
Part (viz.) that he carried on that desperate Trade full five and Twenty Year,
and had never been taken, the Success he had met with, had been so very
uncommon, and such, that sometimes he had liv'd handsomely and retir'd, in one
Place for a Year or two at a time, keeping himself and a Man Servant to wait on
him, and has often sat in the Coffee-Houses, and heard the very People who he
had robb'd give Accounts of their being robb'd, and of the Places and
Circumstances, so that he cou'd easily remember that it was the same.
    In this manner it seems he liv'd near Liverpool at the time, he unluckily
married me for a Fortune: Had I been the Fortune he expected, I verily believe,
he would have taken up and liv'd honestly.
    He had with the rest of his Misfortunes the good luck not to be actually
upon the spot, when the Robbery was done, which they were committed for; and so
none of the Persons robb'd cou'd swear to him; but it seems as he was taken,
with the Gang, one hard-mouth'd Country Man swore home to him; and according to
the Publication they had made, they expected more Evidence against him, and for
that Reason he was kept in hold.
    However, the offer which was made to him of Transportation, was made, as I
understood upon the intercession of some great Person who press'd him hard to
accept of it; and as he knew there were several that might come in against him,
I thought his Friend was in the Right, and I lay at him Night and Day to delay
it no longer.
    At last, with much difficulty he gave his consent, and as he was not
therefore admitted to Transportation in Court, and on his Petition as I was, so
he found himself under a difficulty to avoid embarking himself as I had said he
might have done; his Friend having given Security for him that he should
Transport himself, and not return within the Term.
    This hardship broke all my Measures, for the steps I took afterwards for my
own deliverance, were hereby render'd wholly ineffectual, unless I would abandon
him, and leave him to go to America by himself; than which he protested he would
much rather go directly to the Gallows.
    I must now return to my own Case, the time of my being Transported was near
at Hand; my Governess who continu'd my fast Friend
