Then stood up John Lowther, called a justice, and said, "My Lord, they grow insolent, notwithstanding all laws, and the execution of them, yet they grow upon us, and their meetings are dangerous.

Philip Musgrave stood up, and produced a paper (and justice Flemming, so called, seconded him) in great capital letters, and gave it to the judge; he told the judge, that it happened some Quakers were sent to prison, and one of them died at Lancaster, and they carried his corpse through the country, and set that paper upon his coffin, this is the body of such an one who was persecuted by Daniel Flemming to death.

Judge. We have spent much time with you, I will discourse no more.

F. H. I acknowledge your moderation towards me, allowing me liberty to speak, I shall not trouble you much longer; I shall be willing to appear to answer to the indictment at the assizes, and in the meantime to live peaceably and quietly, as I have done, if that will satisfy.

Judge. You must enter into bond to come to no more meetings.

F. H. I cannot do that, if I did, I should be treacherous to God and my own conscience, and the people and you would but judge me a hypocrite.

They were loath to commit him, yet at last they did.

This was in the latter part of the month called March, and he was kept five months as before in a bad room, and none suffered to speak with him, but they who got secretly to him without the jailor's knowledge.

It was about this time that John Audland departed this life. He, and his bosom friend, John Camm, (whose decease was some years before) had travelled much together in the ministry of the gospel; therefore I will give an uninterrupted relation of their latter end, but first that of John Camm.

He was of very good parentage, born at Camsgil, in the barony of Kendal, Westmoreland, which seat had been possessed by his ancestors long before him. From his childhood he was inclined to be religious, and seeking after the best things, he joined with those that were the most strict in performing religious duties. And having afterwards heard G. Fox, he embraced as truth the doctrine he preached, and growing up in it, he himself became an eminent minister of the gospel among those called Quakers. He and his bosom friend John Audland, were the first of that society who preached at Bristol, where having been in the meetings of the Baptists and Independents, they also had meetings

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in several places without the city, where there was a great concourse of people, and many received their doctrine. Since that time, these two gospel ministers travelled much together, and many were convinced by their ministry. But at length John Camm, who did not spare himself, began to fall under a kind of consumption, insomuch that through weakness, he was fain to stay at home; and he often called his children and family together, exhorting them to godliness, and praying to the Lord for them. Some weeks before his death, he once expressed himself thus: "How great a benefit do I enjoy above many, having such a long time of preparation for death, being daily dying, that I live for ever with my God, in that kingdom which is unspeakably full of glory. My outward man daily wastes and moulders down, and draws towards its place and centre; but my inward man revives, and mounts upwards towards its place and habitation in the heavens." The morning he departed this life, he called his wife, children, and family to him, and exhorted them to fear the Lord, to love his truth, and walk in it, and to be loving and kind to one another, telling them that his glass was run, the time of his departure was come; and he was to enter into everlasting ease, joy, and rest: charging them all, to be patient and content with their parting with him. And so fainting he

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passed into a sweet sleep: but by the weeping and crying of those about him, he awakened, and desired to be helped up a little in his bed, and then he spoke to this effect: My dear hearts, ye have wronged me and disturbed me, for I was at sweet rest; ye should not so passionately sorrow for my departure; this house of earth and clay must go to its place; and this soul and spirit is to be gathered up to the Lord, to live with him for ever, where we shall meet with everlasting joy." Then taking leave of his family, he charged them to be content with his departure; and lying down, within a little time deceased.

His beloved friend John Audland (who often bemoaned the loss of so dear a companion) died also of a kind of consumption: for his ardent zeal made him strain his voice beyond what his body was well able to bear. In a meeting which he once had with J. Camm in a field without Bristol, where Charles Marshall was one of his auditors, after J. Camm had left off speaking, he stood up, with an awful and shining countenance; and lifting up his voice as a trumpet, he said, "I proclaim a spiritual war with the inhabitants of the earth, who are in the fall and separation from God, and I prophecy to the four winds of heaven." Thus he went on with mighty power, exhorting to repentance and spoke with such a piercing authority, that

some of the auditory fell on the ground, and cried out under a sense of their transgressions, And when at Bristol he many times preached in an orchard to a great multitude, and would lift up his voice exceedingly, in order to be heard by all. Thus he spent his natural strength, though he was but a young man. About the twentieth year of his age he married with one Anne Newby of Kendal, a virtuous maid, not only of good family, but also excelling in piety, and therefore she freely gave him up to travel in the service of the gospel, notwithstanding his company was very dear to her; which made her say that she believed few ever enjoyed a greater blessing in a husband so kind and affectionate. And how heartily and tenderly she loved him, may be seen by the following letter she wrote to him.

"Dear husband, "Thou art dearer to me than ever; my love flows out to thee, even the same love that I am loved withal of my Father. In that love salute me to all my friends, for dear you are all unto me, my life is much refreshed in hearing from you. I received thy letters, and all my soul desireth, is to hear from thee in the life; dear heart, in life dwell, there I am with thee out of all time, out of all words, in the pure power of the Lord, there is my joy and strength; O! how