[361] These particulars occur in petitions to Charles II. after the Restoration. They are all specified in Mrs. Green's Calendar of State Papers, Dom., 1660, 1661.
[362] Hallam observes: "It is somewhat bold in Anglican writers to complain, as they now and then do, of the persecution they suffered at this period, when we consider what had been the conduct of the Bishops before, and what it was afterwards. I do not know that any member of the Church of England was imprisoned under the Commonwealth, except for some political reason; certain it is the jails were not filled with them."—Const. Hist., ii. 14.
Distinction must be made between the sufferings of the Episcopalians during the Civil Wars and under the Protectorate. I am persuaded, after a long and careful enquiry into the subject, that the suffering during the latter of these periods has been immensely over-estimated.
[363] Justice Bennet, of Derby, "was the first that called us Quakers, because I bid them tremble at the word of the Lord. This was in the year 1650."—Fox's Journal, i. 132.
[364] See the very interesting Memoirs of Stephen Grellet, by B. Seebohn.
[365] See Journal, and Sewel's History of Friends.
[366] He supplies numerous instances of this in his own Journal.
[367] Sewel's History of Friends, i. 15.
[368] George Fox's Journal, i. 104.
[369] Penn's Preface to Fox's Journal, i. xl.