The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.Sewel, William
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The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.
Sewel, William
Society of Friends -- History -- Early works to 1800
condemned, and was in the same prison with Barbara, but she would not
see him, saying, ‘Nay, he can do me no good; I have done with man for
ever: but God, thou knowest that I am innocent of what they lay to my
charge.’ But, however, they were all hanged, and the witness first,
probably for fear he should have made another confession after he had
seen the others hanged.
Now some friends of Barbara, viz. Sir William King, colonel Fare,
and the lady Brown, hearing she was in prison, came to see her, and
afterwards went to the aforementioned judge, to get her released: but
when they came to him, he told them, that he was afraid of his life.
At which they laughed, and said, they had known her from a child, and
there was no harm in her at all. And being all very earnest to get her
liberty, they at last obtained it. Then she went to the steeple-house
where this judge was, and cleared herself of him. He being come home,
went to bed, and died that night. The noise of which sudden death being
spread, it made people say, that Barbara had been a true prophetess
unto him.
She now went to Limerick, where she was put into prison, but after a
while being released, she took shipping for England again; and at sea
was robbed of all that she had, by a privateer, who, coming on board,
took the master away, until he should pay them a sum of money, for the
ship and goods; but she came safe to England. She travelled at her own
charge, paying for what she had.
But leaving her, I will return to Miles Halhead, who, as he was
following the plough, in the beginning of this year, felt a motion
to go to London. Taking York and Hull in his way, and passing thence
through Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, he came to the city of London,
from whence, after some stay, he went to Bristol with Thomas Salthouse,
and so to Exeter and Plymouth, where he suffered much persecution, and
was imprisoned. He writ about that time a letter to his wife, which I
think worth the while to insert here, and was as followeth.
‘_Anne Halhead_,
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