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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22887	Living testimonies concerning the death of the righteous. Or The blessed end of Joseph Featherstone and Sarah his daughter; written by Sarah his wife, and Thomas Browne her second husband; not unworthy the knowledge of friends and their posterity; that all may be incouraged to live well, that their latter end may be blessed. Also something concerning Charles Wray, Grace Browne, and Katharine Browne her daughter, writ by Thomas Browne the elder, in Partney in the county of Lincoln. All of them being a sweet favour of life, laid down their heads in peace	Featherstone, Sarah, of Partney-Mills, Lincolnshire.; Browne, Thomas, of Partney. aut; Wray, Charles, member of the Society of Friends. aut	1689 (1689)	Wing F576B	16,265	47

Life Oh sick at my heart which often tendred our hearts to see our dear Child pass through these great troubles at some times and then she would say Oh Lord in mercy remember me and bear me up above all my Afflictions for my heart trusteth in thee I said my dear Child if the Lord should be pleased to take thee from me where hast thou a desire to be Buried wilt thou be Buried by thy dear Father in Friends Burying-place in Crowland where we came from she said I have some thoughts formerly to have been Buried by my dear Father but considering the greatness of the Journey and so many Buried near him I am satisfied I leave it to thee and my Father I said my dear Child art thou willing to be Buried in our Burying-place where I hope to be Buried by thee she said dear Mother Bury me where thou and my Father pleaseth I leave it to you it s no matter how many Miles distance these Bodies lies our Souls shall one day rejoyce together then I asked her what she would have disposed of of that which was hers she said I would have my poor Relations have something and poor Friends Children where we came from what thee and my Father pleaseth I leave it to you for my Father is a good Man and hath been very tender over me and my Love to him hath been very dear and then she said dear Mother do not trouble me with any thing but let us be submitted to the Will of the Lord in all things do not speak to me nor give me any thing without I desire it and so lay still in a sweet frame of Spirit and with as sweet a Countenance and as chearful as if she had no such Weakness upon her only sometimes a great trouble in her head which the Lord was pleased to bear her up in much patience to pass through not a discontented word was heard to pass from her but true Contentedness in much Patience often saying Ah my dear and heavenly Father come away come away for my heart trusteth in thee some time before she departed her Speech failed her after which a sweet harmony often ran through her often lifting up her Hands with a very chearful Countenance and so she fell a sleep in the Lord who I then felt a stay to my mind living Praises to his most holy and powerful Name who is a God of endless Mercies my Spirit was much comforted in the Lord in the behalf of my dear Child in the time of her Sickness who endued her with much patience and wonderfully bore her up above all her Sickness and Pain which was upon her Body at sometimes not knowing where to lay her Head to have a little ease which she through the great love of the Lord was born up in much patience to pass through in true submission to his blessed Will and I do believe is at rest with God her Maker being asscended above all her Sorrows and Troubles to praise the Lord that sits upon the Throne and the Lamb for evermore in the undoubted sence of which my Soul doth Praise and Magnifie the Lord on her behalf and indeed the same doth out-ballance the great loss I have of her as to the outward well knowing my Loss is her everlasting Gain and desiring that I may be subject to the Will of the Lord in what he may be pleased to try me withal and that he may have the Glory of his own Works for he is worthy who gave me her and now hath taken her away Blessed and Praised be his most holy Name for ever Partney-Mills the place of my abode the the 20th of the 12th Month 1689. Sarah Brown Her Mother A POSTSCRIPT SInce I writ this Testimony concerning my dear Child there hath often fresh springs of the Lords great Love concerning her arose in my Heart which I had omitted my Duty in when this Child was in the eleventh year of her age it pleased the Lord to suffer Persecution to come upon us for the tryal of our Faith for Meeting together and Worshiping God as he requires that is in Spirit and in Truth we being at a Meeting about eight Miles from our outward Dwelling the Meeting being ended and Friends ready to depart some in the yard some in the high-way comes two Informers after a very rude manner calling of us Rogues and Whores and Swearing desperately to many untruths my Husband reproved one of them called Chipsam for Swearing he was very angry and held up his Stick and said He would break his Head did he tell him he was the Kings Officer Observe the said Chipsam was not long after carried to Linclon Goal for Debt and their dyed and was there buried after a very mean manner in the Castle yard c. But before the Meeting fell to be there again by course which was a Month they had made much spoil of Friends Goods it pleased the Lord to visit my dear Husband with much Weakness so that we could not go to the Meeting but my dear Child having a great desire to go again with her Brothers we wear freely willing and they had a peaceable Meeting and Friends ready to depart as before came the same Informers as rude or worse then before and within a few days Levied my Husbands Goods again upon the account of one of his Sons but she being under Age they could take nothing from her Father in Law upon her account at which she seemed to be troubled she having a considerable Portion in his hand and said If they be suffered to take all that my Father hath he shall not want to give up to serve the Lord so long as I have any thing and would sometimes say to me I do believe I shall never want any good thing which the Lord sees convenient for me in which she manifested her Love to him upon her dying Bed as it is fully declared in the fore-going Testimony so having eased my Spirit and discharged my Duty which I did owe I desire to rest in Peace with the Lord and in Love to his Truth and People to the end of my days and time here in this mortal World so that when time here will be no more I may lay down my Head in Peace as my dear Child hath done and then as she said upon her dying Bed Our Souls shall rejoyce together Written at Partney Mills the 11th of the 3d Month 1689. by Sarah Brown. Thomas Brown his Testimony concerning his dear Daughter-in-Law Sarah Featherstone THis Testimony I have to bear concerning my dear Friend and Relation Sarah Featherstone first let me say something of her outward Abilities she was Born of honest Parents and Educated in the plain and decent parts her dear Mother thought convenient as Sowing Kniting Reading Writing c. In which she exceeded most of her equals she was Womanly about Business and what she did she did it with all her might she was of a

