vinced here aways; and we could not tell where to get a meeting my husband also being present, he overheard, and said of his own accord, You may meet here, if you will: and that was the first meeting we had that he offered of his own accord. And then notice was given that day and the next to Friends, and there was a good large meeting the first-day, which was the first meeting that was at Swarthmore; and so continued there a meeting from 1652 till 1690. And my husband went that day to the steeple-house, and none with him but his clerk and his groom that rid with him; and the priest and people were all fearfully troubled: but praised be the Lord, they never got their wills upon us to this day.

And then after a few weeks George went to Ulverstone steeple-house again, and the said justice Sawrey, with others, set the rude rabble upon him; and they beat him so that he fell down as in a swoon, and was sore bruised and blackened in his body, and on his head and arms. Then my husband was not at home; but when he came home he was displeased that they should do so; and spoke to justice Sawrey, and said it was against law to make riots. And after that he was sore beat and stoned at Walney, till he fell down: and also at Dalton was he sore beat and abused; so that he had very hard usage in divers places in these parts. And then when a meeting was settled there, he went again into Westmoreland, and settled meetings there; and there was a great convincement, and abundance of brave ministers came out thereaways, as John Camm, John Audland, Francis Howgil, Edward Burrough, Miles Halhead, and John Blaykling, with divers others. He also went over Sands to Lancaster, and Yelland, and Kellet, where Robert Widders, Richard Hubberthorn, and John Lawson, with many others, were convinced. And about that time he was in those parts, many priests and professors rose up, and falsely accused him for blasphemy, and did endeavour to take away his life; and got people to swear at a session at Lancaster that he had spoken blasphemy. But my then husband and colonel West, having had some sight and knowledge of the truth, withstood the two persecuting justices, John Sawrey and Thompson, and brought him off, and cleared him; for indeed he was innocent. And after the sessions there was a great meeting in the town of Lancaster; and many of the towns' people came in, and many were convinced. And thus he was up and down about Lancaster, Yelland, Westmoreland, and some parts of Yorkshire, and our parts above one year; in which time there was above twenty and four

ministers brought forth, that were ready to go with their testimony of the Eternal Truth unto the world: and soon after Francis Howgil and John Camm went to speak to Oliver Cromwell.

And in the year 1653 George's drawings was into Cumberland, by Milholm, Lampley, Embleton, and Brigham, Pardsey and Cockermouth, where at or near Embleton he had a dispute with some priests, as Larkham and Benson, but chiefly with John Wilkinson, a preacher at Embleton and Brigham, who after was convinced, and owned the Truth, and was a serviceable minister both in England, Ireland, and Scotland. And then he went to Coldbeck and several places, till he came to Carlisle, and went to their steeple-house: and they beat and abused him, and had him before the magistrates, who examined him, and put him in prison there in the common goal among the thieves. And at the assizes, one Anthony Pearson, who had been a justice of peace, and was convinced at Appleby (when he was upon the bench) by James Naylor and Francis Howgil, who were then prisoners there, and brought before him; so Anthony Pearson spake to the justices at Carlisle, he being acquainted with them, having married his wife out of Cumberland; and after a while they released him. And after he went into several parts in Cumberland, and many were convinced, and owned the Truth: and he gathered and settled meetings there amongst them, and up and down in several parts there in the North.

And in the year 1654 he went southward to his own country of Leicestershire, visiting friends. And then Colonel Hacker sent him to Oliver Cromwel: and after his being kept prisoner awhile, he was brought before Oliver and released. And then he staid a while, visiting friends in London, and the meetings therein, and so passed westward to Bristol, and visited friends there and after went into Cornwall, where they put him in prison at Launceston, and one Edward Pyot with him, where he had a bad, long imprisonment. And when he was released, he passed into many parts in that county of Cornwall, and settled meetings there. And then he travelled through many counties, visiting friends and settling meetings all along; and so came into the north, and to Swarthmore, and to Cumberland.

And so for Scotland he passed in the year 1657, and there went with him Robert Widders, James Lancaster, John Grave, and others. And he travelled through many places in that nation, as Douglas, Heads, Hambleton,

Glasgow, and to Edinburgh, where they took him, and carried him before General Monk, and the council, and examined him, and asked him his business into that nation; who answered, he came to visit the seed of God. And after they had threatened him, and charged him to depart their nation of Scotland, they let him go. And then he went to Linlithgow, and Sterling, and Johnstons, and many places, visiting the people; and several were convinced. And after he had staid a pretty while, and settled some meetings, he returned into Northumberland, and into the bishoprick of Durham, visiting friends and settling meetings as he went; and then returned back again to Swarthmore, and staid amongst friends awhile, and so returned south again. And in 1658, judge Fell died.

