as being fitted out to fight in
the Baltic; took them, whether they would or no, as Richard Sellar was
to be captured in the same way, seven years later.

So now the long voyage to America must be undertaken not only in too
small a boat, but with too few sailors to work her. Besides Robert
Fowler, only two men and three boys were left on board to sail the
ship on this long, difficult voyage.

Presently the Friends began to come on board; and if the captain's
heart sank anew as he saw the long string of passengers making for his
tiny boat--who shall wonder or blame him? It was a very solemn
procession of weighty Friends.

In front came the five, who had been in America before, and who were
going back to face persecution, knowing what it meant. Their names
were: first that 'ancient and venerable man' William Brend; then young
Christopher Holder of Winterbourne in Gloucestershire, a well-educated
man of good estate; John Copeland of Holderness in Yorkshire; Mary
Weatherhead of Bristol; and Dorothy[34] Waugh, the serving-maid of
Preston Patrick, who had been 'convinced and called to the ministry'
as she went about her daily work in the family of Friend John Camm, at
Cammsgill.

After them followed the other five who had not crossed the Atlantic
before, but who were no less eager to face unknown difficulties and
dangers. Their names were: William Robinson the London merchant;
Robert Hodgson; Humphrey Norton (remember Humphrey Norton, he will be
heard of again); Richard Doudney, 'an innocent man who served the Lord
in sincerity'; and Mary Clark, the wife of John Clark, a London
Friend, who, like most of the others, had already undergone much
suffering for her faith. On board the _Woodhouse_ they all came,
stepping on deck one after the other solemnly and sedately, while the
anxious captain watched them and wondered how many more were to come,
and where they were all to be lodged. Once they were on board,
however, things changed and felt quite different. It was as if an
Unseen Passenger had come with them.

This is Robert Fowler's own account: 'Upon the 1st day of Fourth Month
called June received I the Lord's servants aboard, Who came with a
mighty hand and an outstretched arm with them; so that with courage we
set sail and came to the Downs the second day, where our dearly
beloved William Dewsbury with Michael Thompson came aboard, and in
them we were much refreshed; and, recommending us to the grace of God,
we launch