He was in the habit of exercising his spiritual gifts at their meetings: but he did not live by preaching.

He traded largely; his credit on the Exchange of London stood high; and he had accumulated an ample fortune.

Perhaps no man could, at that conjuncture, have rendered more valuable services to the Court.

But between him and the Court was interposed the remembrance of one terrible event.

He was the grandfather of the two Hewlings, those gallant youths who, of all the victims of the Bloody Assizes, had been the most generally lamented.