A26870:146
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
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§. 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.
§. 8. When that Chappel was finished, I began and preacht there but one day, being to go on the morrow into the Countrey. 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.