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Updated: May 19, 2025

'In the first place, Madam, I offer to settle upon you, by way of jointure, your whole estate: and moreover to vest in trustees such a part of mine in Lancashire, as shall produce a clear four hundred pounds a year, to be paid to your sole and separate use quarterly. 'My own estate is a clear not nominnal 2000l. per annum. 'My too great contempt of censure has subjected me to much slander.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4