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THE HISTORY OF
misfortunes which he met with in business, and the wicked persecution of Sir Timothy Gripe and an over-grown Farmer called Graspall, he was effectually ruined.
The case was thus. The parish of Mouldwell, where they lived, had for many ages been let by the lord of the Manor, into twelve different Farms, in which the Tenants lived comfortable, brought up large families, and carefully supported the poor people who laboured for them; until the estate by marriage, and by death came Into the bands of Sir Timothy.
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