years old, herself but four-and-twenty) from the pressing
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Aprit 1768 doing good: however, I once more "cast" my " bread upon the waters," and left the event to God.
Thur. 14.—I rode on, through continued rain, to Ambleside.
It cleared up before we came to Keswick, and we set out thence in a fair day; but on the mountains the storm met us again, which beat on us so impetuously, that our horses could scarce turn their faces against it.
However, we made shift to reach Cockermouth ; but there was no room for preaching, the town being in an uproar through the election for Members of Parliament; so, after drying ourselves, we thought it best to go on to Whitehaven.
Wesley and Mary Queen of Scots Tues. 26.—I came to Aberdeen.
Here I found a society truly alive, knit together in peace and love.
The congregations were large both morning and evening, and, as usual, deeply attentive.
But a company of strolling players, who have at length found place here also, stole away the gay part of the hearers.
Poor Scotland!
Poor Aberdeen!
This only was wanting to make them as completely irreligious as England.
Fri. 29.—I read over an extremely sensible book, but one that surprised me much: it is " An inquiry into the Proofs of the Charges commonly advanced against Mary
Queen of Scots."
By means of original papers, he has made it more clear than one would imagine it possible at this distance:
1. That she was altogether innocent of the murder of Lord Darnley, and no way privy to it:
2. That she married Lord Bothwell (then near seventy years old, herself but four-and-twenty) from the pressing instance of the nobility in a body, who at the same time assured her he was innocent of the King's murder: