before fully discharged, tarrying also with us to see the event.

And when we had stayed so long that on all hands it was concluded we
might safely go, George Whitehead and I left a few words in writing
to be sent to the Justice if he sent after us, importing that we had
tarried till such an hour, and not hearing from him, did now hold
ourselves free to depart, yet so as that if he should have occasion
to send for us again, upon notice thereof we would return.

This done, we took our leave of the family and one of another; they
who were for London taking horse, and I and my companions, setting
forth on foot for Oxfordshire, went to Wycombe, where we made a
short stay to rest and refresh ourselves, and from thence reached
our respective homes that night.

After I had spent some time at home, where, as I had no restraint,
so (my sisters being gone) I had now no society, I walked up to
Chalfont again, and spent a few days with my friends there.

As soon as I came in I was told that my father had been there that
day to see Isaac Penington and his wife, but they being abroad at a
meeting, he returned to his inn in the town, where he intended to
lodge that night. After supper Mary Penington told me she had a
mind to go and see him at his inn (the woman of the house being a
friend of ours), and I went with her. He seemed somewhat surprised
to see me there, because he thought I had been at home at his house;
but he took no notice of my hat--at least showed no offence at it,
for, as I afterwards understood, he had now an intention to sell his
estate, and thought he should need my concurrence therein, which
made him now hold it necessary to admit me again into some degree of