LINDFIELD:

PRINTED AT THE SCHOOLS OF INDUSTRY,

AND SOLD BY LONGMAN AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON;
HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH STREET J. AND
A. ARCH, CORNHILL, W. DARTON, HOLBORN EDMUND

FRY, HOUNDSDITCH, AND BY ALL THE
BOOKSELLERS.

1884.

W. EADE, PRINTER, LINDFIELD. THE

HISTORY

OF THE

RISE, INCREASE, AND PROGRESS,

OF THE SOCIETY OF

FRIENDS :

INTERMIXED WITH SEVERAL

REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES.

WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN LOW-DUTCH

BY WILLIAM SEWEL.

PART III.

Having now left America, and being returned to England, let us go and see the state of persecution in London, where desperate fury now raged; though it was not in that chief city alone the Quakers, so called, were most grievously persecuted: for a little before this time there was published in print a short_relation of the persecution throughout all England, signed by twelve persons, shewing that more than four thousand and two hundred of those called Quakers, both men and women, were in prison in England; and denoting the number of them that were imprisoned in each county, either for frequenting meetings, or for denying to swear, &c. Many of these had been grievously beaten, or their clothes torn or taken away from them;