Innocent and Simple-minded were satisfied and went away refreshed but the fat and full were fed with Judgment and sent empty away for that was the Word of the Lord to be divided to them Now when Meetings were set up and we Met in private Houses then began Lampitt the Priest to Rage And he said We forsook the Temple and went to Jeroboam 's Calves-houses So that many Professors began to see how he was declined from that which he had formerly hâ—ld and preached Hereupon the Case of Jeroboam's Calves was opened to the Professors Priests and People and it was declared and manifested unto them That their Houses which they called Churches were more like Jeroboam's Calves-houses even the Old Mass-houses which were set up in the darkness of Popery and which they who called themselves Protestants and professed to be more enlightned than the Papists did still hold up although God had never commanded them Whereas that Temple which God had commanded at Jerusalem Christ came to end the Service of and they that received and believed in him their Bodies came to be the Temples of God and of Christ and of the Holy Ghost to dwell in them and to walk in them And all such were gathered into the Name of Jesus whose Name is above every Name 1652. Ulverstone and there is no Salvation by any other Name under the whole Heaven but by the Name of Jesus And they that were thus gathered met together in several Dwelling-houses which were not called the Temple nor the Church but their Bodies were the Temples of God and the Believers were the Church which Christ was the Head of So that Christ was not called the Head of an Old House which was made by Mens Hands neither did he come to purchase and sanctify and redeem with his Blood an Old House which they called their Church but the People which he is the Head of Much work I had in those Days with Priests and People concerning their Old Mass-houses which they called their Churches for the Priests had persuaded the People that it was the House of God whereas the Apostle says Whose House we are c. Heb. 3.6 So the People are God's House in whom he dwells And the Apostle saith Christ purchased his Church with his own Blood and Christ calls his Church his Spouse and his Bride the Lamb's Wife So that this Title Church and Spouse was not given to an Old House but to his People the true Believers After this on a Lecture-day I was moved to go to the Steeple-house at Vlverstone where were abundance of Professors Priests and People I went up near to Priest Lampitt who was blustering on in his Preaching And after the Lord had opened my Mouth to speak John Sawrey the Justice came to me and said If I would speak according to the Scriptures I should speak I stranged at him for speaking so to me for I did speak according to the Scriptures and I told him I should speak according to the Scriptures and bring the Scriptures to prove what I had to say for I had something to speak to Lampitt and to them Then he said I should not speak Contradicting himself who had said just before I should speak if I would speak according to the Scriptures which I did Now the People were quiet and heard me gladly until this Justice Sawrey who was the first Stirrer up of cruel Persecution in the North incensed them against me and set them on to hale beat and bruise me Then on a sudden the People were in a Rage and they fell upon me in the Steeple-house before his Face and knock'd me down and kicked me and trampled upon me he looking on And so great was the Vproar that some People tumbled over their Seats for fear At last he came and took me from the People and led me out of the Steeple-house and put me into the Hands of the Constables and other Officers bidding them Whip me and put me out of the Town Then they led me about a quarter of a Mile some taking hold by my Collar and some by my Arms and Shoulders and shook and dragg'd me along And there being many Friendly People come to the Market and some of them come to the Steeple-house to hear me divers of these they knocked down also and brake their Heads so that the Blood ran down from several of them And Judge Fell's Son running after to see what they would do with me they threw him into a Ditch of Water some of them crying Knock the Teeth out of his Head Now when they had haled me to the Common-Moss-side a Multitude of People following the Constables and other Officers gave me some Blows over my Back with their Willow-Rods and so thrust me among the rude Multitude who having furnished themselves some with Staves some with Hedge-stakes Common and others with Holm or Holly-bushes fell upon me and beat me on my Head Arms and Shoulders till they had amazed me so that I fell down upon the Wet Common And when I recovered my self again and saw my self lying in a Watry Common and the People standing about me I lay still a little while And the Power of the Lord sprang through me and the Eternal Refreshings refreshed me so that I stood up again in the strengthening Power of the Eternal God And stretching out my Arms amongst them I said with a loud Voice Strike again here are my Arms my Head and my Cheeks There was in the Company a Mason a Professor but a rude Fellow He with his walking Rule-Staff gave me a Blow with all his might just over the back of my Hand as it was stretched out with which blow my Hand was so bruised and my Arm so benummed that I could not draw it unto me again so that some of the People cried out He hath spoil'd his Hand for ever having any use of it more But I looked at it in the Love of God for I was in the Love of God to them all that had persecuted me and atter a while the Lord's Power sprang through me again and through my Hand and Arm so that in a Moment I recovered Strength in my Hand and Arm in the fight of them all Then they began to fall out among themselves and some of them came to me and said If I would give them Money they would secure me from the rest But I was moved of the Lord to declare to them all the Word of Life and shewed them their false Christianity and the Fruits of their Priest's Ministry telling them they were more like Heathens and Jews than true Christians Ulverstone Market Then was I moved of the Lord to come up again through the midst of the People and go up into Vlverstone-Market And as I went there met me a Man a Souldier with his Sword by his Side Sir said he to me I see you are a Man and I am ashamed and grieved that you should be thus
could not make good by Scripture that which he had said So he was shamed and fled out of the House and his People were generally Convinced for his Spirit was discovered and he came no more amongst them And when his People were Convinced and settled in God's Truth they gave forth a Book against him and denied his Spirit and his false Discoveries Many were turned to Christ Jesus that day and came to sit under his Teaching insomuch that the Judges were in a great Rage and many of the Magistrates in Bedford-shire because there were so many turned from the Hireling-Priests to the Lord Jesus Christ's free Teaching But John Crook was kept by the Power of the Lord Yet he was turned out from being a Justice After some time I turned up through the Country to London again where Friends were finely established in the Truth and great Comings in there were And about this time several Friends went beyond the Seas to declare the everlasting Truth of God Now when I had stay'd a while in the City Kent Rochester I went into Kent And when I came to Rochester there was a Guard kept to examin Passengers Cranbrook but we passed by and were not stopped So I went to Cranbrook where there was a great Meeting and several Souldiers were at it and many were turned to the Lord that day After the Meeting some of the Souldiers were somewhat Rude but the Lord's Power came over them One Thomas Howsigoe an Independent-Preacher who lived not far from Cranbrook was Convinced and became a faithful Minister for the Lord Jesus Some Friends had traveled into Kent before as John Stubbs and William Caton and the Priests and Professors had stirred up the Magistrates at Maidstone to Whip them for declaring God's Truth unto them as may be seen at large in the Journal of William Caton's Life There was also one Captain Dunk Convinced in Kent Sussex Ry. and he went with me to Ry where we had a Meeting to which the Mayor and Officers and several Captains came and they took what I said in Writing which I was well pleased with All was quiet and the People affected with the Truth Rumney From Ry I went to Rumney where the People having had notice of my Coming some time before there was a very large Meeting Thither came Samuel Fisher who was an Eminent Preacher among the Baptists and had had a Parsonage reputed worth about Two hundred Pounds a Year which for Conscience-sake he had given up And there was also the Pastor of the Baptists and abundance of their People And the Power of the Lord was so mightily over the Meeting that many were reached by the Power of God and one greatly shaken and the Life sprang up in divers One of the Pastors of the Baptists being amazed at the Work of the Lord's Power bid one of our Friends that was so wrought upon Have a good Conscience Whereupon I was moved of the Lord to bid him Take heed of Hypocrisy and Deceit and he was silent A great Convincement there was that day and many were turned from the Darkness to the divine Light of Christ and came to see their Teachers Errors and to sit under the Lord Jesus Christ's Teaching and to know him their Way and the Covenant of Light which God had given to be their Salvation And they were brought to the One Baptism and to the One Baptizer Christ Jesus When the Meeting was done Samuel Fisher's Wife said Now we may discern this day betwixt Flesh and Spirit and distinguish Spiritual Teaching from Fleshly The People were generally well satisfied with what had been declared but the Two Baptist-Teachers and their Company when they were gone from the Meeting fell to Reasoning amongst the People Samuel Fisher with divers others reasoned for the Word of Life which had been declared that day and the other Pastor and his Party reasoned against it So it divided them asunder and cut them in the midst A Friend came and told me that the Baptists were disputing one with another 1655. Rumney and desired me to go up to them but I said Let them alone the Lord will divide them and they that Reason for Truth will be too hard for the other And so it was This Samuel Fisher received the Truth in the Love of it and became a faithful Minister of it and preached Christ freely and laboured much in the Work and Service of the Lord being moved of the Lord to go and declare the word of Life at Dunkirk and in Holland and in divers parts of Italy as Leghorn and Rome it self And yet the Lord preserved him and his Companion John Stubbs out of their Inquisitions From Rumney I passed to Dover and had a Meeting there Dover where several were Convinced And near unto Dover there was a Governour and his Wife Convinced who had been Baptists and the Baptists thereabouts were much offended and grew very envious but the Lord's Power came over all Luke Howard of Dover was Convinced sometime before and became a faithful Minister of Christ Returning from Dover I went to Canterbury Canterbury where there were a few honest-hearted People turned to the Lord who sate down under Christ's Teaching Thence I passed to Cranbrook again Cranbrook where I had a great Meeting A Friend that was with me went to the Steeple-house and was cast into Prison But the Lord's Power was manifested and his Truth spread From thence I passed into Sussex and lodged near Horsham Sussex Horsham where there was a great Meeting and many were Convinced Also at Stenning we had a great Meeting in the Market-House Stenning and several were Convinced there and thereaways for the Lord's Power was with us Several Meetings I had thereabouts and among the rest there was a Meeting appointed at a Great Man's House and he and his Son went to fetch several Priests that had threatned to come and dispute But when the time came none of them came for the Lord's Power was mighty in us A glorious Meeting we had and the Man of the House and his Son were vext because none of the Priests would come So the Hearts of People were opened by the Spirit of God and they were turned from the Hirelings to Christ Jesus their Shepherd who had purchased them without Money and would feed them without Money or Price Many that came expecting to hear a Dispute were Convinced that day amongst which Nicholas Beard was one Thus the Lord's Power came over all and his Day many came to see There were abundance of Ranters in those parts and Professors that had been so Loose in their Lives that they began to be Weary of it and had thought to have gone into Scotland to have lived privately But the Lord's Net catched them and their Understandings were opened by his Light Spirit and Power through which they came to receive the Truth and to be settled upon the Lord and so
