had no fooner feated himself at the upper End of the high Table, but he called for a clean Pipe, a Paper of Tobacco, a Difh of Coffee, a Wax-Candle, and the Supplement, with fuch an Air of Chearfulness and Good-humour, that all the Boys in the Coffee-room (who seemed to take pleasure in ferving him) were at once employed on his feveral Errands, infomuch that no Body else could come at a Dish of Tea, till the Knight had got all his Conveniences about him.

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upon the Tombs, and that he should be glad to go and fee them with me, not having vifited them fince he had read History. I could not at first imagine how this came into the Knight's Head, till I recollected that he had been very bufy all last Summer upon Baker's Chronicle, which he has quoted feveral times in his Difputes with Sir ANDREW FREEPORT fince his laft coming to Town. Accordingly I promised to call upon him the next Morning, that we might go together to the Abbey.

I found the Knight under his Butler's Hands, who always fhaves him. He was no fooner Dreffed, than he called for a Glass of the Widow Trueby's Water, which he told me he always drank before he went abroad. He recommended to me a Dram of it at the fame time, with fo much Heartiness, that I could not forbear drinking it. As foon as I had got it down, I found it very unpalatable; upon which the Knight obferving that I had made feveral wry Faces, told me that he knew I fhould not like it at first, but that it was the best thing in the World against the Stone or Gravel.

I could have wifhed indeed that he had acquainted me with the Virtues of it fooner; but it was too late to complain, and I knew what he had done was out of Good-will. Sir ROGER told me further, that he looked upon it to be very good

for a Man whilst he ftaid in Town, to keep off Infection, and that he got together a Quantity of it upon the firft News of the Sickness being at Dantzick: When of a sudden turning short to one of his Servants, who stood behind him, he bid him call a Hackney-Coach, and take care it was an elderly Man that drove it.

HE then refumed his Difcourfe upon Mrs. Trueby's Water, telling me that the Widow Trueby was one who did more good than all the Doctors and Apothecaries in the Country: That she diftilled every Poppy that grew within five Miles of her; that the diftributed her Water gratis among all forts of People; to which the Knight added, that she had a very great Jointure, and that the whole Country would fain have it a Match between him and her; and truly, fays Sir ROGER, if I had not been engaged, perhaps I could not have done better.

HIS Discourse was broken off by his Man's telling him he had called a Coach. Upon our going to it, after having caft his Eye upon the Wheels, he asked the Coachman if his Axletree was good; upon the Fellow's telling him he would warrant it, the Knight turned to me, told me he looked like an honeft Man, and went in without further Ceremony.

WE had not gone far, when Sir ROGER, pop

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