Walney Estuary

And the next morning I went over in a boat to James Lancaster’s, and as soon as I came to land, there rushed out about 40 men with staves, clubs, and fishing poles, and fell upon me with them beating, punching, and thrust me backward into the sea: and when they had thrust me almost into the sea, and I saw they would have knocked me down there in the sea, I stood up and went up into the middle of them again; but they all laid at me again, and knocked me down and mazed me. And when I was down and came to myself, I looked up and I saw James Lancaster’s wife throwing stones at my face, and James Lancaster her husband was lying a-top of me to save the blows and the stones off me: So at last, I got up in the power of God over them all, and they beat me down into the boat; and so James Lancaster came into the boat to me, and so he set me over the water.

Long Journal fols 43^r&ndash^v, modern-spelling version.