travelled along to Newcastle; had one meeting by the way, and several good meetings at Newcastle, Sunderland, Shotton, and Durham, and several other places in the bishoprick of Durham. The winter coming on apace, it began to be bad travelling; and I being already much spent by it, designed to go speedily up to London; and taking some meetings in my way, as at Stockton, Whitby, Scarborough, Burlington, Hull, and Brigg, [passed] on through Lincolnshire, where I went to visit a Friend that was prisoner in the castle of Lincoln, because for conscience-sake he could not pay an ungodly priest the tithe of his labour. From Lincoln I proceeded to Huntingdon, about which place we had several large meetings; so on to Baldock, where I met with my father and John Gopsil, who came from London to meet me, which was a joyful meeting, for I had not seen my father for about nine years. The love and tenderness between us, and the gladness in seeing each other again, cannot well be expressed; (but I believe it was somewhat like Jacob and Joseph's meeting in Egypt;) it was affecting and melting: blessed be the Almighty that gave me once more to see my tender and aged parent! So from Baldock we went to Hitchin, and had a meeting there, as also at Hertford, from whence, with several Friends, I went to Enfield, where I met with my dear and only brother George, and there were with us several of my relations, and divers others of our Friends: we were heartily glad to see one

another. From Enfield we went forward for London, and by the way we met with several Friends, of the meeting of Horslydown, to which I did belong from my childhood, who came to meet me, and accompanied us to London.

I staid in and about the city most of the winter, visiting meetings when I was well and in health; for through often changing the climates, I got a severe cold, and was ill for several weeks, so that I was not at any meeting, which time was very tedious to me; not so much because of my illness, as that I was deprived of divers opportunities and meetings, which are in that city every day of the week, except the last. When I was a little got over this illness, I went into Hertfordshire, and some parts adjacent, and had meetings at Staines, Longford, Uxbridge, Watford, Hempsted, Bendish, Alban's, Market-Street, Hitchin, Hertford, Hoddesdon, and then returned again to London.

After 1 had been at London a while, I visited several other country meetings, as WinchmoreHill, Tottenham, Wandsworth, Plaistow, Deptford and Epping, and then staid about London some weeks waiting for a passage for Holland, which I intended to visit, before I left my own habitation.

And on the 14th of the first month, 1708-9, I, with my companion John Bell, after having acquainted our friends and relations, having their consent, and taking our solenin leave of them, went down to Gravesend, and staid there two or

three days for a fair wind. We went on board the ship Anne, John Duck, master, bound for Rotterdam, in company with a fleet of vessels waiting for wind, &c. When the wind was fair, we sailed for the coast of Holland, and when we arrived on that coast the wind was contrary, and blew very hard, so that some of the ships in company lost their anchors; but on the 27th of the same month we arrived safe at Rotterdam in Holland. On the first-day morning we went to meeting at Rotterdam, where Friends have a meetinghouse; and we staid at this city seven or eight days, and had six or seven meetings, and were comforted with our brethren and sisters, and greatly refreshed in the Lord Almighty. At this city we spoke without an interpreter, because most in the meeting understood English. From Rotterdam we travelled by the trek-schuit, or boat, being drawn by horses, which is a pleasant easy way of travelling, to a large town called Harlem, where we had a meeting, and spoke by an interpreter; to which meeting came divers of those people called Mennonists: they were very sober and attentive, and staid all the time of the meeting, and spoke well of it. From Harlem we went to Amsterdam, the metropolis of Holland, where Friends have a meeting-house. Here we had several meetings, and staid about a week. On the first-day we had a large meeting, to which came many people of divers persuasions and religions, as Jews, Papists, and others; and we had a good

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opportunity among them, and several were tender. A Jew came next day to speak with us, and did acknowledge, that Christ was the minister of that sanctuary and tabernacle that God had pitched, and not man; and that he was sensible of the ministry of Christ in his soul; "and," said he, my heart was broken while that subject was spoken of in the meeting." I was glad to see the man tender and reached ; but too generally speaking, the poor Jews, the seed of good Jacob, are very dark and unbelieving. I have met with but very few of them in my travels that have been tender; but I do love them for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's sake. At this meeting William Sewel, the author of the History of the Rise and Progress of the people called Quakers, a tender-spirited upright man, interpreted for me. From Amsterdam we went to North-Holland, and John Claus and Peter Reyard went with us to interpret for us; so by boat, or schuit, we travelled to a town called Twisk, where we had two meetings, Friends having a meeting-house there; from Twisk we went back again to Amsterdam, and had two large meetings there on the first-day, and second-day in the evening, we went on ship-board, in order to cross the south sea to Herlingen, at which place we had two meetings, and we and Friends were glad to see one another: and indeed, we being as one family all the world over, are generally glad to see each other. From this place we travelled eastward through East-Friesland, and

went through several great towns and cities until we came to Embden, the chief city in East-Friesland, where we had a comfortable meeting by the bed-side of one of our Friends that lay sick; and several of her neighbours came in and staid till the meeting ended; some of them were very tender and loving, and wished us well, and were well satisfied. After meeting we set forward for Hamburg, it being four days journey by waggon, and passed along through divers towns and cities. We also travelled through the city of Oldenburg, and a place of great commerce called Bremen. A magistrate of this city took notice of us, joined himself to us, and went with us to the inn, and then very lovingly took leave of us, and desired God to bless us. The people at our inns were generally vary loving and kind to us, and some would admire at my coming so far only to visit my Friends, without any views of advantage or profit outwardly. When we got to Hamburg, we had a meeting at Jacob Hagen's, and those that were there, were well satisfied with the doctrine of truth, blessed be God, who, I may say, was with us at that time and place! At Hamburg there was at meeting one who had preached before the king of Denmark; who, as I understood by our interpreter, was turned out of his place for preaching the same truth that we had preached there that day; at which meeting were Papists, Lutherans, Calvinists, Mennonists, Jews, &c. All of them were sober, and generally expressed their satis