text:  When the time drew near in the which I expected the return of my excellent wife I took all the children to the upper part of the church field which faces the high-road upon which the large stones have recently been laid down in the manner of a causeway but which at that period was left to the natural hardness or rather softness of the soil and was in consequence thereof dangerous to travel on by reason of the ruts and hollows; to that portion I say of the church field I conveyed all my little ones to give the gratulations necessary on such an occasion to their excellent mother