e all this night) and showed Mr. Cooke
King's College Chapel, Trinity College, and St. John's College Library;
and that being done, to our inn again: where I met Dr. Fairbrother
brought thither by my brother Tom, and he did breakfast with us, a very
good-natured man he is, and told us how the room we were in was the room
where Cromwell and his associated officers did begin to plot and act
their mischiefs in these counties. Having eat well, only our oysters
proving bad, we mounted, having a pair of boots that I borrowed and
carried with me from Impington, my own to be sent from Cambridge to
London, and took leave of all, and begun our journey about nine o'clock.
After we had rode about 10 miles we got out of our way into Royston
road, which did vex me cruelly, and the worst for that my brother's
horse, which was lame yesterday, grows worse to-day, that he could not
keep pace with us. At last with much ado we got into the road again,
having misguided also a gentleman's man who had lost his master and
thought us to be going the same way did follow us, but coming into
the road again we met with his master, by his coat a divine, but I
perceiving Tom's horse not able to keep with us, I desired Mr. Cooke and
him to take their own time, and Will and I we rode before them keeping
a good pace, and came to Ware about three o'clock in the afternoon, the
ways being every where but bad. Here I fell into acquaintance and eat
and drank with the divine, but know not who he is, and after an hour's
bait to myself and horses he, though resolved to have lodged there, yet
for company would out again, and so we remounted at four o'clock, and he
went with me as far almost as Tibbald's and there parted with us, taking
up there for all night, but finding our horses in good case and the
night being pretty light, though by reason of clouds the moon did not
shine out, we even made shift from one place to another to reach London,
though both of us very weary. And having left our horses at their
masters, walked home, found all things well, and with full joy, though
very weary, came home and went to bed, there happening nothing since our
going to my discontent in the least degree; which do so please me,
that I cannot but bless God for my journey, observing a whole course of
success from the beginning to the end of it, and I do find it to be the
reward of my diligence, which all along in this has been extraordinary,
for I have not had the least kind of d