t free to eat
of the jailor's meat, so they eat very little but bread and
water. He writ to us that they are plotting again to get more
false witnesses to swear against him things that he never spoke.
I sent him 2 lb., but he took but 5 [shillings?]. They are
mighty violent in Westmorland and all parts everywhere towards
us. They bid 5 lb. to any man that will take George anywhere
that they can find him within Westmorland.... The children are
all in health, praised be the Lord. George is not with us now,
but he remembered his dear love to thee....

'Thy dutiful wife till death,
MARGARET FELL.'

'Swarthmoor, Feb. 18, 1653.'

But whether Margaret Fell ever entirely forgave Justice Sawrey for the
part he had played in trying to alienate her husband from her, is, to
say the least, doubtful. Anyhow, later on she wrote of him as 'a
catterpillar which shall be swept out of the way.' And 'swept out of
the way' he eventually was, some years later, when it is recorded that
'he was drowned in a puddle upon the road coming from York.' But he
was to have time and opportunity to do much harm to Friends, and
especially to George Fox, before that happened, as the next two
stories will show.

XII. 'STRIKE AGAIN!'

_'Ulverston consisted of thatched
one storied houses, many old
shops, gabled buildings standing
out towards the street on pillars
beneath which neighbours sheltered
and gossipped. On market days
these projections were filled with
goods to tempt gentry and yeomanry
to open their purse-strings.'--From
'Home Life in North Lonsdale.'_

_'By the year 1654 "the man with
the leather breeches" as he was
called, had become a celebrity
throughout England, with scattered
converts and adherents everywhere,
but voted a pest and a terror by
the public authorities, the
regular steeple-house clergy,
whether Presbyterian or
Independent, and the appointed
preachers of all the old
sects.'--D. MASSON._

_'For in those days the high and
proud professors and persecutors