desired the judge to let him produce his witness for that: and I called again upon major Ceely to come down from off the bench, telling him it was not fit that the accuser should sit as judge over the accused. Now when I called again for his witnesses, he said captain Bradden was his witness. Then I said, Speak captain Bradden, didst thou see me give him such a blow, and strike him, as he saith?' Captain Bradden made no answer; but bowed his head towards me. I desired him to speak up if he knew any such thing: but he only bowed his head again. Nay, said I, speak up, and let the court and country hear, and let not bowing of the head serve the turn. If I have done so, let the law be inflicted on me; I fear not sufferings, nor death itself, for I am an innocent man concerning all this charge.' But captain Bradden never testified to it: and the judge finding those snares would not hold, cried, "Take him away, jailer:' and then, when we were taken away, he fined us twenty marks a piece for not putting off our hats; and to be kept in prison till we paid it and so sent us back to jail again.

At night captain Bradden came to see us, and seven or eight justices with him, who were very civil to us, and told us they did believe neither the judge nor any in the court did believe any of those charges which major Ceely had charged upon me in the face of the country. And captain Bradden said, major Ceely had an intent to have taken away my life if he could have got another witness. "But,' said I, captain Bradden, why didst not thou witness for me, or against me, seeking major Ceely produced thee for a witness, that thou sawest me strike him? and when I desired thee to speak either for me or against me, according to what thou sawest or knewest, thou wouldst not speak. Why,' said he, 'when major Ceely and I came by you, as you were walking in the Castle-green, he put off his hat to you, and said, "How do you do, Mr. Fox? Your servant Sir.' Then you said to him, Major Ceely, take heed of hypocrisy, and of a rotten heart: for when came I to be thy master, and thou my servant? Do servants use to cast their masters into prison?' This was the great blow he meant that you gave him.' Then I called to mind that they walked by us, and that he spake to me as aforesaid; and I spake those words to him before mentioned; which hypocrisy and rotten-heartedness he manifested openly, when he complained of this to the judge in open court, and in the face of the country; and would have made them all believe that I struck him outwardly with my hand.

Now were we kept in prison, and divers people came

from far and nigh, to see us; of whom some were people of account in the world; for the report of our trial was spread abroad, and our boldness and innocency in our answers to the judge and court was talked of in town and country. Among others that came to visit us, there was one Humphry Lower, a grave, sober, ancient man, who had been a justice of peace formerly; and he was very sorry we should lie in prison, telling us how serviceable we might be if we were out of prison. But we reasoned with him concerning swearing and having acquainted him how they tendered the oath of abjuration to us, as a snare, because they knew we could not swear, we shewed him that no people could be serviceable to God, if they disobeyed the command of Christ: and that they that imprisoned us for the hat-honour, which was of men, and which men sought for, they prisoned the good, and vexed and grieved the Spirit of God in themselves, which should have turned their minds to God. So we turned him to the Spirit of God in his heart, and to the light of Christ Jesus; and he was thoroughly convinced, and continued so to his death, and was very serviceable to us.

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There came also to see us one colonel Rouse, a justice of peace, with a great company with him; and he was as full of words and talk as ever I heard any man in my life, so that there was no speaking to him. At length I asked him whether he had ever been at school, and knew what belonged to questions and answers; (this I said to stop him). At school!' said he, 'Yes.' At school!' said the soldiers; 'doth he say so to our colonel, that is a scholar!' Then said I, 'If he be so let him be still, and receive answers to what he bath said.' Then I was moved of the Lord to speak the word of life to him in God's dreadful power; which came so over him that he could not open his mouth his face swelled and was red like a turkey, and his lips moved, and he mumbled something, but the people thought he would have fallen down. I stepped to him, and he said he was never so in his life before: for the Lord's power stopped the evil power and air in him; so that he was almost choaked. The man was ever after very loving to friends, and not so full of airy words to us; though he was a man full of pride; but the Lord's power came over him and the rest that were with him.

Another time there came another officer of the army, a very malicious bitter professor, whom I had known in London: and he was full of his airy talk also, and spake slightly of the light of Christ, and against the truth, as colonel Rouse had done, and against the Spirit of God

being in men, as it was in the apostles' days; till the power of God that bound the evil in him, had almost choaked him also, as it did colonel Rouse: for he was so full of evil air that he could not speak, but blubbered and stuttered. But from that time that the Lord's power struck him, and came over him, he was ever after more loving to us.

