The manuscript JOURNAL of our late Friend JOHN WOOLMAN, was ended in _England_; where he also finished all his Labours. It appears, by a Letter which he sent, in his last Illness, to a Friend in _London_, that he did not intend the whole should be printed, and that he desired the said Friend to revise what he had written in this Nation, and leave out such Parts as he should think proper. It was, notwithstanding, sent entire, without any Alteration, to _America_; where it was soon after printed, together with several Tracts which had been published in his Life-time. But, as some Passages in the Journal contain Observations which appear to have been intended as private Memorandums only, and others relate to Circumstances which happened in his native Country, not expedient to be preserved on Record in this Nation, it is apprehended that the following ABRIDGEMENT of it will be acceptable to Friends, and may be of general Service; and, as many weighty Arguments and pertinent Advices, relative to Slavery and the Oppression of the Negroes in the Plantations, are contained in the Journal, it was therefore apprehended that two small Tracts on that Subject might be omitted in this Abridgement. THE TESTIMONY OF FRIENDS IN YORKSHIRE _At their Quarterly-meeting held at York, the 24th and 25th of the third Month 1773, concerning_ JOHN WOOLMAN _Of_ Mount-Holly, _in the Province of New-Jersey, in_ America; _who departed this Life at the House of our Friend_, THOMAS PRIESTMAN, _in the Suburbs of this City, the 7th of the tenth month 1772, and was interred in the Burying-ground of Friends, the 9th of the same, aged about fifty-two Years_ This our valuable Friend, having been under a religious Engagement for some Time to visit Friends in this Nation, and more especially us in the northern Parts, undertook the same in full Concurrence and near Sympathy with his Friends and Brethren at home, as appeared by Certificates from the monthly and quarterly Meetings to which he belonged, and from the Spring-meeting of Ministers and Elders, held at _Philadelphia_ for _Pennsylvania_ and _New-Jersey_. He arrived in the City of _London_ the beginning of the last Yearly-meeting, and, after attending that Meeting, travelled northward, visiting the Quarterly-meetings of _Hertfordshire_, _Buckinghamshire_, _Northamptonshire_, _Oxfordshire_, and _Worcestershire_, and divers particular Meetings in his Way. He visited many Meetings on the West Side of this County; also some in _Lancashire_ and _Westmorland_; from whence he came to our Quarterly-meeting in the last ninth Month; and though much out of Health, yet was enabled to attend all the Sittings of that Meeting except the last.