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f&rd'^ when he had communicated himie4f to his 

 Friends, and confulted with him abaur the Means 

 of his Effefts, they agreed, that the Meli Method 

 would be, to put them in the Hands of ibme Mer- 

 , chant*?, ivho being Men of Wealth and Credit in 

 the World, no Enqu^'ry would be made how they 

 came by them this Friend telling htm he was very 

 intimate with fome who were very fit for the Pur- 

 pofe, and if he would but allow them a good Com- 

 miflioa would do the Bufinefs very faithfully. 

 j4very liked the Propofal, for he found no other 

 Way of managing his Affairs, fince he could not 

 appear in them himfelf ; therefore his Friend go- 

 ing back to Brifiol^ and opening the Matter to the 

 Merchants, they made ^very a Vifit at Biddifordy 

 where, after ibme Proteftations of Honour and Inte- 

 grity, he delivered them his Effects, confifting of 

 Diamonds and Ibme Veffels of Gold they gave 

 him a little Money for his prefent Subfiftance, and 

 fo they parted. 



He changed his Name and lived at Blddiford^ 

 without making any Figure, and therefore there 

 was no great Notice taken of h'm v yet let one 

 or two of his Relations know where he was, who 

 came to fee him. In Ibme Time his I'ttle Money 

 was (pent, yet he heard nothing from his Mer- 

 chants v hevvrit to them often, and after much Im- 

 portunity they fent him a fmall Supply, but Icarce 

 fufficient to pay his Debts : In fine, the Supplies 

 they fent him from Time to Time, were fo fmall, 

 that they were not fufficient to give him Bread, 

 nor could he get that little, without a great deal 

 of Trouble and Importunity, wherefore being 

 weary of his Life, he went privately to Brifiol^ to 

 Ipeak to the Merchants himfelf, where inftead of 

 Money he met a moft ftxocking Repulfe, for when 

 he defired them to come to an Account with him, 

 tjp^ey fileiiced him by threatening to difcover him, 



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