The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers / Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.

by William Sewel

• Labadie, John de, a noted teacher in Holland, ii. [164].
• Lambert, Major General, dissuades Cromwell from assuming the crown, for which he is made to resign his commission, i. [184].
• —— is sent general by the parliament against sir George Booth, whom he defeats, i. [235].
• —— he is tried and condemned, but obtains his life, and is confined to a small island near Plymouth, i. [355].
• Lampitt, William, priest at Ulverstone, opposed by G. Fox, i. [71].
• —— put to silence by G. Fox, i. [74].
• —— Friends barbarously used by his hearers, i. [75].
• —— he with another priest are silenced, when Miles Halhead went into the house where Lampitt was preaching, i. [89].
• —— his death, ii. [138].
• Lancaster, James, his wife throws stones at G. Fox, i. [74].
• —— she repents, and becomes one of his friends, i. [77].
• —— he accompanies Miles Halhead into Ireland, and afterwards into Scotland, i. [111].
• Launceston, mayor of, a cruel persecutor, i. [153].
• Languages and sciences not requisite to make a minister of Christ, i. [198].
• Laws originally designed against Papists executed against Protestant dissenters, i. [290].
• —— an abstract of them interspersed with cases, i. [287], [288], [289].
• Laws in equity should extend no further than there is power in man to obey, ii. [52].
• —— made in New England against the Quakers, i. [217], [222].
• Lawson, Thomas, convinced by G. Fox, and becomes a preacher, i. [72].
• Lawson, Wilfrey, high sheriff, a great enemy to G. Fox when in Carlisle prison, i. [84].
• Lawyers are without justice and equity, for want of the true knowledge and wisdom, i. [31].
• —— an expostulation with them, i. [170].
• Le Clerc, John, his constancy in martyrdom, i. [14].
• Leddra, William, taken up at Newberry, and sent to the house of correction at Boston. Was kept five days without food, and had twenty lashes with a three-corded whip, i. [217].
• —— though banished on pain of death he returned to Boston, is taken up, and chained to a log of wood day and night, i. [296].
• —— is thus brought to court and examined; receives sentence of death; writes to his friends, i. [300].
• —— his execution, i. [301].
• Letchford, Leonard, a cruel persecutor; his sudden death, i. [354].
• Liberty of conscience, the protector’s speech for it, i. [103].
• —— the pretended assertors of it persecute more fiercely than the Episcopalians had done before, i. [107].
• —— promised by king Charles the Second in his declaration, i. [266].
• —— the court seems inclined to it, but prevented it, i. [284].
• —— a little book concerning it presented to the king, i. [318].
• —— expected from king James the Second, ii. [200].
• —— but is settled by king William in his first parliament, ii. [233].
• Licentiousness of the press, a bill for restraining it brought into parliament, ii. [278].
• —— considerations relating to it offered by the Quakers and given to the members, ii. [278].
• Light of Christ, vide i. [73], [133], [187].
• Lilburn, John, lieutenant-colonel, reproves the protector, i. [142].
• —— his character; imprisoned, tried for treason, acquitted, yet kept prisoner during the protector’s life, and afterwards convinced, i. [143], [144].
• Lockhart, governor of Dunkirk, i. [232].
• —— sends for E. Burrough and S. Fisher, and discourses with them in a friendly manner, i. [234].
• Lodowick, Charles, elector palatine, his kind entertainment of W. Ames, and his friends, i. [225].
• Loe, Thomas, a zealous minister of the gospel; his dying words; W. Penn convinced by him, ii. [81].
• London, F. Howgill and A. Pearson, the first of the Quakers who held a meeting there, i. [98].
• —— meeting-houses built and meetings settled there, i. [101].
• —— Quakers are severely persecuted; about 509 of them imprisoned, i. [374].
• —— Many instances of barbarous cruelties, i. [375], [376], [382], [383].
• —— pestilence increases; above 8000 people die in one week, ii. [48].
• —— fire breaks out, by which above 1320 houses were burnt, ii. [64].
• Love, mutual Christian love amongst friends, i. [229].
• Love, John, travels to Leghorn, Venice, Rome, where for his testimony he is put in the inquisition, and dies, i. [282].
• Lower, Thomas, convinced by G. Fox in Launceston jail, i. [153].
• —— imprisoned with him at Worcester, ii. [117].
• —— set at liberty, pleads for G. Fox, and smartly reprimands Dr. Crowder, ii. [122].
• Lucerne, valley of, protestants there much persecuted, i. [204].
• Lurting, Thomas, a fighting sailor, becomes a peaceable Christian, meets with many troubles by being pressed into the king’s service: is taken by an Algerine; retakes the ship without fighting; lands the Turks on the Barbary shore; on his return, the king being informed of the circumstance, went and discoursed with the master and mate about it, i. [418] to [428].
• Lindy, a blind man of 90, severely used at Bristol, ii. [186].

