Note 51 — Chapter VI
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No part of Fox's life is more remarkable than these few months of service that follow in Westmoreland—"in and about Wensleydale and Sedbergh." Here he gathers about himself a band of preachers only slightly less gifted than himself. He wins the support of the Fells of Swarthmore Hall, which becomes henceforth a sort of headquarters to the movement, and he gains the incalculable assistance of Margaret Fell,—for many years a wise and faithful friend, and finally his wife.