" He thereupon, riding to and fro, found by inquiry most of
their houses; but, as it happened, found none of them at home, at
which I was glad.
At length he brought me to the house of one called Esquire Clark, of
Weston, by Thame, who, being afterwards knighted, was called Sir
John Clark; a jolly man, too much addicted to drinking in soberer
times, but was now grown more licentious that way, as the times did
now more favour debauchery. He and I had known one another for some
years, though not very intimately, having met sometimes at the Lord
Wenman's table.
This Clark was one of the deputy-lieutenants whom I was to be
brought before; and he had gotten another thither to join with him
in tendering me the oaths, whom I knew only by name and character;
he was called Esquire Knowls, of Grays, by Henley, and reputed a man
of better morals than the other.
I was brought into the hall, and kept there; and as Quakers were not
so common then as they now are (and indeed even yet, the more is the
pity, they are not common in that part of the country), I was made a
spectacle and gazing-stock to the family, and by divers I was
diversely set upon.
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