I./J.

• Jackus, a priest, remarkably confounded by G. Fox, i. 78.
• Jailer of Derby prison enraged against G. Fox, i. 43.
• —— his vision and repentance, i. 44.
• —— Launceston prison, his inhuman treatment of G. Fox and two companions, i. 153.
• —— he is turned out and put into the dungeon, where he ends his days, i. 153.
• Jailer of Boston in New England, his barbarous cruelty to W. Brend, i. 218.
• —— of Lancaster Castle, his cruelty to G. Fox, soon after which he dies, ii. 53.
• —— of Ilchester, Davis and Newberry, their miserable condition, ii. 202.
• —— under jailer at Carlisle, his cruelty to G. Fox, i. 84.
• James the Second proclaimed king; the dissenters petition him for liberty of worship, ii. 194.
• —— by his proclamation puts a stop to persecution, ii. 200.
• —— his order for ease to Quakers at Barbadoes, ii. 205.
• —— publishes his declaration for liberty of conscience, ii. 213.
• —— his order to the Lord Mayor to admit Quakers to offices, ii. 215.
• —— suffers a Quaker to be covered in his presence, ii. 215.
• Ibbitt, Thomas, denounces the judgment of fire against London two days before it began, ii. 64.
• Jefferies, lord chief justice, infamous for the many dismal executions in the west, ii. 202.
• Jesuit, one challenges the Quakers to dispute at the Earl of Newport’s house, some of whom met him, i. 199.
• Jevans, Evan, his account why he became a Quaker, ii. 318.
• Imprisonments, more than 4200 Quakers in prison in England, and many die there, i. 375.
• —— account of the number of prisoners in the several counties, ii. 199.
• —— king James sets all at liberty, except those for tithes, ii. 205.
• Indian prince, his kindness to a persecuted Englishman, and saying concerning the English, i. 182.
• Indictment of several persons taken at a meeting in Southwark, i. 385.
• —— of John Crook, with some remarks on it, i. 400.
• —— G. Fox proves his erroneous, ii. 5.
• Informers, their baseness and cruelty, ii. 98.
• —— the sudden death of one of them, ii. 101.
• —— wicked persons encouraged to become informers against dissenters, ii. 110.
• —— sudden and remarkable end of one at Norwich, ii. 174.
• —— Shad burnt in the hand, ii. 192.
• —— Hilton committed to Newgate, ii. 200.
• Inspiration of the Spirit of God; by it we believe the words and writings of the prophets to be divine, ii. 144.
• John-ap-John, sent by a priest in Wales to inquire concerning the Quakers; is convinced; becomes a preacher, i. 95.
• —— is imprisoned, i. 191.
• Jury, trial by jury refused the Quakers in New England, i. 220.
• —— strange advice to a jury on the Conventicle Act, ii. 196.
• —— barbarous usage of Penn and Mead, who are fined and imprisoned, ii. 106.

K.

• Keith, George, with others disputes with the Baptists in London, ii. 131.
• —— disputes at Aberdeen with some of the scholars, four of whom are convinced, ii. 133.
• —— goes with W. Penn, &c. into Holland, &c. ii. 161.
• —— some account of his apostacy, ii. 249.
• —— returns to England, ii. 249.
• —— preaches at Turner’s-hall, conforms to the church of England, and is ordained, ii. 249.
• —— charges the Quakers with heterodoxy; challenges them to meet him at Turner’s-hall, which they decline for reasons assigned, ii. 271.
• —— charges Quakers with such points as he had notably defended, ii. 272.
• —— is much in favour with the clergy, ii. 282.
• —— is sent to America, and returns with little success, and gets a benefice in Sussex, ii. 300.
• Kingdom of Christ is setting up by his own power, i. 187.
• Kirby, colonel, his cruelty to G. Fox, ii. 7.
• Knight, sir John, and J. Helliar, two violent persecutors at Bristol, ii. 182.

L.

