The seventh Day of the Month, and first of the Week. Clear Morning; we lay at Anchor for the Tide, and had a Parting-meeting with the Ship's Company; in which my Heart was enlarged in a fervent Concern for them, that they may come to experience Salvation through Christ. We had a Head-Wind up the _Thames_; lay sometimes at Anchor; saw many Ships passing, and some at Anchor near; and had large Opportunity of feeling the Spirit in which the poor bewildered Sailors too generally live.--That lamentable Degeneracy, which so much prevails on the People employed on the Seas, so affected my Heart, that I cannot easily convey the Feeling I have had to another. CHAPTER XI _His attending the Yearly-meeting in_ London; _and, after it, proceeding towards_ Yorkshire, _visiting several Quarterly and other Meetings in the Counties of_ Hertford, Warwick, Oxford, Nottingham, York, _and_ Westmoreland; _and thence again into_ Yorkshire, _and to the City of_ York; _with some instructive Thoughts and Observations, and Letters on divers Subjects_--_His hearing of the Decease of_ WILLIAM HUNT; _and some Account of him_--_His Sickness at_ York; _and End of his Pilgrimage there_ On the eighth Day of the sixth Month, 1772, we landed at _London_; and I went straightway to the Yearly-meeting of Ministers and Elders, which had been gathered (I suppose) about half an Hour. In this Meeting my Mind was humbly contrite: In the Afternoon the Meeting of Business opened; which, by Adjournments, held near a Week. In these Meetings I often felt a living Concern for the Establishment of Friends in the pure Life of Truth; and my Heart was enlarged in the Meeting of Ministers, Meeting of Business, and in several Meetings of publick Worship; and I felt my Mind united in true Love to the faithful Labourers now gathered at this Yearly-meeting. On the fifteenth Day of the Month, I left _London_, and went to a Quarterly-meeting at _Hertford_. The first Day of the seventh Month. I have been at Quarterly-meetings at _Sherrington_, _Northampton_, _Banbury_, and _Shipston_; and had sundry Meetings between: My Mind hath been bowed under a Sense of divine Goodness manifested amongst us; my Heart hath been often enlarged in true Love, both amongst Ministers and Elders, and in publick Meetings; that through the Lord's Goodness, I believe it hath been a fresh Visitation to many, in particular to the Youth. The seventeenth Day of the Month. Was this Day at _Birmingham_: Have been at Meetings at _Coventry_, _Warwick_, in _Oxfordshire_, and sundry other Places; have felt the humbling Hand of the Lord upon me; and through his tender Mercies find Peace in the Labours I have gone through.