SOME TESTIMONIES Concerning the Life and Death OF HUGH TICKELL AS ALSO His Convincement Travels Sufferings and Service for the Lord and his Eternal Truth Which is a Testimony I. To the Name of the Righteous that shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance II. For encouraging and strengthening the Babes in the Truth to follow the Example of their faithful Elders III. For Information and Exhortation of those that desire to know the Truth and the way to Zion that they may die the Death of the Righteous and their latter End be like his For mark the End of the Vpright Man for the End of that Man is Peace LONDON Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard-street MDCXC The Testimony of Dorothy Tickell Concerning her Dear Husband Hugh Tickell I Being his Wife about twenty six years do give forth my Testimony to all People what I saw and did believe of him in the uprightness of my heart desiring to keep my Peace with my God in what I do knowing I must give an Account of words and deeds done in the Body First I believe he loved the Lord his God with all his heart who made him a partaker of that Love which is Universal wherein he had good Will to all and a true Love to them in whose hearts he saw the fear of the Lord observing that blessed Rule As you would that Men should do to you even so do you to them He let his yea be yea and his nay nay And I often observed his Love to Enemies he loving the Lord Jesus Christ kept his sayings and did his Commandments with Joy And though his Sufferings were many and that of divers sorts yet he kept the Word of God's Patience which kept him in the Hour of Temptation and carried him more easily through them The Yoak of his Lord that he had taken up did become more easie and his Burthen light As to his Imprisonment about the Year 1664. He with four Friends more was cast into Prison in Carlile Goal by Henry Marshall Priest of Crostwhait And though he did detain his Body in Prison he took Tithes of his Land and kept him Prisoner nigh three Years This said Henry Marshall Priest afterward falling down a Pair of Stairs broke his Scull upon which he died And again in my dear Husband 's Old Age when he was about Threescore and Eight he was imprisoned by Richard Lowry another Priest of the said Crostwhait who kept him Prisoner about nine Months a part of it being cold Winter and a cold nasty Place not fit for such honest Men besides a weak Prisoner did lye by the Fire that my Husband and the rest of the Prisoners could scarce come at it And this said Priest Richard Lowry was suddenly stricken and had the Use of one side of his Tongue and Understanding much taken from him and hath so continued a long Time and yet continues a remarkable Judgment This my dear Husband suffered besides much spoiling of Goods for the Testimony of Truth And before he came last out of Prison his Distemper of Body began that increased upon him till he died And after he came home feeling his Body begin to weaken he set his House in order And though his Distemper lay much in his Head that it might have weakned his Memory yet I believe none ever saw any appearance of frowardness but the Lamb's Nature which is Innocency and Love did always appear in him this gave me Comfort in heaviness And when I told him of his Continuance still in patience he told me he had laid those Exercises in the Ballance and felt the Love of God in them Before his Death he was in much Brokenness of Spirit tenderly taking leave of Friends and Neighbours as having a sense that his Departure drew near And upon his dying Bed his Deportment was so sweet that several were affected therewith And I have a certain Evidence sealed upon my Spirit Concerning my dear Husband who is gone to Rest He dyed in the Lord and is for ever blest He being as a Lamb so innocent In every Remembrance I have Content And though the Mortal that be laid in Grave Yet the Immortal certainly I have Desiring when this Body is laid down I may partake of that Eternal Crown What shall I say God's Favour doth exceed To his Hand maid even as she stands in need What have I now more to do here But my God to love and fear And do nothing that may grieve his Spirit That Eternal Life I may inherit For what is all the World to me In Comparison of Eternity And now the Day of the Lord hath been great and the Work of it which hath dained to many that sat in Darkness and in the shadow of Death The Lord hath caused Light to spring up And now the true Light shineth in many which hath given us the Knowledge of God in the Face of Jesus Christ And he hath made his People willing in the Day of his Power he hath caused the Trumpet to be sounded in Zion and an Alarum to be beat in his Holy Mountain and there were Earthquakes in divers Places and many Faces gathered Paleness for the Day was great to a Remnant it was like the Day of Jacob's Trouble But after those things many did flow together to the Goodness of the Lord saying Let us go up to the House of the God of Jacob and there will he teach us of his ways and we will walk in his pathes And now the Mountain of the Lord's House is a top of all the Mountains and high Hills Glory to the Lord for ever and ever more who hath taken to himself his great Power and is come to reign amongst his People And now the way of the Lord is become delightful and all his paths are pleasant and the wayfaring Man though a Fool may walk therein and not err Go on O Lord and prosper ride on because of thy Strength and Holiness conquering and to conquer bring yet more Sons from far and Daughters from the Ends of the Earth that they may sit down together with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in that Rest which thou hast prepared for them And now dear Friends receive my Mite into your Treasury strive not so much for earthly Possessions for your Children as to instruct them in the right way of the Lord. What Father so unnatural but he would have his Children wise because a wise Son maketh a glad Father So teach them the fear of the Lord that is the beginning of Wisdom teach them to depart from Iniquity that is the good Understanding still having your Eyes Sion-ward forget her not she is the City of our Solemnity Forget not the day when we were seeking the Lord and that from Mountain to Hill inquiring of the Watchmen of the Night each one in particular saying Saw ye not him whom my Soul loveth But they had not seen him nor known him neither could they tell us any thing
of him we passed but a little from them until we found him whom our Souls loved O then how we held him and would not let him go how willing were we to part with all other things for him O then indeed was he become the Chiefest of ten Thousand to us And now to thee thou Antient of days be Hallelujah and Thanksgiving Honour and Glory and Praise and again Hallelujah for the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth Dorothy Tickell Something by way of Testimony concerning our dear Friend Hugh Tickell of Portinscal near Keswick in Cumberland Deceased HE was convinced of the Lord's blessed Truth towards the latter End of the Year 1653. And after that he was convinced and had his Understanding opened he became very serviceable in his place and was freely and willingly given up to do or suffer for the Lord 's blessed Truth which the Lord was pleased to make him a Partaker of with many more And as he grew up in the Truth he became more and more diligent in meeting with and amongst the People of God called Quakers And not only so but freely and willingly offered up his House for a Meeting-house for all that sought after the Lord and his Truth for many Years And the Lord was also pleased to endue him with a Spirit of discerning insomuch that he became serviceable to the Lord and his People and a help and strength to those that were weak and ready to give a word of Advice and Counsel both publickly and privately when at any time in the Wisdom of God he saw it a Service Likewise he was drawn forth to travel to visit some Friends both in the West of England and in Scotland And as to his sufferings when called thereunto He was a Man that did bear a faithful Testimony both in suffering the spoiling of his Goods and Imprisonment of his Body as witness he was committed to Prison by one Henry Marshall Priest of Crostwhait because for Conscience-sake he could not pay him Tithes where he remained about three Years in Carlile Goal And being freed he was afterwards again committed to the said Prison by Richard Lowrey another Priest of the said Crostwhait because he could not pay him Tithes where he remained some time until Providence ordered his enlargement All which suffering he patiently did bear and willingly endured for the Testimony of Jesus and of a good Conscience And thus he continued bearing his Testimony in faithfulness in doing and suffering until weakness of Body came upon him which in the Lord 's appointed time comes upon all men and so finished his Course and laid down his Body in the Year 1680. From our Mens Meeting to which the said Hugh Tickell did belong the 25th Day of the 12th Month 1689 90. Subscribed by John Tiffin Thomas Laythes Peter Head Thomas Scott Thomas Fell George Peel The Testimony of Thomas Laythes Concerning Hugh Tickell AS for our dear deceased Friend Hugh Tickell he was one that I had a knowledge of and acquaintance with all-most from my Childhood For when I was a Boy at School we were both tabled in one House and for several Years and in all that time I never heard nor knew as I remember but that he lived and walked as an honest Man amongst Men. And for the time of his Convincement of God's Eternal Truth he was some Years before me convinced so that other Ancient Friends can give a more timely Testimony herein than I can do being conversant with him yet this I know and have to say for him that he was one that did endeavour my Convincement as much if not more than any other both by word and writing But as I have sometime said it was the Lord alone that did perswade my heart to him be the Praise and Glory for ever Amen And after I came to own the way and Truth of God I had a clear Sense of his Spirit we being both of one Meeting for above twenty and six Years time and this is my Testimony for my Friend He was of a deep weighty solid Spirit and had a good Understanding and discerning in the things of God And when he spoke thereof in our little Meeting to which he was a great Strength it was much in the awe dread and fear of the Lord and often in much Brokenness and tenderness of Spirit as I am a living Witness of He was also a great sufferer in his day for bearing a faithful Testimony to the Truth and against Tithes And such was his Love to God and his Truth that I do believe he could have laid down his Life and sealed his Testimony with his Blood if he had been called thereunto And towards the latter part of his time and in his old Age being above 70 Years he grew weak and infirm of Body and near the time of his departure out of the Body for I was much with him then both day and night and when he could but utter few words yet he named me and I felt a near tender Sense upon him of that Love and Unity we often had together in the Spirit of Truth Thomas Laythes The Testimony of Thomas Dockrey Concerning our dear Friend Hugh Tickell of Portinscal who was born in Thorntwhait in the Parish of Crostwhait and County of Cumberland who in his younger Years for Religion had desires to be of the best way and about the fortieth Year of his Age and the latter End of the Year 1653. was convinced of God's Everlasting Truth and way which is cast up and now made known to many People in this Day of God's glorious Power Light and Life that is dawned and broken forth in this Nation and many other Nations Glory and Praise to God for evermore FOR in the Year 1653. G. F. a Minister in the Spirit and Power of God and of the Everlasting Gospel coming into Cumberland and Hugh Tickell going to some Meetings where G. F. was he was convinced and satisfied of our Religion Way Truth Faith and Worship c. and so joyned with the People of God who in scorn were first called Quakers in Darbyshire about the Year 1650. and continued with them till his Decease which was above thirty Years being Aged above Seventy So he owned the Truth above 30 Years and never did shrink faint nor fly the Cross of Christ but stood noble and valiant for God and his Eternal Truth and did bear a good and faithful Testimony to the same in the place where God had set him For I had a true and certain Knowledge of him above thirty Years and I lived with him above seven Years who after he owned the Truth had a good Measure of the Spirit of the Lord poured forth upon him and a true knowledge and feeling of the Power of God and of his Love and Presence wherein he had large openings and a deep discerning of the things of God and was of a grave sober Deportment towards all and of an honest Life and
