f this other band went over the fields or roads, path or no
path, way or no way, as they pleased; neither had they any occasion to
pass through any town, or come near any town, other than to buy such
things as they wanted for their necessary subsistence, and in that
indeed they were put to much difficulty; of which in its place.

But our three travellers were obliged to keep the road, or else they
must commit spoil, and do the country a great deal of damage in breaking
down fences and gates to go over enclosed fields, which they were loth
to do if they could help it.

Our three travellers, however, had a great mind to join themselves to
this company and take their lot with them; and after some discourse they
laid aside their first design which looked northward, and resolved to
follow the other into Essex; so in the morning they took up their tent
and loaded their horse, and away they travelled all together.

They had some difficulty in passing the ferry at the river-side, the
ferryman being afraid of them; but after some parley at a distance, the
ferryman was content to bring his boat to a place distant from the usual
ferry, and leave it there for them to take it; so putting themselves
over, he directed them to leave the boat, and he, having another boat,
said he would fetch it again, which it seems, however, he did not do for
above eight days.

Here, giving the ferryman money beforehand, they had a supply of
victuals and drink, which he brought and left in the boat for them; but
not without, as I said, having received the money beforehand. But now
our travellers were at a great loss and difficulty how to get the horse
over, the boat being small and not fit for it: and at last could not do
it without unloading the baggage and making him swim over.

From the river they travelled towards the forest, but when they came
to Walthamstow the people of that town denied to admit them, as was the
case everywhere. The constables and their watchmen kept them off at
a distance and parleyed with them. They gave the same account of
themselves as before, but these gave no credit to what they said, giving
it for a reason that two or three companies had already come that way
and made the like pretences, but that they had given several people the
distemper in the towns where they had passed; and had been afterwards
so hardly used by the country (though with justice, too, as they had
deserved) that about Brentwood, or that way, several