Charles the First, in the late wars in England, in the General Lord Capel's own troop; wherein I sustained three wounds, namely, I was shot in my leg at the siege of Weam in Shropshire, and wounded in my left arm at the garrison of the Lord Chomley's house in Cheshire, and also cut and dangerously wounded in my head, to the caul of my brain with a pole-ax, at a skirmish at Stourbridge in Worcestershire, and at the same time the thumb of my right hand was cut off; And after several years continuance in the king's service, it pleased God to incline mine heart to make enquiry after his way of salvation, among the people called quakers, whom I finding to be a peaceable people, fearing God and of innocent principles and sincere affections towards the king, I was the more persuaded in my conscience to join in religious society with them, and to continue among them therein, and to frequent their peaceable Meetings, knowing that they are for the service and worship of Almighty God that made us: for which cause alone I am a deep sufferer, with many more, innocent persons in the same County, being severely prosecuted by Informers, on whose false information upon oath I being convicted on the Statute 22 Chas. II, was fined and distrained for two Meetings at Dudley in the said County of Worcester (the one on the 1st of the month called April, and the other in the month called June, 1683) for which I was fined ten pounds for the house and five shillings for myself, though I was at neither of those meetings, and had four cows taken away, and my doors broken open, and goods taken, not leaving me so much as a stool to sit on, nor a bed to lie on but one of straw, Also the officers (being eight of them) seized on my stock of hay, which they divided into eight parts, and cast lots for it [to-wit for the first choice] and took every one his lot.

"Now I being a poor man and thus ruined and also engaged to others, was forced to sell my house to pay my debts, so being unable to enter an appeal was also necessitated to give over my farm and return it to my Landlord, being wholly disabled to hold it any longer. Notwithstanding which I am since fined for Meetings and Meeting-houses [Meetings held in his house] nine pounds six shillings. Many likewise of my neighbours and friends on the same account have been fined, and distresses made, and their goods taken away to a considerable value, tending to bring many families of the king's peaceable subjects in the said County to penury and want.

"Wherefore may it please thee, O King! having been formerly such a sufferer in my person, in the service of the king thy father, and now being impoverished in my estate and livelihood for my tender conscience towards Almighty God, These things considered I humbly request that thou, O king! will please to take my distressed case into thy consideration, so as to cause restitution to be made me, or afford me such relief, as in thy Princely wisdom and clemency thou shall see

meet.

"And also I intreat thee to put a stop to these devouring informers that swear falsely, as before, for their own interest, that thy peaceable subjects may not be utterly ruined by them.

And I and my suffering friends do desire and pray for thy temporal and
Eternal welfare.

Wm. Corbett." "This petition being delivered to the King he read part of it, and then delivered it to another person to read the rest to him: And the petitioner was directed by some about the King to get a Certificate from some persons of note [the very description of persons who were oppressing him!] in the County of Stafford whom he had named to them. But it doth not appear that he obtained any relief." (m)

I was once advised, by a friend used to such matters, never to let a statement to a great person go over to the second page of the paper! Ed.

(m) Besse, i, 563, 655.

ART. III.-POETRY :-Modern Viatics and Viaductics

We're certainly a 'going' Nation;

None can stand still, who'd keep his station.
Fly waggons once we had, that travell'd
Three miles an hour on roads well gravell'd;
But now, like clouds before the wind,
One carriage whirls a score behind.
"Twixt Manchester and Liverpool
No longer jogs the well-packed mule;
Like hocus-pocus' conjur'd there,
We're back as soon to Manchester.
Ubiquitarians, thus inclined,

May the perpetual motion' find,
(What rate per hour their lasting theme)
Or come to eat and drink by steam.
But, at this rapid pace, how soon
Our Morning will 't o'ertake the Noon?
Few do the work; the many play,
And keep a long Lent-holiday!
Now, Johnny Bull! much do I fear
Thou ne'er wilt stop thy mad career,
"Till puffing, blowing, losing breath,
Thy end shall be untimely death.'
What boots it, then, that o'er thy grave
'Hic et ubique' thou may'st have?

W.

