(84) donne I begann to speake: but ye people was excee=

                            mee       beate mee

* =dinge rude * & strucke & fought & in ye steeplehouse yarde

with his full strength soe y^t people thought hee had broaken my hande to peices

one gaue mee a very greate blow ouer ye wrist: ʌ & soe ye
Constable was very seruiceable to keepe ye peace: & woulde

                            strucke mee

haue sett some of y:^m y^t foughtʌ by ye heeles: soe I went
to Jeseph Nicholsons house: & ye Constable went alitle way
with vs to keepe ye rude multitude off vs: & in ye
afternoone I went vpp againe: & ye preist had gott another
high preist y^t. came from London to helpe him:

X but before I went Into ye steeplehouse I sate a litle vpon
ye crosse: & freindes with mee: whoe were all moued of
ye Lorde to goe in ʌto y:^e steeplehouse & after a while I went in after ym

And there stayde till ye preist had donne: whoe: gathered vppe
all ye scriptures ʌy^t spoake of y^e: false prophetts & AntX^ts & deceuers &
threw vpon us: butt when hee had donne I recollected all
ye those scriptures againe & brought y^m backe vpon him: & ye
people fell vpon mee in a rude manner: & ye constable
charged y^m to keepe ye peace: & then all was quiett: butt
ye preist begann to rage & saide I must not speake there
& then I tolde him hee had his houre glasse by w^ch: hee
had preacht: & haueinge donne ye time was free for mee as
well as for him for hee was butt a stranger

* And soe I opned ye scriptures: to y^m: & lett y:^m see: y^t: those
scriptures described y^m: & there generations: y^t spoake of ye false
* prophetts & Antix^ts & deceiuers * w^ch: belonged to y:^m y^t were founde
walkinge in there stepps & bringeinge foorth there fruites & not
vnto vs: & howe they were out of ye stepps of ye true pro=
=phetts & ye Apostles: & soe shewed it cleere by ye fruites
& markes & stepps: that they were of those y^t those scriptures
spoake of: ʌ& not vs & all was quiett & whilst I declared ye truth & ye
worde of life to ye people & I directed y^m: to X^t there teacher
Soe when I had donne I came foorth: & both ye preists were in
such a frett & rage y^t they foamed att ye mouth for anger agst
mee

[page 44] the priest of y:^e parish hearing of myee
Coming, hee had gott another to help him, and so I was moved to speak in his time; hee utterred such wicked thinges; and therefore for y:^e truths sake I was Moved to speak to him If I had been Imprison’d for it; and so they halled mee out and People was mighty rude; and one gave mee a blow upon the wrist w^th a great Hedg stake, yet I felt no Harme hee might have broken my wrist to peeces; but y:^e power of y:^e lord bare all off, and so the Constable being a sober man, he rescued mee out of their hands, and would have sett a fellow y.^t struck into their stocks, but y:^e rude people rescued him out of theirhis hands, and so hee went a litle way w^th us and so I told him hee might go a litle way on w^th us to y^e house where wee lodged; and there lay a Company of rude people in [page 45] Way to have doneʌus a Mischiefe, and in y:^e after noone I was moved to Come up ag:ⁿ to y:^e Market Crosse; and there satt mee down w^th my friends about mee; and so at last friends were all Moved to go into y:^e steeplehouse, and then it came to mee y:^t I might go in; and so when I came in, the Priest was preaching; and all y:^e Scriptures y:^t hee spake were of false Prophetts and deceivers; and Anti-Christs hee brought them and threw them upon us; ___ I satt mee down and heard till hee had done, though severall friends spoke to him in his time; so when he had done, I beganne to speak to him, and hee and the people beganne to bee rude; and the Constable stood upp and charged mee peace amongst them in y:^e name of y:^e Common wealth, and all was quiet; and I took his scriptures that hee spoke of false Prophetts and Anti-Christs and deceivers and threwes them back upon him; and lett him see y:^t hee was in the very stepps of them; and hee beganne to opposse mee; I told him his glasse was gone his time was out; the place was as free for mee as ʌfor him; and hee accused mee y:^t I had broken y:^e law in speaking to him in his tyme in the Morning, and I told him hee had broken y:^e law ʌthen in speaking in my tyme; And so I called all people to y:^e true teacher; out of the hyrelings such as teach for y:^e fleece and makes a prey upon the people; for y:^e lord was com’d to teach his people himself by his spirit & Christ saith learn of mee; I am y:^e way which doth enlighten every man y:^t cometh into y:^e world, y^t all through him might beleeue; and so to learn of him who had [page 46] Enlightned them who was y:^e light; and so had a brave meetting in y:^e Steeple house; and the priest of y:^e parish fomed like a pigg through rage and madnes