the officers who brought him--what the words that he spoke were
(which they did not well agree in), and at what time he spoke them
(which they all agreed to be after the minister had done), and then,
whether he gave the minister any reviling language, or endeavoured
to raise a tumult among the people (which they could not charge him
with); not finding that he had broken the law, he counselled the
young man to be careful that he did not make or occasion any public
disturbance, and so dismissed him; which I was glad of.

Some time after this, my father, having gotten some further account
of the people called Quakers, and being desirous to be informed
concerning their principles, made another visit to Isaac Penington
and his wife, at their house called the Grange, in Peter's Chalfont,
and took both my sisters and me with him.

It was in the tenth month, in the year 1659, that we went thither,
where we found a very kind reception, and tarried some days; one day
at least the longer, for that while we were there a meeting was
appointed at a place about a mile from thence, to which we were
invited to go, and willingly went.

It was held in a farmhouse called the Grove, which having formerly
been a gentleman's seat, had a very large hall, and that well
filled.

To this meeting came Edward Burrough, besides other preachers, as
Thomas Curtis and James Naylor, but none spoke there at that time
but Edward Burrough, next to whom, as it were under him, it was my
lot to sit on a stool by the side of a long table on which he sat,
and I drank in his words with desire; for they not only answered my