And in 1660 he came out of the south into the north, and had a great general meeting about Balby in Yorkshire; and so came on visiting friends in many places, till he came to Swarthmore again. And king Charles then being come in, the justices sent out warrants, and took him at Swarthmore, charging him in their warrants, that he drew away the king's liege people, to the endangering the embruing the nation in blood; and sent him prisoner to Lancaster castle. And I having a great family, and he being taken in my house, I was moved of the Lord to go to the king at Whitehall; and took with me a declaration, and an information of our principles. And a long time, and much ado I had, to get to him. But at last, when I got to him, I told him if he was guilty of those things, I was guilty, for he was taken in my house. And I gave him the paper of our principles, and desired that he would set him at liberty, as he had promised that none should suffer for tender consciences; and we were of tender consciences, and desired nothing but the liberty of our consciences. And then with much ado, after he had been kept prisoner near half a year at Lancaster, we got a habeas corpus, and removed him to the king's bench, where he was released. And then would I gladly have come home to my great family, but was bound in my spirit, and could not have freedom to get away for a whole year. And the king had promised me several times that we should have our liberty. And then the monarchy men rose; and then came the great and general imprisonment of friends the nation through and so could I not have freedom nor liberty to come home till we had got a general proclamation for all our friends' liberty; and then I had freedom and peace to come home.

And in 1663 he came north again, and to Swarthmore.

And then they sent out warrants, and took him again, and had him to Holcrof before the justices, and tendered him the oath of allegiance, and sent him prisoner to Lancaster castle. And about a month after, the justices sent for me also out of my house, and tendered me the oath, and sent me prisoner to Lancaster. And the next assizes they tendered the oath of allegiance and supremacy to us again both, and premunired me; but they had missed the date, and other things in the indictment, and so it was quashed; but they tendered him the oath again, and kept him prisoner a year and an half at Lancaster castle. And then they sent him to Scarborough castle in Yorkshire, where they kept him prisoner close under the soldiers much of a year and an half, so that a friend could scarcely have spoken to him; yet after that it pleased the Lord that he was released. But I continued in prison, and a prisoner four years at that time, and an order was procured from the council, whereby I was set at liberty. And in that time I went down into Cornwall with my son and daughter Lower, and came back by London to the yearly meeting, and there I met with him again; and then he told me the time was drawing on towards our marriage, but he might first go into Ireland. And a little before this time. was he prisoner in his own country at Leicester for a while, and then released. And so into Ireland he went, and I went into Kent and Sussex, and came back to London again; and afterward I went to the west, towards Bristol, in 1669, and there I staid till he came over from Ireland. And then it was eleven years after my former husband's decease. And in Ireland he had had a great service for the Lord and his eternal truth, amongst friends and many people there, but escaped many dangers, and times of being taken prisoner, they having laid in wait aforehand for him in many places. And then he being returned at Bristol, he declared his intentions of marriage; and there also was our marriage solemnized. And then within ten days after I came homewards, and my husband staid up and down in the countries amongst friends visiting them.

And soon after I came home, there came another order from the council to cast me into prison again; and the sheriff of Lancashire sent his bailiff, and pulled me out of my own house, and had me prisoner to Lancaster castle (upon the old premunire), where I continued a whole year, and most part of that time was I sick and weakly, and also my husband was weak and sickly at that time. And then after awhile he recovered, and went about to get me

out of prison, and a discharge at last was got under the great seal; and so I was set at liberty. And then 1 was to go up to London again, for my husband was intending for America. And he was full two years away before he came back again into England, and then he arrived at Bristol, and then came to London; and he intended to have come to the middle of the nation with me; but when he came into some parts of Worcestershire, they got there information of him; and one justice Parker, by his warrant, sent him and my son Lower to Worcester goal; and the justices there tendered him the oath, and premunired him, but released my son Lower, who staid with him most of the time he was prisoner there.

And after some time he fell sick, in a long, lingering sickness, and many times was very ill so they writ to me from London, that if I would see him alive I might go to him; which accordingly I did. And after I had tarried seventeen weeks with him at Worcester, and no discharge like to be obtained for him, I went up to London, and writ to the king an account of his long imprisonment, and how he was taken in his travel homewards, and how he was weak and sick, and not like to live if they kept him long there. And I went with it to Whitehall myself; and I met with the king and gave him the paper; and he said I must go to the chancellor, he could do nothing in it. Then I writ also to the lord chancellor, and went to his house, and gave him my paper, and spoke to him, that the king had left it wholly to him; and if he did not take pity and release him out of that prison, I feared he would end his days there. And the lord chancellor Finch was a very tender man, and spoke to the judge, who gave out an habeas corpus presently. And when we got it we sent it down to Worcester, and they would not part with him at first, but said he was premunired, and was not to go out on that manner. And then we were forced to go to judge North, and to the attorney general, and we got another order, and sent down from them; and with much ado, and great labour and industry of William Mead and other friends, we got him up to London, where he appeared in Westminster hall at the king's bench, before judge Hales, who was a very honest, tender man; and he knew they had imprisoned him but in envy. So that which they had against him was read, and our counsel pleaded that he was taken up in his travel and journey. And there was but a little said till he was acquitted. And this was the last prison that he was in, being freed by the court of king's bench.