ANNA TRAPNEL's Report and Plea. OR, A NARRATIVE Of her Journey from London into Cornwall, the occasion of it, the Lord's encouragements to it, and signal presence with her in it. Proclaiming the rage and strive of the People against the come forth of the Lord Jesus to reign; manifested, in the harsh, rough, boisterous, rugged, inhuman, and uncivil usage of Anna Trapnel, by the Justices and people in Cornwall, at a place called Truro. Whereto is annexed A DEFIANCE Against all the reproachful, vile, horrid, abusive, and scandalous reports, raised out of the bottomless pit against her, by the profane generation, prompted thereunto by Professors and Clergy both in City and Country, who have a form of godliness, but deny the power. Commended for the justification of the Truth, and satisfaction of all men, from her own hand.  
Printed at London for Thomas Brewster, at the three Bibles, near London-house. 1654.   

To the READER.  
THe Lord, and my Father (Courteous Reader) having put me upon this work and employment, I pray don't call it idleness, lest you would be likened to those who call good evil, and evil good; and put darkness for light, and light for darkness; against whom there is a woe pronounced from the Lord 
* Isaiah 5.20. : and is it not dreadful to come under the woe of the Lord? sure it is much better to come under men's threats, scourges, and contempt; and when for well-doing too, what shall harm you if you be follower of that which is good 
* 1 Pet. 3.13. ? whatsoever is done to the upright in heart, it's no harm: If ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye; and be not afraid of their terror, nor be troubled. I bless the Lord, my sufferings are for righteousness sake, and I go not about to vindicate myself, but Truth; which indeed stands in no need of mine or any one's vindication; but I would show love and respect to it, in opposition to those, who with spades and shovels dig up mire and rubbish to throw upon it. Power and Spear is drawn against the Lord and his Anointed; for the holy Unction that the holy One hath given his, they suffer, and who can be sad? whatsoever is laid upon them by men or devils, when thereby they are not losers, but great gainers from the Lord, though losers from men: and therefore men may give losers leave to speak to them, which have offered them so much injury. But the Lord knows, I would not reach out tongue, hand nor pen, to right myself, or to seek restauration of my loss, I wave that, such a thing is below my spirit. I bless the Lord, & truly I do not herein boast, neither would I glory in any thing, save in my infirmities; not in my sins, but in reproaches, and vilifyings, which the Apostle saith, He will glory in: 
* 2 Cor. 11.30.  I will, saith he, glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. He could glory in the Lords fatherly strokes, as looking unto all things to work for the good of his soul, seeing his Father's love in all that was done unto him, giving him a thousand-fold for his outward damage. And though I am a poor inferior, unworthy to be compared with any of the holy men or women reported of in the Scripture; yet I can say with Paul, Through grace I am what I am; and I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life that I live, is by the faith of the Son of God, who died and gave himself for a weak handmaid, as well as for a strong Paul. And my desire is to imitate that approved Hannah in 1 Sam. 1. who was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore for a Samuel, wherein God might be glorified and advanced in and by that typical Prophet, who held forth Christ that great Prophet, that lives for ever, who maketh fruitful, and removes barrenness. And if handmaids in these days pray and weep for their Lord, begging his coming to rule in them, and in the Nation, and to teach all sorts of people his statutes, that so the statutes of Omri might be utterly ruinated, such praying cannot be borne by the Inhabitants of this Nation; there is such an old evil spirit of misconstruing, and judging holy actions to carry in them evil consequences. Eli the Priest of the Lord, is imitated in his worst part. England's Rulers and Clergy do judge the Lords handmaid to be mad, and under the administration of evil angels, and a witch, and many other evil terms they raise up to make me odious, and abhorred in the hearts of good and bad, that do not know me.  
Pray, Christian Reader, well observe the ensuing Discourse, whereby you may understand the voice of malice and envy uttered and acted by the Clergy and Rulers against me, who hath showed much love and friendship to them for many years, and yet is no Enemy to her Enemies; but prayeth for them. I am sure they have sinned far more than old Eli, who said of Hannah, She was Drunk. This grieved her, and made her reply and say, Don't count thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto. Then Eli said, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of him. Here is a recantation quickly manifested; and it's probable, he was exceedingly troubled, for afflicting the afflicted. What rash Judgers imitate him in this part 〈◊〉 though he was the chief-Priest in his days, yet he thought it no disparagement to talk with a poor handmaid, being a sober holy woman. Therefore I instance this example, Reader, that thou mayst take notice how far short the great Rabbis come of Scripture-Rule in these days of the Gospel, wherein they should abound, not in pride, haughtiness and lofty carriages; but in humility, and in acknowledging the wrong and evil judgement that they have brought forth, and passed upon the innocent. And as to what they have said, and passed sentence, may not Judas rise up in the Judgement-day of the Lord, and condemn these men, who acknowledged his evil? and likewise Simon Magus, who confessed his sin, and desired prayer; and many Heathens did so, recorded in Scripture, and in many Histories besides, which the learned are not ignorant of? and shall Heathens, and a vile judas, a Spirit-abusing Simon Magus, condemn those that are accounted Christians, great in wisdom and knowledge, and eloquent speeches, and full of guilded words, brave Orators, great headpieces, so called; but is it not more commendable to be in heart, then in head? My son, give me thy heart. And the Lord saith, when Israel did so word it with him, Oh that there were such an heart: Here is brave language, fair promises; but, Oh that there were such an heart! Deut. 5.28. an heart comparable with such words, God loves, which brings sayings out into do; he delights in golden actions, not in guilded words; he esteems reality, not falsehood. Who can forbear taking up a Lamentation concerning poor ENGLAND: whose Prophets prophesy falsely, and the Priests bear Rule by their means, and the people love to have it so; but what will they do in the end thereof? for sure the end will be sad, when the Lord shall come out as a swift Witness against the Seers of ENGLAND, for strengthening Baal's Priests, and upholding the Pope's Dominion, and dressing the Scarlet Whore in new clothes, so as to blind and deceive Cities and Countries, telling them, That it's the true genuine fruit of the Womb of the Church, and Spouse of CHRIST, when it will indeed be discovered to be from the Harlot's brood, and so a Bastard, which is sentenced by the LORD according to Scripture, surely to die, and the day of the LORD's vengeance will slay it; for the LORD hath pronounced destruction to Babylon's Brats, as well as to Babylon: why then should contention be for the Whores Brats?  
Reader, I beseech this of thee, whosoever thou be'st; under Forms, or without forms; obedient to Ordinances for the LORD's sake, or yet in the dark concerning them: I beseech all sorts of people, high and low, to weigh in the balance of the Sanctuary, the true Relation which followeth; for I shall relate the Truth without addition: though I cannot (it may be) remember all the passages in order, yet as many as the LORD brings to my mind, I shall relate, for the satisfaction of the LORD's friends known and unknown in all parts where the rumour hath run.  
A Declaration from my own hand shall follow, not being put on by any, save by the great Instructor, who counselleth with his eye, who beareth me out before men and devils. The LORD is on my side, I will not fear men, what they can do; the LORD is my help and refuge. Farewell.  
Your servant that loves Christ in sincerity, A.T.   

Here gins the NARRATIVE or RELATION.  
FIrst, I shall give an account of my Invitation from friends, which said, Pray go down with us to Cornwall; there you may do good to poor souls, with the variety of Experiences God hath given you. But I said, There's a far journey indeed! Do you think I would leave all my friends, to go so far from them? they would take it very ill, surely. They said to me, We have invited you; we pray you spread it before the Lord, and hearken to his mind in it; and we will pray and wait for the Lords answer. I said, I would pray against going to Cornwall: if I should find any inclination or motion to go, I would not hearken to it, my mind was so strongly bend against that journey. But two days after, in the night, I was praying to the Lord in my bed secretly; and I desired I might abide near my London-friends, that so I might enjoy society with them that I was in Church-order with, who were so dear to me, and were written in my heart. But the Lord that night persuaded my heart to pray to him for his presence in the journey to Cornwall, saying, Do ned pray agairst it any more: for there thou must go. And much persuasion was given in to my heart, by the secret whisper of the Spirit. And the Scripture-saying I had that night, were these: The first was Josh. 1.9. The Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. And again, I had that saying, Where canst thou flee from my presence, or where canst thou go from my Spirit? Psal. 139.7. I then said, Truth, Lord, whither can I go from thy Spirit, or flee from thy presence? Then do ned fear to go to Corurwal, though it be a long journey, said the Lord, for I will go with thee: then I said, Lord, let me have thy Spirit and presence in places near London; why should I go so far, and among strangers? the answer was, Fear not, be not discouraged: thy God, who is thy Father, goeth with thee: then I mourned before the Lord, and said, I pray Father let me not go: then the Lord said, Thou reasonest as Moses did when he was to go to Pharaoh: he cavilled against the mind of God, and so dost thou: then that saying was given into my heart, The Lord hath purposed thy going there, and his purpose and counsel shallstand, and he will do his pleasure; it pleaseth him, thy going there: and then I had that Scripture in Isa. 41.10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness; therefore, said the Lord, be willing to go: and then my reasoning gainsaying spirit fell flat before the Lord, and I prayed, Thy will, O Lord, be done; thy word coming with such power and great authority on my heart, I can no longer contradict it: then I had this saying, Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses things are confirmed. I have, said the Lord, given thee many confirming Scriptures for thy establishment concerning thy journey: therefore be strong in thy Father's strength; rely upon him that will not forsake thee, nor leave thee; but will be thy guide unto death. Then I told my sister, I thought I must go to Cornwall; the which she liked not; but contradicted. And the day after this nights debating and arguing, I told some of the Church I walk with, That I was persuaded to go to Cornwall: they were much against it, and said to me, You will not we hope do so, we are against your leaving us to go so far; and will you leave us in such a time as this? Many of my sisters were troubled at my first speaking of going; but when I had related the Scriptures I had for my going, than they were silent for that time; and I told them, That if I had not a further call from God to the journey, I would not go; it being such an extraordinary journey, I would not go without an extraordinary call further from the Lord, sealing me up thereunto. And going down to Hillington near Uxbridge, by the way, as I road, I still was filled with apprehensions of my journey into Cornwall, the joy I should have by the way, and what benefit others would have through a poor creature. And when I came to my friend's house at Hillington, I lay all next day silent, but exceedingly filled with the presence of the Lord, who shown me a vision of my Cornwal-journey: I beheld high rocky-hills, and variety of places and towns, and how I should be as I road in the Coach, much melody I should have; this I saw, and heard this saying, That as sure as Paul in Act. 16.9. had a vision appeared in the night: There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed Paul, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us; & the Lord said, as truly do I thy Lord call thee to Cornwall by this vision: then I answered, and said, Paul was to preach there, what is that word to me? then reply was, But as sure as his was a vision from the Lord to go to Macedonia, so as sure had I a call and true vision to go to Cornwall: then singing triumph was given me concerning the journey thither, how filled I should be by the way: which was so. And then after I had thus sang and prayed, I road to see the Lords two Ambassadors which were imprisoned in Windsor-Castle for the testimony of Jesus, Mr. Simpson, and Mr. Feak, who were filled with the Spirit abundantly: and when I a while beheld their courage for King Jesus, I departed, with other friends, back to my friend's house at Hillington, and the next day road to a friends house six miles off, where I abode two nights. And as I was walking in the fields, I was suddenly very hoarse, and I could not well speak, but softly: and I was greatly tempted as I walked in the fields, that I should be hoarse while I lived, like as a woman of the Congregation was, with whom I walk; so should I be, not able to speak but hoarsly, And therefore go not thy journey, said Satan, for that extraordinary dispensation of prayer and singing shall not be with thee; then they will not regard thee whom thou goest with, for they look at that, and not at thee; and that departing from thee, thou wilt not be regarded by them; and being in a strange place, how sad then will it be with thee? and they are but strangers to thee; Acquaintance with them hath been but a little while: therefore don't go. Thus Satan and my fearful nature joined together to frustrate what I had spoken from the Lord concerning my going, being sealed up for the journey; & always after sealing unto any work of the Lord, Satan tempts me; but such is the goodness of the Lord to me, who lets not out Satan till he hath first established me; and then before I have the mercy, the sentence of death is put upon what is in order to the bringing it forth to view: so that the Lord thereby strengthens me the more, and makes me live by faith, which is the life of the just: it's a lovely life the life of faith. But further, as for Satan's temptations, they lasted but for half a day, and a little part of the night, and they were removed; for in the night in my sleep the Lord refreshed me with many Scriptures, as being my refuge, stay, and defence, and strong Tower, guide and succourer. And at break of day I awoke out of sleep, refreshed as one with new wine; and indeed I had that night such well-refined wine, as Scripture makes mention of. And hearing the birds cherup in the morning early, about my chamber-window; I had this saying given into my heart, Thou hearest those birds in their notes and motion, which pleaseth thy ear: And doth the great Creator take care of birds, still maintaining them with a supply of food suitable for them, that so they may live, and be lively in their service to man? And doth God take care of fowls, that not a sparrow shall fall to the ground without the Father's providence or ordering it to be so? then what care and provision doth he make for rational created pieces, which the whole Trinity was in the make thereof: as for other pieces, he said, Let it be, and it was so; but as to man's make, the whole Trinity gave their judgement. And, said the Lord to me, hath God honoured thee with this first honour, in making thee a rational piece, and also giving thee a share and interest in the death and resurrection of his Son, and hath made thee partaker of the divine nature, of that heavenly-born state, of that second creation in Christ, spoken of in Eph. 2.19. Art thou thus provided for, to be made a possessor of two creation-works, a first and a second? and also hast thou the Spirit of adoption whereby thou canst cry, Abba, Father? then having done thus much for thee, will he withhold any thing that's good for thee? he will not.  
And I felt my hoarseness removed from me presently, and all my temptations which I told you the day before did so seize upon my Spirits: and the Lord renewed my faith concerning my journey, and made me to rejoice over Satan. And I arose, and road that day to meet with some of the Lords servants, where a day of thanksgiving was kept, for many special favours received from the Lord, and for his upholding comforting presence in sufferings; and there I stayed till night: in which day I beheld much of divine presence and glory coming towards the Saints, and great ruin unto the enemies, which were presented to me like a tottering house, that stands shaking and ready to fall. And I had that saying, So doth and shall totter all the towers and Babel's builded and reared up in contempt to King Jesus, who will confound all such bvilders and their work, as the Apostle saith, They that build hay, or wood, or gold, or silver, or any thing of their own materials, it shall be burnt, 1 Cor. 3. this foundation will admit of nothing of man's corruptible stuff to be joined with it; for it is complete, and will complete his servants that build upon him. Then when this thanksgiving-day was ended, I road to my friend's house at Hillington, where I was filled with joy and singing most part of that night; and the next day I road to another friends, where I stayed; the next day, being the first day of the week, that day I went to hear a Minister which preached a mile off, in whose ministry the Spirit much warmed my heart, and refreshed my Spirits; and though I was ill in my outward man all that day, yet the matter I heard was so reviving, being spiritual, that at night thinking of it, and walking in a curious garden, where I saw the pleasant trees, and plants, and walks, and fishponds, and hearing the birds pleasant notes, all this begat such an harmonious apprehension of God in my heart, that I began to sing forth his praises, and continued while it was so late in the evening, that my friends that walked with me thought it convenient to lead me into the house; which they can best give an account of; for I minded not the time, nor those that were with me, neither can I tell whether I felt the ground I walked upon; my Spirits was so much in divine rapture, and my Spirits so heat with Spirit-fire, which produced singing-melody while midnight, the which singing speech was directed to the whole family, and those belonging to it at that time; which family consisted of many persons, grave, and judicious, and learned, understanding persons, before whom I thought myself unfit to speak, when I was in an ordinary capacity; but being filled extraordinarily, I wanted not words composed and orderly, and learning for the learned. Herein I don't boast, but in the rich free love of God, who gives to whom he pleaseth. Then after that singing, I was put to bed, being weak in body and head, between two friends, where I lay and prayed till the morning; and coming into my ordinary capacity, I risen and had strength of body: though I could not eat the day before, nor after this night thus speaking so much; yet I was not dry, neither could I take any creature-refreshing, though I had much offered me. This I mention, to advance Christ, and not for any by-end. Then my friends sent me in their Coach to London, where I prepared for my Cornwal-journey all that week.  
