seen at Isaac Penington's; nor did any of them know me, though they
had generally heard that such a young man as I was convinced of the
truth, and come among Friends.

Our salutation to each other was very grave and solemn, nor did we
entertain one another with much talk, or with common discourses; but
most of the little time I had with them was spent in a silent
retiredness of spirit, waiting upon the Lord. Yet before we parted
we imparted one to another some of the exercises we had gone
through; and they seeming willing to understand the ground and
manner of my commitment, I gave them a brief account thereof,
letting Thomas Loe more particularly know that I had directed a
letter to him, which having fallen into the hand of the Lord
Lieutenant, was (so far as I could learn) the immediate cause of my
being taken up.

Having stayed with them as long as my limited time would permit
(which I thought was but very short), that I might keep touch with
my keeper and come home in due time, I took leave of my friends
there, and with mutual embraces parting, returned to my (in some
sense more easy, but in others less easy) prison, where after this I
stayed not long before I was brought back to my father's house.

For after my father was come home, who, as I observed before, was
from home when I was taken, he applied himself to those justices
that had committed me, and not having disobliged them when he was in
office, easily obtained to have me sent home, which between him and
them was thus contrived.

There was about this time a general muster and training of the