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Eight of the Clock in the morning- at my Lodging in Dorchester 

 the said persons, to answer such matters as shall be objected 

 against them on her Maj 'tie's behalf. Given under my hand and 

 seal the vj th (? 26th) day of July, Anno U'ni 1705. 



(L. S.) 



Eo. PiacE. 



This was addressed " to the Mayor, Baylliffs, Constables and 

 other Officers of W. and M.E. ami eveo-y of them." 



The Eev. Canon Bingiiam very Jljndly, at my request, searched 

 carefully the orders and also the minutes of the Dorset County 

 Sessions for 1705, but was H.nable to find any entry referring to 

 Dan. De Foe. 



"We are, therefore, compelled to accept what De Foe himself 

 says was the result of his interview with Eo Price at Dprchester. 

 It is as follows, being th© continuation of a previous quotation, 

 " where the Impertinence being discovered, the Mayor was sent 

 back, the Gentlemen Dismiss' d, and the Wise Magistrate thought 

 it his Duty to send up a letter to the Court to inform her 



Majesty's Secretaries of State what an Officious B was 



trusted with the Government of that Corporation." 



To the news of this affair De Foe attributes his further 

 persecution at Exeter, Bideford, Crediton, &c., where also 

 " foolish justices " chanced to be in the ascendant. 



On the same date (Aug. 25) his "Eeview " contains the following 

 uncomplimentary passages, referring to the same affair, " Peace- 

 making being therefore such a dangerous Thing in this Age, I 

 advise all People to have a Care how they meddle with it : 

 Memento Mori, Gentlemen : whoever attempts to persuade the 

 High Church to Peace let him please to accept the following 

 Cautions. 



1 . — Let him not come near the Town of Weymouth, in Dorset- 

 shire, lest the Worshipful Mr. Mayor cry out, A Presbyterian 

 Plot : and not daring to meddle with him Personally shall put 

 all his Hearsays, Supposes, and Druncken Evidences together 

 and carry all the Honest People he can find that Converse with 

 him to Dorchester before a Judge, where accusing the Peace- 



