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of being hired by the farmers' wives an example 

 which was afterwards followed in other towns in the 

 Riding. Thus, by degrees, the Martinmas hirings 

 were accompanied by more orderly proceedings, 

 and in time he lived to see an altogether improved 

 state of things. 



Among other pamphlets which he published this 

 same year in which he took up his abode at Nun- 

 burnholme were the following : " Account of the 

 Battle of the Monongahela River/' " Account of the 

 Siege of Killowen/' and "A Letter to Archdeacon 

 Wilberforce on Supremacy." The first of these was 

 drawn from an original document written by one of 

 the survivors of the battle. The events preceding 

 the battle are given in the form of a diary, which no 

 doubt describes accurately what took place. A list 

 of the officers present, with those killed or wounded, 

 is added at the end. 



The " Siege of Killowen " was from an original 

 manuscript in the library at King's Inn, Dublin. 

 The siege took place in 1688, the fortress being de- 

 fended by Mr. Orpen, an ancestor of my father's on 

 his mother's side. 



The " Letter to Archdeacon Wilberforce " was ad- 

 dressed to him just after he had joined the Church 

 of Rome, with the following apology : " I have 

 given you my name as its writer, and as I am quite 

 sure that "you will be ready to say that, ever since I 

 came into the archdeaconry, no clergyman has acted 

 with greater and more uniform respect towards you 

 than myself ; so in now presuming to offer a word 



