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Volume 1:
- [001]: BY WILLIAM SEWELL[SEWEL].
- [003]: matters as I believe are not easily paralelled[paralleled].
- [004]: this work, than to thee, O King of Great Britian[Britain], who,
- [006]: Eccleston[Ecclestone], of London, who hath furnished me with
- [006]: print. In the meanwhile I took acccount[account] of what seemed
- [011]: though[thought] fit, since the said book is not easily to be got
- [013]: worshiping[worshipping] of images, &c. nevertheless it is
- [014]: his eyes by force, be endangered of loosing[losing] his sight,
- [037]: the exciseman[excisemen], and warned them to take heed of
- [038]: in the county of Nottingham; and John Fretwelll[Fretwell], late
- [038]: mainprise[mainprize], or until they shall find sufficient
- [040]: was not like that of a skiful[skilful] linguist. And albeit
- [057]: him, and to help the widows and fartherless[fatherless] to their
- [063]: wherewith they are enlightened. Going aftewards[afterwards]
- [064]: carried before the justice. This taylor[tailor] came to ask him
- [071]: the church. Thus much, for this time, of E. Borrough[Burrough].
- [072]: who having some notice of G. Gox’s[Fox’s] coming, preached in
- [075]: that[than] the conceit of those, who think that in the gospel
- [081]: the power, your derision, your bye-word[by-word], and your talk
- [088]: it pleased the Lord to visit her. She had a litlte[little] son
- [089]: Windermore[Windermere] steeple-house, and it was, as it were
- [090]: and sent for to meet at Westminister[Westminster]. Into the
- [090]: The parliament then caused a lettter[letter] to be sent down
- [092]: thee scandalous. How often hast thou sate[sat] evening after
- [096]: Lambert carried the sword before him to his couch[coach], in
- [098]: Richard Hubberthorne[Hubberthorn] and George Whitehead, to
- [098]: that E. Borrough[Burrough] passed by the place where they were
- [098]: the man was not a little surprized[surprised], instead
- [098]: combat. But it was quite another fight E. Borrough[Burrough]
- [110]: to see whether she had either knife or scissars[scissors]
- [112]: prophets any harm, least[lest] thou procure the anger of the
- [118]: early ministers among those called Quakers. But leav-[leaving]
(error on 118: remainder of word not on next line) - [123]: the congregration[congregation] of the English and Scotch, where
- [123]: afternoon’s worship was ended, one of thom[them] began to speak
- [128]: Now E. Borrough[Burrough] and F. Howgill were banished out of
- [129]: that there was a women[woman] below that would speak with him;
- [136]: JOHN PAGE, Muyor[Mayor].’
- [138]: ‘Dost thou say I deceive the the[(x2)] people? Make it manifest
- [149]: mind,’ Then the judge make[made] a speech, how he represented
- [150]: bail or mainprise[mainprize] could have been taken in that case.
- [155]: themselves. And as to Humphry[Humphrey] Smith, and those with
- [160]: Bloome’s[Blome’s] Fanatic History, in the said Collect, at
- [168]: so lettting[letting] go that little of the true light which I
- [176]: personal advantages, in mantaining[maintaining] the just
- [188]: heart; least[lest] thou having forgotten God, and his many
- [191]: Quakers in Wales, had preached the doctine[doctrine] of the
- [191]: things,’ said the govenor[governor]: ‘Why then,’ said G. Fox,
- [200]: they had for setting up cloisters for nuns, abbies[abbeys] and
- [204]: ye take into your consideration the sad[said] persecution,
- [211]: things in patience, truly desiring your retlrning[returning] and
- [211]: not your destruction. But if these dolefu[doleful] sufferings
- [214]: Jesus was the author of the apostles’s[apostles’] faith, and of
- [216]: a statute[statue] was made to his quondam friend O. Cromwell.
