ji8 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



the judgment-seat. John Mytton certainly did not : 

 it was soiled and stained with the impurities of our 

 nature, with even more than can be placed to that 

 account ; and the world has no proof that they were 

 attempted to be washed out by his tears ; but I 

 appeal to my own experience of him, to that of his 

 brother prisoner and friend who attended him in his 

 last days, in the hour indeed when the heart knows 

 no guile, and in which the tongue seldom hazards an 

 untruth, whether he did not then own to man what 

 he had previously only owned to his God. Although 

 it appears he did not consider his life in imminent 

 danger, he had the church service read to him nearly 

 every day, and more particularly on Good Friday, 

 when he held a lono- conversation with his brother 

 prisoner on the sacrament, but which, although he 

 expressed himself very properly in his allusions to it, 

 it does not appear he partook of. Of both his wives 

 he spoke in the tenderest terms of affection, as also of 

 his children by each, and expressed a strong desire to 

 see his present wife and all his children together ; but, 

 alas! that wish was a vain one. Immediately after 

 his decease, a cast was taken of his features by the 

 celebrated phrenologist, Mr. Deville, in the Strand, at 

 the express request of his mother, in which zV 7S 