Coming to my habitation the second day of the week, that week I had much of the Lord's presence in marvellous joy, and yet many temptations between while; the tempter tempted me against my journey: and when I went up a pair of stairs, I was tempted that I should fall from the top to the bottom of the stairs and break my limbs, so that I should in such a way be hindered my journey; and I was often tempted that week before I went, that some evil should befall me, to hinder me from going to Cornwall; or some would hear of my going, that would stop it. And then Satan said, What will become of all thy faith, and the singing report concerning it? And sometimes I was thus hurried, yet I staggered not in my faith concerning the truth of what I had mentioned about my journey, that it should surely be as I had believed; and I waited for the accomplishment of it. And the sixth day of that week I took my leave of my Tower-friends, sitting up till the morning with them, all the night praying and praising with them with joy, more than an ordinary capacity could hold. And in the morning I went to bed, and lay some hours, and then risen, and abode there that day and night: and the next day, being the first day of this following week, I bid my Tower-friends farewel; and so departed from them, taking my leave also of other friends by the way as I went to Alhallows, where I met with the Congregation that I am in fellowship with, which use to break bread there. And I that day saw great shinings, and tasted much of my Saviour that day, who presenting his love liness in the ministry, and his sweetness in the supper of breaking bread, which filled my heart with joy unspeakable and glorious in believing. And then after the Ordinances were ended, I took my leave of many friends there, who gave me their exhortations with counsel and prayer for my well-doing; and I departed from them, begging their prayers for me when absent in the body: and half a score of my sisters kept that night in prayer with me at my friend's house from whence I was to take my journey the next day. And having thus spent the night in sweet communion with God, I was prepared for my journey: I wanted not sleep nor food-preparation, having had the cordial revivement liquors from my Lord Jesus, which strengthened me for my travelling to Cornwall. And I said to my friends, I pray be much in spiritual communion together, and done't forget to mention before the Lord your unworthy sister at a distance. Thus desiring their remembrance of me, they departed from me; and I and my friends for the journey, went by water from Southwark to White-Hall-stairs, where we landed, and went to the Inn where we took Coach; and many friends came to bid us farewell, & among them came one who said to some after I was gone, That if he had known me, and had known I was going into his country, he would have procured the Counsels Order to have stopped my journey, for the love he bore to his country; which sure he thought I would corrupt, and make like myself: which he thought to have hindered; but the Lord prevented his desire: for my Father would have me go there, and Satan nor men could not hinder me.  
So we road on our journey toward the West: and in the first day's journey, my thoughts were taken up with the work of the praying Saints, which met that day at Alhallows, it being the second day, which they use to keep for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Israel, praying and speaking for that concernment which is so glorious; and my thoughts were very seriously intent upon generation-work, praying with them at Alhallows in the Spirit, though I was absent from them in body: and meeting with a dear friend by the way, who told me he intended to go to Alhallow, meeting that day; I said, I pray remember what was earnestly desired of you, that you would assist the Church in the wilderness, and be helpful in the second day's meeting, keeping close to the work of the present day: and I desired his prayer for me in my absence; more words passed between us as he road by the Coach-side a little way: then he bid farewel, and departed; and my joy was increased at the sight of that precious servant of Christ, whose words left a fragransie upon my Spirits some part of the day; and the enjoyment of prayer in the Spirit with them at Alhallows, took up the other part of the day; only speaking a little sometimes to my friends, with whom I went. At night we came to our Inn, where I had much refresh in a little meditation of God's goodness to me that day: and after prayer I went to my bed, and was refreshed with sights of the Lord in my sleep; and risen in the morning, taking another day's journey: and in much discourse we spent that second day's journey. And I road the next day with the same persons as I did the day before, and my Spirit then was all that day in a praying and singing frame, and so it remained till night; and then we came to Salisbury, where we parted with the Judge that road in the Coach with us; for there the Judges met in their Circuit: and there I was mightily filled with apprehensions of Christ's Circuit he was taking in the earth, and of that blessed time that the Saints should judge the earth, when in that time the earth should not pass their false judgements on the Saints: and most part of that night I was thus: and they that were with me, saw and felt on my outward man, which was like a dead clod, I was so cold a great while. And the fourth day's journey I sang & prayed almost the whole day: and so I did the fifth day's journey, singing much of the creation-excellencies, as trees, grass, and several plants, and corn that grew as I went by. And though I road through towns, I minded not any speakings of creatures; for indeed I was not capable of outward say or do, nor of the rattling of the Coach those two days. And the last day of that week we came to Exeter; which day I was very cheerful in the Lord, though not so very much as the days before: there we inned at an old disciples house, a widow, one Mrs. Winter's, a house that many years had entertained and lodged Saints, which in their travelling still took up their quarters there: and I lay there three nights: and the day after, being the first day of another week, I went to hear the Word preached at the Castle in Exeter, where I kept this first day with the Church that met there; and there I saw my London-friends, that a while had dwelled in the Castle: and I continued till late in the evening with them, relating the goodness of the Lord to me by the way of my journey, and acquainting them with the welfare of London-friends; and how joyfully the prisoners at Windsor-Castle took their sufferings, it being upon so noble an account. And these friends wondered much at my taking so long a journey, and said, Sure some extraordinary thing was to be made manifest in my going so far; and therefore they would hearken after it, and observe the Lords work in it: for they thought there was something more than ordinary to be brought forth, in that I was carried so far a journey, and having so little acquaintance with them I went with: which made them admire what the Lord would do with me; and so did many: and myself also thought and was persuaded, That the Lord would show some special favours to me, and so he did; I largely thereof enjoyed before my return back again: and I took leave of those friends that night, and came to my lodging at Mrs. winter's. The next day the Lord greatly ravished my soul with his smiling looks on me, and he filled me that day with prayer, and singing, and discovering the tottering, shaking condition of Clergie-Function. And likewise praying for many particular friends at London; and specially for them at Alhallows-meeting, and for those friends at the Castle forementioned, speaking to every one of their conditions; and likewise begging sinners to come to Christ. And I spoke to variety of conditions that day, wherein many souls were refreshed. And I lay all that night in a rapture of great joy, and had sights of my further journey, how God would carry me safe, and with much pleasantness to my journey's end; the which we went towards in the morning, it being the third day of the week; in which day we parted with Colonel Bennet, and his Daughter, and Servants; and his Wife bore me company, with Captain Langdon, and his Wife, and their Servants; this was our company that went from Exeter together, and lodged by the way that night: which days journey was very sweet to us; and we had much of the Lord's preservation with us. Then the next day, which was the fourth day, we came to Colonel Bennets house, where we lodged that night; and my heart was very cheerfully carried on in reading over every day's mercy, when I came to my lodging. And the next day after dinner, we took our leave there, and parted with Colonel Bennets Wife at her house, who shown me much love, and told me, She would send for me to her house again, after a little time expired. Col. Bennet, by the way as we journeyed, being taken much with my experiences, said, They were not to be hid, but they were to be manifested for the benefit of others; & said, He would have me ride to some of his friends houses: for that dispensation of the Lord on me, was not to be concealed. And indeed he manifested much kindness to me as we journeyed in company together, and charged his daughter to be very tenderly careful of me; for that I was not in a capacity to mind my outward man. This his kindness lasted to Exeter.  
But now to come again to my journeying from his house in Cornwall, which I told you we departed from after dinner, and came to Captain Langdons' sister, where we lodged, and were lovingly entertained the fifth day; and there I had much love from God, and from strangers, and a very refreshing lodging, and the creatures were very sweet to my taste there. As for the six days before we came to Exeter, I eat very little: but we went from thence, the sixth day: after breakfast, we took our leave of those Relations of Captain Langdons. And the sixth day at night, we came to Mrs. Langdons' brother's house, where we received a courteous entertainment, and a refreshing lodge; and my heart there was taken up much with the apprehension of the vanity of outward enjoyments, and great attendances, and brave houses: and my thoughts were much upon the Rocks I passed by in my journey, & the dangerous rocky places I road over. And whereas I used to be very fearful, when I road on smooth ground, now I feared not, but was very cheerfully carried on, beholding my Rock, Christ, through those emblems of Rocks: and I sat as in a chair upon the high steep hills, without any wearisomeness at all; and the thoughts of the Lords kindness to me in these things, drunk up my thoughts that night: and the next day we came safe to our journey's end, at Tregasow, at Captain Langdons' habitation, and there we ended our journey the last day of the week, which had been accomplishing thirteen days. And the Lord much appeared to all of us the whole journey; praised he his Name, whose Name was to us indeed a strong Tower. The Lord was our munition of Rocks, and large provision every way to souls and bodies. And thus I have given an account as briefly as I could of my journey-progress, and blessed fare by the way, and of the extraordinary and ordinary break forth of the light of his countenance and communications, all along those thirteen days now expired.  

Here follows a Relation, in the next place, of several passages and actings by creatures, in a way of love and hatred, some frowning, few smiling; many rejecting, few receiving: manifested from the first day, to the last day of my abode there in Cornwall, in the West. Also, of my imprisonment in Bridewell, and my enlargement therefrom.  
I Shall now begin the Relation of my first coming to Captain Langdons' house, where there came many of Captain Langdons' acquaintance, to see them at their first coming home; and most of them gave me but a sour greeting, they having been informed before concerning my Spirit, as it was reported to me afterwards; but they frowningly and dissemblingly saluted me, though their hearts were against me, as many of them made it to appear largely afterwards; and some became loving friends among them, that loved me not when I first came; but I seeing these unlovely carriages from the most part of them that came there that evening and afternoon, it made me very thoughtful what it would produce. I sat down in the room a while, where I heard many discourses from them to one another, and with Captain Langdon; and I not relishing the discourse, had a mind to walk in the Garden by myself, and so I did a while; wherein the Lord gave me much of his loving-welcome, and kind salutations, saying, Though thou seest many frown on thee, it shall not make thee sad; for thy Saviour will smile on thy soul in all conditions: and that saying made my heart revive presently; and then the Lord gave me that Scripture-saying, This he requires of thee, To deal justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God, Micah 6.8. than I said, Lord, what am I to do here? The Lord said, I require this, that thou holdest out a just, upright walk with God before all people; and in these parts thou shalt manifest the free justification received of the Father by the Spirit through Christ to poor souls; telling them thy experiences there: and thou shalt declare the mercy of thy God, and thy love to it, by showing thy experiences thereof, which thou hast had in divers manners discovered to thee. Here are some tempted souls, said the Lord, that must be comforted through thy temptations; the mercy thou foundst therein, tell them: love mercy in every kind of it. This saying I had also from the last words of the verse, Walk humbly with thy God: these things he requires of the just, doing and walking, mercy, loving, and a humble deportment in all thou dost: than I said, Lord, make me humble: said the Lord, I will make thee humble through sufferings; the Lord thy God begun it in thee, when he manifested thy salvation to thee, to be freely given thee, making thee see thyself, the worst of sinners; and he humbled thee more in Satan's prison, and he hath brought thee here to humble thee more; for he will teach thee much of his secrets.  
Then my heart was melted as I was thus under divine speakings in the Garden, and I said, Lord, if thou wilt make me a partaker of more of that lovely clothing of humility; then, then, Lord, I will not matter what I suffer here in this world below: then the Lord said, Thou must suffer many ways: then I said, Lord, balance me with thy word: the Lord said, What word wouldst thou have? I said, What thou pleasest: then the Lord said, Thou shalt have the same word as I gave to my servant Abraham; I told him when he went he knew not whither, that I would be his shield and exceeding great reward, Gen. 15.1. And as I was, said the Lord, to the father of the faithful, so I will be to the children, they having the same faith, as faithful Abraham had, I will give such the same promises: then I said, Lord, I fall short of his faith. said the Lord, I look not on the quantity so much as at the quality; I looking at the truth of it, it bearing the same stamp with that of Abraham's, which was the stamp of divine power and Spirit: therefore take the same promise: thou art come into a strange country, among many that don't affect thee, and thou art like to suffer by them; but fear not, I thy God have not only given thee faith, as ashield; but I am thy shield and exceeding great reward; I am a double shield to thee, said the Lord, so I was to Abraham, a shield within a shield: therefore fear not any enemy; but look unto thy shield and buckler, and defence, for so Jehovah is to thee. And the Lord brought to me those Scriptures that he gave me when he made me willing to go the journey, as that saying, He would go with me, and that bis Spirit and presence should accompany me, and that he would uphold me with the right hand of his righteousness: which Scriptures were much enlarged on my Spirits, as I thus walked alone in the Garden: and I had such sweetness from the Lord through the Scriptures, that it made my heart much affected with my journey, and my Spirit leapt within me, and rejoiced that I was come into a country where I should suffer for the testimony of Jesus; and I had at that time such cordials from the Lord, that I could have walked many hours in that Garden; but Captain Langdons' man came, and desired me to walk into the room where his Master's acquaintance were; For it may be they would not take it well, he said, if I did not come and sit in the room with them. I was very unwilling; for my communion in the Garden was so delightful to me; yet through much entreaty by him, I went. I told him, I could the better bear their sour countenances, and girding expressions, now I had drunk of divine cordials, than I could before, when I first saw them, at my coming into the house.  
So I went into the room among them, that did not care for my company, and I heard many expressions concerning visions. I perceived what and who they aimed at; I sat silent among them; there was Major Bawden and his Wife, they were strangers then to me; but they spoke very friend-like to me; and it was not in Tongue, but in Heart, as afterward appeared: and there was Mr. Vinson and his Wife, my very loving friends they declared themselves to be: Mrs. Vinson came to me then, and said, Pray come to my house; for I entertain you upon a Scripturea count, which adviseth to be kind to strangers; and what gain they had in old time, that in entertaining strangers, they entertained Angels unawares. Thus she instanced the Scripture, which made her to speak to me, a poor, undeserving creature to be thus taken notice of; and indeed, I felt humility in my heart springing up much, when she thus spoke: I looked on myself unworthy of such a word, or loving expression to me; but my Father caused that friend, though a stranger, to show me kindness.  
