bear injuries. He told me he could not help it; he was commanded to
bring me forthwith before the deputy-lieutenants, and therefore
desired me to order a horse to be got ready, because he was in
haste. I let him know I had no horse of my own, and would not
meddle with any of my father's horses, in his absence especially;
and that therefore, if he would have me with him, he must carry me
as he could.

He thereupon taking my sister aside, told her he found I was
resolute, and his orders were peremptory; wherefore he desired that
she would give order for a horse to be made ready for me, for
otherwise he should be forced to mount me behind a trooper, which
would be very unsuitable for me, and which he was very unwilling to
do. She thereupon ordered a horse to be got ready, upon which, when
I had taken leave of my sisters, I mounted, and went off, not
knowing whither he intended to carry me.

He had orders, it seems, to take some others also in a neighbouring
village, whose names he had, but their houses he did not know.
Wherefore, as we rode he asked me if I knew such and such men (whom
he named) and where they lived; and when he understood that I knew
them, he desired me to show him their houses. "No," said I, "I
scorn to be an informer against my neighbours, to bring them into
trouble." He thereupon, riding to and fro, found by inquiry most of
their houses; but, as it happened, found none of them at home, at
which I was glad.

At length he brought me to the house of one called Esquire Clark, of
Weston, by Thame, who, being afterwards knighted, was called Sir
John Clark; a jolly man, too much addicted to drinking in soberer