with many Friends more, in that Part of 1662. Newgate which was then called Justice-hall. Whereupon the Porter coming in my Way, I asked him to let me go out for an Hour or two, to fee fome Friends of mine that Evening.

He to enhanfe the Kindness, made it a matter of fome Difficulty, and would have me stay till another Night. I told him, I would be at a Word with him; for as I had told him before, that if he denied me, I would ask him no more; fo he should find I would keep to it. He was no fooner gone out of my Sight, but Iespied his Mafter croffing the Court. Wherefore stepping to him, I asked him, If he was willing to let me go out for a little while, to fee fome Friends of mine that Evening. Yes, faid he, very willing; and thereupon away walked I to Newgate, where having spent the Evening among Friends, I returned in good Time.

Under this eafy Reftraint we lay, till the Court fate at the Old-Baily again; and then, whether it was that the Heat of the Storm was fomewhat abated, or by what other Means Providence wrought it, I know not; we were called to the Bar, and without further Question. difcharged.

Whereupon we returned to Bridewell again, and having raised fome Monies among us, and therewith gratified both the Mafter and his Porter for their Kindness to us, we spent some Time in a folemn Meeting, to return our thankful Acknowledgment to the LORD, both for

His

1662. His Prefervation of us in Prison, and Deliverance of us out of it; and then taking a folemn Farewel of each other, we departed with Bag and Baggage. And I took Care to return my Hammock to the Owner, with due Acknowledgment of his great Kindness in lending it me.

Being now at Liberty, I vifited more generally my Friends that were ftill in Prifon, and more particularly my Friend and Benefactor, William Penington, at his Houfe, and then went to wait upon my Mafter Milton. Mafter Milton. With whom yet I could not propofe to enter upon my intermitted Studies, until I had been in Buckinghamfire, to vifit my worthy Friends Ifaac Penington, and his virtuous Wife, with other Friends in that Country.

Thither therefore I betook myself, and the Weather being frofty, and the Ways, by that means, clean and good, I walked it thorow in a Day, and was received by my Friends there, with fuch Demonftration of hearty Kindness, as made my Journey very eafy to me.

I had spent in my Imprisonment that Twenty Shillings which I had received of William Penington; and Twenty of the Forty which had been fent me from Mary Penington, and had the Remainder then about me. That therefore I now returned to her, with due Acknowledgement of her Hufband's and her great Care of me, and Liberality to me in the Time of my Need. She would have had me kept it. But I beg'd her to accept it from me again, fince it

was

was the Redundancy of their Kindness, and the 1662. other Part had answered the Occafion for which it was fent And my Importunity prevailed. I intended only a Vifit hither, not a Contiand therefore purposed, after I had ftaid a few Days, to return to my Lodging and former Courfe in London; but Providence ordered it otherwise.

nuance;

Ifaac Penington had at that Time two Sons and one Daughter, all then very young; of whom the eldest Son (John Penington) and the Daughter (Mary, the Wife of Daniel Wharley) are yet living at the writing of this. And being himself both fkilful and curious in Pronounciation, he was very defirous to have them well grounded in the Rudiments of the English Tongue; to which End he had fent for a Man out of Lancashire, whom, upon enquiry, he had heard of, who was undoubtedly the most accurate English Teacher that ever I met with, or have heard of. His Name was Richard Bradley. But as he pretended no higher than the English Tongue, and had led them, by Grammar Rules, to the higheft Improvement they were capable of in that, he had then taken his Leave of them, and was gone up to London, to teach an English School of Friends Children there.

This put my Friend to a fresh Strait. He had fought for a new Teacher to instruct his Children in the Latin Tongue, as the old had done in the English, but had not yet found one. Wherefore one Evening as we fate together by

the

1662. the Fire in his Bed-chamber (which, for want ~ of Health, he kept) he asked me, his Wife being by, If I would be fo kind to him, as to stay a while with him, till he could hear of fuch a Man as be aimed at ; and in the mean Time enter bis Children in the Rudiments of the Latin Tongue.

This Question was not more unexpected, than furprizing to me; and the more, because it seemed directly to thwart my former Purpose and Undertaking, of endeavouring to improve myself by following my Studies with my Master Milton, which this would give at least a present Diverfion from, and for how long I could not foresee.

But the Senfe I had of the manifold Obligations I lay under to thefe worthy Friends of mine, fhut out all Reafonings, and difpofed my Mind to an abfolute Refignation to their Defire, that I might testify my Gratitude, by a Willingness to do them any friendly Service, that I could be capable of.

And though I queftioned my Ability to carry on that Work, to its due Height and Proportion; yet as that was not propofed, but an Initiation only, by Accidence into Grammar, I confented to the Propofal, as a prefent Expedient (till a more qualified Perfon fhould be found) without further Treaty or mention. of Terms between us, than that of mutual Friendship. And to render this Digreffion from my own Studies the lefs uneafy to my

Mind,

Mind, I recollected, and often thought of that 1662.

Rule in Lilly,

Qui docet indoctos, licet indoctiffimus effet,
Ipfe brevi reliquis doctior effe queat.

He that th' Unlearn'd doth teach, may
quickly be

More Learn'd than they, though most
Unlearned he.

With this Confideration I undertook this Province, and left it not until I married, which was not till the Year 1669, near feven Years from the Time I came thither. In which Time, having the Ufe of my Friends Books, as well as of mine own, I spent my leifure Hours much in reading, not without fome Improvement to myself in my private Studies; which (with the good Succels of my Labours bestowed on the Children, and the Agreeableness of Conversation which I found in the Family) rendered my Undertaking more fatisfactory, and my Stay there more eafy to me.

But, alas! not many Days (not to fay Weeks) had I been there, e're we were almoft overwhelmed with Sorrow, for the unexpected Lofs of Edward Burrough, who was justly very dear

to us all.

This not only Good, but Great-good Man, by a long and clofe Confinement in Newgate, through the cruel Malice and malicious Cruelty of Richard Brown, was taken away by hafty Death,