(73) & there they was dressinge ye heads & handes of freindes &
freindely people y^t was broaken y^t day: by ye professors & hearers
of preist Lampitt:

And my body & armes was yellow blacke & blew with ye blowes
& bruises ʌy^t I receiued amongst y^m: y^t day

        within a few days

And ye next 7^th day : after seuen men fell vpon this sould˙er

aforesd & beate him cruelly because hee had taken my parte X for
X Itt was ye custome of this Country to runn 20 or 40: people
XX vpon one mane: & they fell soe vpon ffreindes in many places
y^t they coulde haredely passe ye high ways: stoneinge &
beatinge & breakeinge there heads:

And then ye preists began to prophesy againe y^t within a
halfe yeere wee shoulde bee all putt downe & gonne: &

And about a fortnight after I went Into Wana: &

Ja: Naylor went with mee & wee stayde ouer night att ʌa litle tound

        caled Cokan Cockan)         where there was one convinced

X a this s˙de ʌ & had a meetinge: ʌ & after a while there comes a man

            caled                                       hee caled for mee &

with a pistoll. & ye people rann out of doores & ʌ I went out to

                snapt sneck sxbolt ye snxpers

him & hee lett ye snapere ʌ of his pistoll full att mee but
It woulde not goe off: & there was a great bustle with ye

  some people tooke hold on him to preuent him from doeinge mischiefe

people about him ʌ & I was moued in ye Lds power to
speake to him & hee was soe struck with ye Lds power
y^t hee went & hidde himselfe in a cellor: & trembled for feare

And soe ye Lords powr came ouer ym all: though there
was a great rage in ye country:

And ye next morninge I went ouer in a boate to James
Lancasters & assoone as I came to lande there rusht out
about 40 men; with stafes clubbs & ffishinge poles
& fell vpon mee with y:^m beatinge punchinge & thrust
mee backewarde Into ye sea: & when ythey had thrust
mee ʌalmost downe Into ye sea & I dsaw they woulde haue knockt
mee downe there in ye sea: I stoode vppe & went vppe
Into ye midle of y^m: againe butt they all layde att

                                              mased mee

mee againe & knockt mee downe & when I was downe
& came to my selfe I lookt vppe & I saw: Ja:lancasters

[page 86] Yet a few days after seven Men fell upon
this Souldier, and beat him cruelly, because he had taken part with
Friends and me: For it was the manner of the Persecutors of that
Country, for twenty or forty People to run upon one Man. And they
fell so upon Friends in many Places, that they could hardly pass the
High-ways; stoning, beating and breaking their Heads. Now when I
came up to Swarthmore, I found the Friends there dressing the Heads and
Hands of Friends and Friendly People, which had been broken or hurt
that day by the Professors and Hearers of Lampitt, the Priest. My Body
and Arms were yellow, black and blue, with the Blows and Bruises I
received amongst them that day: And now began the Priests to

[page 87] prophesy again, That within half a Year we should be all put down and gone.

About two Weeks after this I went into Walney-Island, and James
Naylor went with me; and we stay’d one Night at a little Town
on this side, called Cockan, and had a Meeting there, where there
was one Convinced. After a while there came a Man with a Pistol;
whereupon the People ran out of Doors. He called for me: and
when I came out to him, he snapp’d his Pistol at me; but it would
not go off. This caused the People to make a great Bustle about
him; and some of them took hold of him, to prevent his doing Mis-
chief. But I was moved in the Lord’s Power to speak to him: and
he was so struck by the Power of the Lord, that he trembled for fear;
and went and hid himself. Thus the Lord’s Power came over them
all, though there was a great Rage in the Country.

The next Morning I went over in a Boat to James Lancaster’s;
and as soon as I came to Land, there rushed about Forty Men with
Staves, Clubs and Fishing-poles; and fell upon me, beating and punch-
ing me, and endeavoured to thrust me backward into the Sea. And
when they had thrust me almost into the Sea, and I saw, they would
have knock’d me down there in the Sea, I went up into the Middle of
them: but they laid at me again, and knock’d me down, and
stunn’d me. When I came to my self, I looked up and saw James
Lancaster’s