He sought lodgings at her house for one whom he called his cousin, a fair young woman, together with her serving girl, who did attend upon her.

She tarried about a month, seeing no one, and going out only towards the evening, accompanied by her servant.

She spake little, but did seem melancholy and exceeding mournful, often crying very bitterly.

Sir Christopher came only once to see her, and Good wife Nowell saith she well remembers seeing her take leave of him on the roadside, and come back weeping and sobbing dolefully; and that a little time after, bearing that he had gotten into trouble in Boston as a Papist and man of loose behavior, she suddenly took her departure in a vessel sailing for the Massachusetts, leaving to her, in pay for house-room and diet, a few coins, a gold cross, and some silk stuffs and kerchiefs.

The cross being such as the Papists do worship, and therefore unlawful, her husband did beat it into a solid wedge privately, and kept it from the knowledge of the minister and the magistrates.