-- Let the sashes be secured, the crevices stopt, the
carpets laid, and the beds well tousled. -- Mrs Loyd, late Jenkins,
being married to a relation of the family, cannot remain in the
capacity of a sarvant; therefore, I wish you would cast about for
some creditable body to be with me in her room -- If she can spin,
and is mistress of plain-work, so much the better -- but she must
not expect extravagant wages -- having a family of my own, I must
be more occumenical than ever. No more at present, but rests
Your loving friend,
TAB. LISMAHAGO
NOV. 20.
To Mrs MARY JONES, at Brambleton-hall.
MRS JONES,
Providinch hath bin pleased to make great halteration in the
pasture of our affairs. -- We were yesterday three kiple chined, by
the grease of God, in the holy bands of mattermoney, and I now
subscrive myself Loyd at your sarvice. -- All the parish allowed
that young 'squire Dallison and his bride was a comely pear for
to see. -- As for madam Lashtniheygo, you nose her picklearities --
her head, to be sure, was fintastical; and her spouse had rapt
her with a long marokin furze cloak from the land of the
selvidges, thof they say it is of immense bally.
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