against another we say these are of the World and have their Foundation from this Unrighteous World from the Foundation of which the Lamb hath been slain which Lamb hath redeemed us from this unrighteous World and we are not of it but are Heirs of a World in which there is no End and of a Kingdom where no corruptible thing enters And our Weapons are Spiritual and not Carnal yet Mighty through God to the pulling down of the Strong Holds of Sin and Satan who is Author of Wars Fighting Murder and Plots and our Swords are broken into Plow shares and Spears into Pruning-hooks as Prophesied of in Micah 4. Therefore we cannot learn War any more neither rise up against Nation or Kingdom with outward Weapons tho' you have numbred us amongst the Transgressors and Plotters the Lord knows our Innocency herein and will plead our Cause with all Men and People upon Earth at the day of their Judgment when all Men shall have a Reward according to their Works Therefore in love we warn you for your Souls good not to wrong the Innocent nor the Babes of Christ which he hath in his Hand which he tenders as the Apple of his Eye neither seek to destroy the Heritage of God neither turn your Swords backward upon such as the Law was not made for i. e. the Righteous but for the Sinners and Transgressors to keep them down For those are not the Peace-makers neither the Lovers of Enemies neither can they overcome Evil with Good who wrong them that be Friends to You and All Men and wish Your Good and the good of all People on the Earth If you oppress us as they did the Children of Israel in Egypt and if you oppress us as they did when Christ was Born and as they did the Christians in the Primitive Times we can say The Lord forgive you and leave the Lord to deal with you and not revenge our selves And if you say as the Council said to Peter and John You must speak no more in that Name and if you serve us as they served the Three Children spoken of in Daniel God is the same as ever he was that lives for Ever and Ever who hath the Innocent in his Arms. Oh Friends Offend not the Lord and his Little Ones neither afflict his People but consider and be moderate And do not run hastily into things but mind and consider Mercy Justice and Judgment that is the way for you to prosper and get the Favour of the Lord. Our Meetings were stopped and broken up in the days of Oliver in pretence of Plotting against him and in the days of the Committee of Safety we were looked upon as Plotters to bring in KING CHARLES and now our Peaceable Meetings are termed Seditious Oh that Men should lose their Reason and go contrary to their own Conscience knowing that we have suffered all things and have been accounted Plotters all along though we have declared against them both by Word of Mouth and Printing and are clear from any such thing Though we have suffered all along because we would not take up Carnal Weapons to fight withal against any and are thus made a Prey upon because we are the Innocent Lambs of Christ and cannot avenge our selves These things are left upon your Hearts to consider But we are out of all those things in the Patience of the Saints and we know that as Christ said He that takes the Sword shall perish with the Sword Mat 26.52 Rev. 13.10 This is given forth from the People called Quakers to satisfie the King and his Council and all those that have any Jealousie concerning Vs that all occasion of Suspicion may be taken away and our Innocency cleared Given forth on the behalf of the whole Body of the Elect People of God who were called Quakers in the Year 1660. POSTSCRIPT THough we are numbred amongst Transgressors and so have been given up to all Rude Merciless Men by which our Meetings are broken up in which we Edified one another in our Holy Faith and prayed together to the Lord that lives for ever yet he is our Pleader for us in this Day The Lord saith They that feared his Name spake often together as in Malachy which were as his Jewels And for this Cause and no Evil-doing are we cast into Holes Dungeons Houses of Correction Prisons they sparing neither Old nor Young Men nor Women and made a Prey on in the sight of all Nations under pretence of being Seditious c. so that all rude People run upon us to take Possession For which we say The Lord forgive them that have thus done to us who doth and will enable us to suffer and never shall we lift up hand against any Man that doth thus use us But that the Lord may have mercy upon them that they may consider what they have done For how is it possible for them to requite us for the Wrong they have done to us Who to all Nations have sounded us abroad as Seditious or Plotters who were never found Plotters against any Power or Man upon the Earth since we knew the Life and Power of Jesus Christ manifested in us who hath redeemed us from the World and all Works of Darkness and Plotters that be in it by which we know our Election before the World began So we say The Lord have Mercy upon our Enemies and forgive them for that they have done unto us Oh! do as you would be done by and do unto all Men as you would have them do unto you for this is but the Law and the Prophets And all Plots Insurrections and Riotous Meetings we do deny knowing them to be of the Devil the Murtherer which we in Christ who was before they were Triumph over them And all Wars and Fightings with Carnal Weapons we do deny who have the Sword of the Spirit and all that wrong us we leave them to the Lord. And this is to clear our Innocency from that Aspersion cast upon us That we are Seditious or Plotters Added in the Reprinting Courteous Reader THis was our Testimony above Twenty Years ago and since then we have not been found Acting contrary to it nor ever shall For the Truth that is our Guide is unchangeable And this is now Reprinted to the Men of this Age many of whom were then Children and doth stand as our certain Testimony against all Plotting and Fighting with Carnal Weapons And if any by departing from the Truth should do so this is our Testimony in the Truth against them and will stand over them and the Truth will be clear of them This Declaration did somewhat clear the Dark Air that was over the City and Country And soon after the King gave forth a Proclamation That no Soldiers should go to search any House but with a Constable But the Jails were still full many Thousands of Friends being in Prison in the Nation Which Mischief was occasioned by that wicked Rising of
Strife with Strife And therefore Live in the Peaceable Life doing Good to all Men and seeking the Good and Welfare of all Men. Let this go among Friends every where G. F. We went from York to Burrowbridge Burrowbridge where I had a glorious Meeting Thence we passed into the Bishoprick to one Richmond's where there was a General Meeting and the Lord's Power was over all Bishoprick of Durham tho' People were grown exceeding Rude about this time After the Meetting we went to Henry Draper's where we stay'd all Night and the next Morning a Friend came to me as I was passing away and told me If the Priests and Justices for many Priests were made Justices in that Country at that time could light on me they would Destroy me But I being clear of the Bishoprick Stainmoor Yorkshire Sedberg Westmoreland Lancashire Swarthmore Arnside went over Stainmoore into part of Yorkshire and to Sedberg where having visited Friends I went into Westmorland visiting Friends there also From thence I passed into Lancashire and came to Swarthmore where I staid but a little while before I went over the Sands to Arnside where I had a General Meeting After that Meeting was ended there came some Men to have broken it up but understanding before they got thither that the Meeting was over they turned back I went to Robert Widder's and from thence to Vnderbarrow Underbarrow where I had a glorious Meeting and the Lord's Power was set over all From thence I passed to Grayrigge and having visited Friends there I went to Ann Audland's Grayrigge where they would have had me to have staid their Meeting the next day but I felt a stop in my Spirit and it was upon me to go to John Blaykling's in Sedberg and to be next day at the Meeting there Sedberg which is large and a precious People there is So we had a very good Meeting next day at Sedberg but the Constables went to Ann Audland's to their Meeting to look for me Thus by the good Hand and Disposing Providence of the Lord I escaped their Snare I went from John Blaykling's with Leonard Fell to Strickland-head Strickland-head where on the First-Day we had a very precious Meeting on the Common That Night we staid amongst Friends there and the next day passed into Northumberland Northumberland After the Justices had heard of this Meeting at Strickland-head they made Search for me but by the good hand of the Lord I escaped them again though there were some very wicked Justices We went to Hugh Hutchinson's House in Northumberland a Friend in the Ministry from whence we visited Friends thereabouts and then went to Darwin-Water Darwin-water where we had a very glorious Meeting There came an Ancient Woman to me and told me her Husband remembred his Love to me and she said I might call him to mind by this Token that I used to call him the Tall White Old Man She said he was Six score and two Years old and that he would have come to the Meeting but that his Horses were all imployed upon some urgent Occasion I heard he lived some Years after 1663. Darwin-water Cumberland Now when I had visited Friends in those parts and they were settled upon Christ their Foundation their Rock and their Teacher I passed through Northumberland and came into Cumberland to old Thomas Bewley's And Friends came about me and said Would I come there to go into Prison For there was great