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Show ( t6 ) City before • that the Priefts had no fuch P'owet as to fend' for him, nor lhould have fuch Power; that he had reproved the Priefl:s for what they had done ; and bad him,· if ever they fent for him again, · not to obey them; that he rebuked one of the chiefeft of the Priefis of that Council for faying, That they (viz... the Priefis) would give out ~eries in ff't:iting to him to Anfwer- and that he charged the faid Priefl:s, in the prefence of W. Ames, that they ihm.ild give fonh none, (tho' JViliiam was as 'ready ro anfwer as the Priefts t<1 give forth) that the Prince ufed tnuch Moderation, as did alfo his Sifter·;: rhat lbe received very friendly what was fpokep by him in way of Ex .. hortation to her ; that' neither of them were offended at what was fpoken by him ro them, nor at the Hat, nor with plain Language, Thou and Thee. I lhall there alfo underftand, that when, about the fpace of a Year after, he and another :f.Higgins Friend (viz.. 1ohn Higgins) came to vifit him, thac he very lovingly received them; that the Captain of his Life-guard wid the '(~id William, That hi4 Prince Wdf v ery glad that he was com~ into the Country agatn; that he had given him Order to fupply them ( tho• they neither wanted,· nor asked, ·nor re· ceived) with what·ever they wanted, either Monej or Clothes ; in which his Love was feep and ac· cepred ; that he very fr,iendly reGeived divers Books from them, borh tlien, an'q at times be-s f' fore : And, that when at another time Samuel :f.}£~bls. Fifher and 1ohn Stubbs were there, ftom Eny,land, and had given Notice ro his Secretary, thAt they had fomething in Writing to prefent the I)rince ; rhac he fent for them inro his Prefence Chamber ( where was alfo his Sifter ) and received it glad· ly from them, and a Book enclofed (their Hacs being on) expreffing much Defire af[c:r Friends. . · Books; ( li ) Books ; and recei~ing at another time a grear Book of George Fox s, and a Lerrer from WiUiarn -(1mes~ by rhe Hands of .1ohn Higgins, and char • mg htm to rhank fViUiam for rhat his Book M g ov•e Jri, hI fhall find that he had much o:r orefc- l lCOUr e WJ~. t . em ; that he told them, rbat he took their commg_ tn Love; that he believed they fpalu in Love to :hezr Souls ; that he , gave them thanks for thetr Love : That afier a while, being called t Supper, he took them with him· char lie fh 0 e d ~ h em ht. ~ H outre ; that he ftaye' d rhem b heiwm- ~hllft he ~td Eat; r?at they had Difcourf[ with hts Ch~plams, and dtvers of his great Men whilft rhe~ dtd Ear; th~t neither~t, nor any of them dunng all that ttme ( rho it was a Seafon of greater Pomp and State than ordinary the p · and h"1 8 N 0 b1'l ·t ry be m· g mer about the' choicnen ·c ef a ~ew .Emperor) manifefting any Offence ~t their D~fcourfe, or at their being Covered, rho• ( accordtpg ro. rheir Cufiom) rhe Prince and his Nobles fare WICh their Hats off. bur on rh tra h p • . ' e con- . ry' t e rmce. mamfefting much Satisfaction WHh what rhey fatd; .and enquiring afrer William Ames, and how he d1d faying he .... 11 h h ' , _,as not we"" w en e was /aft with him ; thar in Friendfhi ~nd Love rhey_ departed ; rhat they had free Li~ erry to Meet tn any }?art of his Domitlions in th~ very Heart of whtch there is a Meedn ' of Fne~ds, garhe:ed into the Trurh by the.gfaid :r~~~m. afotrefatd, who Meet cogerher with rhe P at rbtnl ce s Knowledge ; whofe Meetings are eacea e. . . Laf/ly, I fhall there find, that when John Stubbs and Samuel Fifher were afrerwards in G many, that rhe Land-~criver ( the next Officer~: P~w.er un~er the Pnnce, and divers of rheir Mlmfters !enr to them, to give him and rhe faid B Minifiers |