She would have had me keep it; but I begged of her to
accept it from me again, since it was the redundancy of their
kindness, and the other part had answered the occasion for which it
was sent: and my importunity prevailed.
I intended only a visit hither, not a continuance, and therefore
purposed, after I had stayed a few days to return to my lodging and
former course in London, but Providence ordered it otherwise.
Isaac Penington had at that time two sons and one daughter, all then
very young; of whom the eldest son, John Penington, and the
daughter, Mary, the wife of Daniel Wharley, are yet living at the
writing of this. And being himself both skilful and curious in
pronunciation, he was very desirous to have them well grounded in
the rudiments of the English tongue, to which end he had sent for a
man out of Lancashire, whom, upon inquiry, he had heard of, who was
undoubtedly the most accurate English teacher that ever I met with,
or have heard of. His name was Richard Bradley. But as he
pretended no higher than the English tongue, and had led them, by
grammar rules, to the highest improvement they were capable of in
that, he had then taken his leave of them, and was gone up to
London, to teach an English school of Friends' children there.
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