Persecution in that Country at that time Yet I had a General Meeting at Thomas Bewley's which was large and precious and the Lord's Power was over all One Musgrave was at that time Deputy Governour of Carlisle and I passing along the Country came to a Man's House that had been Convinced whose Name was Fletcher and he told me If Musgrave knew that I was there he would be sure to send me to Prison he was such a severe Man But I staid not there only called on the way to see this Man Wigton and then went on to one William Pearson's near Wigton where the Meeting was which was very large and precious Some Friends were then Prisoners at Carlisle whom I visited by Letter which Leonard Fell carried From William Pearson's I passed through the Countries Pardsey-Crag visiting Friends till I came to Pardsey-Crag where we had a General Meeting which was large and all was quiet and peaceable and the glorious powerful Presence of the Everlasting God was with us So eager were the Magistrates about this time to stir up Persecution in those parts that they offered some Five Shillings some a Noble a day to any that could apprehend the Speakers amongst the Quakers but it being now the time of the Quarter-Sessions in that County the Men who were so hired were gone to the Sessions to see to get their Wages and so all our Meetings were at that time quiet Westmoreland Keswick From Pardsey-Crag we went into Westmorland calling in the way upon Hugh Tickell near Keswick and upon Thomas Laythes where Friends came to visit us and we had a fine opportunity to be refreshed together At Fr. Benson ' s. We went that Night to one Francis Benson's in Westmorland near Justice Fleming's House This Justice Fleming was at that time in a great Rage against Friends and me in particular insomuch that in the open Sessions at Kendal just before he had bid Five Pounds to any Man that should take me that Friend Francis Benson told me And it seems as I went to this Friend's House I met one Man coming from the Sessions that had this Five Pounds offered him to take me and he knew me for as I passed by him he said to his Companion That is George Fox Yet he had not Power to touch me for the Lord's Power preserved me over them all And the Justices being so eager to haue me and I being so often nigh them and yet they missing me it tormented them the more Lancashire Cartmel I went from thence to James Taylor 's at Cartmel in Lancashire where I staid the First-Day and had a precious Meeting and after the Meeting was done I came over the Sands to Swarthmore Swarthmore When I came there they told me Col. Kirby had sent his Lieutenant thither to search for me and that he had searched Trunks and Chests for me That Night as I was in Bed I was moved of the Lord to go next day to Kirby-Hall Kirby-Hall which was Col. Kirby's House about Five Miles off to speak with him and I did so When I came thither I found there the Flemmings and several others of the Gentry so called of the Country who were come to take their Leave of Col. Kirby he being then to go up to London to the Parliament 1663. Kirby-Hall I was had into the Parlour amongst them but Col. Kirby was not then within being gone forth a little way
271 273 274. 278. 289. 293. 296. 306. 308. 327. 343. 407 Knipe John 77. 271. 306 L. LAgo Mary 1 Lambert 214 215 Lambol George 152 Lancaster James 87. 105. 277* 327 332. 349. 357. 361. 364. 366-368 370. 384. 407. Wife 87 88 Lawrence Capt. 153 154. 259 Lawson Thomas 78. 87 John 81. 90 Justice 110 Laythes Thomas 270 Ledger Alderman of Newcast 281 * Leek John 54 Lenthal John Marshal 227-229 Leper Thomas 93 Lidcot Col. his Wife 272* Light John 304 Lindley Isaac 326. 428 Line John Constable 262 Lingard Capt. 267 Lodge Robert 327 332. 428 Long Richard 379 Love John 241 Lower Humphry 185. 219* 245* 262. 264 265. 319 Thomas 211* 212* 245* 209. 304. 384. 388 389. 396. 392-395 402. 407 Doctor 390 391 Mary 336. 407 Lyne Col. 357 M. MAcham Priest 5 Mallet Judge 226-229 Man Edward 395 Marcellinus Pope 299 Marsh Esq 226-228 230. 303 304 322-325 Marshal of the K. Bench see Lenthal Maylin Bartholomew 387 Mayor of Huntington and Wife 224* 259 of Bristol 210 of Cambridge 239. 259 Mayor John Amer. 379 Mead William 341. 430. 488. 499 500. 523. 564. 570. 590 Merrick James 315 Middleton Just 216. 271-273 his man Thomas 216 Milner James 103 Monk General 204. 211 Moore Thomas 171. 238. John 326 Richard 313 Morris William 243. Paul 328 Lewis Col. 356 Mounce Thomas 174 175. 214* 219* 220* 262. 264 Mount Constable 216 217. 306 Mountague Lady 128 Musgrave Dep. Gov. 270 Myer Richard 103 104 Myers Elizabeth 349 N. NAylor James 70. 80. 83. 87 88 90. 156. 167. 171. 220* 245* Needham Hacker's Son 136 Newport Earl 286* Newton Nathaniel 429 Nicholas Edward 228 Nicholson Joseph 104 105 O. OAtes a Baptist 28 Oldenburgh Earl 440 Osburn Will. Col. 268* 272* 276* Otway 267* Sir John 336 Overton Col. 66 Owen Dr. 223* P. PAcker Col. 139 Parker Alexander 136. 140. 149. 224* 277*-279 253. 315. 342. 519. 521-523 Henry Just 388 389. 391-393 395 396. 399. 404 Parnel James 112 113. 132. 152 Thomas 259 Patchyn Thomas 171. 231 Pattison George 349. 357. 361 363-365 367 368 Pauls William Fredrickstadt 441 Pawaw an Indian Priest Amer. 377 Pearson Anthony Just 64. 104. 110. 111. 118. 281** 199 William 270 Thomas 423 Penford John 310 Penn William 341. 384. 432-435 445 446. 452-454 493 494. 521 Gulielma Maria 384. 388 Pennington Isaac 196. 341. 457 Mary 489 Pennyman John 357 Perrot John 241. 248 249. 310 Peters Hugh Chaplain of O. C. 187 Peters Timon Holl. 522 Pickering 3 Pittaway Edward 168. 404 Pocock 314 Pollexfen Henry 201* 254* 262 Pool Capt. 277* Pope Blanch 262 Porter John Amer. 378 Porter Just 216 217. 219. 221 222. 229. 306. 262 Preston Thomas Just 271. 278. 306 his Wife 218 James Amer. 375. 379 380 Priest Bennet of Cartmeil 82. 102 Priest Bowles of York 57 Priest Bâ—yes 63 Priest Britland 30 Priest Burton 101 Priest Camelford 77 Priest of Coventry Dr. Cradock 4 Priest of O. Cromwel 140 Priest Crowder 393 Priest of Gilsland 119 Priest of Grarigg 102 Priest Rowland Haines of Honington 388-390 Priest Hewes 240 Priest of Hexham 119 Priest Hull 208 Priest Jaccus 89-91 Priest Keilet 15 Priest Lampit 77 78. 80. 82. 84. 86. 95 96. Died 422 423 Priest Larkham of Cockermouth 106 Priest of Leicester 15 16 Priest Marshal 70. 88 89 Priest Mounce 174. See Mounce Priests of Newcastle 281* Priest of Reading 206 Priest Roger Williams 432 Priest of Scotland 59 60. 307 Priest Stephens 4-6 30. 131. 134-136 Priest of Sutton 155 Priest Tamworth 4 Priest Tatham 100 Priest of Tewksbury 168 169 Priest Tombs 252 * Priest Townsend 203 204 Priest Whitehead 81 Priest Wilkinson 105 106. 120. 268 * Priest at Harlingen 445 446 at Harlem 451 Purfoy Col. 30 Pursloe Capt. 54 55. 64 Pyot Edward 131. 172-177 189*-200* 214. 221*-224* 210-213 253 R. RAwlinson Tho. 201* 278* Just 271. 273 274. 306 Reckless John Sheriff and Wife 27. 309. 429 Reeves Capt. 320 Richardson Richard 216 Ripan Mayor 90 Roberts Gerard 169. 246. 340. 343. 347. 384. 396 Robertson Thomas 296 Robinson Richard Just Yorksh 64. 73. 80. 308. 423 Andrew Scotl. 271* 272* 333 William 244 Col. in Cornw. 264. Geo. 423 Roeloffs John Amsterd 446 463. 594 Roper Lieut. 70 Rouse Col. Just 185. 264 John 342. 349. 352. 361. 384. 389. 535. 556. 576 Margaret 336. 599 Thomas 352. 354. 356. 361 Rush John 430 S. SAle Richard 240 Salisbury Earl's Son 402 Salmon Ranter 30 Sanders Mary 223* Sands Adam Capt. 77. 80. 99 100 Sands Col. 391 Savil Henry 390 Sawrey Just 78. 80. 85. 88-91 94 95 Scaif Scafe Scarf Philip 58 59 Scott Joseph Amer. 376 Sharman Thomas 213. 251 252 Sharp Peter Maryl 374 Shattock Samuel 242 Shaw William 470 Sheriff of Lincoln 129. 311 Sherman William 522 Shipton Richard 307. 326 Shroeder Christian Dantz 595 Sidon Henry 429 Simcock John 407 Smith William 167. 255-257 311. 429. 432 Humphrey 168 Stephen 342. 387. 456 Hugh Amer. 376 377 Snead Richard 456 Speed Thomas 210 Spencer Just 273 Stacy Thomas 128. 429 Stangley John 457 Starling Samuel 341 Stephens Nathaniel see Priest William Amer. 381 382 Stoddard Amor. Capt. 15. 152 153. 155. 169. 124* 343 Stookes Just 223* Stor Marmaduke 137. 307 Story John 480 Stot Widow 519. 523 Street Justice 398-401 402 Stroud George 394 395 Stubbs Thomas 120 John 123. 150. 245. 248. 253 254. 279. 327. 332. 342. 349 361. 366-369 Studholm Cuthbert Just 114 Sunman Aarent 520 a Swede 442 Sympson William 239. Just 391-393 401 T. TAylcoat William 433 Taylor James 77. 270 Thomas 83. 128. 132. 252* 253* 215. 308. 326 Thomas of Amer. 382 Christopher 84. 480 481 John 428 Tennant 73. Widow 423 Thomas Margaret 253 Thompson Just 88 89 Thurston Thomas Amer. 382 Tickel Hugh 270 Toldervey John 171 Trelawney Elizabeth 174. 211* 245 Tripe Nicholas and Wife 174 a Trooper 45 Turner Judge 276-278 288-293 396 Judge's Son ibid. Twisden Judge 227. 276-278 288. 293-295 Twitty Clerk of the Peace 401. 405 V. VAn de Wall John 432 Vane Henry Esq 197 Vnder-Sheriff of Lancaster 296. 306 W. WAldenfield Samuel 520 521 Walters Thomas 280 Ward Capt. 296 Watkins Morgan 251 Watkinson George Just 281** 308 Watts George 433. 519. 221-523 Welch William his Wife 272* Wells William 429 Wennington Miles 104 West Col. 89 90. 92-94 261* 273 Matthew 306 Weston Baron 488 Whitehead George 124. 204. 342. 458. 469 John 267. 304 305. 428 A Wicked man 17 Widders Robert 93. 118. 261 * 268* 276*-279* 215 216. 226 227. 265. 269. 297. 312. 349. 361. 364 365. 367 368. 381. 384. 423. 470 his Wife 423 Widow-woman Maryl 378 Wiggan Major 196 197. 281 282 Wild Major 312 Wild Judge 394. 402. 405 Willems Willem of Alkmaer 438. 522 Williams Capt. 342 Wilkinson William Capt. 303 Wilson William 279 George Amer. 374 Windham Judge 92 Windsore Lord Lieutenant 389-391 Winsmore Dr. Just 381 Winthrop Governour 244 Wittey Dr. 300 Women several 12. 27 28. 48. 55. 381. Wright Widow Amer. 375. 378 Wrey
