at honest fellow Barter (I call him so because
he appears so to be, and he ought to be remembered with a great
remark for his honesty), he tells you, he conducted him to the
house, and what discourse passed there in his hearing. The
prisoner asked him what countryman he was, and whether he was a
brick-maker, and promised him so many acres of land in
Carolina. The fellow upon observation and consideration, found
himself under a great load, could not eat or sleep quietly, as
men that have honest minds are uneasy under such things;
falshood and treason, and hypocrisy are a heavy load; and
blessed be God, things were by this means discovered: for he
goes and tells Col. Penruddock; and withal Dunne swears to
Barter, it was the bravest job he had ever had in his life;
whereas in the beginning of his story, he would have told you a
strange story of a black beard and I do not know what, and that
he got not one groat by it; that he gave the man 2s. 6d. out of
his own pocket, and was so industrious as when he knew the way
no farther, that he would hire one himself to shew him the way,
and all for nothing but only for the kindness he had for a black
beard.

Besides, gentlemen, I am sorry to remember something that
dropped even from the gentlewoman herself; she pretends to
religion and loyalty very much, how greatly she wept at the
death of King Charles the Martyr, and owns her great obligations
to the late King, and his royal brother; that she had not had a
being, nor any thing to maintain it for twenty years last past
but from their bounty, and yet no sooner is one in the grave,
but she forgets all gratitude and entertains those that were
rebels against his royal successor; I will not say what hand her
husband had in the death of that blessed martyr, she has enough
to answer for of her own guilt; and I must confess it ought not
one way or other to make any ingredient into this case what she
was in former times, and I told a relation of hers, a Mr.
Tipping by name, that came to me, last night, to desire that she
might not lie under some imputations that were gone abroad of
her that she rejoiced at the death of King Charles I., nor that
any false report of that nature might influence the Court or
jury against her, that it should not;--be the thing true or
false, it is of no weight