in consequence of this strain, ill with an ague that lasted seven months.
Sir Abraham Elton, however, continued his gallant championship, preaching again at the Cheddar Club feast, where seventy gentry gathered, including Mr. Tudway, the member for Wells. Patty laments having to act like the rest of the world, and give a dinner to those who did not want it, and only tea to many hundreds who had no dinner at home.
It was almost a triumph; and Dr. Moss wrote most kindly to her; but Wedmore was as troublesome as ever, and the farmers actually presented the two sisters at the Archdeacon's Visitation for teaching without a licence, declaring they would never rest till they had worried the ladies out of the parish. Nevertheless, Patty went bravely the round of all the parishes, holding the feasts and making the little addresses, while her sister was too ill for the exertion.
Sir Abraham at last obtained from the Bishop the thirteen affidavits which the curate of Blagdon had taken against Young. Of them Hannah wrote to Wilberforce—