M.

• Magistracy, the end and design of it, i. [212].
• —— its degeneracy, i. [212].
• —— the Quakers’ opinion concerning it, i. [281].
• Magistrates of Boston, in New England, encouraged by the priests in persecution, i. [219].
• Magistrates, make a cruel order, which is cruelly executed, i. [219].
• —— good and bad, our duty to each respectively, i. [281].
• —— how far their power extendeth, i. [309].
• Magna Charta, proceedings against Quakers contrary to it, i. [381].
• Malta, English consul accessary to the putting two English women in the inquisition, i. [324].
• —— his death, i. [333].
• —— C. Evans writes to its rulers, i. [340].
• —— a dreadful tempest and earthquake, i. [341].
• Mansfield-Woodhouse, people fall upon G. Fox, in the steeple-house, and strike him down, &c. a distracted woman quieted, i. [35].
• Marriage, the principle of the Quakers relating thereto, ii. [204].
• Marsh, ——, esq. one of the king’s bed-chamber, a friend to G. Fox, i. [285].
• —— his extraordinary respect for him, ii. [64].
• —— is made justice of peace, continues kind to G. Fox and other friends, ii. [78], [79].
• Marshal, Charles, convinced, i. [101].
• —— travels through the nation in the heat of persecution, yet none lay hands on him, neither is he fined for preaching, ii. [187].
• Marshal, Henry, a persecuting priest, his presumptuous saying from the pulpit, and sad death, ii. [72].
• Marshal, priest, spreads false and slanderous reports of G. Fox, i. [66].
• Marshall, Elizabeth, imprisoned at Bristol, i. [104].
• Mass-houses not the houses of God, i. [75].
• Meekness and patience, notable instances of them, i. [415].
• Meeting, the first great one kept in Nottinghamshire; an extraordinary one at Mansfield; of professors and others visited in several places, i. [29], [30].
• —— a general, at Swanington in Bedfordshire, and at Skipton, i. [114], [199].
• Meetings settled, i. [67].
• —— frequently disturbed at London and elsewhere, and persons cruelly abused, i. [374].
• —— Friends beaten and grievously wounded, some even to death, and when kept by force out of their meeting-houses they meet in the street, i. [376].
• —— a yearly meeting at London, ii. [89].
• —— some convinced in silent meetings, ii. [294].
• —— meeting-house at Ratcliffe pulled down, ii. [100].
• Military employment testified against, i. [107].
• Miller, Philip, a volunteer in persecution, disturbing meetings without authority, i. [377].
• Ministers of Christ are made by himself, who gives them gifts, i. [199].
• —— so called, in this nation a great grievance to it, ii. [182].
• —— of the word, above 60 of them raised among the Quakers, go out in the service of the gospel; the names of several of them, i. [98].
• Monk, general, gives an order against soldiers disturbing Friends’ meetings, i. [365].
• Motions of the body and mind distinguished, ii. [131].
• Muggleton, Lodowick, and John Reeves, their monstrous blasphemies, a book published against him by R. Farnsworth, i. [430].
• —— to which he replies, i. [430].
• Murder, strange account of one at Dublin, i. [130].
• Musgrave, sir Philip, a persecutor of Friends, and a violent prosecutor of F. Howgill, ii. [9].

