in all the Holy Writings that escap'd his Knowledge or Remembrance I have heard some of his Friends say and those not of the Vulgar size but Men of Learning and Knowledge that though the Bible were lost it might be found in the Mouth of George Fox Hence it was that as every one's Perfection and Talent discovers it self in their Discourses and Writings so all the Discourses he ever had to his People and all the Writings left on Record behind him were nothing but a train of several Texts of Scripture sewed and patch'd together Now after he had thus spent so much of his time in studying the Scripture Meditating on Religious Things and seriously weighing the condition and state of his own Soul he could not contain himself within the Bounds of his Trade and Station but began to aspire after higher things and transgressing the limits of his Sphere would needs attempt some nobler Enterprize that might be Serviceable both to himself and others And accordingly not contenting himself with the private use of what he had acquir'd he took occasion oft-times to Discourse of these Matters to his Fellow-Tradesmen and Acquaintance exhorting and admonishing them to be much taken up with these Concerns And in these his frequent Exhortations he was so officious and importunate that he would never give over till at length it came to such a height that neither they would any longer give ear to his severe Discourses nor could he any longer bear with the Contradictions Reproaches and Affronts he met with on that account Which obliged him then to withdraw himself from all manner of Society either Working alone in some hidden corner of his Shop or because even then there was frequently some curious Fellows coming to hear of him what he had to say who since his severe Discourses could never please them were still creating more trouble when he had done with Working he presently forsook the Shop getting up into some Garret or other where being remov'd from all manner of Company he might both be free from the Molestations of others and give Offence to none It happened in the Year of our Lord 1643. that this George Fox being then in the Nineteenth Year of his Age was walking alone in the Fields profoundly Meditating upon the Nature Mind Manners Institutions and Discipline of Mankind of their Societies and Converse one with another but especially bending his thoughts upon the condition and state of Young People considering what Duties were required at their hands what Diligence Care and Circumspection was necessary in one and all of them for leading Lives while here worthy of the Gospel and becoming Men and for obtaining an Everlasting blessed Life when this is come to its Period All which things he seriously and frequently ponder'd in his solitary Breast fervently applying himself to the Throne of Grace that it might please the Almighty God to Teach and Instruct him a Young Man in this state of Humane Affairs furnishing him with the knowledge of his Duty and ability to perform the same upon which there came a Voice from Heaven dictating unto his Spirit that All Mankind was only and altogether Vanity that Children and Young People grew up in Lyes and Vanities as they did in Years those of middle Age advanced still more and more in the same manner of Vices so that when arriv'd at Old Age they were harden'd and confirm'd in the Customary Practice of the same and when they come to be stricken in Years and their Blood and Spirits to fade they lose all Knowledge and Sense becoming again meer Children having extinguish'd that light of their Minds which should then be shining most brightly and giving themselves up to nothing but Doteries and Childish Trifles Death creeping upon them insensibly which Cites all before the Vniversal Judge and Lord of all things Therefore it was his Duty and Interest as being a Young Man to separate himself from that polluted Multitude keeping no Commerce with them but sequestrating himself to a solitary Life far remov'd from all manner of evil This Divine Response did he many times report to his fellows Whether it was really a Voice from Heaven or only the Reasoning of his own Breast I do not say only this is to be remark'd that both this Fox and his first Followers did at their first appearance and for a long time after account all the Motions of their Spirit or Inclinations to Good which they found in themselves upon serious Meditation or upon any new Occasion to be the effect of the Holy Spirit of God working the same within them and whenever they were sensible of this Commotion within them they used to say that a Voice was sent down from God by his Spirit unto them uttering such and such Discourse and to this purpose they usher'd in all their Discourses to the People with a Thus saith the Lord and his Spirit by his own mouth this was that they might seem more nighly to resemble the Holy Prophets and Apostles that were inspired from above by the Divine Spirit and sent by it But of late they abstain from such high-flown Pretences calling what thus comes upon them the Impulse and Motion of their Minds Fox used to tell how that Heavenly Oracle did so effectually recommend it self to his Youthful Spirit that presently he betook himself home not being able to express what he had heard Nay the Image of this Voice was always so before his Eyes not only all that day but all the succeeding Night that he could not go to bed And from that time he obey'd this Heavenly Admonition And though he had always been diligent in Reading and Meditating on the Holy Scriptures and had frequently set times apart for Fasting and Praying unto God yet then being engaged in so difficult and important a Design in complyance to the Divine Will he went about the same Christian Duties with more Application Fervour and Frequency Especially having by Experience learned that there was no means more effectual than these for taming Man's vicious Nature and suppressing his unruly Appetites so enclinable to Humane though hurtful Society and the Corruptions of a polluted World And though before this he had abstain'd sufficiently from Converse with Men yet from that time forth he was more strict in shunning all manner of Humane Conversation being only intent upon the Exercise of his Trade as much as was necessary for purchasing a Livelihood and spending all the rest of his time in Holy and Religious Exercises Nor did he only shun the Company of or meeting with those he knew or suspected to be given up to the Vanities and Lusts of this World but even those that made large shews of Religion and Vertue For he did not deny that there were many who seemed to be very Religious and Devout pretending the Scripture or Word of God for the Rule and Ground both of Faith and Manners but this he complain'd heavily of that there was so many
America procured it to be Reprinted at London changing nothing at all in it I know that both these Books have much displeased many called Quakers and have pleased many others and doth still please them So that to many that of Virgil may be applyed Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgas S In English thus The wav'ring People divided are From one another asunder far Which their pretended Vnity doth marr P. 450. But when Keith did not so much positively determine as by Hypothesis suppose that which some did attribute to him concerning the Transmigration or Revolution of Souls and their State after Death or did subject it as fit to be examined whether it was true or not that was not made the Question betwixt his Adversaries in Pensilvania and him The Annot. Let the Reader compare what the Author brings in this place concerning the Opinion of the Transmigration c. untruly fixed upon me by some with what he hath said p. 284. in these words To me saith he it is certain as I think that Keith doth earnestly embrace if not all yet the chiefest of these Propositions as mentioned by him in the fore-cited place concerning the Transmigration and collected as I suppose out of the Book called The Two Hundred Queries Surely this Author doth not appear so well to agree with himself in this Affair for in the one place soberly enough and civilly he Writes concerning me not fixing that Opinion on me but in the other he saith it is certain that I earnestly embrace if not all yet the chiefest of these Propositions But I am most certain that he cannot produce any one Witness that did or could certainly inform him that I did any ways embrace all or any of these propositions either as any Article of Faith or as any positive Dogma or Principle in Philosophy And I know not any one that doth positively embrace them all But as concerning the Dogma it self of the revolution of some not all Souls setting aside many Circumstances and casual Propositions not touching the chief Question proposed only by some Christian Writers by way of Hypothesis and not as a positive Conclusion however I might seem to some to favour it as an Hypothesis because sometimes modestly discoursing of it with some very few of my familiar Acquaintance I did bring some Reasons both for and against as in other doubtful matters ingenuous and free-spirited men use to Discourse pro and contra in order to find out the Truth as concerning the Motion of the Earth and the like yet I openly declare that I never embraced it either as an Article of Faith or as any positive Dogma in Philosophy as I do not at present Nor am I asham'd to say as I am not sufficiently able and furnished in all respects to refute it by evident Reasons so nor am I to defend it And I oft call to mind that saying of Plato It is not the part of a wise man to determine of obscure matters and much more that of David I exercise not my self in things too high for me But because I could by no means approve that method of Arguing which some used against that opinion nor the false zeal kindled in some against it that did rise in them from their prejudice against the necessity of Faith in Christ Crucified in any degree either expresly or implicitely in order to eternal Salvation Therefore some leavened with this evil prejudice did make it their business to load me with Reproaches and to spread false Rumors concerning me as holding many absurd things concerning the Transmigration and Revolution of Souls For whereas many did use to bring this Argument against the necessity of Faith in the Crucified Jesus in order to Eternal Salvation If such a necessity of Faith in the Crucified Man Jesus Christ for Eternal Salvation be allowed or granted the Revolution of many Souls must be granted but the last is absurd and therefore is the first absurd also And I in my Answering to this Argument have sometimes said on the Hypothesis that if such a sequel of the Major or first Proposition were admitted it were better to admit or allow that Hypothesis concerning the Revolution of the Souls of some Gentiles dying in pure Gentilisme or Deisme who have in any manner lived Piously towards God and Soberly and Honestly towards Men suppose it be not true then to assert that such Dying in a pure Gentilisme are wholly and finally deprived of Eternal Life On the other hand to affirm that immediately after Death such dying without the least grain of