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PGCJ.767.028
11 Apr 1767:21 (170)
From the Salisbury Journal, of the 29th of December, we have
the following advices.
The Journal of a Wiltshire Curate. . .
Thursday--Received a note from the ale-house at the top of
the hill, informing me that a gentleman begged to speak with
me on pressing business, went and found it was an
unfortunate member of a strolling company of players, who
was pledged for seven-pence half penny-- In a struggle what
to do . . .
Saturday--. . . no more money than two-pence halfpenny in
the house; but see the goodness of God! The strolling
player whom I had relieved, was a man of fortune, who
accidentally heard that I was as humane as I was indigent,
and from a generous excentricity 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
50L. note into my hand, and the next day presented me with a
living of 300L. a year.
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