And although I might probably have made some
advantageous terms for myself by standing off, yet when I was
satisfied by counsel that there was no entail upon it or right of
reversion to me, but that he might lawfully dispose of it as he
pleased, I readily joined with him in the sale without asking or
having the least gratuity or compensation, no, not so much as the
fee I had given to counsel to secure me from any danger in doing it.
There having been some time before this a very severe law made
against the Quakers by name, and more particularly prohibiting our
meetings under the sharpest penalties of five pounds for the first
offence so called, ten pounds for the second, and banishment for the
third, under pain of felony for escaping or returning without
license--which law was looked upon to have been procured by the
bishops in order to bring us to a conformity to their way of
worship--I wrote a few lines in way of dialogue between a Bishop and
a Quaker, which I called
CONFORMITY, PRESSED AND REPRESSED.
B. What! You are one of them that do deny
To yield obedience by conformity.
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