28 sorrow whit:h such separations cause, it can be but coniectur'd; but the thing being not ordinary, and having receiv'd it from the re· lation of one of his daughters and his grandchild, I thought it not impertinent here to it;Jsert. I shall now proceed to our owne story. Assoone as my lady I-Iutchinson was dead, her brother, Sr. John Biron, came over and found the most desolate aflicted widower that ever was beheld, and one of his sisters, the lady Ratcliffe, who was the dcare sister of the dead lady, scarce allive for sorrow; and indeed such an universal! lamentation in the house and neighbourhood, that the protraction of their gricfes for such a funeral! as was intended her, might possibly have made them all as she: Sr. Jolm therefore the next morning privately, unknowne to her busbanc!, with only her owne famely, carried her to .the church, which was but the next door, and enterr'd her without further ceremony. It booted not Sr. Thomas to be angrie att her friend's care of him, who ·persued it so farre, that the next day he carried away Sr. Thomas, Jacly Radcliffe, and lVIz~ Johu Hutchinson, towards his owne house at Bulwell, leaving Thl£.r. George at his . nurse's. But the horses of the coach .being mettled, in the _halfway between Owthorpe and Nottingham runne away, overthrew it, and slightly hurt all that were in the coach; who all gott out, one by one, except the maid that had the child in her arms, and she stay' cl as long as there was any hope of preventing the coach from being torn to pieces: but when she saw no stop could be given to the mad horses, she lapp'd him as close as she could in the mantle, and flung him as farre as she could fi"Oin the coach into ti!C plow'd lands, whose furrows were at that time very soft, and by the good providence of God the child, .reserv'd to a more glorious death, had no apparent hurt. He was taken up and carried to Bulwcll, where his aunt had such a mOtherly tendernesse for him that he grew and prosper'd in he.r. care. As the fresh memory and excessive love they bore the mother en-
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