There was I bred up, though not without much difficulty, the city
air not agreeing with my tender constitution, and there continued
until Oxford was surrendered, and the war in appearance ended.
In this time my parents contracted an acquaintance and intimate
friendship with the Lady Springett, who being then the widow of Sir
William Springett, who died in the Parliament service, was
afterwards the wife of Isaac Penington, eldest son of Alderman
Penington, of London. And this friendship devolving from the
parents to the children, I became an early and particular playfellow
to her daughter Gulielma; being admitted, as such, to ride with her
in her little coach, drawn by her footman about Lincoln's Inn
Fields.
I mention this in this place because the continuation of that
acquaintance and friendship, having been an occasional means of my
being afterwards brought to the knowledge of the blessed TRUTH, I
shall have frequent cause, in the course of the following discourse,
to make honourable mention of that family, to which I am under so
many and great obligations.
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