"The Seed Reigns over Death."
1679-1691.
[The year 1679 was spent almost entirely in retirement at
Swarthmore, but in 1680 the activity and travels begin again.
This last decade of Fox's life finds him much of the time in or
about London, for there are new storms to be met, and he could
not lie at ease in the "North." The Wilkinson-Story movement in
opposition to a settled system of government and discipline made
his presence in the "South" necessary. But even more than for
this was he concerned over the fresh spasm of persecution which
during the closing years of Charles' reign filled the prisons
and jails with Quakers. Whenever or wherever the "Conventicle
Act" was enforced Friends were sure to have the large end of the
suffering to bear.]
After this I was moved of the Lord to visit Friends in some parts of
Surrey and Sussex. I went to Kingston by water, and tarried certain
days; for while I was there, the Lord laid it upon me to write both
to the great Turk, and the Dey of Algiers, severally, to warn them,
and the people under them, to turn from their wickedness, fear the
Lord, and do justly; lest the judgments of God should come upon
them, and destroy them without remedy. To the Algerines I wrote more
particularly concerning the cruelty they exercised towards Friends
and others, whom they held captives in Algiers.
At Hertford I met with John Story, and some others of his party; but
the testimony of Truth went over them, and kept them down, so that
the meeting was quiet.
It was on a First-day; and the next day being the men's and women's
meeting for business, I visited them also, and the rather because
some in that place had let in a disesteem of them. Wherefore I was
moved to open the service of those meetings, and the usefulness and
benefit thereof to the Church of Christ, as the Lord opened the thing
in me; and it was of good service to Friends.
I had a meeting also with some of those that were gone into strife
and contention, to show them wherein they were wrong; and having
cleared myself of them, I left them to the Lord.
I abode at London most part of this winter,[BG] having much service
for the Lord there, both in and out of meetings: for as it was a time
of great suffering among Friends, I was drawn in spirit to visit
Friends' meetings more frequently; to encourage and strengthen them
both by exhortation and example. The Parliament also was sitting, and
Friends were diligent in waiting upon them, to lay their grievances
before them.
[BG] 1680.
We received fresh accounts almost every day of the sad sufferings
Friends underwent in many parts of the nation. In seeking relief
for my suffering brethren I spent much time; together with other
Friends, who were freely given up to that service, attending at
the Parliament-House for many days together, and watching all
opportunities to speak with such members of either House as would
hear our just complaints.
Indeed, some of these were very courteous to us, and appeared willing
to help us if they could; but the Parliament being then earnest in
examining the Popish plot, and contriving ways to discover such as
were Popishly affected, our adversaries took advantage against us
(because they knew we could not swear nor fight) to expose us to
those penalties that were made against Papists; though they knew in
their consciences that we were no Papists, and had had experience of
us, that we were no plotters.
* * * * *
Sufferings continuing severe upon Friends at London,[BH] I found
my service lay mostly there; wherefore I went but little out of town,
and not far; being frequent at the most public meetings, to encourage
Friends, both by word and example, to stand fast in the testimony to
which God had called them.
[BH] 1682.
At other times I went about from house to house, visiting Friends
that had their goods taken away for their testimony to Truth; because
the wicked informers were grown very audacious, by reason that they
had too much countenance and encouragement from some justices, who,
trusting wholly to their information, proceeded against Friends
without hearing them; whereby many were made to suffer, not only
contrary to right, but even contrary to law also.[181]
[181] Here is a beautiful letter to those who are suffering:
"Dear, suffering lambs, for the name and command of Jesus;
be valiant for His truth, and faithful, and ye will feel the
presence of Christ with you. Look at Him who suffered for you,
who hath bought you, and will feed you; who saith, 'Be of good
comfort, I have overcome the world'; who destroys the devil
and his works, and bruises the serpent's head. I say, look to
Christ, your sanctuary, in whom ye have rest and peace. To you
it is given not only to believe, but to suffer for His name's
sake. They that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer
persecution by the ungodly professors of Christ Jesus, who live
out of Him. Therefore be valiant for God's truth upon the earth,
and look above that spirit that makes you suffer, up to Christ,
who was before it was, and will be when it is gone."
Now I had some inclination to go into the country to a meeting, but
hearing that there would be a bustle at our meetings, and feeling a
great disquietness in people's spirits in the city about choosing
sheriffs, it was upon me to stay in the city, and go to the meeting
in Gracechurch street upon the first day of the week. William Penn
went with me, and spoke; and while he was declaring the Truth to the
people, a constable came in with his great staff, and bade him give
over, and come down; but he continued, declaring Truth in the power
of God.
