A26870:132
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and…
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and wife of Richard Baxter ... : there is also published the character of her mother, truly described in her published funeral sermon, reprinted at her daughters request, called, The last work of a believer, his passing-prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ, to be received by him.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 7. When I was carried thence to the common Goal, for teaching them, as aforesaid, I never perceived her troubled at it: she cheerfully went with me into Prison; she brought her best bed thither, and did much to remove the removable inconveniences of the Prison. I think she had scarce ever a pleasanter time in her life than while she was with me there. And whereas people upon such occasions were not unapt to be liberal, it was against her mind to receive more than necessity required. Only three persons gave me just as much as paid Lawyers and prison-charges, and when one offered me more, she would not receive it: But all was far short of the great charges of our removal to another habitation.
§. 7. When I was carried thence to the common Goal, for teaching them, as aforesaid, I never perceived her troubled at it: she cheerfully went with me into Prison; she brought her best bed thither, and did much to remove the removable inconveniencies of the Prison. I think she had scarce ever a pleasanter time in her life than while she was with me there. And whereas people upon such occasions were not unapt to be liberal, it was against her mind to receive more than necessity required. Only three persons gave me just as much as paid Lawyers and prison-charges, and when one offered me more, she would not receive it: But all was far short of the great charges of our removal to another habitation.
§. 8. The Parliament making a new sharper Law against us, I was forced to remove into another County; thither she went with me, and removed her Goods that were movable, from Acton to Totteridge, being engaged for the Rent of the house we left: At Totteridge, the first year, few poor people are put to the hardness that she was put to; we could have no house but part of a poor Farmers, where the Chimneys so extremely smoked, as greatly ⟨p. 50⟩[…] ⟨p. 51⟩[…] ⟨p. 52⟩