favour. After we had tarried some little time with him, she rising
up to be gone, he waited on her home, and having spent about an hour
with us in the family, I waited on him back to his inn. On the way
he invited me to come up to London to see my sisters, the younger of
whom was then newly married, and directed me where to find them, and
also gave me money to defray my charges.

Accordingly I went; yet stayed not long there, but returned to my
friend Isaac Penington's, where I made a little stay, and from
thence went back to Crowell.

When I was ready to set forth, my friend Isaac Penington was so kind
to send a servant with a brace of geldings to carry me as far as I
thought fit to ride, and to bring the horses back. I, intending to
go no farther that day than to Wycombe, rode no farther than to
Beaconsfield town's end, having then but five miles to walk. But
here a new exercise befell me, the manner of which was thus:

Before I had walked to the middle of the town I was stopped and
taken up by the watch. I asked the watchman what authority he had
to stop me, travelling peacefully on the highway: he told me he
would show me his authority, and in order thereunto, had me into a
house hard by, where dwelt a scrivener whose name was Pepys. To him
he gave the order which he had received from the constables, which
directed him to take up all rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars.
I asked him for which of these he stopped me, but he could not
answer me.

I thereupon informed him what a rogue in law is, viz., one who for
some notorious offence was burnt on the shoulder; and I told them