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conftant ufe twice a day, all the year round ; 

 for he never failed to eat oyfters both at dinner, 

 and fupper; with which the neighbouring 

 town of Pool fupplied him. At the upper 

 end of the room ftood a fmall table with a 

 double deik ; one fide of which held a 

 church bible ; the other, the book of martyrs. 

 On different tables in the room lay hawk's- 

 hoods ; bells ; old hats, with their crowns 

 thru ft in, full of pheafant eggs ; tables ; dice ; 

 cards ; and ftore of tobacco-pipes. At one 

 end of this room was a door, which opened 

 into a clofet, where ftood bottles of ftrong 

 beer, and wine ; which never came out but 

 in lingle glalles, which was the rule of the 

 houfe ; for he never exceeded himfelf ; nor 

 permitted others to exceed. Anfwering to 

 this clofet, was a door into an old chapel ; 

 which had been long difufed for devotion ; 

 but in the pulpit, as the fafeft place, was 

 always to be found a cold chine of beef, a 

 venifon-pafty, a gammon of bacon, or a great 

 apple-pye, with thick cruft, well-baked. 

 His table coft him not much, tho it was good 

 to eat at. His fports fupplied all, but beef 

 and mutton ; except on fridays, when he had 

 the beft of iifti. He never wanted a London 



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