s ways, that he had met
this 'great woman of Beverley,' as he calls her, long before.

Only waiting-maid Cecily, who had prayed for an angel; Cecily, who had
recognised the Weaver's son the first moment she saw him at the inn
door; Cecily who had found in him, also, the messenger sent by God in
answer to her prayer--wise Cecily kept silence until the day of her
death.

* * * * *

George Fox says in his Journal:

'I was moved of the Lord to go to Beverley steeple-house, which was a
place of high profession. Being very wet with rain, I went first to an
inn. As soon as I came to the door, a young woman of the house said,
"What, is it you? Come in," as if she had known me before, for the
Lord's power bowed their hearts. So I refreshed myself and went to
bed. In the morning, my clothes being still wet, I got ready, and,
having paid for what I had, went up to the steeple-house where was a
man preaching. When he had done, I was moved to speak to him and to
the people in the mighty power of God, and turned them to their
teacher, Christ Jesus. The power of the Lord was so strong that it
struck a mighty dread among the people. The Mayor came and spoke a few
words to me, but none had power to meddle with me, so I passed out of
the town, and the next day went to Justice Hotham's. He was a pretty
tender man and had some experience of God's workings in his heart.
After some discourse with him of the things of God he took me into his
closet, where, sitting together, he told me he had known that
principle these ten years, and was glad that the Lord did now send his
servants to publish it abroad among the people. While I was there a
great woman of Beverley came to Justice Hotham about some business. In
discourse she told him that "The last Sabbath day," as she called it,
"an Angel or Spirit came into the church at Beverley and spoke the
wonderful things of God, to the astonishment of all that were there:
and when it had done, it passed away, and they did not know whence it
came or whither it went; but it astonished all, priests, professors
and magistrates." This relation Justice Hotham gave me afterwards, and
then I gave him an account that I had been that day at Beverley
steeple-house and had declared truth to the priest and people there.'

IV. TAMING THE TIGER

_'The state of the English law in
the 17th century with regard to
prisons was wo