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any great learning, knowing for the most parte 

 only the scholastic philosophic and theologie, Lot 

 some of them were very devout in ther way, and 

 spent most of their time in publick or private 

 devotion, and acts of charity, which increased 

 my esteeme for them. They were too forward 

 in their methods, and I told them, their having 

 their service upon the streets might occasion 

 them more trouble than they were aware of; 

 bot they did in that more like bigots than wise 

 men, and provoked the Rabble against them 

 and me. 



The Rable judged I had made the Earle of 

 that persuasion, and vowed to be avenged on 

 me ; and accordingly the first of February, while 

 I was sitting in my own chamber, reading, they 

 came in a tumult to my house to assassinate me. 

 I had been warned of their designe in the fore- 

 noon by a Lady that overheard them swear they 

 would kill me, and had thereupon made my will, 

 and prepared myself for death ; and when they 

 came to force their entry to the house, three or 

 four hundred of them, I fell upon my knees, and 

 commended my soul to God, and went out at 

 the back door of my house, not doubting but 

 that they might fall upon me and kill me. It 

 pleased God, Mistress Kyle who lodged below 

 me, heard me come out, and gave me the key of 

 the yard, so I escaped by leaping my yard dyke, 

 and lying in the braes at the foot thereof, till 



