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Thursday next. Shall be very thankful for your Honour's custom in the same way in future, and your Lady's too, if agreeable; being, Honoured Sir,

Your Servant to command,

Jo. Wood.

At my House at Cheshunt every day. Horses shod agreeable to nature and according to art.

G. Gillyflower, Esq. St. Johns Coll. Cambridge.


Additional Memorandum.

I thought it necessary to employ my Draughtsman, to delineate an interview, between a Gentleman and Lady enamour'd of each other, mounted on horses, labouring under the infirmity mentioned in the above letter. The attitude of the animals, at these times, is admirably singular; and has such an effect on the Rider, as always to attract his eyes towards the tail, to see what is the matter. Indeed the back becomes somewhat