and suburbs, harassed and abused them continually; they wounded many, and killed some Quakers especially, while they took all patiently.  Hence arose two things of great remark.  The Lieutenancy, having got orders to their mind, pick out Hays and Jekill, the innocentist of the whole party, to show their power on.  They offer them illegal bonds of five thousand pounds a man, which if they would not enter into, they must go to prison.  So they were committed, and at last (but it is a very long story) got free.  Some friends engaged for them.  The other was the tryal of Pen and Mead, quakers, at the Old Baily.  The jury not finding them guilty, as the Recorder and Mayor would have had them, they were kept without meat or drink some three days, till almost starved, but would not alter their verdict; so fined and imprisoned.  There is a book out which relates all the passages, which were very pertinent, of the prisoners, but prodigiously barbarous by the Mayor and Recorder.  The Recorder, among the rest, commended the Spanish Inquisition, saying it would never be well till we had something like it.  The King had occasion for sixty thousand pounds.  Sent to borrow it of the city.  Sterlin, Robinson, and all the rest of that faction, were at it many a week, and could not get above ten thousand.  The fanatics under persecution, served his Majesty.  The other party, both in court and city, would have prevented it.  But the King protested mony would be acceptable.  So the King patched up, out of the Chamber, and other ways, twenty thousand pounds.  The fanatics, of all sorts, forty thousand.  The King, though against many of his council, would have the Parliament sit this twenty-fourth of October.  He, and the Keeper spoke of nothing but to have mony.  Some one million three hundred thousand pounds, to pay off the debts at interest; and eight hundred thousand for a brave navy next Spring.  Both speeches forbid to be printed, for the King said very little, and the Keeper, it was thought, too much in his politic simple discourse of foreign affairs.  The House was thin and obsequious.  They voted at first they would supply him according to his occasions, Nemine, as it was remarked, contradicente; but few affirmatives, rather a silence as of men ashamed and unwilling.  Sir R. Howard, Seymour, Temple, Car, and Hollis, openly took leave of their former party, and fell to head the King’s busyness.  There is like to be a terrible Act of Conventicles.  The Prince of Orange here is much made of.  The King owes him a great deal of mony.  The Paper is full.—­I am yours,” etc.

The trial of William Penn and William Mead at the Old Bailey for a tumultuous assembly, written by themselves, may be read in the State Trials, vol. vi.  The trial was the occasion of Penn’s famous remark to the Recorder of London, who, driven wellnigh distracted by Penn’s dialectics, exclaimed, “If I should suffer you to ask questions till to-morrow morning you would never be the wiser.”  “That,” replied Penn, “would be according as the answers are.”