I no sooner received this intelligence,
than I ordered my horse to be saddled, and, mounting, rode out of
sight immediately, directing my course a different way from the
London road. I had not long proceeded in this track, when my career
was all of a sudden stopped by a five-bar gate, which, after some
hesitation, I resolved to leap (my horse being an old hunter), if
I should find myself pursued. However, with much difficulty I made
a shift to open it, and arrived in safety at the house of my very
good friend Mr. G--, who, being a justice of the peace, had promised
me his protection, if it should be wanted.
"Thus secured for the present, I sent out spies to bring information
of his lordship's proceedings, and understood that he had taken
possession of my house, turned my servants adrift, and made himself
master of all my movables, clothes, and papers. As for the papers,
they were of no consequence, but of clothes I had a good stock; and,
when I had reason to believe that he did not intend to relinquish
his conquest, I thought it was high time for me to remove to
a greater distance from his quarters.
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