FN 27 See the piece entitled, Concerning Good morrow and Good even, the World’s Customs, but by the Light which into the World is come by it made manifest to all who be in the Darkness, by G. Fox, 1657.

FN 28 Journal, page 166.

FN 29 Epistle from Harlingen, 11th of 6th month, 1677.

FN 30 Of Bowings, by G. Fox, 1657.

FN 31 See, for example, the Journal, pages 24. 26. and 51.

FN 32 See, for example, the Epistle to Sawkey, a justice of the peace, in the journal, page 86.; the Epistle to William Larnpitt, a clergyman, which begins, “The word of the Lord to thee, oh Lampitt,” page 80.; and the Epistle to another clergyman whom he calls Priest Tatham, page 92.

FN 33 Journal, page 55.

FN 34 Ibid.  Page 300.

FN 35 Ibid. page 323.

FN 36 Ibid. page 48.

FN 37 “Especially of late,” says Leslie, the keenest of all the enemies of the sect, “some of them have made nearer advances towards Christianity than ever before; and among them the ingenious Mr. Penn has of late refined some of their gross notions, and brought them into some form, and has made them speak sense and English, of both which George Fox, their first and great apostle, was totally ignorant . . . . .  They endeavour all they can to make it appear that their doctrine was uniform from the beginning, and that there has been no alteration; and therefore they take upon them to defend all the writings of George Fox, and others of the first Quakers, and turn and wind them to make them (but it is impossible) agree with what they teach now at this day.” (The Snake in the Grass, 3rd ed. 1698.  Introduction.) Leslie was always more civil to his brother Jacobite Penn than to any other Quaker.  Penn himself says of his master, “As abruptly and brokenly as sometimes his sentences would fall from him about divine things; it is well known they were often as texts to many fairer declarations.”  That is to say, George Fox talked nonsense and some of his friends paraphrased it into sense.

FN 38 In the Life of Penn which is prefixed to his works, we are told that the warrants were issued on the 16th of January 1690, in consequence of an accusation backed by the oath of William Fuller, who is truly designated as a wretch, a cheat and. an impostor; and this story is repeated by Mr. Clarkson.  It is, however, certainly false.  Caermarthen, writing to William on the 3rd of February, says that there was then only one witness against Penn, and that Preston was that one witness.  It is therefore evident that Fuller was not the informer on whose oath the warrant against Penn was issued.  In fact Fuller appears from his Life of himself, to have been then at the Hague.  When Nottingham wrote to William on the 26th of June, another witness had come forward.