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hours. About this time some of John Wesley's followers 

 began to appear in these islands, and John came himself with 

 Dr. Cook and Adam Clark, the compiler of notes on the 

 Bible, but being previously impressed with Friends' principles, 

 although we kept on good terms with them, and my mother 

 even permitted one of their best preachers, by name Bracken- 

 bury, to preach in her large parlor, still we found it best to 

 keep our places as Friends according to our convincement. 



" Our Society was now joined by Peter Le Lacheur, a truly 

 religious man from his youth up, notwithstanding the fact 

 that he was a sailor and had been pressed on board a King's 

 ship : the books I lent him, the " Rise and Progress of Friends " 

 and " Barclay's Apology " — both in French translations — were 

 the cause of his conversion. He then carried his carnal 

 weapons to the Commander-in-Chief — he being in the Militia 

 — and told him that he would not use them any more, and I 

 have never heard that he was persecuted for refusing to serve. 

 He then came to London with my brother and me, and we 

 attended all the meetings and particularly enjoyed the dis- 

 course of several American Ministers — Robert Valentine and 

 others. On his return to Guernsey he visited his sister 

 Margaret, wife of John Queripel, a small farmer, who was 

 also a glazier, who were both strict Church people. His 

 influence over his sister Margaret so excited her that she 

 went into a sort of delirium in which she remained for several 

 days, so much so that her brother and a surgeon and I were 

 all sent for, but her husband came to the door to forbid our 

 entrance. This was in consequence of a meeting of her 

 relations with the parish priest who declared that we were 

 dangerous people, and induced her to attend the Lord's 

 Supper. So we did not attempt to see her, but kept our 

 meetings at my mother's house in the town in the morning and 

 at Peter Le Lacheur's, about one mile from the town, in the 

 afternoon, and eventually Margaret Queripel joined us also. 

 Since joining us Peter Le Lacheur's Christian charities have 

 become very conspicuous, as for many years he has opened a 

 free school for the labouring poor at five o'clock in the 

 morning, so that they could attend before going to their daily 

 labour. This gave offence to the Dean and Chapter of 

 Guernsey, who sent a message to him telling him to desist, to 

 which he replied that if the Dean or any of the Clergy would 

 undertake to teach the poor, with no thought or hope of gain, 

 but merely for love as he had done, he would stop, but not 

 before — and he heard no more about it. But he has now left 

 off, being about 80 years old," 



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