to have produced some effect; for he was at first permitted to
remain in the gentle custody of the Black Rod. On further
inquiry, however, it was determined to send him to the Tower.
After a confinement of a few weeks he died of apoplexy; but he
lived long enough to complete his disgrace by offering his sword
to the new government, and by expressing in fervent language his
hope that he might, by the goodness of God and of Their
Majesties, have an opportunity of showing how much he hated the
French.20

Turner ran no serious risk; for the government was most unwilling
to send to the scaffold one of the Seven who had signed the
memorable petition. A warrant was however issued for his
apprehension; and his friends had little hope that he would
escape; for his nose was such as none who had seen it could
forget; and it was to little purpose that he put on a flowing wig
and that he suffered his beard to grow. The pursuit was probably
not very hot; for, after skulking a few weeks in England, he
succeeded in crossing the Channel, and remained some time in
France.21

A warrant was issued against Penn; and he narrowly escaped the
messengers. It chanced that, on the day on which they were sent
in search of him, he was attending a remarkable ceremony at some
distance from his home. An event had taken place which a
historian, whose object is to record the real life of a nation,
ought not to pass unnoticed. While London was agitated by the
news that a plot had been discovered, George Fox, the founder of
the sect of Quakers, died.