resided for some months in great splendour, prior to their being taken into custody, and where indeed they were first discovered.
They came here under the assumed names of Mr. Johnson and Mr. ----; took the House called the Friars, making a very genteel appearance, with their hunters, and servants in livery ; by which means, and the philanthropic hospitality of the inhabitants, they were soon received into the genteelest company of the place, gave grand entertainments, and so far ingratiated themselves into the general good opinion, that one of them, Mr. Johnson, was actually made Churchwarden.
From hence take the road through the Strandgate; pass the New Harbour over a drawbridge, erected about thirty years ago, on making this cut up to Rye : but after spending immense sums of money here and at Rye, the whole works have proved nearly useless, both the cuts being choked up with sand and beach but the sea, as if to make some recompence for the money so -