Again, further, This evening being spent, I went to my lodging, where the Lord smiled on me, and made it a lovely night, and I was no whit weary after so long a journey; but had refreshing rest; and in the morning Mrs. Langdon came to see me; but I had no mind to rise out of my bed: and that day the Lord filled me with much joy and singing; and I was in the Spirit with my friends at London, who broke bread that day; and I was filled with apprehensions of Christ, the eternal Sabbath, and the glorious Rest, and the first-day-Resurrection, how glorious all this was, meeting in Christ the Saviour and Deliverer from all bondage and inthralment: and my heart was much with my friends in that Ordinance of breaking bread; I partook of that sweet supper with them in the Spirit. And thus I spent that first day that I came to Tregasow, which was the first day of the first week that I took up my abiding there; much of Christ's Death and Resurrection was lively presented to me, and I sang forth his praises. And the second day my heart was heat also with the flame of love, which many waters cannot quench, as the spouse saith in the Canticles, so I felt it; for all that day I had the Spirits flame, as I had the day before, it being their meeting day; those particulars they first thought upon in their beginning that meeting, which were the uniting of Saints in that bond of love, as those were in formerly, in the primitive times, and that they might be of one heart and one mind; and that knowledge might cover the earth, as water the sea: and that Jew and Gentile-fulness might be brought in, and the Kingdom restored to this old Israel, which was the first married Wife, as it's recorded in Scripture. And that Judges and Rulers might be as at the beginning, as Moses, and Joshua, and as Samuel, and Gideon, and other faithful ones, as is made mention of in Scripture. And I besought the Lord for these things, and for the reign of Christ, in, and by which, these things should be brought forth: and for this, every one, professing the Lord, aught to pray. And thus I spent the second day: and it was very sweet to me, and fitted me for what I was to suffer in those parts. And after that second day, my heart was carried on very cheerfully in the apprehensions of the Lords presence still with me, and I had a great deal of tenderness from my friends I went down with, who were as a tender Father and Mother to me at all times; and in suffering, their tenderness and care of me exceeded, it abounded as my sufferings abounded: and many that were at the first strange in their carriages to me, after I had been there a while, they were very loving to me; and I had great kindness from the whole family, where I abode, till the wills of men fetched me away with their Soldiers.  
Further, I shall give people to know, that after I had been a week and a few days there, I was desired to go to Truro to hear the Lecture that was kept there every third day; so I did: and that morming before we went, there came a Letter, which after we had prayed, was read; wherein a Gentleman at Truro, invited Captain Langdon, and his Wife, and myself to his house; the which invitation, we looked upon as answer of prayer, it coming so suitable to those requests put up to the Lord that morning. And we went to Truro, and heard the Sermon; and that day, there preached one Mr. Allen, a young man, who spoke of many things from the I verse of the 8 of the Romans. And when the Sermon was ended, we went home with Mrs. Hill to dinner, her husband having invited us by writing, the which I mentioned. And after dinner, there came many to see me, some out of goodwill, and love to what they had heard was of God in me, and others came to gaze, and others to catch at my words, so as to reproach me; but the Lord taught me how to speak before them all: as in the presence of the great God I spoke, who is my Father, who always shown me kindness, and did then before those several sorts of people. I seeing many come into the room, and Mr. Powel a Teacher in those parts, came in with his Wife, and another woman, so that being there, I thought to be silent; but some desiring to have me speak, I said, I was loath to speak before that critical-pated man, who would take my words and put his own sense upon them, and so ensnare me; and it proved according as I said: but when I had sat a while, and saw so great a room full of people, who desired I should give an account for their edification and satisfactions, what God had done for my soul: there having gone such a rumour abroad concerning me, some saying one thing, and some another, it was therefore thought convenient to speak something among that great company of people that was come to my friend's house; and the Lord bringing that word also, which is recorded by the Apostle, 1 Pet. 3.15. which is, to be ready to give an account at all times, when required, of the hope that is in me. And I being desired to speak, I thought it my duty, though at the first I refused; and when I began to speak, I said to Captain Langdon, who was then discoursing with that Mr. Power I mentioned, I said, I remember a word from Mr. Bridges of Yarmouth, which was, That we must still either be doing or receiving good: And, said I, here is neither of these among us; and I repeated a word I told them Mr. Greenhil once said to one whom he desired, with many of that Congregation then present, who desired experiences to be imparted to them, using that word of David's, who said, Come you that fear God, and I will tell you what God hath done for my soul: and then I took up Paul's speech he used before Agrippa, having been falsely accused by many, he declares the manner of his life from his youth, Acts 26. And so to others he said, How he had walked in all good conscience before the Lord unto that day he then spoke it, Acts 23. I used these words of the Apostle, and said, This was his practice, when false rumours had gone concerning him; and being that people had reported many things which were very contrary concerning me, I thought it requisite to acquaint them there present with the Lords deal concerning me from my Childhood.  
And I told them, the first conviction I had at nine years old; and how I remained under a formal work; and then how I was brought into a despairing condition, and was so a while: and then I told them, the Work of Freegrace on me, and the Testimony of the Spirit, bearing witness to my Spirit, that I was in union with the Father, Son and Spirit: and I told them of my desertions and temptations, and of Satan's many cunning wiles, and of freedom many times therefrom: and I related my fit of sickness which was cured in believing, that I had eight years ago; and I related the time and manner of my coming into Church order: and likewise I told them the first bringing of my Spirit into this extraordinary praying and singing, and visions, was six weeks before Dunbar-fight in Scotland, which was a beginning three years before, but did not so much appear to the view of others: and I told them how I prayed against this public-spiritedness; and how the Lord silenced me, from those words in 1 Cor. 1.27, 28. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things that are wights and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen; yea, and things that are not, to bring to nought things that are. I could be contented to be made use of under these terms, as a fool, and base, and despised, and as a thing that is not. The Lord knows, I then stooped to his will to do with me as he pleased, when he set home this Scripture to my soul. And this I told them, and a great deal more largely then; I will relate, for brevity's sake. I gave a Relation of my horrible fit I was in a year ago, and Sarans tyranny over me in that time, and the great freedom the Lord afforded me after that storm, and the pourings out of the Spirit that hath been on my heart ever since. I declared visions I had seven years ago, concerning four sons of horns presented to me, which related to four several changes of Powers one more fierce and sharper still than the other, and the little Horns worst of all, more in its pushings then the former. I spoke of so many things, and so largely, that it took up the afternoon for the most part; so that before I spoke much of my going to White-Hall, and praying and singing there, I broke forth into singing, my heart being so thoroughly heated with discoursing of God, goodness so many hours. And I sang and prayed a great part of that night; and when I gave over, my friends carried me in a chair into my chamber, and put me into bed, where I lay the remaining part of the night: and the next day sang and prayed many hours: and many souls were much taken in that speaking, concerning the preciousness of Christ to them that believe, 1 Pet. 2.7. from this Scripture, and many others, relating to Saints, and to sinners not changed & brought in to Christ: which day was so glorious to me, that Satan stirred up many against me afterwards, because many were convinced, that were prejudiced before by their teachers; and some carnal ones were judiced before by their teachers; and some carnal ones were awed, convincing Scriptures came with such authority; as that, Behold, ye despisers, wonder, and perish: and that word in Isa. 28.22. Be ye not mockers, left your bands be made strong. Many other Scriptures were spoken upon largely that day to sinners: and some said afterwards, Which of all our Ministers can hold out thus many hours without a cordial?  
Now when their Ministers thought they should lose their fleece, they began to stir, like that maids masters spoken of in Acts 16.19. When her masters saw what was done, they caught Paul and Sitas, and drew them into the marker-place into the Rulers: this was for the gift of healing, and calling out that unclean Spirit. All people observe how they loved sooth-saying in those times; and I would they did not in these days of more light. But I pray mind the Relation, That after that day wherein I was thus carried forth to speak for Christ's interest, the Clergy, with all their might, rung their jangling bells against me, and called to the Rulers to take me up: that I heard was the speech of Mr. Welsted: and others said, The people would be drawn away, if the Rulers did not take some course with me. They were extremely afraid of losing Diana's repute. And after these two days spent at Truro, I returned to my place of abode at Tregasow; but the Clergy gate information in many places of the Country, what an impostor, and a dangerous deceiver was come into Cornwall, that the people wondered what strange kind of creature was come into their Country; and thus they spit forth venom against me; but it did me no hurt, because my Father made it work for good: my joy was not lessened, but increased. And after a little while I was invited again to Truro, and I went to visit Mrs. Hill, her husband being gone to London, she prayed me to carry and bear her company. And after that I had sat down a while, word was brought me, that there were two Warrants out for to take me, either at Captain Langdons, or at Major Bawdens: as for Major Bawdens, I was but once at his house; for I kept at my friend's house I went down with, though the report was, I went from place to place, aspersing the Government; I did not the one nor the other: I was but twice at Truro. I have told all the places I went to, while I remained at Tregasow. This report of theirs is as false as the rest.  
But I will come to tell you how they acted against me: after I heard Warrants were out for me, I looked when they would come in to the house where I was, to take me. And many people came to see me. And one Haulbow a Minister, with whom I had some converse, and he said, I had fully satisfied him in his request. And for his part, he said, what he asked me, it was not so much for his own satisfaction, as for others, whom he could now satisfy: and he invited me to his house, and said, I should be welcome: and he told me, He would satisfy those that had spoken against me, which were set on by false reports. And all these words, and many other more, amounted to just nothing; it was but Clergie-puff, which soon was gone like a puff of wind that is almost at an end, as soon as it riseth, and so was his fair speech to me: for I understand, since he hath reproached me and other friends that are of more worth than I, and yet this man spoke me so fair: but so much shall suffice as to him. I come again to tell you, that this day wherein I expected the Warrant for me, it came not: I that day found my timorous, fearful nature work against me, what I should do and say before the Magistrate, having never been before any in that kind, to be accused by them; but the Lord seeing me not prepared to go before them, nor strong enough, he would take me first into the Mount, and give me the preparations of the Sanctuary; and so he did before I was called before them. That night following this day that I have been speaking of, there came about a dozen men and women to see me, and one Mr. Paul a minister, who had road ten miles to that Town to understand aright concerning me, for that he had heard so many reports; and he desired to be satisfied from my own mouth: so I related the Lords dealing with me, and what he had freely given me, for my own particular, and for others benefit: and when I had done speaking, I told him how I was like to suffer through false rumouts raised against me; & I desired him to pray with me: but he said, He would join with me, if I would pray: I said, I rather would hear him pray, and have a cast of the cluster he had received of the Vine, Christ: so he prayed very sweetly and spiritually: and when he had ended, it was about twelve a clock at night: and afterwards I spoke a little by way of discourse, and was a little silent.  
Then the Lord made his Rivers flow, which soon broke down the Banks of an ordinary capacity, and extraordinarily mounted my Spirits into a praying and singing frame, and so they remained till morning-light, as I was told, for I was not capable of that: but when I had done, and was a while silent, I came to speak weakly to those about me, saying, I must go to bed, for I am very weak; and the men and women went away; and my friend that tended me, and some other maids, helped me to bed, where I lay till the afternoon, they said, silent. And that time I had a vision of the Ministers wife stirring against me; and she was presented to me, as one enviously bend against me, calling that falsity which she understood not. And I saw the Glergie-man and the Jurors contriving an Indictment against me: and I saw myself stand before them: in a vision I saw this. And I sang with much courage, and told them, I feared not them nor their do, for that I had not deserved such usage.  
But while I was singing praises to the Lord for his love to me, the Justices sent their Constable to fetch me; who came, and said, He must have me with him: and he pulled, and called me, they said that were by, but I was not capable thereof: they said, He was greatly troubled how to have me to his Master: they told him, He had better obey God then man: And his hand shaken, they said, while he was pulling me. Then some went to the Justices, to tell them, I could not come. But they would not be pacified: some offered to be bound for my appearance next day, if I were in a capacity; but this was refused, they would have me out of my bed, unless some would take their Oaths, that it would in danger my life to be taken out of my bed: which none could do, without they had loved to take false Oaths, like some others in those parts. Then a friend persuaded them to see whether they could put me out of that condition, and told them I was never known to be put out of it; so they came. Justice Lance, now a Parliament-man, was one of them, I was told. These Justices that came to ferch me out of my bed, they made a great rumult, them and their followers, in the house, and some came up stairs, crying, A witch, a witch; making a great stir on the stairs; and a poor honest man rebuking such that said so, he was tumbled down stairs and beaten too, by one of the Justice's followers: and the Justices made a great noise, in putting out of my chamber where I lay, many of my friends; and they said, If my friends would not take me up, they would have some should take me up: one of my friends told them, That they must fetch their silk gowns to do it them, for the poor would not do it. And they threatened much, but the Lord overruled them: they caused my eyelids to be pulled up, for the said, I held them fast, because I would deceive the people: they spoke to this purpose. One of the Justices pinched me by the nose, and caused my pillow to be pulled from under my head, and kept pulling me, and calling me; but I heard none of all this stir and bustle; neither did I hear Mr. Welsted, which I was told called to the Rulers, saying, A whip will fetch her up: and he stood at the Chamber door talking against me, and said, She speaks nonsense: the women said, Harken, for you cannot hear, there is such a noise: then he listened, and said, Now she hears me speak, she speaks sense. And this Clergyman durst not come, till the Rulers came, for than they say, The witches can have no power over them: so that one depends upon another, Rulers upon Clergy, and Clergy upon Rulers.  
And again, After they had made all the fury appear that the Lord permitted them to vent against me, they then went away, saying, She will fall in a trance, when we shall at any time call for her. The Lord kept me this day from their cruelty, which they had a good mind further to have let out against me, & that witch tryer-woman of that Town, some would fain have had come with her great pin which she used to thrust into witches, to try them: but the Lord my God in whom I trust, delivered me from their malice, making good that word to me in the Psalms, The rage of man shall turn to thy praise, and the remnant of rages thou wilt restrain. Then further, to tell you how the Lord carried me in singing & prayer after they were gone two hours, as I was told, and then I came to myself; and being all alone, I blessed God for that quiet still day that I had. And the Gentlewoman of the house coming into the chamber, I said, Have I lain alone all this day? I have had a sweet day: she replied, and said, Did not I hear the Justices there, and the uproar that was in my chamber? I said, No. Then she told me, how they dealt by her house, bringing in their followers, and what a noise they made. Then another friend asked me, Whether I did not hear that stir? I said, No. They wondered, and so did I, when I heard the Relation, which is much more than I will write; for I don't take delight to stir in such puddles, it's no pleasant work to me; but that truth engageth me to let the world know, what men have acted against the pourings out of the Spirit in a dispensation beyond their understanding; they harkened not to Scripture-advice, which would not have any judge that they know not.  
After that day's tumult, at night, many came to catch at my words; and it was very probable, that the Rulers sent some to watch for what could be had further against me: and there were two women, that they had got their names, who had promised them to swear against me; and of this I shall further speak when I come to it: but now I am telling of what past that night mentioned: many people spoke much to me, ask me questions, the which the Lord helped me to answer. And my friends kept most part of that night in prayer on my behalf. And many watched what they said in prayer, for there were listeners under the window, which fain would have had something to have informed against them. There was great endeavouring to have found a Bill of Indictment against Captain Langdon, but they could not; they could not vent their spleen, though they to the utmost desired it, the Lord would not let them have their evil desires herein; for though they in this, would have brought him into contempt, yet they endeavoured this that so I might want a surety, and then they had had what they desired, which was, to have cast me into the Goal. But to leave that, and to tell you, that I had the presence of the Lord with me that night abundantly, and my sleep was sweeter than at other times; my sister Langdon lay with me that night, and in the murning she told me, That she could not sleep all night, for thinking of my going to the Sessions that day: she told me, She wandered I could sleep so sound all night: I told her, I never had a sweater night in my lise, and as for my going before the Rulers, I was not what afraid or thoughtful; for I had cast my care upon the Lord, which I was persuaded would speak for me: therefore I was not troubled nor afraid; for the Lord said to me, Fear not, be not dismayed, I am thy God, and will stand by thee.  
