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'and none disturbs my Peace of Mind more' than the Barbarities and unspeakable Injuries
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'you have undeservedly met with from
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'me; I am, believe me, as sincerely penitent
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'for my ill Usage towards you, and for
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'all my many and enormous Crimes, as it is
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'possible for mortal Man to be; by which
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'Repentance I hope to obtain Mercy in the
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'World to come, and Forgiveness on Earth
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'from you. I was once esteemed by you as
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'a sincerely affectionate Husband, and now
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'beg you will look on me, during the short
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'Time I have to live, to be, as I subscribe
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'myself,
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Your sincerely penitent Husband, In deep Affliction,
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William Parsons
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'P. S. I beg you will mention me to my
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'Father and Brother, and I most earnestly beg
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'your and their Prayers to obtain Forgivenness
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'for me in the World to come. I hope
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'you will be happy when I am no more.'
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10.
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JAMES FIELD
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, aged 37, was a Native of
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Dublin
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, the Metropolis of the Kingdom of Ireland
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; he was bred to no particular Business, and his younger Days, the Time of training up Youth, was passed away in little more than idle Employments: He was always esteemed a Youth of a robust and forward Temper, nor was any great Persuasion necessary to get him to engage in Affairs of a mischievous Nature. He was remarkable, it seems, for a daring Fellow, and would fight upon the least Provocation, before he left his native Country; what Success he met with there we know not, but in his bruising Capacity here in England, (so much in Vogue now-a-Days, and followed by all Ranks) we don't find there is much to be said to his Praise.
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After he left his native Country, he came to
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, and lived in the obscure Parts of the Town, where People generally resort' whose Way of Life is not proper to be known to every Body. It was some Time before he became a noted
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, and one of the Heroes, to whose Management is too often left the Power of disposing, by their Prowess, of the Fortunes and Money of Men, who would do well to find some other Use for it, and employ it for their own and the publick Good, as various Ways might be found for that Purpose: Field sought many Battles, and was frequently beat, if not generally, tho' a stout and resolute Fellow.
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He had not left
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many Years before
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began to be too warm for him, and he betook himself to the Seas. He sailed
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, and afterwards in several
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s, and got both Wages and Prize-Money, which he did not want Companions to assist him in squandering away, as soon as he came on Shore.
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He has been acquainted with most of the top Thieves, and particularly those who haunted
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; where (at the
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) was his chief Residence, and where he was taken; since which, 'tis said, that House is not so much the Resort of those People, as it was, while they had him for their Guard, in Case of an Attempt to beset the House; but being concerned in the Rescue of Jones, alias Harpur, from the Gate-house, tho' not put into the Information, he thought proper to take himself away to
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once more, thinking all old Stories were forgot, and blown over; but he could not help playing his old Tricks over again, or others as bad, and so
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became once more too hot to hold him.
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