After a while the constable drew back, and when William Penn had
done, I stood up, and declared to the people the everlasting gospel,
which was preached in the apostles' days, and to Abraham; and which
the Church in the apostles' days received, and came to be heirs of.
As I was thus speaking, two constables came in with their great
staves, and bade me give over speaking, and come down; but, feeling
the power of the Lord with me, I spoke on therein, both to the
constables and to the people. To the constables I declared that we
were a peaceable people, who meet to wait upon God, and worship Him
in spirit and in truth; and therefore they needed not to come with
their staves amongst us, who were met in a peaceable manner, desiring
and seeking the good and salvation of all people.
Then turning my speech to the people again, I declared what further
was upon me to them; and while I was speaking, the constables drew
out towards the door; and the soldiers stood with their muskets in
the yard.
When I had done speaking, I kneeled down and prayed, desiring the
Lord to open the eyes and hearts of all people, both high and low,
that their minds might be turned to God by His Holy Spirit; that He
might be glorified in all and over all. After prayer the meeting
rose, and Friends passed away; the constables being come in again,
but without the soldiers; and indeed, both they and the soldiers
carried themselves civilly.
William Penn and I went into a room hard by, as we used to do, and
many Friends went with us; and lest the constables should think we
would shun them, a Friend went down and told them that if they would
have anything with us, they might come where we were, if they pleased.
On First-day it was upon me to go to Devonshire-House meeting in the
afternoon; and because I had heard Friends were kept out there that
morning (as they were that day at most meetings about the city), I
went sooner, and got into the yard before the soldiers came to guard
the passages. But the constables were there before me, and stood in
the doorway with their staves.
I asked them to let me go in. They said they could not, durst not;
for they were commanded the contrary, and were sorry for it.
I told them I would not press upon them; so I stood by, and they were
very civil.
I stood till I was weary, and then one gave me a stool to sit down
on; and after a while the power of the Lord began to spring up among
Friends, and one began to speak.
The constables soon forbade him, and said he should not speak; and
he not stopping, they began to be wroth. But I gently laid my hand
upon one of the constables, and wished him to let the Friend alone.
The constable did so, and was quiet; and the man did not speak long.
After he had done, I was moved to stand up and speak.
I then sat down; and after a while I was moved to pray. The power of
the Lord was over all; and the people, the constables and soldiers
put off their hats.
When the meeting was done, and Friends began to pass away, the
constable put off his hat, and desired the Lord to bless us; for the
power of the Lord was over him and the people, and kept them under.
I tarried in and near London, visiting Friends' meetings, and
labouring in the service of the gospel, till the yearly meeting came
on, which began on the 28th of the Third month. It was a time of
great sufferings; and much concerned I was lest Friends that came
up out of the country on the Church's service, should be taken and
imprisoned at London. But the Lord was with us; His power preserved
us, and gave us a sweet and blessed opportunity to wait upon Him, to
be refreshed together in Him, and to perform His services for His
truth and people for which we met.
As it was a time of great persecution, and we understood that in most
counties Friends were under great sufferings, either by imprisonments
or spoiling of goods, or both, a concern was weightily upon me lest
any Friends that were sufferers, especially such as were traders and
dealers in the world, should hazard the losing of other men's goods
or estates through their sufferings.
* * * * *
On the First-day following[BI] I went to the meeting at Gracechurch
street. When I came there, I found three constables in the
meeting-house, who kept Friends out; so we met in the court.
[BI] In 1683.
After I had been some time there, I stood up and spoke to the people,
and continued speaking some time. Then one of the constables came,
and took hold of my hand, and said, "You must come down." I desired
him to be patient, and went on speaking to the people; but after a
little time he pulled me down, and took me into the meeting-house.
I asked them if they were not weary of this work. One of them said,
"Indeed we are." They let me go into the widow Foster's house, which
joined the meeting-house, where I stayed, being hot.
When the meeting was ended, for one prayed after I was taken away,
the constables asked some Friends which of them would pass their
words that I should appear, if they should be questioned about me.
But the Friends told them they need not require that, for I was a man
well known in the city to be one that would neither fly nor shrink.
So they went away, and I heard no further of it.