the Knowledge and Faith of Christ Crucified either express or implicite do enter into Eternal Life Let now any Impartial Man Judge in this Case yea let the Author of this History himself Judge whether for my Christian Zeal in standing up for the necessity of the Christian Faith against these Deists lately risen up in these parts and elsewhere and against the Pelagians either rediviving or at least-wise calling back again to life the most filthy Errors of the Old Pelagians who were extreamly bitter Enemies to the necessity of Faith in Christ Crucified my Adversaries have justly accused me of a Crime in this matter Nor do I think that this Author whom I judge to be a sober Man when he hath well weighed the case will joyn himself a Neighbour or Consociate himself to these my Pelagian and Theist-Adversaries Confessing to Christ with the Mouth and Words but really and in the true Sence of Scripture denying him to Accuse me as they do as guilty of a Crime in this thing P. 384. The Cause was the Controversie that arose some few years agoe in Pensilvania and agitated betwixt Keith and his Neighbours concerning the Two-fold Humanity of Christ Annot. I marvel with what reason this Author could affirm that the Controversie about the Two-fold Humanity of Christ was the cause of the Strife betwixt my Adversaries and me in Pensilvania or here in England For I do not remember that I had the least Controversie with my Adversaries either there or here concerning the Two-fold Humanity of Christ but concerning Christ within and Christ without For because I frequently Preached in the Quakers Meetings Faith in Christ being Man without us as well as in Christ the Life the Light the Word in us and that this Faith that respected him both ways was necessary to our Eternal Salvation therefore first William Stockdale accused me of being guilty in Preaching Two Christs and after him Thomas Fitswater publickly in a Monthly Meeting accused me for denying That the Light within us was sufficient to Salvation without something else Now my Adversaries in Pensilvania by Christ within us understood no other thing than the God-head and they had this sense or meaning of Christ within that this only should be called and esteemed Christ which they did feel in their hearts to reprove sin and to refresh them with a certain Joy if at any time they did
substance and was fond of an occasion to terrify the rest from doing the like he caus'd this Man to be hal'd to Prison where he smarted for his contumacy by fifteen weeks Captivity during which time and likewise after that Dobson was releas'd and return'd to his own house he pillag'd and harass'd his house and possessions taking off his Horses Kine and other possessions which were priz'd and sold for his benefit till he made about forty pounds English And afterwards in the year sixty six and sixty seven when the poor Man was secure fearing nothing he attacks him again takes from him his Horse four Kine and all the Cattle he had of whatever sort all the furnishing of his house and the very beds they lay upon so distressing and empoverishing the poor Man that he and his Family scarce had wherewithal to cloath themselves But some time after when he had almost overcome this disafter having purchas'd two kine which gave Milk out of which and the cheese made of it he sustain'd his Family without any other food the Minister of the Parish Church whose name I choose rather to conceal pursues him with an Edict of Excommunication insomuch that not only this small remnant he had for maintenance of his family was taken from him but himself thus poor and empty was cast into Prison which was done in the same year from which time he remain'd captive till the year Seventy two when he was set at liberty by the King 's special Command at length having return'd to his former dwelling place and beginning to improve his small fortune a little by labouring the ground and diligent working this same Tithe-master I have already nam'd so well vers'd in his exactory Discipline that no office of humanity withheld him from the same falls upon him again and takes all the possessions he now enjoy'd leaving him nothing so that the value and price of what he took from him was reckon'd to be eightly pounds English which is eight hundred and fifty eight Dutch Gilders And moreover to give a farther instance of his unparallel'd Barbarity he caused him to be cast into Prison in the year seventy five where he was shut up among Thieves and Robbers and those who were not only guilty of such Enormous Crimes but even of Whoring and Revelling the Botches and Exulcerations arising from their intemperate Venery being yet running upon their bodies creating a most noysome and grievous smell and all the whole Members of their body being infected and corrupted with the same But Dobson's greatest comfort was that he found in Prison Men of his own Society who were kept Captive upon the same account that he was Sometime after when one of these miserable pocky wretches had rotted unto Death through the Corruption of that blackest and foulest disease the Keeper of the Prison a Man inferior to none for wickedness and excess of Rudeness and Inhumanity who dealt so with these Quakers his Prisoners that he shew'd to the World that his humor and constitution was fitted for tormenting mankind gather'd up the straw upon which this Corrupted and Loathsome carkass was laid bringing it into that place where Dobson with his fellow Quakers and also the rest of these flagitive miscreants were throng'd up where he burnt it in a fire to testify that burning hatred and