, she should have let
me have furnish'd my self with better Cloaths; the Ladies took Notice of that,
and told me very genteely, they did not value People in their own Country so
much by their Cloaths, as they did in London; that their Cousin had fully
inform'd them of my Quality, and that I did not want Cloaths to set me off; in
short, they entertain'd me not like what I was, but like what they thought I had
been, Namely, a Widow Lady of a great Fortune.
    The first Discovery I made here was, that the Family were all Roman
Catholicks, and the Cousin too; [however], nobody in the World could behave
better to me; and I had all the Civility shown that I could have had, if I had
been of their Opinion: The Truth is, I had not so much Principle of any kind, as
to be Nice in Point of Religion; and I presently learn'd to speak favourably of
the Romish Church; particularly I told them I saw little, but the Prejudice of
Education in all the Differences that were among Christians about Religion, and
if it had so happen'd that my Father had been a Roman Catholick, I doubted not
but I should have been as well pleas'd with their Religion as my own.
    This obliged them in the highest Degree, and as I was besieg'd Day and Night
with good Company, and pleasant Discourse, so I had two or three old Ladies that
lay at me upon the Subject of Religion too; I was so Complaisant that I made no
scruple to be present at their Mass, and to conform to all their Gestures as
they shew'd me the Pattern, but I would not come too cheap; so that I only in
the main encouraged them to expect that I would turn Roman Catholick, if I was
instructed in the Catholick Doctrine, as they call'd it, and so the matter
rested.
    I slay'd here about six Weeks; and then my Conductor led me back to a
Country Village, about six Miles from Liverpool, where her Brother (as she
call'd him) came to visit me in his own Charriot, with two Footmen in a good
Livery; and the next thing was to make Love to me: As it happen'd to me, one
would think I could not have been cheated, and indeed I thought so my self,
having a safe Card at Home, which I resolvd not to quit unless I could mend my
self very much: However