I continued yet at London, labouring in the work and service of
the Lord, both in and out of meetings; sometimes visiting Friends
in prison for the testimony of Jesus, encouraging them in their
sufferings, and exhorting them to stand faithful and steadfast in the
testimony, which the Lord had committed to them to bear. Sometimes
also I visited those that were sick and weak in body, or troubled
in mind, helping to bear up their spirits from sinking under their
infirmities. Sometimes our meetings were quiet and peaceable;
sometimes they were disturbed and broken up by the officers.
As I was speaking in the power of the Lord,[BJ] and the people were
greatly affected therewith, suddenly the constables, with the rude
people, came in like a sea.
[BJ] On First-day at the Savoy.
One of the constables said to me, "Come down"; and he laid hands on
me.
I asked him, "Art thou a Christian? We are Christians."
He had hold of my hand, and was very fierce to pluck me down; but I
stood still, and spoke a few words to the people; desiring of the
Lord that the blessings of God might rest upon them all.
The constable still called upon me to come down, and at length
plucked me down, and bade another man with a staff take me and carry
me to prison. That man led me to the house of another officer, who
was more civil; and after a while they brought in four Friends more,
whom they had taken.
I was very weary, and in a great perspiration; and several Friends,
hearing where I was, came to me in the constable's house; but I bade
them all go their ways, lest the constables and informers should stop
them.
After a while the constables led us almost a mile to a justice, who
was a fierce, passionate man. After he had asked me my name, and his
clerk had taken it in writing, upon the constable's informing him
that I had preached in the meeting, he said in an angry manner, "Do
not you know that it is contrary to the King's laws to preach in such
conventicles, contrary to the Liturgy of the Church of England?"
There was present one ---- Shad (a wicked informer, who was said to
have broken jail at Coventry, and to have been burned in the hand at
London), who, hearing the justice speak so to me, stepped up to him
and told him that he had convicted them on the Act of the 22d of King
Charles the Second.
"What! you convict them?" said the justice.
"Yes," said Shad, "I have convicted them, and you must convict them
too upon that Act."
With that the justice was angry with him, and said, "You teach me!
what are you? I'll convict them of a riot."
The informer hearing that and seeing the justice angry, went away in
a fret; so he was disappointed of his purpose.
Now had I drawings in Spirit to go into Holland, to visit the Seed of
God there.[BK] And as soon as the yearly meeting was over I prepared
for my journey. There went with me from London Alexander Parker,
George Watts, and Nathaniel Brassey, who also had drawings into that
country.
[BK] Spring of 1684.
We took coach the 31st of the Third month, 1684, and got to
Colchester that night. Next day being First-day, we went to the
meeting there; and though there was no notice given of my coming, yet
our being there was presently spread over the town, and in several
places in the country at seven and ten miles distance; so that
abundance of Friends came in double-horsed, which made the meeting
very large.
I had a concern and travail in my mind, lest this great gathering
should stir up the town, and be more than the magistrates could well
bear. But it was very quiet and peaceable, and a glorious meeting we
had, to the settling and establishing of Friends both in town and
country; for the Lord's power was over all; blessed be His name for
ever!
Truly the Lord's power and presence was beyond words; for I was but
weak to go into a meeting, and my face (by reason of a cold I had
taken) was sore; but God manifested His strength in us and with us,
and all was well. The Lord have the glory for evermore, for His
supporting power![182]
[182] The journal of the second visit to Holland gives little
matter of fresh interest. The visit lasted from the 31st of May
to the 16th of July, 1684.
It was the latter end of the summer when I came to London, where I
stayed the winter following; saving that once or twice, my wife being
in town with me, I went with her to her son Rous's at Kingston. And
though my body was very weak, yet I was in continual service, either
in public meetings, when I was able to bear them, or in particular
business amongst Friends, and visiting those that were sufferers for
Truth, either by imprisonment or loss of goods.
Many things also in this time I wrote, some for the press, and
some for particular service; as letters to the King of Denmark and
Duke of Holstein on behalf of Friends that were sufferers in their
dominions.[183]
[183] This letter to the Duke of Holstein ends as follows:
"I entreat the duke to consider these things. I entreat him to
mind God's grace and truth in his heart that is come by Jesus;
that by his Spirit of Grace and truth he may come to serve and
worship God in his Spirit and truth; so that he may serve the
living eternal God that made him, in his generation, and have his
peace in Christ, that the world cannot take away. And I do desire
his good, peace, and prosperity in this world, and his eternal
comfort and happiness in the world that is everlasting. Amen.