malice against the Quakers which rag'd and flam'd within his Breast And from the flames of this burning straw there proceeded such Exhalations and Contagious fumes that the Quakers were all taken ill of a most grievous and dangerous disease which in a short time put a period to the lives of some of them Dobson recover'd of this Distemper but continu'd under the same miserable Captivity till the wellcome day of his Death which happen'd in the last day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and seven The Quakers therefore being griev'd in soul for this insupportable affliction of their Brethren and apprehensive of the like Events about to befall themselves could not contain themselves from expressing the Estuations and Boylings of their incensed Minds nor restrain their extravagant Tongues and Pens from complaining and lamenting every where publishing Books and Writings Exaggerating the misery of their Condition and demonstrating unto the World what for Men these Evangelical Reform'd Protestants as they call'd 'em Evidenc'd themselves to be Those who in ancient Times cry'd out against Persecution for Religion's sake pretending that none but God had Power to call their Religion and Conscience to account and yet in these days are so fierce and cruel with their own Countreymen upon the same Religious Account sighting against them with carnal Weapons and oppressing them to such an high degree that tho they spar'd their Lives yet inâ—licted Evils far worse than Death it self introducing the same Tyranny that was us'd against the Church oâ— Old but with a New Face and Name The Quakers relate and also some of the Chroniclers or these Times record That in the Time of that fatal and bloody Plague which Rag'd so severely both in London and many parts of that Realm the Bishops besought the King and boldly counsell'd him That in Order to avert and appease the Weath of God which then so heavily afflicted them he would free and cleanse the Kingdom from that Pâ—st of Quakers and other Fanaticks the Banishment and Extirpation of whom would be an acceptable and Propitiatory Sacrifice for the sins of the Land But the moderation of the King was too great to give Ear to such Counsels for though he would not countenance or assist these men yet he was not willing to use such inhumane Cruelty against them and accordingly chose rather that the Old Punishment should be continued against them than a New One of that Nature take place This Year which was so fatal unto many places destroying both the Quakers and their Enemies promisouously did likewise give the same deadly stroke to Samuel Fisher whose Fame among the Quakers Acuteness of Wit Learning and Neat Polite Way of Writing I have already mentioned He died in Prison The Quakers mightily lamented his Death being sensible what a great Doctor and what a Skillful and dexterous Defender of them and their Religion they had lost Their Enemies and Ministers of the Church on the contrary rejoyc'd and congratulated his Death who had given them so much trouble while alive being educated in the same Colledges with themselves and having been one of their own Tribe taught the same manner of learning and invested with the same office and well acquainted with all their writings â—â—trigues methods and Ecclesiastical Policy so that he was more capable to use their own Weapons and Arguments against themselves which he did very dexterously At this same very time they were likewise bereav'd of John Coughen so fam'd and renown'd among the Quakers who tho he was not taken out of the World yet deserted his Station and separated himself from the
this theme as if he had aim'd at no other design then to bring in some and play upon others with a few frothy flowrishes of words This is the matter of fact The Parliament made it their purpose and endeavour to give Liberty of Conscience to such as I have Nam'd A Committee of a select number of the house was order'd to treat of this affair They when doubting of the Quakers Doctrine and saith concerning the sacred Scripture and mystery of the holy Trinity because they use not to call the Scripture the word of God thinking that name to be proper only to Christ or to the internal word of God under which sense external Letters can never fall nor to term the Father Son and Spirit three persons that being a word not used in Scripture ordered their Articles and opinion to be presently inquired into Two famous Quakers at that time Geo. Withad and John Virughton treated of these matters with Sir Tho. Clargy a member of the house He advis'd 〈◊〉 with Kindness and Candour to publish their mind fully and fairly concerning these two Articles that were doubted of They without delay write and subscribe their Thoughts and willingly presented 'em to that honourable Man from whom as they had received a wholsom Advice they now also expect a seasonable assistance The form of each of 'em for himself was to this purpose I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth the sacred Scriptures to be Divine left us by Men Inspir'd of God as an exact rule of our faith and behaviour and I profess to believe in one only God who is the father and in Jesus Christ his Eternal Son very God and very Man and in the Holy Spirit one and the same God with the Father and Son blessed for evermore This confession having pleas'd Clargy was given to be read to the rest of the Members who thought fit to call in some nine or ten Quakers that were ready at hand for such a design to question 'em if that were their faith and perswasion Upon their owning it the day following the matter was