ANNALS OF HORSEMANSHIP. 45 



LETTER THE NINTH. 



To G. Gambado, Efq. 



Mr. Gambado, 



THE following very fingular afFaIr hap- 

 pening in my prefence yefterday, I take the 

 earlieft opportunity of informing you of it : 

 in hopes, if any other accounts of it fhould 

 reach you, my flory may be heard firft. 

 I was juft come out of my parifh church, 

 where I had, indifTolubly I fuppofe, united 

 one John Mudd, to one Elizabeth Middle- 

 ditch. I was detain'd fome time in the bel- 

 fry, reprimanding my Clerk for fuffcring a 

 tribe of filthy dogs to be parading the aifle 

 during the nuptial ceremony; when, on my 



entering 



