misbehaved ourselves, nor did meet in contempt of the King's
authority, but purely in obedience to the Lord's requirings to
worship Him, which we held ourselves in duty bound to do, we could
not consent to be bound, for that would imply guilt which we were
free from.

"Then," said he, "I must commit you;" and ordered his clerk to make
a mittimus. And divers mittimuses were made, but none of them would
hold; for still, when they came to be read, we found such flaws in
them as made him throw them aside, and write more.

He had his eye often upon me, for I was a young man, and had at that
time a black suit on. At length he bid me follow him, and went into
a private room and shut the door upon me.

I knew not what he meant by this; but I cried in spirit to the Lord,
that he would be pleased to be a mouth and wisdom to me, and keep me
from being entangled in any snare.

He asked me many questions concerning my birth, my education, my
acquaintance in Oxfordshire, particularly what men of note I knew
there; to all which I gave him brief but plain and true answers,
naming several families of the best rank in that part of the county
where I dwelt.

He asked me how long I had been of this way, and how I came to be of
it. Which when I had given him some account of, he began to
persuade me to leave it, and return to the right way--the Church, as
he called it. I desired him to spare his pains in that respect, and
forbear any discourse of that kind, for that I was fully satisfied