• Labadie, John de, a noted teacher in Holland, ii. 164.
• Lambert, Major General, dissuades Cromwell from assuming the crown, for which he is made to resign his commission, i. 184.
• —— is sent general by the parliament against sir George Booth, whom he defeats, i. 235.
• —— he is tried and condemned, but obtains his life, and is confined to a small island near Plymouth, i. 355.
• Lampitt, William, priest at Ulverstone, opposed by G. Fox, i. 71.
• —— put to silence by G. Fox, i. 74.
• —— Friends barbarously used by his hearers, i. 75.
• —— he with another priest are silenced, when Miles Halhead went into the house where Lampitt was preaching, i. 89.
• —— his death, ii. 138.
• Lancaster, James, his wife throws stones at G. Fox, i. 74.
• —— she repents, and becomes one of his friends, i. 77.
• —— he accompanies Miles Halhead into Ireland, and afterwards into Scotland, i. 111.
• Launceston, mayor of, a cruel persecutor, i. 153.
• Languages and sciences not requisite to make a minister of Christ, i. 198.
• Laws originally designed against Papists executed against Protestant dissenters, i. 290.
• —— an abstract of them interspersed with cases, i. 287, 288, 289.
• Laws in equity should extend no further than there is power in man to obey, ii. 52.
• —— made in New England against the Quakers, i. 217, 222.
• Lawson, Thomas, convinced by G. Fox, and becomes a preacher, i. 72.
• Lawson, Wilfrey, high sheriff, a great enemy to G. Fox when in Carlisle prison, i. 84.
• Lawyers are without justice and equity, for want of the true knowledge and wisdom, i. 31.
• —— an expostulation with them, i. 170.
• Le Clerc, John, his constancy in martyrdom, i. 14.
• Leddra, William, taken up at Newberry, and sent to the house of correction at Boston. Was kept five days without food, and had twenty lashes with a three-corded whip, i. 217.
• —— though banished on pain of death he returned to Boston, is taken up, and chained to a log of wood day and night, i. 296.
• —— is thus brought to court and examined; receives sentence of death; writes to his friends, i. 300.
• —— his execution, i. 301.
• Letchford, Leonard, a cruel persecutor; his sudden death, i. 354.
• Liberty of conscience, the protector’s speech for it, i. 103.
• —— the pretended assertors of it persecute more fiercely than the Episcopalians had done before, i. 107.
• —— promised by king Charles the Second in his declaration, i. 266.
• —— the court seems inclined to it, but prevented it, i. 284.
• —— a little book concerning it presented to the king, i. 318.
• —— expected from king James the Second, ii. 200.
• —— but is settled by king William in his first parliament, ii. 233.
• Licentiousness of the press, a bill for restraining it brought into parliament, ii. 278.
• —— considerations relating to it offered by the Quakers and given to the members, ii. 278.
• Light of Christ, vide i. 73, 133, 187.
• Lilburn, John, lieutenant-colonel, reproves the protector, i. 142.
• —— his character; imprisoned, tried for treason, acquitted, yet kept prisoner during the protector’s life, and afterwards convinced, i. 143, 144.
• Lockhart, governor of Dunkirk, i. 232.
• —— sends for E. Burrough and S. Fisher, and discourses with them in a friendly manner, i. 234.
• Lodowick, Charles, elector palatine, his kind entertainment of W. Ames, and his friends, i. 225.
• Loe, Thomas, a zealous minister of the gospel; his dying words; W. Penn convinced by him, ii. 81.
• London, F. Howgill and A. Pearson, the first of the Quakers who held a meeting there, i. 98.
• —— meeting-houses built and meetings settled there, i. 101.
• —— Quakers are severely persecuted; about 509 of them imprisoned, i. 374.
• —— Many instances of barbarous cruelties, i. 375, 376, 382, 383.
• —— pestilence increases; above 8000 people die in one week, ii. 48.
• —— fire breaks out, by which above 1320 houses were burnt, ii. 64.
• Love, mutual Christian love amongst friends, i. 229.
• Love, John, travels to Leghorn, Venice, Rome, where for his testimony he is put in the inquisition, and dies, i. 282.
• Lower, Thomas, convinced by G. Fox in Launceston jail, i. 153.
• —— imprisoned with him at Worcester, ii. 117.
• —— set at liberty, pleads for G. Fox, and smartly reprimands Dr. Crowder, ii. 122.
• Lucerne, valley of, protestants there much persecuted, i. 204.
• Lurting, Thomas, a fighting sailor, becomes a peaceable Christian, meets with many troubles by being pressed into the king’s service: is taken by an Algerine; retakes the ship without fighting; lands the Turks on the Barbary shore; on his return, the king being informed of the circumstance, went and discoursed with the master and mate about it, i. 418 to 428.
• Lindy, a blind man of 90, severely used at Bristol, ii. 186.