Conversation which adorned his Profession of the ever blessed Truth Also he was of a sound Mind and Judgment stedfast in the Faith endued with spiritual Knowledge and Wisdom And could have given good Advice and Counsel and Exhortation in Divine things he was faithful and loved Faithfulness in all that professed the Truth and both loved and sought the Peace and Unity and Prosperity of the Church He was a Man that God blessed both in Spirituals and Temporals and as the Apostle saith Be not forgetful to entertain Strangers for some have entertained Angels unawares and do good unto all but especially unto the Houshold of Faith so he was ready to entertain and to do good and to have Meetings at his House when there were but few in that part And was a patient Sufferer both in Body and Goods for Truth and Righteousness sake he was zealous and fervent in Spirit and Mind holding his Integrity I had dear Unity with him and loved him in that which will never change nor die but was and is the Joy Life and Strength of God's People throughout all Generations towit the Life and Power Holy glorious Praises to the glorious God For he had the Gift of found Judgment and Knowledge in Divine Spiritual things and I could have opened my heart to him the rein And likewise he did bear a living faithful Testimony both against the Priests at Steeple-houses and in the Markets to the People and had a tender incouraging Testimony in Meetings And about the Year 1696. was moved of the Lord to go into Scotland to Duglas Heads Hambleton Glascow and Edinburgh c. And had a good Service for the Lord and his Truth as I truly understood when I went amongst them there afterwards And as a Testimony of his Love to God his Truth and People he manifested it both in his Life and towards his latter End and now he being gone the way of all the Earth I believe it is well with him as to his Eternal Estate and that his Soul is at rest and blessedness with the Eternal God For blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord they rest from their Labour and their Works follow them And I pray God that we who yet remain in the Body may so finish our Course in the Truth and keep the Faith that we may end our days in Peace with God and have an Eternal Inheritance amongst the sanctified For the Eternal Righteous God is just to whom all must give an Account and be rewarded according to their Deeds done in the Body be they good or evil And O that many People would consider this and turn to God's Grace and Truth that comes by Jesus Christ and to the Spirit of God that never deceived any People nor never will that thereby they may be lead instructed and taught to forsake their evil Way and turn to Righteousness that they might live and that God might be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom with God the Father be Honour and Praise forever Thomas Dockrey The Testimony of M. Fox Concerning Hugh Tickell THIS I can testifie for Hugh Tickell he was a dear and faithful Servant of the Lord from the beginning and one that the Truth had a great Work and Operation upon so that he was brought very low and tender and zealous for the Lord and his Truth so that he bore a true and faithful Testimony against the Priests and the Spirit of the World and was very active both in speaking and writing for the Testimony of Truth to my knowledge he has come many times to Swarthmoore in true Tenderness and Openness of Spirit and he was a true Liver unto God unto his latter End though he was convinced at the first Appearance of Truth in those parts and bore a faithful Testimony for the Lord in his Day in serving and in suffering he was many times cast into Prison where he remained years together so that he was wanting in no part of the Truths Service he was a true and faithful Man to God and his Truth all his Days and lived in the fear of the Lord in Tenderness and in Humility and in Brokenness of Spirit and in great Love and Unity with his Wife and Family and was a good Example to all and in his latter End testified his Love and Faithfulness to the Lord and his Truth and left the Evidence of his Love to Friends and the Truth and hath now left this Transitory World and is entred into his Everlasting Inheritance where he lives in Eternal Love Praises to the Lord to all Eternity London the 6th the 4th Month 90. G. F's Testimony concerning Hugh Tickell AFter Hugh Tickell our dear Friend and Brother in the Lord had believed in the Light the Life in Christ and so became a Child of Light and of the Day of Christ he came both to know and hear Christ the great Prophet that God had raised up in the New Testament like unto Moses in the Old Testament c. and to follow Christ his Shepherd and hear his Voice and to be one of the Sheep of his Pasture which he had laid down his Life for and then could follow the Hirelings no longer nor put in their Mouths and would not let Balaam's Priest ride upon him as Old Balaam did upon his Ass for his Wages of Unrighteousness and would not follow him in his Errours but followed Christ who said freely you have received freely give and followed his Ministers who kept the Gospel without Charge and God opened the Mouth of this Hugh Tickell to reprove Balaam's Priests for their Errours and for his not giving them their Wages of Unrighteousness you may see in this Book how they persecuted and imprisoned him and what became of his Persecutors and what was their End But he being setled upon Christ the heavenly Rock and Foundation all the Storms and Tempests and the Heat of the persecuting Sun could not move him he being of a meek quiet peaceable gentle Spirit and of a good Life and Conversation I had known him long and do believe that he died in the Lord and is blessed and is at rest from his Labours London the 6th the 4th Month 90. G. F. FINIS