The Ant and the Grasshopper. La Fontaine.

A Grasshopper, all summer long
Had fill'd the meadow with her song,
But, when autumnal blasts prevail'd,
Found that her store of victual fail'd;
So, calling on a neighb’ring Ant,
She begged assistance, told her want;
'If a few grains you can but spare,
When harvest comes I will take care
(Tis all a borrower can say)
Your loan with int'rest to repay."-
Now, tho' the Ant's a noted hoarder,
She feeds no stranger, takes no boarder.
'While 'twas fine weather, she replied,
How came you not grain to provide ?'—
'Pardon me; all my time was spent
In singing loud, for your content. `—
'You sung-twas labour-mighty good :
Now dance, and try if that be food!'

CHARLES ELCOCK, PRINTER, PONTEFRACT.

ART. I.-A Chronological Summary of events and circumstances connected with the origin and progress of the doctrines and practices of the Quakers.

A. D.

(Continued from p, 159.)

The Quakers, who had been expelled from the Isle of Man, 1683. in 1669, reappear there and are again cruelly persecuted.

The account in Besse of the sufferings of William Callow and others, in this island, from 1656 to 1669, concludes with the banishment of all the quakers then resident. The following letter, in behalf of the person above-named, does credit to the writer. It was addressed to the Earl of Derby, the Sovereign of the island, and dated at Whitehall, the 18th of December 1666.

"My Lord, There is one William Callow an ancient tenant of your Lordship in the Isle of Man, is now it seems turned quaker, and for that reason banished the country. I am desired by another of that profession, whom I knew to be a faithful and loyal subject to his Majesty in the time of the late war, to entreat with you for the said Callow; he assuring me that he is a quiet inoffensive person in every thing, save in the matters of his religion, and though I would not be an advocate for any dangerous unpeaceable person, yet in such an instance I am induced to give your Lordship this trouble, the man himself appearing to me not likely to be dangerous, and also expressing as much respect and reverence towards your Lordship as his profession will give him leave: If there be no more in it than being a quaker, I do presume your Lordship may be inclined to restore him and his family to their ancient possessions, and that you may please to do so, is the reason I give your Lordship this trouble, who am

Your Lordship's faithful Friend

and Servant, RUPERT.

"To this letter of the Prince, the Earl returned the following answer, viz. "May it please your Highness, I had the honour to receive a letter from your Highness by the hands of a Manks quaker, wherein your Highness is pleased to intimate your Command to me, that he should be permitted to return to the 1sle of Man, from whence he stands banished (with others because they are quakers) by the Laws of that place. I make bold to inform your Highness, that there is now in the island not one Quaker, or dissenting person of any persuasion from the Church of England [there were however several women quakers then in prison on the island] and I humbly conceive your Highness, for that one man's concern, would not have that place endangered to be infected with schism or heresy, which it might be liable to, if Quakers should be permitted to reside there. Having given your Highness this account, I shall now detain your Highness no longer from your more serious affairs. I shall only add that I am Your Highness's most humble servant,

Derby." We shall now see who ruled the noble Earl in this affair. "While William Callow was thus busied at London soliciting liberty to return home, he received a letter from his wife dated the 19th of the 11th Month 1666, relating that she and her sister Jane Christen, Mary Callow, and her daughter Anne, were all prisoners in Peel-Castlethat all their estates real and personal were seized-that both she and Jane Christen were with child, and that they had writ to the Bishop for leave to return to their houses till the spring, and then return to prison, they not having wherewith to subsist there in winter, nor necessaries for persons in that condition-but that the Bishop had returned a short and rough answer, thus:

"Castle-town the 15th of December 1666. "If upon releasement they put in security to promise to come to the service and conform to the order of the Church, and all such as are excommunicated to acknowledge their schisms, and receive absolution, I shall so far presume upon my Lord's [Derby] favour as to grant them liberty, otherwise I have no power to meddle with them, they being my Lord's prisoners, and if they miscarry in their health or lives, it is wholly imputable to their own wilful disobedience, and they must be accounted murderers of themselves, and this is all I can say to them. ISAAC Soder and Man."

