And both he and his lady, who was present, expressed
much concern for Guli Penn's illness.
I found this man to be of quite another temper than Justice
Fotherly; for he was smooth, soft, and oily, whereas the other was
rather rough, severe, and sharp. Yet at the winding-up I found
Fotherly my truest friend.
When I had told Sir Benjamin Titchborn that I came from Justice
Fotherly, and requested him to give him a meeting to consider of my
business, he readily, without any hesitation, told me he would go
with me to Rickmansworth, from which his house was distant about a
mile, and calling for his horses, mounted immediately, and to
Rickmansworth we rode.
After they had been a little while together, I was called in before
them, and in the first place they examined me, "What was my
intention and design in writing that book?" I told them the
introductory part of it gave a plain account of it--viz., "That it
was to get ease from the penalties of a severe law often executed
with too great a severity by unskilful officers, who were driven on
beyond the bounds of their duty by the impetuous threats of a sort
of insolent fellows, as needy as greedy, who for their own advantage
sought our ruin.
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