From William Penn‘s Preface to the 1694 edition of Fox’s Journal
In 1652. He being in his usual Retirement to the Lord upon a very High Mountain, in some of the hither parts of Yorkshire, as I take it, his Mind exercised towards the Lord, he had a Vision of the great work of God in the Earth, and of the way that he was to go forth to begin it. He saw People as thick as Motes in the Sun, that should in time, be brought Home to the Lord; that there might be but one Shepherd and one Sheepfold in all the Earth. There his Eye was directed Northward, beholding a great People that should receive him and his Message in those Parts. Upon this Mountain he was moved of the Lord, to sound out his Great and notable Day, as if he had been in a great Auditory, and from thence went North, as the Lord had shown him; and in every place where he came, if not before he came to it, he had his particular Exercise and Service shown to him, so that the Lord was his Leader indeed; for it was not in vain that he Travailled, God in most places sealing his Commission with the Convincement of some of all sorts, as well Publicans as sober Professors of Religion ... [sig. H(i)r & v]