- [228]: whom whom[(x2)] was Richard Sale, near West Chester, who being
- [236]: of great strengh[strength], and his dominion is from everlasting
- [264]: So they took took[(x2)] off G. Fox’s hat, but not finding any
- [265]: then at Westminister[Westminster], he showed that he would not
- [267]: grants, sales, and purchases, shall be de-determined[determined]
(error on 267: beginning of word not omitted on next line) - [270]: for they were tradesman[tradesmen], ploughmen, servants, and
- [285]: him say, if they would not accept it, they might chuse[choose];
- [288]: ‘I A. B. do uttterly[utterly] testify and declare in my
- [288]: other (his) highnesses[highness’s] dominions and countries, as
- [299]: Whilst the trial of W. Leddra was thou[thus] going on, Wenlock
- [303]: deny my master; but if I loose[lose] my life for Christ’s sake,
- [315]: as well as J. Stubbs and B. Furley[Furly], yet I do not think
- [319]: conversion by the apostles. Nowithstanding[Notwithstanding] my
- [327]: eager, that he said he would loose[lose] one of his fingers if
- [328]: out of the room alive. To which she couargeously[courageously]
- [332]: and forwarned[forewarned] them. To which he said, ‘However it
- [334]: of their victuals, and given them whole botttles[bottles] of
- [336]: liberty to chuse[choose], she would rather do so, than return
- [340]: in your cnnsciences[consciences], which convinceth of all evil,
- [349]: to call Maunday[Maundy] Thursday. Being now landed, he went to
- [349]: harm. Being no[on] shore, he delivered a paper, written in the
- [362]: Dover, in New England, Anne Coleman, Mary Tompkins[Tomkins], and
- [365]: yet; but she told him he was in the land[hand] of the Lord, who
- [369]: he came to keep the wolves from his sheep. Wen-[Wenlock]
(error on 369: remainder of word not on next line) - [369]: Pembleton was, may appear by the abomimable[abominable] answer
- [370]: also one of the magistrates, asked Mary Thomkins[Tomkins]
- [376]: especially at Abington[Abingdon], not far from Oxford; for this
- [382]: Will you have any wallfleet[Wellfleet] oysters?’ And, ‘have you
- [388]: inheritance derived to me as an Englishman, that[than] that
- [391]: do justice, least[lest] you perish in his wrath. For sometimes
- [394]: or else you run yourself into a premunire; be not you[your] own
- [400]: milite, majore civilat[civitat]. London. Thoma Adams
- [401]: ad faciend. ulterius. prout cur. con. Ac superiende[superinde]
- [401]: superadicto[supradicto] coram præfat. Johe Frederick
- [401]: decimo saprad’co[suprad’co]. apud d’cam paroch. sci Sepulchri
- [401]: presen. existend. obtuler. (Anglice die[did] tender)
- [402]: Contra debilam[debitam] quoadlibet eor. Legeanciam, ought
- [408]: F. Howgill lamented his endeared friend E. Borrough[Burrough].
- [410]: to be seduced by Blanch[Blanche] Pope, a ranting woman, who had
- [419]: than death itself; and by the subtility[subtilty] of Satan he
- [420]: priest’s. Now, there was none abaord[aboard] that would abuse
- [425]: to hide them in, that they[the] Spaniards coming aboard should
- [425]: business, returned on board, not taking licence, least[lest] the
- [425]: promise of silence, least[lest] the Spaniards should come and
- [427]: rejected their invitation, will[well] knowing that the Scripture
- [432]: at Kendal, in Westmorland[Westmoreland], about his business, was
- [433]: that he had a narrow path to pass though[through]; and more than
- [435]: it, nor mind it, least[lest] thou eatest condemnation; for that
Volume 2:
- [001]: BY WILLIAM SEWELL[SEWEL].
- [008]: his limbs were much benumed[benumbed]. Here we will leave him
- [019]: oath of witness, or notorious evidience[evidence] of the fact,
- [021]: headboroughs, or tythingmen[tithingmen] of the respective
- [022]: headborough or tythingman[tithingman], shall neglect to execute
- [042]: live an unblamable[unblameable] life, not only before men, but
- [050]: is of the Lord’s begetting in this[his] own life and nature.
