Note 504 — HISTORY OF LYNN. PART III. (continued 3)

The very extraordinary zeal and enthusiasm exhibited by these missionary labourers, which amount to a proof of their sincerity, must have eminently fitted them for such hazardous services, and desperate undertakings as those above described. Between those adventures of the Franciscans and some that occur in the early history of that truly respectable protestant religious order, or party, commonly called Quakers, there appears a very strong and striking resemblance.