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sea-sick, and having been in many storms, I was not so much surprised with this, the sailors sometimes making a great noise when there is but little danger; but there was more danger than I was aware of, as appeared afterwards. One of the passengers came weeping, and said, our case was very bad. The doctor also came in the same manner, and cried, "Oh! Mr. Chalkley, we are all dead men!" then I thought with myself, I would go out on deck, and see what the matter was; and when on deck, I went to the pilot, who had the lead in his hand, and he sounded, and cried out, "Lord have mercy upon us! she is gone, she is gone, she is gone!" by which I per ceived that we were very near the Goodwin sands, on which many ships have been lost with all their crews. In this sense of danger I sent for the passengers into the cabin, and told them that I thought it would be well for us to sit still together, and look unto, and wait upon God, to see what he would please to do for us; that, if death came, we might meet him in as good a frame of mind as we could, and that we might not be surprised beyond measure: and as we were thus composed in our minds, a concern came upon my dear wife, and she prayed to God the Father, in the living power and sense of his Son, and he heard from his holy habitation, and answered the prayer; immediately after the wind abated, and our an chors held us. This was a great deliverance, which is not to be forgotten. When we saw the

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longed for morning, we were very near the sands, and the sea ran prodigiously high, and broke upon them mightily, so that we were forced to leave our cables and anchors, and make the best of our way to Deal, as well as we could. One of the owners being on shore, and seeing us in distress, sent off a cable and anchor to us; and we anchored before Deal with our new cable and anchor, and sent a boat for our other anchors and cables, when it was calm, which brought them to us. And after we had supplied ourselves with what we wanted, we put to sea again, and had fair winds till we got as far as the Western Islands, where Captain Cant being in company with us, he spoke to our captain in the evening, and the two captains concluded it would be stormy that night, which happened accordingly. They took in their sails, and we all but our mainsail; notwithstanding which, the storm was such, that we lost our mainmast, sprung the head of our fore-mast, and broke our cross-jack-yard, and thus lay rolling upon the sea for about two weeks: the ship BristolMerchant coming by in that time, lent us a spare top-mast, of which we made a main-mast, and a top-mast of our topgallant-mast, and so refitted out as well as we could, and had a pretty good passage afterwards. We were about eight weeks from the Land's-End to the Capes of Virginia; had meetings twice a week on board, and they helped to stay our minds on our Maker, though our bodies were tossed to and again on the mighty

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waters. We went on shore at Patuxent River, and went by land to Herring Bay, where I, my wife, and family, tarried that winter; and I, with my three servants, followed my calling. In the spring 1701, we transported ourselves, our goods, and servants, from Maryland to Pennsylvania, where we intended to settle when we came from our native country. At Philadelphia I bought a lot of ground upon the river Delaware, and there I followed my calling that summer, and in the fall I had an inward call to visit Friends in Barbadoes, which I proposed to our monthly meeting, and hey certified on my behalf, that they had unity with me in my proposal, conversation and ministry so I took ship at Philadelphia, about the 20th of the seventh month, 1701, on board the Abraham,

Street, commander, and was about a month on our voyage; Josiah Langdale was with me. We had several good meetings in the ship to our satisfaction; and were well received, and had many meetings at Barbadoes, which were often very large and open, and some of the people loving and tender. We had several meetings at Bridge-Town, Speights-Town, the Spring, and the Thickets, and at Pumpkin-Hill; and after being there about six weeks, we went in a sloop to Bermudas, where we found but very few Friends, yet had meetings in several places, and at the houses of some people who were not of our profession; and the longer we tarried, the larger our meetings were; and many began to be affect

ed, and spoke well of us and our devotion; but some were disturbed, and spoke to the governor to break up our meeting, which at the desire of one of the inhabitants we had appointed at his house, upon which he sent orders by one of his colonels to break up our meeting, which troubled divers sober people. After this I met with the governor at the house of one judge Stafford; and he being a moderate man, we had the following discourse:

Gov. How do you like our country? We are but a little spot in the sea.

T. C. I like it well for its moderate climate. If the people were moderate also, it would be well.

Gov. Doth it answer your end in coming?

T. C. My end in coming, was to visit the people in Christian love.

Gov. Do you think the people will be brought

over?

T. C. If they are brought to truth and righteousness, it will be well with them. That is the end of our coming.

Gov. If you had acquainted me with your design, when first you came, you had done well. It was your duty.

T. C. If we had known the governor's will herein, or that thou wouldst have spoken with us, we should readily have answered it but knowng nothing of it, we could not tell but that it

might be taken for rudeness in us, considering our homely way and manner of addressing such

men.

Gov. Then your design in coming here was to preach. Had you no other end?

T. C. Yes. As we found a concern upon us to preach, and a desire in the people to hear.

Gov. Why do not you tarry with them? That looks strange. Here the people are affected with you, and you go away and leave them: upon my word I blame you for that.

T. C. We do not direct them to man, but to the Lord Jesus Christ, their Teacher and Bishop of their souls. And why should our leaving them look strange to the governor? for it was the prac tice of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, and his own practice and command to his followers. And further the apostles (which word signifies ambassadors or messengers) say, follow us, as we are followers of Christ. And they travelled up and down the world preaching the gospel; and our great Lord himself had not whereon to lay to his head.

Gov. The apostles were inspired men inspired by the Holy Spirit to preach the gospel. I suppose you do not pretend to be inspired.

T. C. Every true Christian ought to pray for the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost upon him. The church of England* also, prays for it, the receiving of which is inspiration.

* Of which church the governor was a member.

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