the Abbé Le Blanc's epifiles. You will fee, among other obfervations on this monk, a vindication of Archbishop Ti!. lotfon. The Ablé rails at one of this prelate's fine fermons, with great malice and impudence, and has the vanity to think his miferable declamation an anfwer. This wretched and defpicable Romih apoftate has the impudence and impiety to defend the worship of his God of dough, and would, if it were in his power, perfuade the readers of his letters, to adore the tiny cake he proftrates himself before. For this the

reader will find the mass-priest well chattifed in the work I have referred to; and fee the doctrine of the Lord's Supper fet in a true light. You will find there a curious hiftory of the mass, from the time the popiste doctors first drew it out of the bottomless pit; and fee it made quite evident, that in this aboininable article of their faith, as well as in every other part of their execrable religion, they make void the law of God, and fink the human race into the vileft flavery and idolatry. Beware then, Chriftians, of popery. Still bravely dare to protest againit her infernal schemes and inven

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-But it is time to return to the cottage of Chriftopher the fisherman, and fee what happened to Antonia and Agnes.

The beginning

of my acquaintance with Mifs Cranmer, and how it ended in a marriage.

§. 10. When I came back to the poor man's cottage, he told me the ladies were come home; and as he had given Mifs Cranmer fome account of me, as a traveller who had journied into that remote corner of the world, in fearch of antiquities and curiofities, he did not think this lady would be averfe to feeing me and hearing me too, if I contrived any plausible pretence to throw myfelf in her way.

tions, and draw your religion from the book of God, that holy volume of ineftimable treafure. It is our light in darkness,-our comfort under affliction,-our direction to heaven,—and let us die in defence of it, if ever there should be occafion, rather than fuffer the blood-thirsty papifts, the red-handed idolaters, to fnatch it out of our hands. They will give us for it the defpicable legends of fictitious faints and falfe miracles; -a hiftory of cifeafes cured inftantly by relicks;accounts of speaking images ;-stories of travelling chapels;-wonders done by a Madona ;-and the devil knows what he has crowded into their wretched heads. Down with popery then, the religion of hell, and may that happy ftate be erected, when truth and love fhall embrace and reign. Come, Lord Jefus, come quickly.

Immediately

Immediately then I croffed the water, went up to the house, and as I faw her and the fair Agnes her coufin walking in the garden, near the ha, leaped it over immediately, broad as it was, and with my hat in my hand, made her a low bow, began an apology for prefuming to introduce myfelf to her prefence in fuch a manner, and concluded with my being in love with her charming character, before I had the honour and happinefs of feeing her. What a condition then muft I be in, when a heaven-born maid, like her, appeared! Strange pleasures filled my foul, unloofed my tongue, and my firft talk could not be any thing but love. A deal I faid on the fubject, not worth repeating to the reader; and the iffue of the matter was, that I became fo well acquainted with this innocent beauty, that, on taking my leave, I had an invitation to breakfaft with her the next morning. I was there by eight, and really and truly quite charmed with her. She was pretty as it was poffible for flesh and blood to be, had a beautiful understanding; and as fhe had very little notion of men, having feen very few, except the two old fervants who lived with her, fhe had not a notion of any danger that could come from converfing freely with a man fhe knew no

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thing of, and who might be an enemy ‘in difguife.

After breakfast, I offered to go, but she asked me to stay and dine; and to fum up the matter, I did dine, fup, and breakfast with her every day, for a month, till my good prieft, Friar Fleming, arrived, on a letter I had fent him, and we were married before the end of fix weeks. We loved to excefs, and did enhance human happiness to a high degree. She was good as an angel; and for two years we lived in unfpeakable felicity. For the greatest part of that time, we were at Orton-Lodge, as fhe liked the wild place. There the likewife died of the fmall-pox, in the firft month of the third year, and left me the most disconfolate of men. Four days I fat with my eyes fhut, on account of this lofs, and then left the Lodge once more, to live if I could, fince my religion ordered me fo to do, and fee what I was next to meet with in the world. As grief fat powerfully on my fpirits, and if not diflodged, would have drank them all up very foon, I refolved to haften to Harrogate, and in the feftivities of that place forget my departed partner as foon as I could. I laid my Antonia by my Charlotte and my Statia, and then rode off. What happened at the

Wells,

Wells, and all the obfervations I made there, and thereabout, the reader will find in my fifth fection.

N. B. As I mention nothing of any children by fo many wives, fome readers may perhaps wonder at this, and therefore, to give a general anfwer, once for all, I think it fufficient to obferve, that I had a great many, to carry on the fucceffion; but as they never were concerned in any extraordinary affairs, nor ever did any remarkable things, that I heard of; only rife and breakfast, read and faunter, drink and eat, it would not be fair, in my opinion, to make any one pay for their history.