expressed a desire to see him, that he might have some discourse
with him, if he knew how. Whereupon I told him that if he would
take the pains to go to his house I would bear him company thither,
introduce him, and engage he should have a kind reception.

This pleased him much; and he embracing the offer, I undertook to
give him notice of a suitable time, which after I had gone this
little journey with my friend Richard Greenaway and was returned, I
did, making choice of the monthly meeting to go to.

We met by appointment at Stoken Church, with our staves in our
hands, like a couple of pilgrims, intending to walk on foot; and
having taken some refreshment and rest at Wycombe, went on
cheerfully in the afternoon, entertaining each other with grave and
religious discourse, which made the walk the easier, and so reached
thither in good time, on the seventh day of the week.

I gave my friends an account who this person was whom I had brought
to visit them, and the ground of his visit. He had been a professor
of religion from his childhood to his old age (for he was now both
grey-headed and elderly), and was a teacher at this time, and had
long been so amongst a people, whether Independents or Baptists I do
not well remember. And so well thought of he was, for his zeal and
honesty, that in those late professing times he was thrust into the
Commission of the Peace, and thereby lifted up on the Bench; which
neither became him nor he it, for he wanted indeed most of the
qualifications requisite for a Justice of the Peace: an estate to
defray the charge of the office and to bear him up in a course of
living above contempt; a competent knowledge in the laws, and a
presence of mind or body, or both, to keep offenders in some awe; in