his hatchet, and
cutting down branches of trees, he built three tents or hovels, in which
they all encamped with as much convenience as they could expect.

The provisions they had at Walthamstow served them very plentifully this
night; and as for the next, they left it to Providence. They had fared
so well with the old soldier's conduct that they now willingly made him
their leader, and the first of his conduct appeared to be very good. He
told them that they were now at a proper distance enough from London;
that as they need not be immediately beholden to the country for relief,
so they ought to be as careful the country did not infect them as that
they did not infect the country; that what little money they had, they
must be as frugal of as they could; that as he would not have them think
of offering the country any violence, so they must endeavour to make the
sense of their condition go as far with the country as it could. They
all referred themselves to his direction, so they left their three
houses standing, and the next day went away towards Epping. The captain
also (for so they now called him), and his two fellow-travellers, laid
aside their design of going to Waltham, and all went together.

When they came near Epping they halted, choosing out a proper place in
the open forest, not very near the highway, but not far out of it on
the north side, under a little cluster of low pollard-trees. Here they
pitched their little camp--which consisted of three large tents or huts
made of poles which their carpenter, and such as were his assistants,
cut down and fixed in the ground in a circle, binding all the small ends
together at the top and thickening the sides with boughs of trees and
bushes, so that they were completely close and warm. They had, besides
this, a little tent where the women lay by themselves, and a hut to put
the horse in.

It happened that the next day, or next but one, was market-day at
Epping, when Captain John and one of the other men went to market and
bought some provisions; that is to say, bread, and some mutton and beef;
and two of the women went separately, as if they had not belonged to
the rest, and bought more. John took the horse to bring it home, and
the sack which the carpenter carried his tools in, to put it in. The
carpenter went to work and made them benches and stools to sit on, such
as the wood he could get would afford, and a kind of table to dine on.

They were taken no notice o