M.

• Magistracy, the end and design of it, i. 212.
• —— its degeneracy, i. 212.
• —— the Quakers’ opinion concerning it, i. 281.
• Magistrates of Boston, in New England, encouraged by the priests in persecution, i. 219.
• Magistrates, make a cruel order, which is cruelly executed, i. 219.
• —— good and bad, our duty to each respectively, i. 281.
• —— how far their power extendeth, i. 309.
• Magna Charta, proceedings against Quakers contrary to it, i. 381.
• Malta, English consul accessary to the putting two English women in the inquisition, i. 324.
• —— his death, i. 333.
• —— C. Evans writes to its rulers, i. 340.
• —— a dreadful tempest and earthquake, i. 341.
• Mansfield-Woodhouse, people fall upon G. Fox, in the steeple-house, and strike him down, &c. a distracted woman quieted, i. 35.
• Marriage, the principle of the Quakers relating thereto, ii. 204.
• Marsh, ——, esq. one of the king’s bed-chamber, a friend to G. Fox, i. 285.
• —— his extraordinary respect for him, ii. 64.
• —— is made justice of peace, continues kind to G. Fox and other friends, ii. 78, 79.
• Marshal, Charles, convinced, i. 101.
• —— travels through the nation in the heat of persecution, yet none lay hands on him, neither is he fined for preaching, ii. 187.
• Marshal, Henry, a persecuting priest, his presumptuous saying from the pulpit, and sad death, ii. 72.
• Marshal, priest, spreads false and slanderous reports of G. Fox, i. 66.
• Marshall, Elizabeth, imprisoned at Bristol, i. 104.
• Mass-houses not the houses of God, i. 75.
• Meekness and patience, notable instances of them, i. 415.
• Meeting, the first great one kept in Nottinghamshire; an extraordinary one at Mansfield; of professors and others visited in several places, i. 29, 30.
• —— a general, at Swanington in Bedfordshire, and at Skipton, i. 114, 199.
• Meetings settled, i. 67.
• —— frequently disturbed at London and elsewhere, and persons cruelly abused, i. 374.
• —— Friends beaten and grievously wounded, some even to death, and when kept by force out of their meeting-houses they meet in the street, i. 376.
• —— a yearly meeting at London, ii. 89.
• —— some convinced in silent meetings, ii. 294.
• —— meeting-house at Ratcliffe pulled down, ii. 100.
• Military employment testified against, i. 107.
• Miller, Philip, a volunteer in persecution, disturbing meetings without authority, i. 377.
• Ministers of Christ are made by himself, who gives them gifts, i. 199.
• —— so called, in this nation a great grievance to it, ii. 182.
• —— of the word, above 60 of them raised among the Quakers, go out in the service of the gospel; the names of several of them, i. 98.
• Monk, general, gives an order against soldiers disturbing Friends’ meetings, i. 365.
• Motions of the body and mind distinguished, ii. 131.
• Muggleton, Lodowick, and John Reeves, their monstrous blasphemies, a book published against him by R. Farnsworth, i. 430.
• —— to which he replies, i. 430.
• Murder, strange account of one at Dublin, i. 130.
• Musgrave, sir Philip, a persecutor of Friends, and a violent prosecutor of F. Howgill, ii. 9.

N.

