In 1651 I purchased one hundred and ten pounds _per Annum_ in fee-farm
rents for one thousand and thirty pounds. I paid all in ready money; but
when his Majesty King Charles the Second, 1660, was restored, I lost it
all again, and it returned to the right owner; the loss thereof never
afflicted me, for I have ever reduced my mind according to my fortune. I
was drawn in by several persons to make that simple purchase. The year I
bought it, I had my ascendant directed into a Trine of Jupiter first,
and in the same year into the _Cauda Draconis_--my fortune into a
quadrant of Mercury. When Colchester was besieged, John Booker and
myself were sent for, where we encouraged the soldiers, assuring them
the town would very shortly be surrendered, as indeed it was: I would
willingly have obtained leave to enter the town, to have informed Sir
Charles Lucas, whom I well knew, with the condition of affairs as they
then stood, he being deluded by false intelligence: at that time my
scholar Humphreys was therein, who many times deluded the Governor with
expectation of relief; but failing very many times with his lies, at
last he had the bastinado, was put in prison, and inforced to become a
soldier; and well it was he escaped so.
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