"In this our weighty undertaking we had our eye unto the Lord, and he had regard unto us. He honoured us with his presence, and hath been our support and defence through all difficulties, even to this present day. We will render and give to him our hearts, and we shall then be enabled to offer up the offerings of praise and thanksgiving acceptably to him who is over all, and above all,-is worthy— worthy thereof, saith my soul, for ever and ever. Amen, amen."

Thus ends the extract made by John Pemberton from the Narrative. As the marriage certificate of Phineas Pemberton and Phebe Harrison, from whom sprang the Pembertons of America, exhibits the simple manners and language of those early times, a copy of it, from Hardshaw monthly meeting records, is here subjoined:

"This is to certifie the truth to all people, that Phineas Pemberton, of Boulton in le Moors, in the county of Lanc'r, grocer, and Phebe Harrison, daughter of James Harrison, of Boulton aforesaid, having intentions of marriage, according to the ordinance of God, they did lay it before the monthly meeting, both of men and women, (that do take care that such things be according to the order of the gospel,) several times; and did also publish their said intentions in the particular meeting whereunto they did belong; and it appearing that both the said parties were clear and free from all others, and that all their friends and relations concerned therein were consenting, a meeting of ye people of God was appointed in the house of John Haydock, of Capull, where they tooke one an other in the presence of God, and in the presence of his people, ye first day

of the eleventh month, called January, and in the year 1676; according to the law of God, and the practice of the holy men of God, in the scriptures of Truth, promising to each to live faithfully together, man and wife, so long as they lived. In witness whereof, wee who were present, have hereunto subscribed our names. "" "Ralph Pemberton,

James Harrison, John Abraham, William Yardley, Roger Longworth, John Bancroft, Richard Cubban, Thomas Pott, Henry Coward, Godfrey Atherton, John Whiteoars, Benjamin Canby, Isaac Ashton, Richard Johnson, Henry Haydock, Roger Haydock," and other men. "Anne Harrison, Eliz. Johnson, Eliz. Hodgson, Eliz. Haydock, Elinor Low, Margaret Brewer, Mary Rigby, Ann Cubban, Margaret Ashton, Lydia Wharmby, Anne Haydock," and other women Friends.

In 1677, and subsequent years, Roger Longworth continued to travel in the service of the gospel; and visited Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and other places, being accompanied by Roger Haydock, another eminent minister in those days. These appear to have been bold, and zealous, and lively in the great cause they had espoused; and, of course, persecution followed them, and all other conscientious persons who could not pay tythes, nor conform to the rituals and ceremonies of the established church. The irritation of the priests was vented on these peaceable people, in the form of imprisonments, levies, distresses, and ill treatment of various kinds. The passions and prejudices of the lower classes were enlisted against them, perhaps frequently instigated by the influence of men in higher stations. The following memorandums, copied from a paper

in the hand-writing of Phineas Pemberton, gives a specimen of the intolerant spirit which then prevailed.

"Upon the 12th of the 9th mo. 1678, there came one James Stanton and made a fire upon the pavement, afore my shop doore, and cryed divers times, threatening what he would do if any came out of the shop, and meedled with the said fire. And a son of Roger Seddon, of the Lyon, came within the shop, and said he was one that was hired to pull my shop in pieces; and further said, lett any come out of the shop, and he would set a mark on theire foreheads. John Prescot, servant to Thomas Marsden, came into my shop, with a rude company with him, and said I knew not a pig from a dog; and said that his master was the first man that made a fire in the towne, and he did it that he might encourage others therein, for it was the preparation for a fast. And there was one that stood behind the wall and held a pistoll towards my head, and it mist fireing; and I was aware of it, and cal'd to them, whereupon they fled away. Others came, and cast a squib into my shop. And after I had shutt up my shop, there came somebody to my doore (I suppose it was the abovenamed Roger Seddon) and knockt violently att it, and said, "Come out, thou papist!-thou papist dog! thou jesuit!-thou devill!-come out." Att which time, there was severall of the chiefest of professors singing psalmes in the street. And divers times, the said night, they came and knockt att the doore and my shop windows, and call'd, "Come out, papist!" and threw stones att it. And because of theire rudeness, I went out some times to speake to the people; and as I was standing in the doore, there came

by the aforesaid Roger Seddon, and as he went by, said, "Thou art a papist! thou art a jesuit!" divers times over. And when they were so rude that no persuasions would bring them to quietness, I went to desire the constable to keepe peace: he said it was to no purposse, he did believe, (they were so very bad) to speake to them.”

"There was one Ann Woodroofe, as she went past my shop, said she could find it in her heart to throw fire into my shop."

"They sang psalmes, first, afore Thomas Marsden's doore; 2ndly, afore John Okey's doore; 3rdly, afore James Rodh's doore; 4thly, afore Thomas Horrot's doore; 5thly, att the crosse. And John Leavor, a presbyterian priest, gave out the psalme. And after they had done singing psalmes att the crosse, they had a fidler to play amongst them; and after that, there were some of them did fight."

"My father-in-law, having beene out of towne, and wondering att the rudeness of the people, and the cause of so many fires, asked some at the towne's end, what was the reason of so many fires? And some made answer, they were to burne all the Quakers in."

"There was some at a fire afore Robert Fletcher's doore, said to Ann Rothwell, for two pins, they could find in their hearts to burn her in the fire, because she went to the Quakers' meetings."

Phineas Pemberton, after his marriage, continued attentive to his business, though, as we see, not without interruptions and insults; many of which, perhaps from their frequent occurrence, he did not record. Besse, in his collection, relates in 1679, that

"as James Harrison was preaching at a meeting in his own house, the constables came and pluckt him away. They caused him to be fined, and by a warrant from Thomas Laver and John Kenyon, justices, made a seizure of leather and other goods, to the value of ten pounds, nineteen shillings. Phineas Pemberton, for himself and wife being at the said meeting, had goods taken from him to the value of four pounds, fifteen shillings and four pence."

But through all these trials and difficulties, by his uprightness and integrity, Phineas became much respected by his friends, and many of his neighbours. He held the office of overseer of the poor at Bolton, and was for many successive years a delegate for Friends to Hardshaw monthly meeting.

Frequently persecuted as these lovers of peace and quietness were, it is not surprising that, as William Penn's intentions of founding a colony in the Western World were then often made the subject of conversation, the attention of their minds was directed to a spot, where they might seek an asylum for the security of their civil and religious privileges; where they might worship their great Benefactor, unmolested by the rudeness of constables and mobs, and sit undisturbed under their own vine, and under their own fig tree.

In a letter from James Harrison to Roger Longworth, dated 8th month 4th, 1681, is the following hint given by him of these views: "I am about to bargain for my house, in case I should go with William Penn." And he expressed a wish that Ellinor Lowe, a valuable minister in the Society of Friends, might purchase it, that it might be "preserved for the Lord's service" (having been frequently used