A JOURNAL OR Historical Account OF THE Life Travels Sufferings Christian Experiences and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry OF THAT Ancient Eminent and Faithful Servant of JESUS CHRIST George Fox Who departed this Life in great Peace with the LORD the 13th of the 11th Month 1690. The First Volume Dan. 12.3 And they that turn many to Righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever Verse 4. Many shall run to and fro and Knowledge shall be Encreased 2 Tim. 2.12 If we suffer we shall also reign with him i. e. with Christ LONDON Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard-Street MDCXCIV THE TESTIMONY OF Margaret Fox Concerning her Late Husband GEORGE FOX TOGETHER With a brief Account of some of his Travels Sufferings and Hardships endured for the Truth 's sake IT having pleased Almighty God to take away my Dear Husband out of this Evil Troublesome World who was not a Man thereof being Chosen out of it and had his Life and Being in another Region and his Testimony was against the World that the Deeds thereof were evil and therefore the World hated him So I am now to give in my Account and Testimony for my Dear Husband whom the Lord hath taken unto his blessed Kingdom and Glory And it is before me from the Lord and in my View to give a Relation and leave upon Record the Dealings of the Lord with us from the Beginning He was the Instrument in the Hand of the Lord in this present Age which he made use of to send forth into the World to preach the Everlasting Gospel which had been hid from many Ages and Generations the Lord Revealed it unto him and made him open that New and Living Way that Leads to Life Eternal when he was but a Youth and a Stripling And when he Declared it in his own Country of Leicestershire and in Darbyshire Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire and his Declaration being against the Hireling-Priests and their Practices it raised a Great Fury and Opposition amongst the Priests and People against him yet there was always some that owned him in several places but very few that stood firm to him when Persecution came on him There was he and one other put in Prison at Darby His first Imprisonment but the other declined and left him in Prison there where he continued almost a whole Year and then he was Released out of Prison And went on with his Testimony abroad Second Imprisonment and was put in Prison again at Nottingham and there he continued a while and after was Released again And then he Travelled on into Yorkshire and passed up and down that Great County and several received him as William Dewsbury Richard Farnsworth Thomas Aldam and others who all came to be faithful Ministers of the Spirit for the Lord. And he continued in that Country and Travelled thorow Holderness and the Wowlds and abundance were Convinced and several were brought to Prison at York for their Testimony to the Truth both Men and Women So that we heard of such a People that were Risen and we did very much inquire after them And after a while he Travelled up farther towards the Dales in Yorkshire as Wensdale and Sedbur and amongst the Hills Dales and Mountains he came on and Convinced many of the Eternal Truth And in the Year 1652. it pleased the Lord to draw him towards us so he came on from Sedbur and so to Westmorland as Firbank-Chappel where John Blaykling came with him and so on to Preston and to Grarig and Kendal and Vnder-barrow and Poobank and Cartmel and Staveley and so on to Swarthmore my Dwelling-House whither he brought the blessed Tideings of the Everlasting Gospel which I and many Hundreds in these parts have cause to praise the Lord for My then Husband Thomas Fell was not at home at that time but gone the Welch Circuit being one of the Judges of Assize And our House being a Place open to entertain Ministers and Religious People at one of George Fox his Friends brought him hither where he stayed all Night And the next day being a Lecture or a Fast-day he went to Ulverston-Steeple-house but came not in till People were gathered I and my Children had been a long time there before And when they were singing before the Sermon he came in and when they had done singing he stood up upon a Seat or Form and desired That he might have liberty to speak And he that was in the Pulpit said he might And the first words that he spoke were as followeth He is not a Jew that is one outward neither is that Circumcision which is outward But he is a Jew that is one inward and that is Circumcision which is of the heart And so he went on and said How that Christ was the Light of the World and ligheth every Man that cometh into the World and that by this Light they might be gathered to God c. And I stood up in my Pew and I wondered at his Doctrine for I had never heard such before And then he went on and opened the Scriptures and said The Scriptures were the Prophets words and Christ 's and the Apostle 's words and what as they spoke they enjoyed and possessed and had it from the Lord And said Then what had any to do with the Scriptures but as they came to the Spirit that gave them forth You will say Christ saith this and the Apostles say this but what canst thou say Art thou a Child of Light and hast walked in the Light and what thou speakest is it inwardly from God c. This opened me so that it cut me to the Heart and then I saw clearly we were all wrong So I sat me down in my Pew again and cried bitterly And I cried in my Spirit to the Lord We are all Thieves we are all Thieves we have taken the Scriptures in Words and know nothing of them in our selves So that served me that I cannot well tell what he spake afterwards but he went on in declaring against the false Prophets and Priests and Deceivers of the People And there was one John Sawrey a Justice of Peace and a Professor that bid the Churchwarden Take him away And he laid his hands on him several times and took them off again and let him alone and then after a while he gave over and came to our House again that night And he spoke in the Family amongst the Servants and they were all generally Convinced as William Caton Thomas Salthouse Mary Askew Anne Clayton and several other Servants And I was stricken into such a sadness I knew not what to do my Husband being from home I saw it was the Truth and I could not deny it and I did as the Apostle saith I Received the Truth in the Love of it And it was opened to me so clear that I had never a Tittle in my Heart against it but I desired the Lord that
having been broken up upon the Seventh Day before at Night as they said We told them We were honest and innocent Men and abhorred such things Yet they Apprehended us 1655. Norfolk and set a Guard with Halberts and Pikes upon us that Night making some of those Friendly People with others to watch us Next Morning we were up betimes and the Constable with his Guaâ— â—arried us before a Justice of Peace about five Miles off and we took Two or three of the sufficient men of the Town with us who had been with us at the great Meeting at Captain Lawrence's and could testify that we lay both the seventh Day Night and the first Day Night at Captain Lawrence's and it was the seventh Day Night that they said the House was broken up Now the Reader is to be Informed that during the time that I was a Prisoner at the Mermaid at Charing-Cross of which an Account is given before this Captain Lawrence brought several Independent-Justices to see me there with whom I had a great deal of Discourse which they took Offence at For they pleaded for Imperfection and to Sin as long as they lived but did not like to hear of Christ's Teaching his People himself and making People as Clear whilst here upon the Earth as Adam and Eve were before they fell Now these Justices had plotted together this mischief against me in the Country pretending an House was broken up that so they might send their Hue and Cry after me so great was their Malice against the Righteous and the Just They were vexed also and troubled to hear of the great Meeting at John Lawrence's aforesaid for there was a Colonel Convinced there that Day that lived and died in the Truth But Providence so ordered it that the Constable carried us to a Justice about five miles onward in our way towards Lyn who was not an Independent-Justice as the rest were When we were brought before him he began to be angry because we did not put off our Hats to him I told him I had been before the Protector and he was not offended at my Hat and why should he be offended at it who was but one of his Servants Then he read the Hue and Cry And I told him That that Night wherein the House was said to be broken up we were at Captain Lawrence's House and that we had several Men here present could Testify the Truth thereof Thereupon the Justice having Examined us and them said He believed we were not the men that had broken the House but he was sorry he said that he had no more against us We told him He ought not to be sorry for not having Evil against us but rather to be glad for to Rejoice when he got Evil against People as for house-breaking or the like was not a good mind in him It was a good while yet before he would Resolve Whether to let us go or send us to Prison and the wicked Constable stirred him up against us telling him We had good Horses and that if it pleased him he would carry us to Norwich-Jail But we took hold of the Justice's Confession That he believed we were not the men that had broken the House and after we had admonished him to Fear the Lord in his Day the Lord's Power came over him so that he let us go and so their Snare was broken A great People were after ward gathered to the Lord in that Town where I was moved to speak to them in the Street and from whence the Hue and Cry came Lyn. Being set at Liberty we travelled to Lyn whither we came about the third Hour in the Afternoon And having set up our Horses we met with Joseph Fuce who was an Ensign and we wisht him to speak to as many of the People of the Town as he could 1655. Lyn. that feared God and to the Captains and Officers to come together which he did And we had a very glorious Meeting amongst them and turned them to the Spirit of God by which they might know God and Christ and understand the Scriptures and so learn of God and of Christ as the Prophets and Apostles did Many were Convinced there that Day and a fine Meeting there is of them that are come off from the Hirelings Teaching and sit under the Teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lyn being then a Garrison we desired Joseph Fuce to get us the Gate opened by the third hour next Morning for we had forty Miles to ride next day And by that means getting out early we came next Day by the Eleventh or Twelfth hour to a Town near the Isle of Ely called Sutton where Amor Stoddart Sutton and the Friends that were with him met us again A multitude of People was gathered thither and there were no less than four Priests The Priest of the Town made a great Jangle but the Lord's Power so confounded him that he went away The other three Priests stayed and one of them was Convinced One of the other Two whilst I was speaking came to lean upon me but I bid him Sit down seeing he was so slothful A great Convincement there was that Day and many hundreds were turned from the Darkness to the Light and from the Power of Satan unto God and from the Spirit of Error to the Spirit of Truth to be led thereby into all Truth People came to this Meeting from Huntington and beyond and the Mayor's Wife of Cambridge was there also A glorious Meeting it was and many were settled under Christ's Teaching and knew him their Shepherd to feed them for the Word of Life was freely declared and gladly received by them The Meeting ended in the Power of the Lord and in Peace and after it was done I walked out and went into a Garden where I had not been long before a Friend came to me and told me Several Justices were come to break up the Meeting But many of the People were gone away so they missed of their Design and after they had stayed a while they went away also in a Fret That Evening I passed to Cambridge Cambridg And when I came into the Town the Scholars hearing of me were up and were exceeding Rude I kept on my Horse's Back and rid through them in the Lord's Power but they Vnhorst Amor Stoddart before he could get to the Inn. When we were in the Inn they were so rude there in the Courts and in the Streets that the Miners the Colliers and Carters could never be Ruder The People of the House asked us What we would have for Supper as is the usual way of Inn-keepers Supper said I were it not that the Lord's Power is over them these Rude Scholars look as if they would pluck us in pieces and make a Supper of us They knew I was so against their Trade the Trade of Preaching which they were there as Apprentices to learn that they raged as had as ever
