Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . d to above, founder f the ^ociety nf Friends, or , was born at Dray-ton, in Leicestershire. England, in 1624, and apprenticed to a Crazier. At the age of nineteen he per-Buaded himself lhat he had received a Divine command to devote himself solely to religion. forsook his relations, nod wandered from place to pl
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . d to above, founder f the ^ociety nf Friends, or , was born at Dray-ton, in Leicestershire. England, in 1624, and apprenticed to a Crazier. At the age of nineteen he per-Buaded himself lhat he had received a Divine command to devote himself solely to religion. forsook his relations, nod wandered from place to place, lending a lite of itinerancy, inwhich he fasted much, walked abro id in retired places, studying the Bible, and sometimes sat in ahollow tree tor a day together. In 1648. he b^gan to propagate his opinions, and commenced putilicpreacher. At Derby, his followers were first denominated quakera, in ot their tremulousmanner of del very. He was taken up in 1655, and sent a prisoner to Cromwell, ,• ho, bem^ satisfiedwith his pacific intentions, set turn at liberty In fact, he was more than once indebted to the pro-tector lor his freedom when committed to prison by the country magistracy for his frequent ioterruntioa WILLIAM PENN. 219. 220 WILLIAM PENN. which he concealed himself for two or three years, and during his recess wroteseveral pieces. At the end of 1693, through the interest of Lord Somers andothers, he was admitted to appear before the king and council, when he repre-sented his innocence so effectually, that he was acquitted. Penns wife dying in February, 1693-94, he married another, the daughterof a Bristol merchant, in March, 1695-96, by whom he had four sons and onedaughter; and the month after, his eldest sen by his former wife died of a con-sumption, in his twenty-first year. In 1697, there being a bill depending inthe house of lords against blasphemy, he presented to the house 4l A Cautionrequisite in the consideration of that Bill—in which he a
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