TIPTREE TWO CENTURIES AGO* 
 
 Extract from a whimsical little Work entitled — “ Walk 
 Knaves , Walk , — A Discourse intended to have been 
 spoken at Court , and now published for the Satisfac- 
 tion of all those who have participated of the Sweetness 
 of Public Employments. 99 — By Hodge Turbervil, Chap- 
 lain to the late Lord Hewson. — London , 1659. 
 
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 “ Why, what a great Comfort and Consolation is it, 
 for all those who have Occasion to travel through bad and 
 sad Ways, to be provided of Waxed Boots. Beloved, there 
 are (as I shewed you before) your Summer and your Win- 
 ter Boots. In the one you may travel reasonably well, all 
 the Year long, provided your Ways, and the Journey be 
 accordingly. As for Example ; If you have Occasion to 
 ride your Newmarket Ways, your Bansted-Downs Ways, 
 YOUR TIPR Y- [Tiptree] HEATH WAYS, or your 
 Salisbury - Plain Ways, then these Summer Boots will 
 carry you through ; these will preserve you well enough, 
 provided no Rain from above, or Dirt, Mire and Waters 
 from beneath, do not offend or molest you. But should 
 you have Occasion in the Winter Time to travel, your 
 Essex Ways, your Dunmow Ways, your High-Suffolk , 
 Far ningham-Castle Ways, or those most abominably dirty, 
 miry and watery Wishbeecli or Ely Fenny Ways; O! in 
 what a fine Case would your Summer Boots be, when they 
 have been well washed in those filthy Ways! How will 
 they shrink together like Parchment against the Fire ! 
 Therefore buy you Waxed Boots.” 
 
 JUNE, 1841. 
 
 GRBAT TOTHAM I PRINTED AT CHARLB8 CLARK'S PRIVATE PRBI0. 
 
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