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Show ( J 8 ) . . that Samuel Fi!her mrt rhem !Vl.iniftcrs a Meeu~g , .~ · well J) that he had f ( r-:t 0hn StttbbJ not tJetng d · a_ one Jod . D'fcoul'fe with rhem, an ~~much m ei ate . 1 d h he quietly palled b. ny a pretty ume, an . r ar . •d M' . fi e frer that rhe Land-Scrt·ver an . tm e~s ~way, a. ffi d h Thankfulnefs to hJm, fo~ hls Jpd expre e tnuc t otfiended at his Hat, nor L who were no Pl oa ~me,n ors. of Speech · Al.l which make ye ma-nif~~~~~ · I j'ourney hence into Lw:e~ G't,"'•"Jf. d~e UnittJ Provjnce.r, and inro the Cutes t ereo , and make an lnquifirion through foJ:J of lh~ Principal of them, as AmfterdaJn, Sc ~ ,m, ez· Jen Rotterdam, Zutphen, Middleburgh . I~ An:· fler;iam I fhall find a People gathered, Meeung m Peace, and free Liberty of Palling. up afd ;~u~l~ in· rhofe Pr()vinces, for rhe Declanng o .· d .s.t. Fijber. And at Middleburgh in ZetJland I thall fi~d ~~llift~r Spealdng in a Scteple-Houfe~ after thctr (i ~~ h had done and a quiet Reafomng there 01 t e r, f half an Hour in rhe Prefence of one of Jpace o f '1 I who was very the Heers or LordJ o t 1~t p ~ce, . h hat Moderare and in Englifh dtfcourfed WH c Friend fo'r fome fpace o~ rime, witho~t a~ff~~~~ raken ar his Har, .or pram ~ang~age' · · defired further Di.fcourfe wn~ htm at the Mmt· ft 's Houfe whither they went tog~ther; there ,h:y had ve~y moderate Difco~rfe tn the _P~efence of many Perfons of ~aluy' wdho nett . e~ were offended at his being Covere ' n_or wu his plain Language, but were very Courteous. r~ him ; and when they had d~ne, fen! two ~~d • him co accompany him co h1s Lodgmg!. . d . in the fame City of Middleburgh, ano~her .Fnen * ~/.lriftop. b · · Prifon ( C. Brickhe11d of Br~fl~l, m ~ng· Bmkh<4d. lae~~g b~ Name ) an Information bemg giV<J ther~of by fame Friends tO the State.r-bG~ndera Am aua or, ( 19) Aanbalfador, Newport, the Refidenr it1 England ; 1 fhaJI find that the faid States-General"s Aml>alfador wrote to rhe Magiftrates there, and the Ma, giftrares rh•reupotJ' fetdng him al Liberty; thu Condemning ye~ . . Shall I take Shipping from FlufiJing, and pafs to Calais 011 the one Hand, and recurn back to HoOanJ, and fo co Gentva, and SJvit't,erland on the other, and foot it through fome of the chief Cities in France, viz. LJims, Pari.r, Palence, Orange, Roche!, Morlaix, and to TJrole in the Alpe.r, and fo into Italy, to Leghorn in Tufcany, ro /7mice and to Rome? (Time would fail me ro inftance all) rhere I #hall meet with Friends Pai1ing ~nd Repaffing Safely, continuing in divers Ciries fometimes,. and paffing through them, even in Italy ( the moll Complemental of any ) and rewrning inro England, rho• they were Examin'd before divers in Authority in thofe complemerHal Places, who neicher fcrupJcd ar their Palfage, nor at rheir Hats. At Pari.r one of rhtm being in the Ra{Jile in Prifont was ferved daily wirh the fame Provifions as was a Noble Man of rheirs, in the fame Prifon, ac che King's Charge, and afcerwards fer * I·Vtr ~c Li?erry. At * Mo~laix another of them being Salt: l ufll · m Pnfon for reprovmg rheir MaJkings, which are toUerared by Law, and his Life vehemently fought after bv the Bailiff of that Town for fo doing ; I fhall find the King upon lhe , Infor ... marion fhereof by rhe Englifli Ambaffador, Loc-kart (by means of a Merchant of rhat Town~ whom God llirred up in the thing) I fay, I fhall lind the King fending a Lercer under hi9 Hand and S·eal ro fer him prefenrly ar Liberry, taking Notice in the faid Leuer, that he wag Imprifoned for Reproving of Masklr:gs, tolerated by Law; and when the King was Informed~" B 1 rhat |