to pray for them, the which I remembered with tenderness of spirit, and having but little wind, we kept company for several days; but the wind springing fair, we wished them well, and went on our way, our vessel outsailing most we met with; and a few days after we met with a New-England ship, who came out six days before us from Antigua. We were then in the latitude of about 50 north, and 29 degrees of longitude from the Land's-End of Great Britain. The 30th day of the fifth month, we sounded, and found ground at 28 fathom, and on the 1st of the sixth month, we saw the Land's-End of England, all our company being in health, and well; for which my heart was truly thankful to that great and infinite Being, whose providence is over us poor mortals in all parts of the world, and who reigns over sea and land, and is worthy of adoration, worship, service, and living praise for ever!

In a few days we came into the English channel, and going up the channel there came one of the king's yachts, and they pressed most of our men ; the best hands we had they took from us, and carried them on board a man of war, after which we came to anchor at Folkstone, where I left the vessel, and got a horse to Dover, and from Dover took coach to London. In the coach were divers persons who began to talk about the Quakers, and spoke against their plain way of living and clothing, and said, that they did not understand their unfashionable way of conversation; neither was

it the way to gain proselytes. Upon which I asked them, whether they understood Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles? who said, "Be not conformable to this world," (i. e. the fashions of it) for this great reason, the world, and the fashions thereof, passeth away; which is a great truth, and it is plainly seen how fickle and changeable the world is in its vain fashions and customs, which, to follow, in all its foolish cuts and turns, or changes, must, of consequence, make a man or woman very foppish and apish. I told them, that our religion was agreeable to the holy Scriptures, which, if they did not understand, neither could they understand us; for the doctrine of Christ and his apostles, was generally therein very plain; and the doctrine in Christ's excellent Sermon on the Mount, is clear and plain to very low or mean capacities so they discoursed no more of religion till we came to London, where once more I met with my loving and aged father, a man fearing God, and having a gift of the ministry of the gospel of Christ, and well-beloved of his friends and neighbours, who, with others of my near and dear relations and friends, received me gladly.

After some months stay among my relations and friends in London, we sold our vessel the snow Hope, and bought another ship, which we called the Trine-Hope, Warner Holt master, and when I had done my business, I sailed in the same ship for Pennsylvania. We had meetings on board the vessel twice a week, in which the Almighty was

pleased to favour us with his good presence. Sobriety, and the fear of God, and faith in his beloved Son Christ, was often recommended to the youth then on board the vessel with us, of whom there were divers, who transported themselves to America, in order to settle there. At one meeting on board I was tenderly concerned to remind them of Jacob, who, in his youth, left his country and relations to sojourn in a strange land, and how in that undertaking, he sought the Lord, and his blessing, more than any outward thing; and that he was greatly blessed with many favours from heaven above, and also from the earth beneath, and they were advised to take him for their example and many other things were tenderly opened to them in the love of God, and in his fear and counsel they were exhorted from time to time.

It being winter time we sailed to the southward, and got into warm weather, and were on our passage seven weeks and 'some odd days from land to land, in which time we saw several vessels, and spoke with one, whose people said they were chased by a Turk, but got from him, at which they greatly rejoiced. We apprehended it was our ship that they saw over night, for we saw a sail that crouded from us as fast as she could, and it being near night, we shortened sail, and so she left us; but in the morning came up with her, and being pretty near, both they and we put out our colours, and being both Englishmen, we spoke to

each other, and were glad to meet with some of our own nation upon the great ocean; but our vessel sailing best, we took our leave of them, wishing them a good voyage. We met with rough seas and high winds in the latter part of our passage, till we came to the capes of Delaware, which we were all rejoiced to see, and we had a pleasant passage up the bay and river to Philadelphia, where I had once more a comfortable meeting with my dear wife and family, which I gratefully acknowledged as a high favour from the hand of the Almighty.

We arrived at Philadelphia the 1st of the second month, 1720; after which I staid at, and about home for some time, and I was not idle, but kept to my business, and to meetings, and having a desire to see my friends in the province of Maryland, at their general meeting at West-River, I was accompanied by Isaac Norris and Thomas Masters, both sober young men. It had been a time of pretty much rain, and the waters thereby being out and high, going over a ford at Brandywine, my mare got among the rocks, it being a very rocky creek, she fell down, and the stream being very strong, she rolled upon me, and being entangled with the stirrup, I could not easily clear myself, but I gave a spring from her, and swam to clear myself from her; and when I was clear, I got to her again, and laid hold of her mane, and through the good Providence of God, got well out with the mare on dry land,

which was a remarkable deliverance. In three days we got to West-River, to the yearly-meeting, which was large, and Friends were glad to see me, I having not been there for several years. I was out on this journey about two weeks, and rode about 300 miles; and after my coming home, I travelled pretty much in and about the provinces of Pennsylvania and New-Jersey.