N.

• Nayler, James, convinced by G. Fox, becomes a preacher, i. [58].
• —— reproved by G. F. and friends at Bristol, i. [158].
• —— his birth and education, &c. i. [159].
• —— the beginning of his fall, i. [160].
• —— his procession into Bristol, taken up there, examined, and sent to London to be examined by the parliament, their resolution and sentence, i. [160], [161].
• —— petitions on his behalf, i. [162].
• —— public preachers prevail with the Protector not to stop his punishment, i. [163].
• —— sentence executed at London, i. [164].
• —— he comes to a true repentance of his transgression, and publishes several books and papers by way of recantation, i. [165], [166].
• —— extract from the preface of his works.—See Appendix, vol. i.
• —— his crime not owing to the doctrine of which he made profession, but to his being exalted in his own opinion, i. [179].
• —— his dying words, i. [181].
• Newcastle, mayor of, troubled for imprisoning M. Halhead; sets him at liberty, i. [89].
• New England, persecution there, i. [181].
• —— cruel laws made, i. [217].
• —— Nicholas Davis banished on pain of death, i. [251].
• —— their deputies come to England to defend their cruelty, but fearing danger, retreat, i. [314].
• —— impious expressions of some of the magistrates, i. [369].
• —— a relation of their proceedings published, i. [371].
• Nimeguen, the Congress there. The apology and a letter written in Latin by R Barclay, delivered to each ambassador, &c. ii. [174].
• Norton, John, priest at Boston in New England, encourages the magistrates in persecution, i. [219].
• —— he with other priests petition for a law to banish Quakers on pain of death, i. [222].
• —— his sudden and remarkable death, i. [372].
• Norwich, R. Hubberthorn and G. Whitehead go thither, by whose ministry a meeting is settled there, i. [98], [107].

O.

• Oaths, reason why the Quakers refuse to take them, &c. and petition parliament for an affirmation instead of an oath, vide acts of parliament, ii. [259].
• Oath of fidelity to O. Cromwell refused by his soldiers convinced of the Quakers’ persuasion, who thereupon are disbanded, i. [97].
• —— of abjuration of the pope, refused and why, i. [134].
• —— of supremacy, i. [290].
• Oaths, on gospel ordinance, a book written by F. Howgill against oaths, ii. [86].
• —— doctrine of the Quakers concerning oaths not absolutely necessary to government, ii. [302].
• Oaths of allegiance and supremacy tendered to Quakers, and by them refused, the general pretence for persecuting them, i. [351], [352].
• Oppressed, God hears them, and brings distress on their persecutors, i. [283].
• Orange, prince of, king William III. the glorious instrument of establishing liberty of conscience by law, ii. [233].
• —— plot against him, and associations thereupon, ii. [274].
• —— testimony of the Quakers respecting these associations, ii. [274].
• Osborn, Wm. one of the first Scotch preachers of the Quakers, i. [112].
• —— from a lieutenant colonel becomes a zealous minister, i. [124].
• Oxford, cruel and barbarous usage of Elizabeth Heavens and Elizabeth Fletcher, so that the latter of whom died soon after, i. [108].

P.

