FRIENDS' LIBRARY,

CONSISTING PRINCIPALLY OF

JOURNALS

AND

Extracts from Journals and other Writings

OF MEMBERS

OF THE

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS,

VOL. VII.

LINDFIELD:

PRINTED AT THE SCHOOLS OF INDUSTRY,
AND SOLD BY LONGMAN AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON,
HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH STREET; J. AND
A. ARCH, CORNHILL; W. DARTON, HOLBORN; EDMUND
FRY, HOUNDSDITCH, AND BY ALL THE

BOOKSELLERS.

BIP!

1884.

W. EADE, PRINTER, LINDFIELD.

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

RISE, INCREASE, AND PROGRESS,

OF THE SOCIETY OF

FRIENDS:

INTERMIXED WITH SEVERAL

REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES.

WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN LOW-DUTCH

BY WILLIAM SEWEL.

PART III.

HISTORY

OF THE

RISE AND PROGRESS

OF THE

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

THE SEVENTH BOOK.

Having now left America, and being returned to England, let us go and see the state of persecution in London, where desperate fury now raged; though it was not in that chief city alone the Quakers, so called, were most grievously persecuted for a little before this time there was published in print a short_relation of the persecution throughout all England, signed by twelve persons, shewing that more than four thousand and two hundred of those called Quakers, both men and women, were in prison in England; and denoting the number of them that were imprisoned in each county, either for frequenting meetings, or for denying to swear, &c. Many of these had been grievously beaten, or their clothes torn or taken away from them ;