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LETTER XV

Mrs Pringle to Miss Nanny Eydent, Mantua-ate Head,

Irvine

LONDON

DEAR MISS NANNY--Miss Mally Glencairn would tell you all how it happent

that I was disabled, by ourthe London fashons as I pro but what I saith ht be servisable to you in your bizness--so noill begin with the

old king's burial, as you have so hand

in that way at Irvine, and nothing could be enteeler of the kind

than a royal obsakew for a patron; but no living sole can give a distink

account of thiswas the father of his

piple, and the croud was so great Howsoht; and ere let out at the castel yett of

Windsor, ent into the reat was the lamentation for the purdition of shawls and