• Paets, Adrian, his argument against revelation, ii. [143].
• —— answered by R. Barclay and others, ii. [144] to [160].
• Page, John, mayor of Plymouth, his unjust treatment of M. Halhead, and T. Salthouse, i. [134].
• —— makes excuse for it in a letter to general Desborough, who is little satisfied with it, i. [134].
• Papists endeavour to make proselytes of Quakers, i. [315].
• —— statutes made against them, executed against Quakers, ii. [19].
• Parker, Alexander, an early minister, i. [118].
• —— his death and character, ii. [235].
• Parnel, James, a youth of sixteen visiting G. Fox in Carlisle dungeon, is convinced, and afterwards becomes a powerful minister of the gospel, i. [85].
• —— born at Retford, and trained up in literature, i. [124].
• —— imprisoned at Cambridge; disputes with the scholars, and is rudely treated; goes to a fast at Coggeshall; reasons with and confounds priest Willis, though but about eighteen years of age; he is sent to Colchester prison, and from thence to Chelmsford sessions, chained night and day with felons and murderers, i. [125], [126].
• —— is indicted, fined, and sent back to Colchester castle; i. [126].
• —— cruelty exercised towards him there, proves the cause of his death, i. [127].
• Pastor, independent, preaching against the Quakers, falls down as dead, brought again to life, but never to his right senses, i. [192].
• Pattison, M. imprisoned, i. [140].
• Peace, the first step thereto is to stand still in the light that discovers sin and transgressions, i. [73].
• Pearson, Anthony, convinced, i. [83].
• —— refuses access to G. Fox in Carlisle dungeon, i. [90].
• —— one of the first Quakers that preached at London, i. [98].
• —— he and T. Aldam visit most of the jails, and get copies of Friends’ convictions to lay before O. Cromwell, i. [208].
• Pembleton, Brian, a New England magistrate, persecutor and blasphemer, i. [369].
• Penn, William, his education and convincement, ii. [77].
• —— publishes a book, for which he is committed to the Tower, ii. [82].
• —— is tried with Wm. Mead at the Old Bailey, ii. [101].
• —— goes into Holland, and travels into Germany, with R. Barclay, ii. [161].
• —— with whom he visits the princess Elizabeth, and travels further into Germany, ii. [162].
• —— writes to the princess Elizabeth, the countess of Hornes, and to the elector Palatine, ii. [163].
• —— goes to Wiewart where he speaks with Anne Maria Schurman, the Somerdykes, and Peter Yvon the French pastor; goes to Embden, where he speaks with the burgomaster André, ii. [164].
• —— his letter to him against persecution, ii. [165].
• —— revisits the princess and countess, ii. [267].
• —— disputes at Amsterdam, ii. [168].
• —— arrives at Harwich, thence goes to London, ii. [170].
• —— writes to the princess, ii. [171].
• —— Pennsylvania granted to him and his heirs by king Charles II. ii. [181].
• —— his speech to king James II. on his delivering the address from the yearly meeting, and the king’s answer, ii. [213].
• —— blames the turning out of the fellows of Magdalen College, ii. [216].
• —— answers the reflection of his being a Papist, ii. [223].
• —— presents an address to queen Anne, ii. [298].
• Penn, admiral, sent by the Protector with a fleet to the West Indies, i. [145].
• —— his dying sentiments and advice to his son, ii. [181].
• Pennington, Isaac, a prisoner, writes to the king and parliament of the unreasonableness of persecution, ii. [50].
• —— a question proposed by him to both houses of parliament, ii. [52].
• —— short account of his convincement, death, and burial, ii. [175].
• —— his account of himself, ii. [287] to [292].
• Penry, justice, prosecuted on the act against occasional conformity, ii. [321].
• People of God, a summary account of his raising to himself a people in this nation, of their great suffering, what he has done for them, and will do, with an exhortation to patience and steadfastness, i. [291] to [295].
• Perfection, recommended by G. Fox, and defended against some professors, i. [93].
• Perrot, John, travels into Italy with J. Love; is imprisoned at Rome, and released, i. [282].
• —— gives way to vain imaginations, i. [316].
• —— and abandons his profession, i. [317].
• —— his answers to alderman Brown, i. [378].
• —— said to be the author of a paper fathered by Rogers’s party on E. Burrough, ii. [190].
• Persecution at Bristol, i. [102].
• —— in New England, i. [180].
