He was bound by Mr. _Ingram_, of _Bell-alley_, to Mr. _John Dudbridge_.
His Brother _George_ paid five shillings for _Robert_, by way of form, as
a premium. Dudbridge was their Landlord, and a _Freeman_ of the _City_ of
_London_. He acted most honourably, and took no advantage of the power
which the Indentures gave him. _George Bloomfield_ staid with _Robert_
till he found he could work as expertly as his self.

Mr. GEORGE BLOOMFIELD adds, "When I left London he was turned of eighteen;
[Footnote: This should seem to require correction by setting the Age
forward according to the Dates above stated. C.L.] and much of my
happiness since has arisen from a constant correspondence which I have
held with him."

"After I left him, he studied _Music_, and was a good player on the
_Violin_."

"But as my Brother _Nat_ had married a _Woolwich_ woman, it happen'd that
_Robert_ took a fancy to MARY-ANNE CHURCH, a comely young woman of that
town, whose Father is a boat-builder in the Government yard there. He
married 12th Dec. 1790."[Footnote: This Date from the Author. C.L.] "Soon
after he married, _Robert_ told me, in a Letter, that 'he had sold his
Fiddle and got a Wife.' Like most poor men, he got a wife first, and had
to get household-stuff afterward. It took him some years to get out of
ready furnished Lodgings. At length, by hard working, &c. he acquired a
Bed of his own, and hired the room up one pair of stairs at 14, _Bell-
alley, Coleman-street_. The Landlord kindly gave him leave to sit and work
in the light _Garret_, two pair of stairs higher."

"In _this_ Garret, amid six or seven other workmen, his active Mind