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CROTCHET CASTLE.
FIRST COMMISSIONER.
The manorial farm of Hautbois, now occupied by Farmer Seedling, is charged with the endowment and maintenance of an almshouse.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT,
(to the Churchwarden.)
How is this, Mr. Bluenose?
FIRST CHURCHWARDEN.
I really do not know, sir. What say you, Mr. Appletwig?
MR. APPLETWIG,
(parish-clerk and schoolmaster; an old man.)
I do remember, gentlemen, to have been informed, that there did stand, at the end of the village, a ruined cottage, which had once been an almshouse, which was endowed and maintained, by an annual revenue of a mark and a half, or one pound sterling, charged some centuries ago on the farm of Hautbois;
