A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and…

§. 7. According to her promise she paid for that place, and presently set to seek and build another. And there was there no fit grounds near it to be had, but two; of which one was in Oxenden-street, which she could not have without giving 30. l. a year ground-rent, and to be at all the charge of building on it, and this but for a Lease not very long. But she must do it by promise and desire. She gets a Friend to make the bargain, takes the ground, and begs money to build on it a Chapel (which tempted us by the ill advice of Friend, to take also the front-ground to the street, and build two little houses on it, to our great loss, all her own money, and many times more, being laid out upon them, much against her inclination).

§. 7. According to her promise she paid for that place, and presently set to seek and build another. And there was there no fit grounds near it to be had, but two; of which one was in Oxenden-street, which she could not have without giving 30. l. a year ground-rent, and to be at all the charge of building on it, and this but for a Lease not very long. But she must do it by promise and desire. She gets a Friend to make the bargain, takes the ground, and begs money to build on it a Chappel (which tempted us by the ill advice of Friend, to take also the front-ground to the street, and build two little houses on it, to our great loss, all her own money, and manytimes more, being laid out upon them, much against her inclination).

§. 8. When that Chapel was finished, I began and preached there but one day, being to go on the morrow into the Country. It unhappily fell out, that Secretary Henry Coventry's house was on the back-side of it, who resolved that it should not be used by us. The next Lords day, when I was far off, and left my Wife at home, she got one Mr. Seddon, a Derbyshire-stranger then come to Town, to preach there (an humble pious man, that had suffered imprisonment formerly by Cromwell's Party ⟨p. 57⟩for being for the King's Restoration at the rising of Sir George Booth): Secretary Coventry thinking I would be there, had got three Justices with a Warrant as for me, to have apprehended me, and sent me to Goal. But it fell on Mr. Seddon. But because the Warrant made for me, was so altered as to the name that it suited not his case, after some time of Imprisonment he had his Habeas Corpus, and by the Justice of worthy Judg Hale and other Judges, was delivered. But he was a tender man, and my Wife sensible that she was the occasion (which did her no good), and all the burden lay on her to maintain him, to visit and comfort him, to pay the Lawyers, and discharge all fees; which as I remember cost her 20 l. And yet we were calumniated as if I (that was twenty miles off) had put another to suffer in my stead.