where my lord and my son Thomas stayed till the
ship's crew was hauling in their anchors to sail, and then came home
together in the coach, and it being late in the evening, he told Thomas
he should sup with him that night, after which they went to bed in
their several apartments.

Next morning when I went to see my lord as usual, he told me that as he
had handsomely provided for my daughter, and sent her to the Indies with
a man of merit and fortune, he sincerely wished her great prosperity.
"And," he added, "to let you see, madam, that I should never have parted
from my first engagements of love to you, had you not laid yourself so
open to censure for your misconduct, my next care shall be to provide
for your son Thomas in a handsome manner, before I concern myself with
my son by you."

This was the subject of our discourse, with which I was very well
pleased. I only wished my daughter had been married and sent to the
Indies before I had married myself; but I began to hope that the worst
would be over when Thomas was provided for too, and the son my lord had
by me, who was now at the university, was at home; which I would have
brought to pass could my will be obeyed, but I was not to enjoy that
happiness.

My lord and I lived with a secret discontent of each other for near a
twelvemonth before I saw any provision made for my son Thomas, and then
I found my lord bought him a very large plantation in Virginia, and was
furnishing him to go there in a handsome manner; he also gave him four
quarter parts in four large trading West India vessels, in which he
boarded a great quantity of merchandise to traffic with when he came to
the end of his journey, so that he was a very rich man before he (what
we call) came into the world.

The last article that was to be managed, was to engage my son to a wife
before he left Holland; and it happened that the gentleman who was the
seller of the plantation my husband bought, had been a Virginia planter
in that colony a great many years; but his life growing on the decline,
and his health very dubious, he had come to Holland with an intent to
sell his plantation, and then had resolved to send for his wife, son,
and daughter, to come to him with the return of the next ships. This
gentleman had brought over with him the pictures of all his family,
which he was showing to my lord at the same time he was paying for the
effects; and on seeing the daughter's picture, which appeared to him