jonas hobson's advice, kc. 15 
blessing of God, kept you, thus far honest 
and sober. I am now going to be removed 
from you ; and as I have no worldly goods 
to leave among you, I have called you round 
my death bed, to give you my last blessing 
and advice ; which will be a better legacy 
to you, if you will keep it, than if. I had 
left you' my house full of riches. 
" This is a very wicked place in which 
you live. People seem to have lost all fear 
of God. What swearing, what drinking, 
what lying, and wickedness, of all kinds 
do we see ! when I was young, there were 
no such, doings. The church was then 
followed more, and the ale-house less. 
Justices, then, would not surfer such shame- 
ful work ; and inn-keepers durst not 
entertain a guest in church time. 
" But now, as if ale-houses were not 
enough, what a number of wicked pot- 
houses has the devil set up in every pari of 
the parish I Good Lord ! it is enough to 
make one's hair stand on end, to hear of 
such doings. There is hardly a part of the 
parish, where you may not find one of 
these bad houses. Here the devil keeps 
