Transcribed from the early 1800’s J. Evans and Son edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE _Kentish Lawyer_; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE OF HIS SON. * * * * * [Picture: Illustration of a marriage] * * * * * LONDON: Printed and sold by J. Evans and Son, Long-lane; sold also by F. Collins, 60, Paternoster-Row; and J. Nisbet, 15, Castle-street, Oxford-street. PRICE ONE PENNY. _THE KENTISH LAWYER_. OLD Mr. Studley was a lawyer in Kent, of about £400 a year. He was a great enemy to godliness. His son, in his youth, seemed to follow in the same steps, till the Lord, who had separated him from the womb, called him by his grace as follows:—The young man was at London, and being drunk in some company, and going in the night towards his lodging, fell into a cellar, and in the fall was seized with horror, and thought he fell into hell at that time. It pleased God he took little harm by the fall, but lay there some hours in a drunken drowse; his body being heated with what he had drank, and his soul awakened, he thought he was actually in hell. After he was come to himself, and got home into Kent, he became serious, betook himself to read, and study the Scriptures, and of much prayer, which at length his father perceived, and fearing he would turn puritan, was troubled and dealt roughly with him, making him dress his horses, which he humbly and willingly submitted to. And when, at that time, his father perceived he sat up late at night, reading his Bible, he denied him candle-light; but being allowed a fire in his chamber, he used to lie along and read by the fire-light; and said, that while he was dressing his father’s horses in his frock, and when reading by the fire, he had those comforts from the Lord, and joys that he had scarce experienced since. His father seeing these means ineffectual, resolved to send him into France, that by the manners of that country, his melancholy temper might be cured. He went, and being at his own disposal, by the Lord’s guiding him, he placed himself in the house of a godly protestant minister; and between them, after they were acquainted, there grew great endearment. Great progress he made in speaking the language; and his father expecting an account from the gentleman with whom he lived, of his proficiency in speaking French, he sent it to him; but soon after he had orders to return home; and (the father directing it, or he intreating it)