willing to lay the VVeight thereof upon him and make him sensible thereof also writ an Epistle to him on behalf of us all which was thus and thus directed To John Glyn Chief Justice of England Friend WE are Free-men of England Free-born our Rights and Liberties are according to Law and ought to be defended by it And therefore with thee by whose Hand we have so long and yet do suffâ—r let us a little plainly reason concerning thy Proceedinos against us whether they have been according to Law and agreeable to thy Duty and Office as Chief Minister of the Law or Justice of England And in Meekness and Lowliness abide that the Witness of God in thy Conscience may be heard to speak and judge in this Matter For Thou and We must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ that every one may receive according to what he hath done whether it be good or bad Therefore Friend in Moderation and Soberness Weigh what is herein laid before thee In the Afternoon before we were brought before thee at the Assize at Lanceston thou didst cause divers Scores of our Books to be violently taken from us by Armed Men without due Process of Law which Books being perused to see if any thing in them could have been found to have laid to our Charge who were Innocent Men and them upon our Legal Issue thou hast detained from us to this very day Now our Books are our Goods and our Goods are our Property and our Liberty it is to have and enjoy our Property and of our Liberty and Property the Law is the defence which saith No Free-man shall be disseized of his Free-hold Liberties or free Customs c. nor any way otherwise destroyed Nor we shall not pass upon him but by lawful Judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land Magna Charta cap. 29. Now Friend Consider Is not the taking away of a Man's Goods violently by force of Arms as aforesaid contrary to the Law of the Land Is not the Kâ—eping of them so taken away a disseizing him of his Property and a destroying of it and his Liberty yea his very Being so far as the Invading of the Guard the Law sets about him is in order thereunto Calls not the Law this a Destroying of a Man Is there any more than one common Guard or Defence to Property Liberty and Life viz. the Law And can this Guard be broken on the former viz. Property and Liberty and the Latter viz. Life be sure Doth not he that makes an Invasion upon a Man's Property and Liberty which he doth who contrary to Law which is the Guard acts against either make an Invasion upon a Man's Life since that which is the Ground of the One is also of the Other If a Penny or Penny's-worth be taken from a Man contrary to Law may not by the same Rule all a Man hath be taken away If the Bond of the Law be broken upon a Man's Property may it not on the same ground be broken upon his Person And by the same Reason as it is broken on One Man may it not be broken upon all since the Liberty and Property and Beings of all Men under a Government are Relative a Communion of Wealth as the Members in the Body but one Guard and Defence to all the Law One Man cannot be injured therein but it redounds to all Are not such things in order to the Subversion and Dissolution of Government Where there is no Law what is become of Government And of what value is the Law made when the Ministers thereof break it at pleasure upon Mens Properties Liberties and Persons Canst thou Clear thy self of these things as to us To that of God in thy Conscience which is Just do I speak Hast thou acted like a Ministâ—r the Chief Minister of the Law who hast taken our Goods and yet detainest them without so much as going by lawful Warrant grounded upon due Information which in this our Case thou could'st not have for none had perused them whereby to give thee Information Shoulâ—'st thou exercise Violence and Force of Arms on Prisoners Goods in their Prison-Chamber instead of proceeding Orderly and Legally which thy Place calls upon thee above any Man to tender defend and maintain against the other and to preserve entire the Guard of every Man 's Being Liberty Life and Livelyhood Should'st thou whore Duty it is to punish the Wrong-doer do wrong thy self Who ought'st to see the Law be kept and observed break the Law and turn aside the due Administration thereof Surely from Thee considering Thou art Chief Justice of England other things were expected both by Vs and by the People of this Nation And Friend when we were brought before thee and stood upon our Legal Issue and no Accuser or Accusation came in against us as to what we had been wrongfully Imprisoned and in Prison detained for the Space of Nine Weeks shouldest not thou have caused us to have been Acquitted by Proclamation Saith not the Law so Ought'st thou not to have Examined the Cause of our Commitment And there not appearing a lawful Cause ought'st thou not to have discharged us Is it not the Substance of thy Office and Duty To do Justice according so the Law and Custom of England Is not this the End of the Administration of the Law of the General Assizes of the Gaol-Deliveries of the Judges going the Circuits Hâ—st not thou by doing otherwise acted Contrary to all these and to Magna Charta which Cap. 29 saith We shall sell to no Man we shall Deny or Defer to no Man either Justice or Right Hast thou not both Deferred and Denied to us who had been so long oppressed this Justice and Right And when of thee Justice we demanded sayd'st thou not If we would be uncovered thou would'st hear us and do us Justice We shall sell to no Man we shall deny or defer to no Man either Justice or Right saith Magn. Chart. as aforesaid Again We have commanded all our Justices that they shall from henceforth do even Law and Execution of Right to all our Subjects Rich and Poor without having Regard to any Man's Person and without letting to do Right for any Letters or Commandments which may come to them from Vs or from any other or by any other Cause c upon Pain to be at our Will Body Lands and Goods to do therewith as shall please us in case they do contrary saith Stat. 20. Edw. 3. cap. 1. Again Ye shall swear that ye shall do even Law and Execution of Right to all Rich and Poor without having regard to any Person and that ye deny to no Man Common Right by the King 's Letters nor none other Man's nor for none other Cause And in Case any Letter come to you contrary to the Law that ye do nothing by such Letter but Certify the King thereof and go forth to do the Law notwithstanding those Letters
received at thy Hands thou hast given us to understand And here thou may'st think thou hast made thy self secure and sufficiently barr'd up our Way of Relief against whom tho' thou knew'st we had done nothing contrary to the Law or worthy of Bonds much less of the Bonds and Sufferings we had sustained thou hast proceeded as hath been rehearsed notwithstanding that thou art as are all the Judges of the Nation Intrusted not with a Legislative Power but to Administer Justice and to do Even Law and Execution of Right to all High and Low Rich and Poor without having regard to any Man's Person and art sworn so to do as hath been said And wherein thou dost Contrary art liâ—ble to Punishment as ceasing from being a Judge and becoming a Wrong-doer and an Oppressor which what it is to be many of thy Predecâ—ssors have understood some by Death others by Fine and Imprisonment And of this thou may'st not be Ignorant that to deny a Prisoner any of the Priviledges the Law allows him is to deny him Justice to Try him in an Arbitrary Way to rob him of that Liberty which the Law gives him which is his Inheritance as a Freeman And which to do is in effect To subvert the Fundamental Laws and Government of England and to Introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government against Law which is Treason by the Common Law and Treasons by the Common Law are not taken away by the Statutes of 25 Edw. III. 1 H. IV. 1 2. m. See O. St. Johns now Chief Justice of the Common Pleas his Argument against Strafford fol. 65. c. in the Case These things Friend We have laid before thee in all plainness to the End that with the Light of Jesus Christ who lighteth every one that cometh into the World a Measure of which thou hast which sheweth thee Evil and reproveth thee for Sin for which thou must be accountable thou being still and cool may'st consider and see what thou hast done against the Innocent and shame may overtake thee and thou may'st Turn unto the Lord who now calleth thee to Repentance by his Servants whom for witnessing his living Truth in them thou hast Cast into and yet continuest under Cruel Bonds and Sufferings From the Gaol in Lanceston the 14th day of the 5th Month 1656. Edw. Pyot By the foregoing Letter the Reader may Observe how contrary to Law we were made to suffer But the Lord who saw the Integrity of our Hearts to him and knew the Innocency of our Cause was with us in our Sufferings and bore up our Spirits through and made them Easie to us and gave us Opportunities of publishing his Name and Truth amongst the People so that several of the Town came to be Convinced and many were made Loving to us and Friends from many Parts came to visit us There came Two out of Wales who had been Justices of the Peace there Also Judge Hagget's Wife of Bristol came to visit us and she was Convinced and several of her Children and her Husband was very kind and serviceable to Friends and had a great Love to God's People which he retained to his Death Now in Cornwall Devonshire Dorsetshire and Somersetshire Truth began mightily to spread and many were turned to Christ Jesus and his free Teaching for many Friends that came to Visit us were drawn forth to declare the Truth in those Countries which made the Priests and Professors rage and they stirred up the Magistrates to ensnare Friends Then they set up Watches in the Streets and in the High-ways on pretence of taking up all suspicious Persons under which Colour they stopt and took up those Friends that travelled in and through those Countries coming to visit us in Prison which they did that the Friends might not pass up and down in the Lord's Service But that which they thought to have stopt the Truth by was the Means of spreading it so much the more for then Friends were frequently moved to speak to one Constable and t'other Officer and to the Justices they were brought before and this caused the Truth to spread the more amongst them in all their Parishes And when Friends were got among the Watches it would be a Fortnight or three Weeks before they could get out of them again for no sooner had one Constable taken them and carried them before the Justices and they had discharged them but another would take them up and carry them before other Justices Which put the Country to a great deal of needless Trouble and Charges As Thomas Rawlinson was coming up out of the North to visit us a Constable â—o Devonshire took him up and at Night took Twenty Shillings out of his Pocket And after they had thus robbed him he was cast into Exeter-Gaol They cast Henry Pollexfen also into Prison in Devonshire for being a Jesuit who had been a Justice of Peace for the most part of Forty Years before Many Friends were cruelly beaten many times by them Nay some Clothiers that were but going to Mill with their Cloth and other Men about their outward Occasions they took up and Whipt though Men of about Eighty or an hundred Pounds by the Year and not above four or five Miles from their Families The Mayor of Lanceston too was a very Wicked Man for he would take up all he could get and cast them into Prison And he would search substantial grave Women their Petticoats and their Head-cloaths There came a Friend a Young-Man to â—ee us who came not through the Town So I drew up all the Gross Inhuman and Vnchristian Actions of the Mayor for his Carriage was more like an Heathen than a Christian and I gave it the Young Man and bid him Seal it up and go out again the back-way and then come into the Town through the Gates He did so and the Watch took him up and carried him before the Mayor who presently searched his Pockets and found the Letter wherein he saw all his Actions Characterized Which shamed him so that from that time forward he meddled little with the Servants of the Lord. Now from the sense I had of the Snare that was laid and Mischief intended against the Servants of the Lord in setting up those Watches at that time to stop and take up Friends it came upon me to give forth the following Lines as An Exhortation and Warning to the Magistrates ALL ye Powers of the Earth Christ is come to Reign and is among you and ye know him not who doth Enlighten every one of you that are come into the World that ye all through him might believe who is the Light who treads the Wine-press alone without the City whose Feet are upon it Therefore see all and examin with the Light what ye are Ripe for for the Press is ready for you Before Honour is Humility And all you that would have Honour before ye have Humility mark before ye have Humility are ye not as the Heathen are
