each of them an Horse, and went and brought him thither that
Night. The next day Margaret Fell hearing of it, sent an Horse
for me; but so sore I was with the Bruises I had, that I was not able
to bear the shaking of the Horse without much pain. When I was
come to Swarthmore, Justice Sawrey, and one Justice Thompson of Lan-
caster, granted forth a Warrant against me; but Judge Fell coming
home, it was not served upon me: for he was out of the Country all
this time, that I was thus abused and cruelly used. But when he came
home, he sent forth Warrants into the Isle of Walney, to apprehend
all those Riotous Persons: whereupon some of them fled the Country.
James Lancaster’s Wife was afterwards Convinced of the Truth, and
Repented of the Evil she had done me; and so did some others of
those bitter Persecutors also: but the Judgments of God fell upon
some of them, and Destruction is come upon many of them since.
Judge Fell asked me to give him a Relation of my Persecution: but I
told him; They could do no otherwise than in the Spirit wherein they were;
and that they manifested the Fruits of their Priest’s Ministry, and their
Professions and Religion to be wrong. So he told his Wife, I made no-
thing of it; and that I spake of it as Man, that had not
been concerned. For indeed, the Lord’s Power healed me
again.

After I was recovered, I went to Yelland, where there was a great
Meeting. In the Evening there came a Priest to the House, with a
Pistol in his Hand, uder pretence to light a Pipe of Tobacco; and
the Maid of the House seeing the Pistol, told her Master: whoe there-
upon clapping his Hands on both the Door-Posts told him, He should
not come in there. And while he stood there, keeping the Door-way,
he looked up, and spied over the Wall a Company of Men
coming, some armed with Staves, and one with a Musket. But
the Lord God prevented their Bloody Design; so that seeing themselves
discovered, they went their way, and did no harm.

The time for the Sessions at Lancaster being come, I went to Lan-
caster with Judge Fell; who on the way told me, He had never had
such a Matter brought before him before, and he could not well tell, what
to do in the Business. I told him: when Paul was brought before the
Rulers, and the Jews and Priests came down to Accuse him, and laid
many false things to his Charge, Paul stood still all that while. And
when they had done, Festus the Governour, and King Agrippa beck-
ned to him to speak for himself; which Paul did, and cleared him-
self of all those false Accusations: And so he might do by me. Being
come to Lancaster, and Justice Sawrey and Justice Thompson having
granted a Warrant to apprehend me; though I was not apprehended
by it, yet hearing of it, I appeared at the Sessions; where there ap-
peared against me about Forty Priests. These had chosen one Mar-
shal, Priest of Lancaster, to be their Orator; and had provided one
young Priest, and two Priests Sons to bear Witness against me; who
had sworn before-hand, that I had spoken Blasphemy. When the
Justices were set, they heard all, that the Priests and their Witnesses
could say and charge against me; their Orator Marshal sitting by, and
explaining their Sayings for them: But the Witnesses were so Con-
founded, that they discovered themselves to be false Witnesses. For

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