The following dialogue between the Governor and William Callow, which took place shortly after the deportation of the Friends (who all however got to England) shews strongly the arbitrary spirit and utter inhumanity of these persecutors.

"Gov. How dost thou ? W. C. I am pretty well. G. Art thou willing to go to Virginia? [At that time the receptacle of transported felons] C. I have no business there. G. But we will send thee thither. C. That is a question. G. But we will send thee. C. I desire to know by what law. G. By my Lord's order. C. I desire to be tried according to the laws of this place. G. Thou hast been tried. C. I deny it: I was not. G. Thou hast been banisht often, and still comest to trouble us and others, and thou art too long unpunisht—but we will send thee far enough, now. C. Send me as far as thou canst, thou canst not send me from my God. G. Upon my credit thou shalt go to Virginia with Capt. Harwood. C. He has nothing to do with me until I be legally convicted, and [have been] proceeded with according to Law. G. Thou hast been tried according to law, and thou wouldst not conform. C. I deny it: I was never tried by law, nor never came into any Court to be convicted by Law."

"G. What I do, I will answer for it, and I have written an order for Capt. Harwood to take thee away to Virginia, and thou shalt go, upon my credit. C. I do appeal to the law of this place to be tried by. G. Thou shalt go, and thy appeal I deny: (and then read the order he had written.) C. I deny it: thou hast no power to do it. G. What I do, I will answer it, and I will warrant him. C. Thy warrant will stand him in little stead out of this place. G. If thou wilt conform to the Law thou mayst be cleared. C. The benefit of the Law I desire, and if not of the laws of this place, I desire the benefit of the Laws of England. G. Thou shalt not. C. I make my appeal to the highest Court in England, to the King and his Council, and if there had been a Parliament now sitting, I would have made it to them also. G. I deny thy appeal. C. I do call these men to witness, that I do make my appeal to the King and his Council, and my cause is already before them, and I wait for their answer. G. I deny it: I will not accept of it. C. If thou wilt not accept of it, but deny the King's law to me, the Captain is a subject; I think he will not deny it, and transport me out of my country and from my wife and children, without legal proceedings against me. Captain H. Friend, I would have you submit to the Governor, for I have a long voyage to go, no less than a thousand leagues. C. Hast thou but a thousand leagues to go? That's not so far as David experienced, who said that if he should take the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts of the Earth, the Lord's hand would find him out. And dost thou think that he will not overtake thee, and find thee out at the end of a thousand leagues: yea, he will, and reward thee according to thy works, and the cry of my wife and six small children will be heard. G. Thou threatenest the Captain. C. I do not threaten him: There is one that will reward him according to his works, as he has in his just judgments done to others before him: for, Cursed is he that parts man and wife. G. Take him away, Soldiers, and put him on shipboard!"

He was immediately forced on shipboard; but the sailors refusing to go the voyage, the Master (who, to do him justice, had been favourable to his cause) consented to set him on shore in Ireland; whence he got a passage to Whitehaven; and was rejoined by his friends, who had in the mean time been deported to the Isle of Whitehorn in Scotland!

The inhuman treatment of the few, who ventured again to assert the right of inhabiting their native country in some peaceable occupation must be now related. It seems to lie chiefly at the doors of Robert Heywood, Governor, and Bishop Leake; who probably governed him.

:

Eleanor Stockdale, who seems to have come forth as a quaker in Douglas in 1682, was, with Jane Hall her companion, (by order of a priest and magistrate of the town) carried on board ship to be transported but the master of the vessel, a Scotsman, refused to receive them. The soldiers employed to banish them 'arrested the ship,' and the master and mariners left it: but the soldiers after some time departing, the seamen returned and set sail, leaving the women on shore. Iu 1683 the said Eleanor was married to Robert Callow without a priest-for which both were prosecuted in the Bishop's Court, and committed to separate prisons; the husband for eighteen days only, but in the time of his harvest. After sixteen weeks confinement, the wife was sent to Ramsey to be banished. She was pulled by force out of her husbands arms at the Market Cross, and dragged with violence to the boat (the spectators much commiserating her case) in