The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.Fox, George
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The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.
Fox, George
Fox, George, 1624-1691
Then I was put into a tower, where the smoke of the other prisoners came
up so thick, that it stood as dew upon the walls, and sometimes it was
so thick that I could hardly see the candle when it burned; and I being
locked under three locks, the under-jailer, when the smoke was great,
would hardly be persuaded to come up to unlock one of the uppermost
doors, for fear of the smoke, so that I was almost smothered. Besides,
it rained in upon my bed, and many times, when I went to stop out the
rain in the cold winter season, my shirt was wet through with the rain
that came in upon me, while I was labouring to stop it out. And the
place being high and open to the wind, sometimes as fast as I stopped
it, the wind blew it out again. In this manner did I lie, all that long
cold winter, till the next assize; in which time I was so starved with
cold and rain, that my body was greatly swelled, and my limbs much
benumbed.
The assize began on the 16th day of the month called March, 1664-5. The
same Judges, Twisden and Turner, coming that circuit again, Judge
Twisden sat this time on the crown-bench, and before him I was brought.
I had informed myself of the errors in this indictment also. For though
at the assize before, Judge Turner had said to the officers in court,
“Pray see that all the oath be in the indictment, and that the word,
subject, be in, and that the day of the month and the year of the king
be put in right; for it is a shame that so many errors should be seen
and found in the face of the country;” yet there were many errors, and
those great ones, in this indictment, as well as in the former. Surely
the hand of the Lord was in it, to confound their mischievous work
against me, and to blind them therein; insomuch, that although after the
indictment was drawn at the former assize, the judge examined it himself
and tried it with the clerks, yet the word, subject, was left out of
this indictment also, the day of the month was put in wrong, and several
material words of the oath were left out; yet they went on confidently
against me, thinking all was safe and well.
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