presented by the Committee to the whole house and thus it was agreed that the Quakers shou'd have liberty and order'd it shou'd be recorded and drawn out into an Act. While publick affairs were thus changed W. Penn was not so regarded and respected by King and Court as he was formerly by King James partly because of his intimacy with King James and partly for adhering to his old opinion concerning the Oath of fidelity which was now mitigated but not abrogated Besides this it was suspected that Penn Corresponded with the late King now Lurking in France under the umbrage and protection of the French King an enemy justly and equally odious to the Brittish King and united Provinces 'twixt whom there was now an inveterate War This suspicion was follow'd and also encreas'd by a Letter intercepted from King James to Penn desiring Penn to come to his assistance in the present State and Condition he was in and express the Resentments of his favour and benevolence Upon this Penn being cited to appear was ask'd why King James wrote unto him he answer'd he cou'd not hinder such a thing being further question'd what Resentments these were which the late King seem'd to desire of him he answer'd he knew not but said he supposed King James wou'd have him to endeavour his Restitution and that tho he cou'd not decline the suspicion yet he cou'd avoid the guilt and since he had loved King James in his prosperity he shou'd not hate him in his adversity yea he lov'd him as yet for many favours he had conferr'd on him tho he wou'd not joyn with him in what concern'd the State of the Kingdom He own'd he had been much oblig'd to King James and that he wou'd reward his kindness by any private office as far as he cou'd observing inviolably and intirely that duty to the publick and Government which was equally Incumbent upon all Subjects and therefore that he had never the vanity to think of endeavouring to restore him that Crown which was fallen from his head so that nothing in that Letter cou'd at all seem to fix guilt upon him From that time Penn withdrew himself more and more from business and at length at London in his own house confin'd himself as it were to a voluntary exile from the converse fellowship and conference of others employing himself only in his Domestick affairs that he might be devoted more to Meditation and Spiritual exercises In the year Ninety three two books of his came out in English the one of a Solitary life the other a Key to understand the Articles of the Quakers faith This year Penn went out of his voluntary Prison compensing the leisure of his lonely life by the comfort of Marriage which he now entred into and the greater toil he took on himself in managing all his business and affairs Geo. Fox also after many changes and viciâ—â—itudes having seen various chances and dangers after he had often been Anxious concerning the progress and continuance of his life now not doubting to Consummate and end his Labours in the beginning of Ninety one resign'd up his Life After his Death his Widdow Margaret an old woman of about 76 years who had shar'd with him in the office of preaching wrote thus to a General Meeting of women held at London that same year Most Dear Friends and Sisters in the Lord I Did not scruple to write unto you from the Sense of that which was from the beginning which now is and for ever shall be and that for your great Love and care of me and the half of my self my Husband as long as he labour'd among you for the Lord. Since he 's now entred into Rest and heavenly Glory if we 'll regard what he said while he was alive let 's fix our constant Dependance upon God Neither doubt I if we walk with that Spirit of Life and Strength he had but we shall be preserv'd even unto the end In the mean time growing up and bearing fruit unto the Lord we shall become Trees Justice to the praise and Glory of God Wherefore I do earnestly warn and exhort you to abide constantly in the service of God for ye shall certainly reap the reward of much Consolation in this World and of an eternal Recompence in that which is to come Farewell and joyn with me in praising of God Fox not long before he died by the Interposal of certain Friends and Amanuenses's wrote a large book in English only with reference to what concern'd himself during the time he labour'd among his friends in the Ministry and provided by his latter will it shou'd be carefully Printed and a Coppy of it sent to all the yearly and Quarterly Meetings of his Friends wherever gather'd together throughout the whole World in Remembrance of him and for their particular Advantage The book was publish'd being strengthen'd
thought it to be their Prudence to provide in that manner least their Mariners who are so serviceable to their Countries but a ruffling sort of Men and prone to all impetuous and saucy Actions should offer any violence to the Churches and Porches of the Turks and demean themselves insolently upon that account and that so from that foreign Evil another worse Evil arise and befall the whole Nation therefore that they might bring this young Man into the utmost peril of his Life they by their cunning Machinations order the matter so as that he entred into one of their Mosques or Churches There the Turks seize him and having got an Interpreter which sort of Men who are of the Greek Nation is never wanting they threaten him that unless he would change his Religion and forsake his Christianity and embrace the Mahometan Way they would burn him alive upon Camels Dung He chooses to Die they prepare for it but a Turkish Officer comes up to them with great