Volume 1 — INDEX.
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A.
ABRAHAMS, (Dr. Galenus,) his comparison of Ames and Stubbs, vol. i. p. 157.
—— disputes with G. Fox and W. Penn, vol. ii. p. 168.
Acts of Parliament against conventicles, vol. i. p. 355. vol. ii. p. 98.
—— against Quakers’ meetings, and to enforce oaths, vol. i. p. 355.
—— to suppress seditious conventicles, vol. ii. p. 98.
—— to restrain non-conformists from living in corporations, vol. ii. p. 60.
—— allowing the affirmation of Quakers to be accepted instead of the oath, vol. ii. p. 267, 284, 325.
Adderton, (Major-General,) a New England persecutor, vol. i. p. 304.
—— his remarkable death, vol. i. p. 371.
Address of the Quakers to king Charles II. vol. ii. p. 191.
—— to king James II. on the toleration, vol. ii. p. 212.
—— from the Yearly meeting to ditto on the toleration, vol. ii. p. 213.
—— to king William upon the peace of 1697, vol. ii. p. 277.
—— to ditto on discovery of a plot, vol. ii. p. 283.
—— to queen Anne on her succession to the throne, vol. ii. p. 297.
—— to ditto on her promise to maintain the toleration, vol. ii. p. 298.
—— to ditto, from the yearly meeting on the Union, vol. ii. p. 312.
—— to ditto on the renewal of her promise to maintain the toleration, vol. ii. p. 320.
—— to king George, on his accession and declaration for the toleration, vol. ii. p. 324.
—— to ditto on suppression of the rebels, vol. ii. p. 327.
Affirmation, an act obtained for its acceptance, ii. 267.
—— made perpetual, and the form more easy, ii. 325.
Aldam, Thomas, imprisoned in York Castle for preaching, &c. i. 66.
—— ditto for not paying tithes, &c. i. 141.
—— predicts the fall of O. Cromwell, i. 208.
Algiers, some Quakers’ slaves there allowed to hold meetings, i. 421.
Ames, William, convinced at Dublin by the ministry of E. Burrough and F. Howgill, and becomes a minister, i. 128.
—— banished Amsterdam, i. 189.
—— kindly entertained by the elector Palatine, i. 225.
—— several Baptists convinced by him near Worms in Germany, i. 225.
—— imprisoned in Rotterdam, and is dismissed, i. 226.
—— —— in London, and ditto, i. 380.
—— dies at Amsterdam, i. 408.
Amsterdam, some pretended Quakers there, i. 190.
Austin, Anne, travels with Mary Fisher, (see Mary Fisher,) i. 181.
Armorer, Wm. a justice, his cruelty to the Quakers, ii. 69.
Audland, John, convinced by G. Fox, i. 69.
—— his testimony received by many at Bristol, i. 101.
—— brief account of his life and death, ii. 12.
—— some account of his wife and others, ii. 309.
Atherton, Oliver, dies in prison for tithes, i. 432.
B.
Baily, Wm. convinced by G. Fox, i. 146.
—— his exhortation against persecution, ii. 33.
—— marries M. Fisher. Dies at sea, coming from the West Indies, ii. 136.
Baker, Daniel, account of his being at Malta, i. 348.
—— imprisoned in London, and writes his travels, i. 349.
—— is illegally and barbarously abused, i. 380.
Baptism, water, discourse concerning, i. 146.
—— the principle of Quakers respecting it, and the outward supper, ii. 304.
Baptists, several convinced, i. 27.
—— some at Barrow in Leicestershire, silenced by G. Fox, i. 36.
Baptist, a teacher at Carlisle, convinced, i. 83.
—— another in Cumberland who gives up an impropriation of tithes, i. 90.
Barbadoes, Quakers suffer much there by the priests, i. 373.
—— negroes prohibited by law from going to Quakers’ meetings, ii. 142.
—— Quakers petition king William for relief—his order thereupon, ii. 234.
Barclay, his education and character, ii. 74.
—— writes to Adrian Paets concerning the immediate revelation of the Spirit, ii. 142.
—— writes in Latin to the ambassadors at Nimeguen, ii. 155.
—— his death, ii. 235.
Barnadiston, Giles, convinced by G. Fox, becomes a minister, and a sufferer, i. 416.
Barrow, Henry, and two more, put to death by instigation of the clergy, i. 18.
Battledoor, a book published by G. Fox and others, i. 315.
Baily, George, dies in prison in France, i. 189.
Bennet, a Justice, said to be the first who in scorn gave Friends the name of Quakers, i. 39.
—— strikes G. Fox as he was kneeling down to pray for him, i. 47.
Benson, a justice convinced by G. Fox, i. 79.
—— his wife imprisoned at York, i. 85.
—— refused leave to visit G. Fox in Carlisle dungeon, i. 90.
Beraudin, a martyr, spoke after his tongue was cut out, praising God, i. 15.
Birkhead, Christopher, sent to prison, i. 106.
—— ditto at Rochelle, i. 188.
—— confined in the house of correction at Middleburgh, and discharged, i. 189.
Bishop, George, convinced at Bristol, i. 101.
—— author of an account of the persecution in New England, i. 305.
—— his prophetic caution to the king and parliament, ii. 40.
—— same fulfilled, ii. 49.
Bishops, their zeal for ceremonies, i. 17.
—— cruel sayings of the bishop of Peterborough, ii. 111.
Blasphemers in Coventry prison, confounded by G. Fox, i. 36.
Blasphemy often charged upon the Quakers, but not proved, i. 160.
Blaugdone, Barbara, convinced by John Audland and John Camm, i. 101.
—— imprisoned at Bristol, Marlborough, Exeter, and several other places, i. 109, 110, 111.
—— arrives in Ireland, and pays a visit to the deputy, i. 128.
—— goes to Cork, returns to Bristol, after to Ireland, imprisoned at Dublin and Limerick, i. 129.
—— committed to Bridewell in Bristol, ii. 184.
Blome, Richard, author of the Fanatic History, which seems chiefly designed against the Quakers, i. 175.
Boston, in New England, some Quakers arrive there, are ill-treated, imprisoned, and sent back again, i. 181.
—— a law made to prohibit bringing Quakers there, i. 182.
—— cruelties practised there, i. 193, 194, 217.
—— the country round will not now yield wheat, though formerly fertile, i. 373.
—— the jailer to whip the Quakers twice a week, beginning with 10 lashes, and increasing 3 every time till they would work, i. 218.
—— Quakers banished from, i. 222.
—— an address of the general court of, to king Charles II. to justify their cruel proceedings, which is answered by E. Burrough, i. 296.
Bourignon, Antonia, her writings, &c. ii. 278.
Bowing and scraping censured by G. Fox, i. 32.
Bowing at the name of Jesus, what it is, &c. i. 336.
Boyes, a priest, invites G. Fox to his pulpit, i. 60.
—— goes with him, i. 61.
—— refuseth tithes from some who proffered them, i. 62.
Brend, William, imprisoned and used barbarously at Boston, i. 217.
Briggs, Thomas, convinced by G. Fox, i. 79.
—— is cruelly treated at Warrington, Yarmouth, Lynn, and other places, i. 85, 86.
—— goes to America, i. 86.
—— foretells the destruction of London, ii. 64.
—— dies, ii. 193.
Briscoe, William, a justice, is so seized and struck by the dread of the Lord, that he recalls his warrant for imprisoning R. Widders, i. 91.
Bristol, dismal persecution there, ii. 182.
—— meetings kept up by children, ii. 184.
—— R. Lindy, a blind man, used severely, ii. 186.
—— dreadful death of the jailer, ii. 187.
Brown, Richard, alderman of London, his character and cruelty, i. 377.
Brownists, whence their name, i. 17.
Bugg, Francis, an apostate, charges the Quakers with Socinian notions, ii. 257.
Bull-and-Mouth meeting-house in Martin’s-le-Grand, i. 101.
Burden, Ann, a widow, cruelly treated in New England, i. 193.
Burial of the dead, practice of the Quakers respecting, ii. 304.
Burnet, Dr. remarkable sayings against persecution, &c. ii. 325.
Burrough, Edward, convinced by G. Fox, i. 70.
—— becomes an eminent minister, i. 75.
—— preaches in the fields near London, i. 98.
—— goes with F. Howgill to Ireland, and are banished thence, i. 128.
—— writes to the Protector on different subjects, i. 142, 184, 188, 208, 216.
—— writes to his wife and children, i. 210.
—— meets the funeral of O. Cromwell, &c. i. 212.
—— a remarkable prophecy of his, i. 209.
—— goes to Dunkirk, i. 232.
—— message to the rulers of England, i. 235.
—— writes an apology for Quakers, and against persecution, i. 357.
—— has the foreknowledge of his death, imprisoned in Newgate with six or seven score more. The king sends an order for his release, but it is stifled, i. 405.
—— his death, i. 406.
—— his eulogium, by F. Howgill, i. 406.
C.
Calvin, John, admits the indwelling of God’s spirit in man, i. 15.
Camm, John, a zealous preacher, i. 75, 101.
—— goes to Bristol, and persecuted there, i. 102.
—— short account of his life and death, ii. 11.
Caton, William, convinced by G. Fox, i. 72.
—— his early piety when in judge Fell’s family, i. 119.
—— is moved to go to warn people to repentance, i. 119.
