[6] MS. in D. entitled: “A Testimony Concerning our Dear ffriend and Sister in yᵉ Lord Elizabeth Hutton,” dated 1690, but not in Fox’s writing.
[7] For an illustrated article on Elizabeth Heath (d. 1693) and her charity see Journal F.H.S. x.
[8] MS. in D. endorsed by Fox: “a short jornall of gff never wer printd,” and by another writer: “of Some Short things from abᵗ yᵉ year 1648 to King Charles yᵉ 2ᵈ Dayes.” The MS. is much worn at the edges, but some words have been inserted from a contemporary copy.
[9] Besse, Sufferings of the Quakers, 1753, i. 137.
[10] D. (Swarth. MSS. ii. 43)
[11] The home of Thomas Aldam (c. 1616-1660) was Warmsworth, near Doncaster. His detention in York Castle followed a contretemps with the clergyman of this village, Thomas Rookby; he was two and a half years in the Castle. Short Testimony by his son, Thomas, 1690; Piety Promoted; D.N.B.; Camb. Jnl.
[12] D. (Swarth. MSS. i. 373)
[13] Mary Fisher (c. 1623-1698), afterwards Bayly and Cross, became a prominent preacher and traveller. She visited Cambridge and preached to the students, travelled in the West Indies and Eastern Europe, and died in Charlestown, South Carolina. Camb. Jnl.; Quaker Women, 1915.
[14] D. (Swarth. MSS. iii. 36)
[15] According to a MS. in D. (Swarth. MSS. iii. 91), William Peares died in York Castle. Fox endorses this scrap of paper: “W peres died in presen at York abought 1654.” In the MS. we read: “The cause of his Jmprisonment was, because he was moued to stripe himselfe naked. A ffigure off all the nakedness of the world.... Jt was the naked that suffered for the naked truth.”