Then I cose up, and prepared to go before them at Sessions-house; and walking out in the garden before I went, I was thinking what I should say before the Justices; but I was taken off from my own thoughts quickly, through the word, Take no heed what thou shalt say; being brought before them for the Lord Christ's sake, he will give thee words: dost thou know what they will ask thee? therefore look to the Lord, who will give thee answers suitable to what shall be required of thee. So I was resolved to cast myself upon the Lord, and his teaching: and though I had heard now the form of Bills run, and of that word Not guilty, according to the form of the Bill; yet I said, I shall not remember to say thus, if the Lord do ned bid me say so; and if he bids me, I will say it. And this I thought, I would be nothing, the Lord should have all the praise, it being his due. So I went, the Officer coming for me; and as I went along the street, I had followed me a andante of all manner of people, men and women, boys and girls, which crowded after me; and some pulled me by the arms, and stated me in the face, making wry-faces at me, & saying, How do you now? how is it with you now? and thus they mocked and derided at me, as I went to the Sessions; but I was never in such a blessed selfdenying lamb like frame of Spirit in my life, as then; I had such lovely apprehensions of Christ's sufferings, and of that Scripture which saith, He went as a sheep, dumb before the sheerers, he opened not his mouth; and when reviled, he reviled not again. The Lord kept me also, so that I went silent to the Sessions-house, which was much througed with people: some said, The Sessions-house was never so filled since it was a Sessions-house; so that I was a gazingstock for all sorts of people: but I praise the Lord, this did not daunt me, nor a great deal more, that I suffered that day; for the eternal grace of Jehovah surrounded me, and kept me from harm, so way was made for me to draw near, which stood lower than the Justices; and round the Table sat the Lawyers and others that attended them, and I with my friends that went with me, stood by the Lawyers, and the Justices leaned over a rail, which railed them in together, only I espied a Clergyman at their elbow, who helped to make up their Indictment, so that he could not be absent, though his Pulpit wanted him, it being a Fastday, set apart by Authority, which he broke without any scruple, that so he might keep close to the work of accusation; but though he and the witch-trying-woman looked steadfastly in my face, it did no way dismay me, not the grim fierce locks of the Justice did not daunt me; for as soon as I beheld them, I remembered a dear friend to Christ, who smiled in the face of a great man, that looked fiercely on him, and sat as a Judge to condemn him for the testimony of Jesus; but this servant of the Lord looked cheerfully all the time of his accusations charged upon him; so I thinking upon that posture of his before those that acted against him, I begged the same cheerfulness, and I had the same courage to look my Accusers in the face: which was no carnal boldness, though they called it so.  
And when I came before them, Lob being the Mourn of the Court, as he was foreman of the jury, he represented the whole Court, and he first demanded my name, and I told him; and he said, Anna Trapnel, Here is a Bill of Indictment to be read, for you to give in your answer concerning: then Justice Lob said, Read the Bill: so it was read to me: and Lob said, Are you guilty, or not? I had no word to say at the present; but the Lord said to me, Say Not guilty, according to the form of the Bill; so I spoke it as from the Lord, who knew I was not guilty of such an Indictment: then said Lob, Traverse the Bill to the next Assizes; so that was done: then Lob said, I must enter into bond for my appearance at the next Assizes: unto which I agreed: then they demanded Sureties: so I desired Captain Langdon and Major Bawden to be my Sureties, unto which they were willing: so there were two Recognizances drawn, one for my appearance, and the other bound me to the good behaviour; and I was entered into both the Recognizances 300 l. and my Sureties as much, to both the Recognizances. And this being done, they whispered a while: and I thought they had done with me at that time; so they had, if they had gone according to true Law, which was, not to have brought their Interrogatories then; but the report was, That I would discover myself to be a witch when I came before the Justices, by having never a word to answer for myself; for it used to be so among the witches, they could not speak before the Magistrates, and so they said, it would be with me; but the Lord quickly defeated them herein, and caused many to be of another mind. Then Lob said, Tender her the book which was written from something said at White-Hall: so the book was reached out to me: and Justice Lob said, What say you to that book? will you own it? is it yours?  
A. T. I am not careful to answer you in that matter.  
Then they said, She denies her book. Then they whispered with those behind them. Then spoke Justice Lob again, and said, Read a vision of the horns out of the book: so that was read: then Justice Lob said, What say you to this? is this yours?  
A. T. I am not careful to answer you in that matter, touching the whole book, as I told you before, so I say again: for what was spoken, was at White-Hall, at a place of concourse of people, and near a Counsel, I suppose wise enough to call me into question if I offended, and unto them I appeal; but though it was said, I appealed unto Caesar, and unto Caesar should I go; yet I have not been brought before him which is called Caesar: so much by the by. Again, I said, I supposed they had not power to question me for that which was spoke in another county: they said, Yea, that they had. Then the book was put by; and they again whispered.  
Then Justice Lob asked me about my coming into that Country, How it came to pass, that I came into that Country.  
I answered, I came as others dad, that were minded to go into the Country.  
Lob. But why did you come into this Country?  
A. T. Why might not I come here, as well as into another Country?  
Lob. But you have no lands, nor live, nor acquaintance to come to in this Country.  
A. T. What though? I had not I am a single person, and why may I not be with my friends anywhere?  
Lob. I understand you are not married.  
A. T. Then having no hindrance, why may not I go where I please, if the Lord so will?  
Then spoke Justice Launse. But did not some desire you to come down? And this Lob asked me too: but I told them, I would accuse none, I was there to answer, as to what they should charge my own particular with.  
Launse said, Pray Mistress tell us, what moved you to come such a journey?  
A.T. The Lord gave me leave to come, ask of him leave, whitherever I went: I used still to pray for his direction in all I do: and so I suppose aught you, I said.  
Justice Launse. But pray tell us, what moved you to come such a journey?  
A. T. The Lord moved me, and gave me leave.  
Launse. But had you not some of extraordinary impulses Spirit, that brought you down? pray tell us what those were.  
A. T. When you are capable extraordinary of impulse of Spirit, I will tell you; but I suppose you are not in a capacity now: for I saw how deridingly he spoke: and for answering him thus, he said, I was one of a bold Spirit; but he soon took me down; so himself said: but some said, It took them down: for the Lord carried me so to speak, that they were in a hurry and confusion, and sometimes would speak all together, that I was going to say, What are you like women, all speakers, and no hearers? but I said thus, What do you speak all at a time? I cannot answer all, when speaking at once; I appeal to the civilest of you, and I directed my speech to Justice Lob, who spoke very moderately, and gave me a civil answer, saying, You are not acquainied with the manner of the Court, which is to give in their say. A.T. But I cannot answer all at once; indeed I do not know the manner of the Court, for I never was before any till now. Justice Lob. You prophesy against Truro. A.T. Indeed I pray against the sins of the people of Truto, and for their souls welfare; are you angry for that? Lob. But you must not judge Authority; but pray for them, and not speak so suspiciously of them: and more to this purpose he spoke to me. A.T. I will take up your word, in which you said, I was not to judge: you said well; for so saith the Scripture, Who art thou that judgest another's man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth; yea, he shall be holden up, for God is able to make him stand: but you have judged me, and never heard me speak: you have not dealt so well by me as Agrippa dealt by Paul: though Agrippa was an Heathen, he would have Paul speak before he gave in his judgement concerning him. Justice Tregegle. Oh you are a dreamer! A.T. So they called Joseph, therefore I wonder not that you call me so. Justice silly said, You knew we were with you yesterday. A.T. I did not. Justice silly. He which is the Major said, you will not say so. A.T. I will speak it, being its truth. He said, Call the women, that will witness they heard you say, You knew we were with you; and he pulled out a writing, and named their names, calling to some to fetch them. A.T. You may suborn false witnesses against me, for they did so against Christ: and I said, Produce your witnesses. Justice Sely. We shall have them for you at next Assizes.  
They put it off long enough, because one was fallen in a sound before the got out of the house were she dwelled; and the other was come into the Sessions-house: and Mrs. Grose a gentlewoman of the town standing by her that was their false witness, said, Wilt thou take an oath thus? take heed what thou dost, it's a dangerous thing to take a false oath; and she ran out of the Sessions-house: this was credibly reported. And here ended their witnesses that they had procured against me as to that. There was a soldier that smiled to hear how the Lord carried me along in my speech: and Justice silly called to the Jailor to take him away, saying, He laughed at the Court. He thought him to be one of my friends: and for his cheerful looking, the Jailor had like to have had him: then I said, Scripture speaks of such who make a man an offender for a word; but you make a man an offender for a look. They greatly bussled, as if they would have taken him away; but this was quickly squashed, their heat as to this lasted not long. In the mean time the other Selimus was talking to Major Bawden, wondering such a man as he, who had been so well reputed for a judicious, sober, understanding man, should hearken to me: many words were used to him to that purpose: I said, Why might not he and others, try all things, and hold fast that which is best. But they still cast grim looks on me: and they had a saying to Major Bawden, and to Captain Langdon then, whom they derided in a Letter sent from Truro by some of their learned Court, which wrote, that Captain Langdon and Major Bawden stood up, and made a learned defence. They had indeed such learning from the Spirit of wisdom and of a sound mind, which the Jurors and their companions were not able to contend against, their speech and whole deportment was so humble and self denying, and so seasoned with the salt of grace, which their flashy unsavoury spirits could not endure; those that are raised from the dunghill, and set on thrones, cannot sit there without vaunting, and showing their fool's coat of many colours, as envy, and pride, and vain glory; these and other colours they show, which delights not King Jesus nor his followers. Justice Lob told me, I made a disturbance in the town: I asked, Wherein? he said, By drawing so many people after me: I said, How did I draw them? he said, I set open my Chamber-doors and my windows for people to hear. A.T. That's a very unlikely thing, that I should do so; for I prayed the maid to lock my chamber-door when I went to bed, and I did not rise in the night sure to open it: I said, Why may not I pray with many people in the room, as well as your professing women that prays before men and women, she knowing them to be there; but I know not that there is any body in the room when I pray: and if you indite one for praying, why not another? why are you so partial in your do? Justice Lob. But you don't pray so as others. A.T. I pray in my chamber. Justice Travel. Your chamber! A. T. Yea, that it's my chamber while I am there, through the pleasure of my friends. They used more words to me, sometimes slighting and mockingly they spoke, and sometimes seeming to advise me to take heed how I spoke and prayed so again. Many such kind of words Justice travel used, and Justice Lob. And one thing I omitted in telling you, when I told you how I answered Justice Launse; I should have told you how I said to him, If he would know what the ordinary impulse of Spirit was, that I had to bring me into that country, I would tell him; so I related the Scriptures, as that in the Psalms, and in the Prophet Isaiah, how the presence and Spirit of the Lord should be with me, and he would uphold me and strengthen me with the right hand of his righteousness: he answered, Such impulse was common, they hoped they had that, they were not ignorant of such impulse of Spirit; much to this effect was spoken. I seeing they were very willing to be gone, I said, Have you done with me? answer was, I might now go away; but I said, Pray what is it to break the good behaviour you have bound me over to? I know not what you may make a breaking of it: is it a breaking the good behaviour, to pray and sing? Justice travel said, No, so I did it at the habitation where I abode. It's well, said I, you will give leave it shall be anywhere. I said, I will leave one word with you, and that is this: A time will come when you and I shall appear before the great Judge of the tribunal seat of the most High, and then I think you will hardly be able to give an account for this days work before the Lord, at that day of true judgement: said Tregegle, Take you no care for us. So they were willing to have no more discourse with me.  
And as I went in the crowd, many strangers were very loving and careful to help me out of the crowd: and the rude multitude said, Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good word, which the witches could not. And thus the Lord made the rude rabble to justify his appearance; for in all that was said by me, I was nothing, the Lord put all in my mouth, and told me what I should say, and that from the written word, he put it in my memory and mouth: so that I will have nothing ascribed to me, but all honour and praise given to him whose right it is, even to Jehovah, who is the King that lives for ever. I have left our some things that I thought were not so material to be written: and what I have written of this, it's to declare as much as is convenient to take off those falsities and contrary reports that are abroad concerning my sufferings, some making it worse than it was, and some saying, It was little or nothing. Now to inform all people's judgements, I have thought it meet to offer this relation to the world's view, and with as much covering as I can of Saints weaknesses herein, praying the Lord to forgive them; and as for the Lords enemies, that he would confound them; but as for my enemies, I still pray.  
I now shall declare how God shown me kindness further. I road home with my friends to Tregasow, that day, rejoicing that I was counted worthy to be so reproachfully dealt by, for speaking in the Lord Christ's behalf, in prayer and praises; and I remained very cheerful, continuing in prayer and Thanksgiving, and many spiritual songs unto the Lord; but about ten days after, the Soldiers of the Fox came to take me, and the day before they come, it being the first day of the the week, I went to hear Mr. Frances, who preached hard by where I abode, one whom the Clergy would fain have had to have spoke against me, but he said, he would not; they than called him my disciple, and laughed and jeered at him when he came among them, on their Lecture days. They used to meet at an Ordinary where many of the Clergy and others dined together: while I was in these parts, the Clergy and others made me their Table and Pulpit talk, and would have had Mr. Frances to have done as they did, but he refused; and hath since, I hear, left the place where he preached when I was in those parts. But I return where I left, in telling you how I was the day before that the Soldiers came for me, I was very heavy in my spirit, as I sat at dinner with my friends, and I was very ready to shed tears; and being loath my friends should see me, I held from weeping, as much as I could, for I thought they would think that I took something unkindly, but truly I could not, for I had as much love from every one in the Family, as could be desired, but I was very sad, and I risen from the Table where I dined, and went and took my Bible, wherein the Lord refreshed me, and in the afternoon I went to hear, and came home, and went into the garden to walk alone; and Captain Langdon coming into the Garden, I discoursed a while with him; and I said, sure my London friends pray me up to London, and when I come there, I will write of Cornwell, Cornhell in the West. He said you might have suffered at London, but not as here said I; for here they deal very uncivilly, and unchristian like by me: well said I, the Lord send me to London, for I shall count it a great mercy to see their faces again, I had said a Bridewell among them shall be sweet to me, and so the Lord made it: I that night was persuaded, my work was done in Cornwall, and that I should erelong see London, yet being I was bound over to the Sessions, which was not to be till August, so that I was to have carried many weeks by the Justice's order, but they could not bear so much praving, so long a time to be in their parts, therefore they hasted their Letters to the Council at White Hall, to send their order down for me, having a Governors Troop so near, to agitate their business. And the Governors was afraid of his Soldiers, he commands them to their Colours: and Ensign Raundle, he must be cast out of his place, for inviting his old friend Captain Longdon, and his wife, and his mother and me, to come with them to his house. And the Soldiers were charged to keep me out of Tregny, that is, three miles from Tregasow, where a poor tempted soul was, that would fain have entertained me at her House, and this work the Fox made in his fortified places; but the poor who are rich in faith, prayed for me in those parts, and some I never saw, about ten miles from the place where I was, who hearing of my trouble, improved their interest with the Lord for me; their faith and prayer, did me more good than all the gold, or filver, or favours of great men could have done me.  
