I was very kindly received by my master, who had conceived so good
an opinion of me that my conversation, I found, was acceptable to
him, and he seemed heartily glad of my recovery and return; and into
our old method of study we fell again, I reading to him, and he
explaining to me, as occasion required.
But as if learning had been a forbidden fruit to me, scarce was I
well settled in my work before I met with another diversion, which
turned me quite out of my work.
For a sudden storm arising, from I know not what surmise of a plot,
and thereby danger to the government, and the meetings of
Dissenters--such I mean as could be found, which perhaps were not
many besides the Quakers--were broken up throughout the city, and
the prisons mostly filled with our friends.
I was that morning, which was the 26th day of the eighth month,
1662, at the meeting at the Bull and Mouth, by Aldersgate, when on a
sudden a party of soldiers (of the trained bands of the city) rushed
in, with noise and clamour, being led by one who was called Major
Rosewell, an apothecary, if I misremember not, and at that time
under the ill name of a Papist.
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