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The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill].

Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet

Date:: 1781

Credit: The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$To CONCLUDE: | Tam told by the author of Thelyphthora, that “* forbearance 1s no acquittance,” (great forbearance traly,) and that the light in which he fhall find himfelf obliged, in juf- tice to the public (to fay nothing of The- yphthora,) to-place meas a critic and a philologif?, will hardly be more difagreeable to myfelf than to the author. Then he adds, <‘ but be it remembered, Sir, (a conviction ‘already drawn up in the law phrafe,) (I] [I] We may fuppofe the whole of the conviction to run as follows: ‘County of ) BE TT REMEMBERED, that on the S—y. twenty-third day of March \att paft, and in To wit. the twenty-firft year of the reign of his fovereign majefty lord George, of Great - Britain, France, and Ireland, king defender of the faith, and fo forth. Richard Hill, of Hawk/tone, in the county of Sa- lop, batchelor, otherwife cobler, was duly convicted before me, Martinus Scriblerus, Efq. one of his majefty’s juf- ices affigned to keep the peace within the faid county, of divers crimesand mifdemeanors in the art of critici/mand philology, he the faid Richard Hill, otherwife the cobler, _ not being duly qualified nor licenfed by the laws of Thelyphthora to exercife the art or myftery of critici{m or : philology aforefaid. 1 therefore the faid juftice, upon due confideration had of the premifes, do adjudge that the faid Richard Hill, otherwife the cobler, hath in- curred the penalty of public whipping, which faid _penalty, I the within named juftice fhall infli@t on the faid delinquent by my own hand and rod, within the {pace of three months next enfuing from the date hereof. Given under my hand and feal, the day and year aforefaid, Martinus ScRIBLERUS. that$