I shall relate now further concerning that night before the Soldiers took me; I saw in my sleep Soldiers come to take me, and I road towards London with them very joyfully, and in the morning I made me ready, and went down stairs; and there was a friend came to see Captain Langdon, so I went up into my Chamber, to write to London, and I was thinking of that I saw in my sleep, that I was riding from the House towards London; and I also was was marveling, that my spirit was so heavy the day before, and this saying I had in my heart, Christ was heavy before the hour; before they came to take him he was in an Agony: said I Lord, what manner of saying is this? and as I was pondering upon it, my sister Langdon came up into my Chamber, very sad, and said, sister, pray thee do not be frighted, why? said I, what is the matter? there is said she half a Troop of Horse come to take thy body, or my husbands; there was half a dozen soldiers, and they made such a clutter, she thought they had been a greater number, but there was a number great enough to take a Poor silly maid. So I rejoiced, and said I am not troubled, for I shall see my friends at London; she said to Mistress Frances her mother's maid, pray thee Mistress Frances, take my sister, and escape into the wood hard by by the house, they cannot find her there; but I said, I will not make myself guilty by flying away, for I have not broke any Law, whereby man should do thus, and as long as God is on my side, said I, men nor devils shall not affright me; and the Lord gave me that word of Nehemiah, who said, Shall such a man as I flee? So said I to them, Shall such a one as I flee? who have lived with the Lord, all my days, and have been courageous for Christ hitherto, I will not now flinch through the strength of the Lord keeping me, and I know he will keep me: then many in the Family came, and the neighbours, and wept about me, but I was no whit daunted. The Minister of the Parish came, and said he would not wish me to go down, without they would show an order, I answered, what order have they brought, none but Captain Foxe's letter they told me, that said I, is enough; for there is the Foxe's claws to pin me to Plymouth, so through persuasions, I run down stairs, where I heard the Soldiers very rough in their words, and they said they would not tarry a moment for me, and they would have me by foul means, if I refused to go; they threatened much what they would do, the Quartermaster was very high in his words. So when I had heard them bluster thus a while, I stepped among them, many of my friends being with them, I coming into the room, stood by them, and said, friend, whom do you seek? speaking to the Quartermaster: he said, is this the Lady? I said, I do not know what you mean by Lady, but that is a Soldier's compliment: I pray, whom do you seek? So he asked whether my name was Anna Trapnell, I said, I suppose that is my name; then he said, I demand your body; said I take it, if it will do you any good, I am ready to go with you: then he was very respectful, and said, he would show me all the courtesy and civility that lay in his power, I thanked him and said, they could not harm me; for my God would not suffer them; then they said, they would wait till I was fitted to go, and they tarried till the afternoon: And when we had dined, I took my leave of my dear loving friends, and departed, riding behind a friend that came to see Captain Langdon, who put off his Journey that he was riding, and offered to carry me, and Captain Langdons' man, and his mother's maid, they sent mith me, and I went filled with the joy of the Lord: and that day, some two or three miles off, I met with some dear friends, who bore me company a while, but I had so much of the refresh of God, which quickly overcame my ordinary capacity, and I felt not the trotting of the horse, nor minded any thing but the spiritual communion, that I was in with the Lord; and so I road praying, all the first day's Journey, till I came to Foy-Town, where they took me down off the horse, and set me in a chair, but I came not to my capacity to speak a great while, and when I looked up, and saw many men, women and children about me, and sitting on a high wall, right over where I sat, I was amazed to see so many people, and not knowing where I was, but at length I spoke to them in Scripture language, the which they listened to, and when I went away, they gave a great shout; the people said, they used to do so at some strange sight: so they led me into the Boat, for we went over a passage, and many men and women went over with us from that Town, and the room was full of people, where I lodged, some came to gaze on me, and some came in love to the Lord Jesus, to hear experiences, and some tempted souls were much refreshed, and rejoiced much to see me there, though not as I was, a prisoner; they wept for me as to that condition, and I sat up most part of the night at Foy, and begged those that came to jeer at me, that they would consider the wrong they did to their poor souls, and had Scripture very suitable to those I spoke; I asked them what they came to see, I was but as a reed shaken with the wind; I was a simple creature, only divine wisdom was pleased to make use of the simple, and to call them to him, to show them his love, to choose such to do him service, and I said, I am a poor sorry reed, but divine power, and the wind that Christ told Nichodemus, in the 3. of John the 8. which bloweth where it listeth, that wind said I, hath taken a silly creature, and hath made her understand its sound, that which Nichodemus a great Rabbi, could not tell what to make of; so that I prayed them that derided, that they would have a care, and that they therein would consider the saying of Christ in the 25. of Matthew, who said, what they did to his, they did to him, though I be one of the worst of Christ's little ones, yet said I, he will own me, where ever I am: I beseech sinners to love Christ, who was the chiefest of ten thousands, and I spoke how the Church set him out in the Canticles; and I told them, though they made me a byword, and a reproach, yet I would pray for their Souls: I told them I came not into the Country to be seen, and taken notice of, but I came with my friends. I desired Christ and the beauty of holiness might be taken notice of, so that others thereby might be taken with Christ; and that I might be only a voice, and Christ the sound; I spoke much to profane sinners, and to the civilised ones that they would eye the new Covenant, which admits of no condition, nor qualification, nor preparation, but is a free Covenant to sinners, as sinners, that if they venture their souls thereupon, it will at the moment change, and make them hate sin, and all manner of evil, and cleave to that good the Scripture makes mention of; then to the tempted was spoken from Heb. 2.18. for in that Christ suffered being tempted, he is able to secure them that are tempted, and unto them were experiences spoken, how greatly Christ was sensible of the temptations of his people, and his succouring were great, and his sympathising much: So I related what bowels of compassion from the Lord I found herein, though when I was murmuring against the Lord, who I thought dealt roughly by me, I said with Ionas, I do well to do thus, as he said, I do well to be angry: So I was very peevish, thinking that Satan would have made an end of me. I said with Jonah, I do well to be angry to the death. I prayed tempted souls to hearken to Christ, and not to Satan; some tempted souls there wept bitterly, and the next day came again, and accompanied me out of that Town: So I took my leave, they begging to hear from me, and desired my welfare.  
Then I road to a place called Lew, where I desired to stay an hour, but it was hard to be obtained of the Quartermaster, though he had promised Captain Langdon that I should see some friends there; yet when I came there, he was afraid I should have broke out into prayer there, and so have stayed him longer than he would, but I and my friends did so entreat him, that he gave me leave to go with a Soldier with me, to bring me quickly back to him again, he staying a little way off, and said that I should have no body come into the house that I went to; this he charged the Soldier, so that coming to that house I went to, there I was entertained with much love, and some few did hear of my being there, and came to see me, and watched for my coming out. I had some discourse with a blind man there, who had much of the light of the Lord in his soul, and his words were so savoury, that my heart was quickened by the Lord in that discourse I had with this seeing soul, though blind outwardly; and I stayed among them a while, till I was full of joy in the sight of these dear friends; so that being hurried away by the Soldiers, I broke forth into tears, and said, the time will come that spiritual communion shall not be interrupted; and indeed the thoughts of Eternity melted my heart, that I said, I weep not for sorrow, but my tears flow from apprehensions of communion with the Lord, and those glorified Saints there; if Saints on earth did so take up my heart, I said, what will that company be to me, in heaven, sure it will be joy to the full: So those dear souls went with me out of the Town, and then bid farewell, saying, they were sorry, I could stay no longer with them, so I parted, and road towards Plymouth with very much of the Lords presence.  
And when I came to Plymouth, after the Quartermaster had been to inform that I was coming, he came and had me up to the Fort, two of the other Soldiers going with me, and four others who were my friends, these bore me company to the Fort, and when I came into the Lieutenant's house, I sat down a while, and he told me I was committed to his charge as his prisoner, for that Major  was not there unto whom the Letter was sent concerning me; so after a few words had passed between us, I desired him to let me hear the order read; so he read it, wherein was expressed that I was to be sent from thence in the first State's Ship that went to Portsmouth, and so to be sent from thence to the Counsel; and when this was read, after a little while spent in discourse, Lieutenant Lark, in whose house I was a prisoner; he asked me whether I would go up stairs and see my chamber, unto which I was willing, and my four friends went up with me, and I bless the Lord, I never was in so blessed a frame in my life, being in an ordinary capacity, the which I was in a while, but at length the Lord wound me up higher; and as I was telling you, that coming into my chamber, I found the Lord Christ opening his love to me from that Scripture, in Hosea the 2.19. I have betrothed thee to myself in mercy and loving kindness for ever. And I had some enlargement upon that, and likewise from Scripture expressions in the Canticles, and in Habbakuk, but I omit writing what sweet unfoldings I had therein from the Lord, because I intent if the Lord will give me opportunity to write down the cordials of the Lord, which I had in my confinement by man, in a book wherein I shall set out Satan's prison, the which I was in a year before man's prison, that very month that I was set at liberty from Satan's confinement, men confined me, which was the second month called April, which was a year after that horrible pit of Satan's, the which I lay in, from the beginning of February, till the beginning of April, about nine weeks, but I have been in man's prison 15. weeks, yet that was to me much easier, than a shortertime in Sataus' clutches.  
But I return to the Relation of my first coming into prison, I was exceedingly transported in my spirits, and I was as if I had been to die presently, nothing was in my thoughts but divine bosom, which made me bid farewell to all creatures: I thought I could have embraced death, though it should be never so ghastly, and cruelly tendered to me, I never had such joy in the thoughts of death, and I said to Lieutenant Lark, pray Sir, let me have the liberty to be private a while with my friends, who came with me, the which he granted, and he went down from us, than I said, this is the greatest preferment as ever I had, to be honoured with a prison for Christ, this is honour said I indeed, I now can take my leave of all things under the Sun, and see all things vanity, and poor empty nothings; and I said farewell all creatures, and welcome Christ, than I desired my friends that we might pray together before they departed; for I said it was the best work to begin my imprisonment in spiritual Communion, than we prayed, and after some time spent in prayer, the Son of righteousness shone so hot on my spitits, that I could not forbear singing forth his prarise; and my friends told me, that I was three hours on my knees, praying, and praising, that I felt no pain nor wearisomeness, though I had journeyed so far. They took me off my knees, and set me in a chair, where I sat some hours after in singing, and then was silent, and some women put me to bed, where I lay praying and singing the other part of that night, while morning: and the maid that tended me said, she sat in the bed, wiping away the tears from my eyes, which she said came exceeding fast all night, as I sung and prayed. And truly the Son from on high had very much thawed my heart, and I prayed and sung after that night, four days, and sometimes wrapped up in silence with the Lord, beholding his glory in visions, and on the last day of that week, I spoke to some seamen and others that came to visit me, telling them the Lords kindness to me in my troubles in Cornwall, and other experiences I related to them, and the Lord knows I did speak of these things to them that they might be more in love with Christ, who let out himself to a poor creature so extraordinarily. And the next day after, it was the first day of another week, some would fain have had me gone to have heard the word preached that day, but it could not be granted that I should go out of the Fort; and indeed I was very weak, having lain four days and five nights, and came not out of my bed, nor took no refreshing creature, save a draught of small beer or cider, and sometimes eat a little piece of toast out of it, and this was but once at a night, and not every night neither; and this was for sixth days: and this first day that I risen out of my bed, I lay down again quickly, and I took a Bible, and read the 11. Chapter of Luke, and the 12. Chapter, and my heart was much taken with the words there that Christ spoke to them, and the Lord applied much to me of what Christ spoke concerning their calling of him Beelzebub: and if they dealt so with Christ, I thought it was but as Christ was dealt with, to be called Devil, and that saying I was possessed with a lying spirit, but this was made very easy, when I conceived Christ bore a great deal more, and after that these Chapters were fastened and knit to my heart, the Lord making them mine. I admiring at the sufferings of Christ, and at his patience, and I continued singing most part of that day, concerning the Resurrection, and my interest therein, and I sang as to the conditions of many who lived in the Fort, and concerning my passage on the sea that I should have; speaking of the Lords appearances that I should have there, and the Joy and Triumph I should be in, in all my imprisonment time, and the next day after this, it being the second day of the week, I had been a prisoner seven days, and this was the eighth day from the Soldiers taking me, so I that day at night, after the hours spent with my friends at London, which I knew kept that day in part, in prayer, so did I, though absent in body from them; and at night as I said before, I went down and discoursed with Lieutenant Lark a while, and after I had showed him two Letters which I had written to London, that he saw there was none of that which is called Treason in them, than I wished him a good night, and I went to bed, and he the next day road out of Town to fetch his wife, who was with her friends in the Country, and in his absence, Ensign Owen was my keeper, and he was very careful to fulfil his office, and was loath to let in my friends to see me, but charged them at the gate with trespass, if they let in any of my friends, saying, they had best to be traitors too; so he was as severe, as if I had been a traitor; yet he spoke me very fair to my face, but I saw he endeavoured to catch my words, and to ensnare me, putting his own sense upon them, but the Lord kept me out of his insnarements, but he watched for my halting, and when my friends came a great way to see me, they had much ado to get into the Fort, and then my Gaoler sat by, and heard what I said to my friends, but this severity was not many days, for Major  came, and then my Gaoler departed, who told me the order did not make mention of my going to the Counsel, but Major  read that I should, and so did the Lieutenant, but my Gaoler it may be had a mind to affright me, but he could not; and he told me I dreamt that the order run so; I am sure I said, I was not asleep, but he jeered me, and he told Major , that I would not have so many people come to me: indeed he would have had no body come, if he could have boar sway, but the Lord ordered all for my good: and when Major  came, he gave me leave with a keeper, which was a friend, to go to hear the first days; and he was very courteous, and so was Lieutenant Lark, who came home with his wife before I was gone: I stayed there for the wind, and a State's Ship to carry me: I stayed five weeks; the Lord made it but as a few days to me, I had so much of his presence and power from him, he made kindness flow from strangers in the Family, and in the Fort; these were strangers, and yet they were fellow Citizens, and I bless the Lord, they are not now strangers, but acquaintance, and they are a company that are written in my heart, they and their Teacher; for they were not ashamed of my Chain, they owned me in my Bonds, and were a succour to me in a strange Country: my Soul was administered to by them, and the Pastor over them; they every way administered to my necessity in what I stood in need of; I wanted not their help, and the people of the Parish shown me love in visiting me, and some of them when they had heard me pray, and in singing, they wept that they had taken up hard thoughts of me.  
Their Teacher Mr. Hughes was very bitter against me, and would not come and talk with me, though some of his Auditory desired him; but he writ to one of his friends at Cornwall, that he had read my book, and he from that drew that I was an impostor and he called the book non sense, so that he confirmed his friend in her judging of me; and so he continued judging me for the sake of that Dispensation he never saw, nor came not to try it by the word, but he endeavoured to incense others against me, and his sometimes Scholar (R.U.) was afraid to displease his Father Hughes, else he would have come according to his promise, but it may be had forgot that he promised a young man whom I sent the first night I came, to tell him I was come to the Fort a prisoner and I knew not how little a while I should stay; therefore I should be glad to see him: and he told the Messenger that he would come next day, but he came not; and yet was much in the Town most part of my stay there, and many wondered he came not to see me, having been acquainted with me above seven years, the which they understanding, said sure, he knew some evil by me: thus it bred a jealousy among strangers, concerning me, but some said, he would not suffer evil to be spoken of me; for he said, sure, the root of the matter was in me; he was much urged by my friends to come, but would not see me, though in bonds; and this use I was taught by the Lord, to make of that unkindness of a friend, who I hearing, when I was coming to Plymouth, that such an one was come there, I leaned upon him as a prop to me in my suffering, and I rejoiced much, saying to my friends, that he would vindicate me, who had been known to him so long, and one whom I was always ready to vindicate, when aspersed; but my God learned me to know, that all flesh was grass, and a sading flower, and like an Egyptian reed: and by this unkindness from a friend, my God drew me the more to rest upon himself alone; and what unkindness I relate from any received, my end hereby is not to reproach or seek revenge on any, but the Lord my God knows, had there not been so many several reports passed far and near, I would not have set pen to paper in this kind, but it is that truth may silence falsity; and though I fail in an orderly penning down these things, yet not in a true Relation, of as much as I remember, and what is expedient to be written; I could not have related so much from the shallow memory I have naturally, but through often relating these things, they become as a written book, spread open before me, and after which I writ.  
