to me; and though I would willingly have been excused from taking so
much, and would have returned one half of it, yet he pressing it all
upon me, I received it with a thankful acknowledgment as a token of
love from the Lord and from him.

On the seventh day he went down again, as he usually did, to his
brother's house at Chalfont, and in discourse gave them an account
of my imprisonment. Whereupon, at his return on the second day of
the week following, my affectionate friend Mary Penington sent me,
by him, forty shillings, which he soon after brought me; out of
which I would have repaid him the twenty shillings he had so kindly
furnished me with, but he would not admit it, telling me I might
have occasion for that and more before I got my liberty.

Not many days after this I received twenty shillings from my father,
who being then at his house in Oxfordshire, and by letter from my
sister understanding that I was a prisoner in Bridewell, sent this
money to me for my support there, and withal a letter to my sister
for her to deliver to one called Mr. Wray, who lived near Bridewell,
and was a servant to Sir Richard Brown in some wharf of his,
requesting him to intercede with his master, who was one of the
governors of Bridewell, for my deliverance; but that letter coming
to my hands, I suppressed it, and have it yet by me.

Now was my pocket from the lowest ebb risen to a full tide. I was
at the brink of want, next door to nothing, yet my confidence did
not fail nor my faith stagger; and now on a sudden I had plentiful
supplies, shower upon shower, so that I abounded, yet was not lifted
up, but in humility could say, "This is the Lord's doing." And
without defrauding any of the instruments of the acknowledgments due