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QUEENHOO-HALL,

A Romance:

AND

ANCIENT TIMES,

A DRAMA.

BY THE LATE

JOSEPH STRUTT,

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AUTHOR OF

RURAL SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE
PEOPLE OF ENGLAND," &c.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

FOR

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne & Co.

JOHN MURRAY, FLEET-STREET, LONDON;

AND

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH.

1808.

QUEENHOO-HALL;

BEING

A HISTORY OF TIMES PAST.

SECTION VIII-CONTINUED.

CHAPTER IL.

The Tale.

ABOUT a century past, there lived at Hatfield a merry fellow, well known in this village, who followed the double occupation of a tailor and a barber. He was usually denominated the Little Tailor-and by that appellation, so please you, I will call him. He was much esteemed by his neighbours, not only on account of his skilfulness in his profession, but more especially for his mirthful

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