Now I shall come again to the Relation, and tell you that I had much kindness at Plymouth, from many, and great labour of love stewed me until my departure, and some went with me a shipboard, and were sorry to have me go from their Quarters, not that I was any thing, but the Lord did their souls good through a worm; and when we had been a day and a night tossing on the Sea, the wind being against us, drove us back into the Harbour again: Some at Dartmouth reported that I had bewitched the winds, that the ships could not go to sea, and they cursed me there, but the Lord blessed me the more; many reproaches he helped me to bear, and though we were beating on the waves against the wind, yet I was not sick; for the Lord had there much for me to declare to Sea men of free grace, and of the vileness of man's nature, and the excellent work of Redemption. And I spoke this unto them, and prayed and sang in the  where I lay; and the Seamen were much affected: the Lord made some of them declare how the Lord refreshed them, and that they knew if I had stayed longer, much good their souls would have reaped, they were very respectful to me, though there were few that had any relish of good, the Lord made much to be relished by them, through a poor nothing creature: the Scripture the Lord enlarged amongst them, in the 73. Psalms, verse 1. Truly, God is good to Israel, and to them that are of a clean heart; the new Covenant the Lord made known amongst them very much; so that it was a blessed passage, though as from man it was bitter to be tossed upon the Sea four days, and the maid that came with me, lying vomiting grievously by me, and sick, even ready to die, she thought her heart would have broke, and I hurt my leg against the ship side, that it raged greatly a day and a night; and lying in a little  sweeting much, the maid and I together, which lodge was very little, it being in the Master's , which was a little Lodge: But though I met with much difficulty, as to flesh and blood, yet I murmured not, only I was once a little troubled, and said, Lord, why is man thus cruel to deal thus with me? they never considered whether my nature could bear the Sea: but I said, Father, lay not this evil usage to their charge. I was brought up among the Pirates, that had rob upon the Sea, and were taken prisoners, and sent in the ship with me, but the Lord preserved me from all hurt, and carried me safe to Land, and all in the ship; both Captain and Master, and men gave me civil respect while I was with them: So the Lord made good his promise to me, that nothing should harm me, neither on the Sea, nor the Land.  
And the Captain with some of his men, came with me ashore, and we landed at Portsmouth, and the Governor not being in Town, I went with the Captain to Major Morefords', the deputy Governor, who receiving the order from the Captain of the ship, after some Discourse with him he departed; and the Deputy Governor told me, I was committed to his Charge, until such time that he could dispose of me with conveniency: so he lovingly entertained me, and those two friends that came with me, and his daughters shown me much kindness: and in the afternoon the Deputy Governor having no lodging in his house for me, he procured me lodging at Ensign Bakers, in the Town, and he went with me thither, it being not far off; and there he left me, desiring the Ensigns wife to be kind to me, but she heard I was a frenzy-headed creature, and she looked very sour upon me, and all the while I was there, she offered me no drink, nor any thing else; but one day when the Governor sent his servant to see what I had, than she sent to me, and I had newly eaten a piece of Pie, that I had brought with me from Plymouth, so that was all my food I eat from the second day to the fifth day, that I came away; then she seemed to be very kind, and said, she heard such a clamour concerning me, which made her afraid of me, but after she heard me, she was of another mind. I prayed and sang there a night and a day for the most part, and so departed from thence the next morning after, and came in a Coach to London, and a Lieutenant came with me to convey me to Westminster; and he brought a Present of Eggs that was sent from Gernsie to the great man at White Hall, they were Partridge Eggs of the largest kind, I was told; and if they were not well put up, they could not be kept whole, for the Coach broke twice by the way, and overturned once: it was a great mercy that we had no hurt, the deal of man being unjust, every thing will make them manifest, and discover their break, where they or their Presents be: If such that hold forth King Jesus be near, one danger or other they will be liable to meet withal.  
I was through Divine Power brought safe in the Coach to Fox Hall, where we lighted, and the Coach man and Lieutenant told me, I must bear all my Charges, both by the way and the Coach hire, so I did, and I was brought from Fox Hall by water, to Westminster, and stayed a while at the George in Kings-street, and then, one of the Messengers came, and carried me in a Coach to Titons, but my friends paid the Coach hire; and at Titons' house in Coven Garden, there that Messenger left me, which brought me thither; it was that Messenger that took hold of Vavasor Powel, and carried him before the Council, I told him it was no good office to be so employed to lay hold of the Saints in that kind, but I said, though I was troubled at him for his taking Mr. powel, yet for taking me, and conducting me into custody, I was no whit troubled at him, but I told him his Office was not good, this I said, as I was riding to Titons; and there I was had to my Chamber, which was Mr. Feaks prison first, so that I was quickly raised in my Joy, in thinking of that prayer, which had been put up in that room, for the coming of King Jesus to reign on the earth, and to throw down Babylon, for this did that dear servant of Christ cry earnestly, and the Lord made an unworthy handmaid to second those cry, and to ring a peal to Whitehall ward, but they had not a mind to hearken, though the cry of a stone was brought near them again, occasioned by their own do, thinking to silence allelujahs-triumphing over the beast, and the false Prophet, but they could not do it. The secret voice of thunder hath a louder report, than men's great Cannons. The Lord renewed my joy much at the sight of my friends, and in the thoughts that I was brought, near Whitehall to be a witness against their black do, the which I hope I shall witness against unto the death: that time at Tytons was spent much in prayer, and singing forth Babylon's fall, and the ruin of those which endeavoured to be nurses and rockers to Babylon's brats; the Lord will cut off those breasts that give Babylon milk; for the whore of Rome, the Lord will not have nourished by any, high or low, rich or poor, much was sung to this purpose at Titons; and I often told of a present from heaven, which was much better than the present of Partridge eggs; yea, it was costlier than the gold of Ophir, or Rubies and Pearls from a far Country. I would fain have had the great Council, and their Protector, to have received a Present sent from the great Protector, which is indeed, a Protector of the faithful, who makes use of silly handmaids to carry his present sometimes; and I said this, O great ones of the earth, is the Present from the great Jehovah to you? even his son Christ; in that you profess yourselves to be bvilders, the great God hath presented to you a corner stone elect and precious, a sure foundation, an excellent platform for those that are willing to build to purpose; now therefore said I unto you, that love rarities for Presents, here are rarities indeed, not like those things that will fade in their beauty, nor like that which soon loseth its seent, though never so well presumed, nor like that which in time will be wasted and gone, nor like Eggs that are subject to rot or to break before they come to belarge Partridges, or any at all; but it was said, oh that Protector, and his Conncel, and Clergy, would all agree to receive such a Present that fades not, nor cannot waste, nor be broken, nor rot, nor is not subject to any casualty; And for presenting them with the Lords present, they sent their messengers with a Bridewell reward to me, for all my pains and good will, and love to their welfare.  
I was eight days at Tytons' house, expecting to be sent for before the Council every day, according to their Orders, declaring that I was to come before them; but they had no time to hear the truth, from such a silly nothing creature; and they sent an Order honoured with Precedent Laurences hand to it, which was brought by two messengers late at night, unto which I have already spoken something off; the hour they came for me, and of their lothness to show me the order, for my removal, but they did show it me before my departure from thence.  
And now I am further to tell you, how I fared at my last prison, which was in Bridewell, unto which I was brought at 11 of the clock in the Night, the Matron received me off the Messengers, And being brought by the Messengers of the Council; she thought I was some exceeding guilty person; and her words declared as much, for she said, I warrant you are one of the plotters? It's my portion said I, to be dealt so with, as if I were one of them, but I am sure that I am none; then the said, I don't think but I have had in my keeping such as you are before now; then she looked stead fastly in my face: And asked me, whether I did not know one Mistress Cook, I said, I had heard of such a one, but I had no knowledge of her: I warrant you are one of that crew she said; there is a company of ranting Sluts of which I have had some in my house, who have spoken a great many good words like you; but they had base actions: This discourse passed from her, and much more that night. And I said to her, It no hurt to me to be ranked among such vile ones, which she likened me to; but I bless the Lord, said I, that I am no such, but do abhor such evil practices; much was spoke while we waited for my friends coming, whom I had sent, for to take care for the Maid, that came out of Cornwall with me, the Matrons was loath to have fit up till my friends came, for it was almost twelve a clock at night; but at last my friends came, who said; this our sister is no vagabond, it's well known by many in the City, her civil manner of life from a child, though the Counsel is pleased to deal thus with her, to send her to such a place, among harlots and thiefs; much to this purpose they spoke that night: and they desired to see my Lodging, so she had me up stairs into a large room, but it was very close, there being but a little window at one corner of the room, and the Common shore running under the Window-place, which sink smelled grievously, and there was such a filthy smell with the Rots that abode much in that room, so that at the first coming in, these scents entered much into my nice stomach, and having been newly setcht out of the Country too, and my friends that lived there hard by, were not able to endure the scent of the room, without stopping their nostrils, but they said nothing to me that night of what offended them, because they would not discourage me: so the bed was made for me, which was a hard, flock-bed, and my friends saw it, and were much grieved to see my hard usage, but they saw it was in vain to find fault that night: so they departed, and I was left alone. The Matron would not admit of the maids being with me, who came from Cornwall with me, but said, she would tend me, I should not have a maid to wait on me there: so my friends departed from me, leaving me in the Lord's protection, and the Matron bid me make haste to bed, for she must fetch away the candle, for she said, she did not trust her prisoners to put it out,  
And when she was gone down, as I was making myself unready, I was much assaulted by Satan and my own heart; who said, to be so forward for God, see what thou hast got by it, thy mother little thought this would have befallen thee, when she prayed that God would double his spirit on thee, now thou mayest see what her prayer is come to; I than was tempted to murmur at that prayer, and the Tempter bid me speak against that prayer, and the Tempter said to me, that I should be a byword and a laughingstock while I lived, and that every one would point at me as I went up & down the streets, when I came out, they would say, there goes a Bridwell bird, and then many will gather about thee, to mock and deride thee; and as for thy kindred, they will be ashamed of thee, and will not care to hear thy name mentioned in their ears, because of Bridewell reproach, and therefore said Satan wilt thou still retain thy faith concerning Christ as King and Governor in the Earth; And I was tempted to let go my confidence as to this, but my Father kept me, and gave me a discovery of my Saviour, as he was hung between two thiefs, and also brought those scriptures to my thoughts which makes a report of Christ, as he was ranked among transgressors; and how he that knew no sin was dealt with, so as to endure the contradiction of finners.  
And now the Lord talked with me about my Saviour's suffering much for me, and therefore do not hearken to Satan said the Lord, but look unto him that suffered the contradiction of sinners for thy sake, than was my heart cheered, and I went unto the unlovely lodging, and the Matron locked me in, or bolted me in, I know not well which, but there I was shut in alone, and yet not alone, for Christ was with me; and when I had lain a while, I grew very sick, for the hard damp bed struck much into my stomach, and the cold sheets; so that all this set me into an Ague, and I shook much, and my limbs smarted with cold, and I smelled such a strong scent about the bed, that my heart panted, and lay beating, and my stomach working, and my head aching exceeding much, most part of my being in that Lodge this first night; and at break of the day, I threw off the  from my stomach, for I was almost spent, being very sick, and in much pain some hours: and I said, dear Father, hast thou brought me to Bridewell to die; the Lord and my Father answered me presently, and said no; thou shalt not die but live, and declare the works of the Lord; and he further told me, that though my heart and my strength failed me, the Lord was the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever, and he would never leave me nor forsake me; the Lord said, he would be my safety from the horn of men and Devils; and I then recovered a little strength, and I sang forth hallelujahs song of thanksgiving, and I out of that fell in a little slumber; and my friends came, and waked me presently, against their wills they did it, for they were very tender of me, and it grieved them greatly, when they heard what a night I had; they than spoke a while to me, and soon after I risen, and made me ready, and then went to prayer with some of my sisters that came that morning, and after prayer I received much reviving in my outward man, but was not well, yet I walked about the house all that day, and was in the lower room with my friends, who came that day many of them, whom I walk in fellowship with, and many others; for they thought I was put in a place that would daunt me, if the Lord did not much appear to me; and they came to express their tender love and care that they had of my welfare, and they pleaded very much with the Matron, and fetched out the order that brought me there, and procured a Copy of it, which cost them sixteen pence, a few words copying out; and this Copy of the Order was showed to the Matron, how that nothing was laid to my charge, and that I was only to be kept there, till further order; and my friends prayed her to let me have another bed, and other Sheets, the which they offered me of theirs, but that she would not grant, but they prevailed at length with her after much persuasion, to lay me on one of her beds, and to let me have other sheets, the which I had the second night, and they procured one to be with me, for they said, I was not fit to be alone, for that I was ofttimes weak in body, and required help: so they also obtained, that, some engaging to the Matron, that they would bear her harmless in her giving way to this: many that day so sweetened my Chamber with several perfumes, and strewed it with herbs, and Flowers, that it much altered the smell, yet it smelled very offensive all the time of my being there, though I every day sometimes was burning many several things in the room for the first week, and several times while I was there, and after this day, I was very sick; yet the Matron urged me with the first day of the week to go hear their Minister at Bridewell, but I told her, I was very ill, she said, she thought I dissembled at the first, but afterward she thought it was a Judgement from the Lord, my sickness, because I was unwilling she said, to hear their Minister: and she said, she saw by my high colour, that I was not well, and indeed I was much in a fever that day only, I had the ague a little while in a cold fit, and I lay, not desiring to be spoke to, because it was painful for me to speak, or to turn myself in my bed: and the next day the ague and fever was much upon me, so that my heart even sunk within me, I being so burning and in so close a room, and friends had a great ado to get to see me, the Matron was so strict, and would hardly let them in, but some friends came, who made me plasters to lay to my wrists, and posset drink, to drink the next fit.  
But that second day in the night, I was pleading with the Lord, and asked of the Lord a removal of that sickness, and saying, Lord, it's very grievous to lie sick in this place; the Lord answered me, and said, I have taken away thy sickness, thou shalt be sick no more, while thou art here thou art here in Bridewell, for I will fill thee with more triumph here, than ever thou hadst in thy life, so the Lord did I am sure; and it was further said to me, thy friends have provided means to take away thy Ague, but the Lord hath been thy Physician aforehand; and he further said, he would take me into the mount that day, for the perfect cure of my sickness, and so the Lord did, and I spoke by way of prayer and singing from morning till night, and felt no sickness nor pain, nor faintness, not all that day, nor at night when I came to myself, to be capable of a body; for truly, all that day I was wrapped up, so that I could not tell, whether I was in the body or out: and yet I sung with understanding, as to the things the Lord was doing among the sons and daughters of men; and at ninght, I had sweet rest all night, and in the morning, it being the fourth day the Matron came and told me, that it was a Court day, and I must rise and go to the Court, I have been sick I said, and I prayed her to tell them so; she came the second time, and bid me rise to go before the Court, I told her I was weak, and had lain in my bed three days, only I risen the second day, and could hardly endure up while my bed was made, and I thought it not safe to rise up, being I was in a sweat, & go presently into the air; she came the third time, and said, if you will not rise, I must send the man to call you up, that was an old man, that called up the harlots and thiefs, every morning betimes to beat hemp, he was to slap them up to work; and she threatened to send him to fetch me up, but I said, tell the Court I have been sick, and am not fit to rise out of the bed; but many of my friends came who persuaded me to strive to rise and go to the Court, so I did, my sister Ursula Adman, helping me, and other of my sisters, and they led me up to the Court, for I was very weak, so that the Court gave me leave to sit down before them, they were very courteous to me, and they spoke not much to me, only said, it was the Custom they had to see all their prisoners at their first coming in; I told them, truly, Gentlemen, I would have waited on you sooner, but I have been sick and therefore I stayed so long before I came before you, there was through some words spoken an opportunity given me to tell them of my sickness, the Matron finding fault with so many people coming to see me, I told them, that if I had not been put into such a place, it was probable so many would not have come; but further I said to them, I being put into such a close room, coming out of the fresh air it was very offensive to me, the room and the bed had such a strong scent, and damp, that it set me into an ague, and a Favour; one of them said, they did not use to have their beds smell where their prisoners lay, for they were looked well too; I said, but the scent was grievous to me, and the bed was damp having not been laid upon, not lately it may be; I said truly Sir, if you had been there, you might have smelled it, the scent was very grievous to me and others who smelled it as well as I; I am sure, I told them it was a cause of my sickness; for I was well when I came there: Then the Matron said, I spoke to wrong her, but I did not: only I would have it known what was the reason of my sickness. I am certain I had no revenge any way towards her, than she told them that I would have men come to me, and that word went to my heart, I knowing my bashful nature, and my civil life was known to many; and I said to them truly, Gentlemen, my delight is not nor never was in men's company, but in all people as they are godly, I delight in their company: And I said, that the Officers of the Church was to look after the members of the Church, they said it was reason they should, and they were not against it: They asked me how many was of them Officers, I said about ten I thought: they asked me how many I would have come to see me of my sisters at a time, I said, 6. so it was granted; but some would have had their names penned down, that so only those half a dozen might have come; but it was procured otherways by friends. And after this the Lord gave health and strength and stomach to my food, and a better digestion than ever I had since I can remember.  