• —— is contrary to Christ, his apostles, and Christianity, i. [183].
• —— inexcusable in the professors of religion, i. [204] to [207].
• —— protector and council warned against it, i. [208].
• —— in London and elsewhere, i. [214].
• —— some stop put to it by change of government, i. [287].
• —— is very severe throughout England, i. [374], ii. [30], [40].
• —— is at a stand, which displeases some churchmen, ii. [89].
• —— is renewed, ii. [93], [98].
• —— rages in the country, ii. [100].
• —— many instances of it, ii. [110] to [114].
• —— a stop put to it, ii. [230].
• Persecutors, their dismal fate, ii. [76], [135], [186].
• —— excellent advice to them, ii. [221].
• —— J. Batt dies penitent, ii. [265].
• —— wretched end of Alexander Ruddock, ii. [266].
• Petition of the Quakers to king James II. ii. [194].
• —— two papers presented to him, in one of which was the number of prisoners in every county, ii. [197] to [199].
• Physicians should be in the wisdom of God, by which the creatures were made, if they would know their virtues, i. [31].
• Pistol, one held to G. Fox’s breast would not go off, and the man went away trembling, i. [77].
• Plain speech required of G. Fox, i. [32].
• —— reasons for using it, i. [32], [315].
• Plays, shows wakes, May-games, &c. testified against by G. Fox, i. [34].
• Pope, Innocent XI. two letters to him, with queries to him by G. Fox, ii. [175].
• Pope, Blanche, confuted by G. Fox, i. [410].
• Popery, the parliament advise the king to suppress the growth of it, ii. [133].
• Popish plot discovered, ii. [174].
• Porter, Henry, commits G. Fox to Lancaster prison, i. [274].
• Prayer, G. Fox’s paper concerning, ii. [210].
• Preachers in 1652, are 25 in number, and every where meet with opposition, i. [79].
• Preaching of the Quakers, at first of what it consisted, i. [26].
• Press, Quakers considerations on the bill to restrain it, ii. [278].
• Preston, Thomas, his wife makes her servant beat M. Halhead for passing by her without greeting: she sometime after dies in a miserable condition, i. [86], [87].
• —— her servant much troubled with what he had done; three years after begs forgiveness, i. [87].
• Presumption of the church of Rome, i. [315], [316].
• Pretences for imprisoning Quakers groundless and frivolous, i. [135], [136], [148], and sequel.
• Pride, a warning to young people against it, ii. [292], [293].
• Priests endeavour to persuade people that there is no possibility of being freed from sin in this life, i. [38].
• —— how they deceived the people, i. [55].
• —— when they heard of G. Fox’s coming, they would hide themselves, i. [60].
• —— they possess not what they speak of to others, i. [71].
• —— have not the word of the Lord, as the prophets and apostles had, i. [74].
• —— fruits of their ministry, i. [78].
• —— they stir up to persecution, i. [102], [103], [213].
• —— their lives and practices disagree with their doctrine, i. [137].
• —— why they are sometimes treated a little roughly, i. [137].
• —— their domineering pride and covetousness, ii. [56].
• Prince, Thomas, governor of Plymouth, his barbarous expression concerning the Quakers, i. [248].
• Prisoners to lie long in a jail dangerous to their morals, i. [54].
• —— some very wicked ones are kind to G. Fox, and become converts, i. [84].
• Professors of the light, Quakers were formerly so called, i. [39].
• Prophesy of the priests, that the Quakers would be all gone in half a year, i. [76].
• Prophetical warnings, sayings, and passages, i. [115].
• —— of G. Fox to colonel Hacker, i. [116].
• —— of B. Blaugdone to judge Pepes at Dublin, i. [131].
• —— of a woman before the parliament, i. [207].
• —— of Cromwell’s fall, by T. Aldam, i. [208].
• —— by E. Burrough, i. [208], [209], [216], [231], [232], [235] to [245].
• —— of G. Fox, jun. to the parliament and army, i. [262].
• —— of W. Christison to captain Adderton, i. [304].
• —— and to the court of Boston, i. [308].
• —— of G. Fox, jun. to his friends, i. [307].
• —— of C. Evans, i. [321], [329], [332].
• —— of F. Howgill, i. [384].
• —— of G. Bishop to the king and parliament, ii. [40].
• Proselytes, Jesuits endeavour to make them from among the Quakers, but in vain, i. [316].
• Puritans, when so called, i. [17].
• Pursloe, captain, rejoices for the spreading of the truth, i. [63].
• Pyot, Edward, fellow traveller with G. Fox, is taken into custody at Ives, i. [148].
• —— was formerly a captain, writes to judge Glyn, i. [153].

Q.