1~ life in the service of God. While she was deliberating, and had fixt upon it in her owne thoughts, resolving to impart it to none, she was with Sr. William St. Joh n, who had married my aunt, when my father accidGntally came in there, and fell so hea rtily in love with her, that he perswaded her to marry him, which she did, and her melancholly made her conforme chearfully to that gravity of habitt and c01wersa tion, which was becoming the wife of such a person: who was then 48 yeares of age, and she not above 16. The 1st yeare of their marriage was crown'd with a sonne, call'd after my father's. name, and borne at East Smi thfield , in that house of the king's, which belong'd to my father's employment in the navie: the next yeare they removed to the Tower of London, whereof my father was made lieftenant, and there had 2 sonns more before me and 4 daughters, and two sonns after: of all which only three sons and two ll aughters surviv'd him att the time of his death, which was in the sixty-third yeare of his age, after he had three yeares before languisht of a consumption that succeeded a feaver which he gott in the unfor-. tunate voyage to the Isle of Rhee. He died in the month of May 1630, sadly bewail'd by not only all his dependants and relations, but by all that were acquainted with him, for he never converst with any to whom he Was not at some time ·or in some way beneficiall ; and his na ture was so delighted in doing good, that it wan him the love of all men, even his enemies, whose envie and mallice it was his custome to overcome· with obligations . He had greate naturall parts, but was too active in his youth to stay the heightning of them by study of dead writings, but in the living bookes of men's conversations he soone became so skillfull that he was i1ever mistaken but where his ownegood would not lett him give creditt to the evill he discern'd in: others. He was a most indulgent husband, and no ]esse kind to his children; a most noble master, who thought it not enough to maintaine his servants honorably while they were with him, but for all" that deserv'd it, provided offices or settlements as fol' children. He
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