The wife petitioned for leave to share his prison, but was refused.

When he felt himself dying, knowing the deep sorrow which his death would occasion to his wife, he left this message, which was conveyed to her: "Let her, as she is above other women, show herself on this occasion a good Christian, and above the pitch of ordinary women." Hence the wife's allusion to her husband's "command" in the above passage.] [Footnote 2015: Mrs.Lucy Hutchinson to her children concerning their father: 'Memoirs of the Life of Col.

Hutchinson' [20Bohn's Ed.], pp.

29-30.] [Footnote 2016: On the Declaration of American Independence, the first John Adams, afterwards President of the United States, bought a copy of the 'Life and Letters of Lady Russell,' and presented it to his wife, "with an express intent and desire" [20as stated by himself], "that she should consider it a mirror in which to contemplate herself; for, at that time, I thought it extremely probable, from the daring and dangerous career I was determined to run, that she would one day find herself in the situation of Lady Russell, her husband without a head:" Speaking of his wife in connection with the fact, Mr.Adams added: "Like Lady Russell, she never, by word or look, discouraged me from running all hazards for the salvation of my country's liberties.

She was willing to share with me, and that her children should share with us both, in all the dangerous consequences we had to hazard."] [Footnote 2017: 'Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romily,' vol.i.p.