It was in vain that I asked him for a boat to put us across the water.

He said all the boatmen were in bed; and, if they were up, he was sure that none of them would venture out.

It was thought a mercy by all of them, that we were not lost last night.
Difficulties were also started about horses to take us another way.

Unable therefore to proceed, we took refreshment and went to bed.
We arrived at Bristol between nine and ten the next morning; but I was so ill, that I could go no further; I had been cold and shivering ever since my first passage across the Severn, and I had now a violent sore throat, and a fever with it.

All I could do was to see the witnesses off for London, and to assign them to the care of an attorney, who should conduct them to the trial.