ANTIQUITIES. 
country till I was at home, where 
A still feigned to have permission to 
remain. To carry on the deceit 
the better, I sent for all my neigh- 
bours, and invited them to come 
to my house. I took up xy papers 
at night, and sent them off to Tra- 
guair. It was a peculiar stroke of 
Providence that [ made the dis- 
patch [ did, for they soon suspected 
me; and, by a very favourable ac- 
cident, one of them was overheard 
to say to the magistrates of Dum- 
fries, that the next day they would 
insist upon seeing my leave from 
government. This was bruited 
about ; and when I was told of it, 
T expressed my surprise that they 
had been so backward in coming 
to pay their respects ; but, said I, 
better late than never: be sure to 
tell them that they shall be wel- 
come whenever they choose to 
come. This was after dinner; but 
I lost no time to put every thing in 
readiness, but with all possible se- 
cresy, and the next morning, before 
day-break, set off again for Lon- 
don with the same attendants ; and, 
as before, I put up at the small 
inns, and arrived safe once more. 
On my arrival, the report was still 
fresh of my journey into Scotland, 
in defiance of their prohibition. A 
lady informed me that the King was 
extremely incensed at the news; 
that he had issued orders to have 
me arrested; adding that I did 
whatever I pleased, in despite of all 
his designs; and that I had given 
him more anxiety and trouble than 
apy woman in all Europe. For 
which reasons, 1 kept myself as 
closely concealed as possible till the 
heat of these rumours had abated. 
In the mean while, I took the opi- 
nion of a very famous lawyer, who 
was a man of the strictest probity. 
A3}k 
He advised me to go off as soon as 
they had ceased searching for me. 
I followed his advice; and about a 
fortnight after, I escaped without 
any accident whatever. 
The reason he alleged for his 
opinion was this, that although, in 
other circumstances, a wife cannot 
be prosecuted for saving her hus- 
band ; yet in cases of high treason, 
according to the rigour of the law, 
the head of a wife is responsible for 
that of a husband ; and as the King 
was so highly incensed, there could 
be no answering for the conse- 
quences; and he therefore entreated 
me to leave the kingdom. 
The King’s resentment was great- 
ly augmented by the petition which 
I had presented, contrary to his ex- 
press orders; but my Lord was very 
anxious that a petition might be 
presented, hoping that it would be 
at least serviceable to me. I was in 
my own mind convinced that it 
would answer no purpose; but, as I 
wished to please my Lord, I desired 
him to have itdrawnup ; and I un- 
dertook to make it come to the 
King’s hand, notwithstanding all 
the precautions he had taken to 
avoid it. So the first day I heard 
that the King was to go to the draw- 
ing-room, I dressed myself in black, 
as if | had been in mourning, and 
sent for Mrs, Morgan (the same 
who accompanied me to the Tow- 
er) because, as I did not know his 
Majesty personally, I might have 
mistaken some other person for him. 
She staid by me, and told me when 
he was coming. I had also another 
Jady with me; and we three re- 
mained in a room between the 
King’s apartments and the draw- 
ing-room; so that he was obliged 
to gothrough it ; and, as there were 
three windows in it, we sat in the 
middle 
