The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-05

names sake, and covered our heads il
the day of battle. Glorified be His
great name forever.
| | have sometimes thought to omit
some part Of this account concerning
George Keith, but / remember it
/ Opened very clearly in my mind then,
and I said to him, That the hand of
the Lord was against him, and that he
would pour forth contempt upon
him, for his disobediance and wick
edness.
| But to returnsto his reflections, he
said, the Quakers pretend to be
against all ceremonies, but he could
prove they used many ceremonies, as
taking one another by the hand and
men saluting one another and women
doing SO to one another and he said,
that women did salute men; yea they
had done it to him; as it was generally
understood by those who heard him,
which / thought not worthy Of my
notice lbut more of this anon.) He
went on and said, the Quakers pretend
to be against all persecution but
! they were not clear, for the Quakers in
| Pennsylvania and the Jerseys had
prosecuted him, and would have
hanged him, but that there was some
alteration in the government.
1 Then came out one Of my arrows
which cut and wounded him deep.
| / said, George. that is not true Up
on that the Priest drew near and ap
peared very brisk, and said, had as
good as charged Mr.. Keith Gas he
called him) with lie replied, give
me time, and will prove that which
George said, was not true, and thee
thou and he may take your advantage
to rescue him from that epithet OF a
liar if you can. The Priest said. l
KNEW not Mr.. Keith; If he knew him
as well as | did, he would be haIned
! to be there as an abettor OF him. The
Priest got away and troubled me no
more In all the engagement that
George and had afterwards (altho
| the said Priest was with him). Then
! demanded of George what way our
what measures they took, as he would
insinuate, to bring him to The gallows?
But [ perceived fear began to surprise
the hypocrite, and he thinking by my
boldness. I was an inhabitant of those
parts, and knew his abuse to Friends
| In these Pro vinees, and their peaeeable
behaviour toward him. was willing to
let the matter drop. and demanded
my name. which was told him. !
then asked how could he have face
to urge such notorious untruth IN
the view Of that people, who were
much strangers to. and ignorant OF
the troubles and differences chiefly
created by him among Friends In
those parts7
The meeting as before nentioned)
being generally newly convinced Of the
truth, therefore | urged to have him to
the Particulars of Friends proceedings
against him. that even for very shame
among those strangers he would set
forth as far as he could in truth the
steps Friends had taken in prosecuting
him, as he pretended; but he would
not NEEDLE in the least with it. Then
/ shewed him and the people, the fall
sity Of his charge and the wickedness of
his spirit, and the peacefulness of
Friends behaviour toward him, and
what great affronts and provocations
they had put up with at his hands, as
had it from those who were eye wit
nesses of it. For as | showed George
Keith. had searched into the bottom
of these matters, and heard that when
he stood before Governors and Assem-
| blymen in their Courts of Judicature,
when they were met about the affairs
of the three Provinces, he has tore
open his buttons and told them his
back tickled for whipping and could
i they not cut him into collops, and fry
and eat them with salt; and that he
scorned they should wipe his shoes, all
which with much more, / told him [
could prove against him. And when
he saw that he could not provoke
Friends to give him some condign
punishment which ] thought as /
said to him, none but Friends would
i have saared, especially when his
1 back tickled so much for whipping;
but they like men of peace and religion
over looked II all, and he like a man
full of malice rather than want some
thing to slur and blacken Friends with
writ letter | know not where but
dated it from Burlington Prison in
West Jersey. 1t must have been dat
ed on the outside of the prison, the
doors being locked, so that he could
not get into it. yet this went current
far off, that George Keith was in pris-
on, consequently by Friends procure
ment, they being chief at the helm Of
government IN those three Provinces.
Continued Next Week