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outskirts of the woods, and was once very near taken, when Mr. Ivcs, the king’s huntsman, took out dryfooted hounds to find him; but perceiving them at a distance, before they had got sccnt of him, he got up a tree, and saw them go underneath him, without noticing his retreat; upon which he at last took the resolution of going down into Yorkshire.
He took a large house at Brough, near market Cave in Yorkshire, form whence to Welton he earried on an extensive trade in horses, selling and exchanging; and at the time of the races he is said to have realized about one thousand pounds, which enabled him now to kcep the first company stirring in those parts. On onc of these occasional visits to Brough, he met the celcbrated Dicky Dickson, thc hnmourous governor of Scarborough Spa, to whom he sold a horse, which four years afterwards was claimed by Squire Moore as his property, he he having lost it off the marshes in Lincolnshire
He went again to Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, where the people, he thought, would not know him; and as he abounded in money, he purposed to himsclf to commencc a dealer in horses. In his way thither hc mct a man on horseback, with a large box before him; and, upon enquiry, he found him to be a mountbank travclling the country for the public good and his own. After a short introduction, Turpin proposed to kcep him company, which was no sooner mentioned then agrced upon; and at the first stop they made, Turpin undertook the part of distributing the bills which in a few hours brought a number of persons round him. Thc ncxt being market day, and seeing a number of good horscs at the inn where he put up at, he madc free with onc, leaving his own in the same stall. His ⟨partner’s⟩ leather sack, hanging convcniently by the fireside, he turned out all the doctor’s compositions, and filled it from the box of a jew pedlar, with which