and his Wife and several others of the Chief of the Town came in about the tenth Hour and stay'd all the Time of the Meeting and a glorious Meeting it was John ap John being then with me left the Meeting and went to the Steeple-house and the Governour cast him into Prison On the Second-day Morning the Governour sent one of his Officers to the Justice's House to fetch me which grieved the Mayor and the Justice for they were both with me in the Justice's House 1657. Tenby when the Officer came So the Mayor and the Justice went up to the Governour before me and a while after I went up with the Officer When I came in I said Peace be unto this House And before the Governour could Examin me I asked him Why he did cast my Friend into Prison He said For standing with his Hat on in the Church I said Had not the Priest two Caps on his Head a black one and a white one and cut of the brims of the Hat and then my Friend would have but one and the brims of the Hat were but to defend him from Weather These are frivolous things said the Governour ' Why then said I dost thou cast my Friend into Prison for such frivolous things Then he asked me Whether I owned Election and Reprobation Yes said I and thou art in the Reprobation At that he was in a Rage and said He would send me to Prison till I proved it But I told him I would prove that quickly if he would confess Truth Then I asked him Whether Wrath Fury and Rage and Persecution were not Marks of Reprobation for he that was born of the Flesh persecuted him that was born of the Spirit but Christ and his Disciples never persecuted nor imprisoned any Then he fairly Confest That he had too much Wrath Haste and Passion in him And I told him Esau was up in him the first-Birth not Jacob the second-Birth The Lord's Power so reached the Man and came over him that he confess'd to Truth and the other Justice came and shook me kindly by the Hand As I was passing away I was moved to speak to the Governour again and he Invited me to Dinner with him and set my Friend at Liberty I went back to the other Justice's House And after some time the Mayor and his Wife and the Justice and his Wife and divers other Friends of the Town went about half a Mile out of Town with us to the Water-side when we went away and there when we parted from them I was moved of the Lord to kneel down with them and pray to the Lord to preserve them So after I had recommended them to the Lord Jesus Christ their Saviour and free Teacher we passed away in the Lord's Power and the Lord had the Glory And there is a Meeting continues in that Town to this Day Pembrockshire Pembrock Haverford west So we travelled through the Country to Pembrockshire and in Pembrock Town we had some Service for the Lord. From thence we passed to Haverford-west where we had a great Meeting and all was quiet and the Lord's Power came over all and many were settled in the New Covenant Christ Jesus and built upon him their Rock and Foundation and they stand a precious Meeting to this Day The next day being their Fair-day we passed through their Fair and sounded the Day of the Lord and his Everlasting Truth amongst them After this we came into another County and at Noon came into a great Market-Town and went into several Inns before we could get any Meat for our Horses At last we came to an Inn where we did get some Meat for our Horses and then John ap John being with me went and spake through the Town declaring the Truth to the People and when he came to me again he said he thought All the Town was as people asleep After a while he was moved to go and declare Truth in the Streets again and then the Town was all in an Vproar 1657. WALES and cast him into Prison Presently after several of the Chief of the Town came down with others to the Inn where I was and said They have cast your Man into Prison For what said I He preached in our Streets said they Then I asked them What did he say Had he reproved some of the Drunkards and Swearers and warned them to Repent and leave off their evil Doings and turn to the Lord I asked them Who cast him into Prison And they said The High-Sheriff and the Justices and the Mayor I asked the Names of them and whether they did understand themselves And whether that was their Carriage to Travellers that passed through their Town and to Strangers that did admonish them and exhort them to fear the Lord and reproved Sin in their Gates So these went back and told the Officers what I said And after a while they brought down John ap John guarded with Halberts to the Inn-door in order to put him out of the Town I being at the Inn-door bid the Officers take their Hands off of him They said The Mayor and Justices had commanded them to put him out of Town I told them I would talk with their Mayor and Justices anon concerning their uncivil and unchristian Carriage towards him So I spake to John to go look after the Horses and get them ready and charged the Officers not to touch him And after I had declared the Truth to them and shewed them the Fruits of their Priests and their Incivility and unchristian-like Carriage they went away and left us They were a kind of Independents but a very wicked Town and false We bid the Inn-keeper give our Horses a Peck of Oats and no sooner had we turned our Backs but the Oats were stolen from our Horses After we had refresht our selves a little and were ready we took Horse and rode up to the Inn where the Mayor and Sheriff and Justices were And I called to speak with them and asked them the Reason Wherefore they had Imprisoned John ap John and kept him in Prison two or three hours But they would not answer me a Word only looked out at the Windows upon me So I shewed them how unchristian their Carriage was to Strangers and Travellers and manifested the Fruits of their Teachers and I declared the Truth unto them and warned them of the Day of the Lord that was coming upon all the Evil-Doers and the Lord's Power came over them that they looked ashamed but not a Word could I get from them in Answer So when I had warned them to Repent and Turn to the Lord we passed away And at Night came to a little Inn very poor but very cheap for our own Provision and our two Horses cost but Eight Pence But the Horses would not eat their Oats We declared the Truth to the People of the Place and sounded the Day of the Lord through the Countries Travelling from thence we
Powerful Presence being eminently with us and amongst us After the Meeting was done and Friends most of them gone away as I was sitting in the Parlour discoursing with some Friends that staid there came to the House one Henry Parker called a Justice and with him one Rowland Hains a Priest of Hunniton in Warwickshire This Justice came to know of the Meeting by means of a Woman-Friend who being Nurse to a Child of his asked Leave of her Mistress to go to the Meeting to see me and she speaking of it to her Husband he and the Priest plotted together to come and break up the Meeting and apprehend me But by means of their sitting long at Dinner it being the Day on which his Child was sprinkled they came not till the Meeting was over and Friends mostly gone But though there was no Meeting when they came yet I being there in the House who was the Person they aimed at the said Henry Parker took me and Thomas Lower for Company with me and though he had nothing to lay to our Charge sent us both to Worcester-Jail by a strange sort of Mittimus a Copy of which here followeth Worcester ss To the Constables of Tredington in the said County of Worcester and to all Constables and Tithing-men of the several Townships and Villages within the said Parish of Tredington and to the Keeper of the Goal for the County of Worcester COmplaint being made to me being one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County of Worcester that within the said Parish of Tredington in the said County there has of late been several Meetings of divers Persons to the number of Four hundred Persons and upwards at a time upon Pretence of Exercise of Religion otherwise than what is established by the Laws of England And many of the said Persons some of them were Teachers and came from the North and others from the remote parts of the Kingdom which tends to the Prejudice of the Reformed and Established Religion and may prove prejudicial to the Publick Peace And it appearing to me that there was this present Day such a Meeting as aforesaid to the number of Two hundred or thereabouts at Armscot in the said Parish of Tredington 1670. Armscot and that George Fox of London and Thomas Lower of the Parish of Creed in the County of Cornwal were present at the said Meeting and the said George Fox was Teacher or Speaker of the said Meeting and no satisfactory Account of their Settlement or place of Habitation appearing to me and forasmuch as the said George Fox and Thomas Lower refused to give Sureties to Appear at the next Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County to answer the Breach of the Common-Laws of England and what other Matters should be Objected against them These are therefore in his Majesty's Name to will and require you or either of you forthwith to Convey the Bodies of the said George Fox and Thomas Lower to the County-Goal of Worcester aforesaid and there safely to be kept until they shall be from thence delivered by due Course of Law For which this shall be your sufficient Warrant in that behalf Dated the 17th Day of December in the 25th Year of his Majesty's Reign over England c. HENRY PARKER Being thus made Prisoners without any probable Appearance of being Released before the Quarter-Sessions at Soonest we got some Friends to accompany my Wife and her Daughter into the North and we were conveyed to Worcester-Jail from whence Worcester-Jail by that time I thought my Wife