speed who had found out by what Methods Cunning and Craft they had trappan'd the young Man and crys to them that they should be quiet stop and see what they did he shews them the whole matter and so frees the young Man who was ready to Die and almost Breathless from the very Jaws of Death and after that brought him to his own House cherished and succoured him and does as it were hug and adore for some time as 't is the manner of the Turks to love venerate and esteem such worthy of eternal Monuments for undergoing such a Death as to be Martyrs for their Religion and at last commanded those Papists and bald Monks who had not an Hair of Humanity to conduct this young Man but one who was endued with a manly Nature and Fortitude into a place of Safety unless they were minded to incur the like danger or some other vindictive displeasure for the same These manly Examples were imitated by some of the Female Sex both Wives and Virgins not out of a Womanly precipitancy and boldness but upon a determinate Advice taking good resolution of Mind and raising up the Fortitude of their Bodies contemning the danger of their lives changing as it were their Sex or being transmuted from Women to Men which says Pliny's credit in reference to a Transmutation of this Kind of which sort L. Mutianu's shewed a Boy at Smyrna which he had seen For so did they steer their Course towards those same Places and studied to obtain the same Glory and Praise for the Preaching and Propagating of their Religion Of these Women the first two were Catherine Evans and Sarah Chevench who in the year 61 went by Sea from London to Italy to the intent they might get a Ship to go from thence to Scanderooâ— and so on to Judeae which VVomen while that the Ship as they sailed touched upon Malta went out of the Ship and drew near the Island There they forthwith deliver their Pamphlets to such as they met with and in the mean time beholding and abhorring so many Signs of an Idolatrous People seeing they could not by their Tongue and Language express the Sence they had of it to these men for they use partly the Italian partly the Turkish and partly a mixt and medley Speech as having been Conquered and the place inhabited by both People several times they did it to them by Signs and Nods and other Gestures being afterwards brought to the Inquisitors and having an Interpreter assigned them they refuse to do what the Papists would have them Dispute against them and at last reject and so despise their their Worship Adoration and Religion that the Malteses seized upon these chattering Women and threw them into Prison and there kept them about two years and then at last thrust them out of their Island There were two other Maidens who were also English Women one of which was afterward Married to a Citizen and eminent Merchant of Amsterdam for there is no need of naming her or her Companion that even as these Women had done did with the same design go by Sea as far as Scanderoon but being there not permitted to go any further by the English Consul they did at length with much Grief and Sorrow return to their own Country I shall add another Example of the strange and ardent Resolution of Women which is almost too great and therefore the less Credible and therefore every one may make Judgment thereof as he pleases but it 's such as that the Quakers who have received it and delivered the same unto me do so attest that for all they have no other Testimony of the Truth of the thing no manner of witness none conscious or judge of the same besides the Woman her self they say they doubt so little thereof as if the thing had been done in their Sight She was an English Maiden her name Mary Fisher who would not be at rest before she went in Person to the great Emperor of the Turks and inform'd him concerning the Errors of his Religion and the Truth of hers It was the same Emperor who in my time and long after governed that Empire called by the name of Mahomet Han the 4th of the Name a Monster of a Man a Deformed sight both in Body and Mind as if one strove with the other how to offend of a black Complexion with a flat broad Nose and Mouth stupid logger-headed cruel fierce as to his Aspect and besides other marks upon his Body had a Scar beneath his Eye-lid on the upper part of his Cheek which came from a wound and cruel Cut given him by his Brother's Guards and Followers a Testimony of his Boisterous and Cruel Disposition because that upon his Brother's Accession to that Throne he attempted to take him off and cut off his Head with his own hands Tho others have given a diffent Relation of this matter to wit that this Mahomet's Father because he had understood by signs and Prophesies that the Son should expel the Father from the Throne had endeavoured to cut off this his Son and that in the mean time while the Son was kept from falling into the hands of his Father in this manner he gave him this mark of the mischief he designed for him This passage has been interlac'd here not that there is any great connexion between the matter in hand and it but for curiosity's sake upon the account of them who are desirous of Novelties and that this Maiden might come to the sight of this Man speak with him and put him in mind of the Justice of her cause she goes on board an English Ship and Sails for Smyrna but when the English Consul at Smyrna came to know her design he advises the young Woman by all means to forbear but she persists in her Resolution so the Consul not enduring that she should expose her self to so many and such great hazards and rash undertakings and being not able to divert