- [051]: is still able able[(x2)] to preserve them. Every power hitherto
- [054]: then eat[ate] almost nothing but bread, and of this so little,
- [060]: of if[it] to a burgomaster of the city, I think the lord
- [074]: falsities which that annonymous[anonymous] author had belched
- [087]: and abide not in Christ’t[Christ’s] doctrine; believe them not,
- [105]: occasion to villify[vilify] them with opprobrious language. And
- [110]: Nay, sometimes thay[they] swore only by guess, that in such a
- [111]: year about midsummer, Thomas Bud[Budd] deceased at Ivelchester
- [112]: the others did with the but-ends[butt-ends] of their muskets, to
- [115]: no essoine[essoign], protection, or wager of law shall lie. Can
- [117]: her other son-in-law John Rouse, accompained[accompanied] by
- [119]: it were[where] the English army lay, how the sea was on one hand
- [122]: parishoners[parishioners]; so that when he comes amongst them,
- [144]: revelation, and of the certainly[certainty] of true faith from
- [157]: repent themselves of their past mispent[misspent] life, and
- [175]: otherwise was the exit of Issac[Isaac] Pennington, an eminent
- [183]: prisoners some ease or enlagement[enlargement]: but the power
- [184]: among whom were also Barbara Blaugdon[Blaugdone], (several
- [193]: to be disobedient to him. This Thomas Story[Stordy] released
- [199]: granted to other disenters[dissenters]. Nevertheless the
- [203]: to this charge[change]; for it appeared that the magistrates
- [203]: attend their friends, when the magistracy same[came] to be
- [210]: Greenwel[Greenwell], and was afterwards wife to George
- [211]: the law and testimony of God forbids it. Those Jews, tha[that]
- [219]: thay[they] could not swear; and to help them to this right to
- [227]: eternal happiness, put not of[off] this work, but pursue it, and
- [235]: not only of a godly life and converstion[conversation], but also
- [236]: wrought by the power of God? Did you[your] number, your policy,
- [248]: Francis Mercurius, baron of Helmons[Helmont], concerning the
- [248]: two hundred queries about that matter, [a] great part of which,
- [257]: A Postcript[Postscript] relating to the doctrine of the
- [262]: are exposed to great harships[hardships] as aforesaid; and not
- [266]: and oppression he suffered, that so insensed[incensed] Ruddock,
- [272]: broke of[off] with an &c. without adding the following words;
- [277]: rightousness[righteousness] being that which exalteth a nation:
- [280]: Holy Scriptures, prefering[preferring] them to all other books
- [282]: George Keith, by villifying[vilifying] the doctrine of the
- [285]: He was of a middle statute[stature]; his face lean and oblong;
- [285]: signal proofs of it to the world. His corps[corpse] was interred
- [286]: dogs, dragons, bears, lions, tygers[tigers], wild beasts, and
- [300]: formerly, far[for] he seemed to be somewhat angry; and therefore
- [301]: when in the mornings and evenings, and at others[other] certain
- [309]: [Greek: Êros[Pros] tous Philous] and [Greek: hei[hoi] Philoi],
- [316]: would choose this for the subject of his profame[profane] jests
- [321]: of the perish[parish] himself gave a certificate that the said
- [322]: and Christian interposition, in favour of presecuted[persecuted]
- [324]: ‘May the wonderful Councellor[Counsellor] and great Preserver of
- [325]: speeech [speech] was favourably heard by the prince.
- [327]: may alway[always] attend the king’s councils and undertakings,
- [332]: In the meanwhile we see what a see[sea] of confusion flows from
- [332]: ignorance, and sometimes by subtility[subtilty] or wickedness,
- [339]: bay, where Thomas Swailes[Swales] and Mary Stranger hearing of
- [341]: to the seven yeomen, to beat me whereever[wherever] they met
- [344]: and he he[(x2)] would have given me brandy, but I refused. Then
- [344]: say, said the commander, ‘he is more a christain[christian] than
- [347]: recruit, or go to my own being? He said, ‘I should chuse[choose]
- [349]: out into the field, where a trooper sat centinel[sentinel],
- [355]: Emperor’s majesty’s active privy councellor[counsellor] and lord
- [356]: yet with force they thurst[thrust] on the lock, and beheld it
- [365]: Blaugdon[Blaugdone], Barbara, convinced by John Audland and John
- [367]: —— imprisoned at Ispwich[Ipswich], ii. 77.
- [368]: Drig[Dring], Robert, first meeting in London held at his house,
- [370]: —— preaches at Ulverstone, Alderham[Aldenham], and Ramside,
- [372]: the king while there, and delivered to to[(x2)] him by R.
- [373]: Hammersly[Hammersley], Thomas, foreman of a jury without an
- [373]: to the truth of B. Blaugdon’s[Blaugdone’s] speech to the deputy,
- [379]: his soldiers convinced of the Quaers’[Quakers’] persuasion, who
- [382]: —— their domineering pride and coveteousness[covetousness],
- [386]: woman to the French Potestants[Protestants] at Dieppe, ii. 58.
- [386]: Snake in the Grass, an annonymous[anonymous] book, written
- [387]: Swearing, unlawful for Christians, i. 113, ii. 1[3].
- [389]: Woman, one foretels[foretells] the dissolution of parliament, i.