could be got home I writ her the following Letter Dear Heart THou seemedst to be a little grieved when I was speaking of Prisons and when I was taken Be content with the Will of the Lord God For when I was at John Rous's at Kingston I had a sight of my being taken Prisoner and when I was at Bray Doily's in Oxfordshire as I sate at Supper I saw I was taken and I saw I had a Suffering to undergo But the Lord's Power is over all blessed be his Holy Name for ever G. F. When we had beeen some time in the Jail we thought fit to lay our Case before him who was called the Lord Windsore who was the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire and before the Deputy Lieutenants and other Magistrates Which we did by the following Letter THese are to inform you the Lord Lieutenant so called and the Deputy-Lieutenants and the Justices of the County of Worcestershire how Unchristianly and Inhumanly we have been dealt withal by Henry Parker a Justice so called in our Journey or Travel towards the North. We coming to our Friend John Halford's House on the Seventeenth Day of the Tenth Month 1673. and some Friends bringing us on the Way and others coming to Visit us there towards Night there came the aforesaid Justice and a Priest called Rowland Hains of Hunniton in Warwickshire and demanded our Names and Places of Abode And though we were not in any Meeting 1673. Worcester Jail but were discoursing together when they came in yet he made a Mittimus to send us to Worcester-Jail Now whereas he says in his Mittimus That Complaint had been made to him of several by-past Meetings of many Hundreds at a time we know nothing of that nor do we think that concerns us And whereas he says further That no satisfactory Account of our Settlement or place of Habitation appeared unto him This he contradicts in his own Mittimus mentioning therein the Places of our Abode and Habitation the Account of which we satisfactorily and fully gave him And one of us Tho. Lower told him That I was going down with my Mother-in-Law who is George Fox his Wife and with my Sister to fetch up my own Wife and Child out of the North into my own Country And the other of us George Fox told him That I was bringing forward my Wife on her Journey towards the North who had been at London to visit one of her Daughters that had lately Lain in And having received a Message from my Mother an ancient Woman in Leicestershire that she earnestly desired to see me before she died I intended as soon as I had brought my Wife on her Journey as far as Causal in Warwickshire to turn over into Leicestershire to have seen my Mother and Relations there and then to have returned to London again But by his interrupting of us in our Journey and taking the Husband from his Wife and the Son from his Mother and Sister and stopping him from visiting his Wife and Child so remote off we were forced to get Strangers or whom we could to help them on their Journey to our great Dammage and their Hindrance We askt the Priest Whether this was his Gospel and their Way of Entertaining Strangers And we desired the Justice to consider Whether this was doing as he would be done by But he said He had said it
of answering me the Judge told the Jury They might go out Some of the Jury were not satisfied whereupon the Judge told them They had heard a Man Swear that the Oath was tendered to me the last Sessions and then he told them what they should do I told him He should leave the Jury to their own Consciences However the Jury being put on by him went forth and soon after came in again and found me Guilty I spake to the Jury and asked them How they could satisfie themselves to find me Guilty upon that Indictment which was laid so false and had so many Errors in it They could make but little Answer yet one who seemed to be the Worst of them would have taken me by the Hand But I put him by saying How now Judas hast thou betrayed me and dost thou now come with a Kiss 1674. Worcester Sessions So I bid him and them Repent Then the Judge began to tell me How favourable the Court had been to me I asked him How he could say so Was ever any man worse dealt with than I had been in this Case who was stopped in my Journey being travelling upon my lawful Occasions and then Imprisoned without Cause and now had the Oaths put to me only for a Snare And I desired him to Answer me in the Presence of the Lord in whose Presence we all are Whether this Oath was not tendered me in Envy He would not answer that but said Would you had never come here to trouble us and the Country I told him I came not thither of my self but was brought being stopped in my Travel on my Journey and I did not trouble them but they had brought Trouble upon themselves Then the Judge told me What a sad Sentence he had to tell me I asked him Whether what he was going to speak was by way of passing Sentence or by way of Information For I told him I had many things to say and more Errors to Assign in the Indictment besides those I had already mentioned to stop him from giving Sentence against me upon that Indictment He said He was going to shew me the danger of a Premunire which was the Loss of my Liberty and of all my Goods and Chattels and to endure Imprisonment during Life But he said He did not deliver this as the Sentence of the Court upon me but as an Admonition to me and then he bid the Jailer Take me away I expected to have been called again to hear the Sentence but when I was gone the Clerk of the Peace whose Name was Twittey asked him as I was informed Whether that which he had spoken to me should stand for Sentence And he consulting with some of the Justices told him Yes that was the Sentence and should stand This was done behind my Back to save himself from Shame in the Face of the Country Many of the Justices and the generality of the People were moderate and civil and there was one John Ashley a Lawyer was very friendly both the time before and now speaking on my behalf and pleading the Errors of the Indictment for me But Justice Street who was Judge of the Court would not regard but over-ruled all This Justice Street said to some Friends in the Morning before my Trial That if he had been upon the Bench the first Sessions he would not have tendered me the Oath but if I had been Convicted of being at a Conventicle he would have proceeded against me according to that Law and that he was sorry that ever I came before him And yet he maliciously tendered the Oath to me in the Court again when I was to have Tried my Traverse upon the Indictment But the Lord pleaded my Cause and met with both him and Justice Simpson who first ensnared me with the Oath at the first Sessions For Simpson's Son was Arraigned not long after at the same Bar for Murder And Street who as he came down from London after the Judges had returned me back from the King's-Bench to Worcester said Now I was returned to them I should lie in Prison and rot had his Daughter whom he so doted on that she was called his Idol brought down dead from London in an Hearse to the same Inn where he spake those Words and brought to Worcester to be buried within a few days after And People took notice of the Hand of God 1674. Worcester Prison how sudden it was upon him but it rather hardned than tendered him as his Carriage afterwards shewed After I was carried back to Prison several came to see me and amongst others the Earl of Salisbury's Son who was very loving and troubled that they had dealt so badly by me He stayed about two Hours with me and took a Copy of the Errors in the Indictment himself in Writing The Sessions being now over and I fixt in Prison by a Premunire my Wife came up to me out of the North to be with me And the Assizes coming on soon after in the Sixth Month the State of my Case being drawn up in Writing She and Thomas Lower delivered it to Judge Wild. In it was set forth the Occasion of my Journey the Manner of my being Taken and Imprisoned the Proceedings of the several Sessions against me and the Errors in the Indictment by which I was Premunired which having had Occasion to mention often before I forbear to repeat here When the Judge had read it he shook his Head and said We might Trie the Validity or Invalidity of the Errors if we would And that was all they could get from him While thus I lay in Prison it came upon me to state our Principle to the King not with particular Relation to my own Sufferings but for his better Information concerning our Principle and us as a People It was thus and thus Directed To the KING THe Principle of the Quakers is the Spirit of Christ who Died for us and is Risen for our Justification by which we know we are his and he dwelleth in us by his Spirit and by the Spirit of Christ we are led out of Vnrighteousness and Vngodliness It brings us to deny all Plottings and Contrivings against the King or any Man And the Spirit of Christ brings us to deny all manner of Ungodliness as Lying Theft Murder Adultery Fornication and all Vncleanness and Debauchery Malice and Hatred Deceit Cousening and Cheating whatsoever and the Devil and his Works And the Spirit of Christ brings us to seek the Peace and Good of all Men and to live peaceably and leads us from such Evil Works and Actions as the Magistrate's Sword takes hold upon And our Desire and Labour is that all who profess themselves Christians may walk in the Spirit of Christ that they through the Spirit may mortifie the Deeds of the Flesh and by the Sword of the Spirit may cut down Sin and Evil in themselves Then the Judges and other Magistrates would not have so much Work in
and made them appear at the Sessions where he asked them many ensnaring Questions for he knew not how to Convict them because he had no Proof against them When he saw his Questions did not Catch them 1677. â—urrowby he told them He had heard that George Fox was at a large Meeting with them and they all sate Silent and none spake in the Meeting This false Story he cunningly feigned thinking thereby to have drawn out some of the Friends to have contradicted him and have said That I had spoken in the Meeting that so he mâ—ght have Convicted them upon their own Confession and have Fined them But Friends standing in the Wisdom of God did not Answer him according to his Desire and so escaped his Snare But two other Friends that came out of Ireland and were at this Meeting having a Meeting that Evening about three Miles off this Evil-minded Justice got Information thereof and Fined Friends and plundered them very sorely for it I went from Burrowby to Isaac Lindley's calling upon Friends on the Way as I went And having Robert Lodge and some other Friends with me York from thence next Day we passed to York and the Day following being the First Day of the Week I was at Friends Meeting in York which was large and peaceable The Second day also I staid in York and had two Meetings with Friends at John Taylor 's from whence I writ unto my Wife to let her know how it was with me as followeth Dear Heart TO whom is my Love and to thy Daughters and to all Friends that enquire after me My Desires are that ye all may be preserved in the Lord 's Everlasting Seed in whom ye all will have Life and Peace and Dominion and Settlement in the Everlasting Home or Dwelling in the House built upon the Foundation of God In the Power of the Lord I am brought to York having had many Meetings in the Way The Way was many times deep