singular good nature and of a comely chearful quiet modest Countenance ripe Wit quick of Apprehension mild and loving Behaviour to all and especially to Friends but more especially to them that were poor at Monthly Meetings when Women Friends had Contributions for the service of Truth this dear Child would freely throw in her Mite a poor Widow Friend use to come to our House when she went away if this dear Child did not see her she would sometimes run after her not like Gehazi and give her something she had of her own as sometimes half a dozen Eggs which shewed a tender regard she had to the Poor her dear Father dyed when she was about nine years old and after a convenient time her dear Mother became my Wife so I had a certain knowledge of her for about six years in which time I cannot remember that she ever gave me one angry word but was as loving and tender to me as though she had been my own Child I was carried to Prison for bearing my Testimony against Tythes and there the Lord was pleased to visit me with Sickness and other great Troubles in which time this dear Child came several times to visit me though the Journey was long and difficult sometimes but her dear and tender Love to me out-ballanced it all This dear Child ever since I did know her had a great desire to go to Friends Meetings I never see her in the least concerned in sleep or heaviness but when I looked upon her I found her in a sober and weighty frame of Spirit which often caused my Heart to rejoyce and the remembrance of her is very sweet to me at this time When the Lord was pleased to visit her with this Sickness whereon she dyed which was in the fifteenth year of her Age she bore it with great Patience considering the violence of the Distemper it was a very high Feaver of which she lay just a Week in which time she would often breath unto the Lord and say Ah Lord help me and say Ah dear Father what must I do Ah dear Mother what must I do never so sick in all my Life we tenderly exhorted her to keep her mind stayed upon the Lord then she would lie still a pretty while whil'st the violence of the Distemper sorely troubled her then she would cry out as before and say Ah Lord help me and several times did lift up her hands and say Lord have mercy upon me Ah Lord help me thus this patient innocent Lamb finished her Testimony in a good day and I do verily believe is at rest with the Lord for evermore this dear Babe which was the only Child of her tender Mother Departed this Life the seventeenth day of the seventh Month 1688. about mid night and was honourably Buried the twentieth day following at Tumby-Wood side in the Parish of Lirkby upon the Bain in Friends Burning-Place being accompanied with pretty many Friends Relations and Neighbours unto the said place where there was gathered together a pretty many Friends and Neighbours where we had a good Meeting held by our very dear and well-beloved Friend John Whitehead who very tenderly accompanied us thither where we were livingly refreshed together for there was Milk for Babes and Meat for them of riper Age with living Testimonies concerning the sober Life and harmeless Conversation of this innocent Child by our dear Friend John Whitehead who had certain knowledge of her she being sometimes before Tabled at his House and William Birks likewise she having been at his House a pretty time a little before she fell Sick was constrained to bring in his publick Testimony concerning this dear Child all which greatly refreshed and comforted us her Relations and was of good service to the whole Meeting and may be a sweet savour to Generations to come much more I might say concerning this dear Child as to her sober and loving Behaviour to all her comliness in her Apparel c. who like meek Moses chose rather to suffer Afflictions with the dispised People of God in scorn called Quakers then to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a season and did truly I believe remember her Creator in the days of her youth this is Written for this and Generations to come to stand upon Record that young People may consider their latter end and whilst they have time prize it Written in love to the Lord his Truth and People having had a weight upon my Spirit for some Months and now having eased my mind and done my Duty which I did owe I desire to rest in Peace And if I in this or at any other time have said or done any thing that may tend to Gods Glory or be serviceable to any my real desire is that he alone may have the Glory Honour and the Praise for he alone is worthy not only at this time but henceforth and for evermore Amen saith my Soul. Partney-Mills the 4th day of the 11th Month 1688 89. Thomas Brown Which was her Father in Law. Some Testimonies Concerning Charles Wray Grace Brown and Katharine Brown her Daughter Writ by Thomas Brown the Elder in Partney in the County of Lincoln who all dyed in the Faith and left a sweet savour behind them the said Charles Wray having received a heavenly Gift which he exercised to Gods glory and the refreshment of his People SOmething lies weightily upon my mind and hath done for several Months to Write as a Testimony concerning our dear Friend Charles Wray being one that was very well acquainted with him for several years I thought it my Duty to mention something concerning his tender care over the Church of Christ while amongst us he was taken from us in the flower of his Years the Lord was pleased to take him away as he hath done many honest Friends before and since from the evil to come he was Servant to me about half a year and Tenant to me about twelve years in which time he was very serviceable to me and my dear Wife as to our Convincement not only by his Words but by his wise Walking he met with great Exercise in his time but the Lord was pleased to carry him through it all and make him instrumental in his Hand to the strengthning of the weak for the Lord was pleased to open his Mouth to declare of his great love to Mankind in which service was his chief delight towards the latter end of his time the Lord was pleased to visit him with weakness of Body so that he lay in Bed some Weeks in which time I went several times to visit him and was very much refreshed together for the Presence of the Lord did attend him In his Weakness he was very Comfortable both to Friends and others for he could speak a Word in season to most Conditions the Lord was pleased in the time of his Weakness to send two of his Messengers amongst us and he having a great desire to see them