G. F.
"London, 26th of the 8th Month, 1684."
The yearly meeting coming on, I was much concerned for Friends
that came up to it out of the country, lest they should meet with
any trouble or disturbance in their passage up or down; and the
rather because about that time a great bustle arose in the nation
upon the Duke of Monmouth's landing in the West.[184] But the
Lord, according to His wonted goodness, was graciously pleased to
preserve Friends in safety, and gave us a blessed opportunity to
meet together in peace and quietness, and accompanied our meeting
with His living, refreshing presence: blessed for ever be His
holy name!
[184] The Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II.,
landed in Lyme, in Devonshire, hoping to secure the throne, but
he was defeated at Sedgemoor and captured July 6th, 1685.
Considering the hurries that were in the nation, it came upon me at
the close of this meeting to write a few lines to Friends, to caution
all to keep out of the spirit of the world, in which trouble is, and
to dwell in the peaceable Truth.
* * * * *
I came back to London in the First month, 1686, and set myself with
all diligence to look after Friends' sufferings, from which we had
now some hopes of getting relief. The sessions came on in the Second
month at Hicks's-Hall, where many Friends had appeals to be tried.
I was with these from day to day, to advise them, and to see that
no opportunity was slipped nor advantage lost; and they generally
succeeded well.
Soon after the King was pleased, upon our often laying our sufferings
before him, to give order for the releasing of all prisoners for
conscience' sake that were in his power to discharge. Thereby the
prison-doors were opened, and many hundreds of Friends, some of whom
had been long in prison, were set at liberty.[185]
[185] On the 16th of May James II. issued a warrant commanding
that all Quakers who had been convicted on charges of
_præmunire_, or for not swearing, or for not going to church,
should be released. By the execution of this warrant about
fifteen hundred Quakers were set free. Naturally the yearly
meeting which followed was a happy time. This "Order of Release"
is preserved in the Archives in Devonshire House in London. It is
written on eleven skins of vellum, with the king's portrait at
the top. In the list is the name of John Bunyan, who got included
in this Royal Pardon.
Some of those who had for many years been restrained in bonds, came
now up to the yearly meeting, which was in the Third month this
year. This caused great joy to Friends, to see our ancient, faithful
brethren again at liberty in the Lord's work, after their long
confinement. And indeed a precious meeting we had; the refreshing
presence of the Lord appearing plentifully with us and amongst us.
[Gradually Fox was growing physically weaker, and, though his
pen was busy with documents and letters, he records almost
nothing in his Journal.]
In the Seventh month[BL] I returned to London, having been near three
months in the country for my health's sake, which was very much
impaired; so that I was hardly able to stay in a meeting the whole
time; and often after a meeting had to lie down on a bed. Yet did not
my weakness of body take me off from the service of the Lord, but I
continued to labour in and out of meetings, in His work, as He gave
me opportunity and ability.
[BL] September, 1688.
I had not been long in London before a great weight came upon me,
and the Lord gave me a sight of the great bustles and troubles,
revolution and change, which soon after came to pass. In the sense
thereof, and in the movings of the Spirit of the Lord, I wrote "A
general epistle to Friends, to forewarn them of the approaching
storm, that they might all retire to the Lord, in whom is
safety."[186]
[186] This letter was written October 17th, 1688. William landed
in England November 5th, 1688.
About this time great exercises and weights came upon me (as they had
usually done before the great revolutions and changes of government),
and my strength departed from me; so that I reeled, and was ready to
fall, as I went along the streets. At length I could not go abroad
at all, I was so weak, for some time, till I felt the power of the
Lord to spring over all, and had received an assurance from Him, that
He would preserve His faithful people to Himself through all.
About the middle of the First month, 1688-9,[BM] I went to London,
the Parliament then sitting, and engaged about the bill for
indulgence. Though I was weak in body, and not well able to stir
about, yet so great a concern was upon my spirit on behalf of Truth
and Friends, that I attended continually for many days, with other
Friends, at the Parliament-House, labouring with the members, that
the thing might be done comprehensively and effectually.
[BM] March, 1689.
