He was somewhat distressed that his wife did not share the intensity of his religious feelings, but he eventually observed that ``she proved after a right godly woman.'' He was more intensely religious than his father, whose diaries dealt almost exclusively with secular matters. His wife Mary died in 1615, and he followed the custom of the time, marrying Thomasine Clopton soon after on 6 December 1615. She was more pious than Mary had been;
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