He was very unwilling I should go, and made many objections against
it, all which she answered and removed so clearly, that not finding
what excuse further to allege, he at length left it to me, and I
soon turned the scale for going.

We were come to the coach-side before this was concluded on, and I
was ready to step in, when one of my sisters privately put my father
in mind that I had never a hat on. That somewhat startled him, for
he did not think it fit I should go from home (and that so far and
to stay abroad) without a hat. Wherefore he whispered to her to
fetch me a hat, and he entertained them with some discourse in the
meantime. But as soon as he saw the hat coning he would not stay
till it came, lest I should put it on before him, but breaking off
his discourse abruptly, took his leave of them, and hastened in
before the hat was brought to me.

I had not one penny of money about me, nor indeed elsewhere; for my
father, so soon as he saw that I would be a Quaker, took from me
both what money I had and everything of value, or that would have
made money, as some plate, buttons, rings, &c., pretending that he
would keep them for me till I came to myself again, lest I should
destroy them.

But as I had no money, so being among my friends I had no need of
any, nor ever hankered after it; though once upon a particular
occasion I had liked to have wanted it. The case was this:

I had been at Reading, and set out from thence on the first day of
the week, in the morning, intending to reach (as in point of time I
well might) Isaac Penington's, where the meeting was to be that day;