—— at 17 years of age, travels to divers places, visiting Friends, at London meets with J. Stubbs, i. 120.
—— confined at Maidstone and cruelly whipped, i. 122.
—— goes by himself to France, and afterwards with J. Stubbs to Holland—Goes to Scotland, i. 123.
—— returns to England, i. 123.
—— goes again to Scotland, thence to Holland, secured at Middleburgh, and sent to England, i. 124.
—— goes to Amsterdam, i. 157.
—— imprisoned six months in Yarmouth, i. 429.
—— his death and character, ii. 60.
Charity doth not impoverish, verified in the Quakers, i. 93.
Charles II. his declaration at Breda for liberty of conscience, i. 265.
—— this promise renewed to the Quakers, i. 281.
Cheevers, Sarah, travels with C. Evans, see C. E.
Christening of Children, no Scripture for it, ii. 78.
Christison, Wenlock, banished Boston, appears in court there, and is sent to jail, i. 299.
—— brought again to court, i. 303.
—— receives sentence of death, his prophetical speech, is set at liberty with 27 more of his Friends, i. 304, 305.
Church, what a church is, i. 29, 65, 67, 68, ii. 16.
Church Faith, a paper so called, answered by G. Fox, i. 213.
Church government, amongst the Quakers, account of, ii. 308.
Clarendon, Edward earl of, his saying of O. Cromwell, i. 212.
—— supposed to propose queries to the Quakers, i. 271.
Clark, Mary, cruelly whipped and imprisoned 12 weeks in New England, for warning against persecution, i. 194.
Clayton, Richard, in Suffolk, fixes some queries to a steeple-house door, i. 138.
—— is with two others taken up, examined and whipped, i. 138.
Christ, i. 22, 26, 27, 34, 53, 58, 65, 322, 323.
Coale, Josiah, convinced by J. Audland and J. Camm, i. 101.
—— committed to Newgate in Bristol, i. 105.
—— goes with T. Thirstone to Virginia, thence with T. Chapman to New England, i. 298.
—— writes a warning against persecution, ii. 194.
—— his exhortation to constancy under sufferings, ii. 33.
—— his warning to the king, ii. 66.
—— answers a Popish book, ii. 72.
—— his death and character, ii. 83, 84.
Colchester, cruel and bloody persecution there, i. 415.
Coleman, Ann, with two more women, sentenced to be whipped through eleven towns, i. 362.
—— again cruelly whipped with some others, i. 365.
Conjuror, one so reputed, baffled by G. Fox, i. 55.
Conventicle, vide Acts of parliament.
Convincement, some convinced by dying penitents, &c. ii. 292, 294.
Copeland, John, his right ear cut off at Boston, i. 221.
Corbet, counsellor, gains reputation by his defence of G. Fox’s cause, ii. 304.
Creatures, virtues of them opened to G. Fox, i. 30.
Crisp, Stephen, convinced by J. Parnel, i. 125.
—— becomes a minister and goes to Scotland, i. 246.
—— a brief account of him, i. 430.
—— goes to York, ii. 49.
—— his epistle to Friends concerning the present and succeeding times, ii. 69.
—— imprisoned at Ipswich, ii. 77.
—— declines being made a magistrate at Colchester, ii. 217.
—— his epistle of advice to all the churches of Christ, ii. 235.
—— some of his dying expressions, death and character, ii. 249.
Crisp, Samuel, his letter to a relation after he became a Quaker, ii. 313.
Croese, Gerard, some of his history noted, i. 25, 39, 315.
Cromwell, O. his speech for liberty of conscience, i. 103.
—— yet suffers the Quakers to be persecuted, i. 103.
—— connives still at the grievous persecution of the Quakers, i. 165.
Crook, John, a justice, convinced by G. Fox, i. 118.
—— a yearly meeting kept at his house, i. 199.
—— apprehended at a meeting in London, i. 377.
—— brought to trial, i. 386.
—— sentenced to a premunire, i. 399.
—— his advice to his children and grandchildren, ii. 279.
—— his death and character, ii. 281.
—— his letter to Isaac Pennington, ii. 291.
Cruelties exercised on the Quakers in New England, i. 193, 216, 223, 247 to 259, 362 to 372.
—— at Warborough in Oxon, ii. 111.
—— at Horslydown, ii. 112.
—— at Long Clawton, in Leicestershire, ii. 134.
—— at Norwich, ii. 138.
—— in Wales, ii. 141.
—— in Plymouth and Gloucestershire, ii. 172.
—— in Berkshire, ii. 174.
—— in Leicestershire, ii. 174.
Curtis, Anne, has access to the king, and obtains her request in favour of G. Fox, i. 275.
D.
Deceivers, who are the greatest, i. 31.
Declarations of fidelity and Christian Faith, to be subscribed to by Quakers, instead of oaths of allegiance, and supremacy, ii. 233.
Derby, countess of, her cruelty and death, i. 433.
Dewsbury, William, convinced, i. 58.
—— begins to preach, i. 66.
—— is beaten till almost killed, but healed by the power of the Lord, i. 90.
—— imprisoned with others at Northampton, about half a year, i. 140.
—— examined by judge Atkins, &c. born near Hull, in Yorkshire, i. 138.
—— his letter to his oppressed Friends, ii. 187.
—— short account of his life, and convincement, ii. 224.
—— was 19 years prisoner at Warwick, besides other places, ii. 225.
—— his speech to Friends in his sickness, his death, ii. 227 to 230.
Dispute about the resurrection and Christ’s body in heaven, ii. 82.
—— between the Baptists and the Quakers, ii. 127.
—— at Aberdeen, where four young students are convinced, ii. 133.
Distress often made for two or three times the value, i. 417.
Downer, Ann, the first woman Quaker that preached publicly at London, i. 101.
—— goes to Launceston to attend G. Fox, and two companions in jail, i. 152.
—— is married to B. Greenwell, after to George Whitehead, her dying words and death, ii. 210.
Drayton in Leicestershire, the birth place of George Fox, i. 19.
Dreams, some believers in, convinced, i. 24.
—— a remarkable one of C. Evans at Malta, i. 342.
Dring, Robert, first meeting in London held at his house, i. 98.
Drummer, a priest, his rash expression, i. 363.
Drury, Captain, a remarkable passage concerning him, i. 117.
Dundas, Wm. a Scotchman, convinced, ii. 56.
—— is excommunicated, ii. 57.
—— goes to France, returns to England and joins the Quakers, ii. 59, 60.
Dyer, Mary, banished New England, i. 251.
—— returning is taken up, i. 252.
—— sentenced to death, i. 252.
—— writes to the magistrates of Boston, i. 253.
—— reprieved when ready to be turned off, i. 256.
—— her character, returns to Boston, i. 258.
—— is sent for by the general court, examined again, sentenced and executed, i. 259.
Dennis, I. jailer at Bristol, his dreadful death, ii. 186.
E.
Eccles, Solomon, for his bold and zealous actions becomes a sufferer, ii. 89.
—— severely whipped at Cork, his sincerity, ii. 113.
Education in universities, not sufficient to made a minister of Christ, i. 23.
Election and reprobation, i. 61.
Elizabeth’s, princess of the Palatinate, letter to Wm. Penn. ii. 161.
—— her answer to G. Fox’s letter from Amsterdam, ii. 162.
—— other of her letters to Wm. Penn, ii. 163 to 171.
Embden, Quakers persecuted there, ii. 164.
—— Wm. Penn writes to the senate, ii. 165.
—— the Quakers are invited to reside among them, ii. 202.
Endicot, John, governor of Boston, his cruelly, i. 181, 182, 297, 305, 365, 367.
—— his barbarous ingratitude, i. 367.
—— dies of a loathsome disease, i. 371.
Error, not to be conquered by the arm of flesh or carnal weapons, i. 175.
Evans, Catharine, and Sarah Cheevers, visit Scotland, i. 111.
—— travel towards Alexandria, embark for Leghorn, arrive at Malta, and have some sense of their ensuing trouble, are some time entertained by the English consul, i. 319, 320.
—— are put into the inquisition, i. 321.
—— the English consul grieves for being accessary to their confinement, i. 323.
—— their great sufferings, &c. i. 324 to 327.
—— endeavours for their liberty prove vain, i. 327.
—— they are not idle in prison, i. 336.
—— instance of friendship in an Englishman towards, i. 330.
—— they continue steadfast, i. 331.
—— after four years confinement, are set at liberty at the instance of lord d’Aubigny, and go on board an English vessel, i. 341.
—— C. Evans is committed to Bridewell, in Bristol, ii. 184.
—— her death, ii. 249.
F.
Faith, who have the true, i. 323.
—— not to be forced, ii. 17.
—— its genuine effect, ii. 78.
—— whether it comes by outward hearing, ii. 154.
—— historical, how far essential to the Christian Religion, ii. 143.
False prophets, who are such, i. 71.
Fanatic history, written chiefly against the Quakers, i. 175.
—— some citations in answer to it, i. 176.
Farmer, Ralph, a priest, stirs up persecution at Bristol, i. 102, 106.
Farnsworth, Richard, convinced by the preaching of G. Fox, i. 58.
—— becomes a minister, i. 58.
—— writes against Muggleton and Reeves, i. 430.
—— his death, ii. 74.
Fast, remarkable one of a woman in Lancashire, i. 26.
