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The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Thomas Ellwood
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this was probably an innkeeper, and consulted his own interest.
Others objected against this, that it would bring a charge on the
town, to avoid which they were for having the watch take charge of
me, and keep me walking about the streets with them till morning.
Most voices seemed to go this way, till a third wished them to
consider whether they could answer the doing of that, and the law
would bear them out in it: and this put them to a stand. I heard
all their debates, but let them alone, and kept my mind to the Lord.

While they thus bandied the matter to and fro, one of the company
asked the rest if any of them knew who this young man was, and
whither he was going; whereupon the constable to whom I had given
both my name and the name of the town where I dwelt, told them my
name was Ellwood, and that I lived at a town called Crowell, in
Oxfordshire.

Old Mother Grime, sitting by and hearing this, clapped her hand on
her knee, and cried out: "I know Mr. Ellwood of Crowell very well;
for when I was a maid I lived with his grandfather there when he was
a young man." And thereupon she gave them such an account of my
father as made them look more regardfully on me; and so Mother
Grime's testimony turned the scale, and took me off from walking the
rounds with the watch that night.

The constable hereupon bade them take no further care, I should lie
at his house that night; and accordingly took me home with him,
where I had as good accommodation as the house did afford. Before I
went to bed he told me that there was to be a visitation, or
Spiritual Court, as he called it, holden next day at Amersham, about
four miles from Beaconsfield, and that I was to be carried thither.
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