_'Ulverston consisted of thatched
one storied houses, many old
shops, gabled buildings standing
out towards the street on pillars
beneath which neighbours sheltered
and gossipped. On market days
these projections were filled with
goods to tempt gentry and yeomanry
to open their purse-strings.'--From
'Home Life in North Lonsdale.'_
_'By the year 1654 "the man with
the leather breeches" as he was
called, had become a celebrity
throughout England, with scattered
converts and adherents everywhere,
but voted a pest and a terror by
the public authorities, the
regular steeple-house clergy,
whether Presbyterian or
Independent, and the appointed
preachers of all the old
sects.'--D. MASSON._
_'For in those days the high and
proud professors and persecutors
were generally bitterly set
against the people called Quakers,
when Presbytery and Independency
swimmed and floated in possession,
and with their long Lectures
against us cried out, "These are
the Antichrists come in the last
times"'--G. WHITEHEAD._
_'For in all things he acquitted
himself like a man, yea, a strong
man, a new and heavenly-minded
man.'--W. PENN of George Fox._