11066 ANNUAL REGISTER. 
love with him, which her uncle per- 
ceiving, procur’d .a marriage be- 
tweene them. She had divers chil- 
dren by my father, but only two of 
them, asonpe and daughter, sur- 
viv’'d her, who died whilst my father 
was absent from her in Jreland. 
He led all the time of his widdow- 
hood a very disconsolate life care- 
full for nothing in the world but to 
educate and advance the sonne and 
daughter, the deare pledges she had 
left him, for whose sake he quitted 
himselfe of his employments abroad, 
and procur’d himselfe the office 
of victualler of the navie, a place 
then both of credit and greate re- 
venue. ~ His friends, considering 
his solitude, had procur’d him a 
match of a very rich widdow, who 
was a lady of as much discretion as 
wealth ; but while he was upon 
this designe he chanic’d to see my 
mother, att the house of sr. Wil- 
Jiam St. John, who had married her 
elder sister, and though he went on 
his iourney, yett something in her 
person and behaviour, he carried 
allong with him, which would not 
Jett him accomplish it, but brought 
him back to my mother. She was 
of a noble famely, being the 
youngest daughter of sr. John St. 
John, of Lidiar Tregoz, in the 
county of Wiltz ; her fatherand mo- 
ther died when she was not above 
five yeares of age, and yet at her 
nurses, from whence she was carri- 
ed to be brought up in the house 
of the lord Grandison, her father’s 
younger brother, an honorable and 
excellent person, but married to a 
Jady so iealous of him, and so ill- 
natured in her iealous fitts to any 
thing that was related to him, that 
her cruelties to my mother exceeded 
the stories of stepmothers ; the rest 
of my augts, my mother’s sisters, 
1806. 
were disperst to seyerall places, 
where they grew up till my uncle 
sr. Johu St. Joho being married to 
the daughter of sr. Thomas Laten, 
they were al] againe brought home 
to their brother’s house. There 
were not in those days so many 
beautifull women found in any fa- 
mely as these, but my mother was 
by the most iudgements preferr'd 
before all her elder sisters, who, 
something envious att it us’d her 
unkindly, yett all the suiters that 
came to them, still turned their ad- 
dresses to her, which she in her 
youthful: innocency neglected, till 
one of greater name, estate, and re- 
putation then the rest, hapned to 
fall deeply in love with her, and to 
manage it so discretely, that my 
mother could not but entertaine 
him, and my uncle’s wife, who had 
a mother’s kindnesse for her, per- 
swaded her to remoove herselfe from 
her. sister’s envie, by going along 
with her to Isle of Jernsey, where 
her father was governor ; which 
she did, and there went into the 
towne, and bparded in a French 
minister’s house, to lJearne the 
language, that minister having bene, 
by the persecution in France, dri- 
yen to seeke his shelter there. Con- 
tracting a deare friendship with 
this holy man and his wife, she was 
instructed in their Geneva disci- 
pline, which she liked so much bet- 
ter then our more superstitious ser- 
vice, that she could have bene con- 
tented to have liy’d there, had not 
a powerfull passion in her heart 
drawn her back. But at her re- 
turne she met with many afflictions, 
the gentleman who had professt so 
much love to her, in her absence 
had bene, by most vile pactises and 
treacheries, drawne out of his sen- 
ces, and into the marriage of aper- 
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