come, he brought G. Fox and T. Briggs, with some more of their friends to an inn, which was the gaoler's house. And after a while the mayor of the town, with the said captain, and the lieutenant, who were justices, came and examined G. Fox, asking, Why he came thither to make a disturbance? G. Fox told them, He did not come there to make a disturbance, neither had he made any. They then said, "There was a law against the Quakers' meetings, made only against them." G. Fox told them, "Не knew no such law." Then they produced the act that was made against Quakers and others. G. Fox seeing it, told them, "That law was against such as were a terror to the king's subjects, and were enemies, and held principles dangerous to the government; and therefore it was not against his friends, for they held truth, and their principles were not dangerous to the government, and their meetings were peaceable, as was well known." Now it was not without reason that George said, he knew no such law; since they had said, there was a law made only against the Quakers meetings; whereas the act had the appearance of being made against plotters, and enemies to the king: which certainly the Quakers were not. Yet it was said to G. Fox, he was an enemy to the king; but this he denied, and told them how he had once been cast into Derby dungeon, about the time of Worcester fight, because he would not take up arms against the king; and how afterwards he had been sent up to London by colonel Hacker, as a plotter to bring in king Charles, and that he was kept prisoner in London till he was set at liberty by Oliver Cromwell. They asked him then, whether he had been imprisoned in the time of the insurrection; and he said, "Yes, but that he was released by the king's own command." At length they demanded bond for his appearance at the sessions, and would have had him to promise to come thither no more. he refused the one as well as the other. they behaved themselves moderately, and told him, and Thomas Briggs and the others, Ye shall see we are civil to you; for it is the mayor's pleasure you should all be set at liberty. To which G. Fox returned, their civility was noble; and so they parted; and he passed on to many places, where he had singular occurrences; and though wiles were laid for him, yet sometimes he escaped the hands of his persecuting enemies.

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Coming into Cornwall he found there one Joseph Hellen, and George Bewly, who though they professed truth, yet had suffered themselves to be seduced by Blanch Pope, a ranting woman, who had ensnared them chiefly by asking, Who made the devil, did not God? This silly question, which Hellen and Bewly were at a loss to answer, they propounded to G. Fox, and he answered it with, No: for, said he, all that God made was good, and was blessed, but so was not the devil: he was called a serpent before he was called a devil and an adversary; and afterwards he was called a dragon, because he was a destroyer. The devil abode not in the truth, and by departing from the truth he became a devil. Now there is no promise of God to the devil, that ever he shall return into the truth again; but to man and woman, who have been deceived by him, the promise of God is, that the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head, and break his power and strength to pieces. With this answer, G. Fox gave satisfaction to his friends; but Hellen was so poisoned, and run out, that they denied him; but Bewly was recovered from his fault by sincere repentance.

G. Fox having performed his service there, went to Helstone near Falmouth, where he had a large meeting, at which many were convinced; for he opened to the auditory, the state of the church in the primitive times, and the state of the church in the wilderness, as also the state of the false church that was got up since: next he shewed that the everlasting gospel was now preaching again, over the head of the whore, beast, antichrist, and the false prophets, which were got up since the apostles days; and that now the everlasting gospel was received and receiving, which brought life and immortality to light. And this sermon was of such effect, that the people generally confessed, it was the everlasting truth that had been declared there that day.

G. Fox passing on, came at length to the Land's end, where there was an assembly of his friends, and also a fisherman, called Nicholas Jose, who preached among them, having three years before been convinced there by the ministry of G. Fox.

Whilst in these parts, there happened a very dismal and dreadful case..

"One colonel Robinson was, since the king came in, made justice of the peace; and became a cruel persecutor of those called Quakers, of whom he sent many to prison; and hearing that some liberty was allowed them, by the favour of the jailor, to come home sometimes to visit their wives and children, he made complaint thereof to the judges at the assizes, against the jailor, who thereupon was fined an hundred marks by judge Keeling. Not long after the assizes, Robinson sent to a neighbouring justice, desiring he would go with him a fanatick hunting, (meaning the disturbing of Quakers' meetings.) On the day that he intended thus to go a hunting, he sent his man about with his horses, and walked himself to a tenement that he had, where his cows and dairy were kept, and where his servants were then milking. Being come there, he asked for his bull, and the maids said, they had shut him into the field, because he was unruly amongst the kine. He then going into the field, and having formerly accustomed himself to play with the bull, began to fence at him with his staff, as he used to do; but the bull, snuffing, went a little back, and then ran fiercely at him, and struck his horn into his thigh, and lifting him upon his horn, threw him over his back, and tore up his thigh to his belly; and when he came to the ground, he broke his leg, and the bull then gored him again with his horns, and roared, and licked up his blood. One of the maid servants hearing her master cry out, came running into the field, and took the bull by the horns to pull him off; but he, without hurting her, gently put her by with his horns, and still fell to goring him, and licking up his blood. Then she ran and got some workmen that were not far off, to come and rescue her master; but they could not at all beat off the bull, till they brought mastiff dogs to set on him; and then the bull fled. His sister having notice of this disaster, came and said, "Alack, brother, what a heavy judgment is this!" And he answered, "Ah sister it is a heavy judgment indeed; pray let the bull be killed, and the flesh be given to the poor." So he was taken up