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curious People coming to him at his House in Redriff, made a small Purchase of Land, with a convenient House, near Newark in Nottinghamshire, his Native Country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his Neighbours.

Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his Father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his Family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the Church-Yard at Banbury, in that County, several Tombs and Monuments of the Gullivers.

Before he quitted Redriff, he left the Custody of the following Papers in my Hands, with the liberty todispose