justify all crime-so long, I fear, the slaughter and murder called war will continue. I have striven for freedom and justice and peace, but am sensible how little I have been able to do in so holy a cause."
The foundation for this book, as for all other lives of George Fox which have or ever can be written, is, of course, his "Journal or Autobiography." I am also indebted largely to the Histories of Quakerism by Sewel, Gough, Croese, and others; to the writings of the early Friends, and to other works too numerous to mention. I also have freely used-I believe for the first time for such a purpose-the Swarthmore and other manuscripts preserved in the Library of the Meeting for Sufferings, at Devonshire House, Bishopsgate. To avoid encumbering my pages with tedious references, I have appended at the end of this volume a list of a few of the chief authorities I have consulted. I have great pleasure in acknowledging the invaluable assistance I have received from every member of the Society of Friends whom I have had occasion to consult, and especially from Mr. J. Bevan Braithwaite, Mr. Edward Marsh, and Mr. Charles Hoyland. I have also gratefully to thank the Meeting for Sufferings for their kindness in placing their unrivalled collection of manuscripts and books relating to the Society at my disposal; Mr. Richard Littleboy for his goodness in allowing me to have the letter from Fox to Robert Barclay, which forms the frontispiece of this volume, lithographed; and Mr. Joseph Smith, the well known. Quaker bibliographer, for the use he has permitted me to make of his "Catalogue of Friends' Books," and for