An account of the trials on bills of exchange, wherein the deceit of Mr. John King and his confederates, and the pretence of lending money is exposed / [Joanna Southcott].
- Joanna Southcott
- Date:
- [1807]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the trials on bills of exchange, wherein the deceit of Mr. John King and his confederates, and the pretence of lending money is exposed / [Joanna Southcott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![kindness to men in evil practices to suppress them from going on. But as the credulity of my friends,is so much blamed, I shall prove, by another parable, that the wisdom of the Lord is often made manifest to bring evil deeds to light, through the simplicity and credulity in man ; and now I shall bring forward a parable of the simplicity of a gentleman in Devon- shire, which I knew to be true. A Mr. Mauditt, near Exeter, had his house robbed by four men, who bound both him and his servants, while they robbed the house. After this Mr. Mauditt made known that if they had broke another lock, they would have found ] 100 / more ; but this had made him secure his home so strong that no thieves could break in. Some time after this a man came to him with a letter, saying he was a servant to a gentleman, who was an intimate friend of Mr. Mauditt; and he produced a letter, as if from that gentleman, which Mr. Mauditt perceived was the perfect likeness of his friend’s hand writing ; and in the letter the'bearer was called his servant, saying he had sent him to give him a caution to take care of his house, as there was a gang of thieves that had broke into many houses, and he was the gentleman’s servant. From this letter, Mr. Mauditt gave credit to the man, that he was the servant, and told the servants he should sleep there. Mr. Mauditt’s foot.;,an~grew jealous of the place he said he was in, as it was onlv five weeks before that he metthis gentleman’s footman in a town where his master had sent him, and they spent some hours together, and the man never mentioned his in- tention of leaving his pl^ce, but of the great regard he had for his master ; and therefore he could not believe he was gone ; and on inquiring of the man particulars concerning, the servants in the house, and flow he liked his master, he gave so imperfect an account of the house and servants, that he could by no means helieve he was in his service. Thus he went and communicated to lf.s master all these rea- F](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22042076_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