Fasts, G. Fox’s letter concerning, i. 204 to 207.
Felon, one convinced, i. 54.
Fell, Henry, taken out of a meeting and whipped, i. 279.
Fell, Margaret, and most of her family convinced by the preaching of G. Fox, i. 72.
—— sends forth an information against H. Porter, mayor of Lancaster, goes to London and applies to the king, i. 275, 276.
—— acquaints him with Friends’ sufferings, i. 286.
—— is premunired, ii. 52.
—— a short account of her life and death, ii. 299.
—— she wrote the Call of the Jews out of Babylon, and other pieces, ii. 300.
Fell, Thomas, a judge in Wales, i. 73.
—— entertains G. Fox, and is convinced by him, and offers his house for a meeting place, i. 74.
—— defeats the design of justices Sawrey and Thompson against G. Fox, i. 77.
—— death and character, ii. 299.
Fifth monarchy-men, some are put to death, but acquit the Quakers of having any hand in the plot, i. 275.
Fines, exorbitant extorted from the Quakers, i. 248.
Fisher, Samuel, a priest, afterwards a Baptist teacher, convinced by J. Stubbs, i. 121.
—— the purport of his intended speech before the parliament, i. 154.
—— goes to Dunkirk with E. Burrough, i. 232.
—— goes to Rome with J. Stubbs, i. 282.
—— his death, ii. 48.
Fisher, Mary, goes to Boston with Ann Austin, barbarously used, and after five weeks imprisonment, sent back to England, i. 181.
—— goes to Turkey, delivers a message from God to Mahomet IV. in his camp, which he favourably received, she returns to England, i. 282, 283.
—— is married to William Bayly, ii. 136.
Fletcher, Elizabeth, so cruelly abused at Oxford as to occasion her death, i. 108.
Floyd, Morgan, priest of Wrexham, sends two men into the North to inquire after the Quakers, who are both convinced, but one of them falls off, i. 95.
Fox, G. birth, parentage, and education, and various occurrences relating to him, i. 19 to 28.
—— powerful effects of his preaching at Nottingham, where he is imprisoned, i. 34.
—— a distracted woman quieted and convinced, i. 35.
—— confounds blasphemers, i. 36.
—— is six months in the house of correction at Derby, i. 38.
—— writes to the priests, magistrates, &c. i. 40.
—— the keeper of the prison a bitter enemy, becomes his friend, i. 43.
—— a remarkable passage of a soldier convinced by him, i. 53.
—— is offered his liberty and a captain’s place, but refuses it, for which he is put among felons; here he writes several letters, and some are convinced by him, i. 53 to 58.
—— is set at liberty after a year’s confinement, i. 58.
—— goes to Yorkshire, is befriended by captain Purslow and justice Hotham, speaks in steeple-houses, and holds meetings, where many are convinced, i. 58, 59.
—— at Patrington being refused lodging, is forced to lie in the fields, i. 63.
—— speaks in the meeting-house unmolested, and has a great meeting, and many are convinced, i. 64, 65.
—— is barbarously treated at Warnsworth, Doncaster, and Tickhill, i. 66.
—— malicious reports spread of him, i. 67.
—— has a meeting near Firbank chapel, many convinced, i. 67, 68.
—— many are convinced at Kendal and Underbarrow, i. 69.
—— preaches at Ulverstone, Aldenham, and Ramside, where priest Lawson is convinced, i. 71, 72.
—— preaches at Lancaster, where he is stoned, i. 74, 75.
—— at Ulverstone is dragged out of town, and is barbarously used, and suffers greatly at Cockan, i. 75.
—— is wonderfully preserved, accused of blasphemy at Lancaster sessions, where forty priests appear against him, but is cleared, i. 76, 77.
—— foretells the dissolution of parliament by force, which fell out accordingly, i. 82.
—— at Carlisle, convinces the Baptist teacher, i. 83.
—— is committed to jail, among thieves and murderers, as a blasphemer, i. 84.
—— is at length released, i. 90.
—— travels through many places in the North, i. 92.
—— disputes with several priests at Drayton, i. 114, 115.
—— is taken at Whetstone, sent prisoner to the protector at London, with whom he has a conference, and is in a friendly manner dismissed, i. 115 to 117.
—— writes to the protector respecting the oath of abjuration, i. 141.
—— sent to Launceston jail, i. 148.
—— his trial at the assizes, i. 149.
—— fined and recommitted, i. 149.
—— after great suffering, is released, i. 153.
—— going to London, he speaks with the protector on the road, showing him the evil of persecution, goes with E. Pyot to Whitehall, and talks with the protector, i. 183.
—— his success in Wales, i. 191.
—— travels in Scotland, i. 192.
—— disputes with a Jesuit, i. 199.
—— writes to the protector, dissuading him from becoming king, i. 202.
—— writes to the protector’s daughter Claypole, under trouble, i. 202.
—— speaks with the protector at Hampton Court, is invited to his house, but sees him no more, i. 209, 210.
—— foresees the restoration, i. 215.
—— travels through divers places, labouring in the gospel, i. 264, 265.
—— exhorts king Charles II. i. 270.
—— sent to Lancaster jail, i. 274.
—— what ensued thereupon till his release by the king, i. 274 to 278.
—— taken again at London, and released, i. 285.
—— discourses with some Jesuits, i. 315, 316.
—— imprisoned at Leicester, i. 351.
—— tried and found guilty, yet released, i. 353.
—— performs many signal services, i. 411.
—— again apprehended, i. 412.
—— brought to the assizes, ii. 3.
—— proves his indictment erroneous, ii. 6.
—— again indicted and brought in guilty, ii. 7.
—— recommitted, writes to the emperor, kings of France and Spain, and to the pope, ii. 7, 8.
—— prisoner in Lancaster castle, ii. 53.
—— removed to Scarborough castle, ii. 54.
—— released by order of king Charles II. ii. 64.
—— travels in America, ii. 114.
—— travels in England, goes to Holland, ii. 161.
—— to Hamburg and Frederickstadt, ii. 164.
—— his sickness, death, and character, ii. 245.
—— his character by T. Ellwood, ii. 245.
—— an epistle of his, left sealed up, ii. 246.
—— another, concerning his first mission, ii. 286.
Fox, George, the younger, convinced, i. 58.
—— writes an exhortation to the army, and prophetically to the long parliament after its restoration, i. 245, 246.
—— imprisoned at Harwich, i. 267.
—— sent for by parliament, and committed to Lambeth Gatehouse, with R. Grassingham, who after fourteen weeks are discharged, i. 268.
—— abstract of a book wrote to the king while there, and delivered to him by R. Hubberthorn, and afterwards printed, i. 270.
—— writes to the king against popery and the abomination of the times, i. 310.
—— his behaviour in his last sickness and at his death, i. 313.
—— foresees approaching calamities, ii. 49.
Friends, the name whereby the Quakers are called among themselves, ii. 309.
Friars at Rome, acknowledge the truth contained in books given them by S. Fisher, and J. Stubbs, but dare not publicly profess it, i. 282.
Furnier, Isaac, ringleader of some unruly people pretending to be Quakers, but disowned by them, turns Papist, debauched and dissolute, i. 157.
G.
Gardner, Hored, a woman being whipped, with a girl, kneels down and prays for her persecutors, i. 217.
Gibbons, Sarah, and Dorothy Waugh, kept six days in the house of correction without victuals, and whipped, i. 217.
Glin, Christopher, priest at Burford, a persecutor of the Quakers, is struck blind in the pulpit, ii. 135.
Glyn, lord chief justice, has a long discourse with G. Fox at his trial, i. 148.
God: some people who denied his being, refuted and convinced by G. Fox, i. 29.
—— teaches his people by his Spirit, i. 72.
—— how good men know they are in his favour, ii. 148.
Goodyar, J. imprisoned, i. 140.
Goldsmith, Sarah, testifies against pride in a remarkable way, and is sent to prison, i. 106.
Goodair, Thomas, and Benjamin Staples, imprisoned at Oxford, outlawed, and stripped of all, for refusing to swear, i. 353.
Goodridge, Wm. thirteen years a prisoner, suffers severely, ii. 247.
Gospel not established by the sword, or law of man, but by the might, power, and spirit of God, i. 100.
Government and Governors, principles of the Quakers, with relation to them, i. 99.
Grace of God, that hath appeared to all men, able to bring them to the favour of God, i. 31.
—— it brings salvation, and the universality of it, ii. 78.
Gracechurch-street meeting-house built, ii. 78.
Green, Thomas, faithful pastor, suffers severe distresses on his goods, ii. 112.
Green Theophilus, servant to O. Cromwell, convinced by F. Howgill, i. 100.
—— set in the stocks and severely fined, and sent to Newgate by justice Hawtrey, with a remarkable mittimus, ii. 112.
—— see his sufferings, ii. 221.
Greetings, G. Fox is forbid to use them, i. 32.
—— the principles of the Quakers concerning them, ii. 303.
Gwin, Paul, a Baptist, finds fault with G. Fox, who soon puts him to silence, i. 183.
H.
Hacker, col. Francis, sends for G. Fox, from whom he has a prophetical warning, i. 116.
—— his wife and marshal convinced by G. Fox, i. 141.
—— he is hanged and quartered for high treason, i. 283.
Hale, sir Matthew, discharges G. Fox by proclamation, ii. 127.
