would sett friends at libertie who were great sufferers or to that
purpose and told the king he had a paper of 110 that were premunired
yt had lain in prison about 6 years and none can release ym but him.
Soe the king took the paper and said there was many of ym and yt
they would be in again in a monthes time and yt the country gentlemen
complained to him yt they were so troubled wth the quakers. So he
said he would release him six. but ye friend thinkes to goe to him
again, for he had not fully cleared himselfe.'

This letter is endorsed by Fox himself, 'E Hookes to M F of passages
consering Richard Carver, that cared the King of his backe.'

E. Hooke's next letter, addressed to George Fox, thus continues
the narrative--

'February, 1669-70.

'Dear G. F. As for the friend that was with the King, his love is
to thee. He has been with the King lately, and Thomas Moore was with
him, and the King was very loving to them. He had a fair and free
opportunity to open his mind to the King, and the King has promised
to do for him, but willed him to wait a month or two longer. I rest
thy faithful friend to serve thee,

'E.H.'[277]

The captain of the fisher-boat was Nicholas Tattersall, whose
grave, covered with a slab of black marble, is still to be seen in
Brighton church-yard, with a long poetical inscription, now scarcely
legible. On the Restoration, he applied for his reward, and was