whiteiockc  This  being  the  Lord's  Day,  many  gentlemen  of  the
two  of  his  English  and  Scots  nation  then  in  town  came  to
lagiect  0?  Whitelocke's  house  to  the  morning  sermon,  and  most
D^y.^^^  *  of  them  staid  the  afternoon  sermon  also.  And  so
many  strangers  being  there  attentive  in  the  holy  du-
ties, it  gave  the  greater  cause  of  scandal  and  oflFence
to  Whitelocke  that  divers  of  his  own  family  were
absent,  whereas,  by  his  orders,  they  were  all  enjoined
to  a  constant  attendance,  especially  at  those  religious
exercises ;  nevertheless  some  of  them  (particularly
Mr.  Castle  and  Andrew  Potley)  were  therein  more  in
fault  than  others,  and,  after  many  admonitions,  would
not  reform,  but  made  it  their  common  practice  ahnost
every  Lord's  Day  in  the  afternoon  to  be  absent,  and
to  go  abroad  and  take  the  air.  Whitelocke  consi-
dering the  reproach  and  scandal,  and  the  ill  example
hereby  to  his  family,  and  the  doing  of  that  by  some  of
them  against  which  he  had  spoken  so  much  here  to
the  people  of  this  place,  upon  which  it  would  be  col-
lected that  either  he  had  not  the  power  over  his  own
people  to  order  them  as  he  judged  fit,  or  else  that  he
and  the  rest  of  his  company  were  dissemblers,  and
found  fault  with  that  in  others  which  they  either
acted  or  tolerated  in  themselves ; — Whitelocke  finding
two  absent  on  this  day,  he  gave  order  to  his  steward
to  see  their  trunks  and  goods  carried  out  of  his  house,
and  themselves  dismissed  of  further  attendance  on
him,  and  removed  from  his  family.  Yet  afterwards,
upon  the  interceding  of  others  for  them,  and  their
own  submission,  the  punishment  was  suspended  ;  and
when  they  perceived  that  Whitelocke  was  in  earnest.