Halhead, Miles, a zealous preacher, i. 75.
—— he is beaten by the order of justice Preston’s wife, and two very notable occurrences respecting her at Skipton; he is beaten till he is nigh unto death; miraculously healed; at Doncaster meets with like treatment; a remarkable occurrence concerning his wife, i. 86.
—— at Stanley chapel he is thrown over a wall, and wonderfully recovered of his bruises, i. 87.
—— goes to Newcastle, he is there imprisoned, and released again; many by him are convinced, i. 89.
—— goes to Ireland with James Lancaster and Miles Bateman, where they proclaim the truth, they return to England, from thence with James Lancaster, he goes to Scotland, are in danger of being stoned at Dumfries, visit several places in Scotland, and returns to England, i. 111, 112.
—— is imprisoned at Berwick, where some remarkable occurrences happen, i. 112.
—— he tells the question the priest designs to ask him, and answers it, is released and goes home, i. 112.
—— goes to London, from thence with T. Salthouse to Exeter and Plymouth, where he is much persecuted and imprisoned, and remains so for many months, i. 133, 135.
—— the fate of some of his persecutors, ii. 75, 76.
—— has a long conference with general Lambert, ii. 118.
—— his letter to G. Fox, ii. 120.
Hamilton, Alexander, erects a meeting-house at Drumbowy and Heads in Scotland, and is convinced, i. 112.
——- is one of the first Scotch preachers of that persuasion, a remarkable passage concerning him, i. 112.
Hammersley, Thomas, foreman of a jury without an oath, his verdict commended by the judge, i. 114.
Harris, Charles, joins with the separatists, ii. 190.
Harrison, a priest in Dublin, assents to the truth of B. Blaugdone’s speech to the deputy, i. 130.
Harwood, John, taken at Bures in Suffolk, examined and sent to jail, i. 138.
Hat-honour forbid to G. Fox, i. 32.
—— disused by W. Caton, being convinced, i. 119.
Haydock, John and Roger, convinced, and both become preachers, ii. 75.
—— the death of Roger, his character by his widow, ii. 275, 276.
Heavens, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Fletcher’s cruel sufferings at Oxford, i. 108.
Helliar, John, and sir John Knight, two violent persecutors at Bristol, ii. 182.
Heresy, what punishment belongs to it, i. 309.
Hide, judge, an active persecutor, ii. 31.
—— dies suddenly, ii. 47.
Hide, Matthew, an eminent opposer of the Quakers for about 20 years, dies penitent, ii. 137.
Hignel, Jeremy, taken from his shop, and sent to prison without a mittimus, for being a Quaker, i. 105.
Hignel, Temperance, so violently abused, that she died in three days, i. 106.
Hire, those who teach for hire, not ministers of Christ, ii. 18.
Hirelings and false prophets preach for wages, i. 115.
History, the design of this, i. 19.
—— and to stir up others to improve it for the benefit of posterity, i. 79.
Hodshone, Robert, the cruelties practised on him by the Dutch in America, at the instigation of the English, i. 248.
Holder, Christopher, and John Copeland, cruelly whipped and imprisoned, &c. at Boston, i. 194.
—— they with John Rous had their right ears cut off, and were afterwards whipped, i. 221.
Hooton, Elizabeth, one of the first convinced, i. 26.
—— preaches publicly, i. 54.
—— cruelly used in New England, i. 366.
House of Commons pass the Bill of Exclusion. Their resolution against executing the penal laws on Protestant dissenters, ii. 180.
House of God, a building of lime and stone, absurdly so called, i. 75.
Hotham, justice, entertains G. Fox in a friendly manner, i. 59.
Howard, Luke, convinced by W. Caton, i. 120.
—— S. Fisher, a priest, in endeavouring to convince him of the lawfulness of singing psalms, is by him convinced to the contrary, i. 121.
Howgill, Francis, convinced by G. Fox, i. 68.
—— a short account of him: becomes a minister, and is imprisoned at Appleby, i. 69, 70.
—— goes to London, and is one of the first who preaches there at a Quakers’ meeting, i. 98.
—— goes to Court, and speaks to O. Cromwell, i. 99.
—— writes to him in a prophetical spirit and style, i. 99.
—— is six months in Ireland, and afterwards banished, i. 128.
—— writes a paper for encouragement in time of hot persecution, i. 384.
—— is imprisoned for not swearing, i. 432.
—— appears at the assizes at Appleby, ii. 9.
—— is recommitted, ii. 11.
—— his trial: he is outlawed and imprisoned, ii. 19.
—— dies in Appleby jail, ii. 85.
—— his advice to his daughter, ii. 86.
Hubberthorn, Richard, a zealous preacher, i. 75.
—— he with others, hauled out of a meeting, and left bound in the fields in the winter, i. 86.
—— goes to Norwich, where he is imprisoned, and writes epistles of exhortation to his friends, his birth, parentage, former life and character, i. 106, 107.
—— he has a long discourse with king Charles the Second, i. 280, 281.
—— he is violently hauled from Bull-and-Mouth meeting, and sent to Newgate, where he dies, i. 405, 406.
Huchin, John, imprisoned without cause or warrant, i. 141.
Huss, John, his martyrdom, i. 13.
Hutton, Thomas, entertains G. Fox after he had been sorely abused, i. 77.
Historical knowledge of Christ not commonly manifested to us but by the holy Scriptures, though God can impart it otherwise, ii. 146.
I./J.
Jackus, a priest, remarkably confounded by G. Fox, i. 78.
Jailer of Derby prison enraged against G. Fox, i. 43.
—— his vision and repentance, i. 44.
—— Launceston prison, his inhuman treatment of G. Fox and two companions, i. 153.
—— he is turned out and put into the dungeon, where he ends his days, i. 153.
Jailer of Boston in New England, his barbarous cruelty to W. Brend, i. 218.
—— of Lancaster Castle, his cruelty to G. Fox, soon after which he dies, ii. 53.
—— of Ilchester, Davis and Newberry, their miserable condition, ii. 202.
—— under jailer at Carlisle, his cruelty to G. Fox, i. 84.
James the Second proclaimed king; the dissenters petition him for liberty of worship, ii. 194.
—— by his proclamation puts a stop to persecution, ii. 200.
—— his order for ease to Quakers at Barbadoes, ii. 205.
—— publishes his declaration for liberty of conscience, ii. 213.
—— his order to the Lord Mayor to admit Quakers to offices, ii. 215.
—— suffers a Quaker to be covered in his presence, ii. 215.
Ibbitt, Thomas, denounces the judgment of fire against London two days before it began, ii. 64.
Jefferies, lord chief justice, infamous for the many dismal executions in the west, ii. 202.
Jesuit, one challenges the Quakers to dispute at the Earl of Newport’s house, some of whom met him, i. 199.
Jevans, Evan, his account why he became a Quaker, ii. 318.
Imprisonments, more than 4200 Quakers in prison in England, and many die there, i. 375.
—— account of the number of prisoners in the several counties, ii. 199.
—— king James sets all at liberty, except those for tithes, ii. 205.
Indian prince, his kindness to a persecuted Englishman, and saying concerning the English, i. 182.
Indictment of several persons taken at a meeting in Southwark, i. 385.
—— of John Crook, with some remarks on it, i. 400.
—— G. Fox proves his erroneous, ii. 5.
Informers, their baseness and cruelty, ii. 98.
—— the sudden death of one of them, ii. 101.
—— wicked persons encouraged to become informers against dissenters, ii. 110.
—— sudden and remarkable end of one at Norwich, ii. 174.
—— Shad burnt in the hand, ii. 192.
—— Hilton committed to Newgate, ii. 200.
Inspiration of the Spirit of God; by it we believe the words and writings of the prophets to be divine, ii. 144.
John-ap-John, sent by a priest in Wales to inquire concerning the Quakers; is convinced; becomes a preacher, i. 95.
—— is imprisoned, i. 191.
Jury, trial by jury refused the Quakers in New England, i. 220.
—— strange advice to a jury on the Conventicle Act, ii. 196.
—— barbarous usage of Penn and Mead, who are fined and imprisoned, ii. 106.
K.
Keith, George, with others disputes with the Baptists in London, ii. 131.
—— disputes at Aberdeen with some of the scholars, four of whom are convinced, ii. 133.
—— goes with W. Penn, &c. into Holland, &c. ii. 161.
—— some account of his apostacy, ii. 249.
—— returns to England, ii. 249.
—— preaches at Turner’s-hall, conforms to the church of England, and is ordained, ii. 249.
—— charges the Quakers with heterodoxy; challenges them to meet him at Turner’s-hall, which they decline for reasons assigned, ii. 271.
—— charges Quakers with such points as he had notably defended, ii. 272.
—— is much in favour with the clergy, ii. 282.
—— is sent to America, and returns with little success, and gets a benefice in Sussex, ii. 300.
Kingdom of Christ is setting up by his own power, i. 187.
Kirby, colonel, his cruelty to G. Fox, ii. 7.
Knight, sir John, and J. Helliar, two violent persecutors at Bristol, ii. 182.
L.
Labadie, John de, a noted teacher in Holland, ii. 164.
Lambert, Major General, dissuades Cromwell from assuming the crown, for which he is made to resign his commission, i. 184.
—— is sent general by the parliament against sir George Booth, whom he defeats, i. 235.
