ouls, and run into the same
nature; for PATIENCE MUST GET THE
VICTORY, and it answers to that of
God in everyone and will bring
everyone from the contrary. So let
your temperance and moderation and
patience be known to all.'--GEORGE
FOX._

_'Non tristabit justum quidquid si
accederit.'_

_'Whatever happens to the righteous
man it shall not heavy
him.'--RICHARD ROLLE. 1349._

XIV. MILES HALHEAD AND THE HAUGHTY LADY

A Plain, simple man was Miles Halhead, the husbandman of Mountjoy. Ten
years older than Fox was he, and wise withal, so that men wondered to
see him forsake his home and leave wife and child at the call of the
Quaker's preaching, and go forth instead to become a preacher of the
Gospel.

Yet, truth to tell, the change was natural and easily explained. All
his life Miles had had to do with seeds buried in the ground.
Therefore when he heard George Fox preach at his home near Underbarrow
in Westmorland, telling all men to consider 'that as the fallow ground
in their fields must be ploughed up before it would bear seed to them,
so must the fallow ground of their hearts be ploughed up before they
could bear seed to God,' Miles' own past experience as a husbandman
bore witness to the truth of this doctrine. His whole nature sprang
forward to receive it; and thus, in a short while, he was mightily
convinced.

Now at that time there were, as we know, many companies of Seekers
scattered up and down the pleasant Westmorland dales. Miles himself
had been one of such a group, but now, having found that which he had
aforetime been a-seeking, nought was of any value to him, but that his
old companions should likewise cease to be Seekers, and become also in
their turn Finders. Yet Miles wondered often how such an one as he
should be able to convince them. For he was neither skilful nor ready
of tongue, nor of a commanding presence like Friend George Fox, but
only a simple husbandman. Still he was wary in his discourse, from
his long watching of the faces of Earth and Sky--full also he was of a
most convincing silence; and, though as yet he had proved it not,
staunch to suffer for his faith. It was said of him that 'his
Testimony was plaine and powerful, he being a plain simple man.'

Thus Miles Halhead began to preach the Gos