Lord's power. "Oh," said they, "HE SHINES, HE GLISTERS," but they
unhorsed Amor Stoddart before we could get to the inn. When we were in
the inn they were so rude in the courts and the streets, so that the
miners, colliers, and carters could never be ruder. And the people of
the inn asked us 'what we would have for supper' as is the way of
inns. "Supper," said I, "were it not that the Lord's power is over
them, these rude scholars look as if they would pluck us in pieces and
make a supper of us!"'

After this treatment, the two friends might have been expected to keep
away from Cambridge in the future; but that was not their way. Where
the fight was hottest, there these two faithful soldiers of the Cross
were sure to be found. The very next year saw Fox back in
Cambridgeshire once more; and again Amor Stoddart was with him,
standing by his side and sharing all dangers like a valiant and
faithful friend.

'I passed into Cambridgeshire,' the Journal continues, 'and into the
fen country, where I had many meetings, and the Lord's truth spread.
Robert Craven, who had been Sheriff of Lincoln, was with me [it would
be interesting to know more about Robert Craven, and where and how he
was "reached"], and Amor Stoddart and Alexander Parker. We went to
Crowland, a very rude place; for the townspeople were got together at
the inn we went to, and were half drunk, both priest and people. I
reproved them for their drunkenness and warned them of the day of the
Lord that was coming upon all the wicked; exhorting them to leave
their wickedness and to turn to the Lord in time. While I was thus
speaking to them the priest and the clerk broke out into a rage, and
got up the tongs and fire-shovel at us, so that had not the Lord's
power preserved us we might have been murdered amongst them. Yet, for
all their rudeness and violence, some received the truth then, and
have stood in it ever since.'

George Fox was not the only man to find a faithful and staunch
supporter in Amor Stoddart. There is another glimpse of him, again
standing at a comrade's side in time of danger, but the comrade in
this case is not Fox but 'dear William Dewsbury,' one of the best
loved of all the early Friends.

Amor Stoddart was Dewsbury's companion that sore day at Bristol when
the tidings came from New England overseas, that the first two Quaker
Martyrs, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, had been hanged for
their faith on Boston Common. Heavy at heart