For a Friend of Amersham, whose name was Edward Perot or Parret,
departing this life, and notice being given that his body would be
buried there on such a day, which was the first day of the fifth
month, 1665, the Friends of the adjacent parts of the country
resorted pretty generally to the burial, so that there was a fair
appearance of Friends and neighbours, the deceased having been well-
beloved by both.
After we had spent some time together in the house, Morgan Watkins,
who at that time happened to be at Isaac Penington's, being with us,
the body was taken up and borne on Friends' shoulders along the
street in order to be carried to the burying-ground, which was at
the town's end, being part of an orchard belonging to the deceased,
which he in his lifetime had appointed for that service.
It so happened that one Ambrose Benett, a barrister at law and a
justice of the peace for that county, riding through the town that
morning on his way to Aylesbury, was by some ill-disposed person or
other informed that there was a Quaker to be buried there that day,
and that most of the Quakers in the country were come thither to the
burial.
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