The First Publishers of Truth does not say much about Fox's side-trip to Grisedale. Thomas Camm suggests that his labours there were after the visit to Grayrigg, and the committment to prison in Appleby of James Naylor and Francis Howgill in late 1652:
From The First Publishers of Truth
Westmorland: Ravenstonedale
And after, the said G ff, J N, R ff [Richard Farnsworth], & others laboured in sevrall other parts of ye County, and places adjacent, as Garsdalle, Grisedalle, & Dent, part in Westmrloand & part in the edge of Yorkeshire ... [page 249]
Submission by Westmorland (?)Quarterly Meeting edited by Norman Penney in “The First Publishers of Truth” (London: Headley Brothers, 1907). Presented to Yearly Meeting in 1709. Said to be in the hand of Thomas Camm.
Afterwards [the meeting in Stonehouses in Dent], George Fox went into Garsdale, and met with some great professors, as Major Bousfield, but little or no reception or acceptance o his testimony; yet, with James Guy, and some else, Thos. Winn, of Grisedale, and some few others, the same was owned.
“The First Publishers of Truth” page 329; 'taken from a copy of an old manuscript lent by Robert
Rennison,
of Sedbergh, to William Thistlethwaite in 1858’.
Account by Richard Harrison of Dent: from The First Publishers of Truth
This was a litle before ye time Called Whittsuntide, in the said year 1652. From & after this, Georg went over into Garsdale & Sedbergh to & amongst the professors there, and upon the day called Whit Sun Wedensday, being in the ffair time at Sedbergh, Georg ffox preached a Sermon, Standing on ye bench under the yew tree in Sedber Steeplehouse garth, where he had a very great Auditery. That day was I at Sedbur, but did not know of that meeting till afterward.
Then immediately was many Convinced, of Sedbur, & of Dent, as Alex. Heblethwaite & his wife, Thomas Greenwood & his wife, and divers others below in Dent, as well as above as before mentioned, & in Garsdale was James Guy & his wife & familly, & divers others; So that a meeting was setled in Sedber forthwith, and went from house to house, sometime in Sedber, sometime in Miles Walker’s House, in Midelton, & oth’r houses there away, & sometime in ffirbank, and sometimes in Dent, at the said Thomas & Geo: Masons, and sometime in Garsdale & Grisdale; thus for most of Twenty years & vpwards, from plac to place, and many times without Doores ... [pages 332–3]
‘This account has been copied from MSS. belonging to Westmorland Quarterly Meeting by
Emily J. Hart, of Scalby, Yorkshire’:
Norman Penney in
“The First Publishers of Truth, 331, footnote 4.