• Nayler, James, convinced by G. Fox, becomes a preacher, i. 58.
• —— reproved by G. F. and friends at Bristol, i. 158.
• —— his birth and education, &c. i. 159.
• —— the beginning of his fall, i. 160.
• —— his procession into Bristol, taken up there, examined, and sent to London to be examined by the parliament, their resolution and sentence, i. 160, 161.
• —— petitions on his behalf, i. 162.
• —— public preachers prevail with the Protector not to stop his punishment, i. 163.
• —— sentence executed at London, i. 164.
• —— he comes to a true repentance of his transgression, and publishes several books and papers by way of recantation, i. 165, 166.
• —— extract from the preface of his works.—See Appendix, vol. i.
• —— his crime not owing to the doctrine of which he made profession, but to his being exalted in his own opinion, i. 179.
• —— his dying words, i. 181.
• Newcastle, mayor of, troubled for imprisoning M. Halhead; sets him at liberty, i. 89.
• New England, persecution there, i. 181.
• —— cruel laws made, i. 217.
• —— Nicholas Davis banished on pain of death, i. 251.
• —— their deputies come to England to defend their cruelty, but fearing danger, retreat, i. 314.
• —— impious expressions of some of the magistrates, i. 369.
• —— a relation of their proceedings published, i. 371.
• Nimeguen, the Congress there. The apology and a letter written in Latin by R Barclay, delivered to each ambassador, &c. ii. 174.
• Norton, John, priest at Boston in New England, encourages the magistrates in persecution, i. 219.
• —— he with other priests petition for a law to banish Quakers on pain of death, i. 222.
• —— his sudden and remarkable death, i. 372.
• Norwich, R. Hubberthorn and G. Whitehead go thither, by whose ministry a meeting is settled there, i. 98, 107.

O.

• Oaths, reason why the Quakers refuse to take them, &c. and petition parliament for an affirmation instead of an oath, vide acts of parliament, ii. 259.
• Oath of fidelity to O. Cromwell refused by his soldiers convinced of the Quakers’ persuasion, who thereupon are disbanded, i. 97.
• —— of abjuration of the pope, refused and why, i. 134.
• —— of supremacy, i. 290.
• Oaths, on gospel ordinance, a book written by F. Howgill against oaths, ii. 86.
• —— doctrine of the Quakers concerning oaths not absolutely necessary to government, ii. 302.
• Oaths of allegiance and supremacy tendered to Quakers, and by them refused, the general pretence for persecuting them, i. 351, 352.
• Oppressed, God hears them, and brings distress on their persecutors, i. 283.
• Orange, prince of, king William III. the glorious instrument of establishing liberty of conscience by law, ii. 233.
• —— plot against him, and associations thereupon, ii. 274.
• —— testimony of the Quakers respecting these associations, ii. 274.
• Osborn, Wm. one of the first Scotch preachers of the Quakers, i. 112.
• —— from a lieutenant colonel becomes a zealous minister, i. 124.
• Oxford, cruel and barbarous usage of Elizabeth Heavens and Elizabeth Fletcher, so that the latter of whom died soon after, i. 108.

P.