* * * * *
I remained at London till the beginning of the Ninth month,[BN] being
continually exercised in the work of the Lord, either in public
meetings, opening the way of Truth to people, and building up and
establishing Friends therein, or in other services relating to the
Church of God. For the Parliament now sitting, and having a bill
before them concerning oaths, and another concerning clandestine
marriages, several Friends attended the House, to get those bills so
worded that they might not be hurtful to Friends. In this service
I also assisted, attending on the Parliament, and discoursing the
matter with several of the members.
[BN] November, 1690.
[Here follows (January 10th, 1691) the last entry in the
Journal, with the letter written to the Irish Friends who were
enduring almost indescribable sufferings, occasioned by the
civil war in Ireland.]
Not long after I returned to London, and was almost daily with
Friends at meetings. When I had been near two weeks in town, the
sense of the great hardships and sore sufferings that Friends had
been and were under in Ireland, coming with great weight upon me,
I was moved to write an epistle, as a word of consolation unto
them.[187]
[187] This epistle, the last he ever wrote, closes with a
triumphant note and an optimistic outlook on the world:
"Christ the Seed reigns; and His power is over all, who bruises
the serpent's head, and destroys the devil and his works, and was
before he was. So all of you live and walk in Christ Jesus; that
nothing may be between you and God, but Christ, in whom ye have
salvation, life, rest and peace with God.
"As for the affairs of truth in this land and abroad, I hear
that in Holland and Germany, and thereaway, Friends are in love,
unity, and peace: and in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Nevis, Antigua,
Maryland, and New-England, I hear nothing, but Friends are in
unity and peace. The Lord preserve them all out of the world (in
which there is trouble) in Christ Jesus, in whom there is peace,
life, love, and unity. Amen. My love in the Lord Jesus Christ to
all Friends everywhere in your land, as though I named them.
G. F.
"London, the 10th of the 11th month, 1690" (January 10th, 1691).
[The next day he went to Gracechurch Street Meeting, which was
large and in which he preached a long and powerful sermon,
"opening many deep and weighty things." He then offered prayer,
and the meeting closed. When some Friends came to his room in
White-Hart-Court, later in the day, he told them he had "felt
the cold strike to his heart, as he came out of meeting"; "yet,"
he added, "I am glad I was here (i. e., in the meeting). Now I
am clear, I am fully clear!" Later, when Friends were visiting
him, he said: "All is well; the Seed of God reigns over all and
over death itself. And though I am weak in body, yet the power
of God is over all, and the Seed reigns over all disorderly
spirits." "Lying thus in a heavenly frame of mind, his spirit
wholly exercised towards the Lord," he fell asleep in peace on
the evening of January 13th, 1691. The funeral was attended
by a very large concourse of people, and the body was laid in
the burying-ground near Bunhill Fields, where the grave is now
marked with a modest stone. Few men in the dying hour could say
more truly, "I am clear."]
INDEX.
Abrahams, Galenus, 556
Amsterdam, 551
Audland, John, 154
Baltimore Yearly Meeting, see Maryland Yearly Meeting.
Baptists, 18-20
Barbadoes, 488-492
Barclay, Robert, 549
Barnet, 69
"Battledore, The," 386, 406
Beavor, Vale of, 94, 98
Believers, true, 74
Bennet, Justice, 125, 126
Beverley, 136
Bishop, George, 223
Blood of Christ, 91
Bradstreet, Simon, 378
Bristol, 272, 331, 392, 468, 535