and bad with Snow that our Horses sometimes were down and we were not able to ride and sometimes we had great Storms and Rain but by the Power of the Lord I went through all At Scarhouse there was a very large Meeting and another at Burrowby to which Friends came out of Cleaveland and Bishoprick and many other Meetings we have had At York Yesterday we had a very large Meeting exceeding thronged Friends being at it from many parts and all quiet and Friends well satisfied Oh! the Glory of the Lord shined over all And this Day we had a large Mens and Womens-Meeting many Friends both Men and Women being come out of the Country and all was quiet And this Evening we are to have the Mens and Womens-Meeting of the Friends of the City John Whitehead is here with Robert Lodge and others Friends are mighty glad above Measure So I am in my Holy Element and holy Work in the Lord Glory to his Name for ever To Morrow I intend to go out of the City towards Todcaster though I cannot Ride as in days past yet praised be the Lord that I can Travel so well as I do So with my Love in the Fountain of Life in which as ye all abide ye will have Refreshment of Life that by it ye may grow and gather Eternal Strength to serve the Lord and be satisfied So to the God of all Power who is All-sufficient to preserve you I commit you all to his Ordering York the 16th of the Second Month 1677. G. F. Leaving York I travelled on through Yorkshire 1677. Yorkshire Todcaster Nottingly Doncaster Balby Ballowfield visiting Friends at Todcaster Nottingly Doncaster and so on to Balby having Meetings as I went At Balby I stayed the First-day-Meeting and went next day to Thomas Stacy's at Ballowfield where in the Evening I had a Meeting to compose some difference that had happened between some that professed Truth and they were Reconciled From thence next day I came to Stainsby in Derbyshire Darbyshire Stainsby in which County I had formerly lived some time about the first breaking forth of Truth Here I had a good Meeting with Friends and afterward passed to Skegby in Nottinghamshire and from thence to Nottingham Nottinghamshire Skegby Nottingham to John Reckless his house who being one of the Sheriffs of Nottingham when I first declared Truth in that Town and was Imprisoned for it took me out of Prison into his own house and kept me there till the Mayor and the rest of the Magistrates of the Town took me away from him and sent me to the Prison again At which time this John Reckless was Convinced and abode in the Truth ever after Now I had a Meeting with Friends at his house that Evening after I came thither and another the next day in Friends publick Meeting-house which was peaceable and well I went from thence the day following to John Fox's at Wymes-would in Leicestershire where I had a Meeting that Evening Leicestershire Wymes would Sileby and went next day to William Smith's at Sileby where it being the First-day of the Week we had a very large Meeting for besides Friends that came from several places the Town 's People hearing that I was there came many of them to the Meeting Leicester and heard the Truth declared gladly Next day I went to Leicester where finding many Friends come out of the Country to be at the Horse-fair there next day I had a very good Meeting with them that Night and had another Meeting next Evening after the Fair was over at William Wells his house at Knighton Knighton Swanington about a Mile from Leicester from whence next day I passed to Swanington where I had formerly been taken Prisoner and had a Meeting there from thence went to Samuel Fretwell's at Hartshorn in Derbyshire where I had a Meeting also Derbyshire Hartshorn Warwickshire Badgely And then went through the Country to Henry Sidon's at Badgely in Warwickshire and stayed the Meeting there which it being the First-day of the Week was very large and peaceable notwithstanding that a Justice who lived not far off had threatned that he would come and break it up After Meeting having stay'd a while with Friends I went in the Evening to Richard Baal's of Whittington where several Friends came to visit me Whittington Hartshill Next day I went to Nathaniel Newton's at Hartshill where several Friends met me with whom I had good Service After this I passed on visiting Friends in divers places till I came to Dingley Dingley where a Meeting was appointed before which was very large and Truth was largely opened to the People The Meeting was peaceable and quiet and the People generally Sober saving that while I was declaring and shewing how that Christendom so called was gone from the pure Religion that is undefiled c. One Man rushed out in a furious manner and said I deny that 1677. Warwickshire Adingworth
222* 267* Anne 269 B. BAiley Charles 241 Bailey William 172 361 Baker Daniel 248 Baker Nathaniel 479 Ball Nathaniel 316. 479 Richard 429 Barclay Robert 407. 433-435 446 Barnes William 327. 332 Barwick Grace 307 Bateman Miles 76. 82 Bathurst Charles 532 Bates Nathaniel 376 Baxe Richard 342 Beard Nicholas 151 Beaton William 221* 266 Bennet Col. Just 37. 41. 187 217* 219* Benson Just 73. 80. 90 91. 101. 103. 111. 116 117. his Wife 112. Francis 270 Beaumont Lord 255. 258 Bewley Thomas 108. 118 George 262. 263. 270 Bicliff Anthony 226 Billing Grace 212* 272* Edward 272* 277* Bindlas Robert Esq 93 Bingley William 520 521 Birdet 64 Birkenhead Sir John 304 Birkhead Serj. 197 Birkhead Abraham 374 Bishop George 152. 210. 244 Blackmore Major 245* Blaykling John 74. 80. 267. 269. 423 Bolton John and Wife 171 Bond Thomas 153 Nicholas 286* Bonner Bishop 293 Booth George 202 Bottomley Jacob 131 Bousfield Major 73 Bradden Capt. 179 180. 184. 185 Bradford Capt. 128 Bradshaw Judge 80 Brassey Nathaniel 519 Brathwait John 77 Brickley Anthony 131 Brigges Thomas 90. 259 260. 265. 327. 332. 341. 349. 356 357. 361 Britland see Priest Broadstreet Simon 243 244 Bromley Thomas 148 Brown Capt. 254. John 316 Bryerley James 430 Bushel Thomas Ranter 59 Burnyeate John 363 364. 367 368. 432 Burrough Edward 76. 84. 124. 131. 286* 241 242. 259 Burton Just 213 C. CAm John 84. 124. 170. 225* Thomas 423 Cannon Richard 396 Canterbury Bishop 245 Cartwright John 349. 357. 361. 364. 366-369 382 Cary Robert 174 Caton William 150. 594 Ceely Peter Just Major 176. 182-184 187. 219 Chamberlain Col. 352 CHARLES II. King 225. 228 229. 238. 241-243 245-248 250 272. 277. 279 280. 325. 336. 349. 402. 404 405 CHARLES I. 226. 460 461 Charles Thomas 430 Chetham George Sheriff 228 Chevers Sarah 252 Claessen Dirick 452 Clark Just 309 Clause John Holl. 433. 438 439. 444. 446. 463. 521. 594 Claypoole Lady 189 James 503 504 Coale William Amer. 374 Hezekiah 456 Cob Francis Esq 298. 303. 326 Cob Ranter 139 Cock 76 Colburn Capt. of Amer. 380 Cole 167 168 Colonel of Bristol 210 Conway Lady 457 Cooper Edward 430 Corbet Thomas 405 406 Costrop Richard 248 Cotton Arthur 304 Covel Richard 383 Countess of Derby 275 Cradock Dr. of Coventry 4. 301 Craven Robert 224* 225* 129. 140 Crips Nathaniel 222* 225* 310. 315. 456 457 Craston Thomas Just 114 Cromwel Oliver 136-138 169. 187. 214* 223* 224* 269* 288* 190. 194-196 392. 448 Richard 196. 229. 418. 199 200. 204. 229. 238 Crook John 149 150. 169. 282* 286* 457 Crosland Jordan 298. 300. 305 Crouch Edward 469 Crowder Dr. 393 Cubban Richard 259* 276 Cubham Richard 282 Cummings Thomas 218 Curtis Thomas and Anne 220* 244* Thomas 216. Anne 222 D DAndy John 222* 266 Darcy Abigail 314 Davenport Capt. 279 Davis Richard 405 Dennis Col. 204 Desborow Maj. Gen. 178. 214*-217* Dewes Col. Amer. 375 Dickinson James 77. 80 Dilger Emanuel of Dantzick 595 Dirick Niesson Gertrade 434. 446. 451-453 Dixon Alexander 102 Dodgson Constable 306 Doily Bray 388. 389 Dove Lieut. 281 * Downer Anne 186 187 Dowes Sybrand of Friezl 439. 444 Drakes John 352 Draper Henry 269 Drury Capt. 136-138 Dry Thomas 311. Widow 343 Duisbury William and Wife 54. 118. 137. 430. 457. 479 Duncon Robert 153. 432 E. EAston Nicholas Governour 366 Eccles Solomon 349. 361 362 379 Edmundson William 170. 349. 356. 361. 364. 369. 379 John of Maryl 372 373 Edwards Edward 255* Elizabeth Princess of Herwerden 435. 438 Ellis John 245 * 263 Ellwood Thomas 455 456 Elson John 406. 479 Endicot John of New Engl. 242 243 Evans Catharine 252 F. FAirfax Widow 301 Farnsworth Richard 54. 70 71. 80. 131 Fauks Thomas 255 Faulconbridge Lord 300 Fell Judge 77. 80. 83. 88. 90 91. 103. 261* his Son 85 Margaret 78. 88. 216. 221 222. 231. 238. 262. 266. 271. 273. 278. 289. 295. 312. 334. 336. 346 384. 387. 389. 402. 404. 407. 423 428 Daughters 152 Henry 230. 248 Leonard 79. 258. 262. 269-271 312. 325. 407. 423. 430 Mary 262 Rachel 387. 389. 423 Sarah 262. 336. 407 Susan 407 Fisher Samuel and Wife 150 151 Martha 349 Fleetwood Charles 269* Fleming Daniel Just 270. 273. 278-181 306 Fletcher 270 Floyd Charles 312 Forstall Richard 351 352 Forster Thomas 349 Foster Judge 226 227 Lieut. 279* Widow 511 Fox Christoph Mary 1. 390. 396 George 46. 48 49 192 Fox John 332 333. 336 337. 429 Capt. 178. 211 * Fraterus of Dantzick 295 Frecheville Lord 297 298 Fretwell Ellen 309 Ralph 356. Samuel 429 Frith Susan 309 Frizbey James 374 Frondenberg Abraham of Harlem 522 Frouzen Wilbert of Rotterd 520 Frye 262 Fuce Joseph 154 155 Furly Benjamin 245. 433. 435. 453 519 John 432 433 G. GAdecken of Dantzig 595 Gamboll Thomas 430 Gandy Will. 247* 226. 332. 407 Garland Wid. 296 Gaul Alderm of Rotterd 520 Geary John Amer. 379 380 General of Denmark 453 Gerard Lord 230 Gibbs Henry 312 Gilpin 123 Glyn Judge 179-185 189* 200* Goldsmith Ralph 242 Goodyear Thomas â—â— 54 Governour of Barbados 356. 361 of Carlisle 117 of Carolina 376 of Jamaica 362 of Mevis 357 Gouldney Tho. 210. Henry 613 Gray Richard 520 Green Wid. 71. Thomas 218 Grimes Coll. 225* 213 Gratton John 470 Gritton 149 Gwin Paul 221* 222* H. HAcker Coll. 136 137. 166. 195. 238. 260. 272 Haistings Lord 258 Hales Chief Just 405 406 Haley Wid. 430. 479 Halford John 388 389 Halhead Miles 84 Hambleton Margaret 269* Hambley Loveday 212* 219* 262 263. 319 Hamberry Richard 247* 316 Hammersley Thomas 130. 311 Hancock Edward 174 Harding John 570 Hardy 218 Harris George 319 Jailer 404 Hartiss George 64 Hartshorn Richard 365. 370 Harvey 137. 195 Harwood Robert 372 Hawkings George 264 Hellen Joseph 262 263 Hendricks Peter 451. 463. 594 Elizabeth 523. 594. 596 Hill John 442. 444 Hodges Francis 263 Hodgson Doctor 272 Peter 307 Holder Christopher 370 Holmes Thomas 124. 246* Holstein Duke 441. 523-527 Hookes Ellis 304 Hotham Just 55. 64. 66. 80. 326 Howard Luke 151 Howgil Francis 74. 83 84. 120. 124. 131. 216 Howsigoe Thomas 150 Hubberthorn Richard 84. 93. 124. 153. 156. 204. 226 227. 229. 231 250 Hubbersty Miles 76. 84 Steph. 76 Hull John 349 Hunter 297. 306 Huntington Robert 239 Hutchinson Hugh 269 Jam. 33â— Hutton Eliz. 7. 349. 361 362 Thomas 87 J. JAckson Henry 326 Jacobs Hessel Friezl 438. 445 Jay John 368. 370 Jenkins Walt. 167. 246* 247* 314 Jews 441. 453. 559 560 Indian Emperor 364. 372. 382 Empress 382 King 365. 375. 377. 379. 382 Priest called Pawaw or Bawaw 377 Captain ibid. John ap John 123. 240. 251 * 253 259 Johnson Richard 332 Jones Rice 127 128. 281** 282* James Just Amer. 381 the King's Attorney 394 Jose Nicholas 207. 263 Justices in Wales 245* 253* 254* 281* K. KEat Capt. 177-179 187 Keith Geo. and Wife 433-435 452-454 521. Geo. 407 Kellet Priest 15 Killam John 213 King of Poland 458-463 538 541. 594 595 Kirby William Col. 270