• Paets, Adrian, his argument against revelation, ii. 143.
• —— answered by R. Barclay and others, ii. 144 to 160.
• Page, John, mayor of Plymouth, his unjust treatment of M. Halhead, and T. Salthouse, i. 134.
• —— makes excuse for it in a letter to general Desborough, who is little satisfied with it, i. 134.
• Papists endeavour to make proselytes of Quakers, i. 315.
• —— statutes made against them, executed against Quakers, ii. 19.
• Parker, Alexander, an early minister, i. 118.
• —— his death and character, ii. 235.
• Parnel, James, a youth of sixteen visiting G. Fox in Carlisle dungeon, is convinced, and afterwards becomes a powerful minister of the gospel, i. 85.
• —— born at Retford, and trained up in literature, i. 124.
• —— imprisoned at Cambridge; disputes with the scholars, and is rudely treated; goes to a fast at Coggeshall; reasons with and confounds priest Willis, though but about eighteen years of age; he is sent to Colchester prison, and from thence to Chelmsford sessions, chained night and day with felons and murderers, i. 125, 126.
• —— is indicted, fined, and sent back to Colchester castle; i. 126.
• —— cruelty exercised towards him there, proves the cause of his death, i. 127.
• Pastor, independent, preaching against the Quakers, falls down as dead, brought again to life, but never to his right senses, i. 192.
• Pattison, M. imprisoned, i. 140.
• Peace, the first step thereto is to stand still in the light that discovers sin and transgressions, i. 73.
• Pearson, Anthony, convinced, i. 83.
• —— refuses access to G. Fox in Carlisle dungeon, i. 90.
• —— one of the first Quakers that preached at London, i. 98.
• —— he and T. Aldam visit most of the jails, and get copies of Friends’ convictions to lay before O. Cromwell, i. 208.
• Pembleton, Brian, a New England magistrate, persecutor and blasphemer, i. 369.
• Penn, William, his education and convincement, ii. 77.
• —— publishes a book, for which he is committed to the Tower, ii. 82.
• —— is tried with Wm. Mead at the Old Bailey, ii. 101.
• —— goes into Holland, and travels into Germany, with R. Barclay, ii. 161.
• —— with whom he visits the princess Elizabeth, and travels further into Germany, ii. 162.
• —— writes to the princess Elizabeth, the countess of Hornes, and to the elector Palatine, ii. 163.
• —— goes to Wiewart where he speaks with Anne Maria Schurman, the Somerdykes, and Peter Yvon the French pastor; goes to Embden, where he speaks with the burgomaster André, ii. 164.
• —— his letter to him against persecution, ii. 165.
• —— revisits the princess and countess, ii. 267.
• —— disputes at Amsterdam, ii. 168.
• —— arrives at Harwich, thence goes to London, ii. 170.
• —— writes to the princess, ii. 171.
• —— Pennsylvania granted to him and his heirs by king Charles II. ii. 181.
• —— his speech to king James II. on his delivering the address from the yearly meeting, and the king’s answer, ii. 213.
• —— blames the turning out of the fellows of Magdalen College, ii. 216.
• —— answers the reflection of his being a Papist, ii. 223.
• —— presents an address to queen Anne, ii. 298.
• Penn, admiral, sent by the Protector with a fleet to the West Indies, i. 145.
• —— his dying sentiments and advice to his son, ii. 181.
• Pennington, Isaac, a prisoner, writes to the king and parliament of the unreasonableness of persecution, ii. 50.
• —— a question proposed by him to both houses of parliament, ii. 52.
• —— short account of his convincement, death, and burial, ii. 175.
• —— his account of himself, ii. 287 to 292.
• Penry, justice, prosecuted on the act against occasional conformity, ii. 321.
• People of God, a summary account of his raising to himself a people in this nation, of their great suffering, what he has done for them, and will do, with an exhortation to patience and steadfastness, i. 291 to 295.
• Perfection, recommended by G. Fox, and defended against some professors, i. 93.
• Perrot, John, travels into Italy with J. Love; is imprisoned at Rome, and released, i. 282.
• —— gives way to vain imaginations, i. 316.
• —— and abandons his profession, i. 317.
• —— his answers to alderman Brown, i. 378.
• —— said to be the author of a paper fathered by Rogers’s party on E. Burrough, ii. 190.
• Persecution at Bristol, i. 102.
• —— in New England, i. 180.