Bunyan, John, 19, 26
Burnyeat, John, 498, 508, 547
Burrough, Edward, 157, 374, 402
Cambridge, 228
Carlisle, 186-191
Carlyle, his characterization of Fox, 67n, 139n
Carolina, 525-528
Charles II., Fox's letter to, 354
Church, The, what it is, 92, 145, 447
Claypole, Lady (Cromwell's daughter), 320
Clergy, 40
Coale, Josiah, 515n
Colchester, 224
Commonwealth Period, its importance, 16
Conventicle Act, 470, 474
Cork, 465
Cornwall, 238
Craddock, Dr. (of Coventry), 72
Cradock, Dr., an Episcopalian, 445ff
Cromwell, 212-215, 267, 275, 276, 319, 324, 325
Crook, John, 228, 317
Croslands, Jordan, 454
Cumberland, 181
Dales, The, 151
Dates, given in "old style," 69n
Delaware River, 501
Derby, 119ff;
Fox imprisoned a year, 121n, 131, 336
Desborough, General, 243
Doomsdale in Launceston Jail, 255
Drayton-in-the-Clay, 65, 203
Dunbar, 314
Edinburgh, 302-306, 313
Edmundson, William, 232, 494, 499, 510, 532
Education, views on, 37, 461
Edwards, Thomas, his "Gangræna," 19, 20, 21
Elizabeth, the Princess, 551
Endicott, Governor John, 375
Eton in Derbyshire, 95
Exeter, 269, 279
Falmouth (Smethick), 240
Farnsworth, Richard, 151, 164
Fell, Judge, 162ff, 164n, 168, 174ff, 295
Fell, Leonard, 162
Fell, Margaret (afterwards Margaret Fox), 160, 162,
351, 352n, 353, 368, 404, 405, 409;
a prisoner, 417, 421ff, 433;
marries George Fox, 468ff, 482;
her children, 536n
Fenny-Drayton, 65n, 203
Fifth-monarchy men, 23, 364, 367, 384
Flushing, 502
Foreign mission work, early, 385
Fox, Christopher, 65, 208
Fox, George, his creative power, 24;
the prophet of English Reformation, 24;
his "despair," 26;
turning point in his life, 27;
views of the Bible, 29;
his mysticism, 31;
enthusiasm, 32;
Divine Guidance, 33;
his view of man, 34;
a reformer, 35;
views of Education, 37;
on Predestination, 40;
his cures, 41;
his "Society," 42;
his fellow-workers, 43;
parentage, birth, early life, 65-67;
"leather suit," 67, 139;
leaves home, 68;
"despair," 69;
his experiences, 72-82;
his financial means, 74;
conversion, 82-85;
his sense of conditions, 87;
psychical change, 87;
the "flaming sword," 97;
new view of creation, 97;
his central teaching, 101;
his message, 101-105, 140, 155, 162;
first imprisonment, 110;
cures an hysteric woman, 112;
in Derby jail, 121ff;
at Lichfield, 132-134;
value of his preaching, 141;
his iron constitution, 144n;
beaten and stoned, 146;
Swarthmore, 159;
beaten at Ulverstone, 169ff;
beaten at Walney, 172ff;
how he bore persecution, 174;
his cures, 180n;
his discerning, 184;
sings in prison, 191;
visits Cromwell, 212-215 (see also Cromwell);
in Launceston jail and his trial, 244-268;
moved to travel over the nation, 277;
preaches three hours, 284 (see also 155, 184, 274);
long hair, 293;
his brave spirit, 311;
use of the Bible, 327;
his eyes, 344 (see also 187, 557);
imprisoned at Lancaster, 430ff;
in Scarborough, 439;
set free, 453;
power of organizing, 459;
marries Margaret Fell, 468ff;
ill at Stratford (Essex), 477;
sails for America, 484;
sails for England, 531;
last imprisonment, 540ff;
death, 578
Fox, Mary, 66, 539
Friends, beginning of the, 70n;
name, 77n
Friends set at liberty, 574
Furly, Benj., 550
Glasgow, 306
Glynne, Justice, 245
Goldsmith, Ralph, 374
Gospel, what is the, 403
Hacker, Colonel, 209, 369
Hale, Edward Everett, on "prophets," 24n
"Hat honor," 105ff, 197, 245, 248, 410
Holder, Christopher, 511, 512
Holiness, a life of (see Perfection, Christian), 85, 120ff
Holland, 548-553, 571
Hooton, Elizabeth, 79n, 494, 495
Hotham, Justice, 22, 135-137, 141, 146
Howgill, Francis, 154, 168
Huntingdon, Robert, at Carlisle, 371
Imprisonments of Friends, 277
Independency, 17
Indians, 499, 501, 510, 515, 519
Inward Light (see Light, the).