—— he is tried and condemned, but obtains his life, and is confined to a small island near Plymouth, i. 355.
Lampitt, William, priest at Ulverstone, opposed by G. Fox, i. 71.
—— put to silence by G. Fox, i. 74.
—— Friends barbarously used by his hearers, i. 75.
—— he with another priest are silenced, when Miles Halhead went into the house where Lampitt was preaching, i. 89.
—— his death, ii. 138.
Lancaster, James, his wife throws stones at G. Fox, i. 74.
—— she repents, and becomes one of his friends, i. 77.
—— he accompanies Miles Halhead into Ireland, and afterwards into Scotland, i. 111.
Launceston, mayor of, a cruel persecutor, i. 153.
Languages and sciences not requisite to make a minister of Christ, i. 198.
Laws originally designed against Papists executed against Protestant dissenters, i. 290.
—— an abstract of them interspersed with cases, i. 287, 288, 289.
Laws in equity should extend no further than there is power in man to obey, ii. 52.
—— made in New England against the Quakers, i. 217, 222.
Lawson, Thomas, convinced by G. Fox, and becomes a preacher, i. 72.
Lawson, Wilfrey, high sheriff, a great enemy to G. Fox when in Carlisle prison, i. 84.
Lawyers are without justice and equity, for want of the true knowledge and wisdom, i. 31.
—— an expostulation with them, i. 170.
Le Clerc, John, his constancy in martyrdom, i. 14.
Leddra, William, taken up at Newberry, and sent to the house of correction at Boston. Was kept five days without food, and had twenty lashes with a three-corded whip, i. 217.
—— though banished on pain of death he returned to Boston, is taken up, and chained to a log of wood day and night, i. 296.
—— is thus brought to court and examined; receives sentence of death; writes to his friends, i. 300.
—— his execution, i. 301.
Letchford, Leonard, a cruel persecutor; his sudden death, i. 354.
Liberty of conscience, the protector’s speech for it, i. 103.
—— the pretended assertors of it persecute more fiercely than the Episcopalians had done before, i. 107.
—— promised by king Charles the Second in his declaration, i. 266.
—— the court seems inclined to it, but prevented it, i. 284.
—— a little book concerning it presented to the king, i. 318.
—— expected from king James the Second, ii. 200.
—— but is settled by king William in his first parliament, ii. 233.
Licentiousness of the press, a bill for restraining it brought into parliament, ii. 278.
—— considerations relating to it offered by the Quakers and given to the members, ii. 278.
Light of Christ, vide i. 73, 133, 187.
Lilburn, John, lieutenant-colonel, reproves the protector, i. 142.
—— his character; imprisoned, tried for treason, acquitted, yet kept prisoner during the protector’s life, and afterwards convinced, i. 143, 144.
Lockhart, governor of Dunkirk, i. 232.
—— sends for E. Burrough and S. Fisher, and discourses with them in a friendly manner, i. 234.
Lodowick, Charles, elector palatine, his kind entertainment of W. Ames, and his friends, i. 225.
Loe, Thomas, a zealous minister of the gospel; his dying words; W. Penn convinced by him, ii. 81.
London, F. Howgill and A. Pearson, the first of the Quakers who held a meeting there, i. 98.
—— meeting-houses built and meetings settled there, i. 101.
—— Quakers are severely persecuted; about 509 of them imprisoned, i. 374.
—— Many instances of barbarous cruelties, i. 375, 376, 382, 383.
—— pestilence increases; above 8000 people die in one week, ii. 48.
—— fire breaks out, by which above 1320 houses were burnt, ii. 64.
Love, mutual Christian love amongst friends, i. 229.
Love, John, travels to Leghorn, Venice, Rome, where for his testimony he is put in the inquisition, and dies, i. 282.
Lower, Thomas, convinced by G. Fox in Launceston jail, i. 153.
—— imprisoned with him at Worcester, ii. 117.
—— set at liberty, pleads for G. Fox, and smartly reprimands Dr. Crowder, ii. 122.
Lucerne, valley of, protestants there much persecuted, i. 204.
Lurting, Thomas, a fighting sailor, becomes a peaceable Christian, meets with many troubles by being pressed into the king’s service: is taken by an Algerine; retakes the ship without fighting; lands the Turks on the Barbary shore; on his return, the king being informed of the circumstance, went and discoursed with the master and mate about it, i. 418 to 428.
Lindy, a blind man of 90, severely used at Bristol, ii. 186.
M.
Magistracy, the end and design of it, i. 212.
—— its degeneracy, i. 212.
—— the Quakers’ opinion concerning it, i. 281.
Magistrates of Boston, in New England, encouraged by the priests in persecution, i. 219.
Magistrates, make a cruel order, which is cruelly executed, i. 219.
—— good and bad, our duty to each respectively, i. 281.
—— how far their power extendeth, i. 309.
Magna Charta, proceedings against Quakers contrary to it, i. 381.
Malta, English consul accessary to the putting two English women in the inquisition, i. 324.
—— his death, i. 333.
—— C. Evans writes to its rulers, i. 340.
—— a dreadful tempest and earthquake, i. 341.
Mansfield-Woodhouse, people fall upon G. Fox, in the steeple-house, and strike him down, &c. a distracted woman quieted, i. 35.
Marriage, the principle of the Quakers relating thereto, ii. 204.
Marsh, ——, esq. one of the king’s bed-chamber, a friend to G. Fox, i. 285.
—— his extraordinary respect for him, ii. 64.
—— is made justice of peace, continues kind to G. Fox and other friends, ii. 78, 79.
Marshal, Charles, convinced, i. 101.
—— travels through the nation in the heat of persecution, yet none lay hands on him, neither is he fined for preaching, ii. 187.
Marshal, Henry, a persecuting priest, his presumptuous saying from the pulpit, and sad death, ii. 72.
Marshal, priest, spreads false and slanderous reports of G. Fox, i. 66.
Marshall, Elizabeth, imprisoned at Bristol, i. 104.
Mass-houses not the houses of God, i. 75.
Meekness and patience, notable instances of them, i. 415.
Meeting, the first great one kept in Nottinghamshire; an extraordinary one at Mansfield; of professors and others visited in several places, i. 29, 30.
—— a general, at Swanington in Bedfordshire, and at Skipton, i. 114, 199.
Meetings settled, i. 67.
—— frequently disturbed at London and elsewhere, and persons cruelly abused, i. 374.
—— Friends beaten and grievously wounded, some even to death, and when kept by force out of their meeting-houses they meet in the street, i. 376.
—— a yearly meeting at London, ii. 89.
—— some convinced in silent meetings, ii. 294.
—— meeting-house at Ratcliffe pulled down, ii. 100.
Military employment testified against, i. 107.
Miller, Philip, a volunteer in persecution, disturbing meetings without authority, i. 377.
Ministers of Christ are made by himself, who gives them gifts, i. 199.
—— so called, in this nation a great grievance to it, ii. 182.
—— of the word, above 60 of them raised among the Quakers, go out in the service of the gospel; the names of several of them, i. 98.
Monk, general, gives an order against soldiers disturbing Friends’ meetings, i. 365.
Motions of the body and mind distinguished, ii. 131.
Muggleton, Lodowick, and John Reeves, their monstrous blasphemies, a book published against him by R. Farnsworth, i. 430.
—— to which he replies, i. 430.
Murder, strange account of one at Dublin, i. 130.
Musgrave, sir Philip, a persecutor of Friends, and a violent prosecutor of F. Howgill, ii. 9.
N.
Nayler, James, convinced by G. Fox, becomes a preacher, i. 58.
—— reproved by G. F. and friends at Bristol, i. 158.
—— his birth and education, &c. i. 159.
—— the beginning of his fall, i. 160.
—— his procession into Bristol, taken up there, examined, and sent to London to be examined by the parliament, their resolution and sentence, i. 160, 161.
—— petitions on his behalf, i. 162.
—— public preachers prevail with the Protector not to stop his punishment, i. 163.
—— sentence executed at London, i. 164.
—— he comes to a true repentance of his transgression, and publishes several books and papers by way of recantation, i. 165, 166.
—— extract from the preface of his works.—See Appendix, vol. i.
—— his crime not owing to the doctrine of which he made profession, but to his being exalted in his own opinion, i. 179.
—— his dying words, i. 181.
Newcastle, mayor of, troubled for imprisoning M. Halhead; sets him at liberty, i. 89.
New England, persecution there, i. 181.
—— cruel laws made, i. 217.
—— Nicholas Davis banished on pain of death, i. 251.
—— their deputies come to England to defend their cruelty, but fearing danger, retreat, i. 314.
—— impious expressions of some of the magistrates, i. 369.
—— a relation of their proceedings published, i. 371.
Nimeguen, the Congress there. The apology and a letter written in Latin by R Barclay, delivered to each ambassador, &c. ii. 174.
Norton, John, priest at Boston in New England, encourages the magistrates in persecution, i. 219.
—— he with other priests petition for a law to banish Quakers on pain of death, i. 222.
—— his sudden and remarkable death, i. 372.
Norwich, R. Hubberthorn and G. Whitehead go thither, by whose ministry a meeting is settled there, i. 98, 107.
O.
Oaths, reason why the Quakers refuse to take them, &c. and petition parliament for an affirmation instead of an oath, vide acts of parliament, ii. 259.
