The history of Henry Earl of Moreland / [Ed. by J.W].

  • Henry Brooke
Date:
[1813]
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Credit: The history of Henry Earl of Moreland / [Ed. by J.W]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    set them all at defiance. His creditors have since offered to accept ten shillings, and some of them five shillings, in the pound; but he swears that he will never pay them a groat; for he is now as liberal of his oaths and impious execrations, as he was lately of his more impious profanation of gospel phrases. And thus he daily revels, in the sensual consumption of those wretches whom he hath so inhumanly defrauded, while hundreds of orphans and widows, and other misera- bles, perish for want of the sustenance, which one infernal appetite devours without remorse. Nay, several of his creditors are, at this very time, famishing in this prison, while they see him feasting so lavishly upon their spoils.’^ • \ PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY NUTTALL, FISHER, AND DIXON.
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