• —— is contrary to Christ, his apostles, and Christianity, i. 183.
• —— inexcusable in the professors of religion, i. 204 to 207.
• —— protector and council warned against it, i. 208.
• —— in London and elsewhere, i. 214.
• —— some stop put to it by change of government, i. 287.
• —— is very severe throughout England, i. 374, ii. 30, 40.
• —— is at a stand, which displeases some churchmen, ii. 89.
• —— is renewed, ii. 93, 98.
• —— rages in the country, ii. 100.
• —— many instances of it, ii. 110 to 114.
• —— a stop put to it, ii. 230.
• Persecutors, their dismal fate, ii. 76, 135, 186.
• —— excellent advice to them, ii. 221.
• —— J. Batt dies penitent, ii. 265.
• —— wretched end of Alexander Ruddock, ii. 266.
• Petition of the Quakers to king James II. ii. 194.
• —— two papers presented to him, in one of which was the number of prisoners in every county, ii. 197 to 199.
• Physicians should be in the wisdom of God, by which the creatures were made, if they would know their virtues, i. 31.
• Pistol, one held to G. Fox’s breast would not go off, and the man went away trembling, i. 77.
• Plain speech required of G. Fox, i. 32.
• —— reasons for using it, i. 32, 315.
• Plays, shows wakes, May-games, &c. testified against by G. Fox, i. 34.
• Pope, Innocent XI. two letters to him, with queries to him by G. Fox, ii. 175.
• Pope, Blanche, confuted by G. Fox, i. 410.
• Popery, the parliament advise the king to suppress the growth of it, ii. 133.
• Popish plot discovered, ii. 174.
• Porter, Henry, commits G. Fox to Lancaster prison, i. 274.
• Prayer, G. Fox’s paper concerning, ii. 210.
• Preachers in 1652, are 25 in number, and every where meet with opposition, i. 79.
• Preaching of the Quakers, at first of what it consisted, i. 26.
• Press, Quakers considerations on the bill to restrain it, ii. 278.
• Preston, Thomas, his wife makes her servant beat M. Halhead for passing by her without greeting: she sometime after dies in a miserable condition, i. 86, 87.
• —— her servant much troubled with what he had done; three years after begs forgiveness, i. 87.
• Presumption of the church of Rome, i. 315, 316.
• Pretences for imprisoning Quakers groundless and frivolous, i. 135, 136, 148, and sequel.
• Pride, a warning to young people against it, ii. 292, 293.
• Priests endeavour to persuade people that there is no possibility of being freed from sin in this life, i. 38.
• —— how they deceived the people, i. 55.
• —— when they heard of G. Fox’s coming, they would hide themselves, i. 60.
• —— they possess not what they speak of to others, i. 71.
• —— have not the word of the Lord, as the prophets and apostles had, i. 74.
• —— fruits of their ministry, i. 78.
• —— they stir up to persecution, i. 102, 103, 213.
• —— their lives and practices disagree with their doctrine, i. 137.
• —— why they are sometimes treated a little roughly, i. 137.
• —— their domineering pride and covetousness, ii. 56.
• Prince, Thomas, governor of Plymouth, his barbarous expression concerning the Quakers, i. 248.
• Prisoners to lie long in a jail dangerous to their morals, i. 54.
• —— some very wicked ones are kind to G. Fox, and become converts, i. 84.
• Professors of the light, Quakers were formerly so called, i. 39.
• Prophesy of the priests, that the Quakers would be all gone in half a year, i. 76.
• Prophetical warnings, sayings, and passages, i. 115.
• —— of G. Fox to colonel Hacker, i. 116.
• —— of B. Blaugdone to judge Pepes at Dublin, i. 131.
• —— of a woman before the parliament, i. 207.
• —— of Cromwell’s fall, by T. Aldam, i. 208.
• —— by E. Burrough, i. 208, 209, 216, 231, 232, 235 to 245.
• —— of G. Fox, jun. to the parliament and army, i. 262.
• —— of W. Christison to captain Adderton, i. 304.
• —— and to the court of Boston, i. 308.
• —— of G. Fox, jun. to his friends, i. 307.
• —— of C. Evans, i. 321, 329, 332.
• —— of F. Howgill, i. 384.
• —— of G. Bishop to the king and parliament, ii. 40.
• Proselytes, Jesuits endeavour to make them from among the Quakers, but in vain, i. 316.
• Puritans, when so called, i. 17.
• Pursloe, captain, rejoices for the spreading of the truth, i. 63.
• Pyot, Edward, fellow traveller with G. Fox, is taken into custody at Ives, i. 148.
• —— was formerly a captain, writes to judge Glyn, i. 153.