Oath of fidelity to O. Cromwell refused by his soldiers convinced of the Quakers’ persuasion, who thereupon are disbanded, i. 97.
—— of abjuration of the pope, refused and why, i. 134.
—— of supremacy, i. 290.
Oaths, on gospel ordinance, a book written by F. Howgill against oaths, ii. 86.
—— doctrine of the Quakers concerning oaths not absolutely necessary to government, ii. 302.
Oaths of allegiance and supremacy tendered to Quakers, and by them refused, the general pretence for persecuting them, i. 351, 352.
Oppressed, God hears them, and brings distress on their persecutors, i. 283.
Orange, prince of, king William III. the glorious instrument of establishing liberty of conscience by law, ii. 233.
—— plot against him, and associations thereupon, ii. 274.
—— testimony of the Quakers respecting these associations, ii. 274.
Osborn, Wm. one of the first Scotch preachers of the Quakers, i. 112.
—— from a lieutenant colonel becomes a zealous minister, i. 124.
Oxford, cruel and barbarous usage of Elizabeth Heavens and Elizabeth Fletcher, so that the latter of whom died soon after, i. 108.
P.
Paets, Adrian, his argument against revelation, ii. 143.
—— answered by R. Barclay and others, ii. 144 to 160.
Page, John, mayor of Plymouth, his unjust treatment of M. Halhead, and T. Salthouse, i. 134.
—— makes excuse for it in a letter to general Desborough, who is little satisfied with it, i. 134.
Papists endeavour to make proselytes of Quakers, i. 315.
—— statutes made against them, executed against Quakers, ii. 19.
Parker, Alexander, an early minister, i. 118.
—— his death and character, ii. 235.
Parnel, James, a youth of sixteen visiting G. Fox in Carlisle dungeon, is convinced, and afterwards becomes a powerful minister of the gospel, i. 85.
—— born at Retford, and trained up in literature, i. 124.
—— imprisoned at Cambridge; disputes with the scholars, and is rudely treated; goes to a fast at Coggeshall; reasons with and confounds priest Willis, though but about eighteen years of age; he is sent to Colchester prison, and from thence to Chelmsford sessions, chained night and day with felons and murderers, i. 125, 126.
—— is indicted, fined, and sent back to Colchester castle; i. 126.
—— cruelty exercised towards him there, proves the cause of his death, i. 127.
Pastor, independent, preaching against the Quakers, falls down as dead, brought again to life, but never to his right senses, i. 192.
Pattison, M. imprisoned, i. 140.
Peace, the first step thereto is to stand still in the light that discovers sin and transgressions, i. 73.
Pearson, Anthony, convinced, i. 83.
—— refuses access to G. Fox in Carlisle dungeon, i. 90.
—— one of the first Quakers that preached at London, i. 98.
—— he and T. Aldam visit most of the jails, and get copies of Friends’ convictions to lay before O. Cromwell, i. 208.
Pembleton, Brian, a New England magistrate, persecutor and blasphemer, i. 369.
Penn, William, his education and convincement, ii. 77.
—— publishes a book, for which he is committed to the Tower, ii. 82.
—— is tried with Wm. Mead at the Old Bailey, ii. 101.
—— goes into Holland, and travels into Germany, with R. Barclay, ii. 161.
—— with whom he visits the princess Elizabeth, and travels further into Germany, ii. 162.
—— writes to the princess Elizabeth, the countess of Hornes, and to the elector Palatine, ii. 163.
—— goes to Wiewart where he speaks with Anne Maria Schurman, the Somerdykes, and Peter Yvon the French pastor; goes to Embden, where he speaks with the burgomaster André, ii. 164.
—— his letter to him against persecution, ii. 165.
—— revisits the princess and countess, ii. 267.
—— disputes at Amsterdam, ii. 168.
—— arrives at Harwich, thence goes to London, ii. 170.
—— writes to the princess, ii. 171.
—— Pennsylvania granted to him and his heirs by king Charles II. ii. 181.
—— his speech to king James II. on his delivering the address from the yearly meeting, and the king’s answer, ii. 213.
—— blames the turning out of the fellows of Magdalen College, ii. 216.
—— answers the reflection of his being a Papist, ii. 223.
—— presents an address to queen Anne, ii. 298.
Penn, admiral, sent by the Protector with a fleet to the West Indies, i. 145.
—— his dying sentiments and advice to his son, ii. 181.
Pennington, Isaac, a prisoner, writes to the king and parliament of the unreasonableness of persecution, ii. 50.
—— a question proposed by him to both houses of parliament, ii. 52.
—— short account of his convincement, death, and burial, ii. 175.
—— his account of himself, ii. 287 to 292.
Penry, justice, prosecuted on the act against occasional conformity, ii. 321.
People of God, a summary account of his raising to himself a people in this nation, of their great suffering, what he has done for them, and will do, with an exhortation to patience and steadfastness, i. 291 to 295.
Perfection, recommended by G. Fox, and defended against some professors, i. 93.
Perrot, John, travels into Italy with J. Love; is imprisoned at Rome, and released, i. 282.
—— gives way to vain imaginations, i. 316.
—— and abandons his profession, i. 317.
—— his answers to alderman Brown, i. 378.
—— said to be the author of a paper fathered by Rogers’s party on E. Burrough, ii. 190.
Persecution at Bristol, i. 102.
—— in New England, i. 180.
—— is contrary to Christ, his apostles, and Christianity, i. 183.
—— inexcusable in the professors of religion, i. 204 to 207.
—— protector and council warned against it, i. 208.
—— in London and elsewhere, i. 214.
—— some stop put to it by change of government, i. 287.
—— is very severe throughout England, i. 374, ii. 30, 40.
—— is at a stand, which displeases some churchmen, ii. 89.
—— is renewed, ii. 93, 98.
—— rages in the country, ii. 100.
—— many instances of it, ii. 110 to 114.
—— a stop put to it, ii. 230.
Persecutors, their dismal fate, ii. 76, 135, 186.
—— excellent advice to them, ii. 221.
—— J. Batt dies penitent, ii. 265.
—— wretched end of Alexander Ruddock, ii. 266.
Petition of the Quakers to king James II. ii. 194.
—— two papers presented to him, in one of which was the number of prisoners in every county, ii. 197 to 199.
Physicians should be in the wisdom of God, by which the creatures were made, if they would know their virtues, i. 31.
Pistol, one held to G. Fox’s breast would not go off, and the man went away trembling, i. 77.
Plain speech required of G. Fox, i. 32.
—— reasons for using it, i. 32, 315.
Plays, shows wakes, May-games, &c. testified against by G. Fox, i. 34.
Pope, Innocent XI. two letters to him, with queries to him by G. Fox, ii. 175.
Pope, Blanche, confuted by G. Fox, i. 410.
Popery, the parliament advise the king to suppress the growth of it, ii. 133.
Popish plot discovered, ii. 174.
Porter, Henry, commits G. Fox to Lancaster prison, i. 274.
Prayer, G. Fox’s paper concerning, ii. 210.
Preachers in 1652, are 25 in number, and every where meet with opposition, i. 79.
Preaching of the Quakers, at first of what it consisted, i. 26.
Press, Quakers considerations on the bill to restrain it, ii. 278.
Preston, Thomas, his wife makes her servant beat M. Halhead for passing by her without greeting: she sometime after dies in a miserable condition, i. 86, 87.
—— her servant much troubled with what he had done; three years after begs forgiveness, i. 87.
Presumption of the church of Rome, i. 315, 316.
Pretences for imprisoning Quakers groundless and frivolous, i. 135, 136, 148, and sequel.
Pride, a warning to young people against it, ii. 292, 293.
Priests endeavour to persuade people that there is no possibility of being freed from sin in this life, i. 38.
—— how they deceived the people, i. 55.
—— when they heard of G. Fox’s coming, they would hide themselves, i. 60.
—— they possess not what they speak of to others, i. 71.
—— have not the word of the Lord, as the prophets and apostles had, i. 74.
—— fruits of their ministry, i. 78.
—— they stir up to persecution, i. 102, 103, 213.
—— their lives and practices disagree with their doctrine, i. 137.
—— why they are sometimes treated a little roughly, i. 137.
—— their domineering pride and covetousness, ii. 56.
Prince, Thomas, governor of Plymouth, his barbarous expression concerning the Quakers, i. 248.
Prisoners to lie long in a jail dangerous to their morals, i. 54.
—— some very wicked ones are kind to G. Fox, and become converts, i. 84.
Professors of the light, Quakers were formerly so called, i. 39.
Prophesy of the priests, that the Quakers would be all gone in half a year, i. 76.
Prophetical warnings, sayings, and passages, i. 115.
—— of G. Fox to colonel Hacker, i. 116.
—— of B. Blaugdone to judge Pepes at Dublin, i. 131.
—— of a woman before the parliament, i. 207.
—— of Cromwell’s fall, by T. Aldam, i. 208.
—— by E. Burrough, i. 208, 209, 216, 231, 232, 235 to 245.
—— of G. Fox, jun. to the parliament and army, i. 262.
—— of W. Christison to captain Adderton, i. 304.
—— and to the court of Boston, i. 308.
—— of G. Fox, jun. to his friends, i. 307.
—— of C. Evans, i. 321, 329, 332.
—— of F. Howgill, i. 384.
—— of G. Bishop to the king and parliament, ii. 40.
