Newton in Cartmel to Staveley to Lindale

and from thence I came to James Taylor’s, of Newton in Cartmel in Lancashire; and on the first day I went to one priest Camelford’s Chapel [Staveley in Cartmel], and after he had done I began to speak the word of life to them; and Camelford was in such a rage and such a fret and so peevish that he had no patience to hear, but stirred up the rude multitude, and they very rudely haled me out and struck me and punched me and took me and threw me headlong over a stone wall: but blessed bee the Lord his power preserved me (the Kirk Warden was one John Knipe, whom the Lord after cut off, who threw me down headlong over the wall).

And there was a youth that was writing after the priest, and I was moved to speak to him, and he came to bee convinced: and became a fine minister of the Gospel, whose name was John Braithwaite. And so I went up to an alehouse where many people resorted betwixt the time of their preaching, and had a great deal of reasoning with them, and showed unto them, how that God was come to teach his people himself and to bring them off such teachers as was judged by the prophets, Christ, and the Apostles: and many received the word of life that time and stands to this day.

And the afternoon I went about 2 or 3 miles to another steeple house or chapel called Lindale, and when the priest had done I spoke to him and the people what the Lord commanded me; and there was great opposers — and they after came to be convinced ...

Long Journal fol. 34^r, modern-spelling version.