The Lord also filled me with joy unspeakable, and full of glory in believing, and many visions and Hallelujah songs I had there; and more frequent they were then they ever had been: I was at Bridwell Court, once more only to be gated on; for little was said to me, only they asked me, why I lay there still; And I said, I waited upon the pleasure of the Council: And they asked me, why my friends did not seek to get my liberty? I said, I know not, they know what they have best to do themselves; one said, but they come every day to see you, do not they tell you what they will do? I said, I do not ask them, I leave it to them; Something more was said, and I came away, and retired to my Chamber, where in I kept most of those eight weeks, paying five shillings a week for it; It cost forty shillings, and I bless the Lord that I had friends, and some means of my own, else I must have lain in the Goal upon straw: The Matron told me, so the first night, and when some said, If I must beat Hemp, they would beat for me; She said, I should beat it myself: and for aught she knew I was to beat Hemp, but she did not know me; and so spoke as she used to speak to those that deserve harshness; for after she had knowledge of me, she was very loving, and respectful both to me, and to my Sister Ursula Adman, who kept me company seven weeks of my being there: She was a friend born for the day of adversity, as Solomon speaks; and indeed she, night and day, shown her tenderness to me, and helped to bear my burden. And therein she fulfilled the law of Christ, and she did this as a freewill Offering, love constraining her thereunto, so that it was thereby made easy to her to bear and endure that which few would, especially so freely without reward; yet I am confident the Lord will reward her double for that prison kindness, she let out to me without any fainting, or being troubled, that the time was long, or the noises burdensome; there was many difficulties to undergo night and day; but little quiet sleep to be had, there was such scolding among the prisoners near our lodging: and they were brought in often a nights which made a great noise, and the Rats run about our bed, and made a great noise, like dogs and Cats in the Room; and this was no pleasant prison sure to such that were brought up tenderly, and never knew any hardship as to the outward man: And truly the Lord made this and many more anoiances, received in Bridwell prison, to be very pleasantly embraced by divine love appearing in the midst of all trials; my God made this smarting scourge (as from man it was so) but God I say made it easy; for his tenderness was much, he made foes become friends, and the harsh to be kind, and overcame the rough and hasty spirits; the Lord is worthy of all praise. I had but a little while affliction in my spirits, which was occasioned by a friend, and that made it grievous, but the Lord made that little storm, to work abundance of good to me many ways: and all things that were afflictive, the Lord quickly broke such setters. I said not, O when will there be an end of this or the other affliction, but I often said, and desired a purging out of my corruptions, before a removal of sufferings, that so I might come out more holy and more humble, and more selfe-denying and selfe-debasing, and abhorring them when I went into prison: That so I might all my days be willing to take up the Cross of Christ, and follow him, whether so ever he would have me, either to do or suffer: I shall begin to shorten my relation, lest I should be too tedious to the Reader, and leave the Visions and opening of Scriptures, that the Lord brought to my soul, while I was in Bridwell for my own benefit, and for others that are his little flock, with whom he hath made an everlasting Covenant, well ordered in all things and sure.  
At the time near my coming out, some came and desired me to Petition, I told them I had not offended man, whereby to seek to him; And they knew that I was in Prison by their order; but some said they may forget: I said, that they could not, for many of their friends still told them: The Protector said, he did not know that I was put in Bridewell, till I had been there above a week, that one went and informed him: but it was a strange thing that servants should do such an Act without their Master, and great Governors' knowledge; surely, if he had not liked of it, he would have reproved them: but said I, now he knows it, and yet he doth not send for me out. Again, some others came and said, they knew they could quickly procure my Liberty: I told them, I would not come out upon base terms: said one to me, what are your terms, let us hear them? I said, they shall acknowledge the reproach and odium they have brought upon me, through this their prison: said one, is that your terms? then you mayly long enough; but surely all rational men will say, this was but equity: Then after this, some spoke great matters, what they would do for my liberty: and they went to the Counsel and spoke to them, and Precedent Laurence, said, if that I would, or any for me engage, I might come out; but said Captain Kettlebeator, none can engage, for she herself cannot engage as to a dispensation, that she is so taken up in, that she knows not what is done about her at that time, nor capable of any being with her in the room: And he told him, that he had known me many years: And my whole deportment of life had been, and was very civil and religious; he spoke more to that purpose: And the Precedent said, so he had understood; some more speech they had, and they came to tell me that, nay what they had spoke in my behalf: I said, I will never engage to that which lies not in me to perform, for what the Lord utters in me, I must speak: so one said, he would go again to the Counsel, I told him I desired no favour of them but justice and equity: and if he could procure my coming before them to hear what they have against me, that's all I desire of you I said; and what he said or did, it was of his own offering: so he said, he would not leave them so, but he would go again and try what they would do; but I heard no more concerning him, he was forgetful it may be, like his Master: After this some others undertook this business, and came to hear what I would say to it. And one asked me upon what account I suffered imprisonment, whether it was for Christ, and if so then I had a great deal of comfort in my sufferings, for he said, he had found it so, having been imprisoned for the testimony of Jesus; I told him the Council never sent for me, to tell me upon what account they imprison me here for; and I said, the recognizances are taken off concerning Cornwall business, so that I was merely upon the pleasure and wills of the Council, and of Lord Laurance; for indeed I will call him my Bridewell Lord, for that his hand was in chief to the Order: but I told them, I was sure I suffered for Christ. And I enjoyed his presence abundantly; and I gave them some account of my sufferings, and of the Lords comforts therein, then after some further discourse, they asked me whether, I would be willing to go out, if an Order should come for my liberty? I told them, I would never engage: they said, that was not desired; I said, yes but it was, for my Lord Laurence told some if I would engage, I might come out: then they said, but if the Order come, and give you liberty freely, will you accept of it? I was silent, only my sister said, if we can have liberty, we will choose it rather than bonds? so after a little while these departed.  
And the next week after, upon the sixth day of the week, I risen early in the morning and walked about my Chamber, putting up requests to the Lord secretly for purging grace, that I might go out of prison much more purified from the dross of corruptions, then when I went into prison fire; that so others might see it had been a purifying furnace to me: And after I had been up some hours, I said to my sister that abode with me, I think said I to her, every one that I hear coming to the door, comes from the Council with an Order for my liberty; come let us pray before it comes, and ask council of God concerning it, and the Lord indeed counselled me, and took me into the mount of heavenly rapture that day, so that my friends were fain to take we off my knees and lay me upon my bed, where I lay praying and singing more than every I did in my life unto many public concernments, the which I am sure will be accomplished in due time: and I often desired that they in high places had some of the dainties with me at Bridewell; and that day the Order was brought, and I lay silent when they came with it; but I was talking with the Lord who shown me many things, which I know shall come to pass, and the Lord told me that my freedom out of that place was near, the which I saw three weeks before, and sang it forth, so I did now; one of them tarried that brought the Order, I was told so afterwards; but I knew not that any was by me, when I thus lay, either silent or speaking. That day I spoke to some that said, he would choose imprisonment for gain, he spoke of an outward gain, but if he got by his imprisonment formerly; I am sure I cannot say, nor those that are imprisoned upon this account for the fifth Monarchy, cannot say so: we would not gain for our outward man, if we might, by robbing others, to enrich ourselves; I can say, I have refused what hath been tendered me freely: I took nothing save for my necessity, unto which I had enough supply, had not the Rulers put me to such charges through their imprisonment, and bringing me from place to place, and making me pay for it. So that I have been rob, but I have rob none: I had rather go in a Canvas Coat, or any mean garb, than so do; and eat any mean kind of food, then to fair dainty and go in brave robes with that cost, which is others right in heritance.  
I shall further relate in the close of this relation, how the next day I came forth, for I came not into a capable frame, to speak to any body, till late at night, on the sixth day; and when I spoke that night, my friends said, do you know you are set at liberty? you sang as if you had known; I said, the Lord hath given it me, I will thank him for it; so you told us to day in your finging, said my friends: And the next morning the Keeper of Bridewell came, and said, I was free by order from the Council, and I might go out when I pleased: I told him they should fetch me out that put me in; had they put me among Thiefs and Whores, and now did they send for me out without acknowledging the reproach they had brought upon me? He said, the same Order with the same hands that puts you in fetches you out: I desired to see my Order, so I should he said, if I would pay sixteen pence for a Copy of it: so I sent for it, and read it. And seeing I might go out upon no dishonourable terms, and the Lord having instructed me before hand, he being my guide and Counsellor, in my imprisonment, and in my coming out. And I said to a friend, go tell your Masters, though they will not see me they shall be sure to hear from me, and so they have: for I sent letters to them, that so they might not say, they had not heard of the injustice acted under their dominion: Now I have given a Declaration, through the assistance of the Lord, and not to set up myself and throw down others; but to throw down lies, and exalt truth; the Lord would not have Cities nor Countries, nor Whitehall Council, a refuge for lies: For his people are recorded in the 63 of Isa. v. 8. to be children that will not lie, so he became their Saviour: I desire that truth may be written in Buss and sent through Europe; I would have the whole world taste the sweetness of truth, that all people may know, and see, and consider, and understand together, the hand of the Lord, and what he is doing, and will do for his, that trust in him; And sure wisdom is justified of her children: Come, O you children of wisdom, observe that you may understand, and seek after Christ's reign, and say with me. Come Lord Jesus come quickly, according to thy saying, Even so come Lord Jesus; Let those that wait on the Lords coming say, Amen, even so be it.    

A Defiance to all reproachful, scandalous, base, horrid, defaming speeches, which have been vented by Rulers, Clergy, and their Auditors, and published in scurrilous Pamphlets up and down in Cities and Countries, against Anna Trapnell, late Prisoner in Bridwell for the Testimony of Jesus the Lord.  
I Am forced out of my csose retired spirit, by Rulers and Clergy, who have brought me upon the world's stage of Reports, and Rumours, making me the world's wonder, and gazing st●…: and as some have said they thought I had been a Monster or some ill-shaped Creature, before they came and saw, who then said, they must change their thoughts, for I was a woman like others that were modest and civil, and many commending words they uttered; which (because it's of my own particular) 〈◊〉 forbear to mention; and what I do mention is to advance free grace shown me, in making gainsayers to receive a check in their own consciences, and to be ashamed that they took up reports: Truly Rulers & Clergy, I wii bid Defiance to all the words & actions which have undeservedly and unjustly been by you or others vented against, and inflicted upon me; I speak this (the Lord my my God knows) not vauntingly, but humbly: For I am conscious to myself, that I have abundance of infirmities, and am sure the worst of all the Lord's Flock, indeed a sorry worthless creature; and as from the Lord I deserve nothing save hell and eternal destruction, yet he loves me, and hath loved me with an everlasting love; and will you, Oh men, condemn and pass your sentences upon me?  
First, for a Witch; Pray, wherein can you make this appear? Oh you Inhabitants of Fruroer, and Clergy there or in any other place, or at Court; Can any Ruler there make good their words? I am sure, I may defy this their speech, and will.  
Further, they call me Impostor; Pray which of the ways and Ordinances or Statutes of the Lord have I perverted through deceit? Canst thou, Oh man, or woman, lay any thing of this nature to my Charge? Do then; but through grace you cannot: Therefore I can defy this saying also.  
Again, you call me vagabond; but how will you make that good? All the Art, skill, or policy that any politician hath among you, cannot make this saying true, not in the least: I lived with my Mother till she died, which was about twenty years, than I kept house with the means my Mother left me, and paid taxes towards maintaining of the Army then in the field; and this I did not grudgingly, but freely and willingly; I sold my Plate and Rings, and gave the money to the Public use; you did not call me vagabond then; I am compelled, as I told you, to bring my private Spirit forth to the view of the world, and to declare my free-will-offering, yet not boastingly, but so as that the world may judge whether this term of vagabond will hold good concerning me; the sum of money my Mother left me, I freely gave for the Armies use, and I wrought many night's hard to get money, the which I cheerfully bestowed, not on my own back nor belly cheer, but fared hard, that so I might minister towards the relief of the Nation; and if that little means which I have left had been in money, I could not have kept it from you; Oh Army, and Rulers, that then would not have defamed me; I pray why are you so unchristian like in your carriages to me now? you have taxes from me still; and am I a vagabond for this? Ask your Lawyers, will they not say you were much to blame herein? Let all that knew me, speak, when they saw or knew me a vagabond: After the time was over of my keeping house, I was desired by Mrs. Spenser, a Minister's Widow, to abide with her, and her daughters, who were sober, holy, humble walkers with God, and not of a frothy, wanton, light, giddy carriage and deportment, as many Professors in those days appeared in; I lived among these, taking up my abode with Mrs. Harlow, daughter to the aforementioned Mrs. Spenser, who lived near her Mother in the Minneries; She, her maid, and I lived together a while, and they are my witnesses, whether I was then idle, and others beside them can witness for me; I kept close to the Word, and fasting, and Prayer, and so observing times for civil employment; was I a vagabond then? Then I was desired by Mrs. Wythe my kinswoman, a Merchant's wife in Fau-Church-street, to live with her, with whom I lived six years; could I be a vagabond there? They shall be my judges in this, I lived with them in City and Country till Rulers were displeased at a dispensation above their understanding, and therefore gave out threatening speeches, that my Relation and friend where I lived was afraid to receive me for losing his Place: And now I have related my places of abode from my Childhood, until the 11. month 1653. all which time I suppose no rational man will say I was a vagabond: And as for the time since, as soon as I was rejected of my kinsman for the Ruler's sake, many friends would have let me into their houses, which are very grave, godly, conscientious, wise, sober, persons, that are unwilling to  vagabonds; but to this day I have a settled habitation, and pay assessments, therefore stand convinced from this day, and hereafter all you Rulers, Clergy, and People in all Places and Countries, that I Anna Trapnell am no vagabond, nor Runagate Person, though I have and may sometimes live in the City, and sometimes in the Country, as yourselves do, and why should I be accounted a vagabond more than you?  
