towards him, "Here," said I, "here is my hair, here are my cheeks,
here is my back." With that, he skipped away from me and went into
another room, at which the soldiers fell a-laughing; and one of the
officers said, "You are a happy man that can bear such things." Thus
he was conquered without a blow.

'... After I had lain a prisoner above a year in Scarborough Castle, I
sent a letter to the King, in which I gave him an account of my
imprisonment, and the bad usage I had received in prison; and also I
was informed no man could deliver me but he. After this, John
Whitehead being at London, and being acquainted with Esquire Marsh,
went to visit him, and spoke to him about me; and he undertook, if
John Whitehead would get the state of my case drawn up, to deliver it
to the master of requests, Sir John Birkenhead, and endeavour to get a
release for me. So John Whitehead ... drew up an account of my
imprisonment and sufferings and carried it to Marsh; and he went with
it to the master of requests, who procured an order from the King for
my release. The substance of this order was that the King, being
certainly informed, that I was a man principled against plotting and
fighting, and had been ready at all times to discover plots, rather
than to make any, therefore his royal pleasure was, that I should be
discharged from my imprisonment. As soon as this order was obtained,
John Whitehead came to Scarborough with it and delivered it to the
Governor; who, upon receipt thereof, gathered the officers together,
... and being satisfied that I was a man of peaceable life, he
discharged me freely, and gave me the following passport:--

'"Permit the bearer hereof, GEORGE FOX, late a prisoner here, and now
discharged by his majesty's order, quietly to pass about his lawful
occasions, without any molestation. Given under my hand at Scarborough
Castle, this first day of September 1666.--JORDAN CROSLAND, Governor
of Scarborough Castle."

'After I was released, I would have made the Governor a present for
his civility and kindness he had of late showed me; but he would not
receive anything; saying "Whatever good he could for me and my
friends, he would do it, and never do them any hurt." ... He continued
loving unto me unto his dying day. The officers also and the soldiers
were mightily changed, and became very respectful to me; when they had
occasion to speak of me they would say, "HE IS AS STIFF AS A TREE, AND
AS PURE AS A BELL; FOR W