 me
to Taunton Goal; but neither my present Situation, nor the Apprehensions of what
might happen to me, were half so irksome to my Mind, as the Company of my false
Friend, who, having surrendered himself, was likewise considered as a Prisoner,
tho' he was better treated, as being to make his Peace at my Expence. He at
first endeavoured to excuse his Treachery; but when he received nothing but
Scorn and Upbraiding from me, he soon changed his Note, abused me as the most
atrocious and malicious Rebel, and laid all his own Guilt to my Charge, who, as
he declared, had solicited, and even threatened him, to take up Arms against his
gracious, as well as lawful, Sovereign.
    This false Evidence, (for, in Reality, he had been much the forwarder of the
two) stung me to the Quick, and raised an Indignation scarce conceivable by
those who have not felt it. However, Fortune at length took Pity on me; for as
we were got a little beyond Wellington, in a narrow Lane, my Guards received a
false Alarm, that near fifty of the Enemy were at hand, upon which they shifted
for themselves, and left me and my Betrayer to do the same. That Villain
immediately ran from me, and I am glad he did, or I should have certainly
endeavoured, though I had no Arms, to have executed Vengeance on his Baseness.
    I was now once more at Liberty, and immediately withdrawing from the Highway
into the Fields, I travelled on, scarce knowing which Way I went, and making it
my chief Care to avoid all public Roads, and all Towns, nay, even the most
homely Houses; for I imagined every human Creature whom I saw, desirous of
betraying me.
    At last, after rambling several Days about the Country, during which the
Fields afforded me the same Bed, and the same Food, which Nature bestows on our
Savage Brothers of the Creation, I at length arrived in this Place, where the
Solitude and Wildness of the Country invited me to fix my Abode. The first
Person with whom I took up my Habitation was the Mother of this old Woman, with
whom I remained concealed, till the News of the glorious Revolution put an End
to all my Apprehensions of Danger, and gave me an Opportunity of once more
visiting my own Home, and of enquiring a little into my Affairs, which I soon
settled as agreeably to my Brother as to myself; having resigned every thing to
him, for which he paid me the Sum of a thousand Pound
