[533] Palmer, i. 103.

[534] Howe’s Works, vol. vi. 306.

Oliver Heywood’s death occurred in May, 1702. No particular account of it is given by Mr. Hunter in his biography. Thoresby notes down, “May 7: Rode with Mr. Peters to Northowram, to the funeral of good old Mr. O. Heywood. He was interred with great lamentations in the parish church at Halifax; was surprised at the following Arvill, or treat of cold possets, stewed prunes, cake and cheese, prepared for the company, where had several Con. and Noncon. ministers and old acquaintance.”—Diary, i. 362.

[535] Rogers’ Life of Howe, 357, 316. “I well remember that he himself once informed me,” says Calamy, “of some very private conversation he had with that Prince (William III.) not long before his death. Among other things the King asked him a great many questions about his old master Oliver, as he called him, and seemed not a little pleased with the answers that were returned to some of his questions.” Those answers would throw some additional light on the popular question of Oliver’s character.

[536] Crosby’s Hist. of Baptists, iii. 246–258.

[537] Crosby, iii. 259, 264–270.

[538] Crosby, iv. 298–301.

[539] Ibid., Appendix No. 1.

[540] Crosby, iv. 330.

[541] Sewell, ii. 370, 448. The early meeting has been since fixed for the month of May.

[542] “Forasmuch,” it is recorded in the minutes of Quaker Meetings in Worcester (1695), “as it hath been the good advice of our friends of the yearly meeting that friends shall in all plainness so habit themselves as truth requires, and to lay aside those flowered and striped stuffs, with the changeable fashions of this world, it is thought meet by this meeting, that what in us lies it may be put for the future into practice, and that none do wear them or sell them, when those by them are disposed of; also that friends take care to train up their children in the fear of the Lord, and bring them up not only in plainness of habit, but take care to bring them up in plain language also, that there may be no good Nehemiah grieved to hear half Hebrew and half Ashdod spoken.” Complaint is made of sleeping at public meeting. Those so overtaken were informed, “they must be openly dealt with, if a more private admonition will not do.”—Extracted from records preserved by the Society of Friends at Worcester.

[543] Miscellanies. Compare pp. 326 and 340 with 334.