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POSTSCRIPT.
IT has been disputed among the literati of Grub-street, whether sir Humphry proceeded any further into the history of John Bull. By diligent inquiry we have found the titles of some chapters, which appear to be a continuation of it; and are as follow.
Chap. I. How John was made angry with the articles of agreement. How he kicked the parchment through the house, up stairs and down stairs, and put himself in a great heat thereby.
Chap. II. How in his passion he was going to cut off sir Roger's head with a cleaver. Of the strange manner of sir Roger's escaping the blow, by laying his head upon the dresser.
Chap. III. How some of John's servants attempted to scale his house with rope-ladders and how many unfortunately dangled in the same.
Chap. IV. Of the methods by which John endeavoured to preserve the peace among his neighbours: how he kept a pair of steelyards to weigh them; and by diet, purging, vomiting, and bleeding, tried to bring them to equal bulk and strength.
Chap. V. Of false accounts of the weights given in by some of the journeymen; and of the Newmarket tricks, that were practised at the steelyards.
Chap. VI. How John's new journeymen brought him other-guise accounts of the steelyards.
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