particularly can, and do hereby witness, that I am already dead or crucified to the very occasions and real grounds of all outward wars, and carnal sword fighting, and fleshly bustlings and contests; and that, therefore, confidently I now believe, I shall never hereafter be a user of a temporal sword more, nor a joiner with those that do so.

"And this I do here solemnly declare, not in the least to avoid persecution, or for any political ends of my own, or in the least for the satisfaction of the wills of any of my great adversaries, or for satisfying the carnal will of my poor weak afflicted wife; but, by the special movings and compulsions of God, now upon my soul, am I in truth and righteousness compelled thus to declare; that so I may take away from my adversaries all their figleaf covers or pretences, for their continuing of my every way unjust bonds; and that thereby, if I must yet be an imprisoned sufferer, it may this day forward be, for the truth as it is in Jesus; which truth I witness to be truly professed and practised by the savouriest of people, called Quakers.

"And to this my present declaration, which I exceedingly long and earnestly desire to have in print, and for which I know that I can cheerfully

and assuredly lay down my life, if I be called to witness the truth of it, I subscribe my name,

"JOHN LILBURNE."

From my innocent and every way causeless captivity, in Dover Castle, the place of my soul's delightful and contentful abode, where I have really and substantially found that which my soul many years has sought diligently after, and, with unsatisfied longingness, thirsted to enjoy, this present 1st day of the week, being the 4th of the 3d month, 1655.” *

From Sewell's account it appears that Lilburne continued a prisoner till after the death of Cromwell, when he was released. But it is said in the Biographical Work already noticed, that he settled at Eltham, in Kent, passing the remainder of his days in undisturbed and undisturbing tran

* I am apprehensive this should be 1656, in which year [ find, in Whiting's Catalogue, a piece published by Lilburne, entitled, "The Resurrection of John Lilburne, now a P soner in Dover Castle, declared and manifested."

quillity; and that he died there in 1657. However, Sewell, whose account I take to be correct, says, that he died in London in 1660, continuing steadfast to the doctrines he had embraced.

In this instance we have a striking proof of the influence of true Christianity. Naturally of a turbulent and irritable disposition, fostered by circumstances which led to the continued indulgence of his inclinations, the entire change in Lilburne's habits and views, "during the prime of life, affords a remarkable example of that conversion, which the Apostle describes, under the figure of becoming a new man. Happy would it be if Christian belief were more generally thus influencial!

CHAPTER X.

LIFE of GEORGE FOX the Younger.

IT does not appear that the subject of this Memoir, was any relation to the individual whose life constitutes the first volume of this work. He was called the Younger for the sake of distinction, both of them being eminent Members and Ministers of the Religious Society to which they belonged. He was a native of Charsfield a village about five miles north of Woodbridge, in Suffolk. Of the time of his birth, or the circumstances of his parents, I find no notice. He joined the Society of Friends about the year 1655, and both laboured and suffered much in support of those gospel truths, which he most surely believed.

He was present at the General Quarter Sessions held at Edmundsbury the 9th of October, 1655, where George Whitehead and two others were convicted as "Common Disturbers of Magistrates. and Ministers;" though neither of them had spoken a word to any Magistrate or Minister, before they were taken into custody. The justices who committed them were their sole accusers, and incensed the others against them; and an ignorant jury being impannelled, they, by direction of the court, soon found the prisoners guilty; on which they were fined 20 nobles each, and committed to prison till payment should be made. George Fox the Younger observing the hard treatment of his friends, and especially the prejudice expressed by Justice Gurdon against them, was troubled at it, and thus addressed the justice as he was coming out of the sessions house. "Repent of thy unjust actions this day, for otherwise thou canst not escape the just judgments of God.”

Upon hearing these words, Justice Gurdon Jaid hold on him, and had him before the bench, where sureties were demanded till the next sessions, and on his non-compliance he was sent to prison with his friends. Here their usage, as was too frequently the case, was very hard; for they were lodged in the common ward among felons,