Let me yet further, bid defiance to those that have called me Whore, which language hath proceeded from Court, I hear so; and will any that have said so, stand to their words without blushing? Truly, I would try them, were there any Law up, save the wills of men; you may peradventure say, this savours of revenge; I answer, It doth not, for Solomon saith, The Name of the righteous is as a precious Ointment, and therefore dead flies are to be cast out, which would putrify it, and it's to be carefully preserved because costly and precious for use, so that if it be putrified it's not of use; so Christ's flock are for his use, and he keepeth them, that nothing can putrify them in that newborn State they are in; yet as to that usefulness for the benefit of Saints and sinners, herein they may be hindered, through the dead flies stinking-sent, brought on their Names, that all people may have no knowledge of: And as to this Charge, being I do not suffer as an evil doer, I will triumph and give glory to the Lord my God, who hath kept me from open profaneness, and from secret sins, and in a great measure hath freed me from my iniquity, which is the sin of my disposition, which doth not run out, nor incline to lustfulness, neither of the flesh nor eye, nor pride of life; but my iniquity is passion, apt to be hasty, it's more within than appears without; this I speak to my shame, and the advancement of free grace not so prompt any, or myself to boast of sinful infirmities, though God heals my backslidings, and loves me freely; I will not sin that grace may abound, but I will confess my sins to him who is just and faithful to forgive, and he that covers his sin cannot prosper; it's written, he that saith he hath no sin is a liar; yet I can say, they are liars that have thus reported of me, as I have penned down, and having this boldness which is not of a carnal form, I may look my enemies in the face with cheerfulness, and yet with sobriety, and so I can through mercy and Divine goodness, and oh that all my Adversaries would take the pains, as David did to find out their iniquity, which dog's them at the heels, so that they may cry against it, and be humbled before the Lord: I would fain be conformable to the death and resurrection of Christ, though I fall short, indeed I do, I am not unwilling to confess it; yet oh, yet I can with a face unvailed contend with my adversaries, whether they be men or devils, and bid defiance to them for Christ's sake: As for me, truly I am not worth mentioning, nor regarding by any, none can sure think viler of me than I think of myself: yet I bless the Lord, and my Father, as unto men's reports I am not guilty, nor a transgressor in their sense, for the which I praise Jehovah, and still I will advance him who is my All in All.  
I have a further word with the Cornwell Jurors, who say they are for the Lord protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, etc. and upon their Oaths present Anna Trapnell to be a dangerous seditious Person, not only, say they, imagining, but devising and maliciously intending the peace, tranquillity and felicity of the good people of this Commonwealth of England to disturb, but, say they, to move, stir up, and raise discord, rebellion and insurrection among the good People of England, as aforesaid; this they affirmed upon oath, in their Indictment; all which I bid defiance to as false; & likewise those say of theirs, which were, that I would cause authorities, just and righteous Actions to be brought into contempt, disgrace, and hated with the good People, calling me one of a devilish mind, and wicked imaginations; and saying, I uttered with a loud voice malicious, scandalous, horrible, and seditious words in the hearing of divers people: Can you tell what you say? Oh Jurors, when you say you are for the Lord Protector, I am sure you do not mean the great Lord Protector of heaven and earth, sea, and dry land, who hath indeed all Dominions belonging unto him: And as for him you call your Protector, you do not give him that tithe in love to him more than to another, nor so much as to old King Charles, and to his Son, who is in your hearts, you love a King dearly, Oh that you did love King Jesus, he would never fail you, he would teach you to make your indictments truer, and not upon persons undeserving, he would teach you not to use his children as witches, and vagabonds when they come into your parts: I pity you, oh you envious Jurors you have not injured me, nor indicted me, but yourselves, and though I could say, when before you examined, Not guilty, I could say so with a clear conscience, yet I am sure you can not say so, at the Lords judgement seat, when he shall read the Bill of Indictment against you, can you say to him, you are not of a divillish mind, nor of a wicked imagination, nor seditious, nor maliciously bend against the great Lord Protector and his subjects, against whom you imagine, devise, stir up, and raise discord, rebellion and insurrection against the great Lord Protector, and his good People aforesaid, endeavouring to bring his righteous and just Actions into contempt disgrace, and hatred amongst all sorts of People, good and bad, And be it known 〈…〉 that the Jehovah Protector is my King, Priest, and 〈…〉 Kingly power I obey, and all government consonant to it, and whose Priesthood, and also deny that which shall offend it, and make it of no effect; and I love to listen to that great Prophet, who teaches like him; and though I say thus, yet I love the Gospel found in & through the Lords Trumpeters; I do not despise true Prophecy from any, I love to read what the Lord spoke through a Balaam, who was a sorcerer yet spoke excellently of Christ, that blessed star of Jacob, and Redeemer of Israel; This I speak, to give you to understand my delight, and love to all the Lords Ordinances and speakings; so that I must take leave to mention another defiance to your Letter you sent against me to London, wherein you reported that I denied Ordinances, which hundereds of people can and will witness to the contrary; Thus you may see your folly, Oh, you Cornwell Clergy, and Justices; and indeed I should be glad, if you saw your evil, and repent, and humbled your souls before the Lord, against whom you have sinned: what you have done to me is small, when compared with your trespass against the living God, whose appearing is as devouring fire, and everlasting burn; who can dwell with God and stand before him, when he thus appears? The Prophet Isaiah tells you, 33.15. He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly, he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil, they shall dwell on high; their place of defence shall be not only a Rock, but munitions of rocks, like the strength of many Rocks, that are many times doubled, and treehed one within another, and one a top of another, which maketh it an high and a strong place that none can enter, or reach the upright; the upright shall see him in his glory, which is a sight worth the making after, and preparing for: Who will withhold no good thing from those that love his appearing, he will give them salvation for walls and bulwarks, as it is written, and he taketh them as he did Moses, when he shown him Canaan afar off, so the Lord will take all his faithful ones, and show them the lovely Land, wherein no Dragon can cast his floods; nor wolf can catch the sheep into their prison-paws, nor Lion can cast into their Bridewell-den; there shall be no Fox to Inform, and lay hold with their Soldiers, the Children and Saints of the most high God; this Land is a safe place, where no ravenous beast shall molest the Saints; and the Beauty of King Jesus shall take so with them, that they shall forget all their hard measure, that they have had from the sons and daughters of men. And than who shall be so so deep speecht, as Saints now who are counted Novices, and shallow fellows, and frantic handmaids, not fit to stand to speak to the Learned wise Rabbis of these times, which call such that speak plainly phantick, and under the administration of evil Angels and seditious whimsical headed one's; but the time is coming which will discover the King in his Beauty to his, that are so slighted, and then they shall be the only Scribes who are the Lords chosen Baruches, he will employ them to write his Rolls; and truly he now makes use of them, to meditate terror, and to count the Towers; they are not deceived in their accounts, concerning the beast and the false Prophets, and those that adhere to them, which shall feel the terror of the Lord; and they, their Scribes, Receivers, and Towers shall fall before him whose Name is a strong Tower, into whom the righteous run and are safe, and therefore let not any wondes at those that pleadeth praise for the Name of King Jesus, which is so blasphemed, and set at naught by self seekers; the Name of the Lord is worth suffering for, and they that have sufffered for it, 
Lam. 3.24, 25, 26.  and do still suffer for it, may joy in the Lord as their Portion, which the Church rejoiced in, though in great afflictions, that God was her Portion, and she would hope in him, and saith, The Lord is good to those that wait for him, and to the soul that seeketh him, its good, saith she, to hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord; they that hope aright to see the King in his beauty, they quietly wait, they wait without murmuring: But not without Prayer, and earnestly contending for the Faith of Christ, touching any of his concernments; not a passionate contending is approved, but a zealous contending is allowed by the Lord, recorded by the Apostle; therefore hold fast your zeal for God, little Remnant, who have given up your hearts and hands, and foreheads to his Mark and Stamp, abhorring that of the beast, the Lord would have you let go passion, but love zeal, and hold it fast, what ever men say of it, or do against you for it, yet let the zeal of the Lord eat you up, David saith, The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: Where are such now? There are many that their pride and lustfulness, and vainglory hath eaten them up, and swallowed what they seemed to hold forth, for others benefit, even for those that are the Lords household, but now self hath devoured all, and the Lords heritage must wait for their Right, till their King Jesus comes, whose right all power and Dominion is, and will take his great power and reign; who then shall gainsay him? Then there shall be no mockers, nor deriders to scoff at the fifth Monarchy, where then shall be the table-scoffers, and the Pulpit-deriders, and such that make a sport and jeer at those that are for Christ's reign, and cry, Raze them; raze, even to the ground, their Persons, Estates, and what ever is theirs; but the Lord laughs such enemies to scorn, and hath them in derision, and will require and recover all from them that have defrauded; a fierce people shall not overcome the Lords Anointed, fierce looks, nor deep speech gathered up and fetched from both Cambridge and Oxford Universities shall not affright the Lords flock, though they stammer, they shall be understood, no dark saying shall be concealed from the faithful, they shall understand fierce looks, and deep subtle speeches, though they be brought forth with a Latin tongue, and in Greek expressions, yet the wise-observing-spirited one's shall understand the cunning works of the politic Sophister; glorious things spoken of the City of God: And the Lord encourageth the afflicted to hope and take confidence in him, who will bring judgement unto victory; faithful is he that hath promised, who will do it; then Saints may look upon Zion as the City of their solemnities, their eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down, not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken, but there the glorious Lord will be unto us, a place of broad rivers, and streams wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby: For the Lord is our Judge; the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King, he will save us, thy tackling are loosed, they could not well strengthen their Mast, they could not spread the Sail, then is the prey of a great spoil divided, the lame take the Prey, and the Inhabitants shall not say I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity, this time is coming wherein the spoiler shall be spoiled, in the restauration of the Kingdom to Israel, then shall quietness and peace that passeth all understanding be in their habitation, and round about them, no dealing of men shall make them afraid, their Tabernacle no Politician shall take down, if any Assyrian or others shall stretch out their tongue or hand against the Lords Prophets, and Servants, they shall whither and shrink up with leprosy: For they that are true to the Lord, he will be a Tabernacle unto them for a shadow in the day time from the heat, & for a place of refuge, & for a covert from storm, and from rain, Isa 4, 6. The Tabernacle spoken of in Leviticus, and in other places typed out Christ to come excellently, as the great Refuge and holy Centre for his People, who bring their sacrifices to him, they shall have admittance to enter in, being his Priests, they shall not stand at the door of the Tabernacle, but have liberty to come into this Tabernacle, and find acceptance, and welcome, what need they then matter whether men bid them welcome to their thrones and houses or no, their welcome oftentimes is but a compliment; for the most part not real, but the Lords welcome and invitation is always real: Oh what strong steaks and cords hath this Tabernacle, which is a stability of those glorious times of Zion, none of her strength or fortifications shall be broken or taken down by Bolial or any of his Crew: for their cords are not like those green with'hs, which the Philistines brought to Dalilah to bind Samson, Judg. 16. Chap. For the Lord hath made them abhor their Dalilah sins, and cut off such right hands, and pluck out such right eyes, those sins that were so near and delightful to them, they say, get you hence, they hate folly, and vain thoughts, and say with David in the 119. Psalms, O how I love thy Law; unto such will the glorious Lord be a place of broad rivers; not a narrow channel, nor a marshy ditch, where the flags and rushes cover the water springs, nor a narrow winding Creek, where boats cannot pass along, neither is it shallow, but deep and broad, a place of broad rivers and streams, it's indeed an Ocean, it comprehends all rivers, and streams, and this may be said of it, Oh, the higth and depth, length and breadth; these are Rivers that the Waters rise up to the Ankles, yea to the knees, and so to the loins, and at length they become a flowing high spring, that runs over banks, 
Ezex. 47.3, 4, 5.  and fills the meadows, and Ezekiel gives a report of these high spring Waters in his Prophecy, its good to be diptor plunged in this Jordan river, which taketh away all deformity, and cleanseth from all leprosy, and its a comforting refreshing River, this is Water of Life, it recovers the dying vitals, and fainting Spirits, the which none of men's strong liquors of Arts and Sciences can do, neither can any compounded water of humane invention be so effectual, though they still it in the Limbeck of brain-study, draining it through the long pipe of curious witty phrases, yet such Equors will soon lose their spirits; but as for the Water that the soul draws out of the Well of Salvation, through Faith's Bucket, which retains the Sent and fragrant Smell, and operative Nature, and the soul swimes in the broad rivers that are promised Zion; which Rivers will admit no gaily with oars to row therein, no troublers shall come there, none of men's gallantry, nor ships of Merchandise shall sad there, no turkish, nor English galley of power and strength and device, managed with Soldier oars shall appear to take the freeborn captive; that river will presently sink such galleys and oars too; and if so be gallant Council ships, and great numerous Parliament ships, which are made of wood; and pitch, and rosin, and tar, and okum, such stuff as will burn to ashes when the fire comes, which Scriptures speaks of, it's not the Clergy nails that can fasten such ships together, and make them sail, which are heavy lumpish bottoms, that have no nimble swift motion at all, whereby to do service for King Jesus and his subjects: But the broad river is preparing, its making its path through all opposition, & its ships are all making ready and preparing to swim: The great Shipwright, I speak this with reverence and holy awe of God, and say that the great artificial Shipwright, and Carpenter's Son so called by the Jews, which was the glorious Messiah, this mighty God is fitting his ships for this time, these are the Zion spoken of, Micah 4.13. whose horns are Iron, and hoofs brass, who are exhorted to arise and thresh, and beat in pieces many people, and these will not waste the gain, neither will they feast it away, but they will consecrate it unto the Lord of the whole earth, they will serve his interest with it, not their own ends, and felfish interests.  
This is a time longed for by the New Non-conformists, who are Christ's little flock, whom he bids not to fear, for it pleased his Father to give them a Kingdom.  
Therefore get you to your strong holds, Oh Israel, and Prisoners, for you are Prisoners of hope, you seek not great things for yourselves, but for the Lords Anointed one's; you cry to the Lord, and not for earthly Palaces, nor White-Hall-Garden-Walkes, nor Kitchin-belly-chear, nor Lairdery-dainties, nor Banquet-sweet-meats; nor Councell-Robes, nor Parliament Tithes nor Emperor Advancement, nor great Attendance, nor for Colonels and Captains silken Buss, and garnished spangled Coats, and gilded Cloaks, and brave London and Country Houses; I say, fellow-Prisoners and sufferers for Christ, seeing we have none of this in our eye nor desires, let us bid defiance to all reproaches, and vilifyings and derisions against us; this defiance have I presented to Cornwall Clergy and Justices with their Auditories or Agents joining with them, whether they be devout men or women, great gifted and learned, or ignorant; I bless the Lord, I can send defiance to all your reports, and reproachful language there, and so I can to all such here, and to their harshness, which say, it is pity but I should be hanged, and that would commend a whip to my back; and to all base terms and names, and to Bridwell usage too, I will write defiance, and say, Who can lay any thing to my charge, worthy of such reproach, indictments, or binding over to the good behaviour, or of three or four prisons, or of sending to Bridwell.  
And now in this defiance let all take their share; Enemies take yours, and don't be offended at true speaking, but be humbled and repent, that your evil words, and unjust actions, and thoughts of your heart may be forgiven you, and for you I shall pray.  
And to friends, I have this word, do not you find fault with oppressions, but labour to amend them with candid and charitable Constructions, and Spiritual Application of those Scripture-Observations which are your due; and that we may all practise that which is good, and escape the evil, is the desire and earnest request of  
Your praying Friend ANNA TRAPNELL.   

An Errata.  
IN page 17. line, 26. for horrible fit, read horrible pit. in page 19 line 15. for Haulbow, read Holse. In page 24. line 9 read draw near to the Table. page 27. line 13. for pin, read bring, and for through, read notwithstanding their.