he observed the Magistrates coming to arrest him, but they were too late. The spirit of persecution was now very violent in these parts.

Coming to Worcester, he had a satisfactory meeting there. At Tewkesbury, the Priest, with a rude rabble, attended the meeting, and caused some disturbance. Travelling to Warwick, he had a good meeting at the house of a widow, at which many were convinced; but the Bailiff manifested a persecuting spirit, which induced George Fox to go to his house, and remonstrate with him. The people were rude, but George and his companions, (for several Friends were now with him,) did not suffer any material injury. After leaving Warwick, he was engaged to return to it, and declare the Word of Life to them; and being struck at, he showed them their unworthiness of the name of Christians. Some, however, both here and at Tewkesbury, were turned to the Lord.

Being now clear of Warwick, he went to Coventry, where he found the people in a dark state. Going to a person's house, where he had been when there before, he found him drunk. This so affected George's mind, that he did not go into any house in the town, but rode through some of the streets and the market-place, and, says he, "I felt the power of the Lord over the town." He

next came to Dun-Cow,* where he had a meeting, and many were turned to the Lord by his Spirit. Here he met with John Camm, whom he styles "a faithful Minister of the everlasting Gospel." At this place they were treated with much rudeness in the evening, some of the people riding on horseback into the room in which the Friends sat, but they were not much injured. "The Lord," he says, “gave us dominion over them."

Passing through Leicestershire, he came to Badgley in Warwickshire, where Wm. Edmundson met him, by whom he wrote an Epistle to Friends in the North of Ireland, which not being long, it may be proper to insert, as a specimen of his short, pithy, mode of expression. When read among those to whom it was addressed, we are told that it had very reaching effect upon them.

"FRIENDS,

"In that which convinced you wait, that you may have that removed you are convinced of. And all my dear Friends dwell in the life, love, power, and wisdom of God, in unity one with another, and with God; and the peace and wisdom of God fill all your hearts, that nothing may rule in you, but the life which stands in the Lord God. G. F."

This is supposed to be the sign of the Dun-Cow.

CHAP. VII.

1655 to 1656.-Travels through the Counties of Northampton, Bedford, and Herts, to London. Leaves London for Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall, Is imprisoned at Launceston about six months, where he is very cruelly treated.

AFTER writing the Epistle to Ireland, George Fox travelled by Swanington and Higham, into Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire. At Baldock he met with some Baptists, and visited a sick woman of that profession, who with her husband was convinced, and meetings were held in their house. At the inn, two men were fighting very furiously, and no one durst attempt to part them; but George, with his wonted intrepidity, stepped between them, and holding one of them by one hand, and the other by his other hand, he admonished and reconciled them, and they behaved so well to him, that the people were in admiration.

He and his companions now passed by MarketStreet and Albans, to London, where their Friends were comforted by their accounts of the prosperity of truth, and their deliverance from many dangers. At London he stayed some time, visiting the meet> ings of his Friends. When he left the city, James

Naylor was there, concerning whom, at parting, George felt some fear, which he afterwards found not to be groundless. He now travelled, having Edward Pyott for a companion, into Surrey and Sussex. Not far from Ryegate, he visited Thomas Moore, a Justice of the Peace, who was convinced, and became a serviceable man in the society. Passing through Godalmin, Horsham, and Arundel, he came to Chichester. Here some people attended the meeting, who were disposed to dispute and make a disturbance. The woman of the house where the meeting was held, was convinced; but having an offer of marriage from one not a Friend, George Fox, endeavoured to dissuade her from it, but in vain. After her marriage, she found her husband greatly in debt, and became deranged in mind; from which however she recovered, and her husband dying, she became sensible of her fault in slighting the advice which George Fox had given her.

Leaving Chichester, they went to Portsmouth, where, after an examination by the Governor, he was set at liberty, and came to Ringwood. Here, and at Pool and Southampton, several were convinced and turned to the Lord Jesus Christ, their teacher and Saviour. Among this number, at Pool, was William Bailey, a preacher among the Baptists, who afterwards became an eminent mi

nister among Friends. At Dorchester, George had a meeting and dispute with some Baptists; which terminated in the convincement of many who were present. Coming to Weymouth, they had a meeting with about eighty sober people, most of whom were convinced, receiving the truth in the love of it, with gladness of heart. When George and his companion left Weymouth, a Captain of horse accompanied them about seven miles. George says, "This Captain was the fattest, merriest, cheerfullest man, and most given to laughter," that he ever met with. This produced several reproofs from him, the last of which appears to have reached the Captain's heart; and he told George, the next time they met, that when he spoke to him at parting, the power of the Lord so struck him, that before he got home, he was serious enough; and had left off his laughing. He was afterwards convinced, and became a serious good man, and died in the truth.

Parting with the Captain, George Fox and his companion came to Honiton, in Devonshire, and after having some dispute with a number of particular Baptists, they proceeded to Topsham, where they met with much rudeness among the people; yet some were convinced, and a Meeting was afterward settled in this town. From Topsham, they proceeded to Totness, which he calls.