Proselytes, Jesuits endeavour to make them from among the Quakers, but in vain, i. 316.
Puritans, when so called, i. 17.
Pursloe, captain, rejoices for the spreading of the truth, i. 63.
Pyot, Edward, fellow traveller with G. Fox, is taken into custody at Ives, i. 148.
—— was formerly a captain, writes to judge Glyn, i. 153.
Q.
Quakers, so called in scorn, i. 18.
—— the reasons for their plain carriage and speech, which prove the occasion of great trouble and persecution to them, i. 32.
—— some priests convinced, i. 37.
—— first so called at Derby, the origin of the name, i. 39.
—— given by the independents, i. 118.
—— are falsely charged with denying that Christ suffered at Jerusalem, i. 53.
—— their first meeting in Swarthmore was in judge Fell’s house, i. 74.
—— they meet with great and grievous sufferings, i. 77.
—— by patience surmount difficulties, and become numerous, i. 79.
—— they never resist their persecutors, in imitation of the primitive Christians, i. 86.
—— by what means they became so numerous in early times, and why they went so frequently to steeple-houses, &c. i. 91.
—— they at first lose their business, but it afterwards increases, i. 93.
—— meetings settled in most parts of the North, above sixty ministers are raised among them, they are imprisoned, whipped, &c. under various pretences, are branded for witches, i. 97.
—— many books are written against them, which are confuted by E. Burrough and F. Howgill, i. 101.
—— all manner of insolence and violence used against them at Bristol, i. 101.
—— charged with being of the Franciscan order, but refute it, i. 105.
—— O. Cromwell’s character of them, i. 117.
—— justices and other officers displaced for owning them, i. 117.
—— offer to lie in prison for their brethren, but refused and threatened, i. 207.
—— their tongues to be bored through with a hot iron, for returning a third time to New England, i. 217.
—— their great sufferings, and on what account, i. 230.
—— their charity to the poor commended, i. 274.
—— their mutual Christian love, i. 228.
—— some of their principles, i. 250, 258, 300, 309.
—— why they meet together, i. 281.
—— some of them had before the lords, 700 of them set at liberty by king Charles II. i. 284.
—— are persecuted afresh on the insurrection of the fifth monarchy-men, i. 285.
—— are not deterred from doing their duty by any sufferings, ii. 26, 30.
—— stand firm while other dissenters give way, ii. 182.
—— suffer unmoved the spoil of goods, ii. 247.
—— their perseverance and steadfastness till they obtain liberty, ii. 295.
—— name of Quakers not assumed but given, and how far used by them, among themselves they are distinguished by that of Friends, ii. 309.
—— reasons against the schism bill, ii. 322.
—— Yearly meeting Epistle, ii. 328.
Queries of E. Burrough to the friars and nuns at Dunkirk, i. 232.
—— mostly political, proposed to the Quakers, by an eminent royalist, supposed to be the earl of Clarendon, i. 271.
—— answered by E. Burrough, i. 271.
—— to the Pope and Papists, written by G. Fox, done into Latin by W. Sewel, and sent to Rome, ii. 178 et. seq.
R.
Rigge, Ambrose, convinced by G. Fox, i. 97.
—— imprisoned at Basingstoke, i. 156.
—— travels, imprisoned at Melcomb Regis, whipped at Southampton, afterwards imprisoned at Horsham, and premunired, i. 354.
Ranters, confuted by G. Fox; some of them convinced by him at Twy Cross, i. 114.
Rawlinson, capt. Wm. his cruelty to M. Halhead, i. 89.
Reckless, John, sheriff at Nottingham, convinced by G. Fox, and becomes a preacher, i. 35.
Recreations, the principle of the Quakers as to them, ii. 303.
Ree, Richard, one of the first Scotch preachers among the Quakers, i. 112.
Reformation, small at first, proceeds by degrees, began in England under king Henry VIII. i. 14, 15.
Regeneration the work of God’s spirit, i. 139.
—— a sermon concerning it, by W. Dewsbury, ii. 225.
Religion imposed by force fills the land with hypocrites, i. 215.
Religion, Christian, depends not alone on the historical knowledge of Christ, i. 230.
Remorse on a death-bed for cruelly smiting a Quaker, i. 85.
Resurrection, the belief of the Quakers concerning, ii. 308.
Revelation, divine, how it is known to be such, ii. 147.
—— by dreams, ii. 153.
—— in the minds of the prophets by inward inspiration, ii. 152.
—— certain without any outward miraculous demonstration, ii. 153.
Revenge, not desired but refused by the professors of the light, i. 372.
Rich, Robert, a merchant of London, writes to parliament in vindication of James Nayler from the guilt of blasphemy, i. 161.
—— his behaviour to him at the execution of his sentence, i. 164.
—— joins John Perrot in his extravagancies, and afterwards quits his former profession, i. 318.
Ripan, mayor of Lancaster, convinced by G. Fox’s speech at the sessions there, i. 78.
Robertson, Thomas, and Josiah Coale, imprisoned in Bristol for attempting to speak in a steeple-house, i. 105.
Robinson, justice, kind to G. Fox, i. 61.
—— colonel, a justice, and a cruel persecutor of the Quakers; his dreadful exit as he went fanatic hunting, i. 411.
—— George, travels to Jerusalem, his wonderful preservation, and safe return, i. 195.
—— Thomas refusing the oath of abjuration, is imprisoned and cruelly used; being released goes to Portsmouth, i. 156.
—— Wm. taken up at Boston, in New England, is cruelly whipt and banished, but not leaving the country, is again taken up and imprisoned, i. 250.
—— brought before the court, receives sentence of death, i. 251.
—— his behaviour and execution, i. 255.
—— his and M. Stevenson’s dead bodies used inhumanly, i. 257.
Rogers and Crisp, separatists, ii. 190.
Rome, church of, not led by the good, but by the evil spirit, i. 215.
Rouse, John, his right ear cut off in the house of correction in Boston, New England, and afterwards whipped, i. 219.
Rudyard, Thomas, a lawyer, is prosecuted for writing a book showing the right of juries, &c. for pleading the cause of the oppressed, ii. 109.
Rulers, an expostulation with them touching their duty, i. 169.
S.
Sacrament, that word not found in Scripture. The Quakers’ belief concerning bread and wine, i. 280.
Sale, Richard, so violently thrust into a strait hole, called Little Ease, in West Chester prison, that he soon after died, i. 228.
Salt, Wm. imprisoned at Ives, i. 148.
Salthouse, Thomas, travels with M. Halhead to Bristol; they are imprisoned there, i. 131.
—— the cause of it, and are brought to trial, i. 133.
—— fined and sent to Bridewell on false or frivolous pretences, i. 134.
Salutations. See greetings, i. 32.
Sanders, Mary, convinced, servant to the protector’s wife, i. 100, 183.
Sawyer, Sarah, at her house in Aldersgate street was the first settled meeting of the Quakers in London, i. 101.
Sawrey, John, a justice, the first persecutor in the north, his cruelty to G. Fox, i. 76.
—— G. Fox’s prophetical letter to him, i. 80.
—— he is drowned, i. 81.
Scarth, Philip, a priest convinced by G. Fox; becomes a preacher among the Quakers, i. 60.
Schism bill passed, ii. 322.
Schurman, Anna Maria, some account of her life, ii. 164.
Scoffer, a remarkable judgment upon one, i. 264.
—— others convinced and converted, ii. 294.
Scot, Patience, a girl of eleven years old sent to prison, i. 247.
Scotch priest, who had threatened G. Fox’s life, afterwards becomes a Quaker, i. 60.
Scotland, visited by M. Halhead and J. Lancaster, and by C. Evans and S. Cheevers, i. 111.
—— also by S. Crisp, i. 246.
—— meetings settled at Drombowy, Heads, Garshore, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen, i. 112.
—— first Scotch preachers of the Quakers, i. 179.
—— Quakers persecuted there, ii. 172.
Scriptures, vide i. 31, 78, 281.
Seal, Peter, mayor of Southampton, his cruelty to A. Rigge, soon after which he dies, i. 156.
Sedbergh, G. Fox preaches in a meeting of Separatists there, and convinces most of them, i. 67.
Semper Idem, a popish book, so called, answered by Edw. Burrough, i. 309.
Separation of Wilkinson and Story, the rise and progress of it; it disappears, ii. 189.
Separatists from the church of England persecuted, afterwards become persecutors, i. 18.
Several meeting-houses erected at London, i. 101.
Sewel, Jacob Williamson, the author’s father, and Judith Zinspenning, his mother, convinced by W. Ames, i. 190.
Shattock, William, a shoemaker in Boston in New England, hauled to the house of correction, cruelly whipped and kept to work, i. 216.
—— Samuel, banished New England on pain of death, afterwards carries the king’s mandamus to New England, to prevent further persecution of the Quakers, i. 306.
Sheriff of Lincoln contending against G. Fox is convinced and travels with him, i. 113.
Shipwrecks, G. Fox writes respecting the wickedness of making spoil of them, i. 264.
Signs, T. Aldam, a sign to O. Cromwell, and a broken pitcher to the parliament, i. 207.
—— R. Huntingdon to Presbyterians and Independents, i. 284.
—— an English woman to the French Protestants at Dieppe, ii. 58.
—— T. Ibbitt to London, ii. 64.
—— S. Eccles to Papists at Galloway, ii. 90.