Now the assize being over, and we settled in prison upon such a commitment, as we were not likely to be soon released, we broke off from giving the jailer seven shillings a week a piece for our horses, and seven shillings a week for ourselves; and sent our horses out into the country. Upon which the jailer grew very wicked and devilish, and put us down into doomsdale, a nasty, stinking place, where they used to put witches and murderers, after they were condemned to die. The place was so noisome, that it was observed few that went in did ever come out again in health, for there was no house of office in it, and the excrements of the prisoners that from time to time had been put there, had not been carried out (as we were told) for many years. So that it was all like mire, and in some places to the top of the shoes in water and piss; and he would not let us cleanse it, neither would he let us have beds or straw to lie on. At night some friendly people of the town brought us a candle and a little straw, and we went to burn a little of our straw to take away the stink. The thieves lay over our heads, and the head jailer lay in a room by them, over our heads also. Now it seems the smoke went up into the room where the jailer lay; which put him into such a rage, that he took up the pots of excrements of the thieves, and poured them down through a hole upon our heads in doomsdale; so that we were so bespattered with the excrements, that we could not touch ourselves nor one another. And the stink increased upon us, so that what with stink and what with smoke, we had like to have been choaked and smothered in doomsdale. For, we had the stink under our feet before, but now we had it on our heads and backs also: and he having quenched our straw with the filth he poured down, had made a great smother in the place. Moreover he railed on us most hideously, calling us hatchet-faced dogs, and such strange names as we had never heard of. In this manner were we fain to stand all night, for we could not sit down, the place was so full of filthy excrements; and a great while he kept us after this manner, before he would let us cleanse it, or suffer us to have any victuals brought in but what we had through the grate. One time a lass

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brought us a little meat, and he arrested her for breaking his house, and sued her in the town-court for breaking the prison and a great deal of trouble he put the young woman to, whereby others were so discouraged, that we had much a do to get water, or drink, or victuals. Near this time we sent for a young woman, one Ann Downer from London, that could write, and take things well in short hand, to buy and dress our meat for us, which she was very willing to, it being also upon her spirit to come to us in the love of God; and she was very serviceable

to us.

This head jailer, we were informed, had been a thief, and was burnt both in the hand and in the shoulder his wife too had been burnt in the hand. The under jailer had been burnt both in the hand and in the shoulder; and his wife had been burnt in the hand also. And colonel Bennet, who was a baptist teacher, having purchased the goal and lands belonging to the castle, had placed this head gaoler therein. The prisoners, and some wild people, would be talking of spirits that haunted doomsdale, and walked there, and how many had died in it; thinking perhaps to terrify us therewith. But I told them and friends, that if all the spirits and devils in hell were there, I was over them in the power of God, and feared no such thing; for Christ our priest would sanctify the walls and the house to us, he who bruised the head of the devil. The priest was to cleanse the plague out of the walls of the house under the law, which Christ, our priest, ended; who sanctifies both inwardly and outwardly the walls of the house, and the walls of the heart, and all things to his people.

By this time the general quarter-sessions drew nigh; and the gaoler still carrying himself basely and wickedly towards us, we drew up our sufferings, and sent it to the sessions at Bodmin; upon the reading of which the justices gave order that doomsdale door should be opened, and that we should have liberty to cleanse it, and to buy our meat in the town. We sent up a copy also of our sufferings to the Protector, setting forth how we were taken and committed by major Ceely; and how we were abused by captain Keat as aforesaid, and the rest in order: whereupon the Protector sent down an order to captain Fox, governor of Pendennis Castle, to examine the matter about the soldiers abusing us, and striking me. There were at that time many of the gentry of the country at the castle: and captain Keat's kinsman, that struck me, was sent for up before them, and much threatened. They told him that if I should change my principle, I might take the extremity

of the law against him, and might recover sound damages of him. Capt. Keat also was checked, for suffering the prisoners under his charge to be abused. This was of great service in the country, for afterwards friends might have spoken in any market or steeple-house thereabouts, and none would meddle with them. 1 understood that Hugh Peters, who was one of the Protector's chaplains, told him they could not do George Fox a greater service for the spreading of his principles in Cornwall, than to imprison him there. And indeed my imprisonment there was of the Lord, and for his service in those parts: for after the assizes were over, and it was known we were likely to continue prisoners, several friends from most parts of the nation came into the country to visit us. And those parts of the west were very dark countries at that time; but the Lord's light and truth brake forth and shined over all, and many were turned from darkness to the light, and from Satan's power unto God. And many were moved to go to the steeple-houses; and several were sent to prison to us; and a great convincement there began to be in the country. For now we had liberty to come out, and to walk in the Castle-green; and divers people came to us on the firstdays, to whom we declared the word of life; and great service we had among them, and many were turned to God, here and there, up and down the country; but a great rage got up in the priests and professors against the truth and us. One of the envious professors had gathered together many scripture sentences, to prove that we ought to put off our hats to the people; and he invited the town of Launceston to come into the Castle-yard to hear him read them amongst other instances that he there brought, one was that Saul bowed to the witch of Endor. When he had done, we got a little liberty (whether the jailer would or no) to speak; and we shewed both him and the people that Saul was gone from God, and had disobeyed God, like them, when he went to the witch of Endor: that neither the prophets, nor Christ, nor the apostles ever taught people to bow to a witch. The man went away with his rude people; but some of the people staid with us, and we shewed them that this was not gospel instructions, to teach people to bow to a witch. For now people began to be affected with the truth, and now the devil's rage increased, so that we were in great danger many times.

One time there came a soldier to us; and one of our friends was admonishing of him, and exhorting him to sobriety, &c. and I saw him begin to draw his sword at him. Whereupon I stepped to him, and told him what a