A26870:133
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.
§. 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⟩annoyed her health; for it was a very hard Winter, and the Coal-smoke so filled the Room that we all day sate in, that it was as a cloud, and we were even suffocated with the stink. And she had ever a great straitness of the Lungs, that could not bear smoke or closeness. This was the greatest bodily suffering that her outward condition put her to; which was increased by my continual pain there. But her charity to her poor Landlady, set her Son Apprentice, who now liveth well.
§. 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 extreamly smoak't, as greatly ⟨p. 50⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 51⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 52⟩annoyed her health; for it was a very hard Winter, and the Coal-smoak so filled the Room that we all day sate in, that it was as a cloud, and we were even suffocated with the stink. And she had ever a great straitness of the Lungs, that could not bear smoak or closeness. This was the greatest bodily suffering that her outward condition put her to; which was increased by my continual pain there. But her charity to her poor Landlady, set her Son Apprentice, who now liveth well.