Richard Weston of Gray's-Inn.
God's providence appeared very much for me that day, for walking in
Westminster-Hall, Mr. Richard Pennington, son to my old friend Mr.
William Pennington, met me, and enquiring the cause of my being there,
said no more, but walked up and down the hall, and related my kindness
to his father unto very many Parliament men of Cheshire and Lancashire,
Yorkshire, Cumberland, and those northern countries, who numerously came
up into the Speaker's chamber, and bade me be of good comfort: at last
he meets Mr. Weston, one of the three unto whom my matter was referred
for examination, who told Mr. Pennington, that he came purposely to
punish me; and would be bitter against me; but hearing it related, viz.
my singular kindness and preservation of old Mr. Pennington's estate to
the value of six or seven thousand pounds, 'I will do him all the good I
can,' says he. 'I thought he had never done any good; let me see him,
and let him stand behind me where I sit:' I did so. At my first
appearance, many of the young members affronted me highly, and demanded
several scurrilous questions.
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