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 Father of one of the Women, went to Prayer with | all the Company, recommending themſelves to the Bleſſing and Direction of Providence, before they went to Sleep.

It was ſoon Day at that time of the Year; and as Richard the Joyner had kept Guard the firſt part of the Night, ſo John the Soldier Reliev’d him, and he had the Poſt in the Morning, and they began to be acquainted with one another. It ſeems, when they left Iſlington, they intended to have gone North away to Highgate, but were ſtop’d at Holloway, and there they would not let them paſs; ſo they croſs’d over the Fields and Hills to the Eaſtward, and came out at the Boarded-River, and ſo avoiding the Towns, they left Hornſey on the left Hand, and Newington on the right Hand, and came into the great Road about Stamford-Hill on that ſide, as the three Travellers had done on the other ſide: And now they had Thoughts of going over the River in the Marſhes, and make forwards to Epping Foreſt, where they hoped they ſhould get leave to Reſt. It ſeems they were not Poor, at leaſt not ſo Poor as to be in Want; at leaſt they had enough to ſubſiſt them moderately for two or three Months, when, as they ſaid, they were in Hopes the cold Weather would check the Infection, or at leaſt the Violence of it would have ſpent itſelf, and would abate, if it were only for want of People left alive to be Infected.

This was much the Fate of our three Travellers; only that they ſeemed to be the better furniſh’d for Travelling, and had it in their View to go further off; for as to the firſt, they did not propoſe to go farther than one-Day’s Journey, that ſo they might have Intelligence every two or three Days how Things were at London.

But here our Travellers found themſelves under an unexpected Inconvenience, namely, that of their Horſe, for by means of the Horſe to carry their Baggage, they were obliged to keep