[83] This phrase—“a Cage of uncleane birds”—quoted originally from the Bible—“Babylon is become ... a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,” Rev. xviii. 2, was frequently used by early Friends to describe their opponents. Francis Bugg (apostate Quaker) states that George Fox used it “about the year 1662” in reference to “the Church of England” (Pilgrim’s Progress from Quakerism to Christianity, 1698, p. 130).
[84] This is doubtless a reference to an early, undated quarto pamphlet, issued by Friends, entitled Something concerning Agbarus, Prince of the Edesseans.... Also Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans.... As also how several scriptures are corrupted by the Translators. Other editions, in octavo, were printed later in the century.
[85] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 59)
[86] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 43)
[87] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 62) The following is taken from the Calendar of State Papers Colonial, 1665, i. 292:
April 10, 1665.
From Captain Breedon’s House at Boston.
Col. George Cartwright to Col. Nicholls:
“This day, a Quaker (my country-woman) told me before Captain Breedon, that she had heard several say yᵗ I was a Papist ... and that Sir Robᵗ. Carr kept a naughty woman; I examined her if I had not kept one too, or if she knew me not to be a Papist.” E. Hooton writes: “They said that Cartwright, that was one of the Comissionʳˢ, was a papist, or a Jesuit, but hee being my Country man, J did vindicate him, and told them that J knew noe such thinge” (MS. in D. Portfolio iii. 43).
[88] Ann Richardson was, by her first marriage, Ann Burden. After some years of married life in Mass., Thomas and Ann Burden returned to England, their native land, and settled at Bristol, where the husband died. His widow crossed the Atlantic again about 1657, and, with Mary Dyer, visited Mass., whence they were both banished. About 1665, as Ann Richardson, she again visited New England.