carried himself civilly to me. I told him also that I had no need
to fly, for I had done nothing that would bring guilt or fear upon
me, neither did I go with an ill-will; and this quieted the man. So
on we went, but were so far cast behind the trooper, that we had
lost both sight and hearing of him, and I was fain to mend my pace
to get up to him again.

We came pretty late into Oxford on the seventh day of the week,
which was the market day; and, contrary to my expectation (which was
to have been carried to the castle), my trooper stopped in the High
Street, and calling at a shop asked for the master of the house, who
coming to the door, he delivered to him the mittimus, and with it a
letter from the deputy-lieutenants (or one of them), which when he
had read he asked where the prisoner was. Whereupon the soldier
pointing to me, he desired me to alight and come in, which when I
did he received me civilly.

The trooper, being discharged of his prisoner, marched back, and my
father's man, seeing me settled in better quarters than he expected,
mounted my horse and went off with him.

I did not presently understand the quality of my keeper, but I found
him a genteel courteous man, by trade a linen-draper; and, as I
afterwards understood, he was City Marshal, had a command in the
county troop, and was a person of good repute in the place; his name
was--Galloway.

Whether I was committed to him out of regard to my father, that I
might not be thrust into a common gaol, or out of a politic design
to keep me from the conversation of my friends, in hopes that I