The wife
petitioned for leave to share his prison, but was refused. When
he felt himself dying, knowing the deep sorrow which his death
would occasion to his wife, he left this message, which was
conveyed to her: "Let her, as she is above other women, show
herself on this occasion a good Christian, and above the pitch of
ordinary women." Hence the wife's allusion to her husband's
"command" in the above passage.
(15) Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson to her children concerning their father:
'Memoirs of the Life of Col. Hutchinson' (Bohn's Ed.), pp. 29-30.
(16) On the Declaration of American Independence, the first John Adams,
afterwards President of the United States, bought a copy of the
'Life and Letters of Lady Russell,' and presented it to his wife,
"with an express intent and desire" (as stated by himself), "that
she should consider it a mirror in which to contemplate herself;
for, at that time, I thought it extremely probable, from the
daring and dangerous career I was determined to run, that she
would one day find herself in the situation of Lady Russell, her
husband without a head:" Speaking of his wife in connection with
the fact, Mr. Adams added: "Like Lady Russell, she never, by word
or look, discouraged me from running all hazards for the salvation
of my country's liberties. She was willing to share with me, and
that her children should share with us both, in all the dangerous
consequences we had to hazard.
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