(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

London: Library of the Society of Friends, MS Vol 376 (Spence MS) fol. 43r
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[vertical in margin: another hand]

from vnderbarow to James dikinsons sat vp all night:

Corrections halfway down the page: snapt seems to be written in the same hand as the marginalia. Judging from the position of the caret [ʌ], the attempts at getting the right word run backwards towards the left: first what looks like ye snapers, then [?]bolt, then sneck, then finally snapt. Cokan and Cockan also seem to be written in the same hand; presumably Lower wrote caled and then left a space.