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EXTRACT FROM G. FOX'S JOURNAL.

"[About the year 1660] we received account from New England, "That the government there had made ' a law to banish the Quakers out of their colonies, upon pain of death in case they returned; that several of 'our Friends, having been so banished, and returning, 'were thereupon taken and actually hanged, and divers

more were in prison, and in danger of the like sentence 'to be executed upon them.' When those were put to death I was in prison at Lancaster, and had a perfect sense of their sufferings as though it had been myself, and as though the halter had been put about my own neck, though we had not at that time heard of it. But as soon as we heard of it, Edward Burrough went to the king, and told him, 'There was a vein of innocent 'blood opened in his dominions, which if it were not stop'ped would overrun all,' To which the king replied, 'But I will stop that vein.' Edward Burrough said, Then do it speedily, for we know not how many may soon be put to death.' The king answered, 'As speedily as ye will. Call,' said he to some present, 'the sec 'retary, and I will do it presently.' The secretary being called, a mandamus was forthwith granted.

"A day or two after, Edward Burrough going again to the king to desire the matter might be expedited, the king said, He had no occasion at present to send a ship thither, but if we would send one, we might do it as soon as we would. Edward then asked the king, if it would please him to grant his deputation to one called a Quaker, to carry the mandamus to New Eng

land? He said, 'Yes, to whom ye will.' Whereupon E. B. named Samuel Shattock, who being an inhabitant of New England was banished by their law, to be hanged if he came again; and to him the deputation was granted. Then he sent for an honest Friend, who was master of a good ship, and agreed with him for three hundred pounds (goods or no goods) to sail in ten days. He forthwith prepared to sail, and with a prosperous gale, in about six weeks, arrived before the town of Boston, upon a first-day morning. With him went many passengers, both of New and Old England, Friends, whom the Lord had moved to go and bear their testimony against those bloody persecutors, who had exceeded all the world in that age in their bloody persecutions.

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"The townsmen of Boston, seeing a ship come into the bay with English colours, soon came on board, and asked the commander if he had any letters? He said, 'Yes.' They asked if he would deliver them? said, 'No, not to-day.' So they went ashore, and reported. There was a ship full of Quakers, and that Samuel Shattock was among them, who they knew was by their law to be put to death for coming again after banishment; but they knew not his errand nor his authority. Next morning Samuel Shattock the king's deputy, and the commander went on shore, and sending back to the ship the men who landed them, they went through the town to the governor's door, and knocked. He sent out a man to know their business. They sent him word their business was from the king of England, and they would deliver their message to none but the governor himself. Thereupon they were

admitted, and the governor canie to them; and having received the deputation and mandamus, he put off his

Then going out, he bade
He went to the deputy-

hat, and looked upon them. the two Friends follow him. governor, and after a short consultation came out to them, and said, 'We shall obey his majesty's com'mands.'

"After this the master gave liberty to the passengers to come on shore, and presently the noise of the business flew about; and the Friends of the town and passengers of the ship met together to offer up their praises and thanksgivings to God, who had so wonderfully delivered them from the teeth of the devourer. Whilst they were thus met, in came a poor Friend, who, being sentenced by their law to die, had lain some time in irons expecting execution. This added to their joy, and caused them to lift up their hearts in high praises to God, who is worthy for ever to have the praise, the glory, and the honour; For He only is able to deliver, to save, and support all that sincerely put their trust in Him."

THE ILLITERATE PREACHER.

JOHN CHURCHMAN, visiting New England in 1742, had a meeting near Newberry; "at which," he says, "I was concerned to speak in a brief manner of the beginning of the reformation from the errors of the church of Rome, and the sufferings of the Protestants, particularly in England, some of whose successors turned persecutors, and were very cruel to those whom they called Sectarians; amongst these, the Presby

terians came into America, and settled into New England, expecting there to enjoy that reasonable right, and liberty of their conscience. But forgetting the golden rule of doing to others as they would be done unto, they became persecutors of the people called Quakers, even to the death of several of them.

"And I had to speak of the nature and ground of persecution, and the great inconsistency thereof with Christianity. Several of the Presbyterians were present; and an old man from Newberry, one of their leaders and an elder among them, when the meeting was over, desired he might speak with me.

"I being withdrawn into a little parlour, a Friend came and informed me, that the old man wanted to be admitted to me, to which I felt no objection, being quiet and easy in my mind, though I expected he would be for disputing. When he came in, he let me know he had some observations to make to me; he said, he supposed I was a man that had read much, or I could not be so fully acquainted with the reformation, and that he also supposed I had had a college education. As to the last, I told him that I never had been at a school but about three months, and the man I went to, being a weaver, sat in his loom and heard his scholars read; that I was so far from having had a popular education, that I was born in a wilderness place, where a few families had settled, many miles remote from other inhabitants: at which, lifting up his hands, he blessed himself and added, "Heaven has then anoin'ted you to preach the gospel, and you have this day preached the Truth; but I can assure you, though I have been a parish officer, I never did take any thing

'from your friends the Quakers, for I am against per'secution; so God bless you with a good journey.'"

VISIT AT WIEWART.

The succeeding relation is given by William Penn, in the account he has left of his travels in Holland and Germany, in the year 1677. This journey appears to have been undertaken solely on a religious account; in part, to visit and confirm his fellow professors in that precious testimony and doctrine, of which they had partaken, and partly that he might contribute (under the express appointment, direction, and assistance of his holy Leader,) to the expansion and spread of the kingdom of Christ,that blessed kingdom which is declared to be "RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, and JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT." Rom. xiv. 17.

"Having refreshed ourselves with food, we took waggon for Wiewart, the mansion-house of the family of the Somerdykes, where *J. de Labadie's company resideth, it being strong upon my spirit to give them

* In another part of the Journal W. Penn thus describes this person. "This man was a Frenchman, who being dissatisfied with the looseness and deadness of the French Protestants, even at Geneva itself, left them and came to Holland, and so vehemently declaimed against the apostacy of the priests and people there, that the clergy were enraged, and stirred up the magistrates against him; and the rather, because many followed him, and several women of great quality.

"I was moved to visit this man and his company six years ago, and did see him and his two great disciples; but they would not suffer me to see the people, which I laboured for. I in that day saw the airiness and unstableness of the man's spirit, and that a sect-master was his name; and it was upon me, both by word of mouth and writing, to let