she was the more stired up to oversee the wayes of her
houshold because
this pleased my
father
Mr Dod exorted her
thereto.
desireing her to remember the good woman in the 31 Chap of proverbs which
since shee wished me to learne and \the/ 72 psalme long before this time. when
wee were little my mother delighted in spinning of
woollen. which her maides
did. whereof wee had cots maide but my father liked it
not thinking it better to
cloth then to spin
bie
:
so my mother was willing to
this I thinke fel not out so
well. for her eye being taken off she troubled her selfe, with those his
mistories. which she after repented for though it was some yeeres
betw[een]
condesend
to what he pleased: but hearin I thinke
it better if most women were thus imployed and that all resonable wayes of
delight wherein is no hurt were nourished in them, considering too many now
adayes more vainly set there mindes,
Now my father tooke it ill that in all this time
of my mothers adversity none
of her frindes came nor sent to her, but it seemeth they knew it not being so
farr from her: her onely Brother that was living
Sir Justinian Leowen being
trou=bled in his sleepe of her sent to my fathers Sister
the Lady Denton (they both living in London) to know