I thanked him kindly, and so went immediately to my lodgings; and with
my pen I made the great H of Harrison, two ff, and the rrs, an n, and
the i, an s, and the s, an h, and the o, an a, and the n, a w, so
completely, that none could find out the change. With all speed I
hired a barge, and that night at six o'clock I went to Gravesend, and
from thence by coach to Dover, where, upon my arrival, the searchers
came and demanded my pass, which they were to keep for their
discharge. When they had read it, they said, 'Madam, you may go when
you please;' but says one, 'I little thought they would give a pass to
so great a malignant, especially in so troublesome a time as this.'

About nine o'clock at night I went on board the packet-boat, and about
eight o'clock in the morning landed safe, God be praised! at Calais. I
went to Mr. Booth's, an English merchant, and a very honest man. There
I rested two days; but upon the next day he had advice from Dover,
that a post was sent to stay me from London, because they had sent for
me to my lodgings by a messenger of the Court, to know why, and upon
what business, I went to France. Then I discovered to him my invention
of the changing my name, at which as at their disappointment we all
laughed, and so did your father, and as many as knew the deceit. We
hired a waggon-coach, for there is no other at Calais, and began our
journey about the beginning of June 1659.

Coming one night to Abbeville, the Governor sent his Lieutenant to me,
to let me know my husband was well the week before, that he had seen
him at Paris, and had promised him to take care of me in my going
through his government, there being much robbery daily committing;
that he would advise me take care of the garrison soldiers, and giving
them a pistole a piece, they would convey me very safely. This, he
said, the Governor would have told me himself, but that he was in bed