Ireland, 463-467
Jails, condition of, 192, 193, 256, 372, 430
Jamaica, 494
James, William, on the "Quaker Religion," 25n
Jersey, East, 512
Jersey, West, 501
John ap-John, 199, 280, 283, 285, 287ff, 293
Keith, George, 549, 556-558
Kendal, 156, 166
"King's Missive" (mandamus sent to Boston), 374-377
Kirby, Colonel, 403, 409, 412
Lampitt, "a priest," 159-161, 169
Lancaster, 164ff, 344-356, 410
Lancaster, James, 172ff, 183ff;
sings, 399, 499, 504
Launceston, 244-268
"Leathern breeches," 139
Leicester, a dispute at, 92, 396
Lichfield, 132-134
Light, the, 29, 100-104, 162, 196, 238, 283, 310, 315
"Little Ease," 372n
London, 70, 275, 277 et seq., 319-325, 471-476, 559, 564, 568, 575-578
Lower, Thomas, 265, 536, 538
Mancetter, 72
Manchester, 293
Mansfield, 95
Marriage, Friends' ceremony upheld by the courts, 387
Maryland, 498-501, 531-533
Maryland (Baltimore) Yearly Meeting begun, 98, 499, 520
"Meeting for Sufferings," 340
Meetings, setting up of Monthly, 459, 461
Ministers (Friends that speak in public), advice to, 203n
Ministry, 38
Monk, General, his order, 355
Nancemond, 524
Narragansett, 508
Nayler, James, 147, 164, 168, 172-174, 234, 269-271
New Castle, 501, 517
New England, Quakers in, 373
New England Yearly Meeting, 504
New York Half-Year's Meeting, 502
Nottingham, 109
Oaths, Act in regard to refusing to take oaths, 395
"Opened," meaning of the term, 74n
Ordinances, 39
Owen, Dr. John, 276
Oxford and Cambridge education not enough to qualify men
to be ministers, 75
Oyster Bay, 511
Packer, Colonel, 216ff
Parker, Alexander, 309, 310ff, 571
Parnell, James, 191, 192, 224
Patrington, 142-144
Pendle Hill, 150
Penington, Isaac, 317n, 325
Penn, William, on Fox, 44, 516n, 536, 547, 540, 556-558, 565
Perfection, Christian (see Holiness), 97, 101, 120ff, 333
Persecution of Friends in New England, 373, 379
Poland, letter to King of, 560
Presbyterianism, 17
"Priest," meaning of the word, 67n
Prison, number of Friends in, 389
"Professor," meaning of the word, 68n
Pronouns, use of plural, 197, 380ff
Providence, 507
Quaker, origin of the name, 125, 125n
Quaker honesty, 198
Ranters, 22, 78n, 116-117
Ranters in New England, 506
Reading, 223ff
Reckless, John, 110
Religious states, various, 318
Rhode Island, 504-09
Rotterdam, 550
Sale, Richard, 371
Sawrey, Justice, 161, 163, 169, 175
Scarborough, 439ff
Schools, establishing, 37, 461
Scotland, 298-316
Scriptures, the, 103, 109, 176
Sect, Quakers not a, 349n
"Seekers, The," 20-22
"Shake the country ten miles round," who could, 149
Shattuck, Samuel, 374
Shelter Island, 509
Shrewsbury, N. J., 513
Sixty ministers sent out, 201
Smethick (Falmouth), 240
Smith, William, 397
Sommerton, 525, 528
Speaking in a house of worship, 161n, 182n
Stephens, Nathaniel, a "priest," 71, 76, 203-206, 211
Stoddard, Amor, 90
Sufferings of Friends, 369; in New England, 373-379, 389;
petition to the king, 389
Swannington, 394
Swarthmore, 159, 166ff, 179, 295, 297, 342, 403
Swarthmore Meeting House, 164
Taylor, Thomas, 168, 200, 284
"Thou and Thee," 380-382
"Truth," meaning of, 407n
Ulverstone, 166, 169ff
Vane, Sir Henry, 328
Virginia, 524, 529
Wales, 199, 280, 282-293
Walney, 172
War, Fox's view of, 128, 130
Warwick, 230
Wensleydale, 151
West, Justice, 176ff, 295
Westmoreland, 154
Widders, Robert, 298, 307, 309, 311, 313, 341, 494, 499
Wilkinson and Story, 537n, 555
Williams, Roger, 547
Women, their position in the church, 19, 537
Women preachers, 19
Worcester, 539
Worship, 38
Yearly Meetings, at Luton (1658), 317;
Balby, 337;
Skipton (1659), 340, 483
York, 138
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Transcriber's note:
Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).
Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals.
Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been
retained except in obvious cases of typographical error.
Page 429 The transcriber has supplied the opening double quote mark
in the following sentence: "I do deny them in my heart; for I am a
Christian, and shall show forth Christianity amongst you this day. It
is for Christ's doctrine I stand."
Page 575 The transcriber has supplied the closing double quote mark
in the following sentence: "A general epistle to Friends, to forewarn
them of the approaching storm, that they might all retire to the
Lord, in whom is safety."