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BC.768.001
28 Dec 1767-4 Jan 1768:263 (1/3)
The Journal of a Wiltshire Curate. [Narrative of travails
of country curate] . . .
Thursday,--received a note from an ale-house at the top of
the hill, informing me that a gentleman begged to speak to
me on pressing business. Went, and found it was an
unfortunate member of a strolling company of players, who
was pledged for seven-pence halfpenny. . . [curate gave him
his last shilling. 3/4 column:] no more money than two-pence
half-penny in the house: but see the goodness of God! the
strolling player whom I had relieved was a man of fortune,
who accidently heard that I was as humane as I was indigent,
and from a generous eccentricity of temper, wanted to do me
an essential piece of service: I had not been an hour at
home when he came in, and declaring himself my friend, put a
fifty-pound note into my hand, and the next day presented me
with a living of three hundred pounds a-year.
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