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THE'

HISTORY

OF

Thomas Hickathrift.

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He that does buy this little Book,
Observe what you in it do look,
When you have read it, then may say,
Your money is not thrown away.

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CHAP. I.

Of his Birth, Parentage, and Education.

In the reign before William the conqueror, I have heard in ancient history that there dwelt a man in the parish of the Isle of Ely, in the