FOX. 
She-people fhould receive the inward ere teaching of the 
Lord, and take that for their rule of li About the 
year 1648, he felt himfelf called upon to propagate 
the opinions which he had embraced, and commenced pu ub- 
pe teacher in me of the neighbouring 
the certainty a 
ing the 
e of one’ : 
e extenfive journies, and travelled 
throu; xh the counties of Deby: sued -_ North a 
addreffing the people an the market- s, and inveigh- 
ing ftrongly ay a Aronkennets and the cue 
prevalen the a time he appre- 
‘hended se ie len had to “biden ‘him . ae off his hat 
to any one; and required him to fpeak to the people’ in the 
language of thou and thee ; that he muft not bend his knee 
to earthly authorities, and that he muft, on no account, take 
an oath. is peculiarities expofed him te much cruel 
treatment, pn ee zea Fequevtl was the caufe of im 
peifonment a e. At Nottingham, 
e the san to tr 
? 
» and gave the 
cai rupees was not likely to be endured ; 
he was _ not ae turned out the ‘church, but. thrown 
t and — — 
pofed of an infuriated pee 
{carcely cleaned an Vie life. At Derby he was emma 
to prifon for x months, urder the pretence of having 
‘ attered divers blafphemons opinions; .andat the expiration 
«of the term, refuling to enlift as a common foldier, he 
was ordere into the dungeon, and .confined for another 
: e followers of Fox 
uakers, ” sa term 
account of the ‘alge .ac 
‘delivery of their {peeches, -or, becaufe, oe brou 
fore ‘the shigher powers, they exhorted the magiftrates and 
other perfons prefent “*to tremble at the name of the 
Lord.’ t Laneafter,-Carlifle, other places, Fox met 
with _ ulage, a Tr 55 he wa 
an’ 
that he Sold sae ae arms againft him or the exifti 
g difcuffed various topics wi 
ordered him to be fet at liberty. 
ex probably now felt -+himfelf bold i in the caufe, recom- 
inifteri {pent fom 
means of the ee, 
er- 
y uted 
e felt himfelf bound to travel : an 
, folicitin ng ic atten 
tion to the fufferings of his are red on hearing a-rumour 
that he was about to affume the title of king, Fox folicited 
an audience, and-remonitrated with him very freely upon 
the meafure, as what muft bring fhame and ruin on him- 
f and his pofterity. He allo addrefled a paper to the 
heads and governors of the nation, on occafion of a faft 
appointed on account of ‘the perfecution of the Proteftai,ts 
abroad ; in which he embra e€ opportunity that fuc 
appointment offered, of hela on in proper colours, = 
impropriety and iniquity ef perfecution at home 
hiltory of Fox, for a ea Leanne to Age eo 
ef details of ~~ see repeated 
imprifonments. is laft- mentioned ae fe was liberated 
act and 
exigences to aa re pe! might be tia 
the ye arried Margare ty the widow 
of nudes Fell, at Ghee nous he had been entertained in 
his _progrefs through Lancafhire. 
riends of their 
eee 3a ving base peas approbation > the mere ok 
each other in marri aR» by mutual public ¢ declarations te 
that intent, at a mecting aspoue for the purpofe at 
riftol. After this Me Fox failed ‘for xmerica, where 
he {pent two years in making profelytes, and in confirming 
the faith and pra@tice of thofe who i ie ly joined in 
his caufe. oe pe ioneand to was taken 
into cuftody, a rown into Wor 
‘by ‘means o owever, 
rejected the €> as fe conceived a padee iniplied guilt = 
he chofe rather to ftand a trial, by which he was honourably 
acquitted, Paes not till ‘he had eralie more than a 
“year’s ver He next went to ae 
nd@on his ¥ sctien, 3 a ules was inftitute agal 
refuting to pay tithes; his opponents were (ea and 
he -was obliged to fabmit to the confequences. In 168 
Fox aa vifited the continent, and u ie this return he 
found-his health and {pirits too auch impaired by inceffant 
fatigues, and almoft perpetual perfecutions, to contend 
anymore with his enemies, ‘he accotdingly lived more re- 
tired ; and in 1690 he died, in the fixty-feventh year of his 
cher. 
tings, exe 
ufive of a few feparate pieces, which were not printed a 
fecond time, :were colleéted in 3 vols. folio: the firft con« 
sist his 6 «Journal s ds the fecond a _colledtion of oe 
Fox w 
<convgrfant 
pel and - 
ae that, above al], he excelled in pra 
and folemnity of: a addrefs and eee vand the fers’ 
ventnefs and fu Inefs of. his words, often ftruck ftrangers 
with admiration.’ alfo mentions, in terms of high 
commendation, his mecknefs, humility, and inoderati ion 3 
and he adds that he was civil beyond all forms of breeding 5 
in his behaviour very temperate, eating little, and fleeping 
le’s, though a bulky a Toukmin’s edit. of Neal’s 
hit, of Puritans. Gen. Biog 
e reverence 
Fox; 
