from him; and he disobeyed the Lord : and the Lord struck him
again, so that he died about three quarters of a Year after.

Now were great Threatnings given forth in Cumberland, That if
ever I came there again, they would take away my Life. When I heard
it, I was drawn to go into Cumberland again; and went to one Miles
Wennington’s, in the same Parish, from which those Threatnings
came : but they had not Power to touch me then.

Much about this Time too it was, that Anthony Pearson was Con-
vinced, who had been an Oppressor of Friends. He came over to
Swarthmore ; and I being then at Colonel West’s, they sent for me :
and Colonel West said ; Go, George, for it may be of great Service to
the Man. So I went, and the Lord’s Power reached him.

About this Time also the Lord opened several Mouths to declare the
Truth to Priests and People ; so that divers were cast into Prison. And
I went again to Cumberland, and Anthony Pearson and his Wife, and
several Friends went along with me to Bootle, where Anthony Pearson
left me; and went on himself to Carlisle-Sessions : for he was a Ju-
stice of the Peace in Three Counties. Upon the First Day of the week
I went into the Steeple-house at Bootle ; and when the Priest had
done, I began to speak. But the People were exceeding rude, and
struck and beat me in the Steeple-house-yard: One gave me a very
great blow over my Wrist, so that the People thought, he had bro-
ken my Hand to Pieces. The Constable was very willing to have kept
the Peace, and would have set some of them by the Heels, that
struck me, if I would have given way to it. After my Service at
that time amongst them was over, I went to Joseph Nicholson’s House;
and the Constable went a little way with us, to keep off the rude
Multitude from us. In the Afternoon I went up again; and then the
Priest had got another Priest to help him, one that came for London,
and was highly accounted of. Before I went into the Steeple-house,
I sate a little upon the Cross, and Friends with me ; but the Friends
were moved to go into the Steeple-house, and I went in after them.
The London-priest was preaching ; who gathered up all the Scriptures
he could think of, that spake of false Prophets, and Antichrists, and
Deceivers, and threw them upon us : But when he had done, I Re-
collected all those Scriptures, and brought them back upon himself. Then
the People fell upon me in a rude manner ; but the Constable charged
them to keep the Peace, and so made them quiet again. Then the
Priest began to Rage, and said ; I must not speak there : I told him
he had his Hour-Glass, by which he had preached ; and he having
done the Time was free for me, as well as for him : for he was
but a Stranger there himself. So I opened the Scriptures to them, and
let them see, ‘That those Scriptures, that spake of the false Prophets,
‘and Antichrists and Deceivers, described them and their Generation,
‘and belonged to them, who were found walking in their Steps, and
‘bringing forth their Fruits ; and not unto us, who were not guilty
‘of such things. And I manifested to them, that they were out of
‘the Steps of the true Prophets and Apostles; and shewed them clearly
‘by the Fruits and Marks, that they were of those, whom those Scri-
‘ptures spake of, and not we. And I declared the Truth, and the
‘Word of Life to the People, and directed them to Christ their

‘Teacher