Your Worship's,
In all dutiful respect,
William Harrison
Before I part with this story, it is proper for me to remark that though it does not contain any extraordinary mark of the wisdom of Providence, yet being in its nature strange and hitherto having escaped any other collection, I thought it not improper to be preserved here, since some of the circumstances are of such a nature as not to be paralleled in any English story.
A local term for a strip of furrowed land.
A kind of broad linen tape.