nor revealed he his joys and hopes but would say, that they were
doubled by putting them in my breast. I never heard him hold a
disputation in my life, but often he would speak against it, saying it
was an uncharitable custom, which never turned to the advantage of
either party. He would never be drawn to the fashion of any party,
saying he found it sufficient honestly to perform that employment he
was in: he loved and used cheerfulness in all his actions, and
professed his religion in his life and conversation. He was a true
Protestant of the Church of England, so born, so brought up, and so
died; his conversation was so honest that I never heard him speak a
word in my life that tended to God's dishonour, or encouragement of
any kind of debauchery or sin. He was ever much esteemed by his two
masters, Charles the First and Charles the Second, both for great
parts and honesty, as for his conversation, in which they took great
delight, he being so free from passion, that made him beloved of all
that knew him, nor did I ever see him moved but with his master's
concerns, in which he would hotly pursue his interest through the
greatest difficulties.

He was the tenderest father imaginable, the carefullest and most
generous master I ever knew; he loved hospitality, and would often
say, it was wholly essential for the constitution of England: he loved
and kept order with the greatest decency possible; and though he would
say I managed his domestics wholly, yet I ever governed them and
myself by his commands; in the managing of which, I thank God, I found
his approbation and content.

Now you will expect that I should say something that may remain of us
jointly, which I will do though it makes my eyes gush out with tears,
and cuts me to the soul to remember, and in part express the joys I