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begins with somthing like Long——, and 
as I was holding my horses foot, I asked 
y® smith What news? he told me there 
was no news since that good news (that 
he knew of) of y™ beating those ‘rogues 
the Scotts. Iask’d him Were there none 
of the English taken that joined with y** 
Scotts? he answered, That he did not hear 
that that rogue Charles Stuart was 
taken, but some of the others were taken, 
but not Charles Stuart. I told him that 
if that rogue was taken, he deserved to 
be hanged more than all‘ the rest, for 
bringing in the Scotts.. Upon’which he 
said, I spoke like an honest man; and 
so we parted. Here it is to be noticed, 
that we had in company with us Mrs. 
Lane’s sister, who was married to one 
Mr. , she being then going to my 
I'¢ Pagett’s, hard by Windsor, so we were 
to part, as accordingly we did, at Strat- 
ford upon Avon. 
But a mile before we came there, we 
espied upon y way a troop of horse, 
whose riders were alighted, and their 
horses eating some grass by the way-side, 
staying there, as I thought, while their 
muster-master was providing their quar- 
ters. Mrs, Lane’s sister’s liusband, who 
went along with us as far as Stratford, 
seeing this troop of horse just in our way, 
said, that for his part he would not go by 
them, for he had been once or twice 
beaten by some of the partim* soldiers, 
and he w® not run the venture again; 
I hearing him say so, beg’! Mrs. Lane, 
softly in her ear, that we might not turn 
back but go on, for that the enemy w’4 ' 
certainly send after us to enquire who 
we were, if they sh“ see us return. But 
all she c say in the world wt not do, 
but her brother-in-law turn’d quite 
round, and went into Stratford another 
way, the troop of horse being just then” 
getting on horseback, about twice twelve 
score off; and as I told her, we did meet 
y® troop, just but in.the town of Strat- 
ford. But then her brother and we 
parted, he going his way, and we our’s 
towards Long Marston, where we lay at 
@ kinsman’s, I think, of Mrs. Lanes; nei- 
ther the said kinsman, nor her brother-in« 
law, knowing who I was. The next 
night we lay at Cirencester, and so from 
thence to Mr. Norton’s house, beyond 
Bristol, where, as soon as ever I came, 
Mrs. Lane cali’ the buttler of the house 
(a very honest fellow, whose name was 
Pope, and serv’d Tom Germayne, a 
groom of my bed-chamber, when I was 
a boy at Richmond) and bad him take 
sare of W™ Jackson, (for that was my 
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name) as having been lately sick of an 
ague, whereof she said, I was still weal 
and not quite recovered; and the truth . 
was, my late fatigues and want of meat 
had indeed made me look a little pale. 
Besides this, Pope had been a trooper in 
the king my fatter’ army, but [ was not 
to be known in y® house for any thing 
but Mrs. Lanes serv Mem” that one 
Mr. Lassels, a cousin of Mr. Lane’s, 
went all the way with us to:Col. Lane’s 
on horseback, single, I riding before 
Mrs. Lane. Pope the buttler took 
great care of me that night, (I not eating 
with the servants as I otherwise sh’# have 
done upon account of my not being well.) 
The next morning as we arose pretty 
early, having a pretty good stomach, and 
. went to the buttery hatch to get my 
breakfast, where I found Pope and two 
or three other men in the room, and we 
all fell too eating bread and butter, to 
which he gave us very good ale and sack, 
and as I was setting there, there was one. 
that look’d like a country fellow, sat just 
by me, who talking, gave so particular 
an acc 't of the battle of Worcester to the 
rest of the company, that I concluded he 
must be one of Cromwell’s soldiers; I 
asked him, How he came to give so good 
an acct of that battle; he told me he was 
in y king’s regiment, by which’ I tho’t 
he meant one Col. King’s reg’; but ques- 
tioning him further, I perceiv’d that he 
had been in my reg” of guards, in major 
Broughton’s company, that was my major 
in the battle. Tasked him what kind of 
a man I was, to which he answered, by 
describing exactly both my cloths and my 
horse ; and looking upon me, he told me 
that ‘the king was at least three fingers 
taller than I, upon which I made what 
haste I c’4 out of the buttery, for fear he 
sh’ indeed know’ me, as being more 
afraid when I knew he was one of our> 
own soldier’s, than when [ took him for 
one of the enemy’s. So Pope andI went 
into the hall, and just as we came into it, 
Mrs. Norton was coming by thro’ it. 
Upon which I, plucking of my hat, and 
standing with it in my hand as she passed 
by, I observ’d, just as I was putting it 
off, that Pope look’d very earnestly in 
my face. But I took no notice of it, 
but put on my hat again and went away, 
walking out of the house into the fields, 
I had not been out half an bour, ‘but 
coming back I went up into the chamber 
where I lay, and just as I came thither, 
Mr. Lassells came to ine, and in a little 
trouble said, What shall we do, I am 
afraid Pope knows you, for he says very 
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