Frog is named executor.

Now, his sister Peg's name being in the entail, he could not make a thorough settlement without her consent.

There was, indeed, a malicious story went about as if John's last wife had fallen in love with Jack as he was eating custard on horseback;** that she persuaded John to take his sister into the house the better to drive on the intrigue with Jack, concluding he would follow his mistress Peg.

All I can infer from this story is that when one has got a bad character in the world people will report and believe anything of them, true or false.

But to return to my story.