Sin, a freedom from it, asserted by G. Fox, i. 37.
—— for which he is imprisoned six months, i. 38.
—— the guilt and power of it taken away by Christ, i. 44.
—— pleaded for by professors, i. 45.
Singing psalms scrupled by G. Whitehead, i. 107.
—— reasons against it, i. 108.
—— principle of Quakers concerning singing in churches, ii. 308.
Smith, Humphrey, and others abused and hauled to prison from a meeting, i. 154.
Snake in the Grass, an anonymous book, written chiefly against the Quakers, answered by G. Whitehead and J. Wyeth, ii. 279.
Soldiers, one at Nottingham, denying that Christ suffered at Jerusalem refuted by G. Fox, i. 53.
—— a remarkable passage of some of them, i. 75.
—— one at Ulverstone cruelly beaten for taking part with G. Fox, i. 76.
Somerdykes, gentlewomen followers of Labadie visited by and discourse with Wm. Penn, ii. 164.
Souls, some who asserted that women have none, refuted by G. Fox, i. 24.
Southwick, Laurence and Cassandra, their sufferings, i. 195.
—— two of their children ordered to be sold for their fines, i. 247.
Southwick, Josiah, his Christian magnanimity, is whipped through three towns and turned into the wilderness, i. 362.
Southwark, meetings disturbed there, i. 385.
Spirit of God wrought gloriously in the martyrs at the reformation, i. 15.
—— its teaching, &c. owned by them and other reformers, and by Calvin, i. 15, 16.
—— a measure of it afforded to all men, i. 32.
—— it must be in those who understand the Scriptures, i. 78.
—— who are guided by it, i. 139.
—— how to know if we are led by it, i. 280.
—— thereby we come to believe the Scriptures come from God, ii. 144.
Staples, Benjamin, see Thomas Goodair.
Stealing goods, &c. not punished with death by the law of God, i. 418.
Steeple-houses, why public churches are so called by Quakers, i. 75.
—— they are improperly termed churches, i. 289.
—— why the Quakers do not frequent them, ii. 16.
Stephens, Nathaniel, priest of Drayton, i. 21.
—— at his instance the people stone G. Fox and his friends out of the town, i. 37.
Stevenson, Marmaduke, imprisoned at Boston, and banished, i. 250.
—— again apprehended and imprisoned, i. 251.
—— receives sentence of death; his account of his call to Boston, i. 252.
—— his execution, i. 255.
Stoddard, Amos, convinced by G. Fox, i. 29.
Stordy, Thomas, resigns an impropriation; his sufferings and pious end, ii. 193.
Stranger, Hannah, writes extravagant letters to J. Nayler, i. 158.
Stubbs, John, convinced by G. Fox in Carlisle prison, and becomes a minister, i. 97.
—— meets with W. Caton, i. 120.
—— travels with him, i. 121.
Stubbs, John, and S. Fisher, are at Rome, i. 282.
—— J. S. having been in Turkey returns to England, i. 350.
Sufferings of friends represented to the protector by G. Fox and S. Pyot, i. 183.
—— by E. Burrough in a letter, i. 184.
—— and by him to R. Cromwell, i. 212.
—— in New England unparalleled, i. 216.
—— account of, published and offered to the parliament, i. 228.
—— a relation of them since the restoration published and presented to the king and parliament, ii. 180.
—— in Barbadoes, ii. 263.
Sultan, Mahomet IV. favourably receives a message from Mary Fisher, and dismisses her with respect, i. 283.
Supper, Lord’s, so called, see water-baptism.
Swearing, unlawful for Christians, i. 113, ii. 3.
—— denied by the Waldenses and primitive Christians, ii. 17.
—— arguments against it, ii. 62.
—— a representation of the Quakers’ case of not swearing given to the members of parliament, ii. 258.
T.
Taylor, bishop, his thoughts respecting heresy, drunkards, &c. i. 318.
Teachers of the world preach for hire, i. 62.
—— described and expostulated with, i. 170.
Temples of God, not churches or steeples so called, but his people’s hearts, i. 23, 60.
Time-servers no ministers of Christ, ii. 18.
Tithes, R. Widders and thousands more suffer much in their estates for refusing to pay them, i. 91.
—— that they are now abolished; a dispute; about 100 suffer for not paying them, i. 140.
—— a motion to abolish them, i. 234.
—— a law concerning them, i. 287.
—— doctrine of the Quakers concerning them, ii. 303.
Tongues and languages, the beast has power over them, i. 198.
Travelling to and fro, the practice of Christ and his apostles in preaching the word and doing good, i. 140.
Trigg, Hannah, a maid of 15, sentenced to banishment, dies in prison, ii. 31.
Trinity, the word not found in the Scriptures, i. 133.
Trooper, one at Derby convinced by G. Fox; speaks boldly among the soldiers, is wonderfully preserved and lays down his arms, i. 53.
Truth of the Scriptures, how known, i. 281.
Triers of spirits, that know not of what spirit themselves are, silenced by G. Fox, i. 54.
Trial of John Crook, i. 387.
—— of many prisoners at Worcester, i. 417.
—— of G. Fox, ii. 3.
—— of F. Howgill, ii. 9, 14.
—— of eight friends at Hertford, ii. 26.
—— of W. Penn and W. Mead, ii. 101.
Tumults at Bristol, in which the Quakers suffer greatly, i. 101.
U./V.
Vane, sir Henry, chairman of a commitee where many friends are tried, i. 214.
—— he is tried, found guilty, and beheaded on Tower-hill, i. 355.
Vickris, Richard, imprisoned at Bristol, i. 290.
Unfaithfulness, the fruit of it, i. 370.
Upshal, Nicholas, member of the church of Boston, in New England, gives 5s. a week for the liberty of taking victuals to two Quaker women in prison, i. 182.
—— is fined, imprisoned, and banished, for speaking against persecution; kindness of an Indian prince to him, i. 182.
Usage of such as for conscience-sake could not follow the ordinary custom, i. 32.
W.
Wages, such as preach for, are hirelings and false prophets, i. 114.
Waldenses denied all swearing, see swearing.
Ward, captain, convinced by G. Fox, i. 67.
Warfare of a Christian spiritual, i. 224.
Wars, whence they proceed, i. 235.
Warrants, i. 104, 135, 147, 362, 367.
Wastfield, Daniel, a close prisoner 33 days, not suffered to see his dying child, i. 106.
Waugh, D. see S. Gibbons.
Weapons, carnal, not used by Quakers, i. 224, 235, 286.
West, colonel, G. Fox’s friend, i. 78.
—— refuses to grant a warrant for apprehending him, would rather hazard all, i. 80.
Whitehead, George, goes to Norwich, i. 107.
—— a short account of his former life, and convincement, i. 107.
—— apprehended, and examined, and imprisoned at Bures in Suffolk, i. 138.
—— writes against persecution, ii. 25.
—— disputes with W. Burnet and J. Ives about the resurrection, and with T. Vincent about the trinity, ii. 82.
—— with others, presents an address to king William, ii. 283.
—— another to queen Anne, ii. 297.
—— his speeches to the queen, on presenting an address, ii. 312.
—— another to king George, and his speeches to the prince, ii. 324.
—— another to ditto on suppressing the rebellion, ii. 327.
Whitrow, Susannah, a young woman, her warning to young people, ii. 292.
Widders, Robert, grievously abused at Coldbeck, dismissed by justice Briscoe, after a warrant to carry him to jail at Carlisle, i. 90.
—— goes to several steeple-houses, is sometimes imprisoned, and sometimes remarkably delivered, i. 91.
—— his death, ii. 211.
William III., see prince of Orange.
Wilkinson and Story, see separation.
Wilson, priest, his insolent behaviour at the execution of William Robinson and M. Stevenson, i. 258.
—— he makes a ballad on them, i. 258.
Witt, John and Cornelius, their miserable end, ii. 117.
Wits, a caution to conceited ones, ii. 290.
Witness of God within, awakens and reproves what is contrary to gravity and sobriety, i. 119.
Woman, one foretells the dissolution of parliament, i. 207.
—— miserable end of one who reviled W. Robinson and M. Stevenson at their death, i. 257.
Women’s preaching, the belief and practice of the Quakers concerning it, ii. 307.
—— monthly meetings, rise of, ii. 61.
Word, written and unwritten asserted by the Papists, i. 200.
Work of the Lord not to be opposed, i. 88.
Worship, Quakers think public worship an indispensable duty, i. 376.
—— their way of worship, ii. 329.
—— self willed, is barren and unprofitable, i. 92.
—— the end of true worship, ii. 16.
Wrath of God, how felt by profane men as fire, ii. 149.
Wright, Hannah, a girl of about fourteen years of age, travels some hundred miles to Boston and warns the magistrates to spill no more innocent blood, i. 370.
Y.
Young, Edward, mayor of Eversham, his cruelties towards the Quakers, i. 154.
—— his barbarous treatment of two women for visiting the prisoners, i. 155.
York, duke of, advises the king to severity against G. Fox the younger, for his letter. The king’s prudent answer, i. 311.
Z.
Zinspenning, Judith, the author’s mother, comes to England, and speaks in public by an interpreter, and writes a book of proverbs, i. 429.
—— brief account of her life, ii. 41.
—— her death, ii. 44.
—— her epistle to the friends of truth, ii. 44.
FINIS.