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

I took her deep and long sense of the faults of over-loved and obliged persons, to be one of her greatest faults. But no one was ever readier to forgive a fault confessed, or which weakness and religious differences caused. I will give but one instance: The good woman whom she used to hire the Rooms over St. Jameses Market-house, was greatly against the Common-prayer, and first made my Wife feel whether I meant to use it, before she would take it. I told her I intended not to use it, but would not promise her. Upon that my Wife told her that I would not. After this I caused the Reader to read the Psalms, Chapters, Creed, Decalogue, and I used the Lord, Prayer; and I openly told them, that we met not as a Separated distinct Church, but for the time to supply the notorious necessities of the people, and as helpers of the allowed Ministry. The good woman thought this had been reading the Common-Prayer, and in a Letter which I now find, accused my Wife with five or six vehement charges, for telling her I would not read […] Common-Prayer. My Wife was of my mind for the Matter; but greatly ⟨p. 75⟩offended with me for seeming to do it for the avoiding of danger; and was so far from not pardoning these false smart accusations, that she never once blamed the good woman, but loved her, tendered her, and relieved her in sickness to the death, but hardly forgave me; and yet drew me from all other places, if the Ministers were not of my mind (by prudent diversity).

I took her deep and long sense of the faults of over-loved and obliged persons, to be one of her greatest faults. But no one was ever readier to forgive a fault confessed, or which weakness and religious differences caused. I will give but one instance: The good woman whom she used to hire the Rooms over St. Iameses Market-house, was greatly against the Common-prayer, and first made my Wife feel whether I meant to use it, before she would take it. I told her I intended not to use it, but would not promise her. Upon that my Wife told her that I would not. After this I caused the Reader to read the Psalms, Chapters, Creed, Decalogue, and I used the Lord, Prayer; and I openly told them, that we met not as a Separated distinct Church, but for the time to supply the notorious necessities of the people, and as helpers of the allowed Ministry. The good woman thought this had been reading the Common-Prayer, and in a Letter which I now find, accused my Wife with five or six vehement charges, for telling her I would not read 〈…〉 Common-Prayer. My Wife was of my mind for the Matter; but greatly