I went down afterwards into Yorkshire; but my father was dead, and my mother and all the family extinct, except that I found two sisters, and two of the children of one of my brothers; and as I had been long ago given over for dead, there had been no provision made for me; so that, in a word, I found nothing to relieve or assist me; and that the little money I had would not do much for me as to settling in the world.
Trasferitomi indi nella contea di York, trovai morti mio fratello e mia madre; in somma estinta l’intera mia famiglia, eccetto due sorelle e due figli d’uno de’ miei fratelli. Essendo io stato creduto morto per sì lungo tempo, nulla vi rimaneva della mia parte; in guisa che, non potendo qui far conto su nulla, lo scarso